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By nathan (Fri Oct 10, 2003 at 01:51:35 PM EST) (all tags)

Hi folks,

I am buying some beer today. Any recommendations?

I enjoy quite bitter beers, but my wife prefers stuff with less bite (her favourite is Dos Equis amber.) As for me, I'll drink all kinds of stuff, from fruity lambic to german liqui-bread.

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I suggest a variety pack from your local by georgeha (5.00 / 1) #1 Fri Oct 10, 2003 at 01:57:28 PM EST

microbrewery. I don't know where you live, but in Rochester I can get Saranac, Sam Adams and Ithaca variety packs.

as a matter of fact by nathan (3.00 / 0) #2 Fri Oct 10, 2003 at 02:05:10 PM EST

I live in Rochester too!

I've had good luck with Saranac, so maybe I'll try Ithaca?

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Saranac? Ithica? by BadDoggie (5.00 / 1) #4 Fri Oct 10, 2003 at 02:31:19 PM EST

Try Brooklyn if you can get it. They have one of the best Pils beers in the states, and their "Weisse" is damned good, even if their grammar ain't.

Yes, I'm in Germany and I do actually miss some American beers. But Dos Equis??! <boggle>

woof.

"Non videri sed esse." — Tycho Brahe
"Not to be seen but to be."
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: Dos Equis... by nathan (3.00 / 0) #6 Fri Oct 10, 2003 at 02:44:30 PM EST

My wife isn't a big drinker. I'm looking for a compromise we can both live with, and so far, this is the best one.
I guess I could just buy two cases, but to be honest I'm drinking more wine these days myself. Hence the diary about the pedestrian act of buying beer.

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Southtown and Beers of the World by georgeha (5.00 / 1) #10 Fri Oct 10, 2003 at 03:11:13 PM EST

would be your best bet for Ithaca Variety packs.

I noticed that Weggies now has some Southern Tier, I almost picked up their mild, until I saw that Saranac had HefeWeizen on sale.

Whereabouts in Rochester do you live, i'm near Cobbs Hill.

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: we talked once on k5 by nathan (4.00 / 1) #11 Fri Oct 10, 2003 at 03:26:19 PM EST

:)
West end of East Avenue. I think you're fairly close to me as we shop at the same Wegmans.

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Aw, nathan by spacejack (6.00 / 1) #14 Fri Oct 10, 2003 at 04:19:49 PM EST

You've abandoned Toronto? :)

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wow, you remembered? by nathan (3.00 / 0) #16 Fri Oct 10, 2003 at 07:30:14 PM EST

I love the city Toronto, but not sooo much its university.

How are you doing? And yes, it's the same nathan (and, fyi, I also played quite a lot of basteroids when I was in TOronto.)

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sure by spacejack (6.00 / 1) #23 Sat Oct 11, 2003 at 10:37:51 AM EST

I always found your comments interesting.

I can understand not liking U of T... most people I know thought it was a big student factory and found it very impersonal.

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that's my take on it by nathan (3.00 / 0) #24 Sat Oct 11, 2003 at 10:49:00 AM EST

The education isn't even really all that good.

I'm starting to feel as though I'll never be happy in public universities. More than anything else, it's the bureaucratic inefficiency. (For instance, while I was working as a TA, I was without a contract for two months, meaning I didn't get paid for three months, meaning that I ate a lot of ramen and lost twenty pounds.) I can't recommend private universities in all cases, but although I'm borrowing money again to live in the USA, I'm getting 10x as much out of my education.

How about you? I just checked out the new website today - looks neat, and I like the new game.

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: similar experience by spacejack (6.00 / 1) #26 Sat Oct 11, 2003 at 12:30:17 PM EST

Right after high school I originally went to Waterloo for math/CS, and even though I was in the co-op program which was good, I found the university experience itself was incredibly impersonal without much of a place for my interests or developing my skills. I also got kinda screwed by beaurocratic rules for a couple of co-op jobs, and found I could get more interesting work on my own (granted I was lucky to be a computer geek back then).
Now, I had always debated with myself whether or not I should go to school for a technical (math/cs) education and stick to art on my own time or vice versa. But I was having such a poor time at Waterloo I decided to give the reverse a shot. As a result, I wound up at the Ontario College of Art which was the exact opposite -- rather than being a big university in a small town, I was at a small college in a big city with a lot of freedom to choose my own program (I'm originally from Toronto so that helped too).
But it was fundamentally different in that you pretty much taught yourself; the instructors were often a great resource but I learned just as much or more from the other students. And to this day, I still socialize and work with many of them. The workload was a lot easier than a university, so that gave me the time to work throughout the year and gain contacts & experience. I guess I was more cut out for the kind of place where your career and direction are up to you.
Anyway, I've done a lot of different things, travelled a lot, lived (barely) off my painting for a year or so once, worked myself nearly to death at a couple of video game startups, and freelanced in a variety of multimedia. I've finally taken a full-time 'permanent' (the word still scares me to type :) job for the first time in my life, and despite butting heads with some of those from the corporate environment, I must say it's not bad having a more or less stable lifestyle for once. I'll see how it goes :)

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Sure. by mrgoat (5.00 / 2) #3 Fri Oct 10, 2003 at 02:12:38 PM EST

Arrogant Bastard Ale.

Years pass, things change, you end up living in Kansas. But the bag of dicks never leaves your side... - blixco
--top hat--

good stuff (nt) by ucblockhead (5.00 / 1) #8 Fri Oct 10, 2003 at 02:58:46 PM EST

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: Their smoked porter is also quite good. /nt by mrgoat (5.00 / 1) #9 Fri Oct 10, 2003 at 03:00:36 PM EST

Years pass, things change, you end up living in Kansas. But the bag of dicks never leaves your side... - blixco
--top hat--
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Chimay by lb008d (5.00 / 1) #5 Fri Oct 10, 2003 at 02:35:40 PM EST

Red and Blue labels are my favorites. I also recently started drinking New Belgium's 1554 and like it a lot. I also drink their Abbey Ale when I don't want to spend a ton of $$$ on Chimay :-)

_{I feel bad for our UKian brethren, stuck under an inefficient government ruled by an incompetent hereditary ruling class. I can't imagine what that's like, but it must surely suck - georgeha}

Make sure it's alcoholic (n/t) by Cloaked User (6.00 / 2) #7 Fri Oct 10, 2003 at 02:49:39 PM EST

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This is not a psychotic episode. It is a cleansing moment of clarity.

Beer. Beer! by Dr H0ffm4n (5.00 / 1) #12 Fri Oct 10, 2003 at 04:12:39 PM EST

We want more beer.

All the lads are cheerin',
Get the fuckin beers in.

Wanna swap lives? ~~Mine~~ My friend's just took a detour through Stoopidsville.

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Well, I feel like shit from a nagging cold by georgeha (5.00 / 1) #13 Fri Oct 10, 2003 at 04:15:07 PM EST

and have a screaming, shrieking, spoiled seven year old upstairs. What's your friends' downside again?

I think I need to have a pint or three.

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Wow by Cloaked User (5.00 / 2) #19 Sat Oct 11, 2003 at 08:10:40 AM EST

Your friend's live must really be going a bit odd if ~~you~~ he wants to swap with me - ~~you do~~ he does read my diaries, right?

Anyway, on the subject of beer, I foresee the consumption of a large amount of wine and alcopops tonight, together with good food and cheesecake, with a few hours dancing thrown in.

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This is not a psychotic episode. It is a cleansing moment of clarity.
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Bloody work by Cloaked User (5.00 / 2) #20 Sat Oct 11, 2003 at 08:30:37 AM EST

You have one busy week, one piddling little busy week, resulting in a single all-nighter, and suddenly BLAM! you've a stack of HuSi diaries to catch up on that you weren't even aware of.

Anyway, I am now cognisant of Dr X's little problem. Sounds like a right little situation, too - can't say I envy him that one.

Mind you, it's somewhat similar to one I was in 6 years ago or so. I was busily making the transitoin from one relationship to the next, as you do, and as sometimes happens there was a short period of, ah, shall we say overlap? I was determined that the previous one was over, though, and as it turned out so was she. (We didn't actually see each other during this period, so I had assumed that we were through - nothing had been said.)

My new gf and I had bought tickets to a concert, when it ocurred to me that my ex might well be there, so I warned NewGF. Well, it turned out that Ex was the exact same girl that NewGF had been telling me about, the one who had been a rival for teh attentions of a previous bf, resulting in much heartache and bad feeling all round...

We took the easy route out of that one, and just gave the concert a miss. It was soon after that that I got round to discussing matters with Ex, to find that we had both come to the same decision independently.

That's the simplified version, of course - at the time, both I and Ex were living with other exs, and neither of us were entirely disentangled from our respective exs (which was why she'd decided we were through...).

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This is not a psychotic episode. It is a cleansing moment of clarity.
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: Ha! That would be too easy by Dr H0ffm4n (5.00 / 1) #28 Mon Oct 13, 2003 at 01:54:11 AM EST

Dr X never does the simple thing. The mistake that Dr X made on Friday night was not a dalliance with the ex mentioned in the previous diary.
As a point of information, that ex is ex from 15 years ago.
I shall consider diarising the weekend's happenings when I've worked out a slant that does not cast meDr X in a completely unfavourable light.

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I like by ad hoc (5.00 / 1) #15 Fri Oct 10, 2003 at 05:33:56 PM EST

Smuttynose
Wachusett
Flying Dog
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The three things that make a diamond also make a waffle.

: I second Flying Dog [n/t] by celeriac (5.00 / 1) #17 Fri Oct 10, 2003 at 07:34:27 PM EST

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Unibroue by Anonymous Pancake (5.50 / 2) #18 Fri Oct 10, 2003 at 11:16:24 PM EST

Fin du Monde

Maudite

anything else by unibroue

I'm fond of Trois Pistoles. by Hide The Hamster (5.00 / 2) #21 Sat Oct 11, 2003 at 10:23:15 AM EST

Co-founder of the Hoosey Wine and Spirits Kabal
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: Excellent by spiralx (5.00 / 2) #25 Sat Oct 11, 2003 at 10:54:09 AM EST

I am in awe of your sig :D

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true by nathan (3.00 / 0) #22 Sat Oct 11, 2003 at 10:25:07 AM EST

My favourite but not available anymore I don't think :(

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Fullers 1845 by dmg (5.00 / 1) #27 Sat Oct 11, 2003 at 03:00:42 PM EST

Fuller's 1845 is very nice. As is their London Pride.

Duvel is also very good.
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Hard work is morally wrong.

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