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Blake
| | Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 01:22 am: | 
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Buell666,
Ten-four on that. Was being a bit sarcastic in response to Kdan's post. Blake knows Shiner Bock, also Shiner Hefeweizen, and Bonde too. That wheat beer is surprisingly good.
Fish... Can't beat Walleye for good eating no bones decent sized freshwater fish. Musky are excellent too, but tough to come by. |
Tramp
| | Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 09:36 am: |
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I have to get walleye fishing ASAP.
We have a lake near me, on the NY/NJ Border, that NJ Stocked to the 9s with Musky, both regular and Tiger.
I have friends who fish it and routinely pull 20 pounders out. Size limit is 30" in NY.
JLB: near-impossible for me to maintain my pickerel face while reading that post.
my kind of thread: beer and fishing. |
Reepicheep
| | Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 12:03 pm: |
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I have a 55 gallon aquarium in the kids rooms with domestics, it's great fun. I currently have a bass, a crappie, a bluegill, a channel cat, and a sunfish. I had some crayfish, but the bass dispatched those pretty quickly. Lobster for dinner 
They are a blast. I have been researching different local indiginous species to try and figure out how to catch them to keep adding to the collection.
The largmouth bass is one mean SOB, and is growing like a weed. He has probably put on two inches in the last 4 months. I'll keep him through the winter, then try and "trade him in" on a smaller one next spring.
You should see what they do to feeder goldfish
One other thing is that with the catfish in particular, you will probably get a fungal infection in the tank. The medicines can manage it, and you can crank the temperature down to fight it, and it will probably be fine for the domestic fish. Your tropicals will be doomed though, so I would not recommend mixing and matching. Unless the tropicals are pretty big, they will just become lunch anyway... |
Tramp
| | Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 03:02 pm: |
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yeah- you can't mix and match.
I do good with tiny bullheads and tommycats in my tanks, good cleaners.
can't keep bass or pickerel in with anything else, and the feeder fish bring in some nasty fungi which happen to show up faster on the cats because of the cats' peculiar (smooth) scale structure.
Streams (esp. swift trout streams)are a great source of dace, darters, chubs, and freshwater sculpin.
Blind dip-netting in narrow spots (while scaring them outta cover) and minnow traps work wonders.
that's absolutley radical that you have a native fish tank.
unfortunately, my 20 gal. is gonna be in tomorrow's classifieds, as I need the $ more than I need the pleasure of a big tank- I have a 10 set up w/Z-girls' little snapping turtles.... |
Tcskeptic
| | Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 03:37 pm: |
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Chimay is outstanding (Blue, also called Grand Reserve is the best variety, but you will go broke trying to keep it in stock) and Shiner goes pretty well with pizza, but the Beer of Beers is now available in the US, Budweiser Budvar. Of course here is goes by the name Czechvar seeing as some cats in the US stole the Budweiser name and trademarked it some time ago. Best Lager Ever in my book. |
Tramp
| | Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 04:14 pm: |
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i agree.I was pleasantly shocked to see 'czechvar' at the beer distributor's two years ago, and instantly recognized the label, fontface, etc., to be that of my beloved budvar. That stuff knocked me off a 4 1/2 year wagon back in the 90s, in Praha.
A german brewmeister, back in the 19th ecntury, used the name budweiser, which is the teutonicized version of 'budvar', and had the presenc eof mind to trademark the name in the states, thereby depriving countless hundreds of thousands of yanks of the hopped ambrosia of bohemia.
stop by your beer distributor and grab a bottle of 'czechvar'...nectar of the ...er... ancient polytheistic deities....
i scored a six of staropramen for some czech friends here in NY, last week...that's a popular brew made right in prague.
I'm a gambrinus guy by and large, however, when i can drink.
like most beers, it's
best when used with old-school ambient-air euro taps, as opposed to the CO2 style.
most beers are better thattaway. |
Johnnylunchbox
| | Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 07:44 pm: |
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If I recall correctly, Budweiser can no longer be sold in Europe due to the EU International Trade Commission (or its equivalent) declaring that in Europe use of the Budweiser name by Anheuser Busch constitutes an intellectual property rights violation. |
Tramp
| | Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 09:47 pm: |
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cool.
our domestic stuff has nothing on the real deal Budweiser of Bohemia |
Kevyn
| | Posted on Friday, December 30, 2005 - 02:14 am: |
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...some say AB can't compete with European brews. Next time you're in town, stop for a brewery tour and taste what's cookin'...you may be surprised and pleased. If you can't get relief down on Pestalozzi Street, best head west to the Schlafly Tap Room or Bottle Works. Their wheat beer fresh from the tap is as good as any I've tasted anywhere at any fest.
Old buddy used to keep a female large mouth bass in an aquarium with a tube going to an adjacent aquarium. The tube was too small for the bass to get through. On the other side he kept native fish and such. On a whim, he put one of those south of the equator yellow and red 'toothy' fishes in with the smaller natives...after 'a while' there were just two fish left; one large bass and one large 'toothy' fish.
Regretfully, no one was present to witness the event but, somehow the equatorial fish wandered a bit too close to 'big mama' and met a timely demise... |
Buell666
| | Posted on Friday, December 30, 2005 - 03:07 am: |
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blake, dont mind kdan. hes awfully proud of anything canadian, and always rubs it in us americans faces. (he will not be offended by what i just wrote.) when i tried shiner bock i didnt really like it. i was used to cheap beers. budlight, coors light, miller light, you get the picture. im sure i would like it now if i tried it again,as my taste buds have realized what real beer really is. i did however try shiner Hefeweizen not too long ago, and loved it. i have always liked Hefeweizen beers but was skeptical to try the shiner brand. it was great. i might have to try shiner bock again to see if i love it now. i love beer. its the second best thing ever! and no, im not an alcoholic. |
CJXB
| | Posted on Friday, December 30, 2005 - 09:35 am: |
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was used to cheap beers. budlight, coors light, miller light,
Yep I like cheap beer, up here in the frozen tundra it's Milwaukee's Best.
Back in the day in nice warm sunny Arkansas it was drinking Bush beer sitting on the tailgate of our truck with friends parked on a gravel road under the Hwy bridge, good fun !!
We'd know to meet up after work by telling everyone to meet "under yunder" !! |
1313
| | Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 08:41 pm: |
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Ahhh, good old Czechoslovakian Budweiser... Below is the case that I imported from Germany, along with 7 other cases of European brew, a couple of years ago.
1313 |
Ceejay
| | Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 09:19 pm: |
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Shiner is good, good, good. They used to not sell it north of the mason-dixon but just recently my neigborhood grocer just started carrying it, but I thinks that the northern beers are best. Leinie's Northwoods being tops, now if I can find a bar that will pull it from the keg I might get a bar habit...Pretty cool hearing people put real fish in a tank... |
Tramp
| | Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 09:23 pm: |
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good beer and pet sportfish
the cornerstones of true america. |
Johnnylunchbox
| | Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 10:55 pm: |
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I'm partial to a nicely chilled Anchor Steam, from San Fran. It just tastes clean, and crisp, and sufficiently bitter. I despise any hint of sweetness in beer. Bitter is better.
There are also some nice breweries out of VT such as Magic Hat, Long Trail, Otter Creek and Trout River. Good stuff MMmmmmmmmmmm.
Trout River's Rainbow Red Ale is one of very few beers that are on the sweet side but don't offend my rabid anti-sweet beer sentiments.
I've got indigenous (to a degree I guess) hops growing here and there on my property. What a unique aroma the buds have. |
Tramp
| | Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 10:57 pm: |
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...on this side of the river, those unique-smelling buds are grown on other people's property....
so i've heard..... |
Davegess
| | Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 11:01 pm: |
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Budweiser, I beleive that Mr. Busch paid for the US rights, I don't think they ever thought they would be worth much |
Johnnylunchbox
| | Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 11:03 pm: |
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Tramp - LMAO...smoking those kind of buds would be very bad for my career.
I've always wanted to brew beer, and it would be fun to at least supplement the hops with some that I've harvested off of my property. |
Cochise
| | Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 11:28 pm: |
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smoking those kind of buds would be very bad for my career.
I can guarantee you one thing, I sure as hell wouldn't be wanting you grooming my Shih Tzu's hair after smokin' dem buds. |
Cochise
| | Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 11:30 pm: |
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my good buddy here in Arkansas, L48 Shark is part of a Home Brew Club. |
Tramp
| | Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 11:41 pm: |
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I've never brewed beer, always wanted to as well.
c'mon, JLB. Let's start a micro.
Headless Horseman Ale |
Jackbequick
| | Posted on Monday, January 02, 2006 - 12:22 am: |
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I started making beer about two years ago. Settled down to one favorite regular brew made with malt extracts, some grains for color and flavor, and whole leaf hops. A beautiful reddish colored brown ale, pretty hoppy flavor, and it was usually around 6% alcohol. It was lovely! The live yeast in home made beer is good for you, it cures hangovers as you drink it! A 5 gallon batch would give you two cases of 12 ounce longnecks, in the bottle in 7-10 days and ready to drink about two weeks later. So if I brewed once every 10-14 days I always had ready to drink beer on hand. I have got to get started up again!
It takes a little time but if you can get into a regular routine it is really an enjoyable pastime like cooking or gardening. Here is a great site for learning about the home brewing process. His book is perfect for newbies.
The home brewing evolution can get out of hand (although it did not happen to me). It starts when you get tired of washing bottles so you start kegging, then more buddies start dropping by because you're kegging, so you go to all grain brewing so you can produce larger batches and make beer cheaper, and the next thing you know nothing else is getting done around the house and you're a slave to the process. And the jerks that come around and suck up the good beer think they are balancing the books when they show up with a 12 pack of cheap beer that you consider to be undrinkable shite as a "gift".
Jack |
CJXB
| | Posted on Monday, January 02, 2006 - 11:54 am: |
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Shiner is good, good, good. They used to not sell it north of the mason-dixon
They do now I can get it in Milwaukee, have some in the fridge now !! My favorite is Brew City (Pittsburgh) in those really cool aluminum bottles !! |
Kevyn
| | Posted on Monday, January 02, 2006 - 01:25 pm: |
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All this talk about home-brew and micro brew's is just breakin' my heart...
One aspect of the European lifestyle that will be most welcome in America is a micro-brewery or two in every little village or burg along the road!!
The climate and soil conditions are so varied here in the midwest that harvesting locally grown ingredients for micro-brews will almost certainly guarantee a delicious beer with a unique personality! Add a brewers artisan-ship and viola!
One of the most enjoyable aspects of traveling is sampling beer from micro-breweries! Ya, some is better than others but it's all good! |
Road_thing
| | Posted on Monday, January 02, 2006 - 08:01 pm: |
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Perhaps I should mention that the Spoetzel Brewery in Shiner TX is about 70 miles from the ranchito?
It's be a short hop (get it? brewery? hop?) to run down to Shiner and take the tour if you were attending the Ride to the Ranchito...
rt ...can't resist the urge to advertise... |
Johnnylunchbox
| | Posted on Monday, January 02, 2006 - 08:10 pm: |
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jackbequick - cool site thanks.
Tramp - Headless Horseman Pale Ale.... I like it.
Cochise - I once gave an mohawk to a German Shepard. |
Buellin_ri
| | Posted on Monday, January 02, 2006 - 08:16 pm: |
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Cochise- Have you ever been to the flying saucer in little rock?
Tried like heck to get a dish with my name on it (the prize you got when you had all there Beers), didn't make it.  |
CJXB
| | Posted on Monday, January 02, 2006 - 10:13 pm: |
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Cochise- Have you ever been to the flying saucer in little rock?
Don't know about Cochise but I've been there, good food, good beer, no plate for me !! |
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