pedalphile Posted October 25, 2018 Share #1 Posted October 25, 2018 I am in the Sheaf Island after another lovely and productive day for me here in Sheffield in the Former Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire. I made wood while the sun shone, had a total body work out fetching it in a wheelie bin, three quarters of a mile, uphill, then I logged it up and stacked it, then I shopped, now I am in the ‘spoons for a curry and a pint, there is a beer fest still in progress, I have a pint of a dark beer at 5.5 abv called Morocco Ale (I tried a half of it yesterday, too) and it hitteth the spot a real treat: cheers. <supping beer emoji is a sad lack, No?> 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted October 25, 2018 Share #2 Posted October 25, 2018 It is still afternoon here. My beers are of the "Oktoberfest" seasonal type now claiming "Märzen" or Bavarian inspiration. Left Hand, Shiner, and Port City. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted October 25, 2018 Share #3 Posted October 25, 2018 It is barely past lunch here. Glad I did not open this 30 minutes ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedalphile Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share #4 Posted October 25, 2018 5 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: It is still afternoon here. My beers are of the "Oktoberfest" seasonal type now claiming "Märzen" or Bavarian inspiration. Left Hand, Shiner, and Port City. Tom Sound good, Thom, but you sort of convey that you are getting into them in the early afternoon, if you are, cheers and good health - do not be messing with knives sublimely in the kitchen after drinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedalphile Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share #5 Posted October 25, 2018 7 minutes ago, jsharr said: It is barely past lunch here. Glad I did not open this 30 minutes ago! I cannot deny I get a certain frisson with these reports, knowing this ? but the Germans are ahead of me even, according to my Lidl clock: is that why Thom has got into it early, the Oktoberfest Germanic biers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted October 25, 2018 Share #6 Posted October 25, 2018 24 minutes ago, pedalphile said: I am in the Sheaf Island after another lovely and productive day for me here in Sheffield in the Former Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire. I made wood while the sun shone, had a total body work out fetching it in a wheelie bin, three quarters of a mile, uphill, then I logged it up and stacked it, then I shopped, now I am in the ‘spoons for a curry and a pint, there is a beer fest still in progress, I have a pint of a dark beer at 5.5 abv called Morocco Ale (I tried a half of it yesterday, too) and it hitteth the spot a real treat: cheers. <supping beer emoji is a sad lack, No?> We vacationed with my old college roommate and his very proper public school wife in Colorado years back. Rented a "cabin" on a mountain side in Grand Lake Colorado. The driveway was a bit steep and bendy and each day as we would back down the drive to the street, she would always remind the driver to "mind the wheelie bin"! She is the same beautiful lass who taught me words like "chuffed" and "anorak" and "big girl's blouse" and "old cow" and "horrid old battle axe" Most of them were directed at others, not me mind you. If you ever get down to Portsmouth, you should look up Matt and Angie Hopkins and tell them you are my imaginary friend. I am sure they would take you down to the pub and buy you a pint. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted October 25, 2018 Share #7 Posted October 25, 2018 Here they are so you know who to look for 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted October 25, 2018 Share #8 Posted October 25, 2018 And make sure to give Ozzie a few snuggles and a treat for me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedalphile Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share #9 Posted October 25, 2018 1 minute ago, jsharr said: We vacationed with my old college roommate and his very proper public school wife in Colorado years back. Rented a "cabin" on a mountain side in Grand Lake Colorado. The driveway was a bit steep and bendy and each day as we would back down the drive to the street, she would always remind the driver to "mind the wheelie bin"! She is the safe beautiful lass who taught me words like "chuffed" and "anorak" and "big girl's blouse" and "old cow" and "horrid old battle axe" Most of them were directed at others, not me mind you. If you ever get down to Portsmouth, you should look up Matt and Angie Hopkins and tell them you are my imaginary friend. I am sure they would take you down to the pub and buy you a pint. Brilliant. With the big girl’s blouse, was she a Lancashire lass perchance? I love that accent btw, even though as a Yorkshireman we are not meant to; but it’s just so innocent and gentle, but broad as a barn at the same time. I am not your imaginary friend either, I really exist, and so do you, probably, and if you came over here or I went to Texas we’d meet up and treat t’other as friends Shirley, or is that my imagination walking away with me. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedalphile Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share #10 Posted October 25, 2018 Ozzie is a beauty, what a doggeh, II’d gladly snuggle he. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted October 25, 2018 Share #11 Posted October 25, 2018 Just now, pedalphile said: Brilliant. With the big girl’s blouse, was she a Lancashire lass perchance? I love that accent btw, even though as a Yorkshireman we are not meant to; but it’s just so innocent and gentle, but broad as a barn at the same time. I am not your imaginary friend either, I really exist, and so do you, probably, and if you came over here or I went to Texas we’d meet up and treat t’other as friends Shirley, or is that my imagination walking away with me. Her father was a dental surgeon and was from Ireland as I recall. He was a dear old man. Whenever he misplaced an item, no matter what it was he always asked "Have you seen me olde trouers?" Angie grew up in Chichester. When I received the invite to their wedding from her mother, I failed to reply in a timely manner and got a call telling me I needed to send a reply card back. So I pulled out the invite and found the RSVP address and it was to Ananda with a Chichester postal code. So I wrote "Dear Ananda, jsharr and wojsharr will be in attendance. " or somesuch. Well Mrs. Gillen got a good laugh at the stupid Yank writing a letter addressed to her house which was named "Ananda" which means something nice in Indian I believe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted October 25, 2018 Share #12 Posted October 25, 2018 4 minutes ago, pedalphile said: Ozzie is a beauty, what a dogged, I’d gladly snuggle he. I imagine you would not mind the odd hug or two from Ozzie's owner either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted October 25, 2018 Share #13 Posted October 25, 2018 7 minutes ago, pedalphile said: Brilliant. With the big girl’s blouse, was she a Lancashire lass perchance? I love that accent btw, even though as a Yorkshireman we are not meant to; but it’s just so innocent and gentle, but broad as a barn at the same time. I am not your imaginary friend either, I really exist, and so do you, probably, and if you came over here or I went to Texas we’d meet up and treat t’other as friends Shirley, or is that my imagination walking away with me. We would be as tight as theives you and I! I would treat you to a proper Texas chili, without beans and then we would walk the dogs to the ice cream parlor and have some dessert. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedalphile Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share #14 Posted October 25, 2018 1 hour ago, jsharr said: We would be as tight as theives you and I! I would treat you to a proper Texas chili, without beans and then we would walk the dogs to the ice cream parlor and have some dessert. I would relish that, y’all. If you came here I’d cook you something good, whatever was seasonal or took my fancy, or I’d found, alive or dead, afterwards we could amble dogless through the beautiful Botanical Gardens where we might chance upon Oscar, the big long haired ginger moggie who often hangs there, thence to the pub for a few jars, probably there are dogs at the pub, fetching shticks and suchlike, you would get a taste of Sheffield life, my style, we’d pick up a log each and take them back to my gaff for the fire, I think you’d like it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedalphile Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share #15 Posted October 25, 2018 1 hour ago, jsharr said: I imagine you would not mind the odd hug or two from Ozzie's owner either. Only after I’d known her a long while, I’m reticent with hugging folk. But she ain’t too shabby, if that’s what you’re angling at <sharr and his bass> 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12string Posted October 25, 2018 Share #16 Posted October 25, 2018 2 hours ago, jsharr said: It is barely past lunch here Are you now speaking pedalphile's language? I tried a bunch of ways to interpret this and can't understand how it's relevant to beer. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted October 25, 2018 Share #17 Posted October 25, 2018 1 hour ago, 12string said: Are you now speaking pedalphile's language? I tried a bunch of ways to interpret this and can't understand how it's relevant to beer. I understood all of it quite well. Peds has a lyrical quality and employs the language well if you know the jist of what he's running on about. Sounds like a good beer you had earlier. It is now 5:00 in the Mid Atlantic region here. I have a Russian Stout in the fridge but it's not for drinking. I'm giving it to a friend at work. He went to Vermont last week with his son and they rode portions of the Green Mountain Gravel Growler. https://www.outsideonline.com/2263066/bikepacking-through-vermonts-beer-trail They rode during the day, stayed at inns at night, and sought out a number of good breweries that inhabit the region. He brought back some beers from The Alchemist (Focal Banger, a 7% abv American IPA made with Mosaic and Citra hops) and an Imperial IPA (Society & Solitude #11, 8% abv), made with Nelson, Sauvin, and Simcoe hops from Hill Farmstead Brewing. Nice feature about the IIPA is it was canned on 10/08/18 and best enjoyed by 11/19/18. Richard said that while the foliage was nice, it was freaking cold at night and the hills killed them; 20% grades in places. I hope to duplicate his trip some year but in warmer months. Maybe do a VRBO and drive to different areas to ride and drink beer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12string Posted October 25, 2018 Share #18 Posted October 25, 2018 He went to Alchemist for IPA and DIDN'T get you some Heady Topper?! And you still call him a friend? I've done some of that trip! Not Lincoln Gap, I'm not a masochist. Some great hikes on the other side of that swinging bridge - my daughter HATES that thing. Folino's and Fidllehead! I didn't see pictures, I hope they did the Island Line across the Champlain causeway. Is there a map somewhere? Looks like a really cool trip. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted October 25, 2018 Share #19 Posted October 25, 2018 33 minutes ago, 12string said: He went to Alchemist for IPA and DIDN'T get you some Heady Topper?! And you still call him a friend? I've done some of that trip! Not Lincoln Gap, I'm not a masochist. Some great hikes on the other side of that swinging bridge - my daughter HATES that thing. Folino's and Fidllehead! I didn't see pictures, I hope they did the Island Line across the Champlain causeway. Is there a map somewhere? Looks like a really cool trip. Last trip he did, I received two 16 oz cans of Heady Topper. I'm getting variety. When I go up I'll return with many cans of HT; it is the bees knees. I'm giving him a pint of El Duderino, a white Russian Imperial Stout from Center of the Universe. It is good example of a milk stout. https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/30284/104722/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted October 26, 2018 Share #20 Posted October 26, 2018 I had two heinys 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted October 26, 2018 Share #21 Posted October 26, 2018 I had a breakfast stout for lunch. Is that allowed? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedalphile Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share #22 Posted October 26, 2018 8 minutes ago, Longjohn said: I had a breakfast stout for lunch. Is that allowed? A loud what? Belch following it? If people drink English breakfast tea in the afternoon, I think you’re ok with your stout at luncheon, john ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12string Posted October 26, 2018 Share #23 Posted October 26, 2018 6 hours ago, Longjohn said: I had a breakfast stout for lunch. Is that allowed? since no one makes a lunch stout, it's allowed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted October 27, 2018 Share #24 Posted October 27, 2018 On 10/26/2018 at 7:55 AM, bikeman564™ said: I had two heinys Woohoo! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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