We're number one!

[Kalleh1]

I am going to Kansas City next week so I posted a question on the Mountains and Plains Travel Forum here about good places for beer. They hardly have any posts in their section!

The midwesterners have 832 posts on their site, which surely the statisticians would find to be significantly more posts than those on the number two and three forums, the UK with 476 and the Mid-Atlantic with 451.

So, I award the Midwesterners on Realbeer.com with the "Most Interested in Beer Award!' One cask conditioned beer for all of us!

[Now, I do understand that there are intervening variables. Some of the sections of country are not that well-populated. Also, there are some interlopers who post in other areas, most notably Richard English and Chazwicke!;) Still, isn't it interesting to see such differences? It must mean something!]

[steveh]

I honestly expected to see an animated giff giving me the bird! ;)

S.

[Fast_Eddy]

I think some regions spend too much time online and not enough time drinking beer :o

[DreamWeaver]

I'm multi-tasking! :D

[chazwicke]

I'm multi - tasting:D

[BluesHarp]

What he ^ said !

[Kalleh1]

BTW, I think we should make Richard and Chazwicke honorary midwesterners!;)

Perhaps we midwesterners (especially those of us in Illinois!) are just so frustrated with our sports teams that we have decided to be number one here instead!

[Bruno_78]

Fret, didn't you used to be considered one of us, or were you too far south?

[steveh]

Originally posted by Fast_Eddy
I think some regions spend too much time online and not enough time drinking beer

Have you seen my tasting notes? ;) (and I have a backlog of about 10 that time hasn't allowed me to enter!)

S.

Oh, and Kalleh - I'm a Cardinals fan! :-)

[threecb]

Originally posted by steveh
Oh, and Kalleh - I'm a Cardinals fan!

Aren't they in Arizona!?!? ;)

[steveh]

Originally posted by threecb
Aren't they in Arizona!?!?

Not the ones in FIRST place! :D

S.

[threecb]

Originally posted by steveh
Not the ones in FIRST place!

Oh, THOSE Cardinals...in that weak NL central division...:D

[wild]

Originally posted by steveh
Not the ones in FIRST place! :)

Hey now!!! Well OK, you're right.

Wild

[steveh]

Originally posted by threecb
Oh, THOSE Cardinals...in that weak NL central division...

Still got the best record in Baseball, and we all know nobody plays their division (or league) exclusively.

I'm not getting an allegiance reading here Three... but it's sounding suspiciously tipped toward the Bronx... ;)

S.

[threecb]

Originally posted by steveh
I'm not getting an allegiance reading here Three... but it's sounding suspiciously tipped toward the Bronx...

Definitely NOT! (much to the dismay of just about ALL my family, friends, etc.

Actually, I'm not much of a baseball fan. I only really watch around the playoffs. I like to cheer on the Red Sox just to piss everyone around here off. One of these years they might actually beat the Damn Yankees!:o

NL, I'll cheer on the Mets to keep a local allegiance. Poor me...

[chazwicke]

Originally posted by Kalleh1
BTW, I think we should make Richard and Chazwicke honorary midwesterners!;)



Thanks for that. My mothers side of the family was from the Midwest (Wisconsin) And one of my sisters and her family have lived in Wisc / Mich for years.

Does this qualify?

[fretlessman71]

Originally posted by Bruno_78
Fret, didn't you used to be considered one of us, or were you too far south?
Too far south. Tennessee is also its own little world - when you cross over from Kentucky, there's a sign that says "Welcome to Tennessee - Set your watch back about 20 years."

Gnashville is only about 3-4 hours' drive from Atlanta, so I guess it counts as The South. And the way that we saw them treat all of the "non-white" folks (for the most part, anyway) made me realize that we WEREN'T in Colorado anymore. :(

[fretlessman71]

Originally posted by chazwicke
Thanks for that. My mothers side of the family was from the Midwest (Wisconsin) And one of my sisters and her family have lived in Wisc / Mich for years.

Does this qualify?
You bet it does. And it even qualifies if you refer to your turn signal as a "blinker"! ;)

[davesarman]

As a fellow Midwesterner from Minnesota, let me raise my glass and say, "Ya, shure, you betcha!" :p

In heaven there is no beer.....
That's why we drink it here....
And when we're gone from here...
Our friends will be drinking all our beer....

I always liked that song, but then got to thinking, if there's no beer in heaven, maybe I don't want to go!

[Beaver]

Originally posted by fretlessman71
You bet it does. And it even qualifies if you refer to your turn signal as a "blinker"! ;)

Is that a Midwest thing? I grew up in Michigan, and I've always thought that was normal.

I have noticed that euchre is a very Midwest thing. No one in Colorado has heard of it besides the transplanted Midwesterners.

[davesarman]

Originally posted by Beaver
I have noticed that euchre is a very Midwest thing. No one in Colorado has heard of it besides the transplanted Midwesterners.

Euchre and Sheephead are popular card games in MN. In SD we played a similar game called Rattle but no one I know in MN has heard of it.

[threecb]

Originally posted by fretlessman71
You bet it does. And it even qualifies if you refer to your turn signal as a "blinker"!

The Mid-Atlantic uses blinker, too. At least MY part of the Mid-Atlantic!:rolleyes:

[Stodbrew]

Steveh-

Should be an interesting series with my Giants and the Cards this weekend. Hopefully the Giants can start playing some ball and take care of Business! :D

[chazwicke]

Originally posted by threecb
The Mid-Atlantic uses blinker, too. At least MY part of the Mid-Atlantic!:rolleyes:

I use both blinker and turn signal. My son enjoyed hearing it refered to as indicator when he was in England.

[steveh]

Originally posted by davesarman


I always liked that song, but then got to thinking, if there's no beer in heaven, maybe I don't want to go!

Yeah, it wouldn't be heaven if there was no beer, right? I never understood it either, must have been Puritan Polka Masters or sumthin'.

S.

Of course, there's the Hofbrauhaus Tent at Oktoberfest which proclaims, "Himmel im Bayern!" Heaven in Bavaria. ;)

[steveh]

Originally posted by Beaver
Is that a Midwest thing? I grew up in Michigan, and I've always thought that was normal.

Me too, I think the rest of you guys are the wacky ones - then there's those Milwaukeeans (a'na hey) who drink water from "bubblers." ;)

I have noticed that euchre is a very Midwest thing. No one in Colorado has heard of it besides the transplanted Midwesterners.

Really? I haven't played euchre in years. I think the game is actually mentioned in Steinbeck's stageplay of Of Mice and Men.

S.

[chazwicke]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to Valhalla. They have plenty of beer there!

[steveh]

Originally posted by Stodbrew
Should be an interesting series with my Giants and the Cards this weekend. Hopefully the Giants can start playing some ball and take care of Business!

I'm bitin' my nails already - and the doggone Cubby fans ought to be rooting for the Cards now! ;)

S.

[steveh]

Originally posted by chazwicke
I use both blinker and turn signal. My son enjoyed hearing it refered to as indicator when he was in England.

Where did "directional" come from? Seems like I've heard my dad use that in the past.

S.

[fretlessman71]

Originally posted by Beaver
Is that a Midwest thing? I grew up in Michigan, and I've always thought that was normal.

I have noticed that euchre is a very Midwest thing. No one in Colorado has heard of it besides the transplanted Midwesterners.
He played for the Brewers, right? Lots of really bad Miller Lite commercials, too? ;)

Yep, it's really a turn signal. Just beacuse it blinks doesn't mean that it's a blinker - otherwise we'd ALL be blinkers, right?

[steveh]

Originally posted by fretlessman71
He played for the Brewers, right? Lots of really bad Miller Lite commercials, too? ;)

No, he's the Brewers' announcer, he started with the Milwaukee BRAVES, but played all over. "Front row!"

S.

And the commercials weren't all that bad, just the product!

[steveh]

Originally posted by chazwicke
I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to Valhalla. They have plenty of beer there!

Wouldn't they be serving more mead than beer in Valhalla? Since it would be the afterlife, I wonder if you'd actually get drunk? Mead always kicks my a**!

S.

[chazwicke]

No. From what I gathered from Alan Eames's talk on the subject, Valhalla is one big beer hall. And after all, I'm Norweigian on my Mom's side.

[steveh]

Just a fast search I did: Drunken Muse: The Vikings (http://www.baramerica.com/muse/drinkers/vikings.html)

You need to grow a big beard to be a good viking Chaz! I'm Finn and Irish on my mother's side - cause and effect. I'll meet you at the barrel!

S.

[chazwicke]

Originally posted by steveh
Just a fast search I did: Drunken Muse: The Vikings (http://www.baramerica.com/muse/drinkers/vikings.html)

You need to grow a big beard to be a good viking Chaz! I'm Finn and Irish on my mother's side - cause and effect. I'll meet you at the barrel!

S.

I was looking it up too. I seems it was mead sucked from the teat of a she goat.

[steveh]

More on Valhalla (http://www.pantheon.org/articles/v/valhalla.html)

Hmm, She Goats - and it's the Hall of the Slain. Unless I can be promised beer - and not suckled from a cloven toed animal, and I won't have to be slain until I'm on my death bed - maybe I'll stick with the Hofbrauhaus as my own personal Valhalla! ;)

S.

[Fast_Eddy]

Originally posted by steveh
Wouldn't they be serving more mead than beer in Valhalla? Since it would be the afterlife, I wonder if you'd actually get drunk? Mead always kicks my a**!

S.

According to one of my best friends, a Swede, mead was drunk with meals and beer was reserved for celebration.

[chazwicke]

Originally posted by steveh
More on Valhalla (http://www.pantheon.org/articles/v/valhalla.html)


Hmm, She Goats - and it's the Hall of the Slain. Unless I can be promised beer - and not suckled from a cloven toed animal, and I won't have to be slain until I'm on my death bed - maybe I'll stick with the Hofbrauhaus as my own personal Valhalla! ;)

S.


After all that, I think I'll hang at the Hofbrauhaus too.

[Kalleh1]

Okay, guys, with that trade this weekend, the Cubs are going to rule! :D

I have a question...are any of you "hashers?" There was an article in the Trib today talking about "hashing, " and specifically the Chicago Hash House Harriers run, and then party with beer! Not bad! The comment made by the person who runs the Chicago Hash House Harriers said, "I like running. I like beer. It struck me as ingenious to combine the two."

I have 2 questions. First, is it beer...or is it good beer? Secondly, how long has "hashing" been popular in Chicago? I hadn't heard of it!

[studentofbeer]

i saw that article too. it sounded like it could be fun. i started running, and after coming back from a run, having some water and hitting the shower, there was nothing like a good hefeweizen to get me back on track.

[steveh]

Originally posted by Kalleh1
Okay, guys, with that trade this weekend, the Cubs are going to rule!

Woo hoo hoo - haw haw haw! Just 'cause of Nomar? I can't wait for his ego to rear its ugly head around Sammy - and we thought only the Sox had fireworks! ;)

I have 2 questions. First, is it beer...or is it good beer? Secondly, how long has "hashing" been popular in Chicago? I hadn't heard of it!

http://www.chicagohash.com/ "Then a beer stop featuring real beer, such as Guiness, Urquell, Newcastles, and other beers we cannot broadcast in this email. Then a third stop, combining wine and beer. How does the saying go? Wine and Beer, never fear?"

Well, 2 out of 3 ain't bad, but I'd bet there's more Miller lite or Old Stale pouring than most anything else in this club. I think I'll stick with the Trek100 Ride for Hope - with Delafield Brauhaus Beer at the finish!

S.

[BluesHarp]

Originally posted by steveh
Just a fast search I did: Drunken Muse: The Vikings (http://www.baramerica.com/muse/drinkers/vikings.html)

You need to grow a big beard to be a good viking Chaz! I'm Finn and Irish on my mother's side - cause and effect. I'll meet you at the barrel!

S.

German, Norweigan, and English...I got most beverages covered!

[BluesHarp]

Originally posted by davesarman
As a fellow Midwesterner from Minnesota, let me raise my glass and say, "Ya, shure, you betcha!"

In heaven there is no beer.....
That's why we drink it here....
And when we're gone from here...
Our friends will be drinking all our beer....

I always liked that song, but then got to thinking, if there's no beer in heaven, maybe I don't want to go!

...or the Wisconsin Polka:

Up in Wisconsin, up in Wisconsin...
the weather isn't very nice.

Up in Wisconsin, up in Wisconsin....
we do our fishing through the ice. :D

[Kalleh1]

Oh, BluesHarp, I forgot that you were from WI (my home state, too!) Now, I do think Wisconsin police are really rude to Illinois's drivers (we have had a few amazing stories in the Chicago media recently about that), but generally, it is a great state.

My son was at a beer fest there recently, and they forgot to give him his ticket when he gave them $12.00. So, he came back and asked them for the ticket. Of course, they thought he was lying so they said, "Give us your name and address, and if we are $12 over at the end of the day, we'll send you a check." Of course, my son thought they were giving him a line. Sure enough, they called him the next day and said, "We want to be sure your address is correct. We'll put the check in the mail today!" He received his $12 check in a few days.

As my son said, "Only in Wisconsin!";)