Items That Make Life Better

[jhogue]

Lots of good non-IPA brews out there in the brewniverse. Unfortunately the shelves are full of this fad.

Ha. Also, while I love beer, do you think people are getting a little carried away with hops these past several years?
I do.

No. Once you have had a good IPA, the rest of the stuff they call beer is just plain inferior.

Having spent 6 years in Europe courtesy of the US Army, I will have to say that there is nothing quite like Pilsner Urquell.


Tonight, however, I will be celebrating the 4th of July with friends in truly American fashion: fireworks and bottles of Coors.

[Mountaineer]

Ha. Also, while I love beer, do you think people are getting a little carried away with hops these past several years?
I do.

No. Once you have had a good IPA, the rest of the stuff they call beer is just plain inferior.

I will add this:
Although I love a good IPA, at 200+ calories per 12oz, a couple of pints with any regularity can make you fat very quickly if you're not careful.

One can always get a gig playing Santa Claus after a summer and fall of imbibing IPAs.

[Kriegsspiel]

Lots of good non-IPA brews out there in the brewniverse. Unfortunately the shelves are full of this fad.

No. Once you have had a good IPA, the rest of the stuff they call beer is just plain inferior.

Having spent 6 years in Europe courtesy of the US Army, I will have to say that there is nothing quite like Pilsner Urquell.


Tonight, however, I will be celebrating the 4th of July with friends in truly American fashion: fireworks and bottles of Coors.

Hefeweizen all day for me. Including morning.

[dualstow]

Hefeweizen all day for me. Including morning.

Yes! It's amazing in summer. Especially Weihenstephaner.
I don't know where the not-before-12 o'clock drinking custom originated, but it must've been started by someone who wasn't financially independent.

I recently read something about how even children in Belgium drink their low alcohol "table beers." Jealous. I was raised on coca-cola and Tahitian Treat.

[Kriegsspiel]

Hefeweizen all day for me. Including morning.

Yes! It's amazing in summer. Especially Weihenstephaner.
I don't know where the not-before-12 o'clock drinking custom originated, but it must've been started by someone who wasn't financially independent.

Oh yea, the best beer of summer.

I recall Ben Franklin scolded workers for drinking beer with breakfast. And John D. Rockefeller scolded EVERYONE who drank.

Everyone can't be perfect.

[Kriegsspiel]

I like Jeff Tucker's Bourbon With Breakfast line.

[Mark Leavy]

Distortion pedals.

Don't you have everything down to a backpack? How do you fit all that in there?

No, that's me you're thinking of.
But, also, anything Kriegsspiel says is truth. Now, I have to figure out how to get distortion pedals in my daypack.

Mark

[Mark Leavy]

And in the spirit of the thread...

A folded bandana in your pocket. A million little life emergencies are easily solved.

[dualstow]

I do remember that you are also a light traveler, Mark. A nomad with no fixed house or car.

[Xan]

And in the spirit of the thread...

A folded bandana in your pocket. A million little life emergencies are easily solved.

At first I read that "banana". I had trouble figuring out how a folded banana in your pocket could possibly solve more problems than it caused.

[Marlb10]

I do remember that you are also a light traveler, Mark. A nomad with no fixed house or car.

Nomads don't usually have a fixed house or car

[Marlb10]

Otherwise they won't be nomads lol

[dualstow]

I should have put a comma there to show the intentional redundancy:

a nomad, no fixed house or car.
he turned his trenchcoat collar up and walked down the dark rainy street...

But nomads *can* have cars.

[dualstow]

I like Jeff Tucker's Bourbon With Breakfast line.

I just stumbled upon that at Amazon. I didn't realize it was a line of books. When you wrote it, I imagined it as a line of mini bourbon portions with meal kits.

Things that make life better: Amazon.