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2005-08-12 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Chris W. 2005-08-12 00:46|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I've run out of beer, too. I've been really busy and haven't had time to make any and it takes about 4 weeks. I hope I can hold on 'till then. I think I'll make the Deacon Blues Nut Brown Ale.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-08-12 07:56|| 2005-08-12 07:56|| Front Page Top

#2 we'll make the same amount and just charge a heck of a whole lot more for it.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-12 09:10|| 2005-08-12 09:10|| Front Page Top

#3 I bet they can make a pretty mean pretzel, too.

Posted by BH 2005-08-12 10:09|| 2005-08-12 10:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Good thing I brew my own beer. Maybe I can sell it on the international market.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-08-12 10:37|| 2005-08-12 10:37|| Front Page Top

#5 mmurray821, it may be a cool schtick to buy an old monastery and force all brewery workers to wear monks' robes (probably nun's to, not to be discriminatory). Wel, yea, your beer has to be decent... ;-)

Posted by twobyfour 2005-08-12 10:44|| 2005-08-12 10:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Some of those regional beers are magnificant. Back in the Middle Ages, the Germanic monestaries wanted to consume 'heavy' beer during the month-long Lenten fast. The sent samples to the Vatican to ask if this high calorie, high test beer was acceptable. The Italian wine-drinkers took a sip, spit it out, gagged, and approved its use, along with a commendation to the monks for drinking the horrible stuff for an entire month.

My own personal experience is that half a large bottle was able to make several of my friends forget that they had legs. Impressive.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-12 21:33|| 2005-08-12 21:33|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm gettin' images in my head of the Friar Tuck-esque, burping, beer-loving monk from Kevin Costner's flick ROBIN HOOD, PRINCE OF THIEVES, and about how beer is a divine gift from God himself, or words to that effect.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-08-12 21:48|| 2005-08-12 21:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Am I the only one getting Tim Powers flashbacks?

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-08-12 21:53|| 2005-08-12 21:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Painting in the Milwaukee Art Museum, German art of the 19th C.: Two monks in the wine cellar. One, carrying a basket of bottles, has fallen down a short flight of stairs, and is looking with great regret on the smashed bottles and all the good red wine pouring out. The other, hand to his fact to keep from laughing at his comrade's awkward position and woeful expression.

Posted by mom 2005-08-12 22:18|| 2005-08-12 22:18|| Front Page Top

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