gk5717
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19 beers, your a lite weight! I,m just quenching my thirst after the first 12
.Nothing like a handy 30 pack to round out the evening.
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Enough support for a food, wine, and beer thread? (4 Viewers)
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19 beers, your a lite weight! I,m just quenching my thirst after the first 12
.Nothing like a handy 30 pack to round out the evening.
Gary
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Ah... perchance you didn't hear that I'm 16^&grin:wink2:? Over here in the U.S., the drinking age is 21, so if we are talking about French or Hungarian wine, or Germany or Belgian beer, I can join in; it was legal when I was there{sm3}^&cool. Speaking of Germany- has anyone ever had Erdinger Weißbier? I stayed in Erding the whole time I was there!
-Sandor:salute::
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19 beers, your a lite weight! I,m just quenching my thirst after the first 12
Nothing like a handy 30 pack to round out the evening.
Gary
Thats a afternoon effort............{sm3}
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Sorry, didn't realise.....
But I remeber when I was a 'boy' ...... the drinking age was 21 here in Western Australia but when I was 19 yo it was changed to 18 years because we were sending our boys over to Vietnam to fight at 18+ but they couldn't vote, place a bet on a horse, sign a legal document, or have a drink!!!!!
In Europe there doesn't seem to be any age barrier, kids in Italy & France have a glass of wine with thier food in a restaurent / cafe, and nothing is said.
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Yes, over here when I was a kid we started as soon as we could get away with it!:wink2:
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In Germany, we went to my host's school's end of the year celebration. There was a beer tent on the playground, and most teachers and students attended it. All the waitresses wore dirndls, and many guys wore lederhosen, including me!
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Well its Friday and since this thread is about food & booze. Iam enjoying an Ice cold Heineken, and for
you guys who are from out of town and coming to Chicago for the show and love pizza ,try La Villa pizzaria on (Addison and Pulaski) in Chicago IL,Its good stuff and nice pit stop for pizza, Beer,& DA Bears.
you guys who are from out of town and coming to Chicago for the show and love pizza ,try La Villa pizzaria on (Addison and Pulaski) in Chicago IL,Its good stuff and nice pit stop for pizza, Beer,& DA Bears.
notascoldasbastogne
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Never had that one. But Guess what theirs a bar in Chicago called I believe its called( Quenchers) not
too shure Its on Western AVE. They Serve every Beer known too mankind, you order a beer they dont have it your drinking for FREE. The Bar food is good too
too shure Its on Western AVE. They Serve every Beer known too mankind, you order a beer they dont have it your drinking for FREE. The Bar food is good too
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If they dont were drinking for FREE !!!! {sm3}
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Well, to clarify, there is no national drinking age, offically. Each state sets the age. But over the last 20 years, under pressure from Washington, usually under threat of withholding federal highway funding, every state has since raised its drinking age to 21.
When I was in high school (class of '82), here in PA, the age was 21, as it is now and always has been. But in the surrounding states--from my location, that's New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, it was lower, most were 18, I think. So, there was always a lot of traffic over the state lines to buy alcohol in those states and bring it back. Also, Pennsylvania has a state monopoly on the sale of hard liquor, and maintains tight control over the sale of beer and wine, all under the aegis of the Liquor Control Board. PA owns liquor stores, which we still refer to as "state stores", though the LCB hired some marketing people and applied their Newspeak, and officially, they're known as "Wine and Spirits Shops". As the name implies, you buy wine and liquors there. If you want beer, you go to a vendor known as a distributor, who sells beer by the case or keg. If you want a six-pack or individual bottles, you can buy them from a bar (which has what's often referred to as a "tavern license"). Only recently has the LCB allowed an experiment to sell six-packs and individual bottles in grocery stores (the Wegman's chain, headquartered in Rochester, NY, is the pilot), and even then, the LCB had to do some shuffling to get around the exisiting regulations (the beer is not located in the store's grocery aisles, but in the hot food-takeout cafe, so the bureaucrats can designate it as a restaurant. Technically, it's not a grocery store that's selling it, but its fast-food cafe). We're still a ways off from the beer aisle that I saw in the Safeway near my cousin's home in Woodbridge, Virginia, a beer aisle that had a better selection that most distributors here in PA, too.
And then of course, wineries and microbreweries, and brewpubs, can sell their product to the public. But it wasn't too long ago, either, that the LCB still didn't open its stores on Sundays.
Fortunately, there is a glimmer on the horizon. Once again, there is a push in our General Assembly to dissolve the LCB and the state monopoly, and fully privatize the system. Tom Ridge included that in his platform, when he first ran for governor, but he didn't follow up (and I didn't vote for him the second time around, partly because of that), and the effort is back. Resistance comes mostly from the state store employees' union and the beer distributors' trade associations, and some citizens groups who think that privatizing will lead to more readily available liquor (though, the state store employees are propagandizing that if the LCB is dissolved, alcohol sellers will form a monopoly, which is precisely what the state store system represents). For me, I want to be able to walk into a grocery store and buy one bottle of beer. Just to be able to do it. Then I'll down it and I'll head to my distributor and pick up a case of Franziskaner.
Prost!
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Actually 18 is the legal drinking age in France.
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Irish Red is my brew of choice
Here are a local favourite .
http://www.garrisonbrewing.com/images/beer_shields_large/red-shield.png
Here are a local favourite .
http://www.garrisonbrewing.com/images/beer_shields_large/red-shield.png