Texas arresting people in bars for being drunk

[Elie]

wow, I have never seen these beers listed in our beer stores have you Zokes, GT40...?

[gt40]

Of those I've only seen O'Dell. I'm usually focused on getting my favourites and getting out so I can enjoy them .
The Liquor store has a few imported versions, and the beer store carries about 300 different varieties.
You can check out what it carries here .
I'm very partial to the Sleeman brands - they've actually got some flavour to them.

Oh, and my usuall beer of choice state side is Sam Adams.

[Elie]

My favourites...

Import = Guinness, Kilkenny, Heineken, and some Japanees brand not sold at the beer store

Domestic = Canadian, Sleemans Honey Lager, Keiths, Rickards Red (draught only),

[Jessterw]

Yes.
Jesterzwild is from Pisswater, Oklahoma, for example.

That's why I get special deliveries from elsewhere

It still amazes me that people 'here' (there at the moment ) can get drunk off of the dirty water they call beer. See guys at the bars who've had all of 3 longnecks staggering about.

I prefer Guinness when I'm in country. My distaste for general American beer (as in Coors, Bud, etc) stems more from the taste than any alcohol content. Outside of those we have some excellent choices in alcoholic beverages of the beer and lager variety.

[lowlifecat]

It still amazes me that people 'here' (there at the moment ) can get drunk off of the dirty water they call beer. See guys at the bars who've had all of 3 longnecks staggering about.

that's what i said

Currently i'm very fond of Alexander Keith's (from Nova Scotia), Rickard's Red and Molson Canabian

I remember the first time i was down in the states drinking (in my youth). the first american beer (and prolly the last) i had came back up 20 seconds after it went down. of coarse that pegged me as a canadian instantly in the bar I was at. apperently vomiting is quite commun with most canadians who visit.

[Jessterw]

Well I meant that in terms of the alcohol content present in the beverages of that sort in Oklahoma and other states that limit the % to a very low amount. If you've only had American beer of the Coors, Bud, and like varieties then you've missed out.

[Evildead666]

Demon beer is 12%, and i think you can get Tennants Super in the UK, which is stupidly strong. I have only ever seen tramps drinking it..

I loved "World of Beers" in Manchester, where you could get just about any kind of beer, from anywhere in the world, and most of the empty bottles could be returned in exchange for a small amount of money, which allows more beer to be bought!!!
Sweet!

[Nowhere]

Yes, there is. But you've changed the question. It's publically accessible space, so the police can still go in and enforce laws without a warrant, but it's also privately owned space, and covered by liquor permits. But those are two different purposes. I don't know how to explain that. You might as well ask why a restuarant owner should be allowed to ban smoking, even though it's legal outside.

We started talking about public places...and I continued to the end; about nothing else. I don't care if public place is publically or privatelly owned (or if bar is publically or privatelly owned...)

[TnT]

You guys haven't even begun to mention great beers.

http://pelicanbrewery.com/pages/awards.html

http://www.deschutesbrewery.com

Terminal Gravity IPA

http://www.laurelwoodbrewpub.com/awards.php

http://www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?loc=75&id=415

When the fall hops comes in there's a holiday brew fest where most beers are 12% ABV. They put up a big tent on the central square in Portland and a lot of people get drunk. If they ever arrested people in bars here there would be a riot.

Guinness is a light dark beer to me. I enjoy it but would rather go for a Black Butte most of the time since it's better and usually slightly cheaper.

Anchor Steam is good.
New Belgium, Pyramid and Sierra Nevada are okay, but usually there's better ones on tap.
Rogue I've only liked one of their beers. Sat at one of their brewery-restaurants and tried a few different ones. Many seem to like the Shakespeare Stout (chocolate stout) but not me.

I swear, 1 out of every 5 people in Oregon brew their own beer.

[Mehen]

Keiths on tap!! wooht! I love it

[Umfriend]

We started talking about public places...and I continued to the end; about nothing else. I don't care if public place is publically or privatelly owned (or if bar is publically or privatelly owned...)

Nowhere, it really is not that different from Europe. There is a big difference between "private property/public property" and "private/public places".

You may be drunk in a private place, and that excludes bars, cinemas, succer stadia and the street. Your car is a is a private place: you may be drunk in your car but the car must be in a private place as well (so you can drive it on that race track you own privately.

[Nowhere]

Well, you can't really speak for whole Europe, and neither do I (so it's obvious about which place I'm speaking about).
That said: of course, that's the whole point - I wanted to say that the only relevant thing when it comes to drinking is whether something is fully public place or not, doesn't matter who owns it (from top of my head I can give you at least one publicly owned (public property) place where you can get drunk: bar in parliament )

[Tjalfe]

Having worked in a bar in Canada as a bouncer, I have seen the cops on one of their walkthroughs, arrest one of our patrons for being drunk. He most defenitely was drunk, and they took him away. Just to say they do the same here.

[gt40]

Damn, didn't think anyone saw that

[Damien]

Don't be to quick to slag off the American beers. I have had some good beer in the states. Most of it a lot better than the gut-rot-piss they sell in Britain and Ireland. If you want bad beer go to one of these country's and order any pint of slop they have on tap. Of course there are exceptions, like any other country.