Having read almost every post on this forum, it is clear that the three most necessary liquids for canoe trippers are water, coffee and beer.
Now you can say whatever you want about beer after you answer the following two mandatory topic questions. If you don't want to follow these rules, start your own beer thread. For purposes of this topic, beer includes ale, stout, lager, porter and other fermented cereal grain bubbly concoctions.
1. What's the most beer you ever carried in your canoe? It doesn't matter how many people were on the trip, how long it was, or whether you just happened to be the designated beer vessel. You don't have to explain it, or you can, but what's your record?
-- In 65 years of paddling, I don't recall even one beer ever being in my canoe. During my many canoe trips during my 26 years of drinking, I only carried hard liquor. More bounce and fewer (gravitational) ounces to the (fluid) ounce. If someone else offered me a beer in camp, I don't recall turning them down, but it wasn't toted by my canoe.
2. What's your one favorite beer of all time? You know, the scenario where you can take only one brand with you to the moon, solitary confinement or orgy island. The secret purpose of this question is to tease out something about your personal history.
-- A tough choice for me, especially since most beers taste so much the same, while others are so different. I'll choose Carling Black Label. Not for any taste or flavor reason, but because it evokes pleasant memories of sweet youth and good times for me. It was the most common bottled beer served around Lake George, New York, where I worked every summer during college in the1960's, and where I picked up all my vices, such as drinking beer.
After 29 years of abstaining from all alcohol, beer is the only alcoholic beverage I slightly miss. I think that's because it actually had thirst quenching attributes, and because beerandpizza always seemed to be one word for so long. But sodaandpizza did just fine before I was 18 and does so again now.
Now you can say whatever you want about beer after you answer the following two mandatory topic questions. If you don't want to follow these rules, start your own beer thread. For purposes of this topic, beer includes ale, stout, lager, porter and other fermented cereal grain bubbly concoctions.
1. What's the most beer you ever carried in your canoe? It doesn't matter how many people were on the trip, how long it was, or whether you just happened to be the designated beer vessel. You don't have to explain it, or you can, but what's your record?
-- In 65 years of paddling, I don't recall even one beer ever being in my canoe. During my many canoe trips during my 26 years of drinking, I only carried hard liquor. More bounce and fewer (gravitational) ounces to the (fluid) ounce. If someone else offered me a beer in camp, I don't recall turning them down, but it wasn't toted by my canoe.
2. What's your one favorite beer of all time? You know, the scenario where you can take only one brand with you to the moon, solitary confinement or orgy island. The secret purpose of this question is to tease out something about your personal history.
-- A tough choice for me, especially since most beers taste so much the same, while others are so different. I'll choose Carling Black Label. Not for any taste or flavor reason, but because it evokes pleasant memories of sweet youth and good times for me. It was the most common bottled beer served around Lake George, New York, where I worked every summer during college in the1960's, and where I picked up all my vices, such as drinking beer.
After 29 years of abstaining from all alcohol, beer is the only alcoholic beverage I slightly miss. I think that's because it actually had thirst quenching attributes, and because beerandpizza always seemed to be one word for so long. But sodaandpizza did just fine before I was 18 and does so again now.
The most beer I've taken on a trip is 24. The beer I drink now is Coors water, I mean Coors Lite. I drink it because I get too full to drink anymore before I get too tipsy. Although I've been known to have a few LaBatts Blue or Molson's once in awhile. My most disappointing beer story is I went to a big sportsman show in Toronto many years ago. The Canadian breweries were on strike. The only beer they had was Strohs, awful, just awful.
