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Beer and Community, Together.
« on: August 25, 2007, 04:53:12 am »
I know there are some of us here who enjoy a good brew and there even more of us who enjoy a good touamb community event.
This will either work or it will not. I am just throwing this out there for consideration:
I am willing to organize a sort of secret santa beer touamb event. All those interested would let me know via PM/AIM/Email and I would have a non-involved party match us up randomly. Such that each person would send the other a beer or liquor in the value of $15-40. I think it would be fun, but what the hell do I know. If there are enough interested parties, I will start taking emails of names and addresses so that this can be done before Halloween.
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Guy at my watering hole: "Acap, why do you keep coming to Jack's?They just serve shitty burgers and happen to have beers on tap."
Acap: I was thirsty one day and I sat down. A year later, Jack's was built around me and thirst is a recurring thing.

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Re: Beer and Community, Together.
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2007, 05:32:52 am »
Shit yes, holmes.

I AM IN.

Mailing hooch is against the US Code, yes? Oh well, this is a gift system, not like we're selling it.
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Re: Beer and Community, Together.
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2007, 06:30:45 am »
The mailing of alcoholic beverages is a state-by-state issue. It's not a Federal issue. It's more of a state's ability to tax the adult beverage issue, although they try to argue that it's to promote local and regional choices in wine and beer. My wife used to work for a major winery and dealt with this issue with relative frequency.

As a postal employee, I can tell you that when you ship a shoe-box shaped flat rate box (which, coincidentally, would probably hold a six pack very nicely) for $8.90 (up to 70#) the clerk will ask you if it contains anything liquid, perishable, flammable or hazardous. They will not check to verify nor will they hook you up to a polygraph. Just sayin' is all.

I have seen how these get treated, so pack and pad them VERY VERY well.

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Re: Beer and Community, Together.
« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2007, 01:10:01 pm »
Yup, it's illegal to mail beer to me in Maryland. Now on the other hand if anyone wants to mail me chocolate...
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Re: Beer and Community, Together.
« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2007, 04:03:28 pm »
I shipped liquor to both Onstad and J. Rowland. For the first bottle, I went to a remailer and asked what was the best way to ship liquor to someone. The guy said "you can't ship liquor, but if you bring in a package that is sealed up, I'll send it wherever you want". J-Ro actually posted a picture of himself with my bottle and two beautiful women, but I forgot to save a copy and it disappeared.
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Re: Beer and Community, Together.
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2007, 04:20:39 pm »
This would probably be fun, but I don't drink beer pretty much ever. I will have to think about if I want to be involved in a booze thing.
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Re: Beer and Community, Together.
« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2007, 04:39:49 pm »
Ironically, I am now "Lyle".
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Acap: I was thirsty one day and I sat down. A year later, Jack's was built around me and thirst is a recurring thing.

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Re: Beer and Community, Together.
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2007, 07:42:38 pm »
Quote from: Nabubrush drinks (a lot) on August 25, 2007, 04:20:39 pm
This would probably be fun, but I don't drink beer pretty much ever. I will have to think about if I want to be involved in a booze thing.

Nabu doesn't drink beer? What's your poison?
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Re: Beer and Community, Together.
« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2007, 08:38:03 pm »
Quote from: linnea on August 25, 2007, 07:42:38 pm
Nabu doesn't drink beer? What's your poison?

Everything but beer and white wine (well, and liqueurs, but what psycho drinks them?)
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Re: Beer and Community, Together.
« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2007, 10:59:51 pm »
Quote from: Nabubrush drinks (a lot) on August 25, 2007, 08:38:03 pm
Everything but beer and white wine (well, and liqueurs, but what psycho drinks them?)

Word. Red wine FTW!! My favorites right now are really dry reds like Chianti. I read that the dry/sweet index of wine varies highly by country...Germans rate wine as "very dry" that French people would rate as "sweet". When I started learning to appreciate wine I started with very sweet white wine, and now I hardly ever drink white wine.

Anyway, I like most beer, wine, and liquor...except for hefeweizens (there is this rotten banana/cat-piss ester in it that gags me every time), gin, schnapps, Goldschlager, and Jagermeister. I rather like liqueurs such as Bailey's. But novelty shots and shit with Red Bull can go fuck themselves, as far as I'm concerned!

(Kelli regularly informs me that I am insane for hatin' the banana/clove esters that are present in many Belgian beers, Hefeweizens, and gin.)
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Re: Beer and Community, Together.
« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2007, 11:22:31 pm »
I like gin.

Some people like to drop a shot of Bailey's in a Guinness. Shouldn't that be illegal?
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Re: Beer and Community, Together.
« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2007, 05:11:39 am »
yes, yes it should.

Also, gin and red bull (separately) are both great tools for getting drunk.  My favorite drink right now is definitely gin.
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Re: Beer and Community, Together.
« Reply #12 on: August 26, 2007, 05:13:37 am »
Quote from: Nabubrush drinks (a lot) on August 25, 2007, 11:22:31 pm
I like gin.

Yessssss.

(As an aside, I once made a Guinness Shandy.  I was severely worried that I was about to waste perfectly good guinness, but it mixed with the lemonade quite well.    It's similar to a Black and Tan, except Lemonaide instead of Harp.   Most sites will tell you to mix them... so crass.   Pour the Guinness into the pint glass over the back end of a spoon.  It will float on the lemonaide, and oh so very slightly mix together.   I then learned that Guinness is filtered through Isinglass and never went back.)
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Re: Beer and Community, Together.
« Reply #13 on: August 26, 2007, 05:23:01 am »
Quote from: smick on August 26, 2007, 05:13:37 am
Yessssss.

(As an aside, I once made a Guinness Shandy.  I was severely worried that I was about to waste perfectly good guinness, but it mixed with the lemonade quite well.    It's similar to a Black and Tan, except Lemonaide instead of Harp.   Most sites will tell you to mix them... so crass.   Pour the Guinness into the pint glass over the back end of a spoon.  It will float on the lemonaide, and oh so very slightly mix together.   I then learned that Guinness is filtered through Isinglass and never went back.)

Smick, let's have a Shandy Maximum Cuddle. They are the BEST. I can only drink 1/3 a bottle of Guinness Stout, that shit is seriously like a loaf of bread in a bottle. The only way I can drink it is in a Shandy. I get angry when people hate on Shandies (Shandys?). They are delicious.

Also, a Snakebite is grelicious. Guinness and hard cider. Awesomeness.
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Re: Beer and Community, Together.
« Reply #14 on: August 26, 2007, 05:30:50 am »
Yeah, I don't understand how mah twin hates the banana & clove esters produced by Hefeweizen & Belgian (& other) yeasts.  Delicious.

As a homebrewer, I mostly brew Belgian style beers, but I love nearly all beer.  Mmm.  Some commercial favorites, in no particular order:  New Belgium, esp. Bier de Mars & Abbey.  Murphy's Irish Stout.  Fort Collins Brewery's X Lager!  Stella (of course!).  Smithwick's.  Delirium Tremens (great Belgian beer!).  Probably the quintessential Kelli favorite?  Orval, brewed by Belgian monks! 

Also, other favorite booze:  Laphroaig; Jon, Mark, & Robbo's scotch whisky; many other tasty scotches, both blended & single malt.  A Rusty Nail (Drambuie & Scotch) is pretty much my fave mixed drink.  I like to make infused vodkas (currently I have lemon, blueberry, and chocolate in rotation now).  I gotta agree with Linnea that things like Jager are good, only NOT combined with the abomination known as Red Bull. 

Oh, and the other drink that I would practically kill for, besides homebrewed beer and a Rusty Nail?  Chartreuse on the rocks, esp. the green kind.  And getting the special aged stuff is over-the-top delicious.  It's made with hundreds of herbs by Carthusian monks in France.  What's not to love?  When I finished the first 3 chapters of my Master's Thesis, my awesome boyfriend made me a Chartreuse with dry ice drink!  It rocked.  Hrm.  Now that I've finished the damn thesis, maybe I oughta celebraaaate!
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