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Enjoying a HB malt liquor in a fancy-schmancy glass.
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Got a big honkin' pot of chili simmering away. I'm drooling like Pavlov's dog, wishing it was dinner time. My 3-bean recipe: great northern, black, and baked beans. And 2 lbs ground beef. I know the Texans here will say that's heresy, but we like it.
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Actually, I caught about half of that myself. Need to drink more beer. ;)
Haha, exactly. Im not saying I was drunk when I posted that, but I wasn't sober.. .. so I live in the middle of nowhere, my driveway is a few hundred yards long up a steep hill. Our mailbox is at the bottom of said driveway, and our mail carrier drives like a maniac. So a pothole has developed by the mailbox and I swear she does a burnout when she leaves for her next stop, a couple hundred yards away. So, I filled that pothole and a couple others with millings from road construction that was close to my work, these essentially turn back into asphalt and are free. Hope I cleared up my slightly intoxicated post from yesterday evenings beverages..

On topic ..
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Perhaps I’ve been a bit too hard on the humble Kölsch Dorkster. I mean, look at the visual presentation with one of Cologne’s better known (if not the de-facto) Kölsch Ales to come out of Cologne in ages, Gaffel Kölsch. Absolutely lovely!

Now compare this beauty to the murky Kölsch out of Southern California a couple days back. I mean there is NO COMPARISON. Gaffel has it all, fantastic diamond-like clarity, great head, great lacing, 4.8% ABV, delicious, well lagered and matured Kölsch flavor – this one is my favorite folks!

Speaking of clone German brews – if you are in the US and trying to replicate these classics, remember to clarify the beers. If you want to make a cloudy beer, there are names for that – make a Kellerbier, a Zwickelbier or a Hefeweizen for example. Those are proudly cloudy beers, but don’t call yours a Kolsch unless it checks off all the boxes! Prost!

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Beer - three states at sunset.
An excellent dark lager, Foreteller, from There Does Not Exist, (California). Enjoyed this evening at our son’s (in Minnesota). Consumed from a Toppling Goliath (Iowa) tulip glass.

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Beautiful picture. Reminds me of the peaceful sunsets on the cousin's farm in Nebraska as a kid.
 
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