Truthfully, I use these Pet Food Can Covers on my beer glass. These things fit all sorts of cans and glasses, but are the only ones that we found to fit cat food and dog food cans.A HB Grodziskie on a sunny mid-Oct day. Gotta watch it like a hawk to keep the yellowjackets from sneaking a sip.
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I thought I'd take a moment to remark that I always enjoy your write ups and read them carefully. I found this one especially helpful because those are two styles that I'm really trying to learn.Genesee Cream Ale vs Genesee Beer. I’m assuming by “beer” they mean lager. So, Ale vs Lager, Genesee style.
I’ll tell ya, Genesee has done one great job matching up these two beers. They both are VERY similar, my guess is they use the same hops, same malt, and there are only very slight differences you might pick up between the two. Neither have any head of lacing to speak up and have similar carbonation levels.
Starting with the Cream Ale, the first obvious difference is an ever so slight darker, higher SRM color level. Flavor is strikingly similar, however the ale has a slight fruitiness on the front end similar to some of the Kolsch ales I’ve been drinking lately. Very similar. 5.1% ABV, they are beefing up the alcohol a touch over the 4.5% lager.
On the Genesee Beer/Lager, I’d say this is everything the ale is just rolled back a touch. Both are refreshing and clean domestic beers, I’m guessing both are adjunct Lager/Ales. Great drinkers though, good flavor, either would be a great beer to watch the game, the movies or just to bury yourself alone, deep into your man cave tonight. Bug off!
I’d pick the Ale if given the choice, but really, this is pretty much the same beer, you can’t go wrong with either. Message received on the masculine 24 ounce cans. Enjoy!
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Haha! I have pics of a day when they were around and loving IPAs few years back. If I find them I'll post. Never had that experience again. But to be honest it was nice having drinking buddies!A HB Grodziskie on a sunny mid-Oct day. Gotta watch it like a hawk to keep the yellowjackets from sneaking a sip.
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I thought I'd take a moment to remark that I always enjoy your write ups and read them carefully. I found this one especially helpful because those are two styles that I'm really trying to learn.
I really appreciate your efforts to write up concise but useful reviews!
Sure they're nature's a**holes, but drinking buddies is drinking buddies, right?Haha! I have pics of a day when they were around and loving IPAs few years back. If I find them I'll post. Never had that experience again. But to be honest it was nice having drinking buddies!
Sure they're nature's a**holes, but drinking buddies is drinking buddies, right?
As I remember, it's the only commercial beer I ever opened that I couldn't finish!Anyone remember Black Label?
Anyone remember Black Label? We called them "Black Labs" back then and would pick up a case--a "kennel of Black Labs"--for the weekend.
As I remember, it's the only commercial beer I ever opened that I couldn't finish!
Carling's Black Label, right? My grandfather used to drink that swill because he could get it by the case at Walgreens and it was cheap as chips.
My father, an appreciator of good German lagers but an equally enthusiastic guzzler of Bud, Oly, Rainier, and Hamm's, dreaded that stuff and was much happier when Milwaukie's Best was on sale at Walgreens.
The first time I heard my dad drop an F-bomb was when he went out to the garage to get another case of beer and found a stack of Carlings sitting next to the Karmen Ghia. Man, he hated that stuff.
To his mind, The Beast was merely bad beer--still beer, so nothing to complain about. Black Label, in his description, was something that he choked down for reasons of familial politeness. It's the beer that he used to call "panther piss," giving name to my Pandemic project. In fairness, he used to call Milwaukie's Best that, but he said it with a certain verve when describing Black Label. He claims it was undrinkable swill.
I've never seen the stuff in the wild, but I'd move mountains to get a can of 1988-spec Carling's Black Label. Keep your beer quests for Pliny the Elder, Rochefort, or Alchemist to yourselves, what I want is a can of Carling's Black Label.
I gotta know!
When I was in college, I drove a beer truck for the regional distributor of Heileman products. They made some quality stuff. We also distributed Coors and Blitz Wienhard's. All of those breweries had amazingly vast catalogues compared to what is available these days. I get a bit pissed when I see younger writers emphasizing the sameness of US beer back in the day. That simply wasn't the case...but enough books have been written, so it's a fact now, I guess.Oly and Rainier.
Black labs. It's amazing what you can choke down if you don't have enough green for anything better. Not sure how it would stack up to what they make today. I'm guessing it got worse over time, not better.
Drink like a German! Nice wooden deckle (sp)Truthfully, I use these Pet Food Can Covers on my beer glass. These things fit all sorts of cans and glasses, but are the only ones that we found to fit cat food and dog food cans.
They are food grade silicone, flexible, and durable.
Looking beautiful!Having one of the few remaining bottles of HB dubbel. Bottling date was 12/26/22. Almost 10 months and still tasting fresh. Going to miss that beer when it's gone. Will def brew it again.
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