At the "Stien of the Times" class last night (see Beer Events) we started with our Beer moments of shame and fame. I thought it might be fun to start that thread here.
I have two moments of shame:
1) I invited a friend from work to accompany me to the Winking Judge so that I could try Perry's cast-conditioned Porter. He ordered a Brown Cow.
2) I used to drink 50 in University simply because it was usually the coldest beer available as nobody else drank it.
Moment of Fame:
This is difficult. Let's see . . . I'm drinking my way around the world with Michael Jackson. My goal is try every beer in his Great Beer Guide. A task being made very difficult as McAuslans is no longer producing its Framboise. Anyway, I started in September and I'm at number 86.
Cheers, Joe.
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Moments of Beer Shame/Fame
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OK Joe,
When I first tried a porter, it was Molson's Porter. It was a dry, flavourful beer, at least in 1975...Now for the "shame", I drank this beeer directly from the "stubbies" it came in never once pouring it into a glass until, one day, I noticed that there was some brownish liquid on the cap! Horrors I thought, it must have gone bad! I had consummed case after case without ever realising that porter was a dark brown ale. For this I have atoned with our Black Irish Porter, which I hope is better than Molson's was.
When I first tried a porter, it was Molson's Porter. It was a dry, flavourful beer, at least in 1975...Now for the "shame", I drank this beeer directly from the "stubbies" it came in never once pouring it into a glass until, one day, I noticed that there was some brownish liquid on the cap! Horrors I thought, it must have gone bad! I had consummed case after case without ever realising that porter was a dark brown ale. For this I have atoned with our Black Irish Porter, which I hope is better than Molson's was.
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