Texas arresting people in bars for being drunk

[ZokesPro]

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

Nope!

New Belgium, Rogue, Pyramid, O'Dell, Dogfishhead, Sierra Nevada, Anchor Steam...

If you're going to drink the huge brewers, at least get a Sam Adams or something.

No wonder we think American beer sucks, we only get your so called 'crappy' beer , you guys keep the good stuff for yourselves!

[paulcs]

You seriously have federal law defining bar as public place? (BTW, I'm asking, not insisting on telling you what laws are like)


Hmmm..I think it crosses the definition of "beer", in a way how it can be drinked (here the word describing beer evolved, not accidentally, from a word describing...anything which you drink to relieve thirst)

Not many people actually did get to drink it. I've seen pictures of it, however.

Utopias' brew runs were limited to two batches, one in 2002 and the other in 2003. If I remember correctly, those batches were limited to 8,000 24 oz. bottles. I also recall prices of $200.00 per bottle. Now, prices can be twice that:

http://www.waylandwine.com/rare-collectable.html

The two Utopias batches always impressed me as "stunt brewing." Maybe Sam Adams just wanted to break its own Triple Bock alcohol content record. It got them some positive press, and people are still talking about it, but not a lot of people actually got to drink it. It can't even be sold in a number of states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington, and West Virginia. Strangely enough, at least three of those states produce a fair amount of beer. Another has a strong libertarian tradition. (Live free or die! Sober!)

[paulcs]

Nope!

No wonder we think American beer sucks, we only get your so called 'crappy' beer , you guys keep the good stuff for yourselves!

Much of the U.S. drinks the stuff you're probably familiar with. Wombat has a more refined palate, in that he probably has a strong aversion to drinking the carbonated (how should I put this delicately) wee-wee that passes for beer.

The beers Wombat mentioned are from smaller breweries, which don't have the distribution range that the great carbonated urine brewing giants, Anheuser-Busch and the Miller Brewing Co., have. Samuel Adams is probably the biggest of the small breweries (or the smallest of the big breweries; it depends on who you talk to). They're not too bad, although I don't know if they distribute outside the United States.

[ZokesPro]

Much of the U.S. drinks the stuff you're probably familiar with. Wombat has a more refined palate, in that he probably has a strong aversion to drinking the carbonated (how should I put this delicately) wee-wee that passes for beer.

The beers Wombat mentioned are from smaller breweries, which don't have the distribution range that the great carbonated urine brewing giants, Anheuser-Busch and the Miller Brewing Co., have. Samuel Adams is probably the biggest of the small breweries (or the smallest of the big breweries; it depends on who you talk to). They're not too bad, although I don't know if they distribute outside the United States.

I guess me and Wombat have something in common. When it comes to just Canadien beer, I too prefer the smaller breweries over the giants.

[Wombat]

TnT, didn't know you were out there. Yeah, I'm not a huge Sierra fan, but mentioned them because they have one of the better distribution ranges. Also, with NB, I'm a big fan of a lot of their brews, but not so much Fat Tire, which is what has the biggest distribution. At Pyramid, their beer is a LOT better on tap than bottled. Their Nightwatch brew was pretty good.


For both Americans and not, how 3.2% beer came about, and why it's still here (focussed largely on CO): http://www.westword.com/Issues/2006-...s/feature.html

[TnT]

For both Americans and not, how 3.2% beer came about, and why it's still here (focussed largely on CO): http://www.westword.com/Issues/2006-...s/feature.html

Didn't know about any of that. I can see why there's a market for it still.