I like beer

We have a local restaurant/microbrew here in my town called the Big Bear Brewery. Wife and I went there last night. I had their IPA, which is always on tap, and the Mrs had their seasonal dark, which was just tapped on Monday (a little late). It's called 'Novembear Porter'

Imperial Porter (about 7% ABV), which was aged with 12 lb of Cocoa nibs in the vat. Wifey liked it very much. Her favorite is something they call 'Espresso Stout', which they roll out two or three times a year.
 
Beer tasted yuky to me til mid 30's an old fart across the street got me to develop tolerance for Key Stone and downhill from there. Beer is for cavemen wine is my favorite but get yuk side effects too easy so beer is default good as it is now. World wide sampled local favorites but Carib Royal Extra Stout beer is mine though their lager goes down great too while out sun burning.
http://www.caribbrewery.com/ourbrands/r ... fault.aspx


Magnets are mysterious things that help local injury sites and the head on your mug. >>

Few sights at a bar are more deflating than a bottle of beer overflowing with foam. This overfoaming, called gushing, arises when fungi infect the barley grains in beer's malt base. The microorganisms latch onto barley with surface proteins called hydrophobins. During the brewing process, these hydrophobins can attract carbon dioxide molecules produced by the mashed barley as it ferments, making the beer far too bubbly. Brewers try to tamp down the gushing by adding hops extract, an antifoaming agent that binds to the proteins first. Now, food scientists in Belgium have hit upon a technological solution: magnets. When the team applied a magnetic field to a malt infused with hops extract, the magnets dispersed the antifoaming agent into tinier particles. Those smaller particles were much more effective at binding to more hydrophobins, blocking carbon dioxide and decreasing gushing. During tests in a real brewery, the magnets decreased excess foaming so effectively that brewers needed much lower amounts of hops extract—a potential cost-saving measure. Future studies could explore whether magnetic fields alone could reduce foaming on an industrial scale, the team says.
 
Plenty of interesting stuff available around here as well.
A local beer and wine shop has 10 kegs on tap at any one time with the selection constantly changing, 1.25 litre or 2 litre refills.
Had a 2L of 8 Wired wireless IPA for this weekend - very nice.
http://8wired.co.nz/ramblings/wireless
 
Pavlov is sitting in a Pub, enjoying a pint.

The phone behind the bar rings, and Pavlov jumps up shouting, "shit, I forgot to feed the dog!"
 
Beer is solution to perpetual motion, in one side and out the other on and on...

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS1KXMsE2qk[/video]
 
"Whiskey's too rough, Champagne cost too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear..... as a matter of fact, I like beer."

Tom T Hall
 
The English speaking folks stuck out in the Pacific call women birds.

"In the latest example of strange science, researchers at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland got some finches drunk and watched what happened. Their main finding? Like drunk humans, boozed-up birds slur their 'speech.' For the study, the researchers gave grape juice to one group of zebra finches and an alcoholic juice cocktail to another group. The cocktail-quaffing finches became somewhat inebriated, with blood alcohol levels of 0.05 percent to 0.08 percent, according to NPR. 'At first we were thinking that they wouldn't drink on their own because, you know, a lot of animals just won't touch the stuff,' Christopher Olson, a researcher at the university, told NPR. 'But they seem to tolerate it pretty well and be somewhat willing to consume it.'"
 
Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.

The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel.
The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.

These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups: 1. Liberals 2. Conservatives.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to BBQ at night while they were drinking beer.
This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement....

Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing
up for the nightly BBQs and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the
Liberal movement.

Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. They became known as girlie-men. Some noteworthy

liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.

Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the
elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass for obvious reasons.

Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled
water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare.

Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.

Conservatives drink domestic beer, mostly Bud or Miller. They eat red meat and still provide for their
women. Conservatives are big game hunters. They are rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers,

firemen, medical doctors, police officers, engineers, corporate executives, athletes, members of the military,
airline pilots and generally anyone who works productively.

Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little. They prefer to govern the producers.... and decide what to do with the
production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America.

They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get
something for nothing.

It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.

A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it
will be forwarded immediately to other true believers and to more liberals just to piss them off.

Me? I'm going to take another piss for more beer rental room!
 
Staten pils if you can find it. In a super thin wall pilsener glass. Elegant and the saaz hops make me emotional!
 
Hobot, I read the article and couldn't find which beer has the panther piss in it... If you find one, let me know!!
 
I think the red necks are pulling our legs on panther piss as starting indregent - rather than final results out all of us. I once put apple juice in urine cup in lab analysis class and then pretended to try to conceal me sipping out it - till someone saw me and yelled to high heaven's UGH Shiver's driking his piss! If shut classs down for some time I tell ya. I do now & then and even reccomned it to paying customers though suggest adding it to juice or beer to go down smoother.
 
I ordered a hamburger in Ticksack, Arkansas a couple years ago; they had a special.....burger, fries & beer for $7.50, so i ordered a "special" with a Shiner Bock....the waitress replied that the special was only good on "domestic" beers! No amount of explanation would clear her head. i felt lucky that during my trip i hadn't needed to show my passport in to, or out of, Texas!

Panther Piss= any IPA and of course Steel Reserve.

It looks to me that Hobot must have plagiarized his LIBERAL/conservative rant because it flowed too nicely; it was coherent even if misguided, and i could understand every word. But, now back to normal.......what is it that's being added to juice or beer to go down smoother? I guess i'll only order bottled beers in Arkansas from now on......
 
Aw shoot redapehanger the joke is on you as even an Arkansas wattresses know Texas is its own Replublic Nation and therefor not a US domestic sourse. Been a beer day for me, PapstBlueRibbon home lunch, Dos Exuis waiting on a friend in city till dark and now a Beck's back at the ranch a few hours. Nice lingering bitterness. I hope Arkansas continues to blend hillbillies, hippys and latino families into one big party in paradise to dilute down pckets of native narrowness. I know IPA from some fellas in a school bus, too dang strong for me. Small mountains of cans piled around doors.
 
I've gotten into the IPA's in the last couple of years. Right now, I'm having a Deschutes Fresh-Squeezed. Also love Schlafly's A IPA. Both are seasonal because they're brewed with fresh hops rather than pelletized hops. The hoppier, the better.


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IPA is so named because it was made by UK breweries to be shipped out to the British colonists in India and had about twice the hop content as the brews consumed in the UK. This was to preserve the beer during the sea voyage. It became very popular once it appeared on the UK market. People liked the flavor.
 
frankdamp said:
IPA is so named because it was made by UK breweries to be shipped out to the British colonists in India and had about twice the hop content as the brews consumed in the UK. This was to preserve the beer during the sea voyage. It became very popular once it appeared on the UK market. People liked the flavor.
I never knew that, thanks frank :D
 
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