My ideal beer life...

Well, mine certainly doesn't look like the current reality here in SC!

Rather it looks more like my life looked in the early 90s, when I spent a year abroad in Bamberg, Germany, living 200 yards from the Schlenkerla Tavern and surrounded (within a 1-hour radius) by 350 breweries. During that year I made it to about 75 of those 350. I also got to visit Pilsen while the old Urquell was still being brewed and drink it at the source; Prague, where spicy dark lagers like U Fleku cost $0.30 per half liter; Belgium, where Cantillon and Westvleteren were still relatively undiscovered; and London, where I went to my first Great British Beer Festival, with hundreds of the country's best cask conditioned ales (I sampled around 80 over the course of a few days).

 

You seem to be a huge fan of German beers and I wonder what you think of this beer http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/21108/52807 if you have had it. I had some on cask and it was amazing.

 

Mine is actually pretty obtainable: move to Bend.

 

That one's within the radius, but I never made it there. Ungespundete (unbunged) Kellerbiers/Landbiers are an amazing experience in general (and the specialty of Franconia), so I trust you here. Will be on the lookout for it (here and when I'm back over there). Cheers!

 

Mine?

Summer on Nantucket island, drinking Cisco & offshore.
Fall and Spring: live in Brookline, live in Boston pubs, go to Sox games
Winter: Ft Myers, Fl. Drink beer, watch Spring training.

also; spend month of November in England, living in pubs

 

Easy....summer house in Portland and winter house in the other Portland.

 

hmmm spent the last 12 years working in the 'alcoholic beverage' industry. Now I run a brewery, get all the beer I can drink, and receive a paycheck... life IS good

 

Hmmm. Running my own store with access to everything I want daily. Spending time at Akkurat and then Copenhagen.

Cheers!

 

Live in the SF Bay Area with a similiar rotation. I'll stick to IPAs as did the OP:

Alpine's Bad Boy & Pizza Port Poorman's DIPA
PtE & PtY
Dreadnaught

Different regions of brews, but this is a dream scenario afterall right?

 

Drink all the beer I want without having to worry about gaining any weight. If that were possible I'm sure I'd drink a lot more.

 

I was gonna say the same thing.

My ideal scenario: drinking beer makes you lose weight.

 

I would just wanna move to Chicago. Close enough to Founders and Bells, got 3 Floyds and Pipeworks. Goose Island, Soon to be Lagunitas, oh and dont forget that its close enough to Wisconsin to get New Glarus. Great Lakes also makes it there.

I could rotate:
Zombie Dust
BCBS
Gumballhead
Edmund Fitzgerald
Oarsman
Two-Hearted
Ive forgotten so many.

 

If I found anything closer to my actual beer life here in Seattle (and not all that far from Portland and Bend), I'd be a danger to myself and the community.

 

Nothing is really wrong with my beer life. Living in San Diego might be nice. I'd miss the winter, but a lot of beer and a NL baseball team should make up for that. Being fluent in some(German, Spanish, French, and Italian) European languages would be an added benefit.

 

I'd still live where I am, but I would visit London and other parts of the UK at least once a year, Germany too, NYC, and the San Diego area. Also Portland/Seattle.

 

My ideal scenario: drinking beer makes you lose weight.[/quote]

If drinking beer made you lose weight, I would be a skeleton by now. Sad....

 

I have an exceptional beer life as it is and, truly, there's not much that any reasonable person would change. However, a yearly trip to Belgium, with visits to Austria, England, Italy and Germany mixed in, will be added if I ever hit the Lotto. (Memo to self: start buying Lotto tickets)

 

Everything except Pyramid and Red Hook.

Actually, things have been getting pretty interesting lately with a few new local breweries, and of course all the great beers coming up from Oregon and beyond. I've been exploring outside of the Pyramid/Red Hook world for only a couple years myself, but there's certainly no shortage of tasty beers available.