Share a good place-based memory involving beer

August of 2000, pints of Guinness throughout Ireland, but particularly (1) with my wife while doing a "Pubs of Old Dublin" walking tour, and (2) at an old pub in Kinsale the day we landed. There's just something about Guinness in Ireland, and we had a number of wonderful conversations with native Irish folks during our 9 days on the island.

 

A few summers ago, having a beer after climbing to the summit of Wheeler Peak in Nevada

 

Last year..September..after a round of golf with 2 budddies,we stopped at this
place for some dinner and drinks..and lo and behold! On tap was Parabola,KBS,
BCBCS and Hopslam..needless to say..it took us awhile to get home.

 

Great post... I think it's time to change your avatar to something fitting again.

 

- Genny Cream Ale
- Yuengling Black and Tan
- Bitburger
- Bud
- Guinness

All of these mentioned in just 21 posts... and the thread isn't necessarily about: inexpensive, macro, underrated, beer for a wedding, or whatever. There's a lesson in there somewhere.

 

Drinking a Tuckerman's pale ale while hanging out on the side of Tuckerman's ravine with some buddies up on Mt. Washington.

 

Took a beercation this Summer and spent nearly 10 whole days cycling, buying and drinking beer around Vermont staying in the Waitsfield area. Eating pork belly tacos till I was sick of them at Mad Taco almost every lunch hour after long rides.

It was pure heaven while I was there, I didn't want to leave.

 

Christmas Day on a park bench in Carnes, Australia

16oz can of Stella with oysters and prawns bought from a boat off the dock

 

Before Guinness Foreign Stout was available here, I made a special request to the resort that I was staying in to stock it in my room fridge. When I arrived at Sandals in Jamaica I was told the resort did was not able to purchase it and I was a bit bummed. Got to my room and my fridge was stocked with it. My butler went out and personally bought a couple of cases for me. Every bar on the resort had hidden bottles just for me. Got to say whenever I think of Jamaica I think of sitting on the beach and drinking Guinness Foreign Stout. It was one of the best weeks ever.

 

Sitting on the balcony, gazing out at downtown Ottawa and the Gatineau hills at sunset on one of the first warm nights of Spring, sipping from a Duvel tulip filled with La Fin Du Monde while listening to Genesis Live on the headphones...it was just a perfect combination of all things good.

 

Both stories are food pairings.

 

Was out on my uncle's boat and brought some canned Sculpin IPAs. It was the first time on the boat that year as we just put it in and the air-show practice trials were going on. We cracked open the Sculpins and it was my first time trying them. Sooo good. Seemed fitting as well since there were probably some Scuplin species right under us.

 

Having a Maccabees in a little restaurant in Jerusalem's Old City while enjoying kosher hot dogs and watching "Walker, Texas Ranger" in Hebrew with English subtitles.

 

Isn't that how everybody does it?

 

-- April 1984, a pub somewhere in London. I was on a school sponsored trip (my graduation gift from my parents). I was 18 at the time and remember visiting a 'local' in London with my buddies and drinking an imperial pint (approx. 20 oz, as God intended pints to be!) of Bitter and another of Stout (no idea what brewery they were made by). One of the happiest moments in my life.

-- December 2007. Took my wife on a 20th anniversary surprise getaway to Roanoke Island, North Carolina. One night we went out to a local bar/restaurant. The crowd was small (15-20 people) while two guys with acoustic guitars played and sang anything you wanted to hear (Johnny Cash, Beatles, CS&N, etc). We listened, we sang along, and we drank Newcastle Brown Ale all evening. A great evening!

 

Ha! That's not what I was thinking of @beertunes , but I will wait patiently until the day you put something with an engine again. Cheers.

 

Well, a couple days ago in a thread in the NW forum, I said that if somebody could whip this up for me, I'd post it as my avatar for a month. I asked the graphics guy at work this morning, and, well, shazam!!

http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/chucks-cd-2nd-anniversary.372963/

 

I was drinking a Casper white stout from James Paige Brewing. I saw my neighbor out side and wanted to see if he would like one. This is last winter and there was ice everywhere. I slipped and slammed into the ground and spilled the entire beer into the snow.

I scooped it up and ate the snow while he was drinking his lol.

 

Fishing of Marco Island catching some snook, redfish,yellow snapper, my brother in law pulls out a cooler of cold Corona, it was hot we were sunbaked parched i have to tell that brew was one i will remember had several so this brew in that time was one i will remember.