Boris,
I would believe every story. I have a LONG history with the state of Misery.
Mixed in are many happy memories, though... mostly from childhood. My mother's
foster parents lived in Flat River, south of St. Lou. I spent many happy
vacation days there. And the time I saw Bob Gipson, in his second year in the
majors, pitch against Warren Spahn. Gipson won, 7-1. Of course, Stan the Man
was on the field, too, along with Smokey Joe Cunningham, Don Blasingame, Curt
Flood and other Cardinal luminaries.
And the craft fair at the Arch is normally wonderful. It is in August, as I
recall, a helluva time to be outside in St. Louis. A good time for Budweiser
iced down; you can drink a fair bit without feeling ill effects.
There are also some rather hilarious, backwoods Missouri stories, too, but they
are too long to recount here.
But for really good yellow beer, Creemore Springs from Creemore, Ontario would
be at the top of the list. And Sleeman's Silvercreek Lager is a crisp,
refreshing drink, too.
Earl
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On 11/4/2003 at 6:18 PM Boris Grigorov wrote:
>OK Peoples,
>You are wrong about the "yellow" beers in general...
>Chris, I stock up Grolsh too, along with Beck's, St Poly Girl and Urquell
>Pilsner, but by no means I think they are beers to savour...but if you
>lived here for an extended period of time, you would have thought they are
>taken directly from the heavens and brought to the Earth for your
>enjoyment. I really miss Zagorka, a Bulgarian beer from the late 1800's
>that has more medals from international fairs than the American Olympic
>Team. I really hope that in the past 12 years I have not been there they
>did not take the American model as they did in a lot of other aspects and
>this is why are at the point where they are now.
>What makes the king of beers unique? I would try to explain it, but it is
>difficult and you know about my difficulties with English, so beer with
>me...
>It is in the taste, the American beers taste like sparkling (forget about
>the watered down stuff now) water when you drink it and the beer taste as
>we know it is just an aftertaste. That is usually in the form of bad film
>in your mouth that is left after you already swallowed it. Samuel Adams
>is one of the worst offenders as I consider it even worse than Bud Light
>which is the worst beer ever, even worse than eating KK's...
>In the 90's the microbreweries here got extremely popular, except for the
>fact that they produced beer that tastes like sparkling water and leaves
>somewhat better film in your mouth as an aftertaste, still pretty useless.
> Their beers were "heavier", in the sense they left a heavier film,
>that's all...they still tasted like plain sparkling water, but since the
>film was heavier, it gave the illusion that you drink the real thing
>I give a credit to Budweiser for not doing exactly that. You have the
>taste while you drink and no bad film in your mouth afterwards.
>Chris, I still think that you should try more "yellow" beers, but were
>right that it is not anything that you would drink when the temperature is
>less than 28C. Still, if you find the regular strenght not over the
>counter stuff...:) I think you might like it.
>I call the "yellow" beers food beers, we drink the stuff you are
>accustomed in the bar (or pub), but some of them are so good that you can
>drink them when you go to the bar.
>Earl,
>I can tell you numerous stories like that, they even put ice in their
>wine...State of Mizery was too much of a cultural shock for me and as you
>probably know by now I just do not like it. I do not have any idea how my
>wife grew up in this environment...and turn out to be what she is.
>Ciao
>Boris
>
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