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[CortJstr]

As an update, the booze collection that Sara and I have amassed has grown - we're now at 35 bottles, not including several mixers.

And I've found a drink that breaks all of my old manly/girly rules... I have grown incredibly fond of Lynchburg Lemonades. Not the little bottles in your grocer's watched-over-by-cameras-24/7 section, but the mixed drink. It has become my default beverage at Cheeseburger In Paradise. I would make it more often here, but I'm lazy.

My parents have LL mugs. They have the recipe for a mug-sized portion printed right there on the back. It always confused me that it calls for 7-Up or Sprite since they don't taste the same.

[Hobo Frenzy]

I'll contribute. I'm not much of a drinker and I rarely get drunk but I enjoy the taste of certain stuff. If I'm at a party with shitty alcohol I won't drink, it's not worth it to me. I guess you could say I'm picky.

I mostly drink Vodka based stuff if I have the option. I like Skyy and Absolute mostly. But at least once a year a friend of mine has a party normally around Octoberfest and he always provides Grey Goose. ::incert drooling emoticon::

[BatzRadio]

My "i'm a broke muthafucka" beer is Red Stripe.
My cheap beers are Newcastle and Blue Moon Belgian White.
My beers for when I'm doing okay are Duvel and (when i can find it) Mackeson's XXX Stout.
My splurge beers are usually lambics.

Straight hard liquor I don't really do so much. Mixed drinks I'm down with, at least as far as ones mixed with liqueurs.

[Bozack]

My "i'm a broke muthafucka" beer is Red Stripe.

Red Stripe is your BROKE beer? Jesus, John D. Rockefeller, my broke beer (Rheingold) is actually cheaper than most bottled waters; in fact, I'm thinking of having it piped in to a new tap.

[AugustWest]

My "i'm a broke muthafucka" beer is Red Stripe.

Red Stripe is your BROKE beer? Jesus, John D. Rockefeller, my broke beer (Rheingold) is actually cheaper than most bottled waters; in fact, I'm thinking of having it piped in to a new tap.

Yeah, no shit.  What, do you drink one?  Broke beer = Milwaukee's Best, not something imported.

[robot_roll_call]

Just to let you all in on a little Milwaukee secret...that's not our best.

Shhhhh

[pmcd9]

Just to let you all in on a little Milwaukee secret...that's not our best.

I don't think it's made in Milwaukee either.

~Paul

[AlohaDawg]

My "i'm a broke muthafucka" beer is Red Stripe.

Red Stripe is your BROKE beer? Jesus, John D. Rockefeller, my broke beer (Rheingold) is actually cheaper than most bottled waters; in fact, I'm thinking of having it piped in to a new tap.

Yeah, no shit.  What, do you drink one?  Broke beer = Milwaukee's Best, not something imported.

HEY MABEL! _____ _____!

That's the callsign for the go-to-broke muthafucka-diarrhea inducing fermented beverage. Bad mojo but you'll be drunk for awhile, before you wake up the next dehydrated with the shits.

In SW Ohio, though, I think it's some shit like Christian Moerlein. In Chicago, it's LeinenKugel I think. We used to get Mickey's Big Mouths when we were broke in college. Even then I refused to drink Bud Light or Budweiser. Or Pabst. Or Miller if I could help it (until MGD came out).

[Bozack]

Just to let you all in on a little Milwaukee secret...that's not our best.

I don't think it's made in Milwaukee either.

~Paul

I also have serious doubts about it actually being a beer, as opposed to, say, hobo piss.

[BatzRadio]

In Chicago, it's LeinenKugel I think. We used to get Mickey's Big Mouths when we were broke in college. Even then I refused to drink Bud Light or Budweiser. Or Pabst. Or Miller if I could help it (until MGD came out).

Actually when I did live in DeKalb, IL for a few months my broke beer was some brand of Leine. As I recall they did some pretty alright tasting specialty brews for what I paid for them (under 5 bucks). Their Honey Wheat Ale was particularly tight. We can't get it around Memphis though. (Actually, there is one grocery chain that stocks Leine Red around Memphis, but they sell it at 6.50-7.00 a 6 pack. And I didn't really care too much for Red anyways.)

As far as Red Stripe, there's a mom and pop store in South Memphis that somehow manages to sell it 1.50 cheaper than most places in town (5.49 a 6 pack). When I'm absolutely desperate for beer and I have barely enough for groceries/gas, I head there. I won't do most big name american lagers either, as they are both displeasing to drink and give me nothin' as far as a buzz.

[arkabee]

batz- i was in memphis last weekend.  they had beer at the restaurant i ate at.  also, does your radio internet site require fancy new software, what does "[ICY 200 OK]" mean?

cheap beer for me = bush.
regular beer = miller lite.
expensive beer = mmmm.  ok, i'll buy liquor.

although i wish i could find tecate herebouts.

[BatzRadio]

also, does your radio internet site require fancy new software, what does "[ICY 200 OK]" mean?

The radio station's in AAC+. Winamp 5.04 and newer works with it, and the latest Foobar versions work with it. Beyond that I don't know, as far as your software support. If it can run MP4/M4A/AAC files, there's a good chance it can play the AAC streams.

ICY 200 OK is a server able to connect signal, usually that should flash by and go right into the connection (at least with Winamp).

I'll run some tests with people on IM when I get home and see if there's a problem of the signal getting to hold or connect. I'm connecting to it at work through an open proxy running Winamp 5.1, but that's only a firewall consideration here.

EDIT: After some not-really-intensive research it appears Winamp, Foobar, and VLC are the only ways to go right now. It is MP4-based but the streaming component hasn't really been all that integrated by most players yet.

[miles]

When I want expensive beer I make for the liquor store and get the good shit that cost me $0.50-0.80 a bottle in Germany, then I wonder why I ever came back (grocery stores have really bad selections, though you usually can get Guiness and stuff like that.  And in Utah, you have to get the strong beer at the state liquor stores).  When I want to spend less, I just look for good sales at the grocery store, usually on microbrews.  Only once have I purchased anything on the level of PBR, though I'm not so snobbish as to turn one down.  Lately, I've been trying to lose my gut, or at least have plans to, so I've been cutting back on beer.  I like gin and vodka, and sometimes whiskey and scotch.

[CortJstr]

I don't drink beer but the best New Year's Eve ever featured a Natty Boh toast at midnight. And you can't get much cheaper than that.

[Beatrice]

Just to let you all in on a little Milwaukee secret...that's not our best.

I don't think it's made in Milwaukee either.

~Paul

I also have serious doubts about it actually being a beer, as opposed to, say, hobo piss.

You could probably get Really Trashed on hobo piss.  Also, Hepatitis.