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tupalev wrote:While the media certainly plays its part in spreading paranoia, as Jon stated pretty well this recession is real and there are real hard numbers out there affecting family budgets - and that includes beer spending.

I had a couple of bottles of Grand River Town Hall Lager and a bottle of their pils - they do lower alcohol beers so friggin well. Which is good as I just cannot seem to get in to their IPA. I'll keep trying, I have 9 bottles left!

You're right Jeff. Thinking about it now, the Sterling plant in St. Thomas (15 minutes south of London) is now closed, and 800 jobs are gone. A good portion of those people live in St. Thomas.........in a town of 20,000 or so, hundreds of high paying jobs lost is devastating. The place is becoming a ghost town.

Anyway..........here I go going off topic again! Back on topic.........


after my Guinness, i decided to open a bottle of red wine, and I will report in the other thread.
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Post by carguy »

Youngs Oatmeal Stout with lunch, and now sipping St Peters Old Style Porter. The Youngs was good and tasted a lot like their Chocolate Stout, but not quite as sweet. The St Peters Porter is very nice indeed. To bad this isn't avaliable locally.
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Amsterdam Strong Spring Bock aka Dehydrator. :D
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Same here, just put my rating up on ratebeer
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icemachine wrote:Same here, just put my rating up on ratebeer
I added it as "strong spring bock":
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/amsterdam- ... ck/100486/
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Derek wrote:Amsterdam Strong Spring Bock aka Dehydrator. :D
Picking some up tomorrow. It qill always be 'Dehydrator' in my book!We're pumped to try this one!

How about the Netherlands? Frickin' amazing! Fuller's Vintage, preceded by Urbock 23 and the Eggenberg Doppelbock Dunkel.
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tonight a Höss Doppel-Hirsch and then a Unibroue Trois Pistoles which is for my money the finest Unibroue
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Rogue O'Kell's Irish Style Lager, and actually for sale before St. Patrick's day? ;)

Nice almost German style-beer, and while somewhat neutral a tasty brew for the lager-heads among us (it better be for the Rogue price, LOL!) I'd almost say Neustadt Lager has it beat though... a real fresh can of that is a near-bavaria experience.
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Brick Bock.
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but this just made me laugh. From the "Beer Deals" eflyer

If you were to enjoy every beer deal this week, you would be the proud owner of 142 beers and the undying respect of your peers and colleagues, and by “respect” we mean envy.

Wow, would you guys really envy me for buying 24 bottles of Brava for only 29.95?
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KLB Premium Pale Ale - it says its an APA but seems more like an English Bitter
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Just got in - had a Black Oak Pale, Mill St. Cobblestone Stout, and a Church Key Brown Ale. Mmmmm, love that Church Key...
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Great Lakes (US) Burning River
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Post by chico »

To night it will be Barrel aged Old Ruffian, a release limited to 470 bottle, my bottle is 261 of 641 bought at the brewery, Amager Hr. Frederiksen (imperial stout), Norrebro North Bridge extreme (IIPA) :o
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Post by Timmy »

Gonna unwind with a little Xbox tonight I think. Probably have some of the Smuttynose mixer pack I got. I want to say I will sample something other than the IPA first but I would be lying. Probably Smuttynose IPA and Shoals Pale ale.
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