TEXAS BEERZ s/d

Celis RIP

Do they not make it anymore? I thought I'd seen Pale Rider at the store recently.

For some reason stores and bars in Chicago are selling Shiner at a premium price, it makes no fucking sense.

Celis had some great ones -- loved Celis White. How did they go bust?!?! Ziegen and Shiner aren't remarkable but I drink 'em. Prefer PBR to Lone Star. Haven't ried the others.

Celis was brewed in Austin but it got bought out by Miller (I think) and closed down. I think someone else (not in Texas) bought the name then and is brewing it again, but I don't know if it's from the same recipe / ingredient sources.

yeah I mean Shiner got me through college but it's by no means a great beer

also three cheers for Lucky Lager, which cost $2.50 a twelve-pack in the mid-late 90s.

Fireman's 4 is pretty good, man. Recommended. xpost to wanko

Euler's comments go for pretty much every beer in my "awes" list. xpost

I missed that somehow. Wowza. xp

I am not so crazy abt Shiner at all tho sometimes I will buy it for variety bcz it's a totally decent price.

I drink Honey Brown on that basis. Some people retch at the mere mention of it. Just drink it COLD, that's all.

Saint Arnold

Pale Rye Ale is the finest thing ever. PISTOLS AT DAWN, STEENDRIVER!

raspberry?! Only one man would dare give me the raspberry -- LONESTAR!

And hell yeah to St. Arnold as well. I also like the Independence Brewing Company thingies.

I could be mistaken, but I think that the new Celis is Pierre's baby all over again, and even the same brewing plant.

Never forget!

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PISTOLS AT DAWN, STEENDRIVER!

lolol

vombuckets at dawn?

Also, though it is not a beerz, surely Tito's vodka deserves a mention hereabouts.

There has yet to be a vodka thread, but surely it is one of the finest anywhere.

Indeed!

I love their distillation strategy - "we buy other guys' vodka, then distill it further!"

On Texas topics - Los Angeles Plays Itself will be at the new Ritz Drafthouse next Wednesday. It will be my inaugural flick at the new location. Be there, or be don't there!

I saw a guy wearing an Alamo Ritz Opening Night shirt on the bus today, I wanted to hug him.

I hope they keep Full Moon on tap. Be nice if they could get a full bar going, too.

I think they do have a full bar in fact. Saw a picture on the blog or something.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, my wallet is in trouble now.

"I'd like a large buttered popcorn, and a Lagavulin."

Oh, and some Mike and Ikes.

no mention of Pearl?

yeah I mean Shiner got me through college but it's by no means a great beer

i'm glad someone admits this. i've known too many texas ex-pats who confuse their nostalgia for college and/or texas with thinking shiner is actually good beer, and who insist on stocking their fridge with nothing but at parties etc. it's just a mediocre regional brew, and outside texas it's usually overpriced. (i guess the equivalent for a penn stater like me would be undue allegiance to yuengling.)

If you're in Austin and want to sample Texas beers, go to any Opal Divine's on Wednesday... they have $2 pints of any Texas beer all day! They've got most of them on tap, too.

^ tru

On my birthday someone insisted I go down the line and try them all.

But I was sane instead.

I thought the reason for Opal Divine's was Scotch, not beer, but that doesn't sound like a terrible idea.

last time i went the girl with me kept getting shiner until i finally forced her to get something else.

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Got this last night. It is so-so. Maybe I just don't like brown ale?

I'm beginning to think you don't like REAL ALE!

Fer serious, I prefer a thicker, richer, maltier beer in cool weather like this, so I've been enjoying brown ales, stouts, and porters for the last few days. I've seen Real Ale's seasonal coffee porter on tap at at least three places the last couple of weeks.

i am very happy with the six pack of shiner hefeweizen in my fridge

went amazingly well with the cilantro chicken i made last night.

Dude you are all messed up. Wheat beers are for hot summer weather.

I DEMAND ORTHODOXY IN BEER APPRECIATION!

lol in that short story i submitted to BIG MAGAZINE they are drinking sam adam's cherry wheat beer in a snowstorm.

I had a lone star at a club in El Paso a few weeks ago. It was pretty unremarkable, but I wondered if it was what Alamo beer was supposed to taste like.

That's what I always figured. Hank and his boys seem the types to go for nearly tasteless, watery domestic industrial pilsner.

Man I drank a lot of Lone Star back in my dead-broke poet days.

Still only a buck at Ginny's Chickenshit Bingo Sundays!

I didn't know Shiner was a Texas beer. The price is right on that one. It's not a favorite, but it's not bad, and I'll pick it up for variety every couple months.

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^ otm