The Beer Thread

to force myself to change.  i felt i was drinking too much and i wanted to make sure i am not an alcoholic.  it runs in my family.  i quit drinking all alcohol, period.

walkonby wrote:
to force myself to change.  i felt i was drinking too much and i wanted to make sure i am not an alcoholic.  it runs in my family.  i quit drinking all alcohol, period.

hm.. interesting… if its not too private how many weeks have you gone? and when you quit did you have any symptons of needing the alcohol or did you quit and it was like nothing…..

being too personal . . . is my speciality.  i am odd.  but you know that.  when i quit smoking pot, i just quit.  no problems, no qualms.  years and years of doing it, and i just quit.  because i felt it was time to "grow up."  i know this is not the norm, but i feel my mind is a steel trap of mind over matter.  what my mind wants, does not matter.  the same could be said with alcohol.  to be more honest,  i scared myself one day . . . no actually during two days.  my drinking, on a normal everyday intake became like something you see on an old television episode where the person is drinking everything in the house without being able to stop.  during those two days in question, i drank like someone with a problem.  i could not stop and i did not want to.  i remember driving to a store, twenty minutes from where i live, intoxicated, more than likely reeking of alcohol, to get more of that precious beer.  i did not care.  i wanted that escape.  i saw it.  i saw it happen from the first, second and third perspective and i was altered.  who was this person i could become.  i scared myself more than i have ever been.  that was three months ago.  i told myself that very next day, you will quit drinking . . . or you will kill yoursef.  plain and simple.  put a gun to your head and kill yourself.  i became a mission.  i became a cause.  i knew that it ran in my family, and i knew it wanted me next.  but i am a strong minded human who believes i can do anything i want to in this section of life we are given on the planet earth.  use it wisely i tell myself.  use it well.  i am very proud of myself that i did what i did, and am equally proud that i so easily admit such things on a forum to complete strangers.  i know that not all people can just do what i did, even if they do believe that they have a "problem" as well.  i do not miss it, and i do not judge others that drink, for i simply tell myself . . . remember those two days.   

walkonby wrote:
to force myself to change.  i felt i was drinking too much and i wanted to make sure i am not an alcoholic.  it runs in my family.  i quit drinking all alcohol, period.

very cool.  takes power to do that.  congrats.

Definitely congrats Walkie.. if you felt yourself losing control best to stop and reassert yourself..

it can be hard to stop drinking alltogether because there are all these things that become linked with alcohol: hanging out with friends at a bar, going to concerts, celebratory toasts, eating a good steak, buffalo wings, etc… and that's the good part… the bad part, I think Hemingway does a good job of depicting it in the Sun Also Rises, "getting tight" or just needing a drink…

my body actually craves cigs far far more intensely…

For me, being on a tighter budget and with two young kids, its becoming harder to justify drinking particularly with the rising cost of it…I'm a bit of a glutton so I'm never going to be splitting a beer with somebody a la James Fordish…I'm going to pound back a few and it adds up…I suppose one could argue that the problem then isn't the alcohol but a lack of money…noted.

whether i had a "real problem" or not is up for debate, but at this point i am enjoying the mental capacity it takes to drink water as my only liquid intake.  and yes, with the fact that pot and fancy pants beers are out of my life, i do save a lot of money. 

hugs . . . not drugs.

What are you doing with all the extra money?

walkonby wrote:
whether i had a "real problem" or not is up for debate, but at this point i am enjoying the mental capacity it takes to drink water as my only liquid intake.  and yes, with the fact that pot and fancy pants beers are out of my life, i do save a lot of money. 

hugs . . . not drugs.

trips, cars, jewels, hookers, making it rain, gold chains, gold bars, gold cars, gold hookers.

just kidding . . . paying off bills, and getting published, is expensive nowadays.

So what do you do when you go to an xmas party hosted by (wife's co-worker) someone who claims to be into beer and all they have on offer is a Magic Hat variety pack, some Sam Adams varieties, and some crappy German lager (Warsteiner). Does one drink the (superior) beer that one brought to the party, or is it rude not to drink the host's beer?

And how could someone claims to be into beer have such crap (and only crap) on offer?  The guy probably makes well into the six figures, so it's not like he has to be cheap, so that's not the reason for that selection. It's almost like you could walk into any decent beer store, and blindly grab four random six packs,  and come out with a better selection. It's almost like you'd have to purposely seek out the crap.

And yes, I was a graceful and gracious and polite and thankful guest (even though we had to eat only the food we brought because everyone else including the host brought meat dishes)…but i can bitch about the beer here, right?

the one thing that always pissed me off about beer . . . was people who think all those beers you just named are "craft beers."  i would always bring my own beer to said functions, or any function.  such a move serves two purposes:  a, you drink the beer you want to, and b, you can turn on other people to what real beer is.  dont be suprised if atleast one person thinks you are a fucking snob and thinks you are a stuck up rich cunt.  oh shit, i said cunt.

Definitely rude to insist on drinking what one brings… one should give the beer to the host and then if the host decides to share it one can drink it…

The beer one brings is a gift… maybe the host wants to enjoy it the next day? or save it?

The only way to get around this is to bring two offerings and then if one tactfully says "hey do you mind opening this as I'd like to check it out..have heard great things…"

That way the host will still have a beer offering to save… a gift

To just walk in there and be like "hey i dont' give a shit what you offer i am bringing this and expect to drink it now" is rather gauche

On the other hand we've probably all done it on ocassion..


at least that is the way I see it..

walkonby wrote:
being too personal . . . is my speciality.  i am odd.  but you know that.  when i quit smoking pot, i just quit.  no problems, no qualms.  years and years of doing it, and i just quit.  because i felt it was time to "grow up."  i know this is not the norm, but i feel my mind is a steel trap of mind over matter.  what my mind wants, does not matter.  the same could be said with alcohol.  to be more honest,  i scared myself one day . . . no actually during two days.  my drinking, on a normal everyday intake became like something you see on an old television episode where the person is drinking everything in the house without being able to stop.  during those two days in question, i drank like someone with a problem.  i could not stop and i did not want to.  i remember driving to a store, twenty minutes from where i live, intoxicated, more than likely reeking of alcohol, to get more of that precious beer.  i did not care.  i wanted that escape.  i saw it.  i saw it happen from the first, second and third perspective and i was altered.  who was this person i could become.  i scared myself more than i have ever been.  that was three months ago.  i told myself that very next day, you will quit drinking . . . or you will kill yoursef.  plain and simple.  put a gun to your head and kill yourself.  i became a mission.  i became a cause.  i knew that it ran in my family, and i knew it wanted me next.  but i am a strong minded human who believes i can do anything i want to in this section of life we are given on the planet earth.  use it wisely i tell myself.  use it well.  i am very proud of myself that i did what i did, and am equally proud that i so easily admit such things on a forum to complete strangers.  i know that not all people can just do what i did, even if they do believe that they have a "problem" as well.  i do not miss it, and i do not judge others that drink, for i simply tell myself . . . remember those two days.   

you rock man. good for you.

For the record, the host DID decide the share it. He said "Here, you can have some of what you you brought, or some of what I put out." And I did drink oneof his beers. (And none of the beer guests even brought beer.)

hutch wrote:
Definitely rude to insist on drinking what one brings… one should give the beer to the host and then if the host decides to share it one can drink it…

The beer one brings is a gift… maybe the host wants to enjoy it the next day? or save it?

The only way to get around this is to bring two offerings and then if one tactfully says "hey do you mind opening this as I'd like to check it out..have heard great things…"

That way the host will still have a beer offering to save… a gift

To just walk in there and be like "hey i dont' give a shit what you offer i am bringing this and expect to drink it now" is rather gauche

On the other hand we've probably all done it on ocassion..


at least that is the way I see it..

James wrote:
For the record, the host DID decide the share it. He said "Here, you can have some of what you you brought, or some of what I put out." And I did drink oneof his beers. (And none of the beer guests even brought beer.)

yeah i think a good host would offer…..

"beer guests"?

;D

I'm pretty sure we've debated this in the past on here, but bring enough so you don't feel like a weasel drinking what you brought. I'm hoping you brought more than 24 oz of beer to the party…

I attended a holiday party last night and brought:

Two Heady Toppers
Two OTWOA
Two Breakfast Stouts
Two Oracles
Two Bell's Stoudts
Two Boulevard Doulbe Wide IPA's
Two All Day IPAs
Two Fat Tires

We brought a mixed six pack (two Uinta Dubh, two Sierra Celebration, two Flying Dog the Truth)) and a bomber of 2012 Trader Joe's Vintage Ale. Definitely more than we intended on drinking in a three hour party. Maybe a dozen adults there and most were drinking a glass or two of red wine….nobody drank any of the beer we brought (except us).






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Yada wrote:
I'm pretty sure we've debated this in the past on here, but bring enough so you don't feel like a weasel drinking what you brought. I'm hoping you brought more than 24 oz of beer to the party…

I attended a holiday party last night and brought:

Two Heady Toppers
Two OTWOA
Two Breakfast Stouts
Two Oracles
Two Bell's Stoudts
Two Boulevard Doulbe Wide IPA's
Two All Day IPAs
Two Fat Tires

James wrote:
We brought a mixed six pack (two Uinta Dubh, two Sierra Celebration, two Flying Dog the Truth)) and a bomber of 2012 Trader Joe's Vintage Ale. Definitely more than we intended on drinking in a three hour party. Maybe a dozen adults there and most were drinking a glass or two of red wine….nobody drank any of the beer we brought (except us).

wow… nicely done.

James wrote:
So what do you do when you go to an xmas party hosted by (wife's co-worker) someone who claims to be into beer and all they have on offer is a Magic Hat variety pack, some Sam Adams varieties, and some crappy German lager (Warsteiner). Does one drink the (superior) beer that one brought to the party, or is it rude not to drink the host's beer?

to be devil's advocate for a second: MH & SA are craft bers.  it shows some appreciation of taste - at least he didn't offer you Bud Platinum as his "fancy beer."

i'd be disappointed by that selection too, and i'd question how "into beer" this person is.  however, some perspective is called for.  realize what 90% of the population is drinking.  Ford, you're part of the 1%.  getting stuck in that middle 9%… could be worse.

Point taken, sort of…

Except I would say…fiftysomething PHD scientist no doubt making well into the six figures holds a small Christmas party for about a dozen people including the company president…assuming he has no taste in beer, no way is he serving Bud Platinum…he's without a doubt serving Stella.  ;D

sweetcell wrote:

James wrote:
So what do you do when you go to an xmas party hosted by (wife's co-worker) someone who claims to be into beer and all they have on offer is a Magic Hat variety pack, some Sam Adams varieties, and some crappy German lager (Warsteiner). Does one drink the (superior) beer that one brought to the party, or is it rude not to drink the host's beer?

to be devil's advocate for a second: MH & SA are craft bers.  it shows some appreciation of taste - at least he didn't offer you Bud Platinum as his "fancy beer."

i'd be disappointed by that selection too, and i'd question how "into beer" this person is.  however, some perspective is called for.  realize what 90% of the population is drinking.  Ford, you're part of the 1%.  getting stuck in that middle 9%… could be worse.

in preparation for heading home for the holidays… my parents went out to treehouse brewing for the first time this weekend to score some growlers of sap and green. it's a christmas miracle.