I friggin' love beer.

[Trunk]

I just love it.

All of it. While I appreciate some beer more than others, there really isn't a beer I don't like.

I love beer in the morning with eggs.

I love it at lunch.

I love beer at supper.

I love beer before going to bed at night.

I love beer watching TV. I love beer listening to the radio. I love beer sitting on my porch. I love beer driving in my car (but you need to be careful with this). I love beer reading the paper.

I love to finish only half my beer, leave it sitting out all night and drink the remaining warm, stale half before I brush my teeth in the morning.

I love to stuff it in a chicken's butt and cook him. I love to pour it in a pot with lamb and onions and watch it foam up when I make chili.

I love to submerged it in ice water as the best method of cooling it. I love fishing through a cooler to find which beer I want the most. I love getting it out of the fridge. I love using a bottle opener on it. I love twisting caps off. I love popping the top of cans.

I love twisting the cap off a 40 and pouring it into a frosty glass.

I love getting it on tap in a bar. I love getting a bottle in a bar.

I love the word "BEER".

There's nothing about beer I don't love.

Last night I decided not to have a beer before bed because I'm trying to cut back a little, and I've been sitting at work all day feeling bad for the beer in my fridge. . . like I forgot to kiss my wife goodbye or something.

This thread is my way of making it up to beer.

Sorry, beer.

[silenus]

Aw, man....that was beautiful!

[Homebrew]

:: standing ovation ::

That brought a tear to my eye. Have I got a song for you.

In some of my songs I have casually mentioned
The fact that I like to drink beer
This little song is more to the point
Roll out the barrel and lend me your ears

(chorus)
I like beer. it makes me a jolly good fellow
I like beer. it helps me unwind and sometimes it makes me feel mellow (makes him feel mellow)
Whiskey’s too rough, champagne costs too much, vodka puts my mouth in gear
This little refrain should help me explain as a matter of fact I like beer
(he likes beer)

Tom T. Hall

[romansperson]

If the ocean was beer
And I was a duck
I'd swim to the bottom
And never come up.

[Ike Witt]

All glory to beer.



To bad I can't embed the Hypno Toad sound with this post.

[Eve]

But I love this 19th-century music-hall song:

Let me sing you a song of a gargle,
A lotion to me very dear;
I refer to that grand lubricator,
That wonderful tonic called beer, beer, beer!

Beer, beer, glorious beer,
Fill yourself right up to here;
Don't be afraid of it, drink till you're made of it,
Drink of your old lager beer!
Drink a great deal of it, make a whole meal of it,
Come, boys, a rousing good cheer, hurrah!
Up with the sale of it, down with a pail of it,
Glorious, glorious beer!

It's the daddy of all lubricators,
A very fine thing for your neck;
Can be used as a lotion or gargle,
For people of every sect.
They say there's a goddess of wine, boys,
But is there a goddess of beer?
If there is, let us drink to her name, boys,
And wish that we had her right here!

Beer, beer, glorious beer,
Fill yourself right up to here;
Don't be afraid of it, drink till you're made of it,
Drink of your old lager beer!
Drink a great deal of it, make a whole meal of it,
Come, boys, a rousing good cheer, hurrah!
Up with the sale of it, down with a pail of it,
Glorious, glorious beer!

[SPOOFE]

I, too, love beer. Whether I'm downing something pricey from some European hamlet with a name that I couldn't ever hope to pronounce, or if I'm sitting in a back alley downing a forty of Mickey's, it's all tasty. Heineken (fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!), Modelo, Rolling Rock, Newcastle, Arrogant Bastard, Sierra Nevada...

I love the feeling of massive glugs of beer travelling down my throat. I love upending a half-finished forty and leaving the bottle empty, completely drained, in one massive chug. I love clinking bottles. I love the way my buddy Flip pops beers open with the bottom of his lighter. I love smoking a stogie and tipping back a cold one.

Yeah. Beer good.

[Homebrew]

Polka standard

In heaven, there is no beer
that's why we drink it here
And are gone from here
Our friends will be drinkin' all our beer

[Homebrew]

dang. I left out the "we're" from "And when we are gone from here"

[Ferret Herder]

Beer fights cancer!

(OK, non-alcoholic beer, so far. In mice. Shut up and let me celebrate.)

I love beer so much, I brew it at home.

[Rhiannon8404]

Well, I was going to write some really great stuff about beer, but I think I will just go have one instead.

In the immortal words of Benjamin Franklin..."Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

[The Devil's Grandmother]

Beer, ale, braggot, small beer, gruits, groaning ale, ambers, IPAs...join us brethren and sistren in the joy of John Barleycorn.
<wanders off humming, Of hop a little quantity, And Barm to it they bring too;
Being barrell’d up, they call’t a cup Of dainty good old stingo. >

[Tapioca Dextrin]

The only thing better than beer is....

MORE BEER!

[Spoke]

Originally Posted by romansperson

If the ocean was beer
And I was a duck
I'd swim to the bottom
And never come up.

If the ocean was whiskey
And I was a duck
I'd dive to the bottom
And drink my way up

- ("Rye Whiskey" - Traditional - as sung by Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers c. 1927)



But yeah, Id rather have beer, too.

[Try As I Might...]

DO RE MI DRINK, by Homer J. Simpson.
*ahem* La la la la.... *ahem*

DO...... the stuff... that buys me beer...
RAY..... the guy that sells me beer...
ME...... the guy... who drinks the beer,
FAR..... a long way to get beer...
SO...... I'll have another beer...
LA...... I'll have another beer...
TEA..... no thanks, I'm drinking beer...
That will bring us back to...
(Looks into an empty glass)

D'OH!


Beer. hmmmmmmmm. beer.

Stella Artois, Becks, St. Pauli, Grolsch, Guiness, Harp, Bass, Newcastle.....

"Beer is living proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy"

B. Franklin

[YellowTail]

There's a lake of stew
And of whiskey too
You can paddle all around 'em
In a big canoe

Big Rock Candy Mountain

Mmmmm ... beer. At least my love for you will never die! --Homer

Beer. Helping ugly people have sex for over a hundred years.

I'm like a chocaholic but with booze.



I'm partial to Fat Tire these days. A lovely medium ale. It's brewed here in Colorado. Can you guys get it? I've seen it for sale in Missouri. I even got my cousin hooked on it.

[Loopydude]

"Ah one Bourbon, one Scotch, and one beyahhhh!"

Screw that, just give me the beer!

[silenus]

I'll take Loopydude's bourbon and scotch!

[Try As I Might...]

"Beer: the cause of and solution to all of life's problems."

From, once again, the immortal Homer Simpson

[Loopydude]

ou are the one who waters the malt
set on the ground,
The noble dogs keep away even the potentates,
Ninkasi, you are the one who waters the malt
set on the ground,
The noble dogs keep away even the potentates.

You are the one who soaks the malt in a jar
The waves rise, the waves fall.
Ninkasi, you are the one who soaks
the malt in a jar
The waves rise, the waves fall.

You are the one who spreads the cooked
mash on large reed mats,
Coolness overcomes.
Ninkasi, you are the one who spreads
the cooked mash on large reed mats,
Coolness overcomes.

You are the one who holds with both hands
the great sweet wort,
Brewing [it] with honey and wine
(You the sweet wort to the vessel)
Ninkasi, (...)
(You the sweet wort to the vessel)

The filtering vat, which makes
a pleasant sound,
You place appropriately on [top of]
a large collector vat.
Ninkasi, the filtering vat,
which makes a pleasant sound,
You place appropriately on [top of]
a large collector vat.

When you pour out the filtered beer
of the collector vat,
It is [like] the onrush of
Tigris and Euphrates.
Ninkasi, you are the one who pours out the
filtered beer of the collector vat,
It is [like] the onrush of
Tigris and Euphrates.

A 4000-year-old Sumerian poem about BEER. You know the shit be good.

[Homebrew]

Originally Posted by YellowTail

I'm partial to Fat Tire these days. A lovely medium ale. It's brewed here in Colorado. Can you guys get it? I've seen it for sale in Missouri.

I've had Fat Tire in Texas and Missouri. It is indeed a grrod brew. My current fav is Bully! Porter from Boulevard Brewing of Kansas City.

[Anaamika]

I won't come in here and say I don't like homebrew. I've already gotten scolded for it, once.

But I can't say I get the point of beer. However, one of my coworkers, now she could sympathize with you.

[Misnomer]

There is no point to beer; beer is its own point.

--Misnomer (who can't wait until the end of the month, when she goes to NYC for a massive pub crawl . . . )

[CynicalGabe]

I can get Fat Tire in almost every market here in NorCal. I enjoy it greatly, but its not my favorite.

My all-time favorites in order:

1. Gambrinus
2. Staroprammen
3. Heineken
4. Fat Tire
5. Pilsner Urquell
6. Corona (only with a lime - anything else is masturbation)
rankings get murkey after this point



1000. 'merican brews

[CynicalGabe]

Doh! How could I forget Ursus and Stella Artois? #7 and 6, respectively

[Johnny Bravo]

“God made yeast, as well as dough, and he loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He was a wise man who invented beer.” - Plato

Beer is great stuff. One of these days I'm going to try my hand at homebrewing.

[msmith537]

Hey I'm drunk right now!!!

[E. Thorp]

I like beer for breakfast, or a midnight snack;
I like beer for lunch; big beer attack!

Maudite, La Chouffe, Hale's Cream, Schlüssel Alt, and a tip of the cap to Boddington's, my drink with the Seattle Trivia Dopers!

[picker]

Hey Eve - would happen to have the sheet music or a recording of that beer song?

P

[The Long Road]

Guinness

A tear comes to my eye.

[buns3000]

If only the OP lived in a country that made some good beer. A tragic irony.

[Trunk]

Originally Posted by buns3000

If only the OP lived in a country that made some good beer. A tragic irony.

I don't want to bring negativity to this otherwise positive thread, but for you to say that. . .

You must either

1) Live in America and don't know your way around

2) Haven't spent much time in America

[coop]

Originally Posted by buns3000

If only the OP lived in a country that made some good beer. A tragic irony.

Australia

[romansperson]

Originally Posted by spoke-

If the ocean was whiskey
And I was a duck
I'd dive to the bottom
And drink my way up

- ("Rye Whiskey" - Traditional - as sung by Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers c. 1927)



But yeah, Id rather have beer, too.

HA! Thanks for this - I knew it had to come from somewhere, but from where, I knew not.

[LindyHopper]

Mmm...sweet, delicious beer. I love it too. Bass, Caffrey's Irish Ale, Guinness, Newcastle, Montana Brown Ale, Samuel Smith's, Sierra Nevada, Grolsch, Fischer, Singha, Full Sail, Shiner Bock, Modelo Negro, Red Hook, Yuengling, Moose Drool, Kingfisher, Bridgeport, Sapporo, Blackened Voodoo, Drop Top, Rogue, Deschutes, Anchor Steam, Celis, Spaten, Veldensteiner Kaiser Weisse...these are a few of my favorite things.

Man, I'm making myself thirsty. Good thing it's Friday.

[Claude Remains]

Originally Posted by buns3000

If only the OP lived in a country that made some good beer. A tragic irony.

I was loving this thread and wondering who would piss first.

[Trunk]

Originally Posted by Eve

But I love this 19th-century music-hall song:

I don't know the tune to this song that Eve posted but doesn't it just make you want to swing your arm back and forth in front of your body. . .foam a-splashing?

Originally Posted by bob fortuna

I was loving this thread and wondering who would piss first.

If nothing else, it's apropos.

[Eve]

Originally Posted by picker

Hey Eve - would happen to have the sheet music or a recording of that beer song?

P

I do, actually, you can here a clip from it here. I can't seem to find it anymore on tinfoil.com's selections—e-mail them and ask where you can buy it.

[The Devil's Grandmother]

Originally Posted by picker

Hey Eve - would happen to have the sheet music or a recording of that beer song?

I can't make it go on my work computer but this site claims to have a listenable copy of Dan W. Quinn singing Glorious Beer from 1899.

[The Devil's Grandmother]

<sigh> I've been the queen of all simulposts lately. I need to learn to type faster.

[teela brown]

Germany, in addition to the other many wonderful things it manufactures, makes the most glorious brews in the world. There are beers in every country that I love, but when I take a long pull at something like Rootberger Hell or an Aktiem, I'm in beer heaven.

Someday I'll get to Germany and drink my way through all the little braueris.

[beergeek279]

Woo hoo............beer!!!!

As you'd probably never guess from the username, I too love beer.

My first homebrew is in the primary as we speak, pretty much done with the vigorous fermentation but still not ready for secondary (want to eek out every last thousandth of a point of gravity.......started at 1.082, and measured at 1.023 when I checked it Wednesday [hey, I really wanted a sample, ok!!]........if it drops to about 1.014, then I've got me a 9% oatmeal stout with a good 60-65 IBUs, according to ProMash ).

I haven't given up on commercial brew, though......unfortunately, being trapped in the beer hell that is West Virginia downright sucks, but I try to manage the best I can.......tonight, bought a 6-pack of Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold in preparation for the snow tomorrow (was going to get the Sam Adams Brewmaster 12-pack, with Scotch Ale and Black Lager, but I don't want to associate with anything Boston until the Steelers win ), have very big beers that I buy when I head home to PA (current one is the 11% Old Salty Barleywine from the magnificent Heavyweight Brewing Company....."Bigger and Smaller than Most!!"), and well.......the West Virginia Brewing Company makes fantastic beers within the 6% handcuffs that they have on them.

So, when life gives you hops, make beer!!!

[YellowTail]

And how could I forget:

Q: Why is American beer like making love in a canoe?
A: It's fucking close to water!

[beergeek279]

Originally Posted by Trunk

I don't want to bring negativity to this otherwise positive thread, but for you to say that. . .

You must either

1) Live in America and don't know your way around

2) Haven't spent much time in America

I agree........I hate bring negativity into our paean to ambrosia, but this definitely is one of my pet peeves.

The truth is that a) most foreigners who say this have never had an American microbrew, and b) most national beers end up being boring pale adjunct lagers no better than Bud, Miller or Coors..........DMS flavor is DMS flavor the world over.

[lab rat]

I have never read anything so beautiful in all my life. I thing I will go have a beer

[Kat]

Originally Posted by Homebrew

:: standing ovation ::

That brought a tear to my eye. Have I got a song for you.

In some of my songs I have casually mentioned
The fact that I like to drink beer
Tom T. Hall

Damn you, [b]Homebrew[/i]. I opened this thread specifically to mention that song!

I guess I have to settle for second best and mention Sneaky Snake...

He doesn’t have any arms or legs, you cannot see his ears
And while we are not lookin’, he’s stealin’ all of our beer

Kat

This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption. Let us give praise to our maker and glory to his bounty by learning about... BEER. --Friar Tuck

[Cliffy]

Heh. I'm headed to the Brickskeller right now.

--Cliffy

[SolGrundy]

Having my first Guinness in Dublin, Ireland was like simultaneously having the best orgasm I ever had and doing everything that led up to said orgasm, all at once.

Since I can't drink Guinness in the US anymore, what with its feeling like being cast out of the Garden of Eden and all, my favorites are:

1. Bass
2. Fat Tire
3. Stella Artois
4. Harp (if nothing else is available)
5. Anchor Steam or Sam Adams (if seriously, nothing else is available)

Originally Posted by bob fortuna

I was loving this thread and wondering who would piss first.

Well, you know what they say: you only rent SDMB threads!

[Ass For A Hat]

Originally Posted by Trunk

...there really isn't a beer I don't like.

So do you like rauchbier? If you can drink a half litre of rauchbier, then I'll believe you.

I like almost everything, but can't drink that stuff.

[silenus]

Rauchbier is good! Well, at least my rauchbier is good. I make a smoked porter that has won awards!