Rich Pawlak
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I'm planning a late night sushi snack tonight. Any suggestions for a good beer/sushi match?
If I were eating sushi, I would try to find:
Stoudt's Pils
Victory Prima Pils
Straub's
Saranac Pilsner
Yuengling Lord Chesterfield Ale (my personal fave with seafood)
Brooklyn Pilsner
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Sounds weird, but I'm really wishing they did this promo with Moretti Birra Rosso, a superb, malty, red-hued beer that hard to find but utterly delicious.
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Does anyone know of a place in Philly or delaware valley where you can get a real Caesar salad - perhaps created tableside?
You can find a Caesar style salad everywhere with various travesties commited (mustard, canola oil, boxed croutons, anchovy filets laid on top...) so I'm not interested in those.
1. The Marker at the Adam's Mark Hotel
2. The Mosholu, if host Nick Bongiorno is still there
3. a place in Huntingdon Valley, PA, on Philmont Ave, called Sandro's I think, has the great Alfio Ganglinese coming in occasionally to do them, as he did at his namesake restaurant, Alfio's in Glenside, for years.
4 La Buca did one the last time I ate there.
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Or something else?
I remember the first time I had a Big Mac. I was 10 years old at the time. All that cheese, onions and Russian dressing and I thought I was going to hurl.
Now, it's one of my favorite McD's sandwiches when I go to McD's (which is not all that often these days). Big N Tasty burgers (hold the cheese) comes second. McGrill Chicken comes third.
Never been a fan of fried fish sandwiches -- even BK's sandwiches (which you can get any style by having it your way apparently).
Behind McDonald's, Arby's comes a close second with Burger King and Wendy's tied for third place.
So what are your top three places and top three sandwiches?
Ignore the raving foodie behind the curtain.
Soba
My all time favorite fast food sandwich has to be an original Chick-Fil-A sandwich,as tasty a chicken cutlet as there is, buttered roll, two pickles, a brillaint combination.
2nd Place goes to an Arby's Roast Beef with Horseradish Sauce
3rd place goes to a Wndy's Double Burger with cheese, god help my still beating heart.
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From the 01/06/04 Washington Post business section:
Frederick Brewing, makers of Wild Goose and Blue Ridge beers, will be sold
to settle about $3.1 million in debts, the company's court-appointed
receiver said. Mark Dottere said he expects to conclude a sale of the
Frederick Brewing building and sox-acre property inthe Wedgewood Business
Park to an unidentified buyer by late January or early February. The brewing
equipment would be sold separately to an operator who would then lease the
plant and continue producing beer, Dottroe said.
Let me also add that Frederick also brewed the Crooked River line and was the contractor for the 12 oz. bottles for Stoudt's Brewing. In 2002 FB took home a GABF gold for the Crooked River ESB and a bronze for the Wild Goose oatmeal stout. The Crooked River Yuletide Ale was one of my favorite new beers of 2002.
Lloyd, beer writer Lew Bryson had also heard that things were not good at Frederick; the Wild Goose Snow Goose we included in our Christmas Mix, he feared, would be the last of that beer that we would ever see. Sad.
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Some of us folks in California are sick of the Arnold-hype. Yet I guess a beer producer in Oregon is going to ride some of the coattails.
Story here - in USA Today.
The only good thing about this, is the goofy name for the beer.
But as has been said many time before:
we get the government we elect and deserve.
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[if anyone wants to figure out any statistics, I am open to (sheesh) facts. How many members we have, views per day, bla bla bla. I may not have a chance to say anything, being a fraidy cat, but it's better to be prepared in case I'm a smooth talker. (Must not curse on the radio).
Here's my contribution:
If we had 16 burger-eaters show up at Blue Smoke yesterday (I'm excluding Bond Girl's catfish order), and we estimated that the burgers were about 8 oz. before cooking, that means we consumed 128 ounces, or eight pounds worth of beef on Saturday. Someone check my math, willya?
If we've had five BC meetings with approx. that means we've consumed about 40 pounds of burgers in the past couple of months.
(And that's not including the buns, pickles, tomatoes, etc....)
Yeah, and those stats will make her seem positively....
gamine!
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What restaurants are on your list to try in 2004? I'd like to try some of the new restaurants in Asbury Park. Other places on my list are Anton's At The Swan, Cafe Sorriso (Branchburg), Stockton Inn, Christians (Teaneck), Trabelli's Ristorante, (Old Bridge) and Lila (Frenchtown). Ideally I would love to work my way down my "openings" list on Table Hopping With Rosie.
Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year.
I must also add the new Capital Rotisserie ( a really awkward name), across from the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton, a terrific restaurant featuring rotisseried meats and fowl as well as some fabulous other dishes from ex-Yardley Inn Exec Chef David Cunningham. A truly sensational, quirky restaurant.
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Elyse, have you ever been called gamine before?
"gamine" = "too cute for words"
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Grabbed another beer out of the 2003 Christmas Mix, and this time it was Otter Creek Alpine Ale, from Otter Creek Brewing in Middelbury, VT. Billed on the label as an "apres ski" beer, it was nice and dark when poured, with a tan head trhat dissipated very quickly. Stinky nose, nothing that would indicate the bold beer in the glass. Made with four different kinds of hops (they don't list them), it is surely a hoppy brew, with nice traces of molasses and caramel to balance those hops out. Actually a vbery nice beer, warming, with more nut and caramel notes as the beer warms. Good choice for the Xmas Mix, Lew!
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Thanks Rich! Good to know, especially if my girlfriend decides to go to grad school around there. Are there Indian communities in these cities/towns? (I could be wrong but I don't think there is a substantial one in Haverford or Ardmore.)
Huge Indian-Pakistani communities in our area, due toi both the pharmeceutical industries here, as well as the academic institutions. And the food is fantastic.
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Opened my second beer from the Christmas Mix, this year's Avery's Old Jubilation, one of my very favorite winter beers, from Avery Brewing Co. in Boulder CO.
It poured very dark copper-red into the glass with a dense, dark tan head that hung around for a while. Big estery aromas of pie crust and molasses, almost like Amish Shoo Fly Pie, if you've ever had that. Delightful. Big, sweet, roasty first sip, with tastes of roasted chestnuts, almonds, nutmeg and dates. A nice bite of hops and a big bowl of malt in perfect balance. I'm glad I have a few bottles of this, from participation in another Holiday Mix case, it's just too good to drink just one per winter.
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What restaurants are on your list to try in 2004? I'd like to try some of the new restaurants in Asbury Park. Other places on my list are Anton's At The Swan, Cafe Sorriso (Branchburg), Stockton Inn, Christians (Teaneck), Trabelli's Ristorante, (Old Bridge) and Lila (Frenchtown). Ideally I would love to work my way down my "openings" list on Table Hopping With Rosie.
Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year.
Rosie, first off, Happy and Healthy New Year!
I hope your list will grow to include :
Mambo's , fabulous Puerto Rican in Trenton
Chambers Walk Cafe and Enzo's in Lawrenceville
Goodfella's, a surprisingly good Italian chain op in East Windsor
Chapala, very good Mexican in Hamilton
All 5 were very good experiences, repeatedly so, for me this past year.
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Thanks! I've never heard of your spot; I'm not from the area, but spend a good deal of time there. Where in Ardmore?
Why are there two good Indian spots in the middle of the Burbs. My NJ burbs has no good Indian food whatsoever.
Oh JJ, come to Lawrenceville, Princeton and Plainsboro, Indo-Pak cuisine everywhere, including Palace of Asia in Mercerville, Kolluri Korner in Princeton and Passage to India in Lawrenceville.
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Lew, that is a WHOLE lotta living in two days. Wow.
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I cracked open my first beer from the 2003 Christmas Mix, and it was the bottle we knew least about, the Pivovar Klaster Winter Lager, from the Czech Republic. Bright green bottle, with the image of a happy little imbibing monk in the corner of the label.
The beer poured clear and golden, with a big pillowy white head. Big skunky aroma, like some of those Belgian boon guezes that have that "horse blanket" smell (yeah, that's not what I call it either). This is one funky pilsner, with a lot going on the first sip, including a little alcohol burn. It's only 5.8 abv, so I wonder why. Kinda tastes like some of those "funky" guezes too, a little like grappa (well, bad grappa anyway), a little like Czech slivovitz, that plum brandy firewater, and then something like beer, but one funkadelic beer. As the beer warms , it does get a bit softer around the edges, but this is either a completely skunked import, or one roller coaster of a George Clinton of a beer.
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Hi folks!
At the invitation of our esteemed moderator (Rich), I jumped in here to see what's going on. Looks like fun!
I noticed several mentions of DeuS (great beer, BTW). I'm in need of a DeuS glass. I found one during a shopping trip to Vintage Cellar in Blacksburg, VA, but need a second. There'll be no drinking of DeuS around here until my beerdrinking significant other and I both have a glass.
Has anyone seen them for sale in your beer shopping?
Cheers!
Cornelia
Holey moley, good to see you here, Cornelia! Wake Ray up and drag his ass to the computer once in a while. It's good to see you posting here!
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Great topic idea Bob!
If all goes well, I'll be sipping a small snifter of 1994 Samuel Adams Triplebock, given to me by good beer buddy Mike Gates, bless his generous heart. Then maybe (maybe), I toast the new year with a glass of 1998 Perrier-Joet La Fleur champagne.
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Had a Pyramid Snow Cap from Washington state last night, and it was a almost syrupy sweet malt monster, with nice big gulps of dates and almonds in the first few sips, followed by lots of black strap molasses, building and building as the sips continued. Not a bad beer at all, mind you, but a bit too much on the sticky side for me. I think a few bottles of this may be perfect in my next oil change.
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Here is my list of my favorite beers I had for the first time in 2003.
Bottle:
Gold: Deus
Silver: Old Dominion Baltic Porter
Bronze: MacTarnahan's Blackwatch Bourbon Porter
Finishing out the top 10:
Three Floyd's Dreadnaught
Avery 10
Victory Grand Cru
Dogfish Head Punkin Ale
Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA
Allagash Summer Ale
Stoudt's IPA
Tap:
Gold: Rock Bottom Arlington 4th Anniversary Ale (imperial IPA)
Silver: Fordham's Wizard Wheat (weizenbock)
Bronze: Gordon Biersch (DC) Schwarzbier
Finishing out the top 10:
GB Vienna lager
GB hefeweissen
Sweetwater Tavern belgian wit
RB- Arlington imperial stout
John Harvard's DC - imperial stout
Sweetwater Tavern (Centreville branch) winter spruce beer
Sierra Nevada Rauch beer
Sorta like asking, 'Which one of your kids is your favorite?", Lloyd. This year was a rich one for beer, so many good ones, so many truly outstanding ones. For me, 3 really stood out:
Victory Hop Wallop, debuting at the very last minute, it's a killer Imperial IPA (But don't tell Victory that), so floral and citrusy and ripe with those aromas, tasting it is almost secondary; but when you do, Oh Sweet Jesus what a big bold IPA it is, without all of the unnecessary complexities of other Impy IPAs.
Anchor OSA 2003, rich and smooth, without the nasty pine oil scent and flavor of previous years, but with the richest, sweetest mouth of plums you could ever hope for in a beer like this.
Legacy Duke of Ale, from the brothers from Reading, PA that brought you Pretzel City beers in the late 90's. Well, the boys are back, under a new name, but the Duke remains the same: a big, hoppy, yet silken brew that smells sweet, and bites hard.
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I love Corsendonk Christmas. Thanks for the post!
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Happy Birthday to our founder, Elyse.
No, no, that should be HAPPY BURGER to Elyse!! (and a belated HB to her mom).
F&P: no problem. It will be nice to have you back in the fold, I'm sure.
HOPPY BIRFDAY, ELYSE!
Yeah, you're still cute.
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I have also enjoyed Pomi crushed tomatoes; they make a sauce of stunning brightness and color. I've also had great success with Luigi Vitelli whole pear or crushed tomatoes, which bear a label stating that they are either packed in Turkey (usually the crushed tomatoes) or Italy (usually the whole pear tomatoes). Amazingly vibrant color when turned into a red gravy.
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I made a quick stop at the Grey Lodge after our latest gathering of Pizza Club, on Sunday night, and, meeting up with tavern owner Mike Scotese, ordered the rare and beautiful Hop Wallop. Golden yellow, crisp white head, and a barstool-filling, grapefruity, citrus aroma. Big floral taste, with a big pucker of a finish. Wallop is right. Quite a kick at 8.5 ABV. I felt its strength during all of the drive home. Can't wait for my next pint.
Beer with sushi
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I find almost all Japanese beers undrinkable. It might just be me, but they just dont have the balance, the malt, or citrusy hops notes I want.