the trifecta - imperial pint of guinness, slightly shorted to make room for a shot of jameson and a shot of espresso. bliss... except for the time where it ended up being a shot of guinness, a shot of espresso and an imperial pint of jameson...

I only drink the beers for breakfast if I'm eating breakfast at a restaurant.

Here in Mpls., I like to go to the Bryant Lake Bowl, where you can get a really good breakfast made from free-range eggs and get a decent tap beer with it. And there are people bowling.

This is something I like to do on Sunday mornings.

It's like Orange Juice.

Sister_Ray wrote:As if you can get Greene King in the states. That stuff is brewed in the little town where I live, I didn't think it would have such wide distibution. Guiness is my breakfast beverage.

Sister, I went over there (jabs westward), and many of the bars were serving Bass, and Sam Smith's from Tadcaster, as if it were rare, premium beer from strange lands.

Folks, Sam Smith's is brewed about ten miles from here, and a pint in town will cost me £1.50 - that's roughly 75c. It's good stuff.

And I'll sound like a dick for saying this but over here, noone calls Newcastle Brown Ale, 'Newcastle'. It's 'Brown Ale', or just 'Brown' - this latter could get confusing, I realise. In Newcastle itself, you'd ask for 'a bottle of Dog'. I don't know why.

Sorry for the parochialising, I'm truly glad you all appreciate these fine beers.

hench wrote:the trifecta - imperial pint of guinness, slightly shorted to make room for a shot of jameson and a shot of espresso. bliss... except for the time where it ended up being a shot of guinness, a shot of espresso and an imperial pint of jameson...

Between this and Krakow journal, I'm convinced that I must hang out with hench, get horribly drunk together, and possibly head-butt him.

JDanger wrote:

It's like Orange Juice.

Yeah, spiked with cardamom, allspice, and other detritus from a Belgian's colon. Bleh. I hate fucking white beers.

Guinness is the only acceptable answer.

I hate to admit that I have it for "breakfast" on a regular basis.

daniel robert chapman wrote:And I'll sound like a dick for saying this but over here, noone calls Newcastle Brown Ale, 'Newcastle'. It's 'Brown Ale', or just 'Brown' - this latter could get confusing, I realise. In Newcastle itself, you'd ask for 'a bottle of Dog'. I don't know why.

Apparently...
"If you ask for a bottle of broon, a newkie broon, a bottle of the golden nectar or a bottle of dog in the Newcastle area you will be given a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale. During the 1980’s an advertising campaign was launched showing men telling their wives they were going to walk the dog and then they were seen in the pub drinking Newcastle Brown Ale and this is the most likely explanation for the nick name bottle of dog. " -

It still reminds me that if you hit the bottom of your bottle on the top of your neighbour's bottle, their's would explode and cover them in Broon

Breakfast beer? Leffe bruin - start as you mean to go on.

I would think that an oatmeal stout would suffice.

However, on the many occasions that I have had breakfast beers in my life, it was at a point in my life (i.e. college) where I had neither the refined taste nor the funds to appreciate a fine beer. I choked down many a beast or high life for breakfast/hair of the dog back in the day. Probably...ugh...a Natural Light or two as well.

Oh yeah, in theory, the nut brown ale from either Sam Adams or Goose Island would be good too.