Corabelle - 2008-05-20 10:43 AM

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I don't think I've ever finished a bottle of bear in my life.
Cora

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Flapper - 2008-05-20 5:24 AM

It's from Samuel Adams brewery, one of America's few 'major' makers of decent beers and ales. I won't even drink Bud, Miller, Rocky Mountain piss (oops! I mean Coors), etc. But Samuel Adams, Anchor Steam, and any number of local so-called 'microbreweries' produce a range of pretty good product.

Nice story about Adams: there is a shortage of hops in the US due to a combination of weather and farmer's shift to growing corn for ethanol manufacturing (don't EVEN get me started on that topic!!!), .... which has been putting the hurts on microbreweries without reliable local suppliers. Samual Adams has stock excess to their needs, and they have made the excess available - through some sort of lottery method - to local breweries that are hurting.

BlackBeard - 2008-05-20 10:25 AM

BB, I spent my high school years (and a lot of vacation time afterwards) roaming the Sierra Nevadas. Graduated from Jackson Union High School in Amador County (in a senior class of 31 students!). I know the region between Tahoe and Yosemite pretty well, having been over all the passes and doing a lot of camping up where it's high and cool in the summertime.

Flapper - 2008-05-20 12:03 PM



We go through Amador county every three years or so to buy wine. My Bro-in-law lives outside of Sacramento so we hang out at his place and tour wineries over the weekend. Nice place... (cue the banjo boy from Deliverance...) ;)

BB

Edited by BlackBeard 2008-05-20 1:10 PM

Tom Conlon - 2008-05-20 8:55 PM

IMNSHO, most American beers like Miller, Bud, Coors, etc., are little more than swill. I refuse to drink them.

I *do* like Samuel Adams, tho. Another great American beer is Yuengling. Yuengling bills itself as America's oldest brewery. It comes from PA. It's *really* good beer. However, I feel bad fro you folks who don't live in the Norteastg and Baltimore area. You can only get it in this area.

Tom Conlon - 2008-05-20 11:55 PMIMNSHO, most American beers like Miller, Bud, Coors, etc., are little more than swill. I refuse to drink them.I *do* like Samuel Adams, tho. Another great American beer is Yuengling. Yuengling bills itself as America's oldest brewery. It comes from PA. It's *really* good beer. However, I feel bad fro you folks who don't live in the Norteastg and Baltimore area. You can only get it in this area.