Steak n' Eggs, they used to call it in Reno. When I worked at the Club Cal-Neva, it meant a Bud and shot of Old Crow. Bottles of Bud and well drinks were $1 in 1999-2000, which was damned cheap, even then. That was a working man's eye opener -- when I worked the graveyard shift, guys would stop in for a quick drink while they waited for the bus on their way to work in the morning.
Ah, Cobra is right around the block from where Max and Erma's used to be! I loved that place, until they spawned chains, got into financial trouble for it, got bought out by venture capitalists and corporatized into oblivion. :(
I know it’s not a popular opinion around here but I like PBR, Coors, Miller, and the like. I’m an old but I still enjoy physical labor and for me those beers are great thirst quenchers.
I've had an offensive amount of pbr in my life, and I like highlife. I've consequently discovered that adding aromatic bitters to cheap beer is positively delectable.
I'm also not a fan of Jack - it's an extremely hot spirit, and the banana esters they like to pretend are a good thing are actually the result of just CRANKING out their product. I'd honestly say it's one of the most overrated spirits out there.
My Dad used to make his Manhattans with Canadian Club or another Canadian whisky. Don’t know if he ordered them that way at bars. Dad was a thrifty guy - he drank Busch.
I have a picture of myself age somewhere between one and two. Sitting on the floor in my little overalls, hardly any hair that you can see - my hair was so light at that time you could barely see it. My dad called me Joe cause I looked like a boy. Anyway, there I am with a bottle of Strohs in my hands. Before anyone retroactively calls Childrens Services, I'm pretty sure the bottle was empty. However, I was a Strohs drinker for a long time as an adult.
This is the classic I know. The shot is dropped in the beer and then chug! I don't think I ever had one myself, but observed it often in my old NYC Irish ironworkers bar in Dumbo
Miller has a certain skunkiness, so not a complete waste of a drink, IMO, although it has been decades since I bought it for anything but slug bait. I used to love Ballantine Ale for its distinctive skunky funk.
I worked at Ballantine during the summer in college. We had beer breaks instead of coffee breaks, but we couldn't get drunk because the assembly line ran so fast and we were hefting cases of beer onto pallets.
Malta. A good one if you can find it; settle for Goya if that's all there is. Smooth like a good whiskey, foamy and malty like a good dark beer. And unlike most Latinx sodas, it's not overly sweet.
Oh no! But so many sodas work. The many variations of coke are delicious - my favorite is RC - and 7-Up is also a great choice. Or go for whatever soda/ice cream combo floats your boat.
Well shoot. I was going to make a joke about how we all just gave up after this awful week but then got went and wrote a thoughtful post. I'm gonna go sulk and nurse my boilermaker.
DeSantis: ‘Florida will provide asylum’ to holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy case
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Friday accused the media of launching a smear campaign against the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, after a report revealed that the juror had a history of alleged domestic violence and an active restraining order.
“A man objected to allowing a woman to kill her three young kids and get away with it, so NBC is trying to smear that juror, whose identity should be protected,” DeSantis wrote on social media in response to the report from NBC10 Boston. “Another low for legacy media.
“If the juror is being harassed, Florida will provide asylum — I’m sure he’d be welcomed and appreciated,” DeSantis wrote.
I don't think there was any possibility she would "get away with it" with any decision. If she'd been found not guilty by reason of insanity, it's my understanding that she'd end up confined anyway, just not in an actual prison.
Oh shut the fuck up, go golfing for fuck's sake. We've heard enough of your shit to last a lifetime. All I see in the media is stupid questions about the "trmp dividend." It's illegal, congress would have to pass it, and he's bribing us with our own money. It's stupid. What's scarier and really needs deep discussion is that weird pledge of allegiance that every fucking cultist in that arena took part. All those republicans lined up in the green rooms for the Sunday shows should be asked about that, and the chud shouting death threats as Cruz insulted Democrats. Period.
Three things:1) nice jam at Dave’s Bar & Grille last night. Played all the old favorites, 2) got the best sailing day of the week on Wednesday; today is line after line of dark gray with white and blue fringes announcing each new formation, 3) had a 2 hour migraine set to the tune of “My Baby Loves Lovin’”, the 1970 inane misogynistic atrocity that I guess my mind dug up to torture me. Here’s the link for your listening pleasure. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rdpkAs_9R3c&pp=0gcJCYsCo7VqN5tD&ra=m
This is like a letter I’m putting straight into the fire.
Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”
I have a deep thought based on the drone twin towers thing below: if they ever get to celebrate anything again in Ukraine, both fireworks and drones seem like they’d traumatize the population.
In Scotland there was a tradition of "Half and Half" in pubs where you have a single Scotch whiskey and half a pint of beer and sip them alternately . It was an old man's thing but, similarly the craft beer thing might have brought it back.
Busy questions here.
Steak n' Eggs, they used to call it in Reno. When I worked at the Club Cal-Neva, it meant a Bud and shot of Old Crow. Bottles of Bud and well drinks were $1 in 1999-2000, which was damned cheap, even then. That was a working man's eye opener -- when I worked the graveyard shift, guys would stop in for a quick drink while they waited for the bus on their way to work in the morning.
Ah, Cobra is right around the block from where Max and Erma's used to be! I loved that place, until they spawned chains, got into financial trouble for it, got bought out by venture capitalists and corporatized into oblivion. :(
I've been enjoying Miller High Life pony beers. They're the perfect size.
"And, of course, everything goes with Fernet-Branca."
Huzzah! That's why I love you, Hooper.
I know it’s not a popular opinion around here but I like PBR, Coors, Miller, and the like. I’m an old but I still enjoy physical labor and for me those beers are great thirst quenchers.
Genesee Cream is my nostalgia beer these days, when I get home.
I've had an offensive amount of pbr in my life, and I like highlife. I've consequently discovered that adding aromatic bitters to cheap beer is positively delectable.
Henry's if you can find it. Rainier if you can't.
They changed the hops bill for Henry's, so it just doesn't taste right. I take my Vitamin R, though, even if it's not brewed in the PNW any more.
I'm also not a fan of Jack - it's an extremely hot spirit, and the banana esters they like to pretend are a good thing are actually the result of just CRANKING out their product. I'd honestly say it's one of the most overrated spirits out there.
As a young man here in Michigan, it was Strohs and Southern Comfort.
Eventually the SC was too sweet for me, and I moved to Canadian Club.
The Strohs was a constant throughout, with or without the shot.
My Dad used to make his Manhattans with Canadian Club or another Canadian whisky. Don’t know if he ordered them that way at bars. Dad was a thrifty guy - he drank Busch.
Canadian Club is expensive now that the Pedo-in-Chief has hit it with a tariff.
For those of us on this side of the border, may I suggest C.C and Kokanee?
He's so ridiculous
I remember Strohs! A blast from the past
I loved the original Strohs. A beer that tased like beer! Whooda thunk it!
my dad and uncles all drank stroh's back in the day.
Strohs was good until it bought Schlitz, then it went to hell
I have a picture of myself age somewhere between one and two. Sitting on the floor in my little overalls, hardly any hair that you can see - my hair was so light at that time you could barely see it. My dad called me Joe cause I looked like a boy. Anyway, there I am with a bottle of Strohs in my hands. Before anyone retroactively calls Childrens Services, I'm pretty sure the bottle was empty. However, I was a Strohs drinker for a long time as an adult.
Ha! That was a favorite photo pose in my family - Baby with an (empty) Beer.
"A shot of Jameson paired with Guinness is an instant classic."
We'd drop the shot in the pint and call it a car bomb.
This is the classic I know. The shot is dropped in the beer and then chug! I don't think I ever had one myself, but observed it often in my old NYC Irish ironworkers bar in Dumbo
Oooh, haven't seen that in a minute now.
𝐼 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒-𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑟.
I'm no stranger to a few boilermakers. Started on them when I was 16 or 17.
Big thumbs up on Jim Beam, which is really smooth enough for a rocks glass and a splash.
But Miller High Life? Oh man, just the thought of it makes me sad. That's like Near Beer.
My pee probably has a higher ABV, and maybe tastes better too.
Heh. We love ya, Hoop.
Miller has a certain skunkiness, so not a complete waste of a drink, IMO, although it has been decades since I bought it for anything but slug bait. I used to love Ballantine Ale for its distinctive skunky funk.
I worked at Ballantine during the summer in college. We had beer breaks instead of coffee breaks, but we couldn't get drunk because the assembly line ran so fast and we were hefting cases of beer onto pallets.
Was that in new Jersey?
I just read up on the history of Ballantine. So sad that it was killed, and the recipes lost.
The first beer I ever had, aged 12 or so, was a Miller.
My high school beer was Black Label. Sadly, drinking it did not turn me into Stephen King, my high school writing hero.
What's the non alcoholic version of this?
Malta. A good one if you can find it; settle for Goya if that's all there is. Smooth like a good whiskey, foamy and malty like a good dark beer. And unlike most Latinx sodas, it's not overly sweet.
A rootbeer float! Seriously, you've got the drink, which even has beer in the name, and something delicious floating in it.
I hate rootbeer!
Oh no! But so many sodas work. The many variations of coke are delicious - my favorite is RC - and 7-Up is also a great choice. Or go for whatever soda/ice cream combo floats your boat.
If you're not into that, the Mormons have some great dirty soda options. Not Mormon, will drink all of them. A wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_soda
Horrors! A good root beer is a joy.
Milk.
Well shoot. I was going to make a joke about how we all just gave up after this awful week but then got went and wrote a thoughtful post. I'm gonna go sulk and nurse my boilermaker.
I’m noticing a theme with the drinks, we’ll have a recipe for tincture of laudanum before the midterms.
Just absinthe straight up….
Moonshine 3 Fridays in a row... Hmmm.
And by 2028, Hoop will just have a hammer behind the bar…
is it considered gauche to drink white russians after labor day, Hooper?
/s
As long as you don't wear them you should be ok.
Can we use real beer instead of Miller and skip the Jim Beam?
You can use what's good to you.
Scrolling down to read the busy questions.
I saw the Miller and immediately thought of Jim Beam!
In Philly it is know as the Citywide, and traditionally is PBR and Jim Beam. God bless Bob & Barabara's!
A headline on HuffPo:
Congress Is Starting To Argue About A Potential AI Apocalypse
In my 30+ years working in a federal budget office, I learned that Congress *always* waits to take action until it’s almost too late.
Two problems there:
1) This Congress may not remember how to take action.
B) “Too late” is often hard to pinpoint. AI may prove to be the best example of that. But it may be too late to use the lesson.
Article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ai-ted-cruz-amy-klobuchar-maria-cantwell_n_6aa439e7e4b09fd4319eb703?utm_campaign=share_email&ncid=other_email_o63gt2jcad4
"Will whoever is saying, 'How much dumber can republicons get?" please stop. They are taking it as a challenge".
Not mine, but I wish it were
DeSantis: ‘Florida will provide asylum’ to holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy case
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Friday accused the media of launching a smear campaign against the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, after a report revealed that the juror had a history of alleged domestic violence and an active restraining order.
“A man objected to allowing a woman to kill her three young kids and get away with it, so NBC is trying to smear that juror, whose identity should be protected,” DeSantis wrote on social media in response to the report from NBC10 Boston. “Another low for legacy media.
“If the juror is being harassed, Florida will provide asylum — I’m sure he’d be welcomed and appreciated,” DeSantis wrote.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/6085748-florida-offers-asylum-holdout-juror/
Wow he really wants Florida tourism to stay in the toilet.
Also, don't they still have 2 alternate jurors?
Doesn't matter. A mistrial was already declared.
I don't think there was any possibility she would "get away with it" with any decision. If she'd been found not guilty by reason of insanity, it's my understanding that she'd end up confined anyway, just not in an actual prison.
" . . . the juror had a history of alleged domestic violence and an active restraining order."
Perfect FL GOP voter.
Perfect FL GOP elected official.
So, how tf did this dude make it through jury selection ?
How could neither attorneys nor the judge simply ask "do any of you have a history of domestic violence ?" . . .
Lol of course he'd be welcomed and appreciated.
Well yeah, it's okay if a Republican does it.
Oh shut the fuck up, go golfing for fuck's sake. We've heard enough of your shit to last a lifetime. All I see in the media is stupid questions about the "trmp dividend." It's illegal, congress would have to pass it, and he's bribing us with our own money. It's stupid. What's scarier and really needs deep discussion is that weird pledge of allegiance that every fucking cultist in that arena took part. All those republicans lined up in the green rooms for the Sunday shows should be asked about that, and the chud shouting death threats as Cruz insulted Democrats. Period.
If it wasn't for the Logan Act
Republicans would never laugh . . .
Three things:1) nice jam at Dave’s Bar & Grille last night. Played all the old favorites, 2) got the best sailing day of the week on Wednesday; today is line after line of dark gray with white and blue fringes announcing each new formation, 3) had a 2 hour migraine set to the tune of “My Baby Loves Lovin’”, the 1970 inane misogynistic atrocity that I guess my mind dug up to torture me. Here’s the link for your listening pleasure. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rdpkAs_9R3c&pp=0gcJCYsCo7VqN5tD&ra=m
This is like a letter I’m putting straight into the fire.
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social
Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”
What? White people can't be in the Klan!?!
I'm just askin!
More than 500,000 Russian troops killed in Ukraine, UK defense chief says
https://nypost.com/2026/09/12/world-news/more-than-500000-russian-troops-killed-in-ukraine-uk-defense-chief-says/
100,000 more than U.S. WW II military deaths.
About the number of U.S. deaths in our Civil war? Which was a bloodbath.
Good.
Currently 11M less than Russian military deaths in WWII. They have a ways to go yet.
Oh hey BBC, how is Trumps two day trip to Ireland going?
"As for the signs and placards, very few can be pictured due to their expletive nature."
Ok. So about normal?
My people!
America is respected again!
Hottest country ever.
They're not laughing at us anymore!
No, they’re cussing at us.
I have a deep thought based on the drone twin towers thing below: if they ever get to celebrate anything again in Ukraine, both fireworks and drones seem like they’d traumatize the population.
In Scotland there was a tradition of "Half and Half" in pubs where you have a single Scotch whiskey and half a pint of beer and sip them alternately . It was an old man's thing but, similarly the craft beer thing might have brought it back.
Good morning. (Yeah, at almost 72, I’ve finally learned to sleep in. Sorry if others can’t always.)
The message I’d really like to get across to all voters, and to negligent non-voters, is simple:
The Republican Party did this to us on purpose.
Meanwhile, at the BRICS summit ...
𝘈𝘥𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘩𝘪 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘐𝘓𝘓𝘌𝘎𝘈𝘓.
Of course. Russia needs money and electronic components, after all.
Just when you think this dystopian hell can't get any worse...
Some fucking asshole finds a trap door and fucking has to open it!
Hence our more and more potent Friday drink recipes, by Election Day it will be polish spiritus straight from the bottle.
You find a small pile of cat barf right in the doorway. #Caturday