There is something wrong with the "small" margarita
(the menu listed "small" and "large") ringing up
on the bill as "kid's margarita". (Mad Mex,
Sunday night.)
My parents were smart: they allowed us to taste beer and coffee at a very early age. I eventually learned to drink (some) beers, but I still can't stand coffee.
Wine with the meal was common when eating with my dad's side of the family. Not surprising given they're all Italian. We were allowed to sip beer too but fewer family members drank it. And both coffee and tea were freely available to all (even kids) until evening dessert was over. I've grown into something of a beer snob (with the very occasional weird craving for Pabst), have unpredictable tastes in wine, and still prefer tea over coffee except with certain foods.
(I eventually learned that I don't dislike beer; I dislike strong hops.
Okay, we have *got* to do a beer tasting together some time. I don't mind the hops but I *really* prefer more malty, less hoppy.
Oh, and that there's more to beer than Bud and Miller.)
As if Bud and Miller were beer? (Well, technically, I guess so. But even in college we distinguished between Beer and Brewski. Commercial mass-market brewski does seem to have gone downhill since I was a kid.)
Wine with the meal was common when eating with my dad's side of the family. Not surprising given they're all Italian.
Heh. That's where our (weaker) wine tradition came from, too.
I don't have very sophisticated tastes in either wine or beer. In wine, I prefer whites to reds and sweeter wines to drier ones; I tend to favor Reislings and Pinot Grigios. (I'm not as bad as my husband, who thinks Manischevitz is a little dry. :-) ) In beer, as I said it's the hops thing, so I tend to like ales, lambics, wits, and things I don't necessarily know how to label. I hate IPAs, as you would predict. I'm also not fond of really really strong beer, just because I'd rather be able to savor the flavor without getting quite as much of a wallop.
Okay, we have *got* to do a beer tasting together some time.
Next Pennsic?
I occasionally participate in a beer-sampler group; I should actually take notes. In PA you can only buy beer by the case (or, in restaurants and bars, by the high-priced bottle), so I'm part of a group that will occasionally get together in suitable multiples, by 8 different beers, and give everyone 3 bottles of each. This lets us explore without committing to a case. I met Weyerbacher that way, and I like just about everything of theirs I've had.
As if Bud and Miller were beer?
Well, it was the stuff my father often kept in the beer fridge. And from there I went to college, where my beer came from frat parties -- and they can't afford to serve up the good stuff either. So I guess I was in my late 20s before I learned that there's a lot more to beer than that.
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Date: 2004-09-21 01:40 pm (UTC)Wine with the meal was common when eating with my dad's side of the family. Not surprising given they're all Italian. We were allowed to sip beer too but fewer family members drank it. And both coffee and tea were freely available to all (even kids) until evening dessert was over. I've grown into something of a beer snob (with the very occasional weird craving for Pabst), have unpredictable tastes in wine, and still prefer tea over coffee except with certain foods.
(I eventually learned that I don't dislike beer; I dislike strong hops.
Okay, we have *got* to do a beer tasting together some time. I don't mind the hops but I *really* prefer more malty, less hoppy.
Oh, and that there's more to beer than Bud and Miller.)
As if Bud and Miller were beer? (Well, technically, I guess so. But even in college we distinguished between Beer and Brewski. Commercial mass-market brewski does seem to have gone downhill since I was a kid.)
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Date: 2004-09-21 02:19 pm (UTC)Heh. That's where our (weaker) wine tradition came from, too.
I don't have very sophisticated tastes in either wine or beer. In wine, I prefer whites to reds and sweeter wines to drier ones; I tend to favor Reislings and Pinot Grigios. (I'm not as bad as my husband, who thinks Manischevitz is a little dry. :-) ) In beer, as I said it's the hops thing, so I tend to like ales, lambics, wits, and things I don't necessarily know how to label. I hate IPAs, as you would predict. I'm also not fond of really really strong beer, just because I'd rather be able to savor the flavor without getting quite as much of a wallop.
Okay, we have *got* to do a beer tasting together some time.
Next Pennsic?
I occasionally participate in a beer-sampler group; I should actually take notes. In PA you can only buy beer by the case (or, in restaurants and bars, by the high-priced bottle), so I'm part of a group that will occasionally get together in suitable multiples, by 8 different beers, and give everyone 3 bottles of each. This lets us explore without committing to a case. I met Weyerbacher that way, and I like just about everything of theirs I've had.
As if Bud and Miller were beer?
Well, it was the stuff my father often kept in the beer fridge. And from there I went to college, where my beer came from frat parties -- and they can't afford to serve up the good stuff either. So I guess I was in my late 20s before I learned that there's a lot more to beer than that.