The Beer Tent

Uh-oh. A real post!!!!

 

A boiler maker doesn't involve drowning the shot glass, it's mixed trouble rather than a bomb. The effects are different -- (Try it, you won't know ahead of time if the hootch or the beer is about to slide down your throat until it does.)

 

I knew if anything could draw Clyde out of the shadows it would be a discussion of beer.
I also thought that a boilermaker included dropping the shot glass and all.
That is how I made this concoction and it was really good. I thought so anyway. I love Patron tequila, and it smoothed out the mexican beer nicely. But man it is powerful. I had two of them, which was a total of 4 beers and two shots and I was feeling pretty good.

 

This beer is a real butt kicker. I highly recommend a six pack of this potent, brain cell killing belgian.

http://www.affligembeer.be/start.html

 

If you like beer, Affligem is great. It its flavor will bring to mind a belgian type ale and the hops used gives it a banana like nose and taste. The first taste kind of took me back. It took me a bottle to get used the the flavor. This is not a hoppsy bitter beer. It is smooth and tastes nothing like piss water beer.

If you like Belgian beers, you will like Affligem. Better?

 

Michael Jackson

PIcked this up a bit ago, thought a few might be interested --

LONDON —

Michael Jackson, a leading world beer critic who praised the brews of Belgium and acknowledged he would never be as famous as "that Michael Jackson," has died. He was 65.

Jackson, known as "the beer hunter," died Thursday of a heart attack at his home in west London. His body was found by his house cleaner, Paddy Gunningham, his long-term partner, said Friday.

She said he had kept writing and traveling, despite suffering from Parkinson's disease, and that he planned to write a book about the ailment.

"He was simply the best beer writer we've ever known," said Tim Hampson, chairman of the British Guild of Beer Writers. "He told wonderful stories about beer, breweries and far away places. He told the story of beer through people, and he was humorous and erudite at the same time," Hampson told The Associated Press.

Jackson especially loved Belgian brews. His books "The Great Beers of Belgium" and "World Guide to Beer" introduced them to many export markets, including the United States.

By identifying beers by their flavors and styles, and by pairing them with particular foods and dishes, Jackson helped give birth to a renaissance of interest in beer and breweries worldwide that began in the 1970s, including the North American microbrewery movement.

His TV documentary series, "The Beer Hunter" — which popularized his nickname — was filmed around the world and shown in 15 countries.

He worked as a beer critic for more than 30 years, writing in newspapers and gastronomic magazines, holding seminars and giving speeches, appearing on U.S. talk shows and writing books about beer and whiskeys published in 18 languages.

Jackson knew he would never be as famous as Michael Jackson the rock star, and that was reflected on the beer critic's Web site. "Hello, my name is Michael Jackson. No, not that Michael Jackson, but I am on a world tour. My tour is in pursuit of exceptional beer. That's why they call me the Beer Hunter," it says.

 

4 guys, 1 long weekend, 224 beers later we went home.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp

 

Well, better than valium, it's free and you know where to find it.

 

Found another winner....yummy:

 

A recent study found the average American walks about 900 miles a year
Another study found Americans drink, on average,
22 gallons of beer a year.
That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon.
Kind Of Makes You Proud To Be American, DOESN'T IT?