Beer

[PenPho]

Had Ballast Point Sculpin IPA this weekend - been looking for it forever and it finally showed up at the local store.

Best IPA I've ever had - if you ever find it, grab 10 of them.

Have you had Pliny the Elder?

Not yet, it's not available in AZ, but next time I head to the Bay Area to visit the mom-in-law it's the first thing I'm going to do when I get off the plane.

1. Get Pliny
2. Get rental car
3. Get BabyPen off the plane

[Quality Start Machine]

I had cans of PBR last night.  Glorious.

They're not half bad if you pour them in a glass. But you probably like the taste of aluminum or don't care.

Hipster cheap beer finally made it around crab's condo?

I don't read this thread much, but I was glancing through it and came across this assertion that PBR is hipster beer. Now, I don't care what the hipsters think they've appropriated or laid claim to, PBR will never be theirs. Let me tell you about a man named LG Morris. If you're wondering what the L and G stand for, well, you're wasting your time because LG's name was simply the letters L and G. He was my grandpa's brother and they were Kentuckyfolk and they don't cotton to your ideas about what is or isn't a proper name. They also had a Floyd Jr. despite the presence of no other Floyds in the family and three or four James in non-sequential order. Anyway, LG was a Korean War veteran. He'd tell you this with pride, and then follow up by describing in detail every "Gook" he could remember killing. If he was feelin' real perky that day, he'd show you the bayonet he used to gut one. LG also had a straight line scar down the middle of his forehead that he got one day while chasing his brother around the yard with a hatchet. He ran into the clothesline and the hatchet snapped right back at him and the flat end broke open his forehead and left a nice mark till his dying day. He had tattoos of nekkid women so graphic that an East German dominatrix would run in horror. He once shot my Grandpa in the ass with buckshot because he thought it'd be funny. He once spent an entire evening stuffing his other brother's shotgun shells full of chicken feathers and then laughed his ass off when he fired it and it looked like he'd killed an entire flock of birds. One day he invited my Grandpa over to work on his car in the garage while it was raining and said that it only leaked "a little." When he came back later that day to find my absolutely drenched Grandpa he laughed and said that it leaked "a little over there, and a little over there, and a little over there...." In many ways he was the ultimate dick, and yet he was beloved by all.

My point here, is that LG was a batshit crazy redneck and he drank PBR in quantities vast enough to kill an elephant so big that PT Barnum would shit his pants at the very sight of it. No girl-jean wearing hipster will ever have a rightful claim to that beverage.

This.

[BH]

Costco has cases of Paulaner and Hofbrau for octoberfest. Good times had by all. Sam Adams octoberfest also surprised me, is actually a good beer. Spaten is the king still.

[Powdered Toast Man]

Costco has cases of Paulaner and Hofbrau for octoberfest. Good times had by all. Sam Adams octoberfest also surprised me, is actually a good beer. Spaten is the king still.

Am I a homer for liking Sam Adams' offerings?

[PenPho]

Costco has cases of Paulaner and Hofbrau for octoberfest. Good times had by all. Sam Adams octoberfest also surprised me, is actually a good beer. Spaten is the king still.

Am I a homer for liking Sam Adams' offerings?

No.

[Powdered Toast Man]

Costco has cases of Paulaner and Hofbrau for octoberfest. Good times had by all. Sam Adams octoberfest also surprised me, is actually a good beer. Spaten is the king still.

Am I a homer for liking Sam Adams' offerings?

No.

I almost got the Oktoberfest the other day, but found some Rogue Dead Guy and nabbed it instead.  Is SA's Oktoberfest decent?

[BH]

Costco has cases of Paulaner and Hofbrau for octoberfest. Good times had by all. Sam Adams octoberfest also surprised me, is actually a good beer. Spaten is the king still.

Am I a homer for liking Sam Adams' offerings?

No, think i'm always surprised how good their beer is. No idea why. So much better than bud light in a bottle.

[Internet Apex]

Costco has cases of Paulaner and Hofbrau for octoberfest. Good times had by all. Sam Adams octoberfest also surprised me, is actually a good beer. Spaten is the king still.

Am I a homer for liking Sam Adams' offerings?

No.

I almost got the Oktoberfest the other day, but found some Rogue Dead Guy and nabbed it instead.  Is SA's Oktoberfest decent?

I drink it.

[Gilgamesh]

Costco has cases of Paulaner and Hofbrau for octoberfest. Good times had by all. Sam Adams octoberfest also surprised me, is actually a good beer. Spaten is the king still.

Am I a homer for liking Sam Adams' offerings?

No.

I almost got the Oktoberfest the other day, but found some Rogue Dead Guy and nabbed it instead.  Is SA's Oktoberfest decent?

I drink it.

I always look forward to the SA Oktoberfest; it's phenomenal.

[SKO]

Costco has cases of Paulaner and Hofbrau for octoberfest. Good times had by all. Sam Adams octoberfest also surprised me, is actually a good beer. Spaten is the king still.

Am I a homer for liking Sam Adams' offerings?

No.

I almost got the Oktoberfest the other day, but found some Rogue Dead Guy and nabbed it instead.  Is SA's Oktoberfest decent?

I drink it.

I always look forward to the SA Oktoberfest; it's phenomenal.

And yet he passed on his chance to buy the first pack of the year in order to buy a poor college student his first bottle of sweet Woodford Reserve bourbon. Crown this man. He is but for the grace of God.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

He is but for the grace of God.

So, Gil only exists due to an absence of God's grace?

That's awfully dreary. Are you converting to Gnosticism or something?

[SKO]

He is but for the grace of God.

So, Gil only exists due to an absence of God's grace?

That's awfully dreary. Are you converting to Gnosticism or something?

PedanTank.

[Gilgamesh]

Costco has cases of Paulaner and Hofbrau for octoberfest. Good times had by all. Sam Adams octoberfest also surprised me, is actually a good beer. Spaten is the king still.

Am I a homer for liking Sam Adams' offerings?

No.

I almost got the Oktoberfest the other day, but found some Rogue Dead Guy and nabbed it instead.  Is SA's Oktoberfest decent?

I drink it.

I always look forward to the SA Oktoberfest; it's phenomenal.

And yet he passed on his chance to buy the first pack of the year in order to buy a poor college student his first bottle of sweet Woodford Reserve bourbon. Crown this man. He is but for the grace of God.

Like I said on the night in question, something as trivial as money shouldn't preclude you from such greatness.  As to the other thing, meh, I try to be a nice guy; it ain't no big thang.

[Gilgamesh]

He is but for the grace of God.

So, Gil only exists due to an absence of God's grace?

That's awfully dreary. Are you converting to Gnosticism or something?

When my father would get angry with me when I was a kid, he would always shout "BC, BC." I never knew what it meant until I realized that my sister was 8 years older than me and that condoms weren't just funky looking balloons. Sadface.

Yet I moved back to Illinois for him.  Go figure.

[Wheezer]

I almost got the Oktoberfest the other day, but found some Rogue Dead Guy and nabbed it instead.

It's better in the half-gallon jug. Because it allows you to practice playing the jug.