B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for September 19, 2010

Micro Breweries in BC???

Water, Barley, Hops and Yeast.. THAT’S ALL….

whatever happened to this being a christian strip?

Jesus turned water into wine!

Beer is proof God wants us to be happy.

Ben Franklin

It’s B.C. Christ hasn’t been born yet.

I don’t like beer….But I’ll have a Pepsi.

Hello everyone.

Arrrr…Hello Little Sister…….Where can Me find that Bottle O’Rum??? Avast, Me Hearties!

There’s lots of Microbreweries in BC! Granville Island, Spinnaker. Lighthouse….

I feel your pain. I am also sick of the fruity beers.

Arrrr me maties. I’ll ave me a flagon of grog (not to be confused with GROG). I’ll keel haul the lubber who tries to put fruit in my yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

Johnny Hart is turning over in his grave.

Beer’s the oldest recipe in the world! And it’s been found pretty much everywhere. But it hasn’t always been just “Water, Barley, Hops and Yeast.” That didn’t become the standard until the 15th century Reinheitsgebot of Bavaria took hold. Earlier beers had wild varieties of ingredients not that different from what modern micro breweries are playing with. Having said that, gimme a Becks, and I’m happy.

God invented beer to keep the Irish from conquering the world

Just give me a Fosters, the golden throat charmer. That’s Australian for beer.

I don’t even like Carona. No fruit in my beer.

Good Morning, Fellow Cave Dwellers.

You are referred to todays Non Sequitur

Beer! Helping ugly people get laid for thousands of years!

Just two words, “Dos Equis!” Just good amber beer and no fruit! The Mexicans know how to make it!

Those South Africans make good ones too. Give me a MGD or Coors product any day.

JP Steve - nice reference! I miss having lunch in Vancouver…. back when we could zip back and forth to BC from Washington and not have to prove who we are in both directions at the Peace Arch. Oh well, those days are gone…. Still have a bag of loonies, though.

I don’t often drink beer, but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis. Stay thirsty my friends.

Dos Equis the champagne of beer!

It has been postulated that agriculture was developed, not to make bread, but to make beer.

Guinness Draft. To answer the question about a gas chromatograph and determining the compounds found in wine. I was doing just that 40 years ago at UC Davis in the Enology Department. The number of compounds in wine is rather large. Some of them smelled like Cinnamon, vanilla, roses and other common smells. When mixed together some become much stronger(synergistic effect) and some are masked. Wish I knew more…

No wonder they called this the Stoned Age.

There really are different flavors in beers and wines, including the overtones that Nabu finds so elusive. No doubt our individual sensitivities to different chemicals are partly responsible for our appreciation of them or the lack thereof. But probably chemical tests of the kind he suggests have long since been done.

And then there’s LuvH8 over at BigTop who simply finds beer…

Ahoy, Me Maties……

I concur with Johanan and LuvH8……(and so does me parrot)

Beer is Blechy!!!

@Nabuquduriuzhur - my understanding is that chromatography has trouble distinguishing between pork and human flesh. (And cannibals referred to their trademark fare as “long pork”.) Of course, that could be a reason not to eat pork.

MontanaLady all i can say to you Johanan & LuvH8 is that i’ll take a Blechy in a frosted glass.

LOL, make that two in a glass, Yguy!

Good Sunday Morning Everyone!

What most people think of as beer is blechy. The two brews that I pictured above are examples a whole ‘nother animal. Of course, with such richness of taste, one may have to acquire a taste for it.

Trivia -

If you don’t stop the brewing at the right place, you get whiskey.

yyyguy & ♠Lonewolf♠, I don’t need no stinkin’ frosted glasses. I’ll drink my Blechy straight out of the can.

I wants me Blechy room temperature, me hardies! Arrrr.

My son and his cronnies brew some really great beer. I can take about 2 sips of it, and say, yah, that tastes good, but that’s all I care for. Now, Red Wines…….are another story!!!!

I don’t care if the experts can taste vanilla or asphalt. Yes that has been noted in several drinks.

I care about what I taste.

It is no accident that every advanced civiilisation has dicoverd the art of brewing

Hey I was wondering when good Christians stopped drinking alcohol and made it a sin to do so?. They hit the wine like there is no tomorrow.

ripvw01 said, Hey I was wondering when good Christians stopped drinking alcohol and made it a sin to do so?. They hit the wine like there is no tomorrow.

The Women’s Suffrage movement needed a cause t’ rally behind, an’ they picked alcohol prohibition. P’haps they saw their loved ones be havin’ too much o’ the stuff in hard times, an’ those times be real hard, an’ those brews be real hard. Real rotgut.

Some of us don’t have a problem with responsible drinking in itself. But we don’t want to confuse others on the issue. Don’t want to give them cause to say, “You claim to be a Christians and….!”

The wine that was served at Jewish festivals and, for that matter, any other time was probably mixed with water. Wine and beer have been used for centuries to make water more potable. Historically, water was nasty stuff. Many a Christian is misguided by the many directives to be ‘sober’. But the two words most often translated as sober mean, “to be calm and collected in spirit, to be temperate, dispassionate, circumspect, to be of sound mind, to put a moderate estimate upon one’s self, to think of one’s self soberly, to curb one’s passions.”

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DID THE ANCIENT ISRAELITES DRINK BEER? From an article in Biblical Archaeology Today

Yahweh drank a six-pack per day beer according to the Hebrew Bible, the Israelite God Yahweh drank a six-pack of beer each day (through ritual libation offerings) and even more on the Sabbath. So why doesn’t the word “beer” appear in most English translations of the Bible? Author Michael M. Homan offers three explanations: (1) the Hebrew word for beer (shekhar) has been misunderstood and mistranslated; (2) there is a general snobbery among academics that causes them to scorn beer drinking as uncivilized and uncouth, preferring to paint the Israelites as sophisticated wine drinkers; (3) it is difficult to identify beer making in the archaeological record because the process so closely resembles bread production.

newworldmozart said, 1 day ago

whatever happened to this being a christian strip?

“BOYsenberry” does sound like Christian Church to me :-p