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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 07/14/2006 : 03:21:42
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Here's a good'n from the Denver Post: quote:
jefferson county
Pete Coors apologizes in drunk driving case
The former Senate hopeful was stopped May 28 near his Golden home after a trooper said he ran a stop sign.
By Felisa Cardona
Denver Post Staff Writer
Pete Coors speaks on NBC's 'Meet the Press' in October 2004, when he was a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate.
Beer magnate and former Republican U.S. Senate candidate Pete Coors was arrested on a drunken-driving charge and is due to appear in court next week.
A Colorado State Patrol trooper pulled Coors over after he saw him run a stop sign around the corner from his home in Golden at 11:25 p.m. on May 28, according to Coors spokeswoman Kabira Hatland and the citations.
Coors stopped his 2004 green Jaguar in his driveway, and the trooper smelled alcohol, said State Patrol spokesman Trooper Gilbert Mares. Coors failed a field sobriety test, was placed in handcuffs and taken to the Golden Police Department jail, Mares said.
Coor's is such crappy beer..... I wonder if he was actually drinking it and not Bud. O'course, Bud's another example of stale goat piss, but there's no accounting for taste. Or the lack thereof.
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
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 Posted - 07/14/2006 : 04:47:09 [Permalink]
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Coors' political aspirations were dubious, since his main campaign theme seemed to be that he wanted to lower the drinking age to 18-- thus addming millions of potential customers for his product.
And what a product it is (or isn't). Bud is better than Coors, I'd say, though both are pretty lacking for real beer qualities. here is an interesting story about Bud and its connections to real European bottom-fermented Pilsners. The most interesting part is tucked away at the end (and obvious to anyone who's ever bothered to read a Bud label)-- "The US Budweiser has employed rice as an adjunct (for malt)" since the early twntieth century! Rice? Who-- besides a penny-pinching über-brewery-- would use rice in their beer? |
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Dave W.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 07/14/2006 : 16:05:44 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Rice? Who-- besides a penny-pinching über-brewery-- would use rice in their beer?
The Japanese.
I think that the koji (Aspergillus oryzae) mold used in making the enzymes that convert rice starch to sugar (for later use by yeast to make alcohol) makes sake fermentation something quite different from beer, which uses enzymes from malt for making sugar from starch.
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Dave W.
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tomk80
SFN Regular
Netherlands
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Posted - 07/14/2006 : 20:10:03 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by filthy
Coor's is such crappy beer..... I wonder if he was actually drinking it and not Bud. O'course, Bud's another example of stale goat piss, but there's no accounting for taste. Or the lack thereof.
I don't know how you Americans do it, but in the complete half year I spend in America, I never tasted a good American beer. All the good beers you had were European.
Although I have to make an exception for the ales you have, such as Sam Adams and some ales I had in Bar Harbor, Maine. Those were good. |
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 07/14/2006 : 20:54:11 [Permalink]
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by Filthy
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 07/15/2006 : 10:01:00 [Permalink]
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quote:
tomk80 wrote:
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Originally posted by filthy
Coor's is such crappy beer..... I wonder if he was actually drinking it and not Bud. O'course, Bud's another example of stale goat piss, but there's no accounting for taste. Or the lack thereof.
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I don't know how you Americans do it, but in the complete half year I spend in America, I never tasted a good American beer. All the good beers you had were European.
Although I have to make an exception for the ales you have, such as Sam Adams and some ales I had in Bar Harbor, Maine. Those were good.
Definitely stay away from the mass produced buzzard urine like Bud, Miller, etc. Look for regional and local brewers. Their stuff may not be available everywhere, but wherever you are you should be able to find at least one good brew (and Sam Adams as a fallback position works too). Some I would recommend:
Rogue
Bell's
Thirsty Dog
Bert Grant's
Goose Island
Anchor
Sierra Nevada
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 07/15/2006 : 10:15:00 [Permalink]
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Here's a local favorite of mine....Balcones Fault Bat's Breath Beer. You can find it at your local World Market store.
http://www.mylifeisbeer.com/beer/bottles/bottledetail/193/ |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2006 : 12:26:26 [Permalink]
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A personal favorite, although I've never had any.....:
Bad Frog Beer. Anything that pisses off the self-appointed guardians of the public morals has got to be good!
I like LaBatt's, San Miguel, and Red Stripe, mon. And a few others. Indeed, sometimes when the Voices speak and the death wish is upon me, I might have a hefty glass of King Cobra malt liquor.
Bud and the other high production crap is only fit to make beer batter for frying fish, and even then, better is available.
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 07/15/2006 : 12:49:18 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Picky, picky. We're in the humor folder, even.
I meant to do that. My posting was a subtle satire of the typical nitpicking responses here. Too subtle for you, apparently, Dave. Yeah, that's the ticket.
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