Everyone thinks we're alcoholics lol..........hiccup!

Al, we've had those here for a good few months now. Slightly different name though over here. Ours are self emptying wallets. The price of beer keeps going up and up ;)

I was so excited getting that $2.00 I forget to post my name.

Nice one Al. No discounted beer here, although I've now saved 5 bottle tops off Fullers ESB and qualify for a free stemmed engraved glass.

Gustavo
You like GIN WITH GIN? Is that by any chance what we call a double gin?

Hey, someone gave me sample of a really nice drink a few weeks back. It was apparently Toffee vodka. Now I don't drink spirits as a rule, maybe the odd whisky or rum here or there for medicinal purposes (yeah right), and certainly not Vodka, but this was one seriously pleasant taste. Could be bad news if it gets marketed at teenagers as we have enough young p***heads in Britain as it is.

Of course not Dave no one would ever think of you as YOUNG, no really, no one would, believe me, would I lie to you?


Oh yea it SNOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWED!!!!!!!!!!!

  I DON'T BELIEVE JAMES BOND ASTON MARTIN IS IN YOURS,IS PARKED ON MY HUMBLE HOUSE IN THIS POOR COUNTRY.
  BELIEVED OR NOT IN HALLOWEEN NIGHT IN MY CITY SANTIAGO OF CHILE IS SNOWING HARDLY AND BLACKOUT OF ELECTRICITY IN ALL COUNTRY LESS THAN TEN MINUTES BUT ENOUGH TO PLACED A TERROR NIGHT OF HALLOWEEN,FOR EVER I AM PLAYING HELLOWEEN "KEEPER OF THE SEVEN KEYS 1 2 AND THE LEGACY"
  BUT YESTERDAY NOVEMBER FIRST,THERE WAS 34 CELCIUS DEGREE,TOO HOT DISOLVED THE SNOW AND THE SUN IS SHINING STRONG A CAPRICIUOS SPRING.
  I WENT TO ARGENTINA A FEW DAYS AGO,THE NEAR COUNTRY OF CHILE,BUYING LEATHER CLOTHES FAMOUS ARGENTINA LEATHER CLOTHES.
  NO MORE
  GUSTAVO WHAT HAPPEN AERCEPHALUS MUZZIO SERRANO

  MY NAME IS BOND,JAMES BOND WITH LICENCE TO KILL,I DO NOT HAVE WIFE,BECAUSE WITH WIFE I LOST THE REST OF PRETTY WOMEN OF THE WORLD,LOL,I HAVE WIFE,MEXICAN LOOKS LIKE JULIA ROBERTS IN "PRETTY WOMAN"(EXCEPT IS NOT SLUTTY LIKE THE ROBERTS CHARACTER) TOMORROW WLL BE EUROPE("THE FINAL COUNTDOWN") IN CHILE I HOPE GOOD SHOW NOT LIKE RUSH BUT GOOD ROCKING TONIGHT.
  TO ARGENTINE I DROVE ALL NIGHT(LIKE CYNDI LAUPER SONG) MY FERRARI,ARGENTINA IS FULL OF ITALIAN DESCENDENT THEN A ITALIAN CAR LIKE FERRARI,ASTON MARTIN IS FOR U.K. LOL
  IN CHILE SAYING PEOPLE MY NAME IS "HUEVON" ,AN INSULT,HUEVON FOR MACHO EGGS "THE BALLS" NEAR TO DICK BUT IDIOT.FOOLISH,NOT SMART.
  IN FERRARI,ASTON MARTIN OR ROLLS ROYCE I AM GOING WITH MICHELLE PFFEIFFER,SHERYL CROW,MEGAN FOX,ANGELINA JOLIE,SCARLETT JOHNASSON,ADRIANA LIMA, FULL OF "BOND GIRLS"
  NO MORE
  GUSTAVO WHAT HAPPEN AERCEPHALUS MUZZIO SERRANO OR JAMES HUEVOND

Wind and rain. We got it too!!

DAVE!!!!!!!!!!! found another brewery and it has your name on it, you got to check out Lakeport Brewery, FLIPPIN FOR LAKEPORT WITH DAVE! that what it says.Also a picture of a spaced out guy, is that you?

   .......BUT NEXT MONDAY NIGHT I DRINK ONLY MILKSHEKE TO WATCH MY "PLATONIC WIFE",OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN,TO ME THE BEAITIFUL WOMAN OF THIS WORLD,AT 62 YEARS OLD AND ROCOVERING FROM A CHEST CANCER,AND STILL BEAUTIFUL.I WANT TO BE JOHN TRAVOLTA TO GO UP THE STAGE AND DANCE "GREASE" WITH HER.
  NO MORE
  GUSTAVO WHAT HAPPEN AERCEPHALUS MUZZIO SERRANO

Dave      I was able to make two stops at the Big Tide brew pub last week.It is located  below street level, so as you enter you go down stairs, the bar is in front of you as you reach the bottom and through the windows left of the bar are the vats for brewing.On Wednesday I stopped by and had a quick glass of the hemp pale ale, a good excuse to get out of the rain that day.I had just come out of the Backstreet Records store, which is two blocks away from the pub.It was a long walk and I was thirsty.On Thursday my wife and I stopped in for a bite to eat and a couple of beers before we went to The Trews concert.I sampled the Irish Red and another Hemp pale ale, she had a Pilsner.The beers have a great flavour, great colour, aw hell it's good friggin' beer.The food well, let me tell ya, I will be returning that I know.Beer prices 12oz $4.50, 20oz $6.50 for Big Tide products.


PS  In the Backstreet Record store they had only one Rare Earth LP One World for $12.99.

Dave      More brew pubs then record stores, well then you do have a lot of beer to drink.Big Tide is the only one in Saint John, the last one Tapps closed a couple of years back.I hope it can stay open for many years.One thing I did notice at Big Tide on Thursday was that there was only patron drinking bottled beer, all others where indulging in the pubs products, a good sign. catch ya later

Funnily enough I saw some Faxe in a store just before christmas and was thinking how i'd not seen it for decades. I seem to recall at one time they used to do an aluminium keg that had a fiddly way of opening it. You were guaranteed to lose half of it over yourself and up the walls. Redecoration usually followed :)

What No beer? tell me about it. Tonight i was due to go on an annual pilgimage to the British Winter Ales festival in Manchester. It's a two hour train journey there and back but I was looking forward to meeting up with some old friends for the first time in two years having missed last years event.

I booked this afternoon as holiday at work and tomorrow morning as well, just in case the old head was hurting. Alas, just as I was about to leave I was inundated with queries that needed answering, problems etc etc. In the end I was so late getting away that I missed the train so it wasn't worth going. I was not a happy bunny. Even when I did get home, somewhat later than expected, I was still being chased by phonecalls and emails with work issues to sort out. Some kind of holiday!! Still, I'll know better next time. I'll put on a disguise and sneak out of the building when nobody is looking and I might accidentally run over my mobile phone on the way out of the car park. ; ) I'm currently making up for my ruined evening with a glass or three of finest Shiraz...and a beer of course.

Dave      On this day in history January 24th 1935 beer was sold in cans for the first time, Krueger Cream Ale was sold in Richmond VA.  YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Holy Crap indeed Al

If you're a brewery worker going on strike you're surely better off locking yourself on the inside of the gates :)

They say they are not far off striking a deal. How far? one pint, two pints, a gallon?

Dave     I found this story on MSN,Molson Canadian is set to become the offical beer of the NHL a part of a sponsorship agreement announced Tuesday that is believed to be the most lucrative in league history.A seven year deal worth $375 million!!!.That's a hell of a lot of beer.BUT!!! there's always a but.  Labatts has been the NHL sponsor in Canada for more then a decade says "they had agreed upon the terms of a renewal of sponsorship agreement until 2014.Nothing has happened to change that situation.We have an agreement and are pursuring legal remedies available to us to enforce this agreement"

This should be fun to watch,I can see it now, Labatts beer trucks cutting off Molson beer trucks on the highway.

Dave
I just read a story that made me think of you,a guy in Iowa has given up food for lent and is on a all beer diet.J.Wilson is his name and he drinks four beers on weekdays and five on weekends.Each beer is 12oz has 288 calories and 6.67% alcohol.Words of wisdom from the man himself,"your not going to hell if you drink a beer"and"beers not bad,drinking way to much of it is a bad thing".
Catch ya later
AL the beer swilling Canadian

Dave
A dilemma indeed,at least it's Fuller's products.So if it will be Jack Frost tonight,you'll have to let me know which beer is for tomorrow.


Nothing yet on the Mooeshead Breweries situation,the workers are still on the picket line.

Dave   Yes Moosehead still out,management is brewing the beer but I can't see how they could stay ahead of the demand for their products.

I'm back to work on the golf course as of last Monday,my first job was of course to shovel snow of the greens.Woopied friggin'doo!

Dave          

I found another brewery,who'da guessed?IT is Goose Island in Chicago,I checked out their website,they are a brewpup operation.They have quite a selection of beers,they also make pop.There are two beers names that caught my eye.Honker's Ale,an English style bitter 4.2% and Demlition an Belgian style golden ale 7.2%.I suppose after a few of bottles of  Demlition "WE" would would be a couple of Honker's.

catch ya later

AL (THE GREAT CANADIAN BEER SWILLER)