# The drinking beer thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 3, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741 "2003-08-03T18:26:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/41 "2003-08-04T12:26:54Z")
This thread is great, but it really makes me wish I had bothered to buy something besides shitty Bud yesterday. Well, the Margaritas made up for it. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/42 "2003-08-04T12:49:28Z")
I think I passed out before the sun went down. All I know is that I woke up at 5am. ---
**Author:** ![moejuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@moejuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejuck)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/43 "2003-08-04T13:11:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by purr420 \* > \*\*Workin’ on my somethingith can o’Bud and a stogie, listening to Primus. > > Now someone jump up on a table and take something off!!! 😃 \*\* purr 420, I am impressed with your taste in beer, and music. You weren’t listening to Pork Soda by any chance were you? I shall be partaking of some pitchers of Killian’s with the friends tonight at the local establishment. Half price pitchers and free pool all night long! God Bless America! God Bless Beer! God Bless Free Stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/44 "2003-08-04T13:18:20Z")
This thread is bringing a tear to my eye. As Tiny Tim said, “God bless us, every beer.” Well, that’s what it sounded like to me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/45 "2003-08-04T13:24:23Z")
THINGS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN YOU’RE DRUNK: Indubitably Innovative Preliminary Proliferation Cinnamon THINGS THAT ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN YOU’RE DRUNK: Specificity British Constitution Passive-aggressive disorder Loquacious Transubstantiate THINGS THAT ARE DOWNRIGHT IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHEN YOU’RE DRUNK: Thanks, but I don’t want to have sex Nope, no more booze for me Sorry, but you’re not really my type Good evening officer, isn’t it lovely out tonight Oh, I just couldn’t. No one wants to hear me sing ---
**Author:** ![purr420](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@purr420](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purr420)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/46 "2003-08-11T17:59:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by moejuck \* > **I am impressed with your taste in beer, and music. You weren’t listening to Pork Soda by any chance were you?** In fact, I was listening to Pork Soda. Time to down another and play Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/47 "2003-08-11T18:27:03Z")
I’ve been drinking Liberty Cream Ale (homebrew). Just finished up the last of the BeeSkep Ale. I’ve got Sierra Ale in 2nd fermentation and an ESB in primary. Newcastle is only $10 a 12/pk where I live. Almost not worth homebrewing! You can get Bass Ale for the same price! Life is, indeed, good. * * * Actual headline: “Church ends probe of Gay Bishop” ---
**Author:** ![celestina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@celestina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/celestina)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/48 "2003-08-11T20:47:19Z")
[giggle] Any of y’all out there ever tried Unibroue? It’s a Canadian beer I think. Anyway, my sister and I got some, and we were drinking it and wondering why we kept getting drunk so fast after only having 1-2 of those beers. So of course we had to do some empirical research to test this out. We tried drinking these beers on different occasions, like before or after a meal to see if there was any noticeable difference in how fast it took us to pass out from drinking these beers. Well, we were too drunk or too passed out to notice so the experiment really didn’t reveal any useful data, but we sure had fun conducting the experiment anyway. I really thought something had happened to my tolerance for drinkin’ alcohol, but then one evening, a friend of ours actually read the label–now why didn’t we think of that before!–on one of these beers, aptly named “La Fin du Monde.” It read 9% alcohol. No wonder. For those like me who’re mathmatically dysfunctional that means if you drink one beer, it’s equivalent to ingesting the alcohol in 2 beers! They say this beer goes through a triple fermentation process, but I have no idea what that means. Anyone care to elaborate? But, I digress. If you want a good tasting beer that will get you messed up fast try Unibroue. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/49 "2003-08-11T21:45:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by everton \* > \*\*This is all very well on a Sunday evening. I’d be more impressed if you managed it again tomorrow morning. > Gewurztraminer myself. Dinner’s on the table; must rush. \*\* No wines allowed 🙂 Currently enjoying a “It’s a great pumpkin ale” homebrew. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/50 "2003-08-11T22:12:04Z")
No beer yet, but I’m heading to the ballpark shortly, where I will no doubt be stimulating the economy in the form of roaming beer vendors\*. Beer tastes better when you buy it from a roaming beer-guy. And I’m double-thrilled tonight because my new main squeeze has agreed to go to a baseball game for the first time in her life; I got us second-row tickets right at first base, where there’s lots of action, so she won’t get bored. _“Taaaake ME out to the BALLLL GAAAAME…”_ [sub]\*No, I am not going to be stimulating the roaming beer vendors, and there are no points for asking.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![SkyBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@SkyBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkyBum)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/51 "2003-08-11T23:33:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jjimm \* > \*\*Is that Newcastle Brown Ale? Can you get that in the States? \*\* _Oh yes_. The finest beer known to man, and if I ever get back to drinking, I’ll have to drink a _lot_ of it to make up for lost time. Ordinarily a thread like this would make me quite thirsty but I guess this Mountain Dew is dewing the trick. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/52 "2003-08-11T23:42:11Z")
Believe me, you know damn well the next day that you’ve been drinking Guiness. ---
**Author:** ![SkyBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@SkyBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkyBum)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/53 "2003-08-12T00:03:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by celestina \* > \*\*[giggle] > > It read 9% alcohol. No wonder. For those like me who’re mathmatically dysfunctional that means if you drink one beer, it’s equivalent to ingesting the alcohol in 2 beers! \*\* Unless you happen to live in Utah, my dear. Then it would be the equivalent of three or four beers! (I know they _claim_ 3.2%, but I don’t believe it.) ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/54 "2003-08-12T00:17:31Z")
I’m out of beer, believe it or not. So I’m having a nice 2000 Pinotage Blanc from… Luxemburg, believe it or not. And it’s quite good! I’m so refined. Of course, I’m sitting here in my boxers, playing Foo Fighters. Not exactly high society behaviour, but it’s 27 fricking degrees in my study, so lay off. **jjimm** , thanks for supporting the Dutch economy. I vow to answer in kind, and drink lots of Guinness soon. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_The\_Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Buck\_The\_Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_The_Diver)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/55 "2003-08-12T00:21:24Z")
I love beer threads. They always give me a chance to mention the best beer made in America. Yuengling’s Celebrated Dark Brewed Pottsville Porter. Best enjoyed with a garlic ring bologna, a hunk of cheddar, some spicy brown mustard and a big bag of pretzels! ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/56 "2003-08-12T00:23:35Z")
Apparently, 3/4 bottle of pinotage blanc makes me say “believe it or not” a lot, believe it or not. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/57 "2003-08-12T00:48:52Z")
I’m drinking Carolina Blonde. It’s not very good, but it’s cheap (comparatively) and seeing as how I don’t get paid for another three and a half weeks, cheap wins. I’ve still got a couple bottles of Sierra Nevada Summerfest in the fridge, which is very very nice indeed, but I’m saving them for later. ---
**Author:** ![celestina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@celestina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/celestina)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/58 "2003-08-12T16:03:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SkyBum \* > \*\*Unless you happen to live in Utah, my dear. Then it would be the equivalent of three or four beers! (I know they _claim_ 3.2%, but I don’t believe it.) \*\* Wow. Now I’m _really_ confused. So does the alcohol in beer vary by state & country then, or is it really just by brand? My friend said that on average beer has 5% alcohol in it, except for this Unibroue stuff, some of which may have more than 10% alcohol depending! But, what exactly does 5% alcohol mean? Does it really mean that like hard liquor, the actual alcohol content is half of what’s posted on the bottle so that the 9% I see is actually 4.5%? You know how when you see on hard liquor that it’s 80 proof, then that means that the actual alcohol content is 40%. Or, is it different for beer, and that 9% alcohol I saw posted on “La Fin du Monde” is really 9%? I’m inclined to believe the latter judging by how fast it got me drunk. 😃 But, I digress. Why do beers in Utah have posted on their labels that they’re 3.2% alcohol? This can’t extend to all beers, particularly imports, can it? I imagine the folks what make Guinness would be outraged if they had to change their recipie for Guinness so that it can be sold in Utah. Or, does this just mean that Utah gets a very limited suppy of beer? Hey **Fretful** , I don’t think I’ve tried Carolina Blonde, but I did have some Sierra Summerfest one time, and it’s good stuff. **Coldfire** , I know I must not be reading what you wrote right. You said it’s 27 degrees in your study, and you’re wearing boxers! :eek: I know if that was me, I’d be bundled up in a winter parka. That’s amazing. Aren’t you afraid of getting frostbite, hon? Okay, I’ll be quiet now. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/59 "2003-08-12T16:12:17Z")
Celsius. 27 degrees Celsius. High 80’s to mid 90’s range ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741/60 "2003-08-12T16:35:58Z")
Opps 81F. But he’s got to have some humidity in there somewhere. Not that I want to know where exactly of course. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-drinking-beer-thread/192741.md?page=4)