beer
 

Leinie, man. Give me a hell yea! Another fine product of western Wisconsin. Chippewa Falls.

Leinie Red is actually some pretty good stuff.

Canadian beer
 

Just because it is sort of topical (and educational), I give you the latest (Canadian) patriotic offering from Molson that landed in my in-box this afternoon. It made me homesick.

http://www.iam.ca/toast/molson_final.swf

(needs sound and warning - gratuitous beaver shot)

Canadian beer
 

I favored the black squirrel shot. What's up with the Scot accent on the guy? Showing diversity of drunks from all booze driven countries?

Canadian beer
 

That's the idea, I think. Where I grew up, many people have Scottish or Irish accents. Lots of people came over in the 60's and 70's from there and have not lost their accents.

weekend time
 

Anyone seen a good movie recently? I'm ready to go the movies for the first time in a while, and I'd like some recommendations.

Leinenkugel's gets my thumbs-up. I even toured the brewery, back in the day. I was probably one of the few people to bicycle across several state lines to get there.

weekend time
 

Winged Migration and Once Upon a Time in Mexico are my two next sees.

Which may mean, though, when they come to blockbuster.

beer
 

You people drink weird shit. I have never heard of any of the beers you've been discussing. Outside of Molsons. And Coors.
In high school we drank Lucky, Rainier or Heidelberg. Or Bud when we got our allowances. Schmidt animal beer was strictly college.

weekend time
 

If you haven't seen Pirates of the Caribbean, I'd highly recommend that. I'm headed to Once Upon a Time in Mexico at some point this weekend.

weekend time
 

American Splendor. If you haven't read any, try and read some of the comics first. I think they are on the net.

Beer Ball vs. Pony Keg
 

An uncle of mine was a Gennie Cream Ale distributor. I've had plenty of those beer balls. Also had Iron City and Iron City Light in beer balls.

Anyone ever try Golden Anniversary? Only a couple of bucks a case, but nasty!

Anne
Don't play kickball in bare feet with an empty beer ball.

Beer Ball vs. Pony Keg
 

Don't know why, but that reminded me of playing beer croquet. Now that's good times.

Beer Ball vs. Pony Keg
 

Beer croquet? I'm not familiar with that event.

Leinie's aren't bad. First had them in Minnesota, found them at a beer store in Jersey, and was shocked to find a Leinie's brew pub outside of the Diamondbacks stadium.

Another favorite from HS was Heffenreffer aka Green Monsters. They (and Ballentine) had the puzzle caps, but you usually couldn't see straight enough to read them.

Anne
Trivia tidbit: the original Sam Adams Brewery in Boston is located in the old Heffenreffer brewery.

Package Stores
 

We have our share of pakis in Los Angeles too, but they run the gas stations down in Inglewood. The ones with the really slow pumps. They don't speak English very well.

Greedy, me, and Amazon women on the moon.
 

Mmmmm, martinis. I'll bring the fixings and tend bar.

Oh, and my favorite oppressed animal food is anything caught fleeing after I've set fire to a patch of rain forest.

CDF (once you've had meat smoked on the hoof, you'll never go back)

Beer Ball vs. Pony Keg
 

It's basically just croquet. The twist is that you must keep your beer on your person at all times when playing, including when whacking the ball with your mallet. Leads to both drunkeness and creative beer holding technique.