Off-Topic Diary Of The (Millennium)

There's a difference between enjoying a fine beer (Black Butte Porter says hello!), and just drinking to get smashed. The people here are showcasing some very fine beers. If this were a thread about getting trashed, you'd see nothing more than:

Samichalaus Bier

One of the rarest beers in the world, brewed only once a year on December 6th, subsequently fermented and matured for about 10 months before bottling in October. Thus Samichlaus is a vintage beer and with around 14 % of alcohol by volume the strongest bottom-fermented lager in the world. Samichlaus may be aged in the bottle for many years to come.

Older vintages become more complex with a creamy warming finish. Serve with hardy robust dishes and desserts, particularly with chocolates, or as an after dinner drink by itself - as a companion for meditations at the fireplace... Samichlaus is filled in personalized 330 ml. bottles, exported to exclusive distribution partners' worldwide mainly through pre-orders prior to bottling in October each year. Samichlaus contains only natural ingredients and is being brewed according the purity law of 1516.

LL= Strange Brew!

And something called new castle  

http://www.bbaybrewery.com/

Bah. This thread will probably be double in size when I get back.

Nah, that would involve actually engaging in conversation with her. She's so bad some kids gave her laxative cookies (stupid kids, but w/e)

Manny's Pale Ale?

Anyone?

Coach.  Dude.  Seriously.  Chill out.  If you don't like drinking, that's great - I wish I could have that kind of fortitude.  But you gotta understand that lots of people not only DO like drinking, but that countless millions do it all the damn time and DON'T wrap themselves around telephone poles or pedestrians.

Drunk driving is a horrible, horrible thing.  But so, in my opinion, is uptight self-righteousness.  If you don't like to drink, that's your prerogative, but have you considered that reading a thread that's so completely beer-centric is probably not good for you, given your distaste for the subject matter?

And on a completely unrelated note: SMUTTYNOSE!

On a second unrelated note, the CT Beverage Mart was my savior the whole time I lived in Hartford and could only find crappy beer at the Stop n Shop.  But you haven't lived until you've bought crappy beer at the Stop n Shop on New Park Ave in Hartford.  Ghettorific!