Buffalo slammed with six feet of snow

[garbon]

I don't like when people tell me how I am thinking!

[Jacob]

I don't like when people tell me how I am thinking!

I don't think I did 

... unless you are into craft beer, in which case I apologize from the mischaracterization.

[garbon]

I don't like when people tell me how I am thinking!

I don't think I did 

... unless you are into craft beer, in which case I apologize from the mischaracterization.

I think I can find someone insufferable for a hobby without it being that they're pretentious fools or similar.

[Jacob]

I think I can find someone insufferable for a hobby without it being that they're pretentious fools or similar.

That is a distinction that is all but meaningless to me, but apparently not to you... possibly because you're a connaisseur of different ways for people to be lame?

[garbon]

I think I can find someone insufferable for a hobby without it being that they're pretentious fools or similar.

That is a distinction that is all but meaningless to me, but apparently not to you... possibly because you're a connaisseur of different ways for people to be lame?

I have all sorts of insufferable interests but I keep sharing them to a minimum.

[DGuller]

Russian news reported on this.  Russian opinion seems to be split on whether this is God's punishment for interfering in Russia's business, or a sign of the failure of "democratic" governance in US.

[Martinus]

Russian news reported on this.  Russian opinion seems to be split on whether this is God's punishment for interfering in Russia's business, or a sign of the failure of "democratic" governance in US.

What? Noone blaming gays for this somehow? Russian reporting standards: slipping. 

[derspiess]

That's the beer from one of the two feuding brothers, right?

I didn't know they were feuding, but yeah.  The other brewery is Evil Twin, which oddly enough makes two "Hipster Ales", one named Williamsburg and one named Mission.

[The Brain]

Russian news reported on this.  Russian opinion seems to be split on whether this is God's punishment for interfering in Russia's business, or a sign of the failure of "democratic" governance in US.

This failure of democracy means that the veterans must take control IMHO.

[crazy canuck]

Agreed.  I had my first IPA style brew last weekend and I am hooked.

Oo0h, what was it?  Hops can be sort of addictive, though not by themselves (don't ask).

It was from a new micro brewery on the Sunshine Coast - about a 45 minute Ferry ride from North Vancouver.  They also have an amazing Stout which someone told me about on while I was on the Ferry to the Sunshine Coast this summer.   My wife suggested that she drop me off at the brewery while she got some groceries for our stay (did I choose well or what!) and I really enjoyed their beers.

Last week when I went to get some of their Stout from my local liquor merchant he suggested I try their IPA which he thought was very good.  He was right.


For Jacob and any Vancouver based lurkers (buddha looking at you)

http://www.persephonebrewing.com/thebeer.html

[Jacob]

That's the beer from one of the two feuding brothers, right?

I didn't know they were feuding, but yeah.  The other brewery is Evil Twin, which oddly enough makes two "Hipster Ales", one named Williamsburg and one named Mission.

Well I read an article on them once - on an airplane - and apparently they have some sort of rivalry going on, and barely speak to one another.

[derspiess]

Agreed.  I had my first IPA style brew last weekend and I am hooked.

Oo0h, what was it?  Hops can be sort of addictive, though not by themselves (don't ask).

It was from a new micro brewery on the Sunshine Coast - about a 45 minute Ferry ride from North Vancouver.  They also have an amazing Stout which someone told me about on while I was on the Ferry to the Sunshine Coast this summer.   My wife suggested that she drop me off at the brewery while she got some groceries for our stay (did I choose well or what!) and I really enjoyed their beers.

Last week when I went to get some of their Stout from my local liquor merchant he suggested I try their IPA which he thought was very good.  He was right.


For Jacob and any Vancouver based lurkers (buddha looking at you)

http://www.persephonebrewing.com/thebeer.html

Kind of cool that they go ahead and put their keg prices right out there with everything else.  How was the tap room at the brewery?  Are they allowed to sell beer for carryout on premises?  Some places in the US have screwy laws to prevent that.

[Jacob]

Kind of cool that they go ahead and put their keg prices right out there with everything else.  How was the tap room at the brewery?  Are they allowed to sell beer for carryout on premises?  Some places in the US have screwy laws to prevent that.

Can't speak to the place CC went to, but the local breweries near my house all have the growler trade going.

[crazy canuck]

Kind of cool that they go ahead and put their keg prices right out there with everything else.  How was the tap room at the brewery?  Are they allowed to sell beer for carryout on premises?  Some places in the US have screwy laws to prevent that.

The tap room is great.  It was a converted farm buiding and they kept the feel of it.  The best part is they had a bunch of hard sausage that they also made on site.  Made the beers go down that much easier. 

And yes you can carry out here.  That is actually where the Micros here make most of their money because their tap rooms are regulated to be quite small - the bar and restaurant lobby made sure of that.

[derspiess]

Kind of cool that they go ahead and put their keg prices right out there with everything else.  How was the tap room at the brewery?  Are they allowed to sell beer for carryout on premises?  Some places in the US have screwy laws to prevent that.

Can't speak to the place CC went to, but the local breweries near my house all have the growler trade going.

Cool.  Growlers are all the rage here but our own Scipio can't get a growler filled at a brewery in Mississippi.  Florida obtusely forbids 64 oz (most common size in the US) growlers but all others are legal IIRC.