Beer Drinkers Nudists
We like to be naked, and we like beer, so let's share our naked beer moments with all the rest of beer loving nudists. Get nude, take a beer and tell everybody you're having one of such special moments. At the beach, at the resort, while camping, or at home; but always in the nude! Cheers
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Favorite Stouts and Porters
Return to DiscussionsI'd like to share some of my favorite stouts and porters. I hope others will add some, too, because I love sampling new beers, and the darker they are, the happier I usually am.
I was in a restaurant on a business trip last week in Chicago, and asked the waiter if he had any dark beers to recommend. He said he only had the Dragon's Milk, a bourbon barrel stout. I happily said I would take it. It wasn't until after I ordered that I found it on the menu listed for $14.50 a bottle (22 oz). Ouch. So you only live once.
When it came, he poured the first tall glass from it. Dark, dark, with a tan head. Lots of aroma. Tastes of chocolate and oak and bourbon, and a pleasant sweetness. Very balanced. Very rich.
It was exactly the kind of beer that I don't get tired of as I get to the bottom of the bottle. The second and last glass was just as good as the first. It's the kind of beer you want to hold in your mouth and get all the flavors from, and it's just so rich.
I checked the New Holland Brewing website, and this beer isn't available anywhere within hundreds of miles of Portland, OR. Sad. On the other hand, I'm back in Chicago this week, and I found a bottle shop where I bought two four-packs of 12 ouncers. This beer's too good not to share. Store price: $14 for a four-pack. A steal.
I sit naked in my hotel room tonight, sipping one slowly.
Oh.
Yes.
It's as good as I remember.
I had a chance not too long ago to try the Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald, and I found it very very nice. It's one I would love to drink again.
About an hour ago, I enjoyed a bottle of Arcadia Ales' Barrel Aged Shipwreck Porter. With 50 IBUs and an ABV of 12%, this is a big beer. Lots of aromas of bourbon and vanilla and chocolate. Wonderful on the palate. It was truly a pleasure.
I've got a chocolate mint stout in the keg now. Went easy on the chocolate and light on the mint (peppermint). Came out great!Also had a chance to taste some of my son's Imperial Stout Thursday...wow, I really need to brew some of that!Racked an Imperial IPA of my own recipe into the keg today and am brewing a Nugget Nectar clone as I write this. Life is good!