I Like Beer!

[heaven&hell]

Beer and I will meet in 2 hours and 40 mins at lunch time.

If you are working now and are able to have a drink on your lunch break I envy you!

 

I used to leave it to Friday lunches only (got a little crazy a few times ), but I usually end up having a quiet 2 or 3 schooners at lunch a couple of days a week now. Helps relax me a little.

 

 

Aaa-men brother Geoff! There's a nice little sports bar down the road from my office and I've been known to have a brew or two over lunch there every so often. Takes the edge off and makes the afternoon go much smoother.

 

 

I never drink on lunch but I do work next door to a liquor store. I go over there often to buy a soda and take a look at what's new and on sale. Then after work I'll buy something if I'm out of booze at home.

[Jacob M.]

I never drink on lunch but I do work next door to a liquor store. I go over there often to buy a soda and take a look at what's new and on sale. Then after work I'll buy something if I'm out of booze at home.

 

That's freakin hilarious. I went to 2 liquor stores on my lunch break Friday. Really wanted to buy a sample bottle of Jagermeister. A bottle of Schnapps would have been nice too. School don't take too kindly to alcohol though.

[Nick C]

I'm reading a book about beer right now and it says this about temperature (which we touched on earlier in the thread):-

 

"This is a matter of vital importance, all to often overlooked. The basic principle is simple: the stronger and denser a beer, the higher the serving temperature, on a scale ranging from 6 to 7 Centigrade ©.

For example, a pilsner or lager with an ABV rating of 5% should be served at 7C, while a top- fermentation amber beer would be just right between 10 - 12C .

The exception that proves the rule are the British ales: although relatively low in alchohol, they need to be drunk in temperatures in excess of 10C - always provided they are served on draught, i.e. in a pub.

 

Though a lukewarm beer is undoubtedly unpleasant to drink , never add ice cubes: they cause an immediate release of carbon dioxide and so 'kill' all taste. Serving beer excessively cold is just as bad: at below 6C even a light or alchohol-free beer (what the!!) loses it's taste and become indigestible. Unfortunately, this bad habit is gaining ground as refrigerator become the norm. It is a shame that the work of several months and the brewers lifetime skill and experience - can be at nought due to bad practise"

 

 

Phew....I'm thirsty after that...where's me beer!

[Fat Freddy]

One of my company's weekly publications is putting out a "SPECIAL BEER ISSUE" next week, devoted to brew pubs and micro-beers all around New Jersey. Can't wait to see it!

[Nick C]

One of my company's weekly publications is putting out a "SPECIAL BEER ISSUE" next week, devoted to brew pubs and micro-beers all around New Jersey. Can't wait to see it!

 

Will you be able to see a micro-beer ??? How many do you need to drink to get drunk ?

[Fat Freddy]

Will you be able to see a micro-beer ??? How many do you need to drink to get drunk ?

 

I dunno but after the week I've had, I will drink as many as it takes....

[heaven&hell]

I need a beer right now.

[rob62972]

I sure could use a beer!

[Swazi]

I've had enough of them tonight !!!

 

[Li§a]

yanno... the puking smilie is kinda gross, but kinda cool at the same time 'cuz they made some come out his nose too

[& then]

yep, & it takes a while for those sinus thingies to work normally afterwards, & then maybe some dry heaves to go along with that as well, perhaps?

[Fat Freddy]

Unfortunately I am out of beer at the moment. There is some wine in the fridge, however. I'm generally not much of a wine drinker but as they say, any port in a storm...

[& then]

I've drank, drunk, whatever, enough beer in them there olden dayz to float a battleship & then some! Bud, Mickey's, Miller, ya name it, I taste tested almost all of 'em! I still slur a few words from time to time......yowsa..what?

[heaven&hell]

I drank to much last night, my head hurts real bad.

[Li§a]

I drank to much last night, my head hurts real bad.

I'm sorry Wes

I'm tellin' ya.... you need the sure-fire hangover preventer! I partied last night, and am feeling 100% fine today

[RichieZ]

I don't drink to excess 'cause I can't stand hangovers, but when I do, I enjoy the pleasures of Newcastle Brown Ale. I also like El Toro beer, an awesome microbrew from California.

[heaven&hell]

I drank to much last night, my head hurts real bad.

I'm sorry Wes

I'm tellin' ya.... you need the sure-fire hangover preventer! I partied last night, and am feeling 100% fine today

 

I used to have that hangover preventer, it was called youth.

[Fat Freddy]

I'm sorry Wes

I'm tellin' ya.... you need the sure-fire hangover preventer! I partied last night, and am feeling 100% fine today

 

What is this sure-fire hangover preventer of which you speak? Inquiring minds want to know. Like Wes, I no longer have the body or liver of a young'un and am curious about anything that helps to deflect the nasty after effects of alkee-hol.

[Geoff]

I don't drink much these days because of financial restraints, but I got absolutely nailed on my company's account on Wednesday night... had a few quiet beers on Sat and Sun nights too. Yeah, beer is still good. Especially free beer.

[Fat Freddy]

I had me a few beers last night as well, we were at my brother in law's house and one of his friends showed up with a full cooler, which my brother in law and I felt duty bound to help him empty. It was only Bud Light, but as Geoff says, free beer is better than no beer!

[heaven&hell]

I went out to the bars last night. I only drank about 9 beers and the bar scene just isn't the same when you get older.

[Li§a]

What is this sure-fire hangover preventer of which you speak?

Take a vitamin B with a biiiiig glass of water b4 ya start drinking. If you have your wits about you, drink another glass b4 you pass out/go to sleep. I seldom drink now, but during my partying days I would always do this and haven't had a hangover since. Taking Vitamin B in the morning will help hangovers if you forget to take one the night before.

[Fat Freddy]

What is this sure-fire hangover preventer of which you speak?

Take a vitamin B with a biiiiig glass of water b4 ya start drinking. If you have your wits about you, drink another glass b4 you pass out/go to sleep. I seldom drink now, but during my partying days I would always do this and haven't had a hangover since. Taking Vitamin B in the morning will help hangovers if you forget to take one the night before.

 

Sounds similar to a plan my college roomies and I used to use before going out partying, except we took Advil. Worked like a charm just about every time.

[heaven&hell]

What is this sure-fire hangover preventer of which you speak?

Take a vitamin B with a biiiiig glass of water b4 ya start drinking. If you have your wits about you, drink another glass b4 you pass out/go to sleep. I seldom drink now, but during my partying days I would always do this and haven't had a hangover since. Taking Vitamin B in the morning will help hangovers if you forget to take one the night before.

 

 

Thanks Lisa, I'll have to follow that advice.

[Fat Freddy]

A weekly entertainment paper published by my employer, "EXIT," has just released its special BEER ISSUE this week, and in it I learned that July is "American Beer Month." I don't know how I missed the memo on that, but then again, just about every month is Beer Month for me anyway. In honor of American Beer Month, I present the following list...

 

40 ROCK SOLID REASONS TO GET DRUNK TONIGHT

 

1. If you don’t drink that beer, by God, someone else will.

 

2. The brewing industry alone employs 1.7 million people and that’s a lot of mouths to feed.

 

3. Bad ass nicknames like “Chuggybear,” “The Alabama Hamma,” “Pukey McPukerson”

are not awarded to people who stay home to do laundry.

 

4. Your favorite bar stool needs just one more sitting to break it in.

 

5. This is the one and only night your soul mate will wander into the bar. Seriously.

 

6. Word on the street is the beer has been trash talking you all day.

 

7. Without your brilliant wit and charm all those poor bartenders will be so dreadfully bored.

 

8. Dude, after what you did last time, you gotta go back out there and explain yourself.

 

9. It’s far better to have a good time you won’t remember than a dull one you will.

 

10. Remember that English high school teacher you and your pals used to call “Mr. McTightass?” You are so starting to remind me of him.

 

11. You can bet something really important and worthy of celebration happened on this day at sometime or another.

 

12. How the hell can you walk around sober when you’re an insignificant speck in an infinite and uncaring universe?

 

13. Churchill and FDR got drunk, Hitler didn’t. So what are you, some kind of Nazi?

 

14. If you don’t you’ll wake up in the morning all bright eyed and bushy tailed, and who the hell wants to go through life acting like a goddamn squirrel?

 

15. Your friends can’t have a good time without you.

 

16. Your friends might have a good time without you.

 

17. The Man says you shouldn’t and you don’t want to upset the Man, eh slavebot?

 

18. There is a 1000 percent better chance you will land a starring role in the upcoming Paris Hilton video Vegas Orgy.

 

19. Your lawn is so much more comfortable when you’re loaded.

 

20. You’re much less likely to remember doing all that embarrassing stuff.

 

21. That feisty barmaid might finally, you know, pick up on what you’re laying down.

 

22. Listen, are we down on this goddamn rock to have a good time or watch other people have a good time on TV?

 

23. Your girlfriend has rented a bunch of chick flicks you can snuggle to.

 

24. You’re under a lot of stress and if you don’t get crazy drunk you might do something crazy sober.

 

25. You gotta figure the odds of getting thrown in the drunk tank twice in one month are practically negligible.

 

26. If you don’t hunt the beer, the beer will surely hunt you.

 

27. When you write your memoirs you won’t have to go through the hassle of making up a bunch of decadent adventures.

 

28. Al-Qaeda forbids drinking and since when did you start taking orders from Al-Qaeda?

 

29. Let’s face it: modern life is a shit storm and beer is the only umbrella without any holes in it.

 

30. 7-11 nachos with extra cheese substitute and chili only taste good when you can’t remember eating them.

 

31. You did your goddamn monkey dance for the Man and now you get your monkey treat.

 

32. God hates the sight of you.

 

33. God won’t stop staring at you.

 

34. Your boss gets all weirded out when you get drunk during the day.

 

35. Three Stooges episodes you’ve watched a hundred times are suddenly hilarious again.

 

36. The day will come when you will have to single-handedly face death, and there isn’t a person alive who can tell you what will happen next.

 

37. Hemingway shot himself after being sober for two months.

 

38. When your coworkers ask “What did you do last night?” you can smile all cool like and say “Maaaaaan, you don’t wanna know,” instead of chirping “I alphabetized my DVD collection and found out I have two copies of The Truth About Cats and Dogs! Two!”

 

39. Remember your childhood dream of meeting a brewery heiress and jet-setting around the world on her dime? You think that’s going to happen while sitting in your goddamn apartment watching Captain Picard surrender the Enterprise for the tenth straight episode?

 

40. It’s so much easier to ring up those old flames and explain exactly where they went wrong.