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Ken Bondy - 9-28-2009 at 08:14 PM

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Consider it your birthday present, Ken.

You are a prince.

BMG - 9-28-2009 at 09:27 PM

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Consider it your birthday present, Ken.

You are a prince.


Don't you mean -

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mulegemichael - 9-28-2009 at 09:37 PM

krico...thanks for the website...it legitimatizes my drinking...somewhat..anyway, it's something i'll copy and show my enablers..

Bajahowodd - 9-28-2009 at 11:12 PM

Dennis- you're correct about seeing Bohemia ale. It was Bohemia beer. But... California instituted a rule years ago that mandated any brew labeled beer could not contain more than 5% alcohol. Back in the day, before the Mexican government decided to tackle the borracho problem, most Mexican beers were 6-7% alcohol. Not to mention other countries. I recall drinking Australian beer that was 9%. There was not a big export market then. Today, although many states do not have such rules, inasmuch as California is such a huge market, virtually all foreign brewers lowered their alcohol content to 5% or less.

k-rico - 9-29-2009 at 07:07 AM

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krico...thanks for the website...it legitimatizes my drinking...somewhat..anyway, it's something i'll copy and show my enablers..


Legitamize beer drinking? Enablers? Now don't fall prey to modern psychobabble. But if you want to further "legitamize" consumption of the nectar of the gods, I once had a conversation with a doctor about my fondness for drinking beer. He said in Australia I would be considered a light drinker.

I grew up in a household that had two refrigerators, one for food, the other for beer and ale. I was always surprised that my friends only had one frige in their houses.

But, it's true, for many folks moderation is difficult and problems arise. Never before noon and never until the day's work is done.

DENNIS - 9-29-2009 at 07:23 AM

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Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Dennis- you're correct about seeing Bohemia ale. It was Bohemia beer. But... California instituted a rule years ago that mandated any brew labeled beer could not contain more than 5% alcohol.



Ahhh yes......It all comes back to me now. That was the explaination at that time as well. This was in the 60s. On the bottle it said cerveza and the carton said ale.
Thanks, Howard.

Not all clear bottles make stinky beer...

David K - 9-29-2009 at 07:56 AM

Corona yes... but Baja Angel's favorite 'Sol' and one of my favorite's 'Mexicali' are in clear bottles, and not stinky. Also, while not my first choice, 'Modelo' is in a clear bottle and an ok beer... just a bit too light tasting for me.

Maybe, my top 6 Mexican beers...

1) Pacifico
2) XX Special Lager
3) Mexicali
4) Tecate (in Baja)
5) TJ Beer (Güera)
6) Carta Blanca

Also enjoy on occaision:

XX Amber
TJ Beer (Morena)
Bohemia
Sol
Victoria

A big favorite of dark beer drinkers is Negra Modelo... Which was the sponsor of the 1979 Score Baja 1000 (Score's first race to La Paz)... and I was a co-driver in it... and the night before the race... at the Bahia Hotel... I had far too much Negra Modelo... and never drank it again! Used to drink Noche Buena, too... :O

Taco de Baja - 9-29-2009 at 08:03 AM

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Originally posted by mulegemichael...and..why is corona so skunky when Pacifico is most of us folks favorite and aren't they brewed in the same brewery???...


Corona comes in a clear bottle, Pacifico comes in a brown bottle.

It's all about the sun and light. It reacts with the beer, mainly the compounds from the hops and forms the skunky smelling chemicals. In a clear bottle (Corona, Miller, Mexicali) this can happen in minutes. Green bottles provide longer protection, and brown bottles even longer. A keg or a can are better, but can impart a metalalic taste.

Even fluorescent and incandescent lighting can skunk a beer, it just takes longer.

Remember, friends don’t let friends drink beer from clear bottles. :yes:

Of course, some people think that Corona is supposed to taste like a skunk’s butt and like it…:no:

The best beers come in brown bottles that have to be opened with a bottle opener. Think about it. :light:

durrelllrobert - 9-29-2009 at 08:45 AM

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I remember the Miss Rheingold contests from California when I was a kid.

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and the song they played was....:
"My beer is Reingold, the dry beer.
Think of Reingold meanever you by beer.
It's not bitter, not sweet:it's a fine tasting treat. Won't you try extra dry Reingoild Beer?"

Beer drinking in the World

wessongroup - 9-29-2009 at 09:17 AM

Saw we got to the east coast... and I remember a number of brews listed.... thanks, great to see some of the old labels which I have tried but, have forgotten.

Well, if you get a little further East, try Kreuzberg Monastery, about 30 miles South East of Fulda in Germany.. Those monks started making the stuff around 800 AD and got pretty good.

When I was there, they were filling the mugs from huge "wooden" barrels.. not pretty looking, but the beer/ale that came out was really good.

You could write your name on the "head"... if you could do 2 liters and walk, they would most likely have Sainted you..

Oh, just thought of another one a lot of folks must have had San Miguel in the PI..

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DENNIS - 9-29-2009 at 09:30 AM

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You could write your name on the "head"... if you could do 2 liters and walk, they would most likely have Sainted you..



I think natural fermentation will go as high as 18%. Not for me. One of the things I like about the fine art of beer drinking is the volume attainable and they longer times it takes to reach that point. If my function of drinking was limited to anihilation, I'd drink Caña.

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wessongroup - 9-29-2009 at 09:38 AM

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You could write your name on the "head"... if you could do 2 liters and walk, they would most likely have Sainted you..



I think natural fermentation will go as high as 18%. Not for me. One of the things I like about the fine art of beer drinking is the volume attainable and they longer times it takes to reach that point. If my function of drinking was limited to anihilation, I'd drink Caña.


tell it to the Germans... they make it and I didn't see one person getting their arm twisted:lol::lol::lol:

just checked, they have a web site and webcamera... thought you all might want to see how badly uncontrolled drinking of high content beer under duress looks in present day Germany... what a rowdy bunch :lol::lol::lol:

It all about taste, if you get a good buzz too... who's complaining, if your Dr.'s not...




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Eugenio - 9-29-2009 at 11:15 AM

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guess i'ma snob after a trip to england many years ago. are there any mexican ales?



I don't know the technical difference but, many many years back, Bohemia was exported to the states and on the box it said Ale. Perhaps it still does.


I don't think there are any ales produced in Mexico - unless they come out of microbrewries. Bohemia is a Vienna style Lager.

I've even had a hard time expressing the word "ale" in Mexico - some higher class mexicans understand ale as "ale" in spanish - and I've heard ale expressed as "cerveza inglesa" - but really the distinction is simply not made in Mexico. (maybe Ferna or Jesse could set me straight here.)

Mexitron - 9-29-2009 at 11:25 AM

Cousin Kevin with the catch of the day, Santa Rosalillita, 1985...mine were the bottles on the right :yes:

Cypress - 9-29-2009 at 11:25 AM

When you get right down to it, if you're a beer drinker it's all pretty good.:tumble:

DENNIS - 9-29-2009 at 11:28 AM

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When you get right down to it, if you're a beer drinker it's all pretty good.:tumble:


Some just better than others when you have a choice.

Arrogant Bastard

Oso - 9-29-2009 at 11:40 AM

No, not you Dennis...

I mean Arrogant Bastard Ale, a really great microbrew available in 24 oz. singles in the more discriminating stop n pops. It costs a good bit more than Butt Lite, but worth it. The question is, are you worthy of it? The label is a great read. Sort of Studio 54 type advertising. Put down, sneer at and generally humiliate the potential customer to make them think only the elite are allowed in.

http://www.arrogantbastard.com/

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DENNIS - 9-29-2009 at 11:44 AM

I feel left out. :(

wessongroup - 9-29-2009 at 12:41 PM

Mexitron, great shot....

Mexitron - 9-29-2009 at 02:12 PM

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It's all about the sun and light. It reacts with the beer, mainly the compounds from the hops and forms the skunky smelling chemicals. In a clear bottle (Corona, Miller, Mexicali) this can happen in minutes. Green bottles provide longer protection, and brown bottles even longer. A keg or a can are better, but can impart a metalalic taste.




Actually I think the beer in cans taste better these days...maybe the technology is better...don't recall a metallic taste from a keg, but then again usually when there was a keg around I didn't recall much of anything anyway. :bounce:

Yes this is true

wessongroup - 9-29-2009 at 02:16 PM

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It's all about the sun and light. It reacts with the beer, mainly the compounds from the hops and forms the skunky smelling chemicals. In a clear bottle (Corona, Miller, Mexicali) this can happen in minutes. Green bottles provide longer protection, and brown bottles even longer. A keg or a can are better, but can impart a metalalic taste.




Actually I think the beer in cans taste better these days...maybe the technology is better...don't recall a metallic taste from a keg, but then again usually when there was a keg around I didn't recall much of anything anyway. :bounce:


:lol::lol::lol:

shari - 9-29-2009 at 03:25 PM

k-rico....never before noon???????????????????????????????????????????
what's with THAT? maybe it depends on what time you get up! I have lots of amigos who subsitute beer for coffee...probably better for you.

Bajahowodd - 9-29-2009 at 03:59 PM

Hey Oso. I even have an Arrogant Bastard tee shirt. Problem is that for folks like Dennis, quantity trumps quality, so to speak. You cannot drink many bottles of that ale without wishing the next day that you had not.

elgatoloco - 9-29-2009 at 08:04 PM

We just got back from a week in Salt Lake City area. Lots of good micro brew pubs making good beer. Polygamy Porter - why have just one? bring some home for the wives! from Wasatch Brew Pub was full bodied and tasty. Saturday we went to Oktoberfest at Snowbird and tried three different local 'biers' including a black bier brewed special for the occasion. Went weel with the brats and oompa band.

Arrogant Bastard is good beer! Stone Brewing is a great place to visit and try all the stuff that is not sold in stores. They have some decent grub there too.

http://www.stonebrew.com/home.asp

I like Dos Equis amber on draft and all the beers at the TJ brewery. We have not been to the Tecate brewery in a few years but we always made sure to stop in and enjoy a few drafts, especially on a Sunday afternoon there would be whole families in there quaffing a few. My bro in law has been making beer for the last year or so since he retired and he is getting very good at it. I always make sure I take an empty growler to fill when I head over his place.
I like Tecate ice cold in a glass with clamato and some lime juice. Tastes good and it's good for you! I even drink Corona and enjoy it because I know how to store it! :lol::P Be good to your liquor and it will be good to you! :dudette:

BMG - 9-29-2009 at 08:26 PM

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I even have an Arrogant Bastard tee shirt.


Quit hijacking. The subject is beer.

beer

wessongroup - 10-1-2009 at 06:04 AM

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I even have an Arrogant Bastard tee shirt.


Quit hijacking. The subject is beer.



Skipjack Joe - 10-1-2009 at 12:57 PM

Ever notice how popular threads about beer seem to be?

They just go on and on.

Bajahowodd - 10-1-2009 at 01:07 PM

Like the ones about tequila!

DENNIS - 10-1-2009 at 01:29 PM

Or, "an endless story." That one may go on forever.

David K - 10-2-2009 at 10:25 AM

Well, beer drinking is a happy sport...

Can't have too many Pacificos when you are with amigos in Baja!



Photo by Bob H, in Ensenada

We were staying thirsty!

David K - 10-2-2009 at 10:28 AM



Bob H and Audrey

k-rico - 10-2-2009 at 04:09 PM

Drank a bunch of this Modelo brew on our mainland trip, only stuff available at some places we stayed. Very Corona like.

Any port in a storm.

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DENNIS - 10-2-2009 at 04:22 PM

Maybe I'm just dreamin out loud but, I think I've seen that here in Com Mex.

Bajahowodd - 10-2-2009 at 05:05 PM

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Drank a bunch of this Modelo brew on our mainland trip, only stuff available at some places we stayed. Very Corona like.

Any port in a storm.


Perhaps that's because it's brewed by Grupo Modelo who also brews Corona.

BMG - 10-2-2009 at 06:11 PM

Here is one that I found on the mainland that I had never tried before. I thought it was very good.



And someone mentioned Polygamy Porter?

we have a winner!

woody with a view - 10-2-2009 at 06:19 PM



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six pack to go

wessongroup - 10-2-2009 at 09:51 PM

Ok, I've got my first six pack ready to go pick up tomorrow:

2- Pacfico's
2- Tecate
2-XX Special Lager
2-XX Amber
2-Corona
2-Mexicali
2-Tijuana
2-Bohemia
2-Negra Modelo
2-Sol

Just hoping to get them as cold as woody's post of the Pacifico

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wessongroup - 10-2-2009 at 09:56 PM

BMG, what is that food.... my stomach hurts looking at it, but, I got to know.... it looks SO good:D:D
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