I'm puzzled by the entire concept of beer, since I feel hard liquor is a much more efficient alcohol delivery medium, and can taste better to boot.

I like the taste of good beer, and if one could make it without alcohol and it tasted as good as your craft brews, I'd drink it. Alas, the nature of the brewing process means that non-alcholic beer= Teh Nast.

I gravitate toward lower alcohol beers (6% ABV is what I shoot for as a maximum), so that I can drink more of the yumminess without getting shitfaced. Throw in an imperial stout or belgian style or double IPA then I'm pretty much finished when I've only just begun.

A perfect day to me is drinking beer all damn day long. Not to say that I don't enjoy the relaxation and social lubrications the alcohol in a couple of beers brings, but I like the fact that it comes on slower than wine or booze.

but cutting out caffeine after noon has nearly cured years of insomnia.

I know that I should totally be doing this but by mid afternoon, I keep opening the fridge for one can of "Mommy's Little Helper."

I'm baffled by decaf coffee, non-alcoholic beer, and caffeine-free diet soda, especially since most caffeine-free diet soda tastes like I just got a snootful of kerosene fumes.

I enjoyed the decaf diet coke when I was pregnant. Once you're already on diet soda, the mixture of chemicals can be pleasant even without the caffeine. And DH will drink a can or two of near beer--which I prefer since he could easily go through a six pack without thinking about it. Which isn't a good thing to do on a daily basis.

Guinness-like beers are the only ones I'll ever seek, and it's been years. Though I'm now craving stout and ice cream.

I have the feeling it's not available in bottled form to drink at home, sad to say, but it was really fine beer, dark but not heavy, like Guinness (as my dad said yesterday, "I hate Guinness, because I don't like beer that I have to chew!").

Smithwicks is available in the US in bottles; I know they have it in MA and CT. I don't know what the midwest distribution is though.

OMG stout weather is coming up! So excited. I'm a little burned out/bored by Guinness, because it's pretty ubiquitous up here, and in most places, one's only stout option on draft. But, properly poured, it is still yummy.

Alas, the nature of the brewing process means that non-alcholic beer= Teh Nast.

This is a problem with decaf coffee too -- the decaffeination process removes flavor as well as caffeine.

Though I'm now craving stout and ice cream.

We just had Sam Adams Cream Stout ice cream at JP Licks yesterday. It was goooood.

ION, Bill Murray is kind of a freak. But in a cool way.

I take my amusement where I can get it.

Sometimes you need to also add beer.

eta: Huh. Forget to hit post for twenty minutes and we're still talking about beer. Love this place.

Heh, I read that this morning and thought, man, no one ever invites ME to parties in St. Andrews! (that's where Tom's mom lives, and I could use some Scandinavian distraction on our visits there I tell you what). But, I'm willing to concede that Bill Murray is probably cooler than me.

I do wonder what bar they were in though.

ION, Bill Murray is kind of a freak. But in a cool way.

OK, that's really funny. And cool.

I like the taste of good beer, and if one could make it without alcohol and it tasted as good as your craft brews, I'd drink it. Alas, the nature of the brewing process means that non-alcholic beer= Teh Nast.

A perfect day to me is drinking beer all damn day long. Not to say that I don't enjoy the relaxation and social lubrications the alcohol in a couple of beers brings, but I like the fact that it comes on slower than wine or booze.

Nora is me in regard to both of these. Which makes sense, because I'm sometimes Cindy. And sorry for dropping the ball Saturday and not being able to make the local F2F. My plans with my brother fell through, but I wasn't feeling great either.