We had a big wing-ding here for the BIL tonight. I would guess 70 or so folks all told. Major chaos, at least from a hosting perspective. We drank very little of the beer I purchased (the royal we, I drank plenty). Anybunny want to help finish a keg while watching the Vikes get spanked on Sunday?
Special thanks to Sparky and Mrs. Sparky for bartending and enduring inane conversation from me, the wife, and all our relatives.
After you and I talked on the phone I checked the keg. It's stuck in the garbage can right now, so getting a true estimate of how much is left is difficult with the added can and ice weight. But I think we did a much better job on it than I initially thought.
We're on clue #2. So as usual, I have no idea where it is. ;-)
Clue #1
The old curmudgeon was in high dudgeon When a critter ran off with the loot But this year to be credible, we've made it inedible And stuck it in a park — so scoot!
Clue #2
Snow we have missed much, this not very White Christmas But the ice has come to stay The water's quite frozen at this park we have chosen Along its paths you may while time away
Just noodling. It's obviously at Crosby, but I haven't seen anything yet that gives me a place to start diggin'. I'll be doing some scoping out on Saturday afternoon.
In jail!?! What kind of miscreant do you think I am??
I've been noodling all on my lonesome this year. I was going to go to Crosby yesterday afternoon, but I was so hungover from a night of drinking at Gastof's that I couldn't even get off my couch.
"We have a saying in my family: 'If it's not posted illegal, doesn't offend the Almighty, and helps you to live a decent life, give it a try.'" - Peter Poole
Some day, a giant beer-making company is going to launch an ad campaign that says: "New! Beer that doesn't taste like beer!" Or: "Beer for those who don't really like beer!"
You might say that Anheuser-Busch, America's leading brewer, already has - just not in so many words.
The company's two newest products are aimed at those who don't want a full dose of malt and hop flavor.
Budweiser Select is billed as a "new kind of beer" that has "a crisp taste with no aftertaste."
If you're familiar with Budweiser, you'll find the Select has a deeper golden color than regular Bud, though that doesn't give it more flavor. It's got the same aroma profile as Bud.
The key difference between Bud and Select is the absence of any kind of hop bitterness or dryness in the finish - Select finishes on the sweet side.
The other new product strays even further from tradition. It's B-to-the-E (or the letter "B" with a small "E" attached like a mathematical exponent). It contains caffeine, guarana and ginseng and has aroma and flavor hints of blackberry, cherry and raspberry for what A-B calls a "sweet and tart taste."
Think Bud meets Red Bull, with Kool-Aid added.
This beer is distributed in four-packs of 10-ounce cans, and the price is slightly higher than for most Anheuser-Busch products.
Anheuser-Busch, whose operations include a brewery in Lysander, already makes roughly half the beer consumed in the United States. The company obviously knows what it's doing.
And what it's doing now is trying to sell beer to those who don't like it. This comes after several years in which the brewing industry launched various "malternatives" or "alcopops," such as Smirnoff Ice, Bacardi Silver, or A-B's entry, Mike's Hard Lemonade.
I was a Bud drinker for many of my earlier years. It took only one Miller to show me the way. And ever since then it's been nothing but dark or ice beers. Regular American beer sucks!
We went for a drive last Friday and decided to stop in Belle Plain for a drink at the local bar. They only had beer. And after much deliberation with the wife over how that was part of our 'adventure', she decided to have a glass. Well while the bartender was pouring it the wife asks if it's 3.2. It was and we left immediately. ;-)  So much for my compromise.  Let that be a lesson for you people driving out West of the cities.
Bud was never beer, so it's reputation was safe
Ha - Kinda like McDonald's orange drink flavored beverage is to pop? (although I at least can stand that stuff)
[Edited 3 times. Most recently by on Mar 28, 2005 at 11:00am.]
I guess there's only one. It was on the main street. The other one that did apparently serve alcohol was the bowling ally  But we never found that one.
It might have been the next town down the road too. I gotta look it up to see.
Oh, Gotcha. You turn by those stables or something on the corner there? I told her there was a river down there with all the hills. She didn't think so.
I turn right after the farm implement dealership, right before the Amoco (now a BP). Go down about 2 blocks and take a right onto 25. The river is less than a mile away.
I read that in the Sunday paper with a bit of sadness.
We had a big wing-ding here for the BIL tonight. I would guess 70 or so folks all told. Major chaos, at least from a hosting perspective. We drank very little of the beer I purchased (the royal we, I drank plenty). Anybunny want to help finish a keg while watching the Vikes get spanked on Sunday?
Special thanks to Sparky and Mrs. Sparky for bartending and enduring inane conversation from me, the wife, and all our relatives.
Our pleasure, dude! :)Â
Sorry I wasn't able to come help you with that keg.Â
After you and I talked on the phone I checked the keg. It's stuck in the garbage can right now, so getting a true estimate of how much is left is difficult with the added can and ice weight. But I think we did a much better job on it than I initially thought.
Frosti, has the medallion hunt started yet?
We're on clue #2. So as usual, I have no idea where it is. ;-)
Clue #1
The old curmudgeon was in high dudgeon
When a critter ran off with the loot
But this year to be credible, we've made it inedible
And stuck it in a park — so scoot!
Clue #2
Snow we have missed much, this not very White Christmas
But the ice has come to stay
The water's quite frozen at this park we have chosen
Along its paths you may while time away
Frosti >>>ya diggin?
Just noodling. It's obviously at Crosby, but I haven't seen anything yet that gives me a place to start diggin'. I'll be doing some scoping out on Saturday afternoon.
MIGHT BE THE SMARTEST THING... oops..caps lock on ...sorry...
I am smarter than the average bear...
where's frosti??
people are looking for you....
RandyRust -
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- 01:41pm Jan 31, 2005 PST
I ROCK BABY!
where the hell is frosti?
running chick up and leave you with the kids bro?? eagan "aint" that far to drive from yo
he is in jail or has a big ass black eye he dont want us to see- i miss my lover!
In jail!?! What kind of miscreant do you think I am??
I've been noodling all on my lonesome this year. I was going to go to Crosby yesterday afternoon, but I was so hungover from a night of drinking at Gastof's that I couldn't even get off my couch.
Frosti's alive!!! frosti...come on over and say hi in the cooler....its where you store your beeer...
do you remmember the way???
I'll see...
have a black eye or a mistress?? telling RC you are out hunting eh?? then going to shoplift some p00n somewhere else?
Hey, that's a good idea! ;-)
When's the next event at the PP?
no clue what exactly tho-
Perhaps I'll have to make an appearance...
back to normal life...beer....
That's a drag. I was actually planning on heading to the PP last night. But, a good hunt all in all so no complaints.
Jimmy Page Meets The Queen
From: SKY.COM03.01.05
The Queen has met four of Britain's guitar greats - Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and Brian May - at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty asked the four: "And what do you do?"
The four rockers were among 500 celebrities invited to a reception at Buckingham Palace to honour the British music industry.
Queen's Brian May reminded Her Majesty that he played the National Anthem on the roof of the Palace to start the 2002 Golden Jubilee rock concert.
"Oh! That was you was it?" the Queen exclaimed.
Moving on to Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, the Queen inquired: "Are you a guitarist too?"
Your majesty, may I introduce Queen?
Queen. Queen.Â
King. Queen.
God. Queen.
Deity. Queen.
<in the style of Chase/Akroyd in "Spies like us" doing the "Doctor." "Doctor". thing>
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SCHMIDT'S CITY CLUB UNOPENED
---WOW
City Club is rare in itself
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doesn't suprise me...who would drink that??
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A cereal beverage. That means I can drink beer in the morning, right?
Remember when I said the "B to the E" beers and how I thought it was a dumb idea....well guess what....
Â
I'm an addict!!!
its like a redbull....I've had about 10 of them this week.
What's it taste like?
<shudders> Who cares? Yeesh.
curiosity killed the Kitch.
Where's your sense of adventure?
Imagine redbull with bud...half and half....tastes kinda like that...but for some reason after the first sip ...it tastes good....
It's Soma! run! :)
Â
To quote:Â "My sense of adventure is right behind my sense of self-preservation"
Ug. Sounds nasty, man.
"We have a saying in my family: 'If it's not posted illegal, doesn't offend the Almighty, and helps you to live a decent life, give it a try.'"
- Peter Poole
Define "offend the Almighty." ;-)
Some day, a giant beer-making company is going to launch an ad campaign that says: "New! Beer that doesn't taste like beer!" Or: "Beer for those who don't really like beer!"
You might say that Anheuser-Busch, America's leading brewer, already has - just not in so many words.
The company's two newest products are aimed at those who don't want a full dose of malt and hop flavor.
Budweiser Select is billed as a "new kind of beer" that has "a crisp taste with no aftertaste."
If you're familiar with Budweiser, you'll find the Select has a deeper golden color than regular Bud, though that doesn't give it more flavor. It's got the same aroma profile as Bud.
The key difference between Bud and Select is the absence of any kind of hop bitterness or dryness in the finish - Select finishes on the sweet side.
The other new product strays even further from tradition. It's B-to-the-E (or the letter "B" with a small "E" attached like a mathematical exponent). It contains caffeine, guarana and ginseng and has aroma and flavor hints of blackberry, cherry and raspberry for what A-B calls a "sweet and tart taste."
Think Bud meets Red Bull, with Kool-Aid added.
This beer is distributed in four-packs of 10-ounce cans, and the price is slightly higher than for most Anheuser-Busch products.
Anheuser-Busch, whose operations include a brewery in Lysander, already makes roughly half the beer consumed in the United States. The company obviously knows what it's doing.
And what it's doing now is trying to sell beer to those who don't like it. This comes after several years in which the brewing industry launched various "malternatives" or "alcopops," such as Smirnoff Ice, Bacardi Silver, or A-B's entry, Mike's Hard Lemonade.
I knew that the "select" was something I didn't wanna try!!!
Let me get this straight...tastes like water??
Even before I learned that there was good beer out there, I never liked Bud. This confirms it.
I was a Bud drinker for many of my earlier years. It took only one Miller to show me the way. And ever since then it's been nothing but dark or ice beers. Regular American beer sucks!
If you don't like beer, drink something else, is my opinion. Bud was never beer, so it's reputation was safe.
We went for a drive last Friday and decided to stop in Belle Plain for a drink at the local bar. They only had beer. And after much deliberation with the wife over how that was part of our 'adventure', she decided to have a glass. Well while the bartender was pouring it the wife asks if it's 3.2. It was and we left immediately. ;-)  So much for my compromise.  Let that be a lesson for you people driving out West of the cities.
Bud was never beer, so it's reputation was safe
Ha - Kinda like McDonald's orange drink flavored beverage is to pop? (although I at least can stand that stuff)
[Edited 3 times. Most recently by on Mar 28, 2005 at 11:00am.]
I go through Belle Plaine all the time! Which bar did you go to?
I guess there's only one. It was on the main street. The other one that did apparently serve alcohol was the bowling ally  But we never found that one.
It might have been the next town down the road too. I gotta look it up to see.
[Edited by on Mar 28, 2005 at 11:12am.]
I usually exit at the first exit by Amoco, which takes you through the residential part.
Oh, you must go to the left (east) up the hill by the big church? Very pretty area right there. Otherwise it's pretty flat that whole way.
Joe Beer
[Edited by on Mar 28, 2005 at 11:56am.]
No, I head west on 25 toward Green Isle. It crosses the Minnesota River, which is sort of pretty, but after that it's all flat cropland.
Oh, Gotcha. You turn by those stables or something on the corner there? I told her there was a river down there with all the hills. She didn't think so.
[Edited by on Mar 28, 2005 at 12:15pm.]
I turn right after the farm implement dealership, right before the Amoco (now a BP). Go down about 2 blocks and take a right onto 25. The river is less than a mile away.