Mr_Turtlehead
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I'm with ya on the clove thing Forsythian. Seems like most Belgians have this and from what I've read, it actually is a flavor that comes from the yeast. If I suspect that a brew I wanna try might have this, I'll go to beeradvocate.com and read a review on it. If anyone mentions clove, I pass on it fo sho.
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Forsythian
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Boulevard Smokestack Double Wide IPA
Hit the little wine shop next to the Branson Kmart today, and lo! there was some Schafley dry hop APA... I grabbed their entire whopping stock of 3 sixers, along with some New Belgian 1554 and Goose Island red ale.
While there, we had a little hops session trying out a new shipment of Boulevard Smokestack Double Wide IPA. (It's twister-proof!) Good sales tactic, two glasses later I added a 750 ml bottle of the hop bomb to the shopping cart.
mmmmmmmmm that stuff has an over-the-top bodaciousness that is a Mariah Carey, Salma Hayek & Vida Guerra 3-way. Can you have too much of a good thing? Is it possible? You only have two hands, you only have so many taste buds. The Schafley tastes like a (good) lager after the double-wide.
But, big curves come at a big price... friggin' $7.50 per bottle is a penny a mL... so hopefully tomorrow my taste buds will have forgot those high society trappings and my fridge full of girl next door will satisfy.
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Mr_Turtlehead
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Great write up Forsythian 
We musta been thinkin along the same hop-lines this weekend as I picked up three new brews...one of them being the Boulevard Double Wide IPA. I haven't tried her, but seein as I'm a big fan of 3-ways, I'm really lookin forward to it!
I did try Southern Tier's Big Red ale. It comes in a 650 ml bottle with a red tractor on it. Very similar to Rogue's Dead Guy ale and at 9.5% gets ya there in a hurry. Although, like the Boulevard, $6.50 a bottle sucks. Also Picked up a sixer of Schlafley's Export IPA. It's a seasonal brew which really rocks! Similar to the dry hopped APA, but with a chitload more malt to really balance things out. The malt also bumps this bad boy up to 8% ABV but you don't notice it until it's too late. Hopefully by then you've already made your calls to Vida, Mariah and Salma! I think it was $7 for the sixer.
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Paul Dallas
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Finished up the Pauls Pine Sol APA a few days ago, so I headed up to Lukas and under orders from the Mrs to get something she likes as well, got me a 1/6th barrel of Sam Adams Summer Ale. Didn't notice it was a wheat beer until I got home and went to hook it up, but its not bad at all. Pours clear/golden and doesn't have that banana/clove spice that most wheat beers do. I like it, and its a nice change of pace from all the hops that was wreckin my plumbing.
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Forsythian
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Just got back from a work trip to Cancun.
That's right, a work trip to Cancun 
I enjoyed many a bucket of Dos Equis by the pool/beach, and then Dos Equis Amber and Negra Modello in the evenings.
(followed by a generous slathering of aloe lotion)
Their beer isn't the best, but it's cheaper than soda and bottled water 
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Paul Dallas
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Shut up.
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Forsythian
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Listen here Tito... yer the one with the home brew kit and the kegerator... it's about time the Forsythian laid claim to some oneupsmanship.
let's float dude.
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Ozark
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Good for you, Forsythian. Any time you can pull off a trip like that and call it "work" - go for it.
Under "little-known facts and who cares" - I think it's kinda fun how the Messicans learned to brew beer.
Several years prior to WWI, around 1914 or so, the Messicans were secret buddies with the Germans. The war was just starting and the Krauts figured the U.S. would get into it, so they made some plans in advance. A note called the Zimmerman Letter was finally intercepted and made public, in which Kaiser Wilhelm promised Mexico the southwestern states back in return for invading the U.S. when war came. They kinda backed off on that deal after the note got published.
Anyway, in those years Germany built up Mexico's factories including designing and building a bunch of breweries. German brewmasters came over to teach the Messicans to run 'em, so they learned to brew beer German style. Those recipes and brewing methods still linger in beers like Dos Equis Amber, Pacifico, Bohemia, and others. Interesting, I think.
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Paul Dallas
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Just went floatin a couple weeks ago. Took the wife and kids and couple other yayhoos and their crumb-snatchers down the Buffalo. Had a grand ole time. If'n you look closely, you can see some of the kiddos playing near a certain pressurized contraption that you mention . . .
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Edited by Paul Dallas (05/20/08 03:24 PM)
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HAUS
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paul can make beer and write some nice posts, but he can't post pics for chit... 
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Mr_Turtlehead
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Looks to me like that one in the middle is takin' after the old man 
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Scout 1
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Did you take that photo with a Mattel camera??
Or an Underwater camera maybe???
Edited by Scout 1 (05/20/08 06:20 PM)
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Paul Dallas
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[image]http://www.cafeoutdoors.com/ubb/member_photos/showphoto.php?photo=2895[/image]
Maybe the camera had been drinking too? Fix this for me Haus. Big Bluff on the Buffalo. Paul Dallas, Jr. caught a nice smallmouth just downstream from here. A trio of drunk, kayaking lesbians (one was hot) even seemed impressed.
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HAUS
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I think there is something wrong with the way you are uploading them to dab's site. Can barely see your boy.
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Forsythian
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where's the pic of the hot kayaking lesbian?
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HAUS
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she's prolly still walking the streets of Eureka Spgs with a pube or two in her teeth
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Ozark
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But - she said the sexiest words a woman can say to a man:
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"Hi, sailor. Are ya far from home?"
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HAUS
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Let's see if I can hook ol Paul up here.
Great pics man!! 
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Paul Dallas
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No pics of the hot lesbian. She looked like she could benchpress my canoe with me and my boy in it, but she had curves in all the right places and she wore a ratty old cowboy hat that looked like it had been through a hundred cattle drives and a Roy Orbison t-shirt that failed miserably to hide certain protrusions. I had to look twice, then a third time before she caught me. Even her smile was 90% unfriendly. She's not the type of wheel you fall asleep at, or snap pictures of.
Edited by Paul Dallas (05/22/08 10:08 AM)
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Forsythian
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You've painted a sufficiently-vivid picture Mr. Dallas.
Reminds me of the women on the American Gladiators show.
As I watch those muscle-bound behemoths, there is a collision between my visceral attraction and my sentient horror of my visceral attraction...
or something like that
anyways, nice pics. we hope to hit the Northfork mebbe one day this weekend.
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Ozark
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I've pizzed off so many women in my life, I'm uncomfortable around ones that could whip me in a fight.
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Deepfried duck and skunk loins.
Edited by 300mag (05/27/08 09:19 AM)
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Forsythian
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beer me
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I have grown fond of Goose Island IPA....it now holds a spot in "the fridge".
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Mr_Turtlehead
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That goose island is a staple here too griffin. And it's distributed by AB! Tried the Boulevard Double-wide IPA over the weekend. Holy chit, that is quite possibly one of the best beers I've ever had. Good call Forsythian!
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