SheepNutz

Me too, my eyes are burning.

Then I am teh loser.

I'll be bringing tons of stuff. Like I mentioned in another thread, I'll probably make a batch of homebrew for FF. Dweez, I'll probably stop and get some HOTD Adam in Cincinnati, but if you wanna see what Vintage Cellar has, check out their website: www.vintagecellar.com Gooters, about storing beer: Most beers that have 8%abv and are bottle conditioned (meaning they still have yeast in the bottle to provide carbonation) can be aged for at least a year. Beers should be aged between 55-65 degrees F, and stored upright (even corked bottles). Some beers last really good if aged for 5-10 years (like Sierra Nevada Bigfoot), and some like JW Lees and Thomas Hardy's Ale can be aged for 25+ years. I have some Lees aging back to 1997, and some 1996 and 1997 Thomas Hardy's Ale my cellar. Aging usually smooths out the hops and alcohol profiles, and lets the malts really come through. It's fun stuff.

I don't mind if they are all called "mainstream", but I would never put the stripes and nickleback in the same category. Nickleback sucks somthing fierce. Yeah, fake music files suck.

I thought I had a fairly big beer cellar, but I've got nothing on this guy's:

I might be whipping up a batch of homebrew (probably a pale ale) for fragfest!

I wish we could have played it too. It was so much fun the last time! Everyone had such a blast playing it. Nightvision pwns!

I will be driving right through Cincinnati, so there ya go!

Depends on where you live. It's made in Portland, Oregon I believe, but they distribute in certain states even on the east coast. I get mine at a place in Cincinnati, OH. If you do find some, keep it in a ziplock bag in the fridge, in case it explodes like the bottle pictured above. Also, when you pour it, watch out. This shows how much head the beer gets, and I even poured this one very slow:

If anyone is interested in watching the White Stripes Grammy performance, right click and save as: http://icdweb.cc.purdue.edu/~gcerbus/White...my%20Awards.mpg And hey! It's over 3 minutes long! And I bet if you go 3:10 into the video you'll hear a guitar solo! Imagine that.

Friends that annoy? Try Lance! He calls our room every 3.87 seconds!

Like I said, actually try LISTENING to some of their music. If you would have checked out some of the stuff I recommended, you'd know. Let's try Ball and Biscuit: 7:17 long and 5 guitar solos. See, you gotta know the band before you start badmouthing them. Sorry if you don't like their grassroots approach to music. They show that you don't have to have fancy digital equipment and fresh-from-the-shelf guitars to make good music. Let me know if you can find someone who can play better on a plastic guitar! To each his own I guess. And for the record, I like KMFDM.

Well, Barleywine is just a stong english ale style. Many different breweries make Barleywines. Some popular ones are Sierra Nevada Bigfoot and Anchor Old Foghorn. So washington has a 13% limit? That sucks. I'm glad Kentucky doesn't. Here I can get Dogfish Head World Wide Stout (23% abv), which is fantastic and well worth the $8.50 a bottle. I've got one left in my cellar.

Looks good, I do like cream stouts!

Yeah right, I bet you've heard one, maybe even two, of their songs. The stuff they put on TV is just the tip of the iceberg. Their older stuff is fantastic. They are a great fusion of rock and blues, using minimalistic style. I recommend you try listening to the songs "Screwdriver", "When I Hear My Name", "Hello Operator", "Truth Doesn't Make A Noise", "Offend In Every Way", or "Ball and Biscuit". Maybe then you'll get the idea of the real White Stripes. Or if you can find it, watch the video of them playing "Let's Build a Home/Going Back to Memphis/John the Revelator" on Conan Obrien. One of the greatest live performances ever.

Yeah, Lance is always giving me that Budweiser crap. To battle against the review of budweiser, here's a review of Hair of the Dog's Adam (the beer above that exploded): "Whooo... Gotta take a deep breath before trying to explain this one. Pours a delightful glass of muddy brown fluid. I love it. Not clean-looking in the least. Borders on a crimson blackness when not held to light.You know it is huge just by looking it it. Beige head retains wonderfully. Nose is packed full of berry, wood and chocolate aromas. Plenty of hops on the nostrils, as well as with a good deal of smokiness. Taste is something else. Big, rich fruitiness. Lots of grape and raisins floating around. Berries and cherry too. Malty caramel/toffee/butterscotch is in full effect. Add some lovely vanilla flavors. Turns darker with the expresso and dark chocolate kicking in. Then does an about-face and throws some scotch-like hues. Smoky and delightful with some lovely woody notes. Yeast is evident, and throws in some spicy and earthy tones. Somewhat belgian-esque, as many HotD brew are. Hopping is obviously huge, but just enough to balance this overwhelming load. Turns spell-bindingly dry on the finish. Just some lingering woody dark chocolate and fruit. So balanced it is not even funny. Velvety smooth and creamy in the mouth. No rough edges whatsoever. Oh..this is a joy to drink. Dangerous is an understatement. I loved every second of this one. One of my all time favorites." Try getting a flavor profile like that from your so called "King of Beers". Besides, this is the REAL Budweiser: Budweiser Budvar, made in the Czech Republic in the town of...... Budweis! You see, this has been made for hundreds of years, but pieces of trash named Anheuser and Busch thought they'd be cool and steal the name. Then crap beer was born. Drink less, drink better.

I <3 Meg White

Oh I hate you homer! I've been looking for HOTD Fred for quite some time. I've had Adam and Rose (look at this pic of a bottle of Adam that exploded randomly in my dorm closet:) Homebrewing ingredients here are fairly cheap. I can do a batch for under $20. Once I start doing all grain brewing, it'll be even cheaper, but for right now I'm just doing partial mash. So what styles have you made? Gooters, if you want to dweel into homebrewing, check out this great website: http://www.howtobrew.com It is an online brewing book. That, and the book "The Complete Joy of Homebrewing" by Charlie Papazian are the best homebrewing sources on the web. Plus http://www.beeradvocate.com has a great homebrewing forum. The guys there are super nice and are willing to tackle any homebrewing question you might have. Cheers!

Meg White is so hot. That is all.

You mean Chimay Grand Reserve? I'm not too big a fan of Chimay, because their beer is just too yeasty, even with the sediment left behind, and also they lied for several years about using adjuncts in their beer. My favorite overall beer is Victory Storm King Stout: http://www.beeradvocate.com/user/beer_revi...=rating&start=0 Click on any of those beers for my review. My favorite trappist beer hands down is Westvleteren 12. It's very hard to find, but well worth it. Ghost, nice to see another homebrewer. What styles of ale do you make? I could make lagers if I really wanted to, because I have a huge restaurant refrigerator that doubles as my beer cellar, but I don't really like lagers anyway (except Anchor Steam).

All I know is that the White Stripes were ownage!!!

True, I drink lots of Unibroue beers. La Fin Du Monde and Ephemere are my favorites. If you are interested in good beer, check out http://www.beeradvocate.com I'm a regular there. You can review thousands of different beers and beer establishments. In the past year, I've reviewed over 200 beers.

I'm a huge fan of many craft microbrews and imports, and I was wondering if anyone else here is. My favorite style is probably India Pale Ale, but I also like porters, stouts, weizens, belgians, dubbelbocks, lambics, you name it. I know Rooster enjoys a good IPA, and pup likes a few fruit lambics. I'm also a beginning homebrewer, and I was wondering if anyone else here homebrews? I just put my first batch of beer (an India Pale Ale) in bottles. It's been fermenting three weeks already, and in 3 more it'll be ready to drink. It already tastes pretty darn good though. Maybe I'll make a special batch of homebrew to take to fragfest!

Radio is evil, unless it's a station that plays 80s music all the time.

I = paid. w00t!!!