Your “Pre-Holiday Weekend” Thirsty Thursday Open Thread

NFL News & Notes:

  • A notion considered hilarious just two years ago, some sites are now projecting the Raiders to win the AFC West. No one wants to put odds on that though, as it might hamper the chances for a move.
  • More talk on the Vegas front involving the Raiders. According to SI, bowl cut enthusiast Mark Davis has to square away the funding commitments before he even approaches the relocation committee.
    • If she’s not busy.

      You can sure tell Mark Davis isn’t his old man. because in his prime Al would have moved the team, said “fuck you” to Goodell, tried to bed Jones’ mistress, and then sued the ever-living hell out of anyone who raised their voice.

  • Right on cue, a Jaguars draft pick has ruined a leg. DB Jalen Ramsey suffered a meniscus tear in his knee. The team is getting a second opinion, but most opinions are that Jags draft picks should be encased in bubble wrap until the start of training camp. 
  • Buzzfeed sports wannabe profootballtalk has the results of a Washington Post poll saying 90% of 504 Native Americans surveyed “aren’t bothered” by the name “[*Redacted] s”. Expect merchandise prices to rise 10-15% on this news. Thin-barked New Hickory responded to these results, saying,

“The Washington [*Redacted] s team, our fans and community have always believed our name represents honor, respect, and pride. Today’s Washington Post polling shows Native Americans agree. We are gratified by this overwhelming support from the Native American community and the team will proudly carry the [*Redacted] s name,” Snyder said.

I guess some memes turn out to be true.


Victoria Day:

Under Canadian law, the date is reserved in anniversary of the birth of the monarch. A national commemoration dating from the time of Queen Victoria, an amendment to the Statutes of Canada in 1952 established the celebration of Victoria Day on the Monday preceding May 25. It was renamed Journée nationale des patriotes in Quebec in 2002, commemorating the struggle of Louis-David Papineau and his patriotes to establish “Responsible Government” in Lower Canada.

Informally, it is known as the “May 2-4” weekend, in honour of the unofficial start of summer, and in recognition of the size of a case of beer (outside BC).

In BC, a case is 12. It seems to cost as much as 24.

In honour of the upcoming long weekends in both countries, and stealing thematically from the Commentist Beer Barrel, please help out my future road trips with examples of your city’s finest microbrews down in the comments. Mentions of “Budweiser” from #BFIB will be summarily ignored.


Boy howdy, did the Penguins show up last night. “Beat them like a government mule” is what good ol’ JR would say. I’d expect another slobberknocker tomorrow night, if only because Tampa is all but out if Pittsburgh goes home up 3-1.

Oh, and there’s this:

which has led to this:

Shawn Michaels Game 5

and then to the horrifying this:

GAH! I’m willing to bet Kessel hasn’t looked like that since 9th grade. He probably also had way more body hair; I bet his mullet would have equalled prime-90s Shawn Michaels. Maybe they can get Tampa resident and future Gawker owner Hulk Hogan to come out in a Bolts jersey and take a superkick during the ceremonial faceoff. I hear he’s not busy these days and needs the work.

Hey, speaking of Fat Phils, Mickelson paying back almost a million dollars due to insider trading makes me laugh. He’s not being charged, but the guy who gave him the deets is. That’s an important lesson kids – just the tip gets you fucked.

So much for writing off the Warriors this early, but what idiot (Art Schlichter) would do that?. Some of those Steph Curry shots in the third quarter were ridiculous, both in concept and execution. Imagine the King up there imitating Serge Ibaka; that’s as close as he got to bothering the MVP all night.


Matches of the Day!

NHL: Blues @ Sharks – 9:00

NBA: Raptors @ Cavs – 8:30

Remember, I’m asking for microbrews. Because the list of favorite overall beers

IS DEPRESSING!

 

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A Canadian man-child of indeterminate age, he stays young by selling alcohol at sporting events and yelling at the patrons he serves. Their rage nourishes his soul, and their tips pay for his numerous trips to various sporting events.
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Doktor Zymm

So, after successfully making my own injera, I’m tempted to attempt a teff-based homebrew. If nothing else, it would certainly be different.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

TWO WOMEN ON THE LIVE THREAD! BATTEN THE HATCHES; IT’LL BE A ROUGH NIGHT!

/Sorry

theeWeeBabySeamus

Shit…this equal time thing is getting….let’s just say that google thinks I’m gay.
http://images4.fanpop.com/image/answers/1029000/1029092_1287316085558.51res_301_400.jpg

Covalent Blonde

Good call avoiding one with teefers for me to be judgy about!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Shit….tough crowd.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Covalent Blonde

I approve of what Google thinks about you.

Covalent Blonde

There appears to be a chance the Sharks win, mebbe?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

“We were just … ordering pizza! Yeah, ordering pizza.”

theeWeeBabySeamus

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Reply fail.
Enjoy the bottle opener teeth anyway.

Covalent Blonde

Now, now, she does have a smokin’ body, tho!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Inorite?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

But she’s trying to quit.

Covalent Blonde

Nice net minding, Jonesy!

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

God damnit Padres, you have plenty of opportunities to be swept this season, just please don’t let it be to the fucking Giants.

herodotus450

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Sill’s head just exploded and he doesn’t even know why.

litre_cola

Just saw the ghostbusters trailer. I am not interested in the least.

WCS

I had an adamant Jezebel reader via Twitter lambast me for being a misogynist, chauvinist pig for having to the audacity to say the trailer doesn’t exactly inspire confidence it will be a good movie. This is what they do all day; wait until they see one thing they can contort into their narrative, and then…

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/7/70/TheHoundsButton.jpg

JerBear50

Overbearing Humorless Social Justice Warriors UNITE!!!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Dammit…I told you to stay off the kitchen counters. Clorox wipes don’t pay for themselves Lexi!!!!!!!
No no…it’s Okay.
http://lh5.ggpht.com/-XoDmqJTajUQ/TqXQKHLdasI/AAAAAAAABKk/u2growIKNWA/s9000/Lexi%2BBelle%2B4.jpg

Covalent Blonde

Well with the bottle openers she has for teeth it is probably best she stay in the kitchen

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’m not saying a word.

Unsurprised

Plus, she’s already barefoot.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

YOU BEAT ME TO IT BY 30 SECONDS! Well, you win THIS time…..

Don T

Obligatory nationalistic suggestion: Medalla Light. Named that way because it won a medal sometime, somewhere. Second cheapest beer here because of some clever protectionist local laws and stuff named Busch Light and Silver Key. Tastes like boiled PBR, which is surprising for a light beer. But it tastes like the same salty crap whether in bottles or cans. Best used in a Hobo’s Sangría (half Medalla, half cheap canned wine). Could get people to question your patriotism if you talk shit about.
In sum, it’s shit that gets you drunk. If you buy it abroad, you overpaid. And “light” my ass.
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Cheap beer has it’s uses, there was a few years there where that was what was bought.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Horatio Cornblower

Jesus that explains so much…

Don T

Oh, cheap beer is mother’s milk for students and workers that like to get up early with a hangover that’s tolerable. Fuck that “declassé for what it’s worth” crap.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=duGOpUYgu48
Great song, BTW.

Doktor Zymm

I thought only Cowgirls got the Blues?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Thumbs up.

Covalent Blonde

Nicely done!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

It’s a great stoner book, well pretty good anyway.

herodotus450

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litre_cola

Me thinks the Blues must get the next one or else I believe that this series could be over. Sharks are too dominant.

Unsurprised

Hypnotic

herodotus450

Catherine Bell?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Hey CB…I told ya St. Loo was toast.
Pens/Sharks final.
I wanna see a CB/WCS cage match leading up to that shit too dammit.

WCS
theeWeeBabySeamus

I’m literally afraid to ask who is who in that there gif.
I would not recommend letting CB drive in any case. She gets all emotionally involved with her vehicles I’ve heard.
😉

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Wait; you like drugs and have not seen the movie or read the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Seen it. I was more referring to the CB/WCS dream cage match as it relates to the occupants of said vehicle.

Covalent Blonde

You know, that is honestly a very tough call. I think I would probably be Depp’s persona of Thompson but really both could do it.

JerBear50
JerBear50

Booooooo!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

If not…. I am so sorry, but you can fix it.

Covalent Blonde

Agnes is a sexy lady!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Get a room.

Covalent Blonde

Why? She’s an exhibitionist. She likes to cuddle up under a clear night sky!

WCS

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herodotus450

Donskoi so close to me?

herodotus450

Donskoi worry, this will only Hertl-ittle

Covalent Blonde

^Sooooooo sexy

theeWeeBabySeamus

Why thank you. I try to eat well and and exercise.

WCS

That’s a lie, and you know it.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I SAID “TRY”!!!!!!

Horatio Cornblower

Still a lie.

Doktor Zymm

In recognition of Civ VI coming out soonish, I’ve been playing lots of Civ V, and in the process I’ve actually been getting around to fixing all the dumb shit that Windows 10 broke. Hopefully fixed today : the computer randomly turning itself on when it’s been shut down, because apparently “shut down” no longer actually turns off your computer unless you go through a whole rigmarole that includes disabling grayed out settings with giant RECOMMENDED labels on them.

herodotus450

Yeah you gotta finish researching Lasers if you want your computers to work properly.

Doktor Zymm

I’m only two weeks away from building the Great Firewall. I assume that will fix 99.9% of my problems.

herodotus450

Uh oh, the Great (computer) Scientist Mark Zuckerberg is born in a faraway land; his work threatens to make your firewall obsolete!

Doktor Zymm

I knew something was weird when I clicked on “THIS VIDEO WILL PROVE YOU’VE BEEN EATING HAM WRONG YOUR WHOLE LIFE” and the secrets of Nanotechnology were revealed to me.

litre_cola

Sharks with Laser Beams?

Doktor Zymm

Preferably in tornado format.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Shit like this is why I never want to leave 7.

Doktor Zymm

I caved because the reminders were annoying and it was free. Hopefully they’ll come out with something less idiotic between now and the time they stop supporting 7 and you can skip it altogether.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

I went out of my way to find a way to delete that, haha.

I’m hoping it’ll be like XP and be supported for quite some time

Doktor Zymm

I actually have Vista Business edition on my laptop, which has been unsupported for a while, and it’s a-ok. As for 10, I debated just getting rid of the notification, but treacherous internet people said 10 was okay, or even kinda good. I was able to basically fix Vista in a half hour of tweaking settings, so I figured 10 couldn’t be THAT bad….how wrong I was.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Yesh, that’s exactly what I thought.

After they started incorporating touchscreen stuff in 8, I knew this could only end poorly

Horatio Cornblower

She seems nice.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Hey Hippo….Pack topped the Heels tonight 6-4 in game one btw.

King Hippo

WOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WCS

Pretty low scoring basketball game…

theeWeeBabySeamus

Four Corners.
/shoots self in head for uttering the godforsaken phrase

Don T

Lately I’ve been drinking nothing but Shiner’s Ruby Redbird. Delicious and refreshing. (A gas station in the middle of my commute sells it cheaper than a Bud.) It has ginger and red grapefruit, but is 3.3% alc–please put down your pitchforks and torches. It’s the only beer I’ve found that after one I’m like “Wow, that itch got scratched enough”.

JerBear50

Haven’t had that one because I’m not big on grapefruit, but I’ve got no complaints about drinking some regular Shiner.

Don T

I love Shiner’s Bock. And even their dark beer I’ve had it’s refreshing. I don’t know if their stuff is good, but I love it.

JerBear50

Yeah, that’s the one I mean, the bock. That’s their main beer.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Ummm Lexi…I think you might have missed a button. And the zipper. No no….it’s OK.
http://i756.photobucket.com/albums/xx203/jdobedoza/PS%20Action/lexi_belle.jpg

ballsofsteelandfury

You’re going, aren’t you?

theeWeeBabySeamus

My attorney says I shouldn’t.
My friend the Hippo says I should. He claims to be an attorney, but I’m not confident in his litigation abilities.
So I’m torn.

ballsofsteelandfury

Let’s just say that if I lived near you guys, I’d offer to drive.

Horatio Cornblower

I’m an attorney and I say you should go.

Those girls make INSANE amounts of money, all of which I’m sure they itemize and declare on their taxes, from those appearances.

theeWeeBabySeamus

My biggest worry is….
Well frankly, that I’ll get beaten down by bouncers and tossed in jail after groping (it’s a misunderstanding of course….I was merely trying to converse with) the lovely Ms. Belle.
Like seriously.
Perhaps in addition to the fat sack, I should bring the video camera.

Hippo…you got about 15 minutes in ya?
Don’t answer that.

JerBear50

Always listen to your attorney.
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WCS

Milton and Slater already on Archer!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Gotdamm!!!! Is it Thursday already?
/takes another drink

Horatio Cornblower

Scopalamine!

King Hippo

That downstream pic reminds me…of all the things I’ve ever said that got strange looks from my spawn…none stranger than when I told them that yes, candy cigarettes WERE an actual thing, and actually I thought they were pretty good.

The Maestro

The weirdest shit I ever heard my dad say, in complete seriousness, was this… I still think about it on a weekly basis, and this was like a good 6 or 7 years ago:

“Son, I’m pretty sure that every animal in the world, snakes included, would enjoy chip dip.”

Covalent Blonde

So your father, when does he get a Nobel Prize?

Doktor Zymm

You can still find candy cigarettes occasionally, and I’ll usually buy some if I see em. They really are weirdly good considering that they’re basically chalky sugar. Did you also tell your kids that Pez is the candy lighter for their candy cigarettes?

Horatio Cornblower

For all of us who read the Commentist Beer Barrel and think “eh, I’ve had better”…

https://www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/19-types-of-beer-snobs-beer-enthusiasts?ref=facebook-869%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter

JerBear50

Heh. That was pretty good.

ballsofsteelandfury

Unsurprised mentioned this yesterday, but I think it warrants a bigger discussion:

I don’t understand Jumbo’s Clown Room. It is, from what I’ve heard as I’ve never been there, a “strip club” in the same sense that Del Taco is a “Mexican restaurant”. Why the fuck would anyone go to a strip club ironically? Because that’s what they do there. It’s a fucking douchey hipster “take” on a strip club.

Is nothing sacred anymore?

The Maestro

Nope. And as soon as we can figure how to sell watching the sun rise and set from the comfort of our own homes, you can bet your ass we’ll be buying that too.

King Hippo

speaking of which, the worstest such facility in Wake County, North Cakalaky is hosting Lexi Belle tomorrow night. Not that I, or any of you other fine, upstanding Judeo-Christians would know who that is…

herodotus450

Speaking of insufferable little pukes:
http://thehundreds.com/blog/porncousin/
Guy finds out his cousin is a porn star, makes himself out to be the victim, gives out her real name and VERY young pictures of her as “proof”.

theeWeeBabySeamus

What time is our arrival?
And should I bring the weed in, or just leave it in the truck do you think?
😉

King Hippo

It sounds like a good place to beat people up and rob them in the parking lot, without having to feel remorseful about doing so.

I’m up FOAR helping out if’n I’m ever in town.

ballsofsteelandfury

I would never put you through that. A proper club for my old pal Hippo!

Horatio Cornblower

I just read some Yelp reviews and confirmed that I’ll never go there.

JustStopDude

I’m not trying to come off as a snob…but for the life of me, I have never really gotten the draw of strip clubs. This could be because much of my younger adult life was stationed in Norfolk and VA has some terrible strip clubs thanks to the bikini rules.

I just always found strip clubs to be incredibly depressing.

ballsofsteelandfury

They are if you think about it too much. If you don’t, you can have a good time. Depends on what you’re into. It’s definitely not for everyone.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Agreed totally. This has always been my attitude about them as well.
But fuck, dude. LEXI BELLE!!!!! She can’t figure out how to even get her clothes ON!!!!!
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JustStopDude
herodotus450

Andy Reid would be a much better football coach if he spent his offseason studying film instead of moonlighting as a hockey coach named “Ken Hitchcock”

theeWeeBabySeamus

Animated Lana is way hotter than live action Lana.
Just saying.

herodotus450

Is that the movie where he’s a football coach or a submarine guy?

JustStopDude

Fuck it…I am walking to the gas station to get a pack. I am literally chewing on the fucking drywall here…

WCS

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The Maestro

DON’T DO IT

smoke some meth instead!

JustStopDude

I shit you not, I got off of booze and opiates easier than nicotine. I can’t do the patches as it fucks up my personality too much. I get hyper-aggressive and paranoid. The dreams are fucking terrible.

I can’t touch the pills because of my mental history. The gum stops me from smoking…but I am still ingesting nicotine. I can get down to at most three smokes a day, depending on how crazy work is.

Its really all in my fucking head. I just smoked one and I will not want another one until the morning. But I can’t fucking think. Every single fucking injury I ever had starts hurting. I feel the clamps in my back, the screws in my arm, and the plate in my face. Everything just starts aching.

I get told by my docs all the time I got to go on pain management. But I will lose my job and pretty much my life. I never want to go down that road again. Its so fucking frustrating…having this stupid fucking roadblock in my fucking head.

JerBear50

I used an electric to wean myself off them maybe five years ago. I was two to three packs a day since I was a teenager and it was a fucking bitch kicking them. There’s still not a day, hell not an hour that goes by that I don’t want to light up.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Ending the day with a shower beer was a good choice.

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You do have to pardon the selection though.

WCS

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THAT’S GOOD HUSTLE

WCS

This should be the DFO slogan:

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The Maestro

So my muffler went tits-up today for literally no reason… right before I have my longest commute of the week tomorrow. Rather convenient timing, karma. Figures all the mechanics were closed by the time I got home to actually check out the problem.

At least I have beer!

herodotus450

Gonna call you Bubba from now on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSgYtmCnyYw

JustStopDude

No bullshit…I read you comment at first as “My mudda went tits-up…”

I’m thinking…Jesus Christ dude your mother dies and this is how you response?

I think realized I misread what you wrote…and you most likely don’t use Yiddish to refer to loved ones. Seriously though…for a split second I thought you were in shock…

Sorry about your muffler though…

theeWeeBabySeamus

Wow. Nicotine withdrawal is worse than I’d imagined.

JustStopDude

I just watched a local anti-smoking commercial showing a lady talking about cleaning her throat hole tube and all I could think about was that I could smoke two cigs at once with a throat hole…

theeWeeBabySeamus

When the chick talking about her preemie baby comes on and tells you to speak into the opening to your baby, let me know. I’ve wanted to punch her for months.

JustStopDude

I want everyone here to know…that its been about 12 hours since my last cig and I would happily murder each and every single one of you for just one smoke.

WCS

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theeWeeBabySeamus

If you’ll please put that knife down, Sir….I’ll happily buy you a pack of smokes.

JustStopDude

I’m trying to quit…

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yeah I understand.
Just don’t murder me.

The Maestro

Could I interest you in one of these, perhaps?

http://www.sogoodblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/cig1.jpg

scotchnaut

A shit ton of pizza and chicken wings found their way into my belly. I blame America.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
litre_cola

Here in Calgary, Wild Rose brewery is probably the best.

International Lager, I have to go with Bintang from Indonesia it is nectar of the Gods. On a blistering hot day it is superb, and no hangover like a lot of Asian beers (looking at you Chang, Asahi) , which is fantastic.

If ever in situation where there is a macro beer, it is Guinness, always Guinness.

JustStopDude

What does the phrase “dick dodging” mean?

I had a bunch of Canucks come down for training. They wanted to go out drinking with them. I told them I couldn’t because I had to be at work in the morning. The accused me of “dick dodging”.

I am assuming this a Mayor Ford reference or something…

litre_cola

I have never heard that statement before in my life. Where we they from?

JustStopDude

I noticed the dudes that were saying it used “eh” like all the time eh. Eh like at least twice there eh a sentence so it seemed like a regional thing.

I seriously had one or two participants from each Canadian Providence with the exception of that Northwest Territories one…

litre_cola

Yeah, eh is definitely prevalent, Our excuse is that it promotes conversation by asking agreement. We are too damn agreeable.

Sill Bimmons

That’s a pretty impressive roundup of stupid.

Allow me to add this:

http://www.sbnation.com/2016/5/19/11713448/marco-rubio-wants-tim-tebow-statue-u-s-capitol-florida-insanity

JustStopDude

They should make a statue of Alexander Darnes. He was the illegitimate brother of Kirby.

How’s that for a dick move…you old man owns your mom, you get born, and you get to be the slave still. Then your brother becomes a Civil War General fighting for the right to continue to own your ass.

After the War, Alexander got his education and became only the second African American doctor in Florida, the first in Jacksonville. He was the hero of Jacksonville during the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1887-1888. Pretty much when the rich white doctors fled, Dr. Darnes stuck it out, providing care for the entire community, both black and white. Actually believed in that Oath shit.

Its a no fucking brainer to make a statue of this great man…so there is zero fucking chance of it ever happening.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
JustStopDude

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King Hippo

In summation, FUCK FLORIDA

JustStopDude

When he died, he had one of the largest funeral processions in Florida history, with other 3000 residents participating. Papers were running his funeral announcement like a major event because the dude was literally seen by both the blacks and citizens of Jacksonville as like this superhero.

This is kind of what pisses me off most about ignorance in America. There are countless amazing stories in every city and community that many citizens don’t know about.

It used to always blow my mind that most people I knew in Baltimore had no idea about the National Dental History Museum and its role in getting a LOT of people killed in the West (its where Doc Holiday got TB and he was told to go West and die off)…That’s a cool fucking story!

JustStopDude

http://i.imgur.com/EYgWnVl.jpg

Who else is feeling frisky tonight?!?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Define “frisky”.

JustStopDude

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
theeWeeBabySeamus

Libby…you bitch.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Only in Dan Snyder’s tiny, tiny mind could “not bothered by”

http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx27/lexiingram/I%20stole%20gifs%20from%20lauren/Misc/HIMYM/NPH-SHRUG.gif

be translated to “supported by.”

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herodotus450

Hockey doesn’t start until 9 EDT? Who do they think I am, some kind of… guy who doesn’t go to bed at 11?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Who the fuck is drinking Yuengling in Florida?

ballsofsteelandfury

Yinzer retirees?

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Transplants from the northeast. I also believe that for a while Florida was one of the only places outside PA where you could get it.

ballsofsteelandfury

I’ve had Granville Island beers. I’m not sure people know this, but Vancouver is a great town for craft beer!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

OK; you sent me down the rabbit hole…. so to speak.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

1 Bud Light 28.3 %
2 Budweiser 11.9 %
3 Coors Light 9.9 %
4 Miller Lite 9.2 %
5 Natural Light 6.1 %
6 Corona Extra 5.3 %
7 Busch Light 3.7 %
8 Busch 3.4%
9 Heineken 3.3 %
10 Miller High Life 2.7 %

Top 10 depressing beers.

King Hippo

So, you are saying the moral arc of the universe moves slowly…but it bends towards justice??

ballsofsteelandfury

More for me.

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Guinness seems to be a victim of limited share of mind. I’d consider it the best macrobrew out there and that’s not intended as damning with faint praise.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Agreed; Of all the bigs Guinness is BY FAR and away my favorite.

litre_cola

I 100% agree with this statement. 90% of the world you can always get a cold Guinness.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Plus you can drink a pint and get the nitro foam on your nose.

Unsurprised

“the list of favorite overall beers”

My God ………………

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

For my tastes I see two “acceptable but not preferred” on there and those are far in the minority.

Spanky Datass

I see two in your list above but none on the map above.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Blue Moon is a meh acceptable and Sam Adams makes some good brews. I’ve seen “beer snobs” turn up their nose at Sam Adams who will rave about a below average microbrew product just because they think SA is “too big.” I just won’t order a SA if there is something more interesting or I have not tried yet is available.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

In Minnesota it is ketchup?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I’d be willing to bet that is not a big seller there. All the people I’ve know from that region think salt is a bit too spicy.

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Bell’s over Founders in Michigan? Interesting…

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