Beer drinking traditions

[DrW]

3 hours ago, Draconator said:

This sounds eerie similar to an Irish Car Bomb

 

Only with a much longer tradition. The type of beer used in the Lüttje Lage was first brewed in the 16th century. Because it was rather low alcohol, it was often consumed together with a brandy. I do not know when somebody came up with the idea of drinking both together in this specific style, but it was more than 100 years ago.

 

According to Wikipedia, the Irish Car Bomb was invented in 1979 in ... Connecticut.
 

My 1000th post. Do I win something?

Edited May 22 by DrW

[That's No Moon]

1 hour ago, Orlando Buffalo said:

You might want to hit Treehouse soon, they have some lawsuits flying between owners for basically embezzlement. I never got to hit it when we visited but we did hit Trillium, which was real good but too pricy for a regular place. If you ever come to Orlando  I can recommend several good places, depending on what you are looking for, though as you said the lesser breweries are dying off.

Yeah I read about that.  Even if the suit is successful they wont close, they'll just owe a minor investor a check.  I'm more worried about them getting so big they lose quality control.

 

The first time I went there was during COVID. It was the main location out in Charlton, MA and it was pickup only and there was a whole procedure.  Basically you paid online and then lined up in your car and they'd bring the stuff out to you.  So we show up to pick up the beer, the line was easily 35 minutes long when we got there and just in the short time we were able to observe other cars getting order we saw people filling up pickup trucks with beer at like $125 a case.  Thousands of dollars of beer were loaded in the time it took them to grab our paltry 2 case order form inside and load it into my car.  When we were pulling out the pickup line was at least 20% longer than when we'd originally gotten into it.  They made an absolutely stupid amount of money and that was just one day of operations.

 

I went to the main location again on my way home from Maine in 2022 and it was still absolutely mobbed, fully open now, still mobbed with people there and also many people like me who had put in a pickup order who were just in and out.  They have something like 5 locations now, my wife went to the one on Cape Cod this past March to grab me some stuff when she was on a college visit with my son.

 

You are correct, Trillium is good.  IMO TreeHouse is much better.  If you're up in that area again, Bissell Brothers in Portland, ME is also quite enjoyable.

Edited May 22 by That's No Moon

[Draconator]

3 hours ago, DrW said:

My 1000th post. Do I win something?

You get to drink a beer as fast as you can. The TBD way.

[BillsPride12]

Go to a Bills game and you can witness 1000's of drinking traditions taking place all over the parking lots before kickoff 

[US Egg]

Is the “brown bag lunch” still in vogue?

[Logic]

Ok so its not exactly beer, its wine, but...

Just got back from Barcelona, and was delighted to stumble upon a locals dive bar featuring a Parron. I thought it was fun and silly, and wound up going back multiple nights in a row on the way to Tapas to give it another go.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-people-drink-wine-in-barcelona-2016-5

"When the weather gets warmer and it's time to party in Spain, bust out the porrón and start drinking! A porrón is a Catalan wine pitcher with a narrow spout on the end used to pour wine into your mouth and the mouths of your friends. It's a great way to share wine, laugh, and get a little messy."

 

 

 

[Fleezoid]

Looks like a wimpy boilermaker to me. 😁

[BillsFanNC]

Learned about the concept of a schnitt while drinking with some German colleagues in Munich.

 

I'd had my fill for the night and begged off the last round...so that's when I was introduced to the schnitt. My pour was probably 60% foam.

 

Rather than tipping your glass and getting a proper fill, for a Schnitt, the bartender will just open the tap and let the beer quickly fill the stein. This method creates a foamy phenomenon (sometimes 75% foam and 25% beer), and it’s a bit like the lottery. Sometimes the Schnitt closer to a full glass of beer, other times half-full (or half-empty, if you’re grumpy because you really just wanted a proper beer in the first place). Win some, lose some.

[Fleezoid]

[Simon]

On 5/22/2024 at 10:47 AM, Logic said:

It's a dumb, sophomoric game, which proliferated on the island most likely because it's Neverland down there, and no one wants to grow up. I will admit -- I witnessed some pretty funny Icings. Drive-by Icings, toilet tank repair Icings ("Hey Ben, can you check the tank on the back of the toilet? It's making a weird noise". Boom. Warm bottle of Smirnoff Ice in there), Scuba dive Icings, etc...Yes, it's immature and silly. Yes, it was also usually hilarious to witness. And yes, a warm bottle of Smirnoff Ice consumed speedily is one of the worst things that can happen to you in the middle of your Wednesday afternoon).

 

Saw a new one last week that I thought you'd appreciate:

About a dozen of us were sitting around a very large, very late night fire and a couple people started roasting hot dogs and passing them around.

One girl got handed a plate and instead of a hot dog, there was a Smirnoff in the bun.