The Bar Towel

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.

People, I've bared my soul and nobody wants to reply.

Ashamed, Joe.

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.

here I go

fame - having only been legal age for 3/12 years and trying somewhere around 300 beers(I'm at 84 in jackson's guide).

shame - once, with some friends in montreal, I funnelled a six of boreal noir.