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Old 05.29.2008, 05:30 PM   #41
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hahahaaaa no.

in oklahoma we have really weird liquor laws. you can buy 3.2 or faker beer at convenience stores and grocery stores. in order to get real beer (like guinness), you have to buy it at room temp at a liquor store m-saturday 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.. liquor stores sell real beer. but there are some brands that make faker beer just for us okies (or utah i think?). like you can get shiner, tecate, pbr and probably a couple of others with alcohol content of 3.2 at convenience store or 6 point at liquor store. something like bud, coors, etc... is ONLY 3.2 in oklahoma... whereas if you cross the border, it's 6 pt.
Is it a legal thing that it has to be at room temperature? Ya weirdos.
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Old 05.29.2008, 09:21 PM   #42
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i am drinking a 32 oz high life from a convenience store. pure class.

The only truly classy way to drink that is IN the convenience store parking lot from a paper bag.
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Old 05.29.2008, 09:50 PM   #43
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hahahaaaa no.

in oklahoma we have really weird liquor laws. you can buy 3.2 or faker beer at convenience stores and grocery stores. in order to get real beer (like guinness), you have to buy it at room temp at a liquor store m-saturday 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.. liquor stores sell real beer. but there are some brands that make both faker beer just for us okies (or utah i think?) and real beer. like you can get shiner, tecate, pbr and probably a couple of others with alcohol content of 3.2 at a convenience store or 6 point at liquor store. something like bud, coors, etc... is ONLY 3.2 in oklahoma... whereas if you cross the border, it's 6 pt.

Utah is weird like that too, though the beer here is 3.2 alc by weight which equals 4.0 by volume. Utah has the weirdest liquor laws.

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is very very good.
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Old 05.29.2008, 10:10 PM   #44
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Surely you can get Guinness anywhere?
i would have thought so. it's in every supermarket i've ever been to in the US but usually not at convenience stores (which is where you'll find budweiser 40s and cases of miller lite etc)


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Old 05.29.2008, 11:16 PM   #45
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Old 05.30.2008, 03:12 AM   #46
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All I have to say about this:

If I'm not mistaken, you can get Widmer at any 711. That may be a Texas thing, not sure-I don't leave the state often.

Any Sam Adams brew kicks the shit out of any Shiner.

mainstream American beers are shit.

mirrordash, you're flat out racist. get over that, please.
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Old 05.30.2008, 10:06 AM   #47
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hahahaaaa no.

in oklahoma we have really weird liquor laws. you can buy 3.2 or faker beer at convenience stores and grocery stores. in order to get real beer (like guinness), you have to buy it at room temp at a liquor store m-saturday 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.. liquor stores sell real beer. but there are some brands that make both faker beer just for us okies (or utah i think?) and real beer. like you can get shiner, tecate, pbr and probably a couple of others with alcohol content of 3.2 at a convenience store or 6 point at liquor store. something like bud, coors, etc... is ONLY 3.2 in oklahoma... whereas if you cross the border, it's 6 pt.

what the fuck-- you need to have a law degree in order to drink in oklahoma? fuck that shit...
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Old 05.30.2008, 10:15 AM   #48
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This is probably the widest distributed "microbrew" in the US, behind Sam Adams, if you consider them micro. It's a whopping 6.5% ABV and I've found it even in small town grocery stores. It's tasty, much better than Bud, Miller or Coors.

Red Hook IPA

 
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Old 05.30.2008, 11:13 AM   #49
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I've wanted to try that but was discouraged by the poor rating on RateBeer.
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Old 05.30.2008, 11:20 AM   #50
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anyone have any good local beer they like?
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Old 05.30.2008, 11:20 AM   #51
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Old 05.30.2008, 11:22 AM   #52
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anyone have any good local beer they like?

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Old 05.30.2008, 02:10 PM   #53
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anyone have any good local beer they like?

THis might seem surprising but there's some not bad beer made in south carolina. In Columbia here, we have Hunter Gatherer, a fairly good brew pub (and actually the ONLY brew pub for miles and miles and miles) that makes really decent strong beer.

There's also the Charleston Brewing Company, which makes some really good pale ale and amber ale (both commonly available for under 8 bucks a sixer in about every store in SC).

There are a number of small breweries in some of the more enlightened towns around here, like Asheville (NC), Greenville (SC), and of course, Charleston.

Savanah (GA) is not too far away and they have some good brew pubs there, too.
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Old 05.30.2008, 05:18 PM   #54
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Is it a legal thing that it has to be at room temperature? Ya weirdos.

yeah.. they don't want you to drive off drinking it.
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Old 05.30.2008, 05:29 PM   #55
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tonight at Kroger's I bought a six of Brooklyn Brewery's East India Pale Ale. Definitely an above average IPA though it's more of an English style than American, i.e., not quite as hoppy.
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Old 05.30.2008, 05:32 PM   #56
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Old 05.30.2008, 06:12 PM   #57
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Old 05.30.2008, 06:15 PM   #58
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yeah.. they don't want you to drive off drinking it.
Is that true? It would make sense with lagers, but Guinness isn't meant to be drunk cold.

If you're joking, then excuse my gullibility, and I offer a .
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Old 05.30.2008, 08:53 PM   #59
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tonight at Kroger's I bought a six of Brooklyn Brewery's East India Pale Ale. Definitely an above average IPA though it's more of an English style than American, i.e., not quite as hoppy.

I've always wanted to try that! I was in NYC last year and didn't see it. Hmmmm....

Oh and that Red Hook IPA, the ratebeer ratings are lousy, but it IS a much better beer than the rating, IMO. For an 'everyday' beer it's good. Pretty hoppy really and potent. It's widely available so thats one thing going for it as this thread is about that. Try it, if you don't like it just chug it and get a really good buzz.
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Is that true? It would make sense with lagers, but Guinness isn't meant to be drunk cold.

If you're joking, then excuse my gullibility, and I offer a .
I think it is true, but not 100%. You can't buy anything else at a liquor store. Not smokes and certainly nothing to mix booze with...they don't want you mixing a drink on the way home.

Until about 20 years ago, liquor stores could not have names here (made it too novel I suppose). They were only designated by a red sign that said "liquor store". Theyre still up usually, but now they have real store names.

We also used to have other weird things 25+ years ago.. Like having to buy membership at a club in order to drink. We also had weird liquor by the drink laws. I'm not sure how they worked, but it seems like you couldn't buy it by the drink and had to buy whole bottle?? Not sure.

My hangout has a hole in the mens bathroom. It was an escape route for bootlegged liquor during the prohibition. Leads to a tunnel that comes out somewhere. Pretty cool I think. Now it's a gay bar during the day, gay friendly and hipster at night... And open 365 days a year.
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