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gamahuche7 months, 1 week ago
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Excellent story, sir! Welcome aboard.
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It perfectly encapsulates one layer of America which as a social phenomenon makes my hair stand on end.
OTOH I have spent sufficient time in some of the more extreme states to have experienced some people with hearts of gold whose lives are deeply embedded in the culture of lethal weapons.
One indeed gave me a cabin to live in, in MT, where the only onerous price that I had to pay was having him visit periodically and immediately set up his machine gun and try to blow the top off Emigrant Peak, which resisted magnificently.
After that came the real penance - consuming some abysmal generic weak beerwhose name I'm quitye pleased to have forgotten but its motto still lurks somewhere in my weary brain: "Its in the water!".
I'd have described it as "the water is in it" but I guess they had already rejected that..-
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gamahuche7 months, 1 week ago
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Well I was in NYC last year for my daughter's wedding and was very happy to find Czech Pilsner available quite freely. Even some VERY obscure bottled items in supermarkets too - some I think would not do so well if people knew more about their origins - the one from the town of crazy people, for example..
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HOWEVER I also had the pleasure of sharing a couple of beers with propeller members too!
The company is ALWAYS more important than the beer [or you're in SERIOUS trouble!] but one of the brews in a small pub just by Union Square was especially palatable - fortunately not enough to make me emigrate :)
What is really brilliant here is going to a small town and finding a small brewery that makes some quite unique brew.
My recent kissing expedition yielded one of those - a brewery attached to a glassworks where - apart from making a lager and a dark beer of 1st class quality, they also make a weak beer specially for the workers, which they consume throughout their workday. This one is not allowed to be sold but I had the good fortune to be offered a taste by a resting worker.-
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gamahuche7 months ago
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Thanks! It was not the easiest of passages but once we landed in this small ski-resort town - out of season of course - most of the pleasures of life came our way.
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One of our dogs came home sick though, so we had to go into emergency mode immediately after getting home.
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gamahuche7 months ago
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The micro-brewery thing was just starting before I left the US. The nearest to where I was living then was called "Magic Hat" in Burlington, VT.
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I do try to keep up-to-date with developments across the great water - I wouldn't be here if I wasn't interested! -
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