h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm sure that most of you know me well enough to understand that this is going to be an almost exclusively beer-related journal conversation, with the occasional mention of solid food. And what better time of the year to kick things off

Anchor Christmas Ale 2008 http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/28/45537
Sierra Nevada Celebration 2008 http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/140/1904
Sierra Nevada Anniversary Ale 2008 http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/140/43509
Oaked Arrogant Bastard http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/147/8951
Breckenridge Christmas Ale http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/759/3508
Left Hand Black Jack Porter http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/418/1251

Also about half a pot of Gentleman's Relish very kindly donated by Mu Beta

I'm tempted to go back to the supermarket later today or tomorrow to pick a six pack each of the other two Christmas beers that caught my eye. They'll be in the fridge at some point in the very near future, oh yes

*sneaks a bottle of the Sierra Nevada out of the fridge

Good choice

Now bring it back

Oooh... He's just going to do a bit of magic with it... He's going to turn it into water.

Wow. The Anchor Christmas is a lot more spicy this year than I remember it last year.

BoB-damn the internet and google searchability and beerability :: http://www.beerritz.co.uk/search.asp?ManufacturerName=&CategoryID=&ABV=&ProductName=Sierra+Nevada+&Submit=Go%21
damn they've a good sleection of beers

And that's a mere selection of their vast range

Taddy Porter http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/113/572

I do likes me dark beers/stouts/porters
Thought I'd put myself a little selection of beers together.
:: 2 each of:

Anchor Steam
Sierra Nevada Porter
Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale
Sierra Nevada Stout
Chimay Blue
Anchor Porter

I think they're all North American cept the Chimay Blue which I think is Belgium... Waht do you think for them as a selection, good choises?

Definitely Except for the Chimay - I'm keen on Belgian beers.

If you drink the Anchor Porter and then the Sierra Porter you'll probably wish you'd bought more of the Sierra. Try one Anchor and then one Sierra and decide from there. Anchor Steam is a good one

Damn damn damn.

I'm *not* keen on Belgian beers

I like some* Belgium beers, but don't like others... Some are... well, a bit 'lagery' But others I find quite I'm in a bit of a quandry now.... I could limit the origional selection to one bottle of each, and have a selection of a furhter 6, probably Scottish and English stouts/porters in the box... naa think I'll go with the origional selection... just to test em out and then maybe do a simular selection of 6 X 2 bottles of a mix of UK stouts/porters/dark beers

I'm liking the Anchor Porter more than the Sierra Porter.... to me at least (and I've a cold at the moment), the Anchor is more... err complex... more aoromas and flavours coming through than the Sierra
The Steam was good.... But to my sens eof taste at least not good enough for me to probably hunt it down again; Of course its costing me a bit more to buy it here as an imported bottle beer, adn there are plenty of local brews roudn these ere parts I think I prefe to it, which are in a similar area taste wise to it, but of ocurse which are pretty cheap in comparason and availible pretty easily just in the pub Still got the stout and the big foot to go
(actually the Sierra porter is growning on me somewhat)

I wish you could get some of the Sierra Nevada Celebration Best beer ever

I'lltry look out for it... the web-site I got this beer from didn't do it... But there must* be other web-sites selling imported beers bit of a hangover this morn.... this afternoon when I finally surfaced at about 3.30 and now I'm just upset there isn't any beer left in

Saturday night I ended up at the bar down the road, the kind of place you don't expect to get anything but the typical sex-in-a-canoe American lagers. They actually have Belhaven Scottish Ale mysteriously, but only in bottles and it tastes like crap in the bottles after being imported over here and left on countless loading docks in the sun for hours.

Anyways, I took the opportunity to give Budweiser's new "American Ale" a try.

Be happy I did so I can save you the trouble. Basically it tastes like a flowery lager. It has none of the characteristics that I like in an ale, just the things I don't like in some such as St. Arnolds. Basically it tastes like you poured the backwash from an almost empty bottle of St. Arnold's into a can of Budweiser just for the color.

Sounds like an ideal addition to the Drafthouse bar, given that we sell more Miller Light and Lone Star than all our other bottles (all 30 of 'em) put together

Deschutes Jubelale
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/63/2178
I'm very annoyed at our Capitol Beverage rep for palming us off with Shiner Holiday Cheer http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/143/45591 instead of the Deschutes . Still, it's from Texas instead of Oregon, it's cheaper for us to buy (so we make more money on it), and the locals are throwing it down their necks like there's no tomorrow, so... . Personally I think it tastes like a really bad fruit-flavoured cough syrup.

Sierra Nevada Porter
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/140/279
I will never, ever, ever, ever get tired of this stuff

I almost forgot! Two more that have enjoyed only a brief residency in Gosho's fridge, having been given as samples from one of reps.

Starr Hill Jomo Lager
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/13667/33177
Despite having a very odd name, and despite the fact that I find most lagers a bit bland, this one is really rather good. It tasted more like a pale to me in fact. This is definitely not Hoffmeister or Carling or any of those other mass-produced lagers that the kids like to swill on a Friday night before kicking seven colours of shit out of each other.

Starr Hill Dark Starr Stout
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/13667/29995
Bloody good stuff Very strong coffee smell and taste. Lots of highly roasted/borderline burnt flavours too. Drier than the bits of the Atacam Desert where it hasn't rained for centuries... if ever!