Re: BEER THREAD!! been a year? [was: Re: [funsec] Blatant plug for tal ent: We're hiring]

2006-11-03 Thread Kevin McAleavey
The shipping is the killer, no question there. Seriously though, if you can get your beerkeeper to "import" some, it's actually DANG GOOD for "domestic." And it already HAS its green card. Heh. Glad we agree on the "meeting of the mimes" ... I'm ex-libertarian, ex-republican, ex-cathedra ...

Re: BEER THREAD!! been a year? [was: Re: [funsec] Blatant plug for tal ent: We're hiring]

2006-11-03 Thread Brian Loe
On 11/3/06, Kevin McAleavey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If yer serious, be happy to ... will have to find out how much it'd cost. Costs could be high - especially since we're dealing with bottles. However there are beer clubs out there, will have to look into it. In the MEANTIME, because I do

Re: BEER THREAD!! been a year? [was: Re: [funsec] Blatant plug for tal ent: We're hiring]

2006-11-03 Thread Gadi Evron
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, David Lodge wrote: > On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:09:07 -, Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As to Buddweiser: > > 1. The Czeck beer is amazing. Their continued trademark wars world-wide > > realy are funny, the .cz guys always win. > > 2. The US bud is what the Americans

Re: BEER THREAD!! been a year? [was: Re: [funsec] Blatant plug for tal ent: We're hiring]

2006-11-03 Thread Kevin McAleavey
If yer serious, be happy to ... will have to find out how much it'd cost. In the MEANTIME, because I don't want this message to go out TOO far behind the previous and get ya all riled, here's some goog on where it can be had - I spotted at least one eBay on the front page ... http://www.google

Re: BEER THREAD!! been a year? [was: Re: [funsec] Blatant plug for tal ent: We're hiring]

2006-11-03 Thread Brian Loe
On 11/3/06, Kevin McAleavey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dunno if you can find it out your way, but the former Matt's Brewing company here in upstate New York puts out a brand called "Saranac" and for a local microbrew, their output is SUPERB ... everything from Porter to Pale ale and everything

Re: BEER THREAD!! been a year? [was: Re: [funsec] Blatant plug for tal ent: We're hiring]

2006-11-03 Thread Kevin McAleavey
Dunno if you can find it out your way, but the former Matt's Brewing company here in upstate New York puts out a brand called "Saranac" and for a local microbrew, their output is SUPERB ... everything from Porter to Pale ale and everything in between. VERY nicely done, very good price ... At 1

Re: BEER THREAD!! been a year? [was: Re: [funsec] Blatant plug for tal ent: We're hiring]

2006-11-03 Thread Kevin McAleavey
While so many of our whiners wince about former President Jimmy Carter, one of the BEST things he did was change Amarican law to permit people to brew "reasonable quantities" of beer at home ... and back in the days before the explosion of malware, I used to brew QUITE a bit of beer myself ...

Re: BEER THREAD!! been a year? [was: Re: [funsec] Blatant plug for tal ent: We're hiring]

2006-11-03 Thread David Lodge
On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:09:07 -, Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As to Buddweiser: 1. The Czeck beer is amazing. Their continued trademark wars world-wide realy are funny, the .cz guys always win. 2. The US bud is what the Americans did with the .CZ one: they drank it, and then pissed in

Re: BEER THREAD!! been a year? [was: Re: [funsec] Blatant plug for tal ent: We're hiring]

2006-11-03 Thread Brian Loe
On 11/3/06, Nervox Nervox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/3/06, Fergie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kroenenbourg is swill. :-) Kronenbourg 1664 is very nice (and about the only one exported here). I'll second that, tried it (around 4 or 5 times) two weeks ago for the first time. I still prefe

Re: BEER THREAD!! been a year? [was: Re: [funsec] Blatant plug for tal ent: We're hiring]

2006-11-03 Thread Gadi Evron
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Kevin McAleavey wrote: > Heh. Well ... the company beer here is Foster's (don't be impressed, brewed > by FBG in Toronta, about as "Oz" as Dubya) and only when I pull lawn mowing > duty do we get any Urquell ... compared to Buttweiser, it's not BAD swill. > I'll take a Kroen

Re: BEER THREAD!! been a year? [was: Re: [funsec] Blatant plug for tal ent: We're hiring]

2006-11-03 Thread Gadi Evron
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:56:32 +0200, Nervox Nervox said: > > > As for German whine, IIRC Alsace has some very nice whine > > But of course, the *best* whine comes from Washington DC, where all the > right-leaning bloggers are complaining about liberal

Re: BEER THREAD!! been a year? [was: Re: [funsec] Blatant plug for tal ent: We're hiring]

2006-11-03 Thread Kevin McAleavey
Heh. Well ... the company beer here is Foster's (don't be impressed, brewed by FBG in Toronta, about as "Oz" as Dubya) and only when I pull lawn mowing duty do we get any Urquell ... compared to Buttweiser, it's not BAD swill. I'll take a Kroenie or Dortmunder ANY day. =) Pop me one of them

Re: BEER THREAD!! been a year? [was: Re: [funsec] Blatant plug for tal ent: We're hiring]

2006-11-03 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:56:32 +0200, Nervox Nervox said: > As for German whine, IIRC Alsace has some very nice whine But of course, the *best* whine comes from Washington DC, where all the right-leaning bloggers are complaining about liberal concepts like "truth". 2006 will go down as a fine vinta

Re: BEER THREAD!! been a year? [was: Re: [funsec] Blatant plug for tal ent: We're hiring]

2006-11-03 Thread Nervox Nervox
On 11/3/06, Fergie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kroenenbourg is swill. :-) Kronenbourg 1664 is very nice (and about the only one exported here). - ferg (stationed in Germany for 6 years a long time ago) During WWII ? As for German whine, IIRC Alsace has some very nice whine, but can it be

Re: BEER THREAD!! been a year? [was: Re: [funsec] Blatant plug for tal ent: We're hiring]

2006-11-02 Thread Fergie
Kroenenbourg is swill. :-) - ferg (stationed in Germany for 6 years a long time ago) -- Kevin McAleavey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Huh? Wha? MMMmm ... br. (drools) Actually, Kroenenbourg is pretty damned good swill, product of Alsace which is close enough to France for U.S. DHS work.

Re: BEER THREAD!! been a year? [was: Re: [funsec] Blatant plug for tal ent: We're hiring]

2006-11-02 Thread Dude VanWinkle
On 11/2/06, Fergie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Red Stripe? Blech. Sometimes the bottle isnt too good, but this 24 tasted like I was back in the Blue Mountains =) try it!! ;-) -JP ___ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org

Re: BEER THREAD!! been a year? [was: Re: [funsec] Blatant plug for tal ent: We're hiring]

2006-11-02 Thread Fergie
Red Stripe? Blech. - ferg -- "Dude VanWinkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/2/06, Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys, did we just start talking beer?!?! W > > John, guys, everybody wake up. Beer is the thread. > > Hey, hoe. Let's go. well in the better side of beer news from