Some brewpubs do these beer dinners where you pay something like $35 a person and get a 4 course meal where each cours is paired with a pint that goes with it. Not a bad deal for $35-$40


Where's the place you usually go?

How about Heffenreffer?
I used to live across from the brewery as a kid.
The fun part was those puzzles under the cap.
Our policy was that you couldn't move on to your next beer until you solved the current beer cap puzzle.
I leaned on a couple of occaisions why it was call "the green monster".

I stick with my earlier choice of RR, and I'll go as far as saying that any kind of Bud gives me the heaves. I do agree that Coors/Coors light are glorified donkey pee.

How about those cheap beer nights in our youth with others like Keystone, Lowenbrau, Naragansett, Schlitz? I can feel the bile rising as I type.:yak6::yak:

That sounds good. I'll have the mac n' cheese kids meal with a Magic Hat #9.

I usually go to the Stoneforge Grill in Easton. They also have locations in Raynham, Plymouth and Foxboro. Very good food and 36 beers on tap, along with about 50 different bottles.

Its all water....cause' thats what its made with!:kewl:

Budweiser and drinkability???

there's no such thing~ :deadhorse:

I would not drink that crap for free :doh:

DAMN straight Kev. I can remember many a night with a 6pack of them nice fat green bottles. I wish I was still that young. 4 Haffenreffers and chase it with a 5th of Southern Comfort. I thought my name was RALPH a few times after that just stone drunk :btu:

The matz beer balls were the best. We always got a few of them for the dorm at Wentworth. Man did we have some wild times. We'd go hunting down all the Simmons chicks :wid:

F Heiniken Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Miller Lite:yak:
Sam Adams if I do happen to drink one

My friend has the best line his favorite beer is free beer. Actually saw him drink 2 beers he found at the canal once while we were fishing.

Molson, Heiniken, Becks, Grolsh = crap, watery beer to me, no better than bud

Bass is good, but there are a hell of alot of better options out there

Its all personal taste.

In the end, if I'm trying to market Bud Light, drinkability is probably the best thing i can come up with. They know that noone is looking forward to that pint of BL at the end of the day - BL's target market is looking forward to that 6 or 12 pack of BL at the end of the day.

Light beers in general are kind of a scam to begin with (and fighting over who has the lowest carbs is even more of a joke - alcohol has a worse effect on weight gain than a few carbs). Drink alot of beer (light or heavy) and your going to end up fat and unhealthy - I know that from experience. Have a beer here and there, weather heavy or light, and its actually good for you.

MILLER LITE
 

I was wondering if anyone was going to say "Miller Lite". Taste great less filling. I admire you guys wqho drink Adams and all the rest of the beers that have come out in the last 20 years, my stomach can't take them not stand them.

Boy Salty...you brought back a lot of hazy memories with those 2! First in our dorm to sneak a beer ball in (Catholic college....yeah right!) Then we "procured" a water fire extinguisher...emptied it, filled with Heffenreffer (green death) pumped it up and brought a new meaning to "Keg Stand"!!! Ahhh the memories of a .9 gpa freshman year!

Miller Lite is pretty good and it's refreshing. I can drink Lite or Bud when doing stuff around the house or yard and neither fill me up if I have a few. I like Bud but refuse to drink Bud Light and I like Lite but can't stand regular Miller or Genuine draft.

If I'm out at a restaurant or bar and don't plan on drinking more than a couple, I would rather go with something more filling and with more flavor.

I love the beer and yard work stuff. Looking forward to that part of being a home owner.

I think my yard work beers are going to be Harpoon IPA and Sam Adams.

What are you supposed to drink when you shovel? I'm thinking Guiness.

when you shovel snow you switch over to hot coffee with Emmet's or Bayley's Irish creme in it.... :bl:

A nice little 1/2 pint of schnaaps tucked away in the jacket is always nice.

Hot Chocolate with kahlua or baileys (or both) works or Hot Apple Cider with Cap'n Morgan will warm you up

when your done and back in the house Guinness or a nice Porter

I used to shovel with a flask of Southern Comfort in the coat pocket. Now, I have my driveway plowed and only have to shovel the walkway, so not much of a reason to drink.

This is really gonna make me sound like a Nancy boy, but I love Peppermint Schnapps in hot cocoa or Godiva White Chocolate liquor in my coffee when I'm outside playing in the snow with my son.

won't touch Bud ever again now that they have moved overseas.

give me a blue moon with an orange any day( i know, gay)

Thats my Thanksgiving Football Game drink of Choice


Yeah, That made you sound like a Nancy Boy :hihi: (just kidding)

Just never go with blue moon as a follow up to irish car bombs. trust me. :yak:

we should have chased the bluemoom with bacardi limon

carbombs - now that's how beer is supposed to be

went to a bachelor party last weekend and did jagerbombs - i'll stick with carbombs in the future

ahhh carbombs. when i was a bouncer in Boston on St. Paddy's day i finished my shift by putting down 6 bombs in a row and then tried to go around the world with the beers on tap(over 20). ended up in a snow pile on the side of the road with a twelve pack of broken beers all over me after i slipped and smashed the box over head :buds::sleeps:

:cheers2: Rob, that is a great story. Love carbombs. My friend sells homemade hot sauces and convinced us to try teguilla and his sauce. Man did that burn on both ends.

Josh I never had a jagerbomb until 2 years ago out in Indianapolis. Holy crow that was a long nite. Good thing the bar was downstairs from my room :eek:

Have you ever played Thunderstruck? That was a new one on me too. HOOOOOBOY :hihi:

Good thing you're a huge bastid because a lightweight would have died from alcohol poisioning.

Went out last night and had a few Blue Moon Pumpkin Ales with cinamon around the rim of the glass. Perfect beer for this time of year. Now that's a beer with "drinkability".

yeah i was pushing 270 at the time. only made it about half way 'round the world though...:cheers2:

Geez Kev, that brings back memories. "Green Death" as we called it. Remember the puzzles under the cap? I could only get them after having a few. Anybody remember Knickerbocker? Best cheap beers I remember were PBRs and Piels ($6 a case at Pease AFB when I was at UNH in mid 80s). That's $0.25 per beer. WOW

Of course, now I prefer Siera Nevade Pale Ale or similar. A 6-pack is plenty of that stuff vs 12 to 24 of the light american lagers.

beer
 

isnt beer unless it's ale heh heh heh

let's see budweiser try and make one

all they make is bubbly water http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...1/beerflag.gif

For anybody that would like to expand their beer knowledge this is a great link to all the different styles explained....if anything it will pass the day for you at work :D

http://www.beerhunter.com/beerstyles.html

like this :hihi:

The Lager Debate - Lager vs. Ale, which is better?

Most of those who are "born again" into the flavorful world of ale often become bitter (no pun intended) to the ale counterpart, lager. I experienced this first hand when a close friend introduced me to home brewing, and the rich flavors in a variety of ales. I decided that lagers were not worthy of my time. I began to boycott lagers and even badmouth them as lousy, tasteless beer.

As I grew in my appreciation of fine beers, I started to realize that good lagers do exist and I wasn't giving them a fair shot. Considering that before I was introduced to ales I was drinking some pretty run-of-the-mill, light lagers, a little exploration couldn't be a bad thing. There must be better lagers out there than what I was used to.

As an ale lover I must bite my tongue and not be so quick to judge. I can't stereotype a beer without first getting to know it. Good lagers do exist, but there are many light lagers that I won't bother with. First let's take a quick look at how some of those watery lagers are made...

Starches from rice can be broken down into fermentable sugars during the mash process. As a result there are no byproducts to add additional body to the beer, so many pale lager brewers use rice as an adjunct to keep the beer thin, and light colored, while keeping the alcohol content relatively high. Other beers tend to have more body and color because all or most of the alcohol is gained using malted barley, not rice.

Some brewers even blend (a better term than "water down") their final, concetrated beer with water in order to thin it. Repeated filtering is also used to lighten the beer, which can remove much of the quality that some beer lovers appreciate. Many micro brews and beers brewed in the old tradition are minimally filtered, if at all.

If there are no funny tricks being used to manipulate the final product, I think a good lager can certainly stand side by side with a good ale. But what really makes the difference between an ale and lager?

Lagers are made using the same basic ingredients as ale, but there are two major differences: yeast and fermentation temperature.

First let's look at the yeast. Yeasts come in a variety of styles, each developed for a certain style of alcoholic beverage. There are lager yeasts, champaign yeasts; yeasts used for pilsners, and several varieties of yeast for ale, lambic and barley wine styles. Each yeast variety has unique qualities that impact the final flavor and aroma of the beer.

The main difference between yeasts used for lagers and ales is that ale yeast is a top-fermenting yeast which means the yeast floats to the top and hangs around up there during most of the fermentation process. Lager yeast is a bottom-fermenting yeast which means it hangs around the bottom of the fermenter. During both types of fermentation the active yeast does permeate the brew and eventually settles out on the bottom of the fermenter when it is done.

The other main difference in producing a lager or ale is in the temperature during fermentation. Most ales are fermented at a controlled temperature around 70 degrees Fahrenheit, although Sierra Nevada's Celebration Ale is said to be fermented at 65 degrees. Lagers, on the other hand, are fermented about 15 degrees lower, around 55 degrees.

The yeast and the fermentation temperatures play an important roll in the flavor of the beer. Ale and lagers share the benefit of a rich variety of flavors and aromas due to the yeast used, but ales tend to be more robust and fuller flavored than lagers because of the warmer fermentation. Colder fermentation tends to rob the beer of flavors that may be imparted during this process because the cold temperature subdues activity. This is also why lagers tend to take longer to completely ferment, typically a week or two longer than common ales.

The goodness of a beer's flavor is relative to the person who enjoys it. Ultimately it is the craft of brewing that matters, the recipes and traditions that fill the world of beer with such a variety of types and styles. There should be no battle over what is better. They are simply different.

i'll wait 500 years and let ya know :soon:

Hoo boy! I would like to say this brings back some memories but ......the fact of the matter Is I dont remember much from the days when I drank it!!!!

Right now, I'm wrapping myself around a coupla Sam Adams Boston Ales. Damn those guys are good! Their Octoberfest is a work of art. Bud has "Drinkability"? Not any more.

NOW YOUR COOKIN !! :cheers2:

just put a case or two of it down in my basement room to get me through the winter.

The Boston lager seems to get all the attention the Boston Ale is definitely my favorite from Sam Adams.

As for Budweiser, it's certainly not my first choice, but I've found it's really temperature sensitive. Somehow they're a lot better when they've been on ice for a while versus coming out of a fridge. Those 5 to 7 degrees seem to really make a difference. Or maybe it's just something I've tricked myself into believing...

If I drink beer it must have been on ice...period! Refridgerators just do not cut it! Must be bottled and it must be iced...end of story!