What beer, ale, or similar are you drinking?
Jun 24, 2019, 7:34 am
#5416
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I had a draft Boston Lager yesterday at Outback with lunch. The beer was fine. The food was okay. But the place was overwhelmed (it looked like several servers may have called out) and lunch took almost 2 hours. On most days that would be alright, but we were halfway home and still had 2 more hours to drive.
Jun 24, 2019, 7:47 am
#5417
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I had one '76 and don't think I finished it. Summer ale is fine and now that I've looked it up, I'm looking forward to trying a Porch Rocker.
I had a draft Boston Lager yesterday at Outback with lunch. The beer was fine. The food was okay. But the place was overwhelmed (it looked like several servers may have called out) and lunch took almost 2 hours. On most days that would be alright, but we were halfway home and still had 2 more hours to drive.
I had a draft Boston Lager yesterday at Outback with lunch. The beer was fine. The food was okay. But the place was overwhelmed (it looked like several servers may have called out) and lunch took almost 2 hours. On most days that would be alright, but we were halfway home and still had 2 more hours to drive.
I had Radeberger Pilsner last night.
Jun 24, 2019, 12:18 pm
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I had one '76 and don't think I finished it. Summer ale is fine and now that I've looked it up, I'm looking forward to trying a Porch Rocker.
I had a draft Boston Lager yesterday at Outback with lunch. The beer was fine. The food was okay. But the place was overwhelmed (it looked like several servers may have called out) and lunch took almost 2 hours. On most days that would be alright, but we were halfway home and still had 2 more hours to drive.
I had a draft Boston Lager yesterday at Outback with lunch. The beer was fine. The food was okay. But the place was overwhelmed (it looked like several servers may have called out) and lunch took almost 2 hours. On most days that would be alright, but we were halfway home and still had 2 more hours to drive.
Wonder if it will ruin the brats if I use it to boil them in.
Jun 24, 2019, 12:33 pm
#5419
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Currently having a Pseudo Sue by Toppling Goliath at Field Museum. Just love that I can have craft beer at a museum - placates the geek in me. 
Jun 24, 2019, 12:46 pm
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Jun 24, 2019, 2:10 pm
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My buddy had a '76 and said it was okay. I'm sure it'll do just fine on a hot day after I mow the lawn.
Jun 26, 2019, 10:15 pm
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Ranier
Jun 27, 2019, 2:39 pm
#5423
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Business dinner last night at a "fish camp" in JAX. I ordered a sangria, because I'd never had one. My gawd, was it sweet! Yech. Should have had a beer. I'm on my own tonight and will have a couple beers somewhere to make up for my mistake.
Jun 27, 2019, 7:40 pm
#5424
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I've never seen the attraction of sangria.
Jun 27, 2019, 9:30 pm
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Brewhouse
Jun 28, 2019, 1:59 pm
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My local craft brew bar always reserves one tap for a classic yardbeer.
So last night, I had a Hamm's. From the land of sky blue waters....
So last night, I had a Hamm's. From the land of sky blue waters....
Jun 28, 2019, 2:16 pm
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I can explain.
Somebody invites you out for a day of Missouri wine tasting. You visit these little country wineries with sweet people telling stories about their wines, sharing free tastings of all vidal, norton, elderberry wine, jalapeno(!) wine, chardonel, and other things you've probably never heard of. They're explaining how to pair the wine with gourmet cuisine and the only thing you can think of is "there's no way I'd ruin a great steak with this stuff."
However, the tasting rooms are friendly, the wine is like ten bucks a bottle, and you feel like a heel drinking for a half-hour and not buying anything. So basically you're figuring out which one would make a tolerable sangria at your next cinco de mayo party.
That's how you end up with a case of wine fit for sangria. Or you could skip the whole Missouri roadtrip and just buy whatever's $4.99/bottle at your local liquor store.
With all due respect to anyone who thinks they make *great* sangria, I can't tell the difference between good wine and bad wine once it's in sangria. I'm usually chasing it with spicy nachos or fajitas so it's not like it matters a whole lot!
Somebody invites you out for a day of Missouri wine tasting. You visit these little country wineries with sweet people telling stories about their wines, sharing free tastings of all vidal, norton, elderberry wine, jalapeno(!) wine, chardonel, and other things you've probably never heard of. They're explaining how to pair the wine with gourmet cuisine and the only thing you can think of is "there's no way I'd ruin a great steak with this stuff."
However, the tasting rooms are friendly, the wine is like ten bucks a bottle, and you feel like a heel drinking for a half-hour and not buying anything. So basically you're figuring out which one would make a tolerable sangria at your next cinco de mayo party.
That's how you end up with a case of wine fit for sangria. Or you could skip the whole Missouri roadtrip and just buy whatever's $4.99/bottle at your local liquor store.
With all due respect to anyone who thinks they make *great* sangria, I can't tell the difference between good wine and bad wine once it's in sangria. I'm usually chasing it with spicy nachos or fajitas so it's not like it matters a whole lot!
Jun 28, 2019, 2:35 pm
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I can explain.
Somebody invites you out for a day of Missouri wine tasting. You visit these little country wineries with sweet people telling stories about their wines, sharing free tastings of all vidal, norton, elderberry wine, jalapeno(!) wine, chardonel, and other things you've probably never heard of. They're explaining how to pair the wine with gourmet cuisine and the only thing you can think of is "there's no way I'd ruin a great steak with this stuff."
However, the tasting rooms are friendly, the wine is like ten bucks a bottle, and you feel like a heel drinking for a half-hour and not buying anything. So basically you're figuring out which one would make a tolerable sangria at your next cinco de mayo party.
That's how you end up with a case of wine fit for sangria. Or you could skip the whole Missouri roadtrip and just buy whatever's $4.99/bottle at your local liquor store.
With all due respect to anyone who thinks they make *great* sangria, I can't tell the difference between good wine and bad wine once it's in sangria. I'm usually chasing it with spicy nachos or fajitas so it's not like it matters a whole lot!
Somebody invites you out for a day of Missouri wine tasting. You visit these little country wineries with sweet people telling stories about their wines, sharing free tastings of all vidal, norton, elderberry wine, jalapeno(!) wine, chardonel, and other things you've probably never heard of. They're explaining how to pair the wine with gourmet cuisine and the only thing you can think of is "there's no way I'd ruin a great steak with this stuff."
However, the tasting rooms are friendly, the wine is like ten bucks a bottle, and you feel like a heel drinking for a half-hour and not buying anything. So basically you're figuring out which one would make a tolerable sangria at your next cinco de mayo party.
That's how you end up with a case of wine fit for sangria. Or you could skip the whole Missouri roadtrip and just buy whatever's $4.99/bottle at your local liquor store.
With all due respect to anyone who thinks they make *great* sangria, I can't tell the difference between good wine and bad wine once it's in sangria. I'm usually chasing it with spicy nachos or fajitas so it's not like it matters a whole lot!
I had dinner last night at what must have once been a Gordon Biersch location, because that was the name of the guest wi-fi. It has been renamed Seven Bridges Brewpub. They made a passable IPA and I drank 2 with my mango-habanero chicken. I thought it was odd that they only had 5 house-made beers on tap and a 5 beer guest tap list which included Bud, Bud Light & Miller Lite and a much longer list of wines and specialty cocktails.
Jun 28, 2019, 4:56 pm
#5429
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I can explain.
Somebody invites you out for a day of Missouri wine tasting. You visit these little country wineries with sweet people telling stories about their wines, sharing free tastings of all vidal, norton, elderberry wine, jalapeno(!) wine, chardonel, and other things you've probably never heard of. They're explaining how to pair the wine with gourmet cuisine and the only thing you can think of is "there's no way I'd ruin a great steak with this stuff."
However, the tasting rooms are friendly, the wine is like ten bucks a bottle, and you feel like a heel drinking for a half-hour and not buying anything. So basically you're figuring out which one would make a tolerable sangria at your next cinco de mayo party.
That's how you end up with a case of wine fit for sangria. Or you could skip the whole Missouri roadtrip and just buy whatever's $4.99/bottle at your local liquor store.
With all due respect to anyone who thinks they make *great* sangria, I can't tell the difference between good wine and bad wine once it's in sangria. I'm usually chasing it with spicy nachos or fajitas so it's not like it matters a whole lot!
Somebody invites you out for a day of Missouri wine tasting. You visit these little country wineries with sweet people telling stories about their wines, sharing free tastings of all vidal, norton, elderberry wine, jalapeno(!) wine, chardonel, and other things you've probably never heard of. They're explaining how to pair the wine with gourmet cuisine and the only thing you can think of is "there's no way I'd ruin a great steak with this stuff."
However, the tasting rooms are friendly, the wine is like ten bucks a bottle, and you feel like a heel drinking for a half-hour and not buying anything. So basically you're figuring out which one would make a tolerable sangria at your next cinco de mayo party.
That's how you end up with a case of wine fit for sangria. Or you could skip the whole Missouri roadtrip and just buy whatever's $4.99/bottle at your local liquor store.
With all due respect to anyone who thinks they make *great* sangria, I can't tell the difference between good wine and bad wine once it's in sangria. I'm usually chasing it with spicy nachos or fajitas so it's not like it matters a whole lot!
I definitely wouldn't give a $10 bottle of Missouri wine to anyone I wanted to impress.
Jun 28, 2019, 9:58 pm
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