Beer thread?

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You win as far as locations are concerned Jim.
While we’re talking Snowbird are there any warming huts or outdoor tables at Snowbird or Alta that one can eat a packed lunch at?
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Mid-Gad had a very functional warming room on the lower level. The upper level was the main dining area. I used that warming room quite often to eat my packed lunch. It had nice large windows. I'll miss it. The new structure is not likely to be so user friendly to brown baggers. Down at the Snowbird Tram Plaza there are numerous outdoor free tables to eat packed lunches. In Snowbirds Creekside Lodge there is a large indoor dining area where you can bring and eat your own food with a little discretion. Outside Goldminer's Daughter Lodge at Alta there are some free tables to snack at.
 
+1 for "Outside Goldminer's Daughter Lodge at Alta there are some free tables to snack at." I remember eating my lunch inside at tables next to Baldy Brews (coffee:oops: not beer) on the lower level of Watson Shelter by Collins Angle Station. I remember signs saying no outside food at Albion Day Lodge, but many were not following the rule and were a lot less discreet than us including 2 guys powering through a 6-pack with their lunch. Creekside at Snowbird also has a lot of tables outside on deck, but the day wasatchman and I were there early last March some plates blew off tables and some ski blew over.
 
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Went to a relatively high end Japanese joint for a work function last night. The matcha IPA looks novelty and is to a degree due to the colour but was really good. Absolutely no floral tones like some IPAs. Too strong at 8.5% for me though. I had a few over the course of the evening and my morning run just now was harder than usual.
The food was great but not mind blowing.

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A big craft beer scene here in Wanaka NZ. This brewery has the tables laminated with the local ski hill trail map. Beers are good. Kylie has the hazy on the left. I’ve got the ‘Alpine Ale’ on the right.
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@Tony Crocker was Motatapu Basin open when you visited Treble Cone? We weren’t there today but it wasn’t open due to the fresh snow. Hopefully it will be open when I’m there tomorrow.
 
I'm going to get busted for posting a picture of a Coke in this thread, but believe me I drank a few beers too. This is view from earlier this week at my brother's house on Narragansett Bay near beautiful Newport, Rhode Island.
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View from the Cliffs at Newport.
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The beer is a solid Aussie favourite from a family owned brewery in South Australia. They’ve been brewing this pale ale since 1862. Who knew they had ‘hazy’ ales back then? You will see the ‘no additives or preservatives’ on the label. Probably not that special.
The cloudiness is from live yeast being added prior to bottling apparently.

Anyway the main reason for the pic is the new souvenir glass I acquired last week in the Land of the Long White Cloud. It features my new favourite Southern Hemisphere ski hill.
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Superb weather here. Temps today ranged from 57 to 77 and not a cloud in the sky. The pool in the background of the pic will be in play about the end of October when the night time minimums increase.
 
Some Scottish beers. I was bummed in one pub when I ordered a hazy IPA before realizing it was 3.2%. I asked a bartender elsewhere about all the lower alcohol beers and he said it was so customers could drink for a while without getting too drunk. Taxes also higher on higher alcohol %.

One of my favorites. 5.2% Simco, Mosaic and Equanot hops "create tropical notes of pineapple and guava".
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Also a good one
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This was not one of my favorites. I didn't know it had mango and pineapple as I tyhought the tropical was from the hops when buying it.
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tseeb said:
Some Scottish beers. I was bummed in one pub when I ordered a hazy IPA before realizing it was 3.2%. I asked a bartender elsewhere about all the lower alcohol beers and he said it was so customers could drink for a while without getting too drunk. Taxes also higher on higher alcohol %.

One of my favorites. 5.2% Simco, Mosaic and Equanot hops "create tropical notes of pineapple and guava".
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Also a good one
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This was not one of my favorites. I didn't know it had mango and pineapple as I tyhought the tropical was from the hops when buying it.
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You’re in Scotland at the moment?
And yes. I dislike any artificial flavour added to beer.
 
Was in Scotland Sept 9-17 (Edinburgh, Inverness, Isle of Skye and Glencoe) and England Sept 18-25 (York, Lake District and London). I lived in North Yorkshire in early 1980s, but didn't have time to stop in Edinburgh on my two trips to Scotland to go skiing (Spring) and hiking (Summer).
 
A few beers from England. First is one (an IPA?) I had with a pub lunch in York.
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Next is one I had with dinner at a South African restaurant in York. I also had some wine. We were walking.
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I like how most restaurants and pubs tried to give you the glass from the brewery. The story behind Black Sheep is that someone in the family from 200 year-old Theakston Brewery in Masham, North Yorkshire started Black Sheep who also makes this Golden Sheep.
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The street market we had lunch at in London was super busy so we crossed the Thames and I bought and drank this before City of London tour.
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Are you finding the UK prices noticeably pricey? Apparently London food and drink is generally eyewatering.
 
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Relative to the USD, London in 1980 was possibly the most expensive place I recall. At that time prices in the UK outside of London were about half as much, which I suspect is still true. London seemed not so different from US cities on our layover in June, but that's a sample size of one lunch at an Indian restaurant. And soon thereafter we were indulging in bargain foodie extravagances in South Africa.

The other times prices were sky high for me vs. USD were the Eurozone in 2004 and 2008 and Australia in 2012.
 
Sbooker said:
Are you finding the UK prices noticeably pricey? Apparently London food and drink is generally eyewatering.
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Generally, we found prices in pounds were about the same we are used to in US$ so that's about 30% more. Scotland was as expensive as anywhere we went. We had lunch our first day in London at a Xi'an restaurant where my wife liked my order of spicy noodles with beef so much that we went back the next day for dinner so she could get it. We had tea with lunch there and the tea was 7.20 pounds. Another outlier was at expensive Ballachulish hotel near Glencoe we stayed at to stay same night as former co-worker (who had a cold so we mostly stayed away).
Menu had a local low-end $18 California Chardonnay (and they are currently offering me 30% off) for 56 pounds (over $72). We mostly had S. American and S. African wines by the glass with dinners or Whiskey, which can be amazingly expensive, in our room. We stayed 2 nights near and toured and tasted at Talisker.
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We stopped at one of the best cheese places in England.
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Cheese place had gondolas from Trois Valles and Courchevel in their parking lot.
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I think pistachio croissant I got at French bakery our last morning in London was ~$8 and well worth it. Filling is pistachio whipped cream.
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tseeb said:
or Whiskey, which can be amazingly expensive, in our room
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Well, looking at the 43 year aged Talisker picture; yep, that's gonna be expensive, lol. A whole 10 barrels worth made it that long I see in the description... Hopefully something cheaper than than at the hotel I would think.

Whiskey for the last 5 years+ has been a huge growth market. Given that it takes years to age it, supply/demand is way off in general. Though some of the cheap stuff that isn't aged for long, well, is still quite cheap to buy - and for a reason. But unless you are desperate I'd stick to 4+ years of aging at least.
 
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