Share a good place-based memory involving beer

Discussion in 'Beer Talk' started by breadwinner, Jan 8, 2016.

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  1. breadwinner

    breadwinner Initiate (0) Mar 6, 2014 California

    It's Friday, and I need some happy thoughts as I slog through this work day. Here's your task: jot down one of your favorite memories that both involves beer and place. I've had some great beer in my day, but there's something singularly special about having not only good beer, but having it somewhere especially memorable. In fact, oftentimes the right place can make a good beer extraordinary.

    To wit, it was a warm August late afternoon, and the wife and I had been walking ourselves silly all across Manhattan. We wandered by a place on 60th and Lexington called Brinkley's Station. I don't think it's even there anymore. Stumbled in we did, collapsed at a high top table, and I scanned the beer list. Cold. Crisp. What do I need?! Something bracing, with bite, to revive my failing energies. A fresh pint of @Sixpoint's Righteous Rye was promptly delivered, along with a cup of perfectly seasoned fries and an absolutely killer grass-fed burger. I took a bite or two of the latter to appease the pangs of hunger -- manna from heaven! -- and then took a sip of my patiently waiting brew. Ah, what glory! Sweet, reviving nectar! The cold beer flowed through my veins instantaneously, washing over my overheated muscles. My blushing bride across the table, cold beer and warm burger. I was a man at peace.
     
  2. ovaltine

    ovaltine Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,787) Apr 6, 2010 Indiana
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    Enjoying a Westie XII and a Westie VIII with your feet in the sand whilst dining with your beautiful bride at Madame Janette's in Aruba was a pretty great evening.
     
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  3. Rback

    Rback Crusader (489) Feb 26, 2012 New York

    Living the Dan Fogleberg story:
    Genny Cream Ale in the back seat of a Corvair
     
  4. rgordon

    rgordon Pooh-Bah (2,701) Apr 26, 2012 North Carolina
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    Drinking Brains at a really beautiful old pub in Cardiff, Wales. We were passing through, hitchhiking, and mixing with the locals. They housed us, fed us, and two guys getting ready for vacation asked us to join them for a trip through The Lake Country and all over Scotland. Best Summer of my life! I still communicate with Geoff from Cardiff.
     
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  5. BBThunderbolt

    BBThunderbolt Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,846) Sep 24, 2007 Kiribati
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    Countless cans of Genny Cream while in the top row of Oswego Speedway's back grandstands, watching the Modifieds and and supermodifieds race. And, one sad night, when a simple spin and light contact took the life of a northeast racing legend, Jim Shampine. Also, plenty of nights atop Beer Hill at Williams Grove Speedway, Mechanicsburg PA, tipping back Yuengling Black and Tans watching the Pennsylvania Posse. My first Smuttynose Old Brown Dog and Finestkind in the parking lot of New Hampshire Speedway. Or, my first cask beer at Rock Bottom Indianapolis while in town for the Midget races at the old Hoosierdome.

    I used to travel a lot to the races, and beer was always there for us.
     
  6. Dan_K

    Dan_K Pooh-Bah (1,980) Nov 8, 2013 Colorado
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    I remember drinking a Maui Coconut porter on the summit of Mt. Sneffels. Because of the climate, we started before dawn and had to negotiate some precarious sections before reaching the summit. It was about 8 AM, 40 degrees with a howling wind, by the view was sublime! That Maui coconut porter was so delicious and really enhanced my experience.
     
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  7. red94tt

    red94tt Pundit (957) Nov 27, 2008 Michigan
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    I had a recent one I can add to this. The day after my son was born, my wife and I were still in our L&D room at the hospital for observation. My buddy came by to meet the baby and to my surprise, snuck in a bottle of Dragon's Milk w/raspberries. Before the nurse made her hourly rounds, we celebrated the occasion by sipping the beer from styrofoam cups:grinning:
     
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  8. dphalpin

    dphalpin Crusader (436) Jul 3, 2012 Virginia
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    A couple come to mind for me. My wife and I went for our honeymoon to Paris and then Belgium. In Paris we made a point of picnicking on the banks of the Seine or in the Jardin des Tuileries each day. We were/are big Cantillon fans, and although we had bottles before, they were always because someone shared them. Each night we brought the first bottles we ever purchased off the shelf with good cheese, preserves, and bread and just soaked in the atmosphere. It was hot the first few days but we didn't care one bit.

    We ended our trip by staying at the St. Bernardus B&B that is next door to their brewery in Watou. If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend it. Western Belgium is beautiful and it was such a relaxing end to our trip. We spent each day out amongst the farms and hop fields, drinking St. Bernardus (they have a stocked fridge in the lobby). The B&B was great and the host treated us like family. In the evening we would ride bikes into town to eat at local restaurants. It was fantastic and I hope we get the chance to relive these memories at some point.
     
  9. Leebo

    Leebo Initiate (0) Feb 7, 2013 Massachusetts

    Germany in 1980, still divided and me in HS. Where to start. A different beer everyday for 3 weeks. Alternate rounds of fresh Becks light and dark in a 300 year old basement bar in Bremen. West Berlin, outside cafe, rounds of Beliner Weisse with raspberry syrup. Yup, it was that good. Contrast that with seeing the Berlin wall, armed East German guards boarding the bus, bombed out churches in many towns left standing as a memorial. Quite a trip for a punk in High School.
     
  10. ericwo

    ericwo Zealot (624) Aug 21, 2008 Pennsylvania
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    Drinking a Country Boy IPA on the outside back deck of Everybody's Brewing in White Salmon, WA with a breathtaking view of Mt. Hood in front of me, after a morning of horseback riding with my daughter.
     
  11. johnInLA

    johnInLA Pooh-Bah (2,350) Jun 12, 2005 California
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    Sitting in an outdoor cafe in Brussels, drinking an Orval, back in 2003.

    What made it special was it was my first time drinking a Belgian beer in Belgium.
     
  12. taxandbeerguy

    taxandbeerguy Pooh-Bah (2,799) Jul 12, 2013 Canada (ON)
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    Sitting in a cafe in downtown Tallinn, Estonia, overseeing a bustling market square trying Saku's Homebrew (also known as Koduolu) while on my honeymoon was pretty remarkable. First experience with Sahti too. When in Estonia...
     
  13. TonyLema1

    TonyLema1 Pooh-Bah (2,890) Nov 19, 2008 South Carolina
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    About 20 years old (many, many years ago), sitting at an outdoor cafe in Lake Lucernce, Switzerland on a beautiful summer day...quaffing down several Adambrau's (probably spelled it wrong) taking in the scenery and people watching

    Fast forward 15 years later, in my apartment in Germany, with racks of 1/2 liter Bitburgers and a bunch of my buddies playing poker all night, listening to great tunes
     
  14. bluehende

    bluehende Initiate (0) Dec 10, 2010 Delaware

    Drinking a nice barrel aged stout at Long Trail then going down to the stream and throwing rocks with my then 2 yr old grand daughter.
     
  15. ChairmanMeow

    ChairmanMeow Initiate (0) Apr 18, 2015 Michigan

    In college, getting a shell of leinenkugel and a pickled egg at the B & B. Paying with a $1 bill, and getting change back.
     
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  16. pjbear05

    pjbear05 Pundit (806) May 28, 2008 Florida

    My niece's wedding/reception, held in the biergarten of the late lamented Bandersnatch brewpub in Tempe AZ. The bulk of my craft beer education commenced there, along with a fondness for milk/sweet stouts that endures to this day.
     
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  17. SABERG

    SABERG Grand Pooh-Bah (5,001) Sep 16, 2007 Massachusetts
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    After a successful climb of Denali, we wait for a plane to loop around the Kahiltna pass, we hear the engines.
    The bird lands, and the pilot gets out says "hello did you guys order this? " and from the back of the plane
    out comes a 12 pack of Bud cans. He throws them in the snow and says. "Enjoy these" and takes the first of our
    group off the mountain.
    Cheers all
     
  18. ChangSing

    ChangSing Zealot (640) May 5, 2013 Illinois
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    2010, I went to visit my buddy in San Francisco. The entire weekend was all beer...but the major highlight was the day of his birthday, we go to Kezar Pub at 9AM for USA v England in the World Cup. We hesitated because the place was packed and a $10 cover (but you get 3 beers)..we hesitated since we're 33 and tend to avoid crowds like that, but one we got in it was the best time. We drank Pliney all morning/day long, celebrated with a US win over the Lions, and then stopped at Magnolia for some food and another couple beers.

    I slept from 6PM to 6AM the next day.
     
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  19. jj139

    jj139 Initiate (0) Nov 25, 2013 California

    Rafting on the Green River through Dinosaur National Monument (Gates of Lodore ). One night we camped on a small beach along the river at the bottom of the canyon. Sitting on the sand watching Mountain Goats on the shear sandstone cliffs on the other side of the river while sipping a cold Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Life can be pretty damn good at times.
     
  20. vabeerguy

    vabeerguy Grand Pooh-Bah (5,245) Sep 21, 2015 Virginia
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    Almost any beer on a cruise ship especially to the Caribbean.
     
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