fatheadfred

I just can't bring myself to spend money on belgians. I understand that they are considerably more handcrafted than US beers, but our stuff tends to be a lot fresher and cheaper. However, it is hard to find good US made german styles. However, the Germans, as we know, are way industrialized in their brewing. They are several good Germans in the states that are affordable:

Ayinger, Hoffbrau, Erdinger, Paulaner are all respectable.

As for style, I go for dunkels (dark wheat) and marzens (oktoberfest). A true German bock is a little too syrupy for me...unless it is cold as a mutha outside and I am hungry.

Go waste some time on this site: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/style

The couple other pics too:

Very good show. I agree, the hat was cool, but the Hank Jr. look at ACL was pretty damn cool as well. Here are some pics of both. My pals got some pics after Columbia w/ Jeff and the boys.

We raise grass fed beef. 2-3 years is plenty of time if you have good genetics. Yes, that corn and animal diet is nasty. The omega 3-6 balance with grass fed beef is parallel to natural fish vs. farm fish. Again, nasty. Watched a program about fish farming in S. America and it makes you mad and sick.

The thing that bothers me about beef is that the "factory" farms are feeding them corn and beef fat which thier bodies are not made to eat. This causes them to get sick so instead of feading them the right way, they just pump them full of antibiotics and it's supposed to be ok.

 

It takes an angus steer 5-6 years to get to the butchering size when they are fed a natural diet of grass and hay but it takes a factory farm 18 months to get the steer to that size. This just makes the animal miserable, makes the meat have higher cholesterol and fat, and makes us fat.