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   > It always tasted the same to me in my drinking days.   
   > I couldn't taste any difference in any of the brands.   
   > One thing I didn't like was lite beer.  I didn't want to pay for a   
   > watered down beer.   
   > When asked if I wanted a lite beer I always said no, I wanted hi-test,   
   > the real thing.  :)   
      
   I began my drinking, as a kid, with what we called Hi-Test (5.65% ABV vs 5.0    
   for most beers; now we have a few 8% dark ales I prefer the flavour of.   
      
   I was on a tobacco run with a neighbour across the border, into the USA, & we    
   would hit a pub for a couple  hours, to enjoy a jug or two & conversation, &    
   maybe a few pull-tabs.   
      
   He ordered the first jug & it went quickly enough (August); while he was in   
   the washroom, I ordered the next jug (Bud, I think); he came back, took one   
   sip, &  noted I hadn't bought Lite -- I asked why he'd want Lite when regular   
   was the  same price -- he directed me to look through each jug & note the   
   floating crap  all throughout the full strength one, & the clarity of the Lite.   
      
   I now prefer a clear beer in the summer hot days (Corona will do,. but no    
   darned piece of fruit, please) and, as my Brit ancestors do, a dark   
   beer(stout) in the winter; I buy a 6 of each a year & I'm happy -- I buy a   
   couple 6s of De- alcoholized beer -- my fave is Budweiser's Prohibition Beer.   
   (It's Bud, but  brewed up here to our strength standards (5%, vs I think the   
   max of yours is  3.5% federally set?); our Lite is3.5% on average.   
      
   Its so funny wen 19-20 year olds come up here to drink early, & set to out-   
   drinking a Canadian sot, & 2 beers in, they're out! He finishes the 6, &   
   orders another bucket of 6! :D   
      
   >> I rarely drink beer any more   
   > I had two when in NYC in May 2019, at a neighbourhood bar.   
      
   I like popping in to a new pub; I order a pint of draft(whjateve   
   schjeasperst,  I ay, as it;s all the same taste to me) & a side of fries, to   
   check out their  beer, service, prices, & cooking. . . (& how much attitude I   
   get for ordering    
   'the cheapest"   
      
   > In the mid-90s I worked as a front gate cashier for a local amusement   
   >park three days a week.  (At the time I was working like four or five differen   
   > jobs at the same time, part time.  Some where a half days with the morning   
   > at one place and another that af   
   > Anyway, it was a hot, humid August day.  There was no breeze, the air   
   > was stagnant and just miserable out.   
   > I thought a cold beer would be nice after work so got a six pack of Sam   
   > Adams.  That was really good stuff.  Rich, strong, thick.   
   > I had a bottle and a half and the rest was in the fridge for months.   
      
   I've had Sam Adams, & read the story, too. . . Not bad 00 your basic lager   
   (5%  up here)   
      
   When the kids want the high test, just to get drunk, I point out that you   
   don't drink beer to get drunk; you drink beer because you like/want/need to   
   pee; to  get drunk you drink whiskey (rye, scotch, bourbon, vodka, tequila,   
   etc--I call  the 40% ones all whiskeys, by for their associated country   
   (Mexican, Russian,  etc.   
      
   For the ladies, when I was single, I kept a bottle of Southern Comfort on   
   hand, for a little Apres Amour drink or two.   
      
   Thanks for the offer on the links to the car vids, but I'm not a big fan or    
   understander of cars. . . So I'll pass for myself. . . :) I bet others would    
   like them in here, though! & I know people I could pass such a list on to,   
   who  would appreciate the pop down memory lane. . .   
      
   I have a couple preferred vehicles, I'd love to have all of: Ford F-350 pickup   
   truck   
   '69 Cougar (w/ the wrap-around tail lights)   
   '67 Mustang (w/original leather buckets)   
   new Bugatti (just for the pure luxury & smooth ride) Mercedes 45-SL (soft top   
   convertible) One of the new electric Porsche SUVs (they've won races against   
   other stock  gas-powered cars; normally placing 1st or 2nd only on the oval   
   tracks.)   
   & a Bluebird yellow school bus, with all the seats ripped out & turned into a    
   touring party bus (jacuzzi, a soundproofed music area with high wattage   
   sound,  a bar, of course, & a bouncer or two.); plus an area set up like an RV   
   for  comfortable living (the guests can pass out anywhere in the front area,   
   while I rest & eat with all the comforts and ease due an older(on the younger   
   side of  senior) human being. (this may not be as such, as I've aged & matured   
   since  this dream was first an idea); I could still rent it out, to those who   
   wouldn't mind using it to party in somewhere along a route I've already chosen   
   for  myself. (ride sharing of a different nature)   
      
   Those are the only ones that have struck my interest in my life -- Oh, &   
   maybe  a wacky VW Bug or two (like one tricked out like a Cessna plane, &   
   another as a convertible, covered in seashells)   
      
   --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-6   
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