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[flaco]

Got started with Post Office. Love it so far. Reminds me of too many of my former work situations. I've put it aside for the time being as I picked up on Cory Doctorow's Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Tough to put that one down.

 

[CarversDog]

Many, many years ago, when Lucky supermarkets on the west coast were experimenting with a generic foods product line -- plain-wrap stuff, no fancy packaging -- their contract for canned BEER (that's all it said on the white can, in stark black lettering: BEER) --was given to Pearl Brewing. I was told at the time by a friend who worked in corporate at the market chain that the generic beer was literally the swill from the bottom of the brewery kegs. Drank a 6-pack of the shit once and it rendered an unbelievable hangover and a knot in my gut. But, hey, it was something like a buck-fifity for a six-pack.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Many, many years ago, when Lucky supermarkets on the west coast were experimenting with a generic foods product line -- plain-wrap stuff, no fancy packaging -- their contract for canned BEER (that's all it said on the white can, in stark black lettering: BEER) --was given to Pearl Brewing. I was told at the time by a friend who worked in corporate at the market chain that the generic beer was literally the swill from the bottom of the brewery kegs. Drank a 6-pack of the shit once and it rendered an unbelievable hangover and a knot in my gut. But, hey, it was something like a buck-fifity for a six-pack.

On a very hot Saturday at a little art studio in Orange County Ca. I drank like 12 cans of that generic beer.(our art teacher was cheap) I never felt a buzz I just felt like crap that evening. Heat stroke plus bad cheap generic beer.
It was cool and refreshing for a bit.;)

 

[hank solo]

This has reminded of the generic products in the film Repo Man. White cans labelled Beer, or Drink or even just Food. Sure some were real but they must have stretched it.
Well, I smiled anyway :D

 

[Purple Stickpin]

I see the humor coming through in Ham On Rye. This Chinaski dude puts up with a lot of crap yet endures the mundane and hypocritical. I love the dialogue in the hospital when initially diagnosed with the acne vulgaris.

"Is he asleep?"
"Why?"
"He seems very calm."
"No, I don't think he's asleep. Are you asleep, my boy?"
"Yes."

Good stuff.

The funniest bit for me in Ham on Rye is when he's swimming. I won't give it away, but the comment by some guy at the pool who says, "Lady, he probably..." absolutely made me howl with laughter.

 

[mjp]

I was told at the time by a friend who worked in corporate at the market chain that the generic beer was literally the swill from the bottom of the brewery kegs.

All the beer from a brew tank is uniform, there is no "bottom of the barrel," so to speak. There is a bottom of the fermentation tank, but at a commercial brewery, the beer is conditioned and filtered after leaving the fermentation tank.

Cheap (hangover producing) beer is high in sugar, brewed with cheap ingredients (like rice, hello Budweiser!) and not as richly hopped as a more expensively produced beer.

Used to brew beer, so I know far too much.

 

[cirerita]

Wish I could brew my own beer...

 

[mjp]

It's surprisingly easy to do. Well, it's simple, I don't know if it's easy. It's time consuming though, which is one of the reasons I stopped doing it. That, and I don't drink as much beer as I used to.

I read recently that good hops are becoming scarce and expensive. Hops are the heart and soul of the beer. A friend of mine - who is completely consumed with brewing - grows his own hops. If you have a knack for growing things with buds you can create your own hops.

My crowning achievement was a black stout that I bottle-aged for two years. Oh lordy, that was good. So good that I retired after I made it. Didn't think I'd be able to equal it again. ;)

 

[flaco]

The funniest bit for me in Ham on Rye is when he's swimming. I won't give it away, but the comment by some guy at the pool who says, "Lady, he probably..." absolutely made me howl with laughter.

Yeah, well, she was a "steamship of a woman".

Got myself far enough into Post Office to see where your moniker comes from.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

I read recently that good hops are becoming scarce and expensive. Hops are the heart and soul of the beer. A friend of mine - who is completely consumed with brewing - grows his own hops. If you have a knack for growing things with buds you can create your own hops.

I was told you can graft marijuanna onto a hop plant and vice versa. Maybe we should be on the "BEER" thread. Or the "Pothead" thread.:)