lukethedrifter wrote:
Absolutely not. High quality draft beer is good for about 2 days in a growler. I'm sure this phenomenon of drunks drinking from growlers like winos from a paper bag exists somewhere but it's not the norm. Mostly it's beer lovers on their way home from work or those who have a pint or two but don't want to drive intoxicated.
Me I use a curly straw in my growler.
Is this to imply that one should not partake in the growler? I get one whenever friends come over for a game, etc.. I don't see the issue.
Your good with that. When my Mom was a kid, grandpa sent her down to the corner to get the jug filled with beer for the evening. Glad/jealous to see you guys have the right situation for that.
I've seen a few end of the night drunken growler buys (and been tempted myself)i.e " I've had a [expletive] great night and now I'm taking this show on the roooaddd baby!" Taking a pitcher of beer to-go doesn't work too well then.
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cards2468 wrote:
Perhaps I'm just impressed with St. Louis because I'm from Cincinnati, who has a strong beer heritage, but really the only "local" stuff they have that's any good is Hofbrauhaus.
That's like saying you're not impressed with Detroit baseball because you're from Kansas City.
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cards2468 wrote:
Perhaps I'm just impressed with St. Louis because I'm from Cincinnati, who has a strong beer heritage, but really the only "local" stuff they have that's any good is Hofbrauhaus.
That's like saying your not impressed with Detroit baseball because your from Kansas City.
do you mean are impressed?
yea, if I only had the Royals to watch for some years and went to Detroit and watched the Tigers sometime in the past 3 years, I'd be impressed
I went there for dinner after my aforementioned New Glarus day trip. Very good beers. I don't think I tried many though, since I was driving, but I remember their IPA being quite good and I had a stout or maybe a porter that was also excellent. I love that they have those barrels behind the bar with the pump spouts, like an old English pub. The bar area is a great place to sit and drink.
They are starting to become more accepted by American beer drinkers. The other night at Six Row I watched the bartender fill a pitcher with draft then pour it back and forth into another pitcher a bunch of times then let it sit to warm up creating a cask style flavor.
When I was in Wales I only drank Brains cask ale. It took about half a beer to get used to it.
I went there for dinner after my aforementioned New Glarus day trip. Very good beers. I don't think I tried many though, since I was driving, but I remember their IPA being quite good and I had a stout or maybe a porter that was also excellent. I love that they have those barrels behind the bar with the pump spouts, like an old English pub. The bar area is a great place to sit and drink.
They have a barleywine that I was drinking exclusively the last time I was there. Long story short, I wound up the perpetrator of a lost taco fiasco, passed out in the car on the way home, and then knocked over a potted plant in my friend's house. He had to stop mid-coitus with his wife to come clean it up because I couldn't even stand, much less clean up the remnants of a potted plant.
The trip to the Dane was preceded by a couple of Essen Haus boots.
I went there for dinner after my aforementioned New Glarus day trip. Very good beers. I don't think I tried many though, since I was driving, but I remember their IPA being quite good and I had a stout or maybe a porter that was also excellent. I love that they have those barrels behind the bar with the pump spouts, like an old English pub. The bar area is a great place to sit and drink.
They have a barleywine that I was drinking exclusively the last time I was there. Long story short, I wound up the perpetrator of a lost taco fiasco, passed out in the car on the way home, and then knocked over a potted plant in my friend's house. He had to stop mid-coitus with his wife to come clean it up because I couldn't even stand, much less clean up the remnants of a potted plant.
The trip to the Dane was preceded by a couple of Essen Haus boots.
Will get you every time, but good barleywine is as close to ambrosia as I get.
I respect it, to be sure. But there's a fine line there where I'm stuck between my respect for the higher alcohol content, and the realization that I'm only going to get to drink at the Dane once a year. The respect for the scarcity of the product beats out the respect for the higher alcohol content every time.
EDIT: And yes, Jack, barleywines are excellent as a rule of thumb.
lukethedrifter wrote:Barleywines have an ABV between 8 and 15%. Respect the high ABV.
Drank the big bottle of Schlafly's Barleywine playing Wii with the kid. Nearly knocked me on my arse - though my Wii playing improved like WKRP Johnny Fever.
