Hooray beer!

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:39 pm

I don't like beer.

I do love Woodpeckers cider.
I do love a good oaky red wine.

chas · Post by **chas** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:33 am

Innocent Bystander wrote:
Some people get water retention from really dark beers - like Guinness, Murphy's, Theakston's Old Peculier, Sweetheart Stout, etc. I'm one. You can drink for a couple of hours without needing a pee, and then, when you break the beer-seal, you pee every five minutes for the rest of the night. The headache can be another symptom of water retention.

Fortunately, lighter beers do not have this effect.

Hmm. . . Dark beer is sometimes prescribed to nursing mothers to increase the milk flow. I had always thought it was to relax the mother (and kid), but I wonder if it really increases the volume?

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:58 am

chas wrote: Hmm. . . Dark beer is sometimes prescribed to nursing mothers to increase the milk flow. I had always thought it was to relax the mother (and kid), but I wonder if it really increases the volume?

It probably increases the alcohol by volume!

Flogging Jason · Post by **Flogging Jason** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:08 am

chrisoff wrote:
chas wrote: Hmm. . . Dark beer is sometimes prescribed to nursing mothers to increase the milk flow. I had always thought it was to relax the mother (and kid), but I wonder if it really increases the volume?
It probably increases the alcohol by volume!

I need a head-smacking-forehead emoticon now!

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:16 am

Flogging Jason wrote: I need a head-smacking-forehead emoticon now!

dfernandez77 · Post by **dfernandez77** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:37 am

Flogging Jason wrote:
chrisoff wrote:
chas wrote: Hmm. . . Dark beer is sometimes prescribed to nursing mothers to increase the milk flow. I had always thought it was to relax the mother (and kid), but I wonder if it really increases the volume?
It probably increases the alcohol by volume!
I need a head-smacking-forehead emoticon now!

I need a lip-smacking emoticon now.

Pat Cannady · Post by **Pat Cannady** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:09 am

Charlene wrote:I'm so boring if we're out anyplace where you're expected to drink.

Beer makes me sleepy.

Whisk(e)y gives me a splitting headache before I've even finished it.

You just gotta drink through that.

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izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:26 am

chas wrote:Hmm. . . Dark beer is sometimes prescribed to nursing mothers to increase the milk flow. I had always thought it was to relax the mother (and kid), but I wonder if it really increases the volume?

It does, but it's more the hops than the darkness of the beer. Hops are common thing to "prescribe" to a woman who is experiencing difficulties with her milk flow. A hoppy beer really is a good thing for this as well (and much tastier than a tincture in my opinion).

MagicSailor · Post by **MagicSailor** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:47 am

Hi

jkwest wrote:Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.

I always demand a kiss. Nobody gets to f**k me without kissing me first.

As for the beers, out here in the Caribbean, it's usually Presidente. Partly because it's a nice lager and is sooooothing on a hot day, partly because it comes from the Dominican Republic and I like to think I'm helping provide jobs to people who need them more than those working for the European and north American breweries and partly because the girl on the Presidente posters is real perty and because they have commercials with lots of perty girls.

If I can't get Presidente, I ask for a Carib NFL. If I just ask for a Carib, I get it with a slice of lime in the neck of the bottle. I don't like lime in my beer, so I have to remember to ask for Carib NFL. All the bartenders know what NFL means.

I can also sometimes get Leffe in the supermarkets here. Nice stuff.

I avoid american beer (major breweries) at all cost. It's like making love in a canoe.... f-ing close to water.

PS. Apologies for being absent for a couple of weeks. I had problems with the Internet connection to the boat. Probably nobody even noticed I was gone...

Regards,

Owen Morgan

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chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:56 am

MagicSailor wrote: I avoid american beer (major breweries) at all cost. It's like making love in a canoe.... f-ing close to water.

Nice one.

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:09 am

We have been purchasing "sampler packs" recently. Usually 3-6 different beers per case. The boulder beers seem to be the best over all. Next week I think that we will be trying the Goose Island sampler pack. It will probably be the last one for the year though, it is getting to be red wine season for us.

Free beer is the best though.

jkwest · Post by **jkwest** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:18 am

EEP!!

That Goose Island one is sketchy...I've bought that one before..

My local brewery has a great sampler, 9 different ales. Every time we go and eat there and I get it, my wife says, "Looks like I'm driving, huh?"

Magic sailor....man, there are quite a few signature quotes in that post of yours...good show, mate..

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 2:33 pm

jkwest wrote:Oh, and Cran...a drink a day will probably cut out half of your meds...chew on that one..

Nope, it would kill me. I trust the pharmacist.

dfernandez77 · Post by **dfernandez77** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:19 am

jkwest wrote:EEP!!

That Goose Island one is sketchy...I've bought that one before..

Been to the brewpub. The beer is pretty good there. The food is awesome Chicago/American heart clogging heaven.

Big, meaty, juicy, and delicious - like I like my women.

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