2000 miles in a peepee teepee

BEER ME (Read 640 times)

posted: 1/27/2010 at 5:38 PM

I have noticed that I have fell into somewhat of a funk regarding my beer selection.  As my mileage has again approached the level that I do not feel bad about indulging an a nightly brewsky, I am looking for new options.  If you boobs have time to talk about baseball on a running forum you must have time to BEER ME.

 

Please rate any beer you try and give your overall evaluation and recommendation of it.

 

I'll start with this week's selections:

 

Bud Light - 2 - Whose idea was it to bottle and sell St. Louis's sewer water? 

Sam Adams Light - 6 - About as high as I can imagine a light beer rating.  Decent stuff.

Leinenkugel's Winter Wheat - 4 - Too much citrus for me.

 

What are you drinking??

"I think it comes from video games. You never have to reload and you get three lives if you screw up. What they missed was that it sucked every quarter you had out of your pocket; when you are done you still haven't accomplished anything, you lost your three lives and now you can't buy a soda."
-- C-R on the world

marathon - 2:28
HM - 1:09:53
10K - 30:57
5K - 15:18 (2nd half of above 10K)
Jeff


fu don't kung think

posted: 1/27/2010 at 5:44 PM

I recommend the Yeungling lager for an easy drinking beer. Cheap and tasty. Beats hell out of Bud.

 

Aren't you in Kentucky? You should be drinking BBC's stuff.

posted: 1/27/2010 at 5:46 PM
Sapporo Reserve - lovely
Amy


Hey, nice marmot!

posted: 1/27/2010 at 5:52 PM

If you're in Indiana, you might have access to Great Lakes beers.  I highly recommend pretty much anything they make.

 

If not, then I'd say

Bodington's Pub Ale

Fransikaner (sp?) Hefeweiss

Smithwick's (Irish Red)

 

I'd also recommend at least once a week drinking an unholy amout of rum.  That way you can stagger around the house saying "But where did all the rum go?".  Trust me, your wife will find that hilarious.

Ben

There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me,
than in half the creeds. --Lord Alfred Tennyson

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman. -- Victor Hugo



Hoodoo Guru

posted: 1/27/2010 at 5:54 PM
modified: 1/27/2010 at 5:54 PM

Lately I have been enjoying Terrapin Rye when I am out on the town.

 

I received 50 different beers last year on my 50th birthday and was drinking one beer a night and posting a review of it online on another running forum (flyingmonkeymarathon.com/chatter).

 

However, I was not adding a new post each day, but was simply editing the initial post.  This caused the post to fall off the board after a couple of weeks and I lost it all.

 

I blame the webmaster.

 

Good luck though.  Updating your beer selection is a worthy quest.

The tangents are moot.
posted: 1/27/2010 at 5:59 PM
Quote from Ben_1415 on 1/27/2010 at 5:52 PM:

If you're in Indiana, you might have access to Great Lakes beers.  I highly recommend pretty much anything they make.

 

If not, then I'd say

Bodington's Pub Ale

Fransikaner (sp?) Hefeweiss

Smithwick's (Irish Red)

 

I'd also recommend at least once a week drinking an unholy amout of rum.  That way you can stagger around the house saying "But where did all the rum go?".  Trust me, your wife will find that hilarious.

 Yes, Indiana.  Formerly MI so I think I've tried Great Lakes before, although I was so poor back then it all got buried in cases of Labatt's.

 

Yeah, instead of rum I used scotch.  But a fifth of Glenlivet's every few weeks got expensive and my wife does not like scotch breath.  However beer breath is apparently sexy, wonder if that has anything to do with how we met...

"I think it comes from video games. You never have to reload and you get three lives if you screw up. What they missed was that it sucked every quarter you had out of your pocket; when you are done you still haven't accomplished anything, you lost your three lives and now you can't buy a soda."
-- C-R on the world

marathon - 2:28
HM - 1:09:53
10K - 30:57
5K - 15:18 (2nd half of above 10K)
posted: 1/27/2010 at 6:00 PM
Quote from Jeff on 1/27/2010 at 5:44 PM:

I recommend the Yeungling lager for an easy drinking beer. Cheap and tasty. Beats hell out of Bud.

 

Aren't you in Kentucky? You should be drinking BBC's stuff.

 

I thought everyone made their own white lightning in KY?

 

What is BBC? 

"I think it comes from video games. You never have to reload and you get three lives if you screw up. What they missed was that it sucked every quarter you had out of your pocket; when you are done you still haven't accomplished anything, you lost your three lives and now you can't buy a soda."
-- C-R on the world

marathon - 2:28
HM - 1:09:53
10K - 30:57
5K - 15:18 (2nd half of above 10K)
Jeff


fu don't kung think

posted: 1/27/2010 at 6:02 PM
Quote from spaniel on 1/27/2010 at 6:00 PM:

 

I thought everyone made their own white lightning in KY?

 

What is BBC? 

 

 

http://www.bbcbrew.com/



For The Thunder!

posted: 1/27/2010 at 6:06 PM
Quote from Jeff on 1/27/2010 at 5:44 PM:

I recommend the Yeungling lager for an easy drinking beer. Cheap and tasty. Beats hell out of Bud.

 

Yep.  As far as domestics go this is the best one for flavor, IMO.  Yeungling's light beers (regular light and lager light) have some flavor to them as well.

 

As far as other stuff, it's winter so I have been drinking the heavier stuff, stouts, porters, winter ales, etc., lately.  Do you have any microbreweries nearby?  There is nothing like going on a brew tour followed by, of course, sampling.

 

I'm not sure what you have access to but these are some of my favorite microbreweries.

 

Weyerbacher (PA)

Victory (PA)

Dogfish Head (DE)

Lancaster (PA)

Brooklyn (NY)

Long Trail (VT)

 

I'm sure there is more.  That's just off the top of my head.

Run fast sometimes.

Don't let the bastard win.


For The Thunder!

posted: 1/27/2010 at 6:09 PM
Quote from Ben_1415 on 1/27/2010 at 5:52 PM:

Fransikaner (sp?) Hefeweiss

 

This is good shit.  I went to a brew fest last fall and this was at the Spaten station.  That and their octoberfest were two of the best beers I sampled that day.

Run fast sometimes.

Don't let the bastard win.


old school badger

posted: 1/27/2010 at 6:14 PM

I found something by Budweiser called "American Ale".  It was surprisingly drinkable.  I give it a 6.  I think it was about $6.99 for a sixer of bottles.  Far, far better than regular Bud which rates a 3 to this reviewer. 

 

2010 goal = 4:59 for 1,500 meters.
posted: 1/27/2010 at 6:16 PM

New Albanian Brewing Co has a decent selection of beers they produce and their pub/restaurant serves about 50 craft beers otherwise.

 

I don't know how far outside of Metro Louisville area their products have migrated.


Quotidian

posted: 1/27/2010 at 6:27 PM
this is my favorite lately
A body in motion tends to stay in motion - I. Newton


Puttin' on the foil

posted: 1/27/2010 at 6:28 PM
Recently I've been enjoying Mirror Pond Pale Ale (Hood River, OR).  It might not be available back east.  Also, Kona Brewery Fire Rock Pale Ale.  A little expensive, but a nicely hopped brew with good bite and a fruity taste.  Yum.  I wish it were 5 o'clock.
Don't be obsessed with your desires Danny. The Zen philosopher Basha once wrote, 'A flute with no holes, is not a flute. A donut with no hole, is a Danish.'


Puttin' on the foil

posted: 1/27/2010 at 6:29 PM
Quote from nj joe on 1/27/2010 at 6:27 PM:
this is my favorite lately

 

My wife likes this with a slice of orange.

Don't be obsessed with your desires Danny. The Zen philosopher Basha once wrote, 'A flute with no holes, is not a flute. A donut with no hole, is a Danish.'