Yeah, back in those pre-micro dark ages, hoppy beers were few and far between, especially once you left the coast (Ballantine and all the Falstaff Cranston ales, Chesterfield, McSorley) and before you hit the next coast (Anchor and Rainier). Little Kings was just about the only mid-West entry into the (admitted tame by today's standard) "beer with some hop presence" catagory. And, hey, you gotta love a beer that fits so nicely into the "tape measure" pocket mid-way on the right leg of a pair of work jeans/overalls/coveralls. I like to stick an ice cold bottle in that pocket when I'm in the house, work a bit in the yard and reach down in an 1/2 hour or so and open it up. (Of course, if you don't finish the whole thing and stick it back in the pocket, if you bend down, it can get messy...)
cthulhu delighted us to no end by taking a lime green crayon and scribbling in news: snipped-for-privacy@undernet.org, on the hallowed day of Wed 06 Apr 2005 10:36:08p:
actually, I had a glass of Glenfiddich a couple of weeks ago - and some wine later - the wine was aight, but the scotch was perfect...
the wine was some white (I-have-no-idea-what-variety) - it went with the salmon - kind of - I mean, it was smooth, but had a bit of a tannic finish (the salmon was uniformly cooked w/o grill lines, as if baked (?), and somewhat dry, with a papaya salsa that was pretty bland - served with asparagus over mashed potatoes and some squash (!)) [searching for "potatoes" in the firefox search field crashed my browser o_O ... BTW: Alpha 6.0.1.2 of Java Hot Potatoes has been released (?)]
why mention all that? because it was at a fancy french restaurant in La Jolla and the bill came to something like $700, (my 7 is choking on that number...), and the food wasn't even that good (well, the duck pate was interesting), though the waiters were very polite until they kicked us out
[I wasn't paying that day, in case there's any question...]
and because I can go across the way to my local family owned mexican-ish (because, you know, if it isn't in some place like Santa Rosalia or Cuernavaca, it isn't truly authentic) and order salmon with mango salsa AND a negro modelo for under $15 - and both are damn good - every time
and because I can go down to the embarcadero and get salmon for $2.50 a portion, grill it myself, and still have enough money left over for some Coors Light (jk - I don't have anything against Coors, but I have never had it either)
;-)
Gulden Draak is interesting - it's a Belgian spiced ale - I think you have to be in the mood for it
I'll have another scotch when my brother comes back from the gulf - one way or another - I am hoping to be toasting his health and safe return rather than his passing [self-censoring political commentary here]
hmmm - morning light streams over the mountains - the very air reflects cool blue light to my eyes - spring birds wake with many voiced song
since we're on the subject - I don't understand high heeled shoes. I searched for "embarcadero" to see where my little ville would show up, and found out that some restaurant hijacked the name, and has a lame site to boot - but of course, reference to The Embarcadero of San Francisco shows up at the top of the list (and rightly so, no?), but even that is a corporate/business site for the Embarcadero Center
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which apparently offers a wide variety of fine shopping, dining, and entertainment establishments (?)
So, it struck me - the rotating banner at the top is a story about ~the shopping experience~ "It all started with these shoes...", but it really only shows shoes, and some really quite nice feet - except that you can't see nearly enough of them. Now, I like feet and all - ankles, calves, thighs, (breasts, wings, and drumsticks ?), and ~other parts~ too. The shoes really throw me though - I understand how they affect ~posture~ and they do show off an elegant curvature of the upper foot, but then they make it look like women have some gigantic, pointed, all-grown-together hammer-toe, like The Penguin from Batman, that extends out half-again as long as the rest of the foot...
maybe it's so women-lovers can have rescue fantasies about freeing their lover from the bondage of shoes, clothing, gravity ?
if I gave a woman the right shoes, do you think she would do that biting-lip thing, and maybe sigh a little sigh, put her hand on my chest (think untamed, primal beast, but with less hair), maybe climb into my arms to be carried to a ... er ... well, you get the picture, right?
maybe I should stick with chocolate - though mustard is apparently considered an aphrodesiac
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hmmm - I wonder if they rub it on, of if it's just in the food
Joel , Posted to the alt.2600 group , the following :
Samuel Adams Has been around since the '70's As far as I know it's still made by the Blatz Brewery. -And it tastes like it's flavored with Acetone to me.
"Ken Johnsen" wrote in news:sZk5e.1573$ snipped-for-privacy@twister.nyc.rr.com:
Not really. I guess I missed a crosspost. Or I've never seen a dowel jig. Or, you've run a dado on the short dimension, but...that also makes no sense...
What are you doing with your cherry boards? Are you dribbling beer down a dado in a cherry wood ramp into your waiting maw?
I'm guessing not. The mention of the jig confuses me... I assume you're talking furniture, else you would have substituted "pine farm-trash" for "cherry." Or are you making a jig from a jig? I'm curious, I really am...
Dowelling jigs center themselves on a board, and it sounds to me like you're putting dowels into a 5/4 cherry board at, say, 1 3/8 from the edge.
(Hey, if we can talk about Bourbon...)
A jig that can span 3 inches...I need one. Where'd you get it (seriously).
I wet myself. "Go and change your armor."
Newcastle Brown? In the winter? Great beer, but not a warmer.
Ah. So you "get" it.
The comparison is not a good one. Bellhaven (60-, 70-, ... which one do you refer to?) is not a Heavy let alone a Wee One.
Xingu is a black lager ala Dunkel and/or The S(ch)wartz. And it used to be a good beer. But it's been 5 or 6 years since I saw a bottle.
Next to the three beers Joel mentioned, it's relatively light stuff, actually. Dark color doesn't mean highly alcoholic or "heavy." Standard canned Guinness (or draught Guinness) is a pretty light beer.
Not that the troll who started this crossposted thread, nor many of those replying, would know anything about this.
On 11 Apr 2005 in alt.2600, snipped-for-privacy@see.headers (Joel) made their contribution to mankind by stating in news:d3dto6$uaa$ snipped-for-privacy@badger.ncsa.uiuc.edu:
Not really. Perhaps they have some really screwy taste buds. You can argue that to YOU it doesn't taste like acetone, and you can argue that you don't believe it tastes like acetone to them, but you can't argue that their opinion is wrong :)
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