Oktoberfest has started, what beer are you drinking?

Hi holmes,
Oktoberfest is the same during the week as on the weekends. It is actually better during the week as one has a chance of getting a seat in one of the big tents. It is basically two solid weeks of non-stop partying. Towards the end of next week I should be available and had planned on going with some colleagues. Let me know what your schedule is and see if we can arrange to meet.Salvator should be no problem...even though it is brewed for Lent, it is sold in bottles in most stores year round.

Buz here in the beer line, representative of Jesus, Lord and Savior who got up the best wine that likely ever has existed for the wedding feast (likely for some folks under 21) and who the religious Pharasees criticized, falsely accusing him of being a bibber impying abuse.My favorite is plain ole Coors light draft, but since I don't have time to drink in bars I buy a 12 quart size case outa the store cooler and keep it refrigerated. I get a deal by the case which gives me one free bottle. It lasts two or three weeks. I checked it out a few years ago and understand that Coors is/was one of the brewries who brew natural with no nitrites and is healthy. I believe they recently merged with Molsen/Molson (?) and hope they still go with the natural unpasteurised brew.I know some of my good brethren raise their eyebrows as soooo many Christians feel compelled to abstain. Unfortunately, many of my fellow Christians, many who are sickly and overweight consider it fine to consume all kinds of junk like ice cream, pop and chemical ladden stuff when in reality their bodies, the temples of the Holy Spirit would be more served with moderate, I SAY MODERATE comsumption of beer or wine on occasion to suds out the arteries and clean them up inside a bit. Somewhere in Psalms 104 where it mentions things God has provided, stating something like "and the wine to gladden the heart." Of course they didn't have beer technology that I'm aware of then, but beer is about half the potency of wine.The negatives of beer and wine are:1. Most wines are processed with unhealthy nitrites rather than the slower natural process. This destroys the natural enzymes, rendering the need to be very careful about using much of it. Much better to do up one's own naturally or pay the price for some naturally produced product.2. Beers have CO2 for fiz which tends to leach out minerals from the bones. I believe the benefit of a little beer over-rides this negative, but one should take natural mineral suppliments like calcium/magnesium, glucosamine with condroiten and such to help keep up the bone and joint health. Calcium should never be taken alone. It needs the mag to assimilate correctly.3. If one is not strong willed and careful enough to ALWAYS drink carefully and moderately, LEAVE IT ALONE. The same Bible that blesses it, warns time and again of the cursed effects of the abuse of alcohol.4. Too much is tough on the liver. (A little, good for kidney flush)Imo, we here in the West are alcohol stupid. Unlike many Europeans, too many of us only think in terms of teetotal or some stage of drunkenness. Our laws here in NY have youth fighting for our freedoms overseas, all the while having lost their freedom to have a healthy glass of beer with the evening meal. THAT'S SICKO, OPPRESSIVE AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL, imo. I Europe they teach kids to grow up using the stuff properly and healthfully where here we just say no, the devastating result being that the kids incriminate themselves, sneak it out, go on hog wild binges and end up dead, maimed for life, having lost their drivers liscences, unable to work or think straigh or in trouble rather than having the blessing of being educated from kids as to how it is to be used and not abused.Gotta run n no time for checking spelling, etc. Hopfully not too messy of a job, but couldn't resist putting in my 2cents worth. CHEERS, ME FRIENDS!! (Edited to clean up some on hurried messy job.)This message has been edited by buzsaw, 09-22-2004 08:21 PM

Boy, I'll agree with this. I haven't been drunk in 2 years, but I drink beer all the time. I just don't drink a whole lot at once, and who would want to? It makes you pee all night. (Plus I don't have any friends here in Columbia, so there's not really anyone to drink with.)But yeah. Clean livin', enjoying alcohol, that's the good life. You don't need God to tell you about healthy eating (which is not a dig, just an atheist's way of saying "yes, I agree.")

Ahh, wonderful time of year for beer drinkers.Around these parts (Boise, ID), Spaten Octoberfest is the most popular, especially in liter mugs. Quite a few northwest breweries put out bochs this time of year, and local brew pubs as well. My favorite local brew last year was a dunkelweiss put out by Table Rock. If only I was able to hit the gartens in Munich . . . Oh well, a dream is a dream.

Damn, am I jealous!
I can drive 85 miles and maybe, just maybe, find an Urquell. I'd KILL for an Orangeboom, as I haven't seen one since Amsterdam.Red Stripe, however, is pleasant and sort of available. Singha is very nice for hot-weather use, but unavailable. Guiness is my normal brew, though, but I'd switch to Murphy's stout in a heartbeat if I could get it here.I'm very jealous.....

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Damn, am I jealous!
I can drive 85 miles and maybe, just maybe, find an Urquell. I'd KILL for an Orangeboom, as I haven't seen one since Amsterdam.

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They sell PU at all of the local supermarkets around here. We may not have the giant metropolises or fine arts here in the backwoods of the NW, but we do have our beer. Heck, you can still find 5 or 6 barley wines at local co-ops. Tough luck Coragyps, my heart goes out to you.

Is it sort of like a porter, or a mild? If I see either of those on draught I never can resist . I quaffed rather a lot of a ruby red mild at my last university beer festival (mmmmmmmmmm!), but can't remember who brewed it Apart from that, one of my favorite tipples at the moment is Fullers Honeydew.

Cool, CF. Nice we can agree on something over a cool brew. Kinda like the armies stopped shootin for a bit on Christmas Eve for a carol in WWII.

I must admit that I pretty much dislike most beer as a beverage, but love to cook with it, especially beef stew or long-braised short ribs. Some mashed potatoes on the side and I am happy.I like the extremes; Guinness and other heavy stouts, and Belgian wheat beers.I am actually a very big fan of dry hard cider. Mammuthus, is there much of that in Germany?Mostly, I drink wine, usually red, and especially Pinot Noir, Cabernet, and Shiraz.

Lol, I suggest MrHambre and Dan Carroll, they're into that sort of thing.

Although many of the newer beers are really nice (talking about American Beers here) such as the offereings from Sam Adams, I still find some of the old standbys to be among my favorites. A few that I've enjoyed over the years are Anchor Steam beer and the porter, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and their stout.

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Not bad too, with some beer to fiz it up and a tad of Maple syrup or unsulfured blackstrap molasses stirred in well to taste.

Many Christians abstain from alcohol due to the possibility to influence weaker brethren who may sin by abuse. I respect that. However, Jesus seems to have not considered that to be a problem so far as drinking in his time, for it was so commonplace by most, likely including the apostles.

Why not? You're buying, right? I'll get the next round. Detente is a wonderful thing.

[Drink a 1 L glass of the stuff and even Brad McFall's posts will start to make sense]Mam, you are so close to the truth,it`s scary. I have it on good authority Brad sculls a litre of Salvator before typing.:-P