Topic: how do i drank beer (Read 11915 times)

Pacobird · « **Reply #20 on:** March 18, 2009, 01:30:24 PM »

You can't know good beer unless you drink a lot of bad beer.

Fortinbras · « **Reply #21 on:** March 18, 2009, 01:48:42 PM »

The MMO theory of drinking.

Fredward · « **Reply #22 on:** March 18, 2009, 03:24:02 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Pacobird's Second Grade Class on March 18, 2009, 01:30:24 PM

You can't know good beer unless you drink a lot of bad beer.

Mongrel · « **Reply #23 on:** March 18, 2009, 05:26:43 PM »

Quote from: Final Great Brentai on March 18, 2009, 01:25:10 PM

Rum
Sake
Whiskey
Gin
Bourbon
Beer
Vodka
Wine
Mead

I can't buy mead anymore. Our useless communist liqour board doesn't stock any anymore.

Kayma · « **Reply #24 on:** March 18, 2009, 05:51:24 PM »

Quote from: Fredward on March 18, 2009, 03:24:02 PM

Quote from: Mr. Pacobird's Second Grade Class on March 18, 2009, 01:30:24 PM
You can't know good beer unless you drink a lot of bad beer.

Yeah, that's pretty true. It took a lot of Natural Ice and Pabst Blue Ribbon to temper my tastes.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #25 on:** March 18, 2009, 05:52:51 PM »

Kayma... have you been bro raped?

Kayma · « **Reply #26 on:** March 18, 2009, 05:56:50 PM »

François · « **Reply #27 on:** March 18, 2009, 06:01:35 PM »

Quote from: Iron_Mongrel on March 17, 2009, 08:05:03 PM

Quote from: ZedPower on March 17, 2009, 07:55:12 PM
I never drink alcohol, not for taste reasons, but on account of a sort of personal ascetism. I don't mind when alcohol is part of food though, as long as it's not too obvious about itself. I can have my mother's boeuf bourguignon with wine sauce and like it, but I had some artisanal beer-and-cheese sausage last week that was just so overwhelmed with the stuff that it killed the taste of the meat and spices.

I don't think I can ever stop hating you for living in a province where they know what real food is like.

Six million people in the greater Toronto area and all we can do is bring bland culinary failure to its global apex.

Haha, yeah, I guess I'm fortunate. I mean, I complained about that sausage, but the week before I got some lemon-and-pepper sausage off the same guy and it was heavenly. He works out of a IGA but that's only because he can't afford his own shop.

You know how some people get a thrill from buying car parts and the vendor's all "this isn't even street legal yet", or from buying drugs from a dealer who's all "this is some primo shit from my personal stash, I guarantee it'll make you the highest guy in town"? I get it from seeing an enthusiastic cook return from the back of the store carrying a package of unlabeled handmade sausage, telling me "I'm not even technically allowed to sell it because I forgot to print the ingredients on the label, but I won't make a fuss if you don't". Keep on rockin' ZedPower.

yyler · « **Reply #28 on:** March 18, 2009, 06:31:08 PM »

Anyone who thinks all beer/liquor is bad is a moron. And no, you don't have to have a bad version of something to know what a good version of something is. You don't have to eat a shitty cake to know what kinds of cake are good.

Classic · « **Reply #29 on:** March 18, 2009, 06:42:24 PM »

Beers are like coffee or spicy food. Part of appreciating the taste involves an acclimation period. During this acclimation period, it's important to gradually build to make appreciation of the more intense flavors possible.

You don't need to have bad beer, liquor, coffee, tea, cake, or whatever to understand what makes a good or great specimen of any variety. You do need exposure, and usually seeing what makes bad things suck helps in appreciating what makes good things great.

Alex · « **Reply #30 on:** March 18, 2009, 06:56:57 PM »

But only if you're willing to constantly go through the bad stuff to get to the good stuff.

Part of my thing with beer is that I used to have adverse reactions to it. Like I would drink some and for the next three days, I would be throwing up a lot of bile and acid until I got some surgery done on my gall bladder to fix that.

I've since labelled beer as an acquired taste or one of those 'grrrrrrr manly!' things that's drank out of some kind of social obligation.

Classic · « **Reply #31 on:** March 18, 2009, 06:59:27 PM »

Beer can and does taste yummy. But, if you couldn't tell from my post I had to acquire a taste for it. At this point though, I genuinely like beer and see it as a carrier for interesting flavors (in addition to drunkenness).

EDIT:
And holy fuck is Dogfish Head 120 Minute amazing.

Lady Duke · « **Reply #32 on:** March 18, 2009, 07:07:04 PM »

I don't like beer, but I do like blue moon on tap. That's it.

Tonight I went to a bar and had 1$ beer forced down my throat though. It was gross.

Classic · « **Reply #33 on:** March 18, 2009, 07:07:41 PM »

Are you sure that was beer? I don't think you can even buy human urine for $1.

Lady Duke · « **Reply #34 on:** March 18, 2009, 07:08:06 PM »

It was ...ummmm............Miller Lite?
Also, I think it's worth mentioning I didn't get carded. That is utterly ridiculous.

Brentai · « **Reply #35 on:** March 18, 2009, 07:10:33 PM »

Happy Hour at a dive bar can easily go down to $1. It's room-temperature domestic lite and you have to share it with a biker dude who hasn't showered or shaved since 1971, but hey, one buck.

Mongrel · « **Reply #36 on:** March 18, 2009, 07:11:38 PM »

Quote from: Lady Duke on March 18, 2009, 07:07:04 PM

I don't like beer, but I do like blue moon on tap. That's it.

Oddly enough, you are the third woman I've heard say this. Blue Moon isn't bad, but it's not like it's some holy graal of estro-beers... as far as I know?

Lady Duke · « **Reply #37 on:** March 18, 2009, 07:13:54 PM »

I really can't speak for any number of beers, but it's the only beer I ever tried that I was like "wow, this isn't the worst thing that ever went down my throat." And wow, that sounds terrible when I just wrote that that way. I'm leaving it.

Brentai · « **Reply #38 on:** March 18, 2009, 07:15:27 PM »

No, don't! It'll give you cancer!

Lady Duke · « **Reply #39 on:** March 18, 2009, 07:17:15 PM »

Honestly, that wouldn't be the first thing to come to mind. The worst thing is prollyyyyy some other beer. Like that shitty flowery beer that Kazz likes so much. God, it tastes like perfume. Who the fuck wants to drink a bottle of perfume?

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