Word, Tweezer. Who cares about the American President of Beers? We're in the great nation of Texas and around here Lone Star's the champ. In a tall can served across Rudyards' bar for preference. $2 all night long. When I'm on the road and can't get one I'll settle for a PBR.
I used to be a Guinness fan, but now it just tastes flat to me. Anybody know if there's truth to the rumor it's got beef fat in it?
Found this on Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=G...$3vf0$1@newssvr04-int.news.prodigy.com&rnum=3 Guinness is made with tons and tons of pure, fresh calves' blood, and they use sheep's teeth for finings. Actually, all dark beers are made with beef blood, although some use goat blood. NOT! WHY does this rumor keep surfacing? EVERY time it does, we have some pseudo-serious discussion about it. Just tell them: IT'S ANOTHER DAMNED INTERNET HOAX!!! Lew Bryson Freelance writer and fulltime father. My opinions are my own: the good ones I sell. Author of Pennsylvania Breweries, now available at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/081172879X/002-1904346-8002803
Haha. Great post simply (but not limited to) my experience at a bar hear in DC last weekend. The place is called the Brickskellar, and its in the Guiness Book of World Records for having the most beers available. Well my buddies and I go here a lot, and we've had a lot of beers from all different parts of the world (Oh look, this one's from Holland, isn't that wierd?). Anyways, last week the AC is out, and we're all sweating to the oldies in the lower section of the bar. My buddy, sweating his brains out, decides he doesn't want anything fancy and orders nothing but PBR and Lonestar all night long. (I've never seen someone willingly pay 3.45 for a Lonestar, heck that's how much a 6 pack costs ) Anyways, to make a long story short, when the bill came, and listed all the different beers that were consumed, the PBRs had a saying after them and the ticket ran like this: PBR MULLET ALERT $6.90 We all got a good kick out of this because my buddy couldn't have any less of a mullet or be any less of a goofy white guy with a hearing problem.
Let the mud-slinging begin... http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=aBzZ09RV.F5o&refer=uk Anheuser-Busch Cos., the world's biggest beermaker, has been enjoined from referring to rival Miller Brewing Co. as ``owned by South African Breweries,'' Miller said in an announcement distributed by PR Newswire. U.S. District Court in Milwaukee set June 29 for a hearing on an additional component of St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch's ``Unleash the Dawgs'' campaign, Miller said. Milwaukee-based Miller is owned by London-based SABMiller Plc, which was known as South African Breweries Plc until July, 2002. ``What they're claiming as a victory is a technicality but that's their prerogative,'' said Anheuser-Busch spokeswoman Francine Katz. While point-of-sale materials and some posters will be changed, television and radio ads will not be affected, said Katz. more: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20040528-1858-miller-anheuser-busch.html Philip Morris, which owned Miller, sold it to South African Brewers PLC in 2002, which formed a new company called SABMiller PLC, based in London. In issuing a preliminary injunction, the judge said two other sets of television ads Miller wanted blocked can continue to run. Adelman said it was clearly untrue Miller, which is based in Milwaukee, is "owned by South African Breweries," as it said on the posters. He said he could not rule on claims the company is still largely South African-owned. ... Miller wanted all the ads blocked during the Memorial Day weekend, saying they would do irreparable harm to Miller on a patriotic holiday that is typically one of the strongest for beer sales. The judge watched commercials from both companies, including a Miller ad in which a man tries to debate a Clydesdale – a symbol of Anheuser-Busch's Budweiser beer – over its "American-ness," and an Anheuser-Busch ad in which two lizards discuss Miller's acquisition by a South African company. GOOD CALL.
twhy77, where is that bar? I'm about to move into my in-laws house for the next month or so and my father-in-law and I are going to be "bachelors" for two weeks while his wife is in Florida. There is a guy working with us down here in Fairfax that is from Beaumont and I think he needs to be shown around. I'm not really big on the bar scenes around in this area so I could use a few pointers.
It's near Dupont in NW, where 22nd, Mass. Ave, and P Street Converge, right across from a Protestant church and a statue of a Ukranian Poet...
oh no, Dupont. I try to steer clear of DC as much as I can. I hate driving to it, through it, and back. The only places I really went to drink were in Old Town...but that's back before I was 21.
His autobiography is great, too. Beers? The next good American beer I taste will be the first good American beer I have tasted. Lager: Kronenbourg 1664 Bitter: Directors, Summer Lightning Stout: Guinness
Coopers is the best by far (and yes it can be bought in Houston, wholefoods has it and some other big wine and beer warehouse)
