Beer Drinking

Take Your Favorite Beer Survey

I love going on the forums and reading through discussions of people’s favorite beers.  I hardly every hear Budweiser, Coors, Miller or anything normal, which is what you see people “normally” drink.

I always see some exotic beer that they’ve had maybe once.  I’ve also caught some people up in their discussions when I realized they hadn’t even had a taste of the beer they were discussing.  What in the world is that about?

Let’s be honest.  We go to the bar and we get our favorite beer.  We get the one we always drink.  We love the exotic beers that are hard to find and not commonly sold.  We love new tastes and textures.  Of course, we’re up when it comes to trying something we’ve never even heard of before.

But, we have a favorite.  It’s the one at the local store.  It’s the one at the liquor store on the way home.  Do we try new things every once in awhile?  Yes.  But, don’t we normally go for what we know?  Most of the time.

If you disagree, please feel free to comment.

So, I’d like to know what you guys drink.  What is your favorite beer?  Throw us anything, worldwide.  But, I would hope that you’ve drank your “Favorite” beer more than once and that it’s not just an exotic beer you thought would be fun to include in this survey.

Quitting Drinking Starts With You

This article will help you alleviate the stress felt in trying to quit alcohol. This article is not from AA, but it has good advice, so you should sit down and read all of this to find out how you can effectively quit without using AA!

Did you ask God to help you get your life straight? Do you need a group of alcoholics talking to each other to make it across the finish line? Do you really need AA?

What you absolutely need is a little belief. You don’t need to trust in a higher power, but for some that could be beneficial. You, most important of all, need to believe in yourself. You can do it! Humans, like you and I, have the amazing capacity to achieve anything we put our minds to You just need to put your mind to accomplishing this task.

Tons of people have warned you about alcohol Your body reacts to it as a poison as well (ever vomited?). It strains the liver and kidneys flushing the stuff out. There’s no beneficial content in the alcoholic drinks. You don’t need it. Toss that flask in the trash bin right now and dump your vodka down the drain, that’s all you need! If you really need the alcohol, it might be too hard for you to quit straight up like that and you should see a doctor first.

Always keep in mind your end game. Never lost sight of your goals and hopes and dreams. You want to lose some pounds or just get back your bodily hygiene and stop having your bad breath. All you must do is lose that booze.

So, that is the fact. Not too hard, eh? It’s really as easy as it sounds. Don’t hesitate and do it.

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Putting The Home Bar Together The Easy Way

When you have your bar and your cabinets built, you’ll want to get to drinking in it…Now.  But, I’ve seen some make shit jobs that aren’t really all that great.  Then, I’ve seen some expensive setups that are way out of the reach of most of us.

So, here’s the home bar the easy way:

The kegerator is the first thing you put in your bar.  It keeps your keg cool and it adds style in an inexpensive way.

This kegerator can actually make the entire bar.  If you choose to use a kegerator like this to hold your kegs, you can make it a part of the bar’s counter top.  Then, you only need counter space on each side.  That’s a setup made easy, as easy as it gets. 

Grab a tap handle of your favorite beer and now you’ve got something to really get you bragging.  There are tap handles of all kinds, from your favorite domestic to your favorite import.  As a promotional tool, every beer you can think of has a beer tap handle for commercial uses as well as the home bar enthusiast.

But, just in case you have a beer of your own or some other “unrecognizable” libation, get the beer tap handle you can write anything on that you want. 

Tell people, “Try Me!”  Give your concoction a name.  Have fun with it and write, “Make Your Own Beer…” or whatever else you might come up with to prank your friends.

You’ve got the bar.  Dress it up in style.  The kegerator and a beer tap handle can turn any room into a bar.  Your bedroom, your dorm room (oops), your garage, your basement, your tree house…

Anywhere!

The Ultimate Drunk People Compilation

Garrison Keillor – View of Cincinnati, Love of Beer

Cincinnati Poem

We’re in Cincinnati and it’s good to be here
In a city of pork and a city of beer.
Old beer signs everywhere you walk:
“Good Old” Brucks, Brenner’s XL Pilsener, John Hauck
Barbarossa, King Gambrinus, or Crown.
You eat you some Pork hocks with leeks and garlic cloves, you need beer to wash it down.
Similarly, to go along with a pint of beer, you need more than a pretzel
You need Pork Meatloaf with brown gravy and spaetzle.
A big pork sandwich and something to drink,
Geisbauer, Bierbrauer, Linck.
Nothing chintzy
Here in Cincy.
Like it or not, Cincinnati was not vegetarian.
It went for pork shanks with bread dumplings and a pitcher of Bavarian.
No lemonade, no cranberry juice, no apple cider,
But a big mug of Weber’s, Lackman, Jackson, Mohawk, Gerke, Burger, or Foss-Schneider.
And all of the pig was used, even the snout
To make Bierwurst, Mettwurst, Bratwurst, piled high with sauerkraut.

Beers with distinguished names like Butcher & Weidmann and Windisch-Muhlhauser
To give a sense of dignity to the drunken carouser
City of suds and city of swine,
Some greasy goetta sausage and a glass of Christian Moerlein,
Or Little Kings cream ale

Beer by the bottle, the barrel, the hogshead, and the pail,
Golden brown glasses of beer with nice big heads
And Hudepohl-Schoenling, Cincinnati’s finest, hu-dey “Hu dey think gonna beat them Reds”
It was the national capital of beer.
In 1890, they produced a million barrels a year.
Old breweries along McMicken Avenue on the hill north of Liberty Street,
Making beer out of water, yeast, sugar, plenty of hops, and wheat.
Oh in Cincinnati there was lots to do:
You had a Hudy and a Pork cordon bleu.
Cincinnati was a regular culinary riot.
How sad to be on a diet.
What a terrible loss.
To miss out on the roast pork loin with beer sauce.
And it is politically incorrect
And you may object
To my saying so, but I suspect
Something joyful and boisterous and profane
Was lost when we decided to abstain.
A man sitting down to pork braised, roasted, fried, boiled, battered, with a glass upraised,
A man who is a little fried himself and his eyes are glazed.
That may have been the night he became your daddy
Here in Cincinnati.

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If you ever find a place that you want to call home

and you can name off the reasons why,

then you’ll be as lucky as this guy!

The Guide Behind Proper Bar Etiquette

It’s your favorite time of day at your favorite place. It’s Happy Hour. And it’s a cure for a bad day.

So you walk up, all confident-like, and pace back and forth. Trying to make eye contact with the cute bartender. But he (or she) doesn’t see you.

So you pull something off like this. You hold out your money like you’re important. And, you call out the bartender’s name as if you know each otherbut you don’t.

Doesn’t appear to make any difference, does it? You feel like you’re being flat out ignored. Obviously, you have to wait just like everyone else.

The American Idol-esque karaoke act wasn’t that great either. So you think you can sing? Singing won’t get you your drink, waiting will.

Now you start whistling instead. This is a definite no-no. Bartenders won’t respond to a whistle, since they are certainly not dogs.

If getting that all-important drink will make you satisfied, then pay attention to this. Playing the lost “please help me” look never works either. Basically, you’re at a loss anyway, and you might be standing there waiting helplessly forever.

By the way, trying to impress the cute girl or boy next to you doesn’t necessarily score you points in this situation. Offering them the “go ahead” might backfire. Your place in line just got pushed back a few notches.

So in order to properly place your order, try to remember that patience is a virtue. This all-important tip will eventually get you what you want, and ease your ever-rising high blood pressure. It works, trust me.

Once you get your drink, make sure to leave a tip. Bartenders appreciate this. And if you tip a little higher, you will most likely become a household name.

And looking good does its wonders sometimes. Especially with a good tip. Being hot and generous will certainly do you some good.

The Guide Behind Proper Bar Etiquette

Ah, the bar. It’s the perfect social setting. It’s the place where you can have either the best or the worst time.

So trying to be slick and all cool-like, you mosey your way to the bar and wait. Hold on, actually, you don’t wait. You pace around nervously trying to get the bartender’s attention.

The wallet comes out, and you pull out your bills. You hold them up in clear view. This is accompanied by shouting out their name.

Please don’t do this. Don’t act like you’re the only one who matters in this world. Try to remember that there are a dozen or so others who get thirsty too.

The American Idol-esque karaoke act wasn’t that great either. So you think you can sing? Singing won’t get you your drink, waiting will.

And please don’t start whistling. Bartenders are humans, not canines. If you need to whistle for anything, go outside and whistle for a cab.

If getting that all-important drink will make you satisfied, then pay attention to this. Playing the lost “please help me” look never works either. Basically, you’re at a loss anyway, and you might be standing there waiting helplessly forever.

By the way, trying to impress the cute girl or boy next to you doesn’t necessarily score you points in this situation. Offering them the “go ahead” might backfire. Your place in line just got pushed back a few notches.

So in order to properly place your order, try to remember that patience is a virtue. This all-important tip will eventually get you what you want, and ease your ever-rising high blood pressure. It works, trust me.

Leave a tip when that long-awaited drink comes. In fact, doubling that tip might make them notice. Bartenders will most definitely remember you the next time.

So put on something hot and remember to leave that extra bill behind. Nothing like flaunting your stuff. May seem petty, but it definitely gets their attention.