[ale] Way-the-hell-and-gone off topic

[Putnam, James M.]

    May be a little West Coast, but Ranier Ale, aka Green Death. Equal
    parts cheap, strong, vile, and slightly caustic.

    Came in a cute green barrel-shaped bottle with a wide mouth. A couple
    would reduce you to a sort of stomach-churning nauseous haze. Too many 
    more than that induced a hangover epic for duration and depth.
    
    Sufficiently nasty that even Henry Weinhards Private Reserve was preferable,
    if you could somehow deal with the metallic bite of cheap Cascade hops. Its
    only saving grace were the TV commercials.

    "We used to drink Henry Weinhards out around Zaragoza. Then it came in a 
    short bottle. Or was it a long bottle? Can?"

    For the east coasters, Night Train and Thunderbird. Made Boone's Farm
    Strawberry Hill seem somehow desirable.

--
James  M. Putnam
Visiting Professor of Computer Science

The air was soft, the stars so fine,
the promise of every cobbled alley so great,
that I thought I was in a dream.
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From: Ale [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Jim Kinney via Ale [ale at ale.org]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 4:11 PM
To: DJ-Pfulio; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Way-the-hell-and-gone off topic

In the "starving student era" of my life, Schafers. Had to drink it from the freezer. If it got close to fridge temp it was undrinkable.

Years went by and I started brewing ales at home. Gained a few pounds rather quickly :-) . A friend called me to come try the new "Bud Ice" he had picked up. I brought a few home brews.

I poured a home ale for him and he poured a Bud ice for me. My gag reflex kicked in about as fast as I suspect it would trying to drink a mix of gasoline, bleach, and formaldehyde. I could not swallow Bud Ice and spit it back into the glass. My friend was "ooh-ing and aah-ing" with my home brew and pretty much downed a pair of pints (a pale ale and a porter knowing my recipes of the time). Then he popped a Bud Ice and tried to take a drink. It was instantaneous and violent as he reflexively spit the foul stuff across the room.

We loaded in my car and I took him to the home brew store.

Problem Solved (TM). :-)

On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 15:31 -0400, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:

Starving college student - Pearl Lite - $1.99 12-pak.  Cheaper than
"plain label BEER."  Only downside was the 20 min drive to the county
line to get to a liquor barn.  Was living in a dry county back then.
Good part was they had a drive through barn, so nobody had to get out of
the vehicle.

After getting my first real job, I decided that life was too short to
drink bad beer, though sometimes it still happens. Sadly.  Still remembe
the first sip of Moosehead - talk about nasty.


On 03/23/2018 05:52 AM, Jim Lynch via Ale wrote:


And when you were really short you drank Bali Hai, less than $1 per
bottle.  Or Canadian Ace beer, less than a $1 per 6-pack.  Go to 711 buy
a Slurpee pour out half of the liquid and fill it with Bali Hai.  I
wonder how I survived?


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