here i am http://beeradvocate.com/user/profile/sonicstylee i'm a semi-regular poster, usually in the homebrew segment

I've been on BA for a while. I am the Beerfly Guide for Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. For a while I was really active in trading, but lately I have been busy with my own beer blog http://www.showmebeer.com/ http://beeradvocate.com/user/profile/bort11

Hello, I love surf and rock podcasts, am currently drunk but cannot get the payment to work so that I can donate a silly proportion of my wage to this site. I'm not sure how long I have left until the magical juice wears thin but judging from my spelling not very long. My bank account is German, might this have something to do with anything?

I sometimes "jokingly" say that I'm going to start again when I'm 70. Hmm. Maybe, maybe not.

"I'll drive!" That's cool, I have done the same thing on many occasion.

I admire the fact that you lived that heavy drinking life and finally made the choice to stop for your own health and well-being. Me, I've never been interested in drinking alcohol, so I never have really.

Good luck!

Best.

Oh, I'm with ya on the hangovers. Nothing I hate more than waking up with a hangover, so I tend to take it really easy these days and limit my beer consumption to 2 or 3 when I'm at home. If I'm out at a bar or watching some bands, I might have 4, but that's my max, and I also make sure to drink some water in between each one. That not only helps keep you hydrated to ward off the hangover the next morning, but also helps keep you sober for the drive home. If I drink anything harder, like gin or whiskey (my favorites), I'll have that before I hit the beer, because "beer before liquor, never sicker." I've noticed that after I turned 40 that I just can't handle as much alcohol without it giving me a headache. I used to be able to really pound 'em back in college and get up and go to class the next day, no sweat. Ah, those were the days...

Hi you!! Nice to see you. :) Robbie lives in a Polish neighborhood in Chicago, so we drink alot of Okecim, but man it'll get ya schnockered before ya know it! IDON MINE said:

Hey Martha!

BEER HOUND? That's me!
I don't knock myself out with it anymore, but enjoy all the more since I don't, so...

It's all about the freshness, cold and tall and I'm game. Dry tastes aren't always my taste, but the Czech beers are Killer: Kozel and the original Budweiser of course. Some Eatern Austrian stuff I dig: Ottakringer, Stigl, dark lagers are cool too.

The Indie brewing thing you guys talk about is FANTASTIC, although it doesn't happen often enough where I live.

You just named a bunch of my fav's too Kopper. Schlafly in cans=cool! kopper said:

I'm a big fan of Schlafly in St. Louis and Boulevard in Kansas City. Neither one ever lets me down. I'm also happy to have just bought my first 12-pack of Schlafly Summer Lager in CANS!

Left Hand, Founders, Bell's, Dogfish Head, Flying Dog, Old Rasputin (North Coast), O'Fallon... all favorites. There are more, just can't think of them right now.

I'm a big fan of Schlafly in St. Louis and Boulevard in Kansas City. Neither one ever lets me down. I'm also happy to have just bought my first 12-pack of Schlafly Summer Lager in CANS! Left Hand, Founders, Bell's, Dogfish Head, Flying Dog, Old Rasputin (North Coast), O'Fallon... all favorites. There are more, just can't think of them right now.

Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men.

That scene in the convenience store? it gets no more menacing than that.

You can also follow Mike McCarthy on Twitter: http://twitter.com/guerrillamonstr His newest film is called "Cigarette Girl"... here's its Facebook page for your likin': http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#!/cigarettegirlfilm He's even on the Hideout! http://garagepunk.ning.com/profile/JohnMichaelMcCarthy

He forgot to denounce Ron Paul's paranoid, racist, nativist, know-nothing opposition to the war in Iraq, his deeply anti-semitic opposition to our loss of civil liberties in the face of the new national security apparatus, or to link him to the fringe hate-mongers who agree with him about the WTO, the anarchists.

Here's a great article on Ron Paul's illiberal libertarianism. Rand is the same. It's a couple years old, but obviously still relevant (from The Age of Abundance).

Illiberal Libertarians by Brink Lindsey

January 11th, 2008

I wasn’t a fan of Ron Paul to begin with. And Ron Paul’s crowd didn’t think much of me, either.

I hadn’t known about his old newsletters and their cesspool of racism and homophobia. But I didn’t need to know about them to know that I wanted nothing to do with Ron Paul’s brand of libertarianism.

Here’s why. I’m a libertarian because I’m a liberal. In other words, I support small-government, free-market policies because I believe they provide the institutional framework best suited to advancing the liberal values of individual autonomy, tolerance, and open-mindedness. Liberalism is my bottom line; libertarianism is a means to promoting that end.

Ron Paul, by contrast, is no liberal. Just look at his xenophobia, his sovereignty-obsessed nationalism, his fondness for conspiracy theories, his religious fundamentalism — here is someone with a crudely authoritarian worldview. The snarling bigotry of his newsletters is just the underside of this rotten log.

In the twentieth century, alas, American liberalism was heavily influenced by the socialist dream of supplanting markets with central planning and top-down control. That confusion begat confusion in response — namely, an antistatist movement heavily influenced by authoritarian resentment of liberal cultural values. Paul’s illiberal libertarianism is a particularly unattractive variant of this kind of “fusionism.”

With the collapse of socialism, however, American liberals have begun rediscovering the value of market competition. By my lights, many of them still have a long, long way to go. But encouraging that process — making the case that economic liberalization is of a piece with overall social liberalization — is the only way forward for those of us concerned about overweening state power. In this project, people whose values and habits of mind are deeply hostile to liberal modernity are not our allies.

1. Orval 2. Old Speckled Hen 3. Unibroue Maudite 4. Unibroue Don de Dieu 5. Fuller ESB 6. Sam Smith Pale 7. Sam Smith Oatmeal Stout 8. Duvel 9. Hamms 10. Miller High Life 3hands said:

That's a good line up! I've been digging an East Coast fave, Smutty Nose IPA. it's Racer 5-esque, but a tad cheaper.

Funny... AWOL are indeed AWOL (Away WithOut Leave)... or, more accurately, MIA. Too bad you wired the money via Western Union. If you'd paid by credit card you could have gotten credited for the money (most credit card companies will do this if you get taken to the cleaners). Do you have a record of your phone call (what number you dialed)? If you used a cell phone, it might still be in your call history. You should also report them to the Better Business Bureau. Good luck. Hopefully you'll hear back from this "independent agent."

I meant that "I like" baseball freaks...since it's not a group (unless there is one now).

I joined this group on Facebook a month or so ago. I do like it! I look forward to the group updates, posts, etc. thanks for setting it up

This is the barleywine I'm going to do next weekend

Anchor Old Foghorn Clone (All Grain)


21 lbs (9.45 kg) 2-Row Pale Malt
1 lb (0.45 kg) 80°L Crystal
6 lbs Dark Dry Malt Extract
2 lbs honey (at flame out)


Mash at 148° F (64° C) for 60 minutes with about 7 gallons (29 L) water to collect 6.5 gallons (24.6 L) of first wort. (You may need two lauter tuns to do this if you choose to do an all grain recipe. Drained mash can then be sparged with 175° [79° C] water into another kettle to produce a "small beer.")


2.0 oz (56 g) Gelena hops, 5.75% alpha acid (first wort) 37 IBU
1.0 oz (28 g) Gelena hops, 5.75% alpha acid (45 min.) 18.4 IBU
1.0 oz (28 g) Fuggle hops, 5.75% alpha acid (10 min.) 10.5 IBU
2.0 oz (56 g) Fuggle hops, 5.75% alpha acid (dry)
Irish Moss (20 min.)
Wyeast 1728 Scottish

Boil wort 60 to 90 minutes with hop additions above. Cool to 68° F (20° C) and pitch a generous amount of yeast (pitching the dregs of a previous 5 gallon batch is recommended) and aerate that sucker like nobody's business. ferment at 68°-72° F (20-22° C) rousing the yeast if fermentation appears to stall, for two or more weeks, then siphon into secondary. When gravity nears target final, siphon into another carboy onto dry hops and cold condition at 45° F (7° C) for 18 months. Package, condition and enjoy!

Original Gravity: 1.101 (25° P)
Final Gravity: 1.043 (11° P)
IBU: 65.9

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I wasn't sure where to post this here, but I thought some bloggers might get a real kick out of it. Click the link below to read the story.

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Picon!

Picon is from France. Put a little in a Glass and fill up with Beer (blonde) !!!

Really nice - good taste...:) danger !!!!

...put Cheap Wiskey in Black Coffee (+ Sugar :)

...Table Red Wine with Ice...

...Plum Liquer (not sweet) add a bag of "Rosehip" (right) tea - fill up

with some hot water...needs sugar..and then some pressed Lemon

cheeeeeeeeeeers :)

max

OK, I remember now... Van Winkle. Ever had that?

I'll have to check and see if they stock Eagle Rare at my local liquor store the next time I'm there. Someone else also recommended a bourbon for me to try, but I can't remember the name right now. Maybe it'll come to me... Eargasm said:

Great forum, Kopper! You're a man after my own heart when it comes to whiskeys. Got a bottle of Tullamore Dew sitting on the bar, but may I suggest Eagle Rare single barrel? I've converted several Knob Creek crew to this fine bourbon.

This guy does excellent work: http://garagepunk.ning.com/profile/donnydont