What are you drinking now?

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[orionol73]

Continuing with @CrookedLaker

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

8.3% goodness

 

[wepeeler]

HB Kolsch. You can see my glycol chiller through the beer

 

[grampamark]

HB Kolsch. You can see my glycol chiller through the beer View attachment 754708

That’s a beautiful beer.

 

[grampamark]

Nightcap.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

No picture, but I'm drinking a tasty cyser by @CaddyWampus. It's 11.8% ABV, so now I'm ready for bed.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

Hopefully the Puerto Rico move is officially off. So cheers to that!

 

[T Murph]

Hopefully the Puerto Rico move is officially off. So cheers to that!

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Man I would love to have a few of those. I hail from a craft brew dessert, we don't get the good stuff here.

 

[grampamark]

Breckenridge Hazy IPA. Not bad, actually.

 

[pshankstar]

Waiting for the pizza at Wegmans (local grocery store).

 

[WBB]

 

[orionol73]

 

[grampamark]

HB Altbier after shoveling snow. Again.

 

[SanJuanWorm]

An ESB called Great Expectations from a local called Cabin Brewing. Not usually a fan of bitters, but this one is crushable! Beery goodness!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Polish Porter to have with Polish food.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

A hazy from new trail called lift pass, so having it by the fire.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Preparing a starter to wake up some 5mo old Pub. Popped the cap on the very last bottle of strong bitter it was harvested from.

 

[lawdawg]

 

[BrewinInPA]

HB Deceased Dude

 

[orionol73]

 

[BrewinInPA]

More Deceased Dude

 

[orionol73]

 

[TwistedGray]

Fistfuls of wine today finished with a Firestone DBA

 

[Beernik]

Shed organizing part 10. We've...err, "we've" , officially decided to move to Puerto Rico for an early retirement. Ergo, home remodeling version 4 begins. Might as well see what I have.

HB Dubbel

My wife and I have kicked around the same idea, which is the closest she’s ever gotten me to talk about retirement. Her dad is living there part time & in FL part time.

Our kid is lobbying hard for New Zealand.

I told them, I have to get to the end of my current project (early-2023 to mid-2024 depending on change orders) and we can decide as a family.

Tonight is a blue curaçao margarita because tomorrow morning I’ll be putting the ‘fun’ in superfund.

 

[GBRbrew]

Hopefully the Puerto Rico move is officially off. So cheers to that!

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My parents lived there for 5 years (work related) if your not in a gated community or a resort the crime, drugs and poverty are terrible.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

My parents lived there for 5 years (work related) if your not in a gated community or a resort the crime, drugs and poverty are terrible.

It's been about 2 years of talk about the PR move. Wife went on vacation there and fell in love and hasn't stop talking about moving there because it's so "cheep". All my research/YouTube searches indicates the opposite. Like you said ex-pats should live in a gated community, but then $$$. But we also will still have a school aged grandchild to care for and that's 6yrs of a private school at 10K+/yr. Besides the pretty beaches don't see any bonus. The humid environment destroys homes so upkeep cost are much higher. Roads are atrocious. Food cost is higher unless you're living off local fruit. Medical is less but specialist are non-existent and the grandson needs a couple. Electricity cost are double Austin and you have to run A/C 24/7. Gave her the option of one hell of a travel budget instead. I finally made our property the way I want it and definitely don't want to start over. New Zealand looks very pretty but I believe it's much higher costs then the US but probably much safer then PR.

OT, coffee, no sugar

 

[Beernik]

Island living is just flat out expensive. I can tell you from living on a ferry-only island and a bridged island here in WA - especially food, utilities, & fuel. They are also less reliable because there are fewer system redundancies.

Puerto Rico is especially expensive because the Jones Act requires everything shipped to PR to pass through a mainland port first. That’s basically everything unnecessarily spending a week on a container ship passing PR on its way to the mainland and another week coming back.

I think it’s mostly fuel that would make New Zealand expensive for me. I’d have to sacrifice my preference of living outside of cities.

 

[seanjwalker1]

Hopefully the Puerto Rico move is officially off. So cheers to that!

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I hear it's a beautiful place but also extremely dangerous. I have 2 army buddies I served with that grew up there and still live there and they tell me to come visit and not to freak out when the cabs drive right through red lights or do 80 mph through crowded areas to bypass the gang bangers. And to ignore the automatic machine guns blazing nearby

 

[seanjwalker1]

It's been about 2 years of talk about the PR move. Wife went on vacation there and fell in love and hasn't stop talking about moving there because it's so "cheep". All my research/YouTube searches indicates the opposite. Like you said ex-pats should live in a gated community, but then $$$. But we also will still have a school aged grandchild to care for and that's 6yrs of a private school at 10K+/yr. Besides the pretty beaches don't see any bonus. The humid environment destroys homes so upkeep cost are much higher. Roads are atrocious. Food cost is higher unless you're living off local fruit. Medical is less but specialist are non-existent and the grandson needs a couple. Electricity cost are double Austin and you have to run A/C 24/7. Gave her the option of one hell of a travel budget instead. I finally made our property the way I want it and definitely don't want to start over. New Zealand looks very pretty but I believe it's much higher costs then the US but probably much safer then PR.

OT, coffee, no sugar

Puerto Rico is a U.S territory...you wouldn't be an ex Pat