Are you serious? Even williams taste like shit.

Drink Jim Beam < Crown Royal < Knob Creek.

Any of those.

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Do they sell Wisers there? That shit is good too.

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Never heard of it.

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Jim Bean is terrible and not worth the money.


Evan Williams is Jack Daniels disturbed cousin and well worth the price. Also, I just put in my application to a liquor store. Hopefully, it will be my summer job.

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Yes, their private reserve is pretty decent. I've got a quart of Canadian whiskey my friend gave me for my birthday but I forget the name right now.

My dad got back from Mexico and bought me a quart of Cabo Wabo Blanco..not huge on fine tequila but I do know it's not aged(distilled and then immediately bottled) but it should make a nice tequila sunrise. Bought some grenadine tonight for Saturday's UFC.

I had a Rogue Shakespeare Stout the other night; good as always.


...and Jack Daniels is garbage!

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Well worth the price? You are talking like its something valuable. haha Its on the bottom shelf at the abc store. Like 20 bucks a 5th. Its not even in a glass bottle but a plastic jug.

And in agreement with BassB. Jim beam is 10x smoother than jack daniels which is pretty nasty all together.

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Even Williams > Jim Bean


...and i paid $13.00 for 1.75 liters....lolololol

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Crown is really my favorite. Knob Creek is good and all but damn bro that shit isn't worth the price.

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Maker's Mark ain't worth the price either.

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Yeah thats what i'm talkin about hah. Cheeeap shit. Thats how you get the nasty hang overs. Knob creek is good shit. I mean... do you guys even have any experience with whiskey at all?

Makers mark isn't too bad.

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Early Times.... smooth. i dont know anything about whisky other than the smell makes me sick

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Yes, with whisky, not whiskey.

I prefer real single malts and have quite a collection these days

i dont even know the difference between scotch and whiskey/whisky. ive had a few scotches and enjoyed them....single and blended. dont really have a clue what im tasting for. not something id drink every day for sure.

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har har har.

Thats cool. I'm not too knowledgeable to get anything worth while around here.

I bet there is some good shit in West Virginia

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YES, it was time for someone to agree with me on jack daniel...taste like hobo's piss

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Well you're just plain wrong there

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cheap bourbon on ice tastes fuckin good. it's cost efficient and it isn't as fattening. I'm going to try to drink less beer and more liquor.

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Yeah I hate Jack Daniels. I tried it once and couldn't keep it down

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Jack's not bad. I like it more than Jim. I think Jim is horrible.

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Just drinking for the first time in ages tonight. Having my old favorite - Bud Piss.

Never had Jim. And now I'll never try it lol

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picked up a sixpack of shocktop at the store. no idea who makes it, but it was in myl ocal grocery, so probably coors or something. lol. its tastey, nothing shocking (lololololl)

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shocktop is made by AB...if that's the one with the orange slice with the sunglasses and mohawk? it's one of their better beers but a little sweet for me and not as balanced tasting as blue moon i'd say.

i haven't had any beer since checking in at OCS, but before i checked in, i had a few out in town. my favorite of them was smuttynose IPA. i had heard of them several times but never seen their beers on sale, so i ordered it instantly once i saw it on the menu. very tasty stuff that is worth a try. if you don't like IPAs, try one of their other beers..i think they are supposed to have a really good porter also.

i tried it on merit of the bottle alone :P i liked it , super grapefruit-y

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Has anyone here ever tried Rogue Dead Guy Ale? Is it any good?

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Yes it's an excellent brew indeed. Definitely try it out. Anything from Rogue really is a very safe bet..not sure how many of their beers I've had but probably in the range of fifteen.

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I heard Jim is like water.

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yes. I've gotten it twice and both times were fucking good.

I also got their Mocha Porter. That shit was fan fucking tastic. I considered buying them and drinking one in the morning everyday like it was a mocha coffee drink.

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i tried Absinth last week end, it gives a weird buzz, a bit like mushrooms, i didnt had hallucinations though...

well, it tastes like shit...eww

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Yeah i heard it tastes pretty bad and definitely isn't worth buying.

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Thanks man, I'm gonna go buy a bottle tomorrow

Holy fuck, that stuff is expensive... I still want to try it though. The high/buzz depends on the quality of the stuff I think

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Absinthe isn't really worth the $65-69 for a quart..It does give you a strange buzz, but nothing phenomenal.

In other news I have so much free beer from work I don't know what to do with it...I have about 10-15 bombers of 6.9% IPA just sitting around. Maybe I'll get around to drinking it at some point.

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Ship it this way

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Hey, if you ever wanted to go some trading via UPS/FedEx..I'm definitely down. Graf and I did one before. I could send you some bottlecaps/labels/coasters from the brewery as well.

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oh you guys were actually able to get something going? fuckin a.

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took a soma and drank some maker's mark. fun combo and good for funk jams.

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I'll definitely have to consider that sometime man. We have some decent local shit you might like. Most likely the Sasquatch Stout. I'll PM you sometime man

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haha Yes. Needless to say I was thrilled when when the UPS guy showed up at my door.

Right on Blitz. The only bad thing is shipping can be pretty expensive..however since we're in Canada it shouldn't be too too bad. I know BC has some hidden gems up there.

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Yep, there's even tons of shit I've never heard of

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It tastes really, really bad though... if you don't like an aniseed flavour, then it's disgusting.

In other news, my favourite place to drink, Beer Circus, that served loads of good bottled beers from around Europe, as well as a few good cask ales.... has closed and turned into a trendy bar! Rubbish, so it's back to the cheap and cheerful Weatherspoons pubs, which fortunately cater to us ale-lovers, so it's not all bad. Had a pint of Tokyo Black a week or so ago, was very nice. Thick and dark, the way i like my pints

If any UK (London-ish area), tabbers know of any pubs that serve good stout, then do say, i'm on a quest for stout, and there's not enough going round!

BassB: i'd love to get a job at a brewery, would be really cool to actually be part of the brewing process Unforunately, i really don't have the time to start brewing my own, which sucks because i was looking forward to it.... perhaps after i've finished my degree and have a bit of a career What kinda beers does your workplace brew?

And finally, for the rest of the English, if you hadn't seen the thread, check out the Great British Beer Festival 2008 thread

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I've had this beer yesterday.
http://snoro.com/snoreau.jpg

dude...REALLY GOOD, it has a taste of cranberries and a taste of a strong beer.
hard to describe, i suck at it.

The name of the beer means: we say ''snoreau'' when a kid do something like...take the wig out of someone...stupid shit like that...

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I've read that you get a sort of "electric" high from that shit.

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Yesterday I bought a bottle of Phillips Longboat Double Chocolate Porter and two cases of Nelson Blackheart Oatmeal Stout (5.7%) Drank it all in about 5 hours and got pretty pissed. Then my friend started giving me bottle after bottle of Molson and I got really pissed. It was a really fun night. It was me, my gf, and a few friends with their gf's all getting drunk in my friends garage


Is it actually spicy?

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It probably doesn't mean spicy in the traditional since of a hot a pepper. It probably means more like cinnamon or something of that nature.


Anyways, the Pale Ale with warrior hops came out glorious. I'm brewing another batch today.

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Not spicy like hot peppers, but spicy with a tastes of cranberries, hard to explain you have to try some.

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cranberries don't have any spices... Its a fruit... not a spice.

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dont be a dick


pure cranberry juice actually has quite a punch to it. i don't know if i'd call it spicy, but most certainly there's a lot of flavor.

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I'm not being a dick. Its not a fucking a spice. Cranberry juice has an acidic taste.

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Cranberry juice is fucking nasty.

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are you serious? i mean...really? hey wait...i think i learnt something today....wow i didnt knew that.

The spicy thing in that beer...is the taste of the cereals they took for the beer. the cranberry taste is just the fruitty taste...you know you can make a spicy/fruitty beer heh

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There we go. That was the answer i think he was looking for earlier.

I've had a cranberry beer before. Wasn't too keen on it, but it was alright. As much as i like cranberry juice there are alot of things that are made with cranberries that just don't sit with me right.

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i hate cranberry juice, but this beer doesnt only taste cranberries, its just a little taste you get with that beer.

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sam adams cranberry lambic was pretty bad. i'm sure there are some decent real lambics that use cranberries though.

i haven't had a beer since april 12th i guess..the day before i checked in here. can't wait to get some liberty, i'm gonna order a nice tall glass of stout! hopefully wherever i wind up has something other than guinness though.

An Amber Ale, Raspberry Ale, Stout, Nut Brown Ale, Red Ale, Imperial Pale Ale, and some rotating seasonals such as a schwartzbier('imperial black lager' and a weizenbock.

I just got back from Montreal..I'll fill you all in with the beers I got/drank soon.

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No stout?!? Fuck that!

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Well.. I must say Montreal totally rules for beer. That is an understatement. Here's some goodies I brought home.

6 pack of Unibroue Don De Dieu
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/22/694

6 pack of Dieu Du Ciel Peche Mortal(Mortal Sin)
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1141/10325

La Chouffe(Belgium)
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/321/1836

Unibroue 2004 Edition
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/22/14732

Unibroue 16(2006)
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/22/35299

Unibroue 17(2007)
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/22/40968

6 pack of Porter du Marche(Imperial Porter)
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/14319/40263

750ml of Unibroue Maudite
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/22/33

750ml of Unibroue La Fin Du Monde
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/22/34

Pewter label 750ml of Saint Arnold Or Noir Dry Stout(Thought it was their strong dark ale..picked up wrong bottle haha)
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1467/36372

And I think that's it..had a bunch of beer there as well. Went to three brewpubs including Dieu Du Ciel. I had a few beers on tap there including probably the best Imperial Stout I've even had at 9%abv. Much like their Peche Mortal without the harsh coffee. Loud as fuck though because of the Canadiens game going on when my girlfriend and I were there.

Spent about $140 on beer just to bring back home..and a bottle of Knob Creek. I spend at least a few hundred on booze over the four night stay. haha, sweet trip to say the least.

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Hah oops, I didn't catch that stout part Do they make good stout?

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nice haul bassb. i can't wait to get some liberty and find somewhere that has some good beer on tap. there is a place here in newport that a few of us went to two nights before checking in. they had some pretty good beer...dfh 60 min IPA, some other IPA from a brewery i wasn't familiar with..but it was good, they had one or two from this local brewery which are alright, but nothing special. i know CT has some good bars. someone i know that lives over there invited me to swing by some time when i could and we'd go to this bar that has a lot of belgian beers.

It's fairly decent, especially on tap. The BA reviews don't reflect what it once was(utter crap) since the former brewmaster had tweaked the recipe a few months ago. Their IPA(double IPA) is where it's at though.

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hey bassB hows the la find du monde? Ive seen it around here but havnt tried

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Superb man. One of the best beers I've ever tried. Definitely check that out and if you like it, Unibroue makes many other steller brews.

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bought my first bottle of jameson. shit is delicious. thanks McNulty!

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you bastards and your alcohol.

It is a wonderful whiskey isn't it? Irish whiskey is fucking awesome! Quite pricey though

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Tasted hydromel for the first time tonight ... gooooood

Its not too bad. It is a lil pricey. Doesn't quite seem like its worth the price, but oh well.

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Had La Maudite and Don de Dieu, im really drunk LOLL and i wanna fuck a dioog in the asss haha

no seriously, its the first time i try don de dieu, now i've drank every beer i could think of, exept for rare beer like belgium trappist and many other...aaaah fuck it...

lolll....bnla bla blaaa

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don de dieu is pretty good. the only beer from unibroue (that i've had so far) i didnt' like was the 1637 or whatever date it was. honestly, i think the stock that store had was just old so i'd definitely try it again if i saw some on sale somewhere else. wasn't crazy about the ephemere, but it was still decent and definitely drinkable.

yeah ephemere is kinda different, really different, you had the apple one? i liked the rawsberry one, really tasteful!

Unibroue make a really good variety of beer, im proud of it!!

But i still want to try the belgium trappists ones, hard to find.

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Been starting to drink beer again. I did the math and i can't drink liquor. I haven't drank my crown royal in months.. but.. Its like 25-29 bucks a 5th.

Its like 15 dollars for 24 miller lites.

I drink almost half a 5th when i drink liquor. That means it costs about 10-15 dollars to drink and get drunk that one time. With beer i'll probably only drink around 8-9 to get a good solid buzz. Thats less than 7 dollars to get drunk.

Need i say more?

Drinking miller lite now to edge of the fact i have exams coming up and i don't care.

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Tried it on friday night. It's pretty good, but not fantastic or anything.

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world's 10 worst beers according to someone at the st. petersburg times: http://www.tampabay.com/features/fo...ticle478964.ece

^cool article. danke

i've never experienced a good lambic....but am kind of interested in trying one. suggestions?

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http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/828/2596

oud beersel oude kriek is probably my favorite of the extremely limited number of lambics i've had so far. wasn't as crazy about their gueuze though..

Yea, i'm a big fan of Abbey style beers, and i'm trying to get hold of some proper trappists... one day in the next year or two, i'd like to go over to Belgium and buy some beer from the gates of the Trappist Monasteries

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yeah i'D like to do it too! I heard there are no other choice if you want to grab some.

I plan to go to Europe next year or so, ill defenitly buy a good amount of alcohol hehe

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chimay is the easiest of the trappist beers to find.

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i think my favorite liquor is ketel one vodka.

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Is that a brand?




Is Hoegaarden any good?

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yes.

yes.

had La Segnieurial from Unibroue, its like Don de Dieur but its lighter than don de dieu, it was good, and had Ephemere Apple. God damn that was goooooood!!!

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i got a 6pack of some shiner blonde and drank it all poolside yesterday. my stomach got tanned, but my back is still white. lulz. time to flip dis hamburger ovah.

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Yesterday I was laid off at Garrison Brewing Co. The reason being they couldn't afford to train me/keep me on. Pretty bullshit. They had this other guy they hired on fulltime about a month ago and kept him instead. I was told first thing in the morning and then worked a full 8hour shift being pissed off. I only worked there for two months.

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that sucks man.. maybe you should do what many people have done in the past..turn your bitterness into drive and start your own brewing operation. then crush your old employer. that's how lamborghini started..though i think ferrari still has the edge on them.

DUDE, I HAD THE SAME THING YESTERDAY!!!!

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That's really shitty man I'm sorry to hear that. Hopefully you'll find something else you enjoy.

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Yeah, it's very unfortunate. Thanks for the support guys. I'm going to apply at Propeller Brewery which is an even better micro brewery.

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Good luck man I hope that works out for you.

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Cheers.

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haha well im still at the same old minimum wage job...some things never change

my cd collection's never been better though

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j...om/IMG_0003.jpg

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Lol... how many cd's do you have approximately? Last time I counted, I was beating about 500, with 60 vinyls and 80 cassettes

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hahaha i dont know....id guess 300? i had that pinwheel plastic thing that was like 180 i think... that went into overflow to my desk.... then i filled up one side of my desk with two rows and had to fill another. i only have about 15 cassettes...but they are fun to have. nice to have to albums going at once. i have a devastator tape in my tape deck right now. john brought in a bunch of crappy tapes on friday when i was working, the only highlights were control and resistance and fistful of metal. im SURE theyre still there hahaha

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Hehe I got both of them already


I counted when I cleaned my room today,

486 cds
118 cassettes
72 vinlys, 4 singles
8 VHS, 16 concert dvds

I don't even want to imagine how much cash I've spent on this shit

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considering the average price for one cd (15$) yeah, you spent a loooot of money.

I only own 33 cds hahaha

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I own about 250 cds.

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I'm at about 250ish.

I tried my first bottle of Duvel the other day. Rocked my pallet! It was well worth the 8.00$ - its packed with flavor. Also got a bottle of The Lost Abbey's Avant Gard which was good, but not worth the 8.00$ as I could spend 3$ on some others that taste the same.

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did you pour the yeast sediment into your glass when you had the duvel?

Beers with sediment are my luv

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Yeah, the second glass. I didn't bother reading the "how to pour" disclaimer on it and ending up with 70% foam. Fuck, that thing has the biggest head I've ever seen; I even poured it slower than normal.

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yea, there's almost nothing you can do about it with that beer. good stuff though.