Silly Billy Pilgrim, Weekend Drunk Thread 9/28/12-9/30/07

Disagree on quality, and the traditionally distributed AK is in fact an IPA.

 

AK is an IPA the way 50 Shades of Grey is literature.

I am at the B and B of the nicest Belgian couple ever. Oh my godthe first thing I was asked on arriving is "Doyou you want a local beer?" YES I WANT A LOCAL BEER.

 

What city are you in? DETAILS, YOU ARYAN PERVERT.

I would kill someone's grandmother in front of them for a beer tour of Belgium.

It's impossible to get the Trappist beer, Westvleteren over here anymore. Damn shame. Slightly overrated, but I've got a hankering for them since it's been years. They're the one brewery still run completely by the monks, not an outside contractor, and when they heard their beers were selling stateside for $12 a BOTTLE they imposed even further restrictions on how much product each person can get from them. They make beer solely to finance their monastery and philanthropy. Gnarly.

How fucking cool is that? That is EXACTLY the kind of tight production I love in niche beers.

<a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westvleteren_Brewery" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westvleteren_Brewery</a>

 

I'm just outside of wipers. Or Ypres if we're being French about it.

You can't get wesvleteren because it's illegal to resell and you have to make an appointment to pick it up from the abbey. And guess who has a rendez-vous with some monks tomorrow? THIS GUY.

I'm actually on a WWI battlefield tour more than a beer tour. Vimy, Beaumont Hamel and Passchendaele all happened in spitting distance, and Dunkirk isn't far (though that's WWII, and you yanks wouldn't know about it because y'all were busy profiteering off the war when it happened).

 

YOU S.O.B. I hope everything bad in the world happens to you. I hope every bottle is skunked.

 

i'm gonna open a can of pbr

 

If you think Keith's is an IPA, you've never had a decent beer in your life.

 

Purple drank and sizzurp is not koolaid or a koolaid-like beverage. Its codeine laced cough syrup.

I checked with Jamarcus Russell.

 

Awww shit, sounds like somebody isn't going to receive a bottle as a Christmas gift.

Just to rub it in, there's Belgian beer filling the mini-fridge, and do you know what's on top of the fridge? Glasses appropriate for each beer.

And I just nommed me some properly made fries. I had to refrain from calling them french fries because this is Flanders and I'm trying to not stir up linguistic tension.

 

I'm about three weeks shy of a full year without drinking and the above conversation makes me long for the days when I could sit home alone, drink three quarters of a bottle of Evan Williams, drool on myself, and then fall down. Because at least I wasn't as annoying as beer snobs.

 

I'm about three hours shy of a full day without drinking, but I'll be rectifying (hey now) that shortly. Drool not included.

 

You say this, but what you're neglecting is that this is because any sober person is more annoying than someone who partakes.

 

You'll get no argument from me on that score.

However, I have found it to be a universal truth that, of people who drink, the ones who drink and then wax rhapsodic on the qualities of what they are drinking are always more annoying than the people who drink for the effect.

 

I know what you mean, brah. That's why I only do jagerbombs, or vodka redbulls if I have to work the next day.

God forbid beer taste good or that I enjoy it. Or that I take advantage of living 3 hours from the monastery, a long weekend, and a rental car to go buy some famous, hard to find beer. Or, you know, that I go somewhere new and experience a different culture and language to my own.

 

Don't give me that horseshit. Belgium is great. I assume it's still as nice as it was 20 years ago when I was there.

Driving three hours for beer, though, is still....driving three hours for beer. I have little doubt it's good beer, but it's still just beer.

And I've never had a jagerbomb and couldn't tell you what was in one and I wouldn't drink vodka on a bet.

 

I get both points, both are right in a regard. Those people who will argue till they die that Russian River IPA is by far the supreme of all IPAs when compared to Green Flash or Dogfish, are annoying. You find a beer you like, great, is its magnitudes better than other beers of the ilk, not likely, its all preference. Its beer, enjoy it, but its not some high art. If someone makes good beer, awesome, but its not world moving. On the other hand people who don't care what it is so long as theres alcohol in it are usually the people screaming and fighting over dumb shit. If you're at a game, or at the bars, and your goal is to get drunk, then thats cool. However if your at a bbq or something more low key where getting shit faced is annoying, than guess what.

Either way, drink what you like and enjoy. I also endorse trying whatever brand of beers you can just for the fun of it. Its nice to discover a new brewer you really enjoy.

However, there are three beverages that are never ever ok to drink. I don't care your background, I don't give a shit about your preferences. Those are clamato, anything ice, and any bud light lime variant.

 

I am getting so fucking retarded tomorrow it's retarded. If you hear on the news about some drunk weirdo fighting ten cops, that'll be your boy.

In other news....IT'S HARVEST WEEKEND!!! Time to cut down my indicas and hang them. A great birthday weekend, indeed.

I share my birthday today with Alexander Keith, Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce (awesome), and none other than Nicky Hilton (even more awesome)

 

It's not codeine AND cough syrup. Prescription-grade cough syrup already has codeine in it, that's the active ingredient.

Allah, meth...whippets...natty ice...cheese...

What is it with white people and shitty intoxicants?

 

God forbid you miss an opportunity to tell us how cultured you are.