i cant find Shiner Bock anywharz here in yuma....

*sniff sniff* i miss texas

olddinosaur

easy, tiger. thread's about Shiner, which is great and an hour from my house.

I wouldn't say we're overrun with anything except folks in general. Talk about Mexicans and other imports all you want, but it won't change the fact that a) people are alive and b) they're gonna move to the location that best suits their advancement, bringing their labor potential and need for goods and services with them.

To be honest, as long as they keep buying donuts it's not gonna bother me a bit.

I coulda done without the political overtones as well: you're lacking a certain something intellectually if you look to any politician or party to correct what can only be done with your two hands, in my opinion.

PERSONAL NOTE TO ALL TEXANS WITH A GERMAN BACKGROUND:

When I lived in Germany, I found many parallels between German foods, and "Texas" foods which were imported, but evolved over the years. That is hardly surprising, there are so many German colonies in Texas.

Chili con Carne is basically Bavarian Gulaschsuppe with beans and a lot more spices added. Texas sausage is essentially German sausage, made in a different place.

In Germany, "Frankfurters(as they call them in Vienna)" or "Wieners (as they call them in Frankfort; long story)" are a far cry from what passes for "hot dogs" in this country. They are plump and juicy, with a thick casing you have to chomp down hard to bite through.

Bread is a whole different deal, because it is baked under the strict controls of the original Reinheitsgebot, passed in 1518 and still in force. It mandates that bread, beer and other basic foodstuffs shall consist of nothing but pure ingredients, which explains why their foods are so wholesome and ours taste like industrial waste.

I think it would be a great deal to open a traditional sausage factory and old-fashioned hot-dog stand, right next to a brewery, or better yet, inside it; take a trip to Kloisterbrauerei Andechs to see what I mean.

In a worst-case scenario we would drink up all the profits, too much beer is a self-correcting problem.

SoxSweepAgain: Ugh, beer from Texas.

Nothing good comes from that redneck hellhole.

/fark Texas.

That's alright. Just make sure you have our ski slopes ready fatso.

I might get excommunicated from Texas to say this, but the best hot dog in America comes from a little hole-in-the-wall drive-through in Boston; it comes on a white-bread, split-top bun, which I have never seen anywhere else in the nation.

My father showed it to me in 1962; can't forget the hot dogs, but damned if I can remember the address!

If we could steal that recipe it would be gold, dude; pure gold!

I deeply loved the '99 (Helles) and its unavailability makes me a sad panda. The 100/Commemorator is pretty good, but obviously, very different.

Real Ale is bottling Fireman's #4 now. I used to actually spend all year looking forward to drinking that in Austin when I drove down for SXSW. But now I can drink it all day!

Still can't get Bootlegger Brown anywhere outside Austin, though.

/Opal Divine's Freehouse beer list FTW!
//Shiner Bock is still my regular go-to at restaurants

As much as I hated living in Texas (Houston), I did enjoy Shiner.

/and don't start with the "Houston isn't real Texas" crap.

Second time this week I've commented about Shiner Bock.

At $9 a case, leave the BudMillerCoors alone.



/Try the Bohemian Black if you can find it.

Shiner makes me happy. It's hard to come by out here in Southern NV/Southern UT. Thankfully, Lee's Liquors now carries Bock.

Related Sidenote: Did anyone else see The Hangover and notice the beer pyramid in the hotel room was Shiner?

Texas beer?

RagingLeonard: Shiner was better before Gambrinus bought it and started brewing it with corn.

Interesting. I always felt like the Bock recipe changed in the early 90's but I thought it was just that my beer snob palate was maturing and I outgrew the flavor.

Shiner's good, good beer. If you use it to marinade or boil brats, you'll never give it up.

And to all you non-Texans: Don't move to Texas. You'd really, really hate it here. Your life is better where you live and we only fake it when you drive through so you don't feel pity on us. It would suck here for you.

Schmegicky: Look honey, I built yew a french fry house

For an authentic hand-copied Joe Bob Briggs autograph and the last sip from my Shiner Bock bottle... Name the Movie.

Actually, there have been quite a few movies and TV shows that featured Shiner bock beer.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

/did you finish that beer yet?

olddinosaur: PERSONAL NOTE TO ALL YOU DICKHEADS WHO ARE DISSING TEXAS:

Please keep doing what you are doing, and more of the same would be appreciated.

Texas has been the favorite destination of wetbacks from the south and rust-belt refugees from the north, and to be perfectly honest about it, we are quite sick of seeing them. They are about as welcome as surprise weekend guests with a death in the family.

They come here seeking a better life, only to find 50,000 others just like them got here first, we do not want to hear your sad stories, and no we will not give you any free handouts, no we are not cheap or selfish, it is just a matter of too many.

We are overrun with immigrants, so I guess we must be doing something right.

Yes I am sorry life has dealt you a rotten hand, but that is just plain tough. Man up, Nancy-boy, or at least find another shoulder to cry on.

All you people who have never been here and never want to come---but persist in maintaining, Texas is a world-class hellhole, despite never having seen it---thank you ever so much! There are no words to express my gratitude.

For everyone else: If you can't come here with minimum standards of politeness---stay home!

Isn't that bolded part there how Texas was founded?

I'd kind of like to see Texas try to be its own country. I think it'd make a good HBO series. Might not last more than half a season but there's bound to be a comedy goldmine there.

Here in N. Carolina, I am fortunate enough to have free access to both Shiner and Yuengling in almost all their forms.

Yuengling's gotta be on draft. Shiner I can drink either way.

I Miss Mah Bucket: Their hefeweizen makes a kick ass summer brew.

Amen. I drank the last of mine today.

Lord how I miss my home state and its plentiful supply of Shiner. I can get Shiner Bock in Florida, but it's way more expensive... and just not the same.

HaywoodJablonski

I'll take St. Arnold's instead. Cool?

I'm with you on this one. St. Arnold's Amber is my favorite beer. Shiner is ok, but probably not in my top 10. Not that I'd ever turn one down...

Texas beer will never equal California beer.

Shiner Bock is just Miller Genuine Draft compared to flavorful CA brews like West Coast IPA, Sculpin IPA, and the Kronik copper ale.

Steers, queers, and shiat beers, IIRC...

olddinosaur

You lack the politeness that you require from others.

Impudent Domain

As a native Californian and also a 11 year resident of Houston, Texas, I have the ability to call you out on your BS. Your state is gruesome and unholy.

Consider this: Sam Houston was given the territory by Andrew Jackson after he resigned from the Tennessee Gubernatorial (right after his wife left him). He hooked up with a Cherokee woman and his name was, "The Big Drunk". After loosing to the Mexicans at the Alamo, he sent in a negro prostitute to seduce Santa Anna... Hence... "Catching him with his pants down". The battle site is where the Dome sits (Jacinto). Nice of your people to preserve a national landmark... farking perverts.

What is most interesting is that Andrew Jackson is well known for his slaughters of the Native Americans. However, this indiscretion by Houston was not an issue.

Don't even get me started on GWB... or the Bush family, for that matter.

This thread was about beer and you tried to hijack it.

Fark You

socodog - And to all you non-Texans: Don't move to Texas. You'd really, really hate it here. Your life is better where you live and we only fake it when you drive through so you don't feel pity on us. It would suck here for you.


So you enjoy your wetback infested shiat state? Glad at least some of you vermin do. Your beer sucks.

Shiner's Black Lager is their best. If I buy Shiner, I buy that (not that I would turn down any Shiner offered). The only other beer I buy consistently is St. Arnold--pretty much whatever is in season. I prefer their Christmas brew.

I can only give that troll a 4 out of 10 on form and substance. Please submit another entry.

MajorityWhip

As a native Californian and also a 11 year resident of Houston, Texas, I have the ability to call you out on your BS. Your state is gruesome and unholy.

Consider this: Sam Houston was given the territory by Andrew Jackson after he resigned from the Tennessee Gubernatorial (right after his wife left him). He hooked up with a Cherokee woman and his name was, "The Big Drunk". After loosing to the Mexicans at the Alamo, he sent in a negro prostitute to seduce Santa Anna... Hence... "Catching him with his pants down". The battle site is where the Dome sits (Jacinto). Nice of your people to preserve a national landmark... farking perverts.

What is most interesting is that Andrew Jackson is well known for his slaughters of the Native Americans. However, this indiscretion by Houston was not an issue.

Don't even get me started on GWB... or the Bush family, for that matter.

This thread was about beer and you tried to hijack it.

Fark You

Just because you type it on the intarwebs, doesn't make it true. Your trolling is weak; you repeat several historical tall-tales that have no basis in fact, and muddle it with a bizarre statement about "loosing" something, whatever the hell that means. You wrap it up with a hypocritical accusation of thread-jacking, which you spent the better part of your post in so doing. I can only hope you at least left Texas and went back to California.

Your BS call-out application has been denied. Feel free to re-apply.

I have a trunk full of Shiner Bock, and Lonestar. Getting a kick, etc.

WrathOfCaan: MajorityWhip

As a native Californian and also a 11 year resident of Houston, Texas, I have the ability to call you out on your BS. Your state is gruesome and unholy.

Consider this: Sam Houston was given the territory by Andrew Jackson after he resigned from the Tennessee Gubernatorial (right after his wife left him). He hooked up with a Cherokee woman and his name was, "The Big Drunk". After loosing to the Mexicans at the Alamo, he sent in a negro prostitute to seduce Santa Anna... Hence... "Catching him with his pants down". The battle site is where the Dome sits (Jacinto). Nice of your people to preserve a national landmark... farking perverts.

What is most interesting is that Andrew Jackson is well known for his slaughters of the Native Americans. However, this indiscretion by Houston was not an issue.

Don't even get me started on GWB... or the Bush family, for that matter.

This thread was about beer and you tried to hijack it.

Fark You

Just because you type it on the intarwebs, doesn't make it true. Your trolling is weak; you repeat several historical tall-tales that have no basis in fact, and muddle it with a bizarre statement about "loosing" something, whatever the hell that means. You wrap it up with a hypocritical accusation of thread-jacking, which you spent the better part of your post in so doing. I can only hope you at least left Texas and went back to California.

Your BS call-out application has been denied. Feel free to re-apply.

Go back to school, youngster.

Ok, here's my 2cents on all the Texas bashing:

Texas, like any other damn state, has it's stereotypes, tall-tales, cultural quirks, and weather that makes you wonder if mother nature is on the pipe.

BUT

As an Louisiana native-turned Texas resident, I wouldn't live anywhere else. Don't get me wrong, I have LSU stuff all over my apartment and miss the craziness of south-louisiana, but there's just something about Texas that makes you want to settle in and enjoy what's around you. The beer, the BBQ, the natural beauty, etc. There's something for damn near everyone here. SO yeah, bash Texas all you want, but you are the moron for doing so.

/Cracks open a Shiner
//Came to Texas loving Abita amber, but shiner bock stole my heart.
///I just wish they would keep their liquor stores open past 9!

MajorityWhip: Go back to school, youngster.

Just because they don't let you ride on the short bus anymore doesn't mean you graduated. The "Bush Family" as you put it is from Massachusetts and Connecticut, not Texas. Dubya's a carpetbagger who moved here solely to become gubner because the Texas governor basically has absolutely no power whatsoever.

And the monument is on the site where the wounded Sam Houston accepted Santa Ana's surrender.

Smartassshanna: ///I just wish they would keep their liquor stores open past 9!

No shiat. I'm in Austin after having grown up in Southeast Texas. The only thing I miss about it is whiskey in convenience stores 24/7. Oh, and the fact that you can't find decent gumbo west of Houston.

Cheers Shiner. Best beer in the world.

Abstruse: Smartassshanna: ///I just wish they would keep their liquor stores open past 9!

No shiat. I'm in Austin after having grown up in Southeast Texas. The only thing I miss about it is whiskey in convenience stores 24/7. Oh, and the fact that you can't find decent gumbo west of Houston.

No kidding! I went on vacation to Baton Rouge/Denham Springs for my high school reunion a few weeks ago and savored the REAL cajun food (sorry, Razoos doesn't cut it) and pure joy at my boyfriend's reaction to hard liquor being sold at gas stations 24/7, lol!

cookiefleck: see Texas isn't all bad....

Whomever told you that Texas is all bad is a FILTHY LYING WHORE!!!

///Also, Shiner beers are awesome.
//I'm having one right now.
/really...

T-Luv: Pearl FTW!

/My favorite Texas beer
//under 7 bucks for a 12 pack
/// beer

Pearl was probably good back in the day, but I have drunk many a $6 12 pack, and it is complete shiat!!!

Maul555: cookiefleck: see Texas isn't all bad....

Whomever told you that Texas is all bad is a FILTHY LYING WHORE!!!

///Also, Shiner beers are awesome.
//I'm having one right now.
/really...

Me, too.

How I learned to drink good beer and love Texas:
1. Be born and raised in Upstate NY.
2. Join the Army and move around a lot.
3. Marry a Texas woman. Settle down.
4. ????
5. Profit!

Nothin's finer than an ice cold Shiner!

MajorityWhip: Consider this: Sam Houston was given the territory by Andrew Jackson after he resigned from the Tennessee Gubernatorial (right after his wife left him). He hooked up with a Cherokee woman and his name was, "The Big Drunk". After loosing to the Mexicans at the Alamo, he sent in a negro prostitute to seduce Santa Anna... Hence... "Catching him with his pants down". The battle site is where the Dome sits (Jacinto). Nice of your people to preserve a national landmark... farking perverts.

What is most interesting is that Andrew Jackson is well known for his slaughters of the Native Americans. However, this indiscretion by Houston was not an issue.

Don't even get me started on GWB... or the Bush family, for that matter.

This thread was about beer and you tried to hijack it.

Fark You

I think you need a new history book.

takesthecake: SoxSweepAgain: Ugh, beer from Texas.

Nothing good comes from that redneck hellhole.

/fark Texas.

What is the deal with Coloradoans hating on Texas? It's like you guys have a geographic penis envy or something. I remember my second grade teacher going to Colorado and telling us how much y'all hated Texas. She said you guys brag about colorado gravel. ha ha Your gravel is quite lovely, so I understand the pride you have in it. Seriously though, you don't have to be jealous, you can move here too. We accept all kinds. Happy fourth!!

STFU!!! NEVER INVITE ANYONE TO TEXAS WITHOUT BRINGING THE ISSUE BEFORE THE COMMITTEE FIRST!!!!

Abstruse: MajorityWhip: Go back to school, youngster.

Just because they don't let you ride on the short bus anymore doesn't mean you graduated. The "Bush Family" as you put it is from Massachusetts and Connecticut, not Texas. Dubya's a carpetbagger who moved here solely to become gubner because the Texas governor basically has absolutely no power whatsoever.

And the monument is on the site where the wounded Sam Houston accepted Santa Ana's surrender.

And it faces South in defiance.

Impudent Domain: olddinosaur Quote 2009-07-04 06:18:08 PM
PERSONAL NOTE TO ALL YOU DICKHEADS WHO ARE DISSING TEXAS:

Please keep doing what you are doing, and more of the same would be appreciated.

Texas has been the favorite destination of wetbacks from the south and rust-belt refugees from the north, and to be perfectly honest about it, we are quite sick of seeing them. They are about as welcome as surprise weekend guests with a death in the family.

They come here seeking a better life, only to find 50,000 others just like them got here first, we do not want to hear your sad stories, and no we will not give you any free handouts, no we are not cheap or selfish, it is just a matter of too many.

We are overrun with immigrants, so I guess we must be doing something right.

Yes I am sorry life has dealt you a rotten hand, but that is just plain tough. Man up, Nancy-boy, or at least find another shoulder to cry on.

All you people who have never been here and never want to come---but persist in maintaining, Texas is a world-class hellhole, despite never having seen it---thank you ever so much! There are no words to express my gratitude.

For everyone else: If you can't come here with minimum standards of politeness---stay home!

Thank you sir, quite right, but you left out one other group that I have been seeing way too much of lately, Californicators.
Hey listen douchebags, just because you farked up your own state and cant pay your bills is no reason to come fark up our state.
Have a nice holiday and Fark you very much.

THIS... we are getting overrun with Californians. I would know. One of them is my friend, and he is an idiot, and votes...

STOP THE FLOOD!!!

Are any of you telling me that the Bush family doesn't live in Houston? Am I not to believe that there is a monument for Senior?

MajorityWhip: Are any of you telling me that the Bush family doesn't live in Houston? Am I not to believe that there is a monument for Senior?

Noone is refuting that they live here, only that they are not from here.

The Bush's are Yankee imports to Texas.

Our governor is a douchebag and is no Sam Houston, despite how well he thinks of himself.

so many things in this thread I want to add to...
-I am from PA, wife is from TX, we like both Yuengling and Shiner. All is good in our household. They're pretty equivalent beers, IMO, though we both prefer Yuengling
-To the person who mentioned german influence on Texas food, you missed the single most important one: smoked meat. Texas style bbq is all about how you smoke it. Historic bbq places like Kruetz Market aren't accidentally German sounding....
-The best beer made in Austin, and for that matter Texas, is Live Oak Hefeweissen. You can only get it on draft.
-I am intriqued that Shiner is offering smoked beer, the only place I've seen that was Bamberg, Germany. Has anyone tried this?

love me some Shiner. Bock is great, but everyone speaking on the Black is spot on. That is damn good beer.

If you haven't tried it, I would try the Real Ale beers others have mentioned. You can get a 3 beer sampler/six pack at HEB. Their Rio Blanco Pale Ale is a favorite.

It is well and proper that Shiner Bock is so quintessentially Texas. Insipid things should be to together.

Degarth: It is well and proper that Shiner Bock is so quintessentially Texas. Insipid things should be to together.

Says the man from Florida.

On Bush:

I could move to Japan, eat sushi all day and sing karaoke all night. That wouldn't make me Japanese.

D_Evans45: Texas beer will never equal California beer.

Shiner Bock is just Miller Genuine Draft compared to flavorful CA brews like West Coast IPA, Sculpin IPA, and the Kronik copper ale.

Steers, queers, and shiat beers, IIRC...

Talking about the superiority of CA brews, and no mention of Stone? Fail.D_Evans45:
So you enjoy your wetback infested shiat state?

And yet you post this from CA?

Do I need to remind you of somme of the freway signs on the 5?