Your Favorite Style of Beer

[Prezbucky]

Well, what's your favorite type of liquid bread?

I like the ale family best: ales, porters and stouts.

I don't see a way to add a poll but this is an iPhone and I probably just can't see all there is to offer.

Were I to add a poll to this thread it would include the following options:

A) Pilsners
B) Lagers
C) Bocks
D) Ales
E) Porters
F) Stouts
G) They all get me wasted so I could care less!

hehe

I took Botany 101 (called "Plants and Man") as an undergrad at Wisconsin. Our professor was an Englishman. Aside from the exams we had another major variable in our final grade for the course -- a project. There were three options:

1) Write a computer program dealing with plants and show it to the prof and TAs (teaching assistants -- this was a big class).

2) Serve the prof/TAs a homemade plant-based dinner

3) Brew beer and donate enough bottles for the prof/TAs to enjoy.

I chose the last option.

I walked about two miles from my dorm to the Wine & Hop Shop on State Street. I spent probably $75 on the mixes, bottles, five-gallon glass jar (for lack of a better term), rubber stoppers and rubber tubes. After completing the purchase -- equivalent to two weeks' worth of beer/pizza/woman money (the woman settled mostly for beer and pizza, thank God...) -- I (singular -- I swear) carried all of it back to my dorm room. After I set the stuff down my arms shook for, oh, an hour or more. I'll never forget that: to carry that stuff I had to extend my arms as far south of my waistline as I could. Even then the top of my booty extended above my head and got heavier, and heavier, and heavier the longer/farther I walked. That was my personal Bataan Death March. And State Street and campus are filled with people... thinking of it again, 12 years later, I can't imagine how I carried that crap all the way back to the dorm without knocking someone over or being knocked over myself.

So I and my two best pals made the porter and pale ale -- about 60 bottles of both.

The pale ale was really pretty good.

The porter was also good once you recovered from the explosion caused by opening the bottle. I still LOL at the memory of offering my friend Jahnke (his last name) the first bottle of porter. I believe he said "Aahhrg" or something like that and then grabbed a paper towel.

I got an A on the project (not bad considering the prof was English and I brought him ale, which he surely knew well) and an AB (B+/A-) in the class -- the exams were multiple choice but the choices were A through L, so if you didn't know it you were f'd.

Since then I have sided with the ales. I enjoy blowing $9 on a six-pack of Stella, Grolsch or Warsteiner, sure... but if I'm coughing up that much I'm prolly reaching for the Bass, Newcastle, Murphy's or Guinness instead.

They are smoother, darker (on average) and richer... generally speaking.
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