Re: [Elecraft] [OT] American Beer, was: 2M module

2013-08-23 Thread Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft
Folks, we closed this way OT thread earlier today. 73, Eric List Moderator elecraft.com _..._ On Aug 23, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Jim Lowman wrote: > Okay, Ed, I won't hold it against you that you're a MSU grad. :-) > Go Blue! Can't wait for the football season to begin next week. > > Another lo

Re: [Elecraft] [OT] American Beer, was: 2M module

2013-08-23 Thread Jim Lowman
Okay, Ed, I won't hold it against you that you're a MSU grad. :-) Go Blue! Can't wait for the football season to begin next week. Another lousy beer that we had in Michigan was Strohs. Spelled backward it's "Shorts," and tastes like that was the filter! Now there is a microbrewery named Shor

Re: [Elecraft] [OT] American Beer, was: 2M module

2013-08-23 Thread Jim Lowman
Stone products are enjoying very widespread distribution today. I noticed them on restaurant menus back in Michigan and Ohio a few months ago, when we were there for Dayton and to visit the in-laws. I can remember when Stone was headquartered in an small industrial park in San Marcos. Now the

Re: [Elecraft] [OT] American Beer, was: 2M module

2013-08-23 Thread Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft
We drifting a little -too- far OT. Let's close this thread at this time. 73, Eric elecraft.com On 8/23/2013 9:37 AM, Edward R Cole wrote: Wow, talk about off topic...well As a young man growing up in Michigan it was Carling and Shlitz and rhymed with OK, I'll keep it clean! I never care

Re: [Elecraft] [OT] American Beer, was: 2M module

2013-08-23 Thread Edward R Cole
Wow, talk about off topic...well As a young man growing up in Michigan it was Carling and Shlitz and rhymed with OK, I'll keep it clean! I never cared for beer in those years (because all that we had was American beer). Now I enjoy an occasional dark beer or ale. Alaska has pretty active

Re: [Elecraft] [OT] American Beer, was: 2M module

2013-08-23 Thread Keith Heimbold
Got to comment on a local San Diego brewery that may or may not be well known called Stone brewery. They have some great beers in the IPA realm; Arrogant Bastard, Self Righteous, Ruination to name a few. Pliny the elder from Russian River Northern California is a superb IPA too. Keith AK6ZZ S

Re: [Elecraft] [OT] American Beer, was: 2M module

2013-08-23 Thread Stewart
My first visit to the US was in 1971. I spent 9 weeks in Anaheim CA. Too much fun to be homesick. The only thing I missed was decent beer. Apart from a pint of Watneys Red Barrel on the QE2 at Long Beach and some Guiness in a bar that a sales rep had left a crate on approval, it was a pretty dry

Re: [Elecraft] [OT] American Beer, was: 2M module

2013-08-23 Thread Tim Hague
Definitely OT but a subject dear to a Brits heart!, the story of Budvar and Budweiser is interesting and worth looking up, Budvar is certainly worth drinking, Budweiser.well... Yes I spend a lot of time in the US, I lived in Texas for a year in the mid 80s and beer was a problem, these days

[Elecraft] [OT] American Beer, was: 2M module

2013-08-23 Thread Bill Frantz
I was in the Czech Republic last month for a caving conference. A large number of us were traveling on a railroad from Prague to Brno in a hired dining car. The only beer available on the menu was Budweiser. We Americans almost rioted until the Czechs explained that the beer was Budvar, a Germa