Claude_Verret

Yuengling is ok, but you get what you pay for. Lord Chesterfield is not even close to a substitute for a pale ale, let alone an IPA.

They have it listed as an Extra Special Bitter on their website, and you can see from some of the comments that it just doesn't fit that style category. There aren't enough IBU's for it to be an IPA either I don't think. I'll just call it damn good beer. http://www.stbcbeer.com/stbc/harvest-beer-page/ Lagunitas makes some nice beers. If you enjoy Hop Stoopid you will be floored by Pliny The Elder from Russian River, Vinny Cilurzo basically invented the double IPA style with this beer. It's not available on the east coast, but if you ever find yourself out west definitely seek some out. It's been voted best beer in America I think five years in a row now in the Zymurgy readers poll.

Southern Tier actually calls it an ESB but I don't think this beer fits that style at all, I'm not exactly sure what style category it fits in with best. Probably american amber ale. Either way, it's a damn fine beer is it not?

I agree, it is Hollywood after all so this shouldn't be taken as a historical documentary or anything. The cast is great and I think it might actually be worth me going to a movie theater for the first time in five years to see a movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiSAbAuLhqs

I went to Ford's theater Labor day weekend. The theater itself was closed the day I was there but the adjoining museums at the theater itself and at the Peterson house across the street where Lincoln died is highly recommended. They have renovated everything in the past few years and the museum experience is light years beyond what it was when I visited ~ 20 years ago. I'm looking forward to this film.

I'm flying up to Buffalo for the Bills game this weekend and it looks like the weather will be fantastic. I'm so numb to the Bills at this point I honestly don't care about the game so much. I'm sitting in the Jim Kelly club so that should be interesting I guess What I am looking forward to most is the pub crawl my friends and family do the night before the home opener in the village of Hamburg. We've been doing this for five years and like last year there is also an Oktoberfest going on at the same time in a park right in the village. 13 bars plus Oktoberfest and I'll be lucky to even make it to the game on Sunday. F'N fantastic.

Well if you go by their stated platform sure, but in practice when you disagree with some of the far left people they can be just as vile in their hate speech as those on the far right. These elements are becoming larger proportions of both parties and I don't see it as tolerant or inclusive.

No more true than Republicans are the party of patriotism in my view.

Dems label themselves as party of inclusion and party of tolerance. They ALL do it.

Elected officials on both sides do it, media outlets that lean one way or the other do it. It's everywhere, and no side is more or less guilty than the other.

Here you go. The music just makes it so much more tasteful... <_< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGnE83A1Z4U

Yes, that was brutal. I don't pay attention to much of the rhetoric, but as a recent example I remember seeing a commercial of Paul Ryan pushing a senior in a wheel chair off a cliff. Now I'm sure this wasn't an Obama sponsored ad, but it does fit right in with the Dems scare tactics used on senior citizens. They both do it and they are both very good at it is the way I see it,

Again we are seeing a lot of "it's only bad when the other side does it" in this thread... Is there a deep, wide chasm between the two parties in.. how they campaign? Absolutely. how they govern? Not so much how they use cheap low down dirty sleazy political tactics to try to remain in power? Absolutely not. and around and around we go...

This is exactly my take as well.

Yes. Pegula as owner > stale coach and GM.

I broke my tibial plateau about six years ago, so my left knee have been an issue ever since. It broke off right through the cartilage so it's likely just a matter of when I'll need a knee replacement not if. I have an elliptical and try to stick to low impact stuff, and so far the knee has held up pretty well. I get the worst pain where the screws are in my knee when the weather is about to change. Since none of that is in any way awesome.....I'll add that going home to Buffalo this weekend will be awesome, although I'm much less enthused about attending the Bills game than I was 48 hours ago

Yes, that's insane. I can't imagine many scenarios that could polarize this country even further, but this idea would be one of them.

Yeah that's a pretty regular occurrence. Also, I have a grand re-opening every year in the fall. Last year I smoked a 150 lb. pig and had about 25 guys over to watch college football. Everything was fine until the sawzall came out and we began cutting off and consuming parts of the pig that they tend to put in hot dogs. Then there was the time that we ran out of firewood so my neighbor and I got out the chainsaw and we started cutting down 60-70 ft. dead trees in the woods behind the cave. There's also the fireworks (mortars) that make an appearance every now and then. If someone sets off fireworks within five miles of my house, it's a lock solid guarantee that the police will do a drive through on my street within 10 minutes. And then there is the couple times that we did stuff that my wife got (justifiably), very pissed at me for. I can't post about those though. :angel:

I've spent way more on the a/v equipment than I did on the structure itself. My neighbor is a builder so I got a deal on the lumber, and we built it ourselves on the weekends. My HOA tried giving me crap about it for awhile, but they eventually backed off. Thankfully I have a very understanding and tolerant wife, as I've gone a little overboard out there a few times.

My man cave was originally built with only the TV inside. I quickly realized that wasn't much fun for sports viewing so I only use the inside for watching movies, so I split the hdmi and mounted an outside TV, in retrospect I should have just built a wall with a TV on it for how little I'm actually inside the cave.

NFL opening weekend. Should be sunny and 80 degrees with low humidity here in Raleigh on Sunday. We get quite the 'tailgate' going at my man cave for these games. Grilled prime rib on the menu. Keg of homebrew will be tapped. Watching football outside in the fall with friends and family is F'N fantastic.

I had the Southern Tier Harvest last night, it's absolutely fantastic and would be my go to fall brew if it was widely available around here. New Belgium's Fall release "Red Hoptober" is a slightly maltier version of the ST Harvest, but I prefer the plain Hoptober that they did the past few years.

I absolutely can, this reminds me of another annoying trend. Vocal fry. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/12/vocal-fry-creeping-into-us-speec.html

Absolutely. A seatbelt saved my life as well, even wearing it I still cheated death. Had I not been wearing it I would have been decapitated.