Beverages and Blades - Traditional of Course

btb01 said:
Schlafly makes some really good stuff. You might like their oatmeal stout if you can find it. That picture I shared (from dinner at their Bottleworks location) was a double IPA. I also had their Doppelbock while we were there, and both were good. And I had several Christmas Ales at my brother’s, which Schlafly did this year for the first time in several years.
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Thanks for the Schlafly recommendations, Barrett. :thumbsup::thumbsup::)
The mention of Doppelbock got my attention. I had one of these Paulaner Salvator Doppelbocks with supper last night. It may be my all-time favorite beer!


- GT
 
5K Qs said:
Thanks for the Schlafly recommendations, Barrett. :thumbsup::thumbsup::)
The mention of Doppelbock got my attention. I had one of these Paulaner Salvator Doppelbocks with supper last night. It may be my all-time favorite beer!


- GT
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It's a great one, Gary.
 
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Prester John said:
It's a great one, Gary.
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Thanks for the support, Vince. :) My daughter brought me a bottle of the Paulaner Salvator when she came home for Christmas one year while she was living in Spain. A year or two later, I went to visit her in Spain for almost 3 weeks over Christmas and New Year (and Kings' Day) and had the Salvator several times. That included a time she was showing me Valencia, we walked for miles through a linear park that took us to a place she wanted to eat, and we discovered it was closed. She tends to get very "hangry" sometimes, and I thought I or an innocent bystander or 3 might be injured. But I happened to spot a bar that served draft Salvator and nachos on a sunny outdoor patio, and that saved the day! Here's a photo of her tall glass:


Tonight I had a Bell's Double Cream Stout with my evening meal:


- GT
 
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5K Qs said:
Thanks for the support, Vince. :) My daughter brought me a bottle of the Paulaner Salvator when she came home for Christmas one year while she was living in Spain. A year or two later, I went to visit her in Spain for almost 3 weeks over Christmas and New Year (and Kings' Day) and had the Salvator several times. That included a time she was showing me Valencia, we walked for miles through a linear park that took us to a place she wanted to eat, and we discovered it was closed. She tends to get very "hangry" sometimes, and I thought I or an innocent bystander or 3 might be injured. But I happened to spot a bar that served draft Salvator and nachos on a sunny outdoor patio, and that saved the day! Here's a photo of her tall glass:


Tonight I had a Bell's Double Cream Stout with my evening meal:


- GT
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Salvator and nachos on the patio sounds great, Gary! I must visit the land of my ancestors. Don't like flying, though....

You have good taste in beer--and knives--my friend.
 
Prester John said:
Salvator and nachos on the patio sounds great, Gary! I must visit the land of my ancestors. Don't like flying, though....

You have good taste in beer--and knives--my friend.
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Belated thanks for the kind words, Vince. :)

My trip to visit my daughter in Spain was an amazing experience. I don't speak Spanish, but my daughter was fluent while living there. She had also done quite a bit of traveling around Spain (as well as other countries in Europe), so she knew what cities in Spain she wanted to show me and what specific sites, sights, and activities she wanted to share with me. And she had made all the travel and lodging arrangements prior to my arriving (except for some SNAFU with tickets for Alhambra in Granada, so we had to walk up the massive hill in the predawn dark in order to get near the front of the line for limited same-day tickets). My own personal translator, guide, travel agent, and local food/beverage expert - couldn't beat that!! Oh, I also sent her money in advance that she deposited in her Spanish bank account and could access when needed; she's occasionally slip me 10 euros for walking-around cash, but I told her I probably couldn't communicate well enough to actually complete a cash transaction anyway, so she should just hang onto the cash.

That was my only trip outside of the USA (except for VERY brief trips into Canada a couple of times), and I doubt if we'll do anything like that again. When I made that trip 10 years ago, I was having back trouble that was making it difficult for me to drive a car for more than about 30 minutes at a time, but I was amazed that the flights to and from Spain (IIRC a couple of hours from Grand Rapids to Philadelphia, several hour layover, and then 9 hours (?) from Philadelphia to Madrid) didn't "paralyze" me, probably because I could change position in my seat enough to keep back pain away.

You should try to get to Spain, Vince! Lots of amazing sights, and pig legs hanging in every bar - a real jamon cult there! (I could have eaten the Spanish tortillas for every meal, and left the jamon and tapas for others!) Oh, and at least one cuchilleria in every city we visited, and my daughter let me spend time in them, and even translated/negotiated for me!

- GT
 
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