The overpowering brewery funk of which you speak is dying yeast and spent grains and fermentative microbial farts.

I'm a freak -- I love the smell of the overpowering brewery funk. LOVE.

I pass a Jim Beam distillery on my way to and from a friend's house, and I love figuring out what they're distilling based on the smell. Sometimes it's peach schnapps. Yum. But bourbon? Also yum. LOVE.

Then how come Nicole's place doesn't smell horrible like Bud?

Okay, wait, maybe the beer's not horrible like Bud.

I'm guessing Nicole's place leaves out the ass and the bear whiz that Bud uses so prominently.

I'm half convinced that the reason I find beer so disgusting is due to a trip to a Soviet brewery when I was barely 16. If you've never tasted beer prior to such an experience, I don't think anyone anywhere would even consider it. Blyeah.

I love the smell of the overpowering brewery funk. LOVE.

You've got the funk! I guess the Mothership landed in Cincy.

I adore the smell of brewing beer -- it's the waste products that are left afterward that aren't so tasty.

Does Nicole's place put spaghetti in the beer? And if so, can I get mine with extra garlic?

Any improvement?

I just had Special K. My stomach's not happy about it, but I think my brain wins. So there's that.

I like distillery smells ... ish. I hate sugar smells on the raw end ... anything up to and including wet sugar makes me nauseous (I'm such the delicate flower) but once it gets to crystal or alcohol then it's all good.

I'm guessing Nicole's place leaves out the ass and the bear whiz that Bud uses so prominently.

Not in my experience.

I have two breweries in my neighborhood (a big one and a microbrewery) so my area often smells hoppy. It never smells as bad as the Molson brewery in Vancouver though.

Downtown Halifax often has a funky harbour smell. And sometimes I smell a burnt coffee smell. I think that might be the navy ships' engines.

Does Nicole's place put spaghetti in the beer? And if so, can I get mine with extra garlic?

No. Mostly all water, so far as I can tell. (I soooo didn't say that.)

I've mentioned the spaghetti smell to co-workers before and everyone thinks I'm crazy so there's that.

I'm a freak -- I love the smell of the overpowering brewery funk. LOVE.

I agree. The good smelling days are nice!

What do you think of molasses? That is one good smell we get down on the harbor. Oh! And bread baking. Back when I was sailing regularly, saturdays were great smelling. One one side, you had the bread company (Harvest? I don't recall. In Canton) and on the other, it was Domino Sugar, which smells of molasses.

Of course, smack in the middle was the stench of the harbor, but...