Who We Need to Exceed Expectations in 2017

Ugh.
How come you can remember everything???

Damn ... LOL

 

You can take Blang out and put me in. I'm a beer connoisseur mostly although I am down in Mexico this week vacationing and have dabbled in pretty much everything with liquor in it.

I am going to try and buy a liver on the black market down here and smuggle it back into the US if anyone else is interested, I will pick up multiple ones if I can find them.

Blang, how you abstain from drinking as a Bears fan is beyond me. While I drink because I like to, watching Bears games would be untolerable without alcohol.

 

Ah fuck you both ya bastards. If 9.5% alcohol cider that tastes like Jack Daniels is gay, then I'll go get the lube. It's not like I'm drinking appletini's over here. Or Yuengling. Because if you drink Yuengling and you're not from Pittsburgh...

He smokes, which is about where I might this year for Bears games.

 

I can install them, a few shots, some beer, and I can do pretty much anything.

 

This is what makes Chicago so great. You have these brilliant minds hidden behind humble exteriors.

 

I hope not, Mongo will be upset if someone else takes his drink of choice.

 

I was thinking it rated a "Divine" on the gay scale... off the charts. Then I thought to myself, he must be f-cking with us, coming out of the gates with a pumpkin spice beer.

Nope. He wasn't.

 

I was in NY a few years back (15 ish) and we went out to dinner at Tao. We started drinking at the bar (I was drinking Grey goose and tonic) until our table was ready, I was seated next to a guy at the office who seemed pretty normal to me.

The waiter came around to ask us if we wanted to start with a drink. I didn't see him. Nor had I seen the drink menu. So when he got to me, I was caught off guard and just said "Just give me whatever he ordered". Expecting he probably ordered a Kirin or Tsing Tao or some other normal beer you'd order at a sushi restaurant.

5 minutes later a matching set of neon blue drinks with a rock-sugar rim, fruit, and fucking umbrellas showed up.

Compared to that drink, An appletini is like a cup of testosterone.

And the fact that we were twinsies....

And then there was the toast where 10 beers and two neon blue "purses" were up there.

Man card revoked.

From that point on, if I've ever been put in a situation where I'm asked what I want to drink and I am unprepared - my answer is "macallan 18 neat".

which btw is my go-to drink regardless.

 

Yes but Mongo what did the drink taste like?

Isn't that the more important part of this message? Maybe you discovered that you really love neon blue drinks with a rock-sugar rim, fruit, and F!ing umbrellas. It does sound tasty. I wouldn't judge you.

 

Yep! *REF*
You could of said aw hell no! sent it back, got a real drink and held onto your man card, a little pride, and a shred of dignity...just saying!

 

A few months after I turned 21, I was out with a few friends from the drumming group I performed with. I'mnot a liquor guy, so I'd always just ordered a beer, to that point. One of guys from the group ordered a blue Long Island, and I asked what that was. He said it was a mixture of liquors, and it was a good way to get drunk fast, and for cheap. He told me he'd order me one, and given the description, I was happy to accept.

... When the curved, bright blue glasses came out with pink and yellow umbrellas, I was less enthused. That friend now lives with his longtime "roommate". So, Mongo, I can't rag on you too hard - I've been there. Also, it did indeed get me drunk quickly, and for cheap. So there's that.

 

It's the end of days, the umbrella apocalypse is upon us.

 

I haven't even used a real umbrella, since. Not worth being seen with one again - just in case.

 

I honestly have no idea. The only thing that would have been worse than me ordering that drink would be a picture of me drinking it.

The next time he came around I sent it back and ordered a beer.

 

It very well could have been that drink. To this day, I have no idea what I actually ordered.

"Blue piss" is what I suppose it was.

 

I did the next time he came back... It was just a little too late.

 

Oh my God that's harsh ... LOL

 

Better late than never, my faith is restored along with your pride, your dignity, and of course your man card. I thought this was the end. Thanks Mongo for the clarification. *DRINK*

 

No what was harsh was imagining Mongo toasting with that neon blue frigging thing and then losing an eye when he forgot to take out the umbrella.

 

I'll die on this hill. I expected some fruity shit like mongo describes, and out comes a dark amber beer. It wasn't sweet, and honestly I didn't taste any pumpkin (instead, I got a decent beer + the spices, nutmeg, cloves, etc). I damn near didn't order it but I'm glad I did.

I'm thinking it might be this one:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/700/7077/

I would think you connoisseurs would be above this. It doesn't look bad, it doesn't taste bad, but you'll shit on it because pumpkins? What's next, won't taste a decent Oatmeal or Coffee stout? What about a blood orange porter? Maybe all of New Glarus because they come from the land of gay, Wisconsin?

Now you want to piss on Rainier (another one I've drunk out here), go for it. I'll drink it, especially when it's free, but it's in league of the tuna beers. Reminds me of Old Milwaukee.