Brew 2016

[capitalbill]

Says sticker's a dollar...

Well, shit. I got mine for free. Must have been my boyish charm.

[blackprinceofmuncie]

"Do you want another Jager, Donovan?"

Ummmm... YesZ.

Ugh! You'd be better off drinking toilet water.

[Chainsaw]

"Do you want another Jager, Donovan?"
Ummmm... YesZ.

Ugh! You'd be better off drinking toilet water.

[Welleran]

Uh jaegaer is as cheap as it gets my drinking friend.

[Welleran]

Ok, Dinovan, ya drunk bastich. It's a school night and I'm having a second bourbon. School night!

[Welleran]

On a more serious note (at least for this thread) I wanted to acknowledge that today is the 100th anniversary of the opening infantry assaults of the battle of the Somme. It was the bloodiest day in British history with nearly 20,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers killed and 40,000 more wounded in ONE day (to say nothing of the French, who did quite well for their part). It would rage through much of the rest of 1916, with little enough to show for it.

My (Scottish) great grandfather Samuel Sloan was a gunner with the 48th Battery, XXXVI Brigade, Second Division, I Corps of the British Expeditionary Force (and, incidentally a veteran of the Boer War). He missed the Somme by a hair having been invalided out two days prior (no one in the family seems to know if it was wounds or sickness, but the artillery bombardments started a week or more before 1 July so who knows). However, in his honor and in honor of what was one of the greatest and most horrific battle I have bagpipe music playing loudly and I raise my glass of good (well, decent) scotch in their honor.

Here's tae us
Wha's like us
Damn few
And their a' deid
Mair's the pity

(OK, I know this is the Crimean War, but that's the big ass picture over my desk and it is a Scottish Regiment -the 42nd- even if it is Highlanders where my Great Grandfather was a civilized, lowland Scot)

[TRP]

Celebrating the end of the stupid diet this evening with a couple bottles of my home brew schwarzbier and my 12 year old buddy, Macallan.

[Welleran]

Shifting wars. 153 years since Little Round Top at Gettysburg so that calls for some Chamberlain Pale Ale from the great state of Maine. And nothing says "Civil War" like good nachos and guac!

[rredmond]

Nice! Beer looks great. Love the fresh jalapenos!
[strike]Where's the guac? [/strike]

EDIT: Ah, I see the bowl off there to the right.

[Welleran]

Yes. No guac? No nachos!

[Matthew]

Last couple of months, Kirin has been doing this "regional" brew, so each prefecture gets its own branded version. For some reason, the Kanagawa brew has moved up in alcohol content from 5% to 6% ... nice drink for a hot day, though (and it has been super hot here, lately. 34 degrees in the house on Monday)! Backgrounded are my new miniatures from Perry (72 French Infantry, 48 Foot Knights, and 24 Light Cavalry).

[TRP]

Can't show too much. It may be used at NTRPG some year. The map, not the scotch. Well, the scotch could be used as well, but who cares who sees that?

[Matthew]

Some light reading and a new Guinness glass after my wife accidentally broke the last one.

[Wheggi]

Breakfast of champions ...



- Wheggi

[rredmond]

Ouch! Been there Tony!