(OT) Bear Beer Connoiseur

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18448476.htm

Perhaps Canadians will applaud his taste in beer.

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Hop David
http://clowder.net/hop/index.html

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:41:22 -0700, Hop David wrote:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18448476.htm

Perhaps Canadians will applaud his taste in beer.


Rainier is an American brand. But it does show the
boozed bruin is not your average beer.

--Damon

Damon Hill wrote:

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:41:22 -0700, Hop David wrote:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18448476.htm

Perhaps Canadians will applaud his taste in beer.


Rainier is an American brand. But it does show the
boozed bruin is not your average beer.

snipped snarky Rainer jokes. Nobody who doesn't live in the NW would
get them anyhow.

D.
--
Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh.

Damon Hill wrote:
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:41:22 -0700, Hop David wrote:


http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18448476.htm

Perhaps Canadians will applaud his taste in beer.



Rainier is an American brand. But it does show the
boozed bruin is not your average beer.

--Damon

I stand corrected -- looks like a Pabst product.

Although a Canadian beer could still be called American. (I used to have
a teacher from Mexico that was adamant "America" and "U.S.A." were not
synonymous. He maintained that people from Sonora, Mexico were just as
American as people from Arizona, U.S.A.)

--
Hop David
http://clowder.net/hop/index.html

Hop David wrote:
[...]
Rainier is an American brand. But it does show the
boozed bruin is not your average beer.

I stand corrected -- looks like a Pabst product.


Well, in the '70s and '80s the regional breweries got bought up by the
majors and then passed around. That's why Weinhard's is brewed in the
wrong state now, and also it makes it hard to remember who's brewing
what.

Although a Canadian beer could still be called American. (I used to have
a teacher from Mexico that was adamant "America" and "U.S.A." were not
synonymous. He maintained that people from Sonora, Mexico were just as
American as people from Arizona, U.S.A.)

Of course they are, but don't they usually call themselves after
either their country (Mexico) or their cultural roots (Toltec, Aztec,
Mayan, ...)? Meanwhile, we can't call ourselves "Unitedians" -- that
would conflict with various other United countries also in this
hemisphere, and "Statesian" has the same objection. I suppose we
could make a pitch for "oo-see-ans".

/dps

(Derek Lyons) wrote:
[...]
snipped snarky Rainer jokes. Nobody who doesn't live in the NW would
get them anyhow.


Hey, Space Tech would understand them, wouldn't they? Doesn't that
make the jokes OT? And then there's all the Artesians being recruited
for the first "manned" flight of the ST craft!

/dps

Hop David wrote:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18448476.htm

Perhaps Canadians will applaud his taste in beer.



Right back'atcha:

http://www.thirstybear.com

And the reason it's called what it is:

http://www.thirstybear.com/Article.html


Located in San Francisco, CA they serve Spanish Tapas and have a pool
table upstairs.

Main complaint is the noise factor, the cool interior doesn't muffle
the patrons so much as it seems to amplify the other conversations.

Good food, decent beer, convenient location to the Moscone Convention
Center, Sony Metrion, and Downtown.

Enjoy,
TBerk