Bourbon, Beer Back

[cowdery]

That may have been root beer schnapps, and has a more vile collection of three words ever been assembled than "root beer schnapps"?

Yes, I agree, and I'm a bitter older, I think (57), and I would agree that the beer back was once much more common than it is now.

[callmeox]

That may have been root beer schnapps, and has a more vile collection of three words ever been assembled than "root beer schnapps"?

Yes, I agree, and I'm a bitter older, I think (57), and I would agree that the beer back was once much more common than it is now.

I wouldn't consider you to be bitter, Chuck. I think we all expose our surly side now and again.

(interesting typo, btw)

I think that if you go to the more blue collar industrial beer joints in my area, you still see the beer back. I used to belong to a private ethnic club here and it was a common call at the bar as well.

[cowdery]

Paging Dr. Freud!

[polyamnesia]

in a CONSCIOUS mode, i attempted this again....theortically...it failed! but that's ok....

got this new bottle of the BOTM...Weller Antique!

took a sip....savored....followed by the Phil. Brewing Co.'s IPA....

just didn't work.....both are quality by far! by the combo did NOT work...

maybe wheaters and hops don't mix at the high proile level.....

[cowdery]

Perhaps it should be noted that one typically drinks the whiskey, then switches to the beer. One does not drink a little whiskey, then a little beer, back and forth.

I've never really messed around with combos and have solicited same from others without much success. For me, the whiskey is the thing and the beer should be a good but unobtrusive lager.

[BourbonBourbon]

I have started the evening with the BBC Jeffersons Reserve Bourbon Barrel Stout and finished up 'after' the beers with a couple glasses of Stagg. I enjoyed both, but don't call me civilized.

[gblick]

Ever heard of a Flaming Dr Pepper?

You take a shotglass of 151 rum, light it, drop it into a beer, and then chug it. I've been told it tastes like Dr Pepper.

Edit: I just looked it up, and what I found said to also use Amaretto, but that's not what I remember.

[Squash]

I just watched the movie "My Name Is Bill W."

It is the story of Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.

In the first drinking scene, they are having whiskey-beer-back.

[Vange]

I prefer a bourbon with a bourbon back

[Squash]

I have been having a problem recently with bourbon having a bitter finish. The last two nights, I had a Newcastle Brown Ale to sip between my neat bourbons. It was great. The beer acted as a great palate cleanser, much as soda or water would, and also as an adjunct to the bourbon, coming in at the end to blend out the bitter with its own, thick, flowing, caramel finish.

[bourbonguyjapan]

It really depends on where I am starting from and finishing at.

If I have been to the whole drinking/eating with co-workers and I am at the 2nd place, then I will probably go bourbon whatever with beer whatever-

Just so I can have something to drink with the bourbon. Water seems so pu$$y to have with the bourbon, and I am probably too gone to give a $hit at that point.

On the other hand, if I am starting fresh; then, I will drink a beer with a lot of bourbon as a chaser.

I try high proofs so a beer seems to quench the burn and thirst that goes with high octane bourbon. That's me, and I am in a country that condones public drunkenness.