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Post by 9 on Sept 17, 2006 17:58:12 GMT -5
Carling Black Label, $1.69 a six-pack at the old Pioneer on 23rd St.
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Post by elliejay21 on Sept 17, 2006 20:29:07 GMT -5
I have nightmares of warm skunked Black Label... Back in the day, when I was in college, Natty Bo' was THE best beer you could get for $5.25 a case...
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Post by crazilyz on Sept 24, 2006 18:19:39 GMT -5
This is Rocky at yesterday's Dog Day at Shea.
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Post by crazilyz on Sept 24, 2006 18:20:59 GMT -5
Carling Black Label, $1.69 a six-pack at the old Pioneer on 23rd St. Holy shit...I don't think I've seen that since the 70's.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 24, 2006 18:56:23 GMT -5
Just picked up two sixes of Post Road Pumpkin Ale at the distributor this afternoon. Have not delved into them yet....will pop my first one tomorrow afternoon, while smoking a stick and enjoying the cool fall air.
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Post by 9 on Sept 24, 2006 21:45:13 GMT -5
Rocky's eyes look bloodshot. Didn't you cut him off after two beers?
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Post by Chris on Sept 26, 2006 18:28:20 GMT -5
Been out of the loop for a while.....hectic at work.
So is there enough interest, aside from Tom and myself, to have a cigar thread?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 27, 2006 10:16:12 GMT -5
Man, I dont think we'll have much luck with that one over here. Sadly, most of the hardcore stick-suckers are not here. Check this out - went to the local smokery the other day to pick up 3 or 4 cigars for this week of vacation. They had a little sign up at the front of the humidor room above a pile of cigar boxes, that all "random boxes " were $15. Well, $15 was what I was looking to pay for just 3 cigars, so I started peeking.
I ended up leaving with a box of 22 cigars. About 7 or 8 were the normal "Robusto" size I smoke when I head outside with my family for a lounge with the radio and some beers at hand. A bunch of them were smaller and thinner, quick smokes. But man, 22. They were mainly Dominican cigars, which is fine by me. They were in fine condition, so I was not signing on for damaged goods. Some of them had price-stickers ranging from $4 to $6 on their own wrappers. I trust these guys, they have always been good to me and have a good neighborhood rep as cigar afficiandos.
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Post by 9 on Sept 27, 2006 10:45:18 GMT -5
I wish my neighborhood liquor store would do that with microbrews.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 27, 2006 10:52:31 GMT -5
Funny you mention that - one of the beer distributors by us sometimes takes an empty Heineken case and refills it with a grab bag of other random bottles of beer from the place, especially microbrews and beers from the back. And they sell it off at a reasonable price. I rarely delved into that cause I am just so happy to be in the distributor to grab my Saranac craft beers and stuff like the Pumpkin Ales, but I should look into that more.
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Post by 9 on Sept 27, 2006 11:12:53 GMT -5
I like the idea of pot luck beer, so long as the pot luck doesn't include 18-month-old bottles of Busch Light.
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Post by BigAl115 on Sept 27, 2006 13:00:18 GMT -5
I hate it when ...you go somewhere with a friend (pick any event) and they offer to bring the beer ...Wel, they show up with a pot luck of beers they had lying around the refrigerator or the garage, and the have a frozen cooler pack and some ice cubes from there freezer keeping them cold ...Usually its a mix of a bunch of bud cans, 3-4 MGD, a Miller (high life), 4 old corona, and 2 Heineken...
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Post by sancho231 on Sept 27, 2006 13:25:15 GMT -5
I wish they sold pot at the beer store
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 27, 2006 17:31:53 GMT -5
I like the idea of pot luck beer, so long as the pot luck doesn't include 18-month-old bottles of Busch Light
Nah, thats not their game, and at least at this place you're not buying anything you are not seeing first. It would be different you were plucking down $15 for a "mystery case" in the back.
Blind draws are funny though. Dana once threw in $5 at a baseball card store for a "random autographed card." She got a Charlie Kerfeld for me. Thats the fat guy who had some boxes of jello worked into his contract with the Astros.
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Post by 9 on Sept 27, 2006 18:17:22 GMT -5
I remember Kerfeld. What a character!
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Post by Chris on Sept 28, 2006 12:26:57 GMT -5
I've become quite fond of ordering my cigars online Tom. I was, for the longest time, a cigar shop one or two at a time kinda guy, until I found the savings online with places like Thompson Cigar and Cigar Cigar. I still miss the ambience of walking into a humidor at a shop, but you can't beat the price.
I've recently bought a box of these "candela" cigars - the mild cigars with the green wrapper leaf. They're billed as the style of cigars that Kennedy stock piled before the embargo against Cuba. They're pretty good.
BTW, I'm with you Tom - I'm a big fan of the robustos.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 28, 2006 17:30:05 GMT -5
Robustos are a good size. When I'm outside with the family its hard to justify spending 3 or more hours sitting on my lump just smoking and drinking. The Robustos give me a good 90 or so minutes of relaxed toke. Cho, you really should check out www.famous-smoke.com - thats my source. Whats great about that spot for me is I can order regular UPS shipping, and since I am in the region I get my goods the next day at standard ship price. They got a great selection, and ship the same day of order. I myself am a Sancho Panza guy.
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Post by Chris on Sept 28, 2006 18:57:47 GMT -5
Thanks for the heads-up, Tom. I'll check it out.
I've been smoking a lot of Padron 3000s lately as well.
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Post by BigAl115 on Sept 29, 2006 6:34:34 GMT -5
Has anyone ever tried ... www.cigarofthegods.com ...I heard the radiio spot for them and thought it was a joke .. I guess not ...
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Post by Chris on Sept 29, 2006 11:30:42 GMT -5
I keep hearing that radio spot as well. I have no idea, nor any interest. I'm just waiting till Castro dies!
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 29, 2006 14:31:21 GMT -5
SARANAC is a MySpace friend of mine, and they just shot out a bulletin telling us to look out for their new limited edition Octoberfest and more specifically for me PUMPKIN ALE. The Pumpkin Ale even has a cool bottle with a malicious looking Jack O Lantern on it. Sign me up! I'm so there.
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Post by 9 on Sept 29, 2006 14:58:52 GMT -5
I hope the liquor store in Hoboken gets some of that in. Otherwise, ROAD TRIP!
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Post by elliejay21 on Sept 30, 2006 14:27:18 GMT -5
My brother just told me today that Brooklyn Brewery makes a tasty pumpkin ale. I have only tried Shipyard pumpkin, which I very much enjoyed. Let me know how the Saranac is...
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 30, 2006 17:56:36 GMT -5
Right now I am drinking Post Road Pumpkin Ale, which is made by Brooklyn Brewery. I dont remember seeing that on the bottles last year...perhaps they bought out this brew. Says on the bottle, "brewed by Brooklyn Brewery." However, to add to that, it gives the locale of "Syracuse, NY" which is not really hardcore Brooklyn.
Its good, the same as last years vintage. I guess we may be talking about the same brew, although it goes by a neutral name.
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Post by Chris on Oct 2, 2006 15:40:02 GMT -5
Beer question: My company softball team is going to be called "Near Beer." The company is a Mormon family owned company - so most of the team doesn't drink (not for the same reasons I don't drink - hahahhaa) so the pun is we're not a real Beer League team...we’re NEAR Beer League. Yeah corny, I know.
But anyway, I was suggesting we use the real Near Beer logo for our shirts, assuming that "Near Beer" was a brand. I could have sworn some time back in the 70s or 80s there was an actual brand called Near Beer with an orange and yellow logo on the can. But everything I see on the internet seems to indicate that "Near Beer" is not a brand, but rather a catch-all classification for various brands of non-alcoholic beers. Anyone recall if there was indeed a "Near Beer" brand?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 2, 2006 15:47:09 GMT -5
I never knew it to be a brand, but I could be wrong. But I never seen it presented that way, only as a "designation" of non-alcoholic brew.
Speaking of corny puns as team names, in Balls' Jewish softball league his team was called "The Bat Mitzvahs."
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Post by Chris on Oct 2, 2006 15:51:14 GMT -5
Wikpedia has a list of the most popular Near Beers...and the team organizer wants us each to pick one as a name on the back of our jersey, as opposed to our last names. I'm leaning toward "Bone Dry." Others inlude Bevo, Vivo, Famo, Golden Glow, Graino, Gozo, Mother's Malt, etc...
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Post by Chris on Oct 2, 2006 15:52:22 GMT -5
I had a friend who played in an over-the-line tournament several years ago. I remember all of the team names were vulgar. The one team name that stands out in my mind was, "Three steps back and still all up in ya" - yes, actual team name.
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Post by 9 on Oct 2, 2006 15:52:50 GMT -5
I think I remember Near Beer, as well, but I couldn't find anything in a quick Google search. And considering that a Bat Mitzvah is what 13-year-old girls do, what a putrid name for a softball team!
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 3, 2006 15:16:56 GMT -5
Yeah, but it has the word "bat" in there, so it fit for a softball team, apparently.
Dana made a stop at the beer distributor for me today, looking for the Saranac Pumpkin. They did not have it, but along with the Post Road Pumpkin I had already this year, they had some Blue Moon Pumpkin. I told her to grab those for me, and I shall compare it to what I have already imbibed in this season. More later.
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