Julie posed this question in the last post, and I'm going with it. What's YOUR favorite gametime beer. Now I realize that most of you out here are not the football fans that I am. I can't help myself. I am the man in my family where this is concerned. I can watch football all day Saturday, Sunday and Monday night. I LOVE football. And when watching said football, I usually do partake in a few adult beverages. But not just any adult beverage, it has to be beer. I'm not sitting there with a nice Chardonnay cheering on Big Ben. I'm not whipping up my new favorite coco lime rickey on Monday nights...
BEER. Beer and football. Beer and football like peas and carrots. Liver and Onions. Cagney and Lacey, Britney and hot mess.
Now Julie might say that I'm a beer snob. Because, well, I prefer my beer in a bottle. And typically I'm a Coors Light girl as well. But here lately, the hubby has been willing to experiment with imports and microbrews, something he wouldn't ever do before...and I'm more than willing to jump on this bandwagon. They're usually not something I can drink too many of, however...and not just because they're more expensive. They're heavier. They taste okay if they warm up a little (unlike CL that I feel like I have to drink quickly or put in a cosi because it tastes like piss water when it gets warm).
Lately I've been drinking St. Pauli Girl, Bass (I've always loved Bass), New Castle (this is a new fave), and Goose Island Honker's Ale. Now maybe I have one or two of those and switch off to CL or water during the game. What other imports/microbrews should I be trying? I know Tigger swears by the Summer Shandy...and of course if I can get my hands on it I'll choose Yuengling over ANYTHING else, but alas, they won't distribute west of Ohio...*sniff*.
I can't believe Julie has switched! She's been a loyal Miller Lite girl as far back as I can remember. And your dedication to C.I.G (Cheapness is Greatness) couldn't have been THAT loyal, Jul - you weren't buying Old Style or PBR just because it was cheaper. Standards are good.
And an off-topic bitch - last night there was some special on about Elvis. FIRST - how much work HAS Priscilla Presley had done. Seriously? She looks like a caricature of her former self. She was gorgeous back in the day. Now? She looks like Michael Jackson. SECOND - why oh WHY does country music think they know Elvis better than anyone? Performer after performer got up to sing their favorite Elvis tune and they were all country stars. Ummm...because of MEMPHIS?? Please. Elvis is not just the king, he's the king of ROCK-N-ROLL, not country. Location does not a country star make. That's part of what made Elvis so great - he was in the South, took standard R&B and brought it smack into the faces of white America. It was brilliant. And now I have to listen to Faith Hill, Toby Keith and someone please gag me Melinda Lambert singing Elvis tunes on primetime??? Really ABC? Oh wait, there was Beyonce. And the rap guys, something Mafia, they won an Oscar. Any way...really? ABC...you can't tap Buddy Guy? Or Derek Trucks? Or his lovely wife Susan Tedeschi? How 'bout some R&B greats both current and classic? If there were 10 performances last night 8 of them were country stars. And I use that term loosely.
Just my rant for the day...what's yours?
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I said I was a former member of C.I.G.....
And I'm a beer snob of sorts. It has to be really really cold. My beer usually spend 5-10 minutes in the freezer before I drink it.
Amy and I talk of doing a temp test to figure out what temp is acceptable, good, and makes me happy. (Makes me happy =when you have a slight slush layer on the very top. It's hard to achieve because if you go a couple minutes longer the whole beer will be slush and that is just bad bad bad. That's a ruined beer.)
Maybe we'll do the temp test this weekend!
The slush on the top = perfect - but it IS hard to achieve. Cold, cold beer is the reason I'm a cosi girl almost all the time now.
If you do the test, you MUST post the results!
Oh, Please. First of all, after 3 beers Miller Lite and Coors Light taste the same. I don't care who you are, it's true. Secondly, who in there right mind wants slush on top of your beer? Slush on beer = watered down beer in the long run. For truely cold beer, have it in the fridge for more than 24 hours. Then, at time of consumption, pour the cold beer in to a frozen mug. Try that and tell me that you don't like it. Julie, you have that Freezer in the G-Rage for the mugs (or pint glasses) so don't tell me you don't have room...Further more, I say Make Room! (Yes, that needed to be capitolized.)
Oh, I'm a beer whore. It does have to be cold though. Miller Light, Coors Light, Miller Highlife, Red Stripe (Hooray Beer), (as the Rock says) It doesn't matter what type of beer.
Throw in some whiskey (not too much) and I'm good.
Whiskey IN the beer???
Amen on the cold - it must be cold...cold...cold...
Jimmer-
Slush on the beer top doesn't mean watered down because it's BEER that is frozen. As it melts, it's beer.
It is the reason some people make ice cubes out of pop, or lemonade, or whatever they are drinking... so it doesn't water the drink down.
How's VALPO?
Boooo VALPO, Hooray Beer!
Boooo postnasal drip.
Tigger - postnasal drip rules...
Postnasal drip DOES rule :) HA!
actually it is the WATER IN the beer that gets slushy, and, If you can't have it in the freezer for 48 hours +, pull it out and POOR it into a glass, it aint worth drinking.
Ah... two things I consider myself an expert on Beer, and Elvis. For an afternoon game I enjoy the heartier taste of an Old Stlye, and for the nooner's I go with Special Export.
Seriously...
Sam Adams Light (yes with G.H.T.)has been very good to me lately for both mid afternoon and nightly consumption. Has a full flavor without the nasty calories. Plus that Piss water taste that you made mention of earlier....Never gets it.
The King...
Priscilla looks as if though someone is constantly pulling her face backwards, and yes, she was a hottie, with some junkage in the trunkage. Why the Rednecks (i.e. republican/Nazi Toby Keith) cling to him so is because of his crossover appeal. Elvis cut his "bones" on tour with the Louisiana Hayride, headling such acts as Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Loretta Lynn, and the list goes on. Although the Country Music Community shunned him, (see failed Grand Ol' Opry audition) they never forgot how he mixed R&B & Country and got Rock-A-Billy. Plus if asked today do you think Kanye, Jay-Z, or Puffy would want to do a tribute to some cracker who they only know about from his lame ass movies? That is why we get stuck with country music B-Listers.
Hey at least Billy Ray Cyrus was not envolved.
Beer-wise, please hand me a Fat Tire or Killian Red. And yes, the colder the better.
Priscilla - yup, no such thing as aging gracefully in her book. She looks as scary bad as Faye Dunaway.
(But I'd really rather have a red wine or failing that, a gin & tonic.)
COLLEEN!!! Fat Tire RULES...my husband and I got so addicted to those lovely 22 oz bottles in Wrigleyville. Why oh why won't they distribute in Indiana!
D - I can honestly say I have never tried SA...maybe I'll pick some up for the weekend and see how it goes. I'll keep you posted. At least when you're drinking that you're not going to get blue stains on your shirt. HA!
And I so forgot about the tours Elvis used to do with those guys - you're absolutely right...that's why they cling to him.
Peanut and butter and jelly...come on, so obviously overlooked..
Come to Arizona. We have lots of Fat Tire.
We are trying to make Arizona our family vacation next year...can't wait to tell the hubby they'll have fat tire!
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