I like beer

Found a new brew I like in Little Rock last weekend. Should have bought a case or two because when I got home, I discovered the closest retail outlet to here is 100 miles north in Effingham:

I like beer
 
Looks good.

Victory's Golden Monkey is pretty good, too. Their take on a Belgian Tripel.

When I want a nice Tripel, I go for that one, a Canadian beer (Unibroue) called Trois Pistoles, Val-Dieu (from L'Abbaye Val-Dieu) or Gulden Draak (a Belgian Tripel from Ertvelde).

I've been going for really bitter IPAs lately. New Belgium's Ranger or Sierra Nevada's Torpedo are usually in the fridge.

New Belgium also sell an Imperial IPA called Rampant - 85 IBU, 8.5% ABV. limited production, so grab it when you see it.
 
Ranger was my go-to beer for a while, but it gives me a bladder burn. Never developed a taste for Rampant. S-N also makes Hop Hunter, which I like better than their other offerings. Kona Castaway is rather refreshing, also. BTW, what part of Broward are you in? I spent several years in Ft. L., Oakland Park and Margate in the mid-70's.
 
Coral Springs, right next to Margate. C-S is now a city of about 130,000 (was a cattle ranch/bean farm until the '60s).

We just got a Total Wine & More, so no need to travel to find something interesting
 
I hesitate to admit that I buy most of my beer from Costco. They have a box of 30 bottles of 5 different styles, including a very nice IPA, for a very good price. For the heavier stuff, I go to our local supermarket which has two aisles of three shelves, all carrying beer. There's a Porter from an Oregon brewery that I really like. I find stout, particularly Guinness to be a bit too heavy.
 
BillT said:
Coral Springs, right next to Margate. C-S is now a city of about 130,000 (was a cattle ranch/bean farm until the '60s).

We just got a Total Wine & More, so no need to travel to find something interesting
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Coral Springs was just starting to develop when I was there in the 70s. Did a bit of work out there at the time, but I remember it was still a bit swampy. Working (on stilts) one day in an apartment complex, I looked out the window and spied a huge 'gator sunning himself on the far side of the canal, where a seawall had yet to be built.
 
Danno said:
Coral Springs was just starting to develop when I was there in the 70s. Did a bit of work out there at the time, but I remember it was still a bit swampy. Working (on stilts) one day in an apartment complex, I looked out the window and spied a huge 'gator sunning himself on the far side of the canal, where a seawall had yet to be built.
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Sold my last pair of Dura-stilts 5 years ago. I'm now on the other side - City Building Inspector.

I think the gators are more common now than they were then. I see them all the time.
 
Another beer shop/cafe in Ely. http://www.3at3deli.com/ Went here before in the summer and sat outside having a beer, bit chilly yesterday, so sat inside. It's located on Three Cups Lane. Which is a path.
They claim to currently have 181 bottled beers - they reckon it would take you 3 1/2 months to sample your way through. At 1 per day.

Useless info from the back of a beer bottle - Empress Sisi, wife of Emperor Franz Josef* of Austro Hungary, visited Cromer in Norfolk.
Perhaps you need to visit Cromer to see how unlikely that sounds. It is a nice town, in an old fashioned English seaside sort of way, but a destination for the wife of one of the most powerful heads of state in pre WW1 Europe?
Famous for their brown crabs which are delicious. Maybe not so unlikely after all.

*The dad of the one that got shot in Sarajevo, precipitating WW1
 
BillT said:
Danno said:
Coral Springs was just starting to develop when I was there in the 70s. Did a bit of work out there at the time, but I remember it was still a bit swampy. Working (on stilts) one day in an apartment complex, I looked out the window and spied a huge 'gator sunning himself on the far side of the canal, where a seawall had yet to be built.
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Sold my last pair of Dura-stilts 5 years ago. I'm now on the other side - City Building Inspector.

I think the gators are more common now than they were then. I see them all the time.
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Yeah, they were on the endangered species list back then-no hunting allowed. Evidently made a huge comeback.
 
beer's ok but it bloats me out, gas, etc. I like wines, the redder the better, good for the arteries too. Just don't get me started on vodka!
 
nickguzzi said:
Another beer shop/cafe in Ely. http://www.3at3deli.com/ Went here before in the summer and sat outside having a beer, bit chilly yesterday, so sat inside. It's located on Three Cups Lane. Which is a path.
They claim to currently have 181 bottled beers - they reckon it would take you 3 1/2 months to sample your way through. At 1 per day.

Useless info from the back of a beer bottle - Empress Sisi, wife of Emperor Franz Josef* of Austro Hungary, visited Cromer in Norfolk.
Perhaps you need to visit Cromer to see how unlikely that sounds. It is a nice town, in an old fashioned English seaside sort of way, but a destination for the wife of one of the most powerful heads of state in pre WW1 Europe?
Famous for their brown crabs which are delicious. Maybe not so unlikely after all.

*The dad of the one that got shot in Sarajevo, precipitating WW1
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Yes but, over 100 years ago it wouldn't have been "a nice town, in an old fashioned English seaside sort of way" now would it?

It would most likely have been "a nice town, in a very modern and fashionable English seaside sort of way" !
 
Actually I think the charm was, even then, that it was old fashioned. All those rich Victorians demolishing medieval to Georgian manor houses and stately homes to put up something "modern", and no doubt they did in Cromer too, but as you mosey round you notice how much of the town is pre Victorian, so desperately old fashioned in that age.
Maybe the modern bits like the pier was sufficient compensation.

Meanwhile just to nudge the thread back towards the topic, I was in Holt on Saturday, wandering around Barnes and Larners department store. I just happened upon their booze department - no idea how that happened - and I noticed they had a few bottles by the St Austell brewery.
I've long been a fan of Proper Job, I think I have even mentioned it in this thread. I discovered that there is a big boys version, called Big Job which it probably is at a heady 7.2%.
I have often been disappointed by very strong beers, the alcohol usually overwhelming the hops and other flavenoids, so the bottles await an "occasion". Anyone experienced a Big Job? Anything you'd like to share?

http://www.staustellbrewery.co.uk/beers ... -our-range
 
From the profile and reviews, Big Job would be right up my alley. Not sure if it's available over here in the colonies, but I'll be keeping an eye out...
 
An old friend from France is due to visit sometime late February or March. As the weather may still be unpredictable for determindly outdoors stuff, I am considering a few visits to local ish breweries.
So far I'm getting a bit frustrated. Elgoods in Wibech is just down the road but their visits are not until April. I really only like their Golden Newt, the others being more on the malty side for me.
Woodfoordes between Salhouse and Ranworth do tours starting the end of March, this might work, if he can put off his trip till then. It is a nice run out from here.
Adnams in Southwold looks like it does tours year round, so that will get a closer look.

Anyone know of other East Anglian breweries that do tours and are open early in the year? But not Greene King, Gaetan spends his working life in petrochemical plants, I doubt anything as complex as that would be considered "entertainment". Their beer isn't too bad though.
 
So did ya know -today is national beer day.

What a coincidence -it's also my birthday....
 
comnoz said:
So did ya know -today is national beer day.

What a coincidence -it's also my birthday....
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Well that's a good reseason to have a few beers then, happy birthday.

Ashley
 
Some folks believe that the British Empire was created so that it would always be after 5:00 pm somewhere in British territory.
 
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