Hi all,
When I go shopping for wine, I'm fairly focussed. I know
what I want, I purchase it, and get out of there (I'm not
a good shopper). Today, my wife went with me, and while
I was doing my "focussed" stuff, she was cruising the beer
aisle. Eventually, with a shopping cart that could rival
Mt. Everest, we went to the checkout. I think my checkbook
actually shed tears (but they could have been mine).
I would never have thought to pick up a six-pack of
Moose Drool Brown Ale (Missoula, Montana), or a sampler
pack of beer from Tommy knockers in Idaho Springs, Colorado.
I haven't tried the beers yet, but small breweries usually
make a good beer.

Should you bring your wife to the liquor store?
Definitely Yes!

BTW, if Ed is listening, have you tried Tommy knockers
restaurant and pub?

Dick R.

Dick R. wrote:

Should you bring your wife to the liquor store?
Definitely Yes!

Dick,
Our situation is almost 180° from your own. If I'm alone in the
store (especially if it's Sam's in Chicago) I'm likely to emerge with
3-4 cases of wine in a shopping cart and a bill running into the many
hundreds of dollars. Jean, OTOH, is a much more disciplined wine
shopper ("Do we REALLY need 6 bottles of '29 Yquem?") and usually gets
impatient after 30 minutes of scouring the shelves of Sam's, so we
typically emerge with only a case or two. ;-

Mark Lipton

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:57:53 -0500, "Dick R." wrote:

Hi all,
When I go shopping for wine, I'm fairly focussed. I know
what I want, I purchase it, and get out of there (I'm not
a good shopper). Today, my wife went with me, and while
I was doing my "focussed" stuff, she was cruising the beer
aisle. Eventually, with a shopping cart that could rival
Mt. Everest, we went to the checkout. I think my checkbook
actually shed tears (but they could have been mine).
I would never have thought to pick up a six-pack of
Moose Drool Brown Ale (Missoula, Montana), or a sampler
pack of beer from Tommy knockers in Idaho Springs, Colorado.
I haven't tried the beers yet, but small breweries usually
make a good beer.

Should you bring your wife to the liquor store?
Definitely Yes!

BTW, if Ed is listening, have you tried Tommy knockers
restaurant and pub?

Dick R.

I've tried taking my wife, but she gets sensory overload and begins to
pick wines based on artsy labels (which I've done myself
occasionally), and then begins to second guess the size of the total
purchase. Much better to bring the whole load home, surreptitiously
work it into the cellar and then simply surprise her with good tasting
stuff at various times.

I've consummed an appropriate share of Tommyknocker's various brews
and I've been to the home in Idaho Springs where they put out a very
good lunch. I'm still a Sam Adams guy, but I range afield occasionally
in the brew aisle.

For a shiny new dime, who beside Dick can tell us what a
"Tommyknocker" is?

Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
www.thunderchief.org
www.thundertales.blogspot.com

I can vouch for the Moose Drool. Good stuff. And just down the valley
from Missoula is a brewery called Bitterroot Brewing Company which also
makes great beer.
Enjoy!
e.

Ed Rasimus wrote:
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:57:53 -0500, "Dick R." wrote:

Hi all,
When I go shopping for wine, I'm fairly focussed. I know
what I want, I purchase it, and get out of there (I'm not
a good shopper). Today, my wife went with me, and while
I was doing my "focussed" stuff, she was cruising the beer
aisle. Eventually, with a shopping cart that could rival
Mt. Everest, we went to the checkout. I think my checkbook
actually shed tears (but they could have been mine).
I would never have thought to pick up a six-pack of
Moose Drool Brown Ale (Missoula, Montana), or a sampler
pack of beer from Tommy knockers in Idaho Springs, Colorado.
I haven't tried the beers yet, but small breweries usually
make a good beer.

Should you bring your wife to the liquor store?
Definitely Yes!

BTW, if Ed is listening, have you tried Tommy knockers
restaurant and pub?

Dick R.


I've tried taking my wife, but she gets sensory overload and begins to
pick wines based on artsy labels (which I've done myself
occasionally), and then begins to second guess the size of the total
purchase. Much better to bring the whole load home, surreptitiously
work it into the cellar and then simply surprise her with good tasting
stuff at various times.
For us, it is I who gets sensory overload, regardless of what we're
shopping for. I can't forget our recent 3 hour shopping experience
at IKEA. Grrr

I've consummed an appropriate share of Tommyknocker's various brews
and I've been to the home in Idaho Springs where they put out a very
good lunch. I'm still a Sam Adams guy, but I range afield occasionally
in the brew aisle.

Me too! I like Sammy's brews, but in the midwest (Minnesota, Wisconsin)
many of us lean toward Jake Leinenkugel's brews like red, creamy dark,
honey weiss, amber light and "Big Butt".

For a shiny new dime, who beside Dick can tell us what a
"Tommyknocker" is?
If you're talking about me, I must admit that I used to know what
a Tommyknocker was, but I forgot. As we speak, there might be some
folks furiously searching the web for a definition of Tommyknocker.

Take care,
Dick R.

"Dick R." wrote in
:



Me too! I like Sammy's brews, but in the midwest (Minnesota, Wisconsin)
many of us lean toward Jake Leinenkugel's brews like red, creamy dark,
honey weiss, amber light and "Big Butt".


Do you recall the fake ads on a Minneapolis radio station for Heinie Beer?
lots of bad puns on the derrierre?



--
Joseph Coulter
Cruises and Vacations
http://www.josephcoulter.com/

www.winemonger.com wrote:

I can vouch for the Moose Drool. Good stuff. And just down the valley
from Missoula is a brewery called Bitterroot Brewing Company which also
makes great beer.
Enjoy!
e.

Hi ... e?
Thanks for the reply. I love "local" brews, and haven't found a bad
one yet. When we're in Hayward, Wisconsin, I'll opt for a "Floppin'
Crappie" on tap. No thanks for the Bud light, I'll have a Coke
instead! :-) Looking foreward to tasting the Moose Drool.

Dick R.

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On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:57:53 -0500, "Dick R." wrote:

Hi all,
When I go shopping for wine, I'm fairly focussed. I know
what I want, I purchase it, and get out of there (I'm not
a good shopper). Today, my wife went with me, and while
I was doing my "focussed" stuff, she was cruising the beer
aisle. Eventually, with a shopping cart that could rival
Mt. Everest, we went to the checkout. I think my checkbook
actually shed tears (but they could have been mine).
I would never have thought to pick up a six-pack of
Moose Drool Brown Ale (Missoula, Montana), or a sampler
pack of beer from Tommy knockers in Idaho Springs, Colorado.
I haven't tried the beers yet, but small breweries usually
make a good beer.

Should you bring your wife to the liquor store?
Definitely Yes!

BTW, if Ed is listening, have you tried Tommy knockers
restaurant and pub?

Dick R.

I've tried taking my wife, but she gets sensory overload and begins to
pick wines based on artsy labels (which I've done myself
occasionally), and then begins to second guess the size of the total
purchase. Much better to bring the whole load home, surreptitiously
work it into the cellar and then simply surprise her with good tasting
stuff at various times.

I've consummed an appropriate share of Tommyknocker's various brews
and I've been to the home in Idaho Springs where they put out a very
good lunch. I'm still a Sam Adams guy, but I range afield occasionally
in the brew aisle.

For a shiny new dime, who beside Dick can tell us what a
"Tommyknocker" is?

Ed Rasimus

I guess that I'm in the middle of the bunch, as my wife does the "artsy
labels" thing, but doesn't mind my purchases. She does have a habit of reading
the "shelf-talkers" aloud, and that can be distracting, when one is trying to
remember if it's the Dogtown Flats, the Dogdrool Flats, or some other single
vineyard Zin, that they are seeking.

As for Tommyknocker, all that I have sampled have been very good. Which brews
came in the mixed pack? For Ed, Tommyknockers were actually protruding rock
formations in mine shafts that would hit the miners in the head. A mythical
character, rather like a Leprechaun , arose from the miners not wanting to
admit that they had knocked themselves unconcious on a rock in the roof of the
mine shaft, kinda' like a Colorado Minihune with a mallet, if you catch my
drift.

Hunt

Hunt wrote:

As for Tommyknocker, all that I have sampled have been very good. Which brews
came in the mixed pack?
Hi Hunt,
A couple botles each of Ornery Amber lager, Butthead lager, Jack Whacker
wheat ale, Pick Axe pale ale, Alpine Glacier lager and Maple brown ale.
They all sound good to me.

Dick R.

jcoulter wrote:


Do you recall the fake ads on a Minneapolis radio station for Heinie Beer?
lots of bad puns on the derrierre?

I don't recall them, but it sounds like something KQRS might have done.

Dick R.

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:48:38 -0500, "Dick R." wrote:


Me too! I like Sammy's brews, but in the midwest (Minnesota, Wisconsin)
many of us lean toward Jake Leinenkugel's brews like red, creamy dark,
honey weiss, amber light and "Big Butt".

I grew up in Chicago and during my college years (IIT), a close buddy
and I used to go fishing each year at the end of our summer job and
just before school resumed. His grandfather had a nice cabin and a
small boat on Little St. Germain lake in Wisconsin.

Naturally fishing requires beer drinking, so we would try a six-pack
of everything in the store--this was before the days of micro-brews,
so the task was manageable without major liver damage.

A bait shop that used to have the most vigorous night-crawlers always
sold them in beer cans with the top cut off and a square of newspaper
with a rubber band to close the package. The beer was Leinenkugel.

We'd never seen or heard of it, so it became a quest to find some. It
only came in one flavor in those days, but it was very good brew.

The Leinenkugel Red makes it to Colorado, but I've not seen the
others. And, thanks anyway, but I've already got a Big Butt.



Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
www.thunderchief.org
www.thundertales.blogspot.com

In article , says...

Hunt wrote:

As for Tommyknocker, all that I have sampled have been very good. Which
brews
came in the mixed pack?
Hi Hunt,
A couple botles each of Ornery Amber lager, Butthead lager, Jack Whacker
wheat ale, Pick Axe pale ale, Alpine Glacier lager and Maple brown ale.
They all sound good to me.

Dick R.

Dick, of the lot, I've tasted the Butthead, Pick Axe, Alpine Glacier, and the
Maple Brown. All were quite good. While we do see a lot of the New Belgium
Brewing Co products in AZ, most of the other small-brew (micro doesn't seem to
fit NBBC any longer), the Tommyknockers, and so very many others just don't
get down here. Most of the micro-brews in the desert seem a bit lacking in
character, compared to the Pacific NW, the Upper East Coast, and all of CO.

Have you tried any CO wines? In years past, there were a few surprisingly good
producers.

Hunt

"Dick R." wrote in
:

jcoulter wrote:


Do you recall the fake ads on a Minneapolis radio station for Heinie
Beer? lots of bad puns on the derrierre?

I don't recall them, but it sounds like something KQRS might have
done.

Dick R.


Actually now that I think of it it was the oldies station up around 107


--
Joseph Coulter
Cruises and Vacations
http://www.josephcoulter.com/

Hunt wrote:
In article , says...

Have you tried any CO wines? In years past, there were a few surprisingly good
producers.

Hi Hunt,
Haven't tried any and I don't know if CO wines make it to Minnesota.
Ed might have some recommendations as to what to look for.

Dick R.

On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 11:20:07 -0500, "Dick R." wrote:

Hunt wrote:
In article , says...

Have you tried any CO wines? In years past, there were a few surprisingly good
producers.

Hi Hunt,
Haven't tried any and I don't know if CO wines make it to Minnesota.
Ed might have some recommendations as to what to look for.

Dick R.

There is no doubt that Colorado is becoming a fairly significant wine
producer, there are a lot of bottlings showing up on shelves locally.
But, I've not done much tasting of the local products.

There's a nice roadside wine and burger restaurant up US Hwy 24 from
Colorado Springs to Woodland Park, just about at the turn-off for the
Pikes Peak Highway. They offer a wide assortment of Colorado wines and
put up a pretty fancy selection of burgers--it's a very pleasant
weekend afternoon jaunt. The wines are very acceptable, but IMHO,
overpriced for the quality.

You might explore some of the vineyards at this web site for more info
on CO wines: http://www.thewineman.com/colorado.htm


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
www.thunderchief.org
www.thundertales.blogspot.com