No alcohol for nearly a week...BORRRRIIIINNNNGGGGG!

[A-1 (imported)]

It was a joke, Yoli...

...anyway, a week is not TOO long.

Unless, :-\ of course you spend it bathing in denial .. er... make that De Nile

...& watch out and don't get ate by a big crock-a-gator...

[FianceeUvBigGuy (imported)]

. make that De Nile

...& watch out and don't get ate by a big crock-a-gator...

I ALWAYS adhere to the following rule...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVWuAyWWuAU

Yoli

Tasty, and loving it.

[A-1 (imported)]

I ALWAYS adhere to the following rule...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVWuAyWWuAU

Yoli

Tasty, and loving it.

However, Miss Piggy says that it is O.K. to ride one occasionally, especially just to make a point...

[Kangan (imported)]

I rarely drink alcohol despite being retired. When I was on the railroad, you could be drug tested at any time, so I got out of the habit of drinking. I never liked beer anyway - the first one was okay, the second was yucky, and the third would taste really bad, so I stuck with hard stuff mostly until I quit altogether.

[Beau Geste (imported)]

Wouldn't be surprising if IE's experiments with India Pale Ale come to an abrupt end when he finds out how much his next batch of hops will cost.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/indu ... 996_7.html

Earlier this month we spent an hour in the tasting room of a microbrewer (Harvest Moon), and the brewmaster gave us the story of his troubles finding hops. He uses Saaz in his Belgian white beer (which is good--like a lot of Belgian whites, it tastes somewhat like black tea), and apparently there are currently no Saaz hops available commercially, anywhere in the world. His beers were all good, but the Belgian white was the only one the brewery bottles. The porter had (intentionally) a little whiff of decayed barley in it--not fermented, decayed. If you ever cleaned out a barley bin with a leaky roof, you'd recognize the olfactory elements immediately. Earthy, but not bad. The stout was like an Irish stout, smooth with a creamy head, the Select was light, but very drinkable, would be good on a hot day. His IPA had as much carbonation as soda pop, and was also a refreshing brew. The brewery doesn't do lagers.

Mocha cherry stout sounds like it might make a good porter float (most of which are made with stouts anyway.) Maybe you don't need hops to brew it. Just use caramel flavored ice cream in the float, instead of vanilla, and you won't notice that the hops are missing.

[A-1 (imported)]

I rarely drink alcohol despite being retired. When I was on the railroad, you could be drug tested at any time, so I got out of the habit of drinking. I never liked beer anyway - the first one was okay, the second was yucky, and the third would taste really bad, so I stuck with hard stuff mostly until I quit altogether.

When I was on the RAILROAD -- (Pre-Ronald Reagan) -- if they would have done drug and/or alcohol testing and pulled the ones who tested positive out of service they would have had NO extra board and half of the long pool would have been gone. (Not to mention the yard jobs and locals)

...and I am not so sure that some train masters and yard masters would have passed, either.