What's your ideal drinking situation and what kind of beer?

[TheMattTrain]

Current favorite is drinking pretty much any beer while sitting around the fire pit with my wife and some good friends.

Soon to be new favorite... picking my daughter up from daycare after work, getting home, grabbing a beer, and watching my daughter play with the dog in the yard in the spring/summer. I feel like this would pair well with a tripel.

 

[Braufessor]

Really nice early fall day..... high 60's/low 70's. Sun. No wind. Sitting out on the screened in porch, listening to the water from our backyard pond. Wife, our 2 pugs and maybe a couple friends. Drinking something good (probably an APA, Amber, porter or maybe a german lager), relaxing and talking smart.

 

[ol-hazza]

That first beer on a friday afternoon which signals the start of the weekend.
Currently Black Dogs kiwi unleashed APA or one of my own

 

[TheCADJockey]

Right now, the way things are going this very minute... any beer, anywhere, because it would mean I am not here at work.

Otherwise for me, a cool night sitting outside as the sun sets over the river. A crisp IPA and a couple buddies. Thats all I need. Get me the funk out of here.

 

[unionrdr]

When we were young, my brother had a 68-69 AMX 4 speed with the 343 small block. Cool car for cruising/street racing. Reminds me of Wally Booth (P/SS). Sitting with my #1 multi-handicapped son on friday at 6pm drinkin' home brew & watching Bonanza. Or Star Trek on Saturday with some New Yankee Workshop or This Old House thrown in as well.
Or in warm weather, sittin' outside pit barbecuing a chunk of something & drinkin' home brew. Using home brew as a base for the mop sauce as well. Or barbecuing something low-n-slow in the pit while brewing & drinkin' home brew. Getting the beer in the fermenter right before dinner is ready. Now that's a reward!

 

[beerenstein]

When we were young, my brother had a 68-69 AMX 4 speed with the 343 small block. Cool car for cruising/street racing. Reminds me of Wally Booth (P/SS). Sitting with my #1 multi-handicapped son on friday at 6pm drinkin' home brew & watching Bonanza. Or Star Trek on Saturday with some New Yankee Workshop or This Old House thrown in as well.
Or in warm weather, sittin' outside pit barbecuing a chunk of something & drinkin' home brew. Using home brew as a base for the mop sauce as well. Or barbecuing something low-n-slow in the pit while brewing & drinkin' home brew. Getting the beer in the fermenter right before dinner is ready. Now that's a reward!

I have a 78 401 amc motor. I'm waiting to find a javelin with decent body, and motor blown. For cheap. since ideal was in the header, ideal is with a completed javelin amx lol.

 

[unionrdr]

Good luck finding a 1st gen! Cool cars.

 

[NickTheGreat]

I like watching college sports on my 110" screen with the homebrew. And that's what a do several nights a week . . .

 

[Natdavis777]

I love sitting around a bonfire in the fall/winter or on the deck in the warmer months. Any beer will do. As long as its nice outside and friends are around, its like a sore penis... you cant beat it.

 

[Psylocide]

Four Loko while sexing... never breaking eye contact.

 

[ultra_cas]

Chopping up some onions and peppers to saute, chicken is on the grill, guacamole is made. Getting some chicken quesadilla's cooked up for dinner before my wife and daughter come home from swim practice, got some Springsteen going on the stereo.

Also - hanging out on the boat, finishing up a great day on the water, pop open a homebrew, watch the sunset, maybe get one last waterski in as the sun sets, or one more salmon in the cooler.

 

[ohiobeer29]

Football season or a rare evening with nothing planned rare but super relaxing watching a good comedy special

 

[beersk]

In a corner in a fetal position...sobbing uncontrollably. Probably in the dark. 50/50 on if I am naked. Just gently rocking back and forth...

I laughed out loud at this...bravo!

My dream situation would probably be lots of friends, an amazing woman next to me, on a cool autumn day with the sun shining, no wind, and music playing (black metal or drum n bass). There would be a fire pit in the woods and we'd be camping and able to go to our tents and pass out. The beer I'd like to drink would probably be a helles or Pils.


I also liked the one about the guy who wanted Coors 2 for 1 pitchers at a tittie bar. Haha...sadly, I've been down that road and it was a surprisingly good time! So long as you have friends to go with...it wouldn't be any fun alone. And I saw those people...made me a little sad, then I had another beer and thought, "F*ck that guy!"

Damn, there's some good ones in this thread... "It's like a sore penis, ya can't beat it!" haha...

 

[kev211]

At my campsite in yosemite with my homebrew sharing it with buddies BSing over a campfire after a day of hiking and fishing.

I read the title of this thread and my first thought was... Floating down the merced in Yosemite, macking on some pistachios and enjoying a DIPA. So Ill wave at you as a float past your campsite

 

[Onkel_Udo]

A cool but not-frigid Roving Paddock Party a the Gingerman 24-hours-of-Lemons race. This time it will be "Tarrytown Rusty Brown" in honor of our new race car.

45-50F, my 15 year old Berenese Mountain Dog by my side and 15-20 old friends plus about 150 friends I have not met yet. Belly full from the great food I just cooked and served. Muscles just the right amount of sore from day of racing without too many breakdowns.

Heaven.

 

[indymedic]

Sittin around a campfire with friends, or a summer day on the deck with the grill going.

 

[bobeer]

Loving this thread! A lot of mental vaca's, drinkin fantasies, and one liners going on here!

 

[MaxStout]

For me, nothing beats relaxing at home after dinner on Friday night and pouring a couple beers. Just to decompress after what is usually a chaotic week. Doesn't matter what kind of beer--whatever I'm in the mood for at the moment.

 

[drainbamage]

Right now, the way things are going this very minute... any beer, anywhere, because it would mean I am not here at work.

Otherwise for me, a cool night sitting outside as the sun sets over the river. A crisp IPA and a couple buddies. Thats all I need. Get me the funk out of here.

This, on all accounts. Plus a campfire, and some bourbon on the side.

Alternately, sitting in a biergarten or patio bar on a bright spring afternoon in some city I've never been before...taking in the sights and sounds...people-watching the passersby on the street outside.

 

[seigex]

I read the title of this thread and my first thought was... Floating down the merced in Yosemite, macking on some pistachios and enjoying a DIPA. So Ill wave at you as a float past your campsite

Ah, another Yosemite'er ... right on... I go once a year to Tuolumne Meadows right after they open... my favorite time of the year.

 

[kev211]

Ah, another Yosemite'er ... right on... I go once a year to Tuolumne Meadows right after they open... my favorite time of the year.

Nice. Ive been going every summer since I was born. Usually stay at north pines in the valley in july-ish

 

[NoCornOrRice]

July / hammock in the forest / well hopped, citrus-y APA

 

[wardens355]

Drinking a pale ale with a bit of tropical fruit and citrus aroma while watching the sun go down on the beaches of Maui.

 

[OleGoatBrewing]

I like any beer when I'm brewing. Although this has caused "quality control" issues in the past...pulling down a home brew "while I'm brewing" its pretty satisfying.

 

[seigex]

Nice. Ive been going every summer since I was born. Usually stay at north pines in the valley in july-ish

I'm sensing a homebrew swap in Yosemite some day.

 

[kev211]

I'm sensing a homebrew swap in Yosemite some day.

You have a deal my friend.

 

[boxofjibboo]

Hanging with my lady and friends on the patio, or playing a game of cornhole on the driveway. All the while having a nice pale ale or IPA.

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

Awfully nice sitting around a poker table kicking a few back too. Something light and sessionable.

 

[JimEb]

After a long distance run. Sometimes its my motivation when out for a run.

For example today I'm doing 10-miles, that'll burn about 1800 calories (a 12-pack). Take a hot shower, disappear into the basement when the family goes to bed, pop in a good movie, and drink some beer. Thats as good as it gets.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Where do I like to drink? Wherever my kids aren't!

But more seriously, there's not a much better drinking situation than the Southern California Homebrew Festival. Plentiful brew to sample, nice sunny spring day in California, and surrounded by fellow travelers of the homebrew world. Good times!