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Eric Bell was another talented Irish guitarist, and played on the first few Lizzy albums.

Zany bunch of guys from Dún Laoghaire, which I have been to since that's where the Hollyhead ferry comes over from Wales. The Martello Tower in nearby Sandycove was the setting for the opening of Joyce's Ulysses withing which we first meet Leo Bloom and portly state Buck Mulligan.

QUOTE (G&T @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 04:45 PM) I think my hate of Guiness revolves the believe that "it's like motor oil" or "it's too filling" or "it's too strong (alcoholic)". So it's people I guess. I know that makes me a jackass and a beer snob, but that's one that bothers me. Beer snob for disliking Guinness? Hardly. Jackass? For sure.

XI people in total have played in Thin Lizzy as official members, not including the one-shot deals where folks like Bob Geldof stood in.

QUOTE (G&T @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 04:33 PM) BTW, I don't get the Guiness love. I understand the history, but it just doesn't taste that good. BLASPHEMY!! If I had to, I could drink nothing but Guinness for the rest of my life and be pretty happy. Try the Woodchuck Pear Cider if you run across it. I'm pretty sure you'll like it.

Very sad was the demise of Phil Lynott.

Thin Lizzy was a spectacular band.

Roll me over and turn me around. Let me keep spinning 'til I hit the ground.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 03:43 PM) Rehab? Rehab is for quitters.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 03:43 PM) By the way, my post was not saying any of those things are top-notch, but compared to everything else on campus they are To the contrary, I like most of what you posted. And Guinness is the definition of a world-class beer. I haven't had the 312 but I think Goose Island's stuff in general is quite drinkable. American pale wheat is not one of my favorite beer styles, but they beat a Miller Light any day. Agreed on the Woodchuck — they don't make a cider I dislike, although the Granny Smith is a bit tart. The pear cider and the dark oak aged cider in bottles is amazingly good.

Oh Happy Day! My dealer beer shopkeeper kjust called me to let me know that she really did score a case of Sierra Chico Estate Harvest Ale!!! I know where I'm heading as soon as I'm done at work today.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 02:26 PM) Only 24 hours until the worst school week of my semester is over... It has been miserable. I'm drinking heavily once I get out of my 20 minute presentation to real venture capitalists (on my fake computer company) tomorrow that's worth 25% of my grade. Probably should give them the old Gordon Gecko "Greed is Good" speech from Wall Street. Take pulls off a bottle of Jim Beam after every slide for added effect. Guarantee you'll stand out from your classmates.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 12:42 PM) The vatican doesn't work this way. They don't want an independent church or more liberal social policy unless it comes from vatican decree. This is what it is. Its a basic play for new converts and churches that have a similar ideology. I'd particularly agree the Vatican is pretty hardline now under Emperor Palpatine's Pope Benedict's command.

Mighty fo' sure. And I WILL be the 3,000th post, dadgummit!

QUOTE (G&T @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 12:40 PM) Any suggestions for rauchbiers? Never had one, though it appears to be a style that's coming into vogue. There three true Bamberg rauchbiers available in the US that I know of are Aecht Schlenkerla (three different styles), Kaiserdom (much better than the BeerAdvocate rating suggests), and http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/913/2960(haven't had it). Steinbiers are another beast with a very similar smoky-malty flavor profile. They are "stone beers" — traditionally produced in wooden brew kettles that cannot be directly fired, so instead heated rocks are dumped into the kettle of near-boiling water as depicted by the awesome label: The heated rocks isomerize the hops (probably the main reason beer is boiled in the brewing process), but they also caramelize some of the sugars which gives the rich malt/smoke/caramel flavors. This differs from traditional rauchbier where the smokiness comes from traditional fire-kilning of the malt. A few hundred years ago, smokiness would have been part of the flavor profile of most all beers. Many years ago I was fortunate enough to have the sole US importer of Rauchenfels steinbier located in my Florida town, and my wife and I became addicted to the stuff at a local Bavarian restaurant. Sadly, both the importer and the restaurant are long-gone, and I haven't found a bottle of Rauchenfels since.

funny

Best 'lil guy I know. Cost me a post, fat stoopid fingers.

Zounds! Obviously I wasn't referring to myself.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 11:58 AM) There's another possible motivation, there are a large number of more liberal Roman Catholic churches in the US, and there have been a number of rumblings about possibly creating a separate American Catholic Church which represents a more liberal view towards social policy. Could this also be giving precedent to allow American Catholic Churches more freedom to have their own policies and views on social issues and still remain the Roman Catholic communion? Similar to what the Church of England has done with the Anglican communion. I'd say that's unlikely given that the apparent goal of this announcement is to peel away the most conservative disaffected Anglicans, which to me is not a show of any softening views of the Vatican on liberal catholicism.

vestigial schwanzstucker what?

Small hands. . . it's my curse.

Psilocybin

what the heck happened there?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 11:22 AM) Mind altering drugs or old age? Now, that's a tough call.

The Brooklyn-Schneider team effort is incredibly intriguing. I've had the Hopfen-Weisse and I thought it was great. I don't recall a lot of smoky notes, but rauchbiers and steinbiers are wonderful things in my opinion so I probably wouldn't/didn't find it objectionable. I've only made one trip to Great Lakes (besst walleye dinner I ever had), and they happened to be pouring the weizenbock otherwise I'd probably never have encountered it.