The Alcohol Thread

[NonServiam]

Illinois must be a 6 point state then. As I can get booze at some gas stations and even the corner store has beers containing over 8%. But what I don't get is why you can buy higher test beers in a liquor store than in the grocery store. That is what your saying right?

Correct. Not to mention, that liquor stores are unable to carry the full strength versions of some of your leading brands, like Miller, Coors, Budweiser, etc...

Oklahoma law makers seem to think that selling regular beer, liquor, and wine in regular stores will increase the state's DUI's and fatality crashes.

However, it is sold in liquor stores, but is at room temperature, so I guess they think that will slow down the beer drinkers, but most liquor is drank at room temperature anyway. Not much logic behind this one.

Just another example of how fundamentalist xiantiy is holding this state back from evolving. Below is an article from findarticles.com:

"Oklahoma's 3.2 beer laws unlikely to change anytime soon

Clark Kindrick would rather make the 45-minute drive to Arkansas for beer than drink the "watery" low-point brew sold in Oklahoma.

Kindrick, who lives in Porum, also picks up a six-pack in Texas whenever he crosses the Red River for his manufacturing business.

"I stock up," he said. "It's a taste difference."

Kindrick is among the Oklahomans who find state laws about beer and antiquated, confusing and downright annoying. But in the heart of the Bible Belt, there isn't much of a movement to change them--at least not an outspoken one.

Most Recent"They're throwbacks to the first 50 years of Oklahoma's life as a state when we were under prohibition," Attorney General Drew Edmondson said. "I would assume that there is not a constituency for change and there is a constituency to keep things the way they are."

It's not just Oklahoma's faith-based roots that have kept prohibition-era laws on the books. Low-point beer distributors aren't interested in changing the laws because they would risk having to follow the more stringent ones imposed on liquor stores.

Oklahoma convenience and grocery stores cannot sell beer or wine coolers with more than 3.2 percent alcohol. Big-name domestic breweries, including Anheuser-Busch, Miller and Coors, brew lower-point beer for the Sooner State and five others. Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota and Utah also sell 3.2 beer.

Liquor stores in Oklahoma can sell beer with higher alcohol content, but they have more rules to follow. For one, they have to sell beer at room temperature. Also, liquor stores are allowed to be open only from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday."

[daruckis]

i drank 2 forties and 2 more beers last night. i feel like its a lot of beer for me. then i got up and rode my mini chopper to this awesome diner and got turkey avocado crepes for breakfast. it was awesome.

[Bigblue1]

I am on a mini=vacation (read bender) as we speak, Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we may die

[truthwolf1]

svedka

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

My town has their yearly fest called the FogFest. I didn't go for the fest this year just wanted to go to this bar that I like. They have good bloody marys and have some decent cigars and had the parking lot filled with tables and chairs adding a great vantage point for people watching. Plus I could stay there while my GF (BearPig) could do her Farts and craps (arts and crafts) research. Had 2 BM, one with a punch cigar, one with a R&J. Was doing Jaks Wintergreen Strong between. Had a shot of Jager and a few Guinness. Nice day LOL.

[RobsanX]

I had a few Leinenkugels Oktoberfest beers this evening...

[snusgetter]

Brewing beer by the light of the full moon

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Belgium experiments with mystical "full moon" beer

PERUWELZ, Belgium (Reuters) – Full moons are often associated with tides, insanity and creatures like werewolves, but it turns out they're also good for brewing beer.

In Peruwelz, a small, sleepy town in southern Belgium, a family-owned brewery has produced its first batch of specialist beer brewed by the light of a full autumnal moon.

It isn't so much a nod to mythology as a recognition of nature's impact on the science of brewing.

"We made several tests and noticed that the fermentation was more vigorous, more active," explained Roger Caulier, the owner of Brewery Caulier, which began in the 1930s when his grandfather started selling homemade beer from a handcart.

"The end product was completely different, stronger, with a taste lasting longer in the mouth," he said.

The full moon speeds up the fermentation process, shortening it to five days from seven, which adds extra punch to the beer without making it harsh, according to connoisseurs.

The finely balanced, gold-colored beer is 10 percent alcohol by volume, extremely strong by most European or U.S. standards but not uncommon in Belgium, where traditional monk-brewed beers frequently hit 10 or 12 percent.

"It goes down very well, no problem at all," said Joseph Francois, a journalist and beer expert who has tasted the brew.

Brewery Caulier, which uses methods dating from the 1840s and is well-known for its artisanal beers, plans to produce about 12,000 bottles of its full moon beer, called Paix-Dieu (Peace-God), which go on sale on October 31.

The idea came to Caulier after he visited a friend in Alsace, a winemaking region of eastern France, who told him about how he planned his entire production schedule according to the lunar calendar.

Caulier began experimenting and eventually came up with a nine-step process that includes using two types of hops and involves a two-week secondary fermentation process inside the bottle, not unlike the technique used to produce Champagne.

"It gives the product greater fame, a bit like for great vintage wines," he said.

"It could lead to collectors checking the differences between one vintage and another because there could very well be differences between every batch."

Being from a three-generation brewing family, Caulier is fascinated by the science behind the process. But he doesn't discount the mythical aspects of full moon beer either.

"Many farmers are convinced that the moon influences the quality of some of their products," he said.

"You can feel agitated on full moons, you have births, you get many myths around the full moon and I think there is some truth behind them."

Either way, he's hoping that Paix-Dieu proves a hit and is even in talks to distribute it in the U.S. and Japan.

A woman holds up a bottle of Paix-Dieu
beer in Brussels September 24, 2010.

This sounds like it might be worth a try...
Hope they don't wait too long to bring it stateside.

[WickedKitchen]

I think they'd have a hard time getting a 20 proof beer on the market here in the US. They'd have to call it malt liquor I think. I'd try it anyhow.

Speaking of beer...it's time for Oktoberfest. Well, not now (it's 8:51AM) but this week I'll be getting some. Beck's is my favorite w/ Sam Adams being a close second.

[tom502]

I bought some of these energy beers last weekend, called RIZE. Tasted like bad Mountain Dew, the 2nd one was better. Sparks seems like best one, orange Tilt was OK.

[MJ26]

I was looking Top beers at ratebeer but they don't sell any of those. I got to settle for the worse products.
Luckily theres couple well alternatives.

[snusgetter]

I think they'd have a hard time getting a 20 proof beer on the market here in the US. They'd have to call it malt liquor I think. I'd try it anyhow.

Speaking of beer...it's time for Oktoberfest. Well, not now (it's 8:51AM) but this week I'll be getting some. Beck's is my favorite w/ Sam Adams being a close second.

They can call it anything they want.

Gotta say, dem monks sher know howta make da gooood stuff!

[truthwolf1]

Finished a bottle off of Hornitos Tequila with wife and a couple of friends Saturday night. Two day hangover for most of us.

[NonServiam]

I bought some of these energy beers last weekend, called RIZE. Tasted like bad Mountain Dew, the 2nd one was better. Sparks seems like best one, orange Tilt was OK.

I never understood the concept behind energy beer. Kind of an oxy-moron. "Hey guys...let's get tore up and go checkout that 5k run!!!" lol

Of course, it's all about marketing. They're aiming for that gym rat who drinks a six pack of Monster Energy drink and hangs out at the GNC store all day trying to pick up chicks who are really "cut".

[snupy]

Whatcha drinkin'? Got any good stories? Are you drunk?

When I was young, I drank like a fish and tried very hard to never drink the same liquor twice in one night. I would be out for 14 hours imbibing in one evening, into the next morning. It usually went like this:

1 shot of Cuervo Gold with a Tangaray gin martini straight up, no twist, no olive, chaser.
Then a beer
Then a rum & coke
Then a beer
Then a long island iced tea
Then a beer
Then a melon ball

etc and so on.

Now that I am older, I really cant stand the after effects or hangover of alcohol.

However, I did drink an entire bottle of Veuve Cliquot champagne on New Year's Eve and had not so much as a light headache the next day. And that was the last time I took a drink.

[snusgetter]

When I was young, I drank like a fish and tried very hard to never drink the same liquor twice in one night. I would be out for 14 hours imbibing in one evening, into the next morning. It usually went like this:

1 shot of Cuervo Gold with a Tangaray gin martini straight up, no twist, no olive, chaser.
Then a beer
Then a rum & coke
Then a beer
Then a long island iced tea
Then a beer
Then a melon ball

etc and so on.

Now that I am older, I really cant stand the after effects or hangover of alcohol.

However, I did drink an entire bottle of Veuve Cliquot champagne on New Year's Eve and had not so much as a light headache the next day. And that was the last time I took a drink.

Can't say I blame you...
There's no sense in having a good drunk if there's nothing to remind you of it in the morning!!