Frickin Cartman......

powdahound76

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Well man, missed getting to the Stone brewery with you in May so today I knocked back a 6er of their IPA as my brother and I hung out and smoked a few racks of ribs. Old fashioned with mesquite lump and some extra chips for effect, smells amazing! They are resting a bit and chow time in about 10 min.

Had a good time today, took my kid and niece to the store for some tackle and met a Marine who had the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor on his tailgate with a sizeable list of names. Of course I had to shake his hand (he was 70+) and find out what was up. He told me those were them men he served with and lost. It was awesome and he was a good ole boy and that was just his way of letting the world know their freedom wasnt free.

Cartman, I will be back out there and we will get to the Stone brewpub.
By the way, come to CO and we will hit as many breweries as we can. Maybe get a new liver lined up first, we have a lot of them and some decent distilleries!

Hope all you fellas are doing fine as we remember those who went all the way in desperation to achieve what they had to have. God Bless all of those who have followed.
 
Wait... you went to the home of the best beer in the world....

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And you didn't invite the rest of us????

If I can find it, I'll post the letter I sent to the head of Stone Brewing a few years ago after reading the label of this, my favorite beer. He responded in kind. It was an epic exchange!

Cheers,

Sirhr
 
Sirhr, did you post that a while back, say before Scout and before the format change that brought Taptalk into it? Sounds familiar.
To clarify, I was in San Diego and it didnt work out to go out to Stone Brewery with Cartman. Also didnt work to hang out with another member I tried to meet up with.

I believe it is a sign that I need to go back, no kid, no ex wife so I can do man stuff that needs done, including a visit to the Midway.

Funny story to add in that has no relevance. My folks are on Alaska for the summer, drove up over the course of a month and just having fun. They have a slide in truck camper and have been camping in some cool spots and having an amazing time. Last evening dad got a wheel in some soft stuff and sunk deep with all that extra weight. Found a guy to pull them out, turns out is was a guy I worked with and really liked when I lived there in 2001. He is and A& P and I used help with what I could doing overnight 100 hrs on planes that worked all day. Crazy

 
I might have.... here it is for those who want a laugh....

********************* What I sent to Stone Brewery ***************************

Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 5:21 PM

To: email

Subject: You are not Worthy!



So you think you are a worthy beer? Just because
you managed to bottle some battery acid with a 7.2 percent alc. content?



How can you be a real beer? You don't have a
computer-generated glacier train or a couple of stables full of prancing inbred
Clydesdales or spotty dogs?



I don't see some buxom blonde "Poster-girl for the
Master Race" holding a double armful of mugs of Arrogant Bastard at some
ersatz Oktoberfest-beer-hall-putsch-in- waiting... or a dutch porcelin cap that
would ratify you to the beer-drinking cogniscinti as a real quality euro-trash
beer. And where is the washed-up major- league sports dweezil hawking your
malted beverage as he expects a front row seat?



If you were a worthy beer, wouldn't you have been
consumed in the Rose Garden during the recent White House Oppressed Harvard
Professor-meet profiling Officer Summit (more

important than SALT II, apparently)? Hey guys, Bud
Light was worthy there!



If you were a worthy beer, how come you don't have your
own freaking blimp? Even Duff Beer has a blimp!!! How come you don't have
an Arrogant Bastard Bowl pitting cute little bottles of Arrogant Bastard against
cute little bottles of Arrogant Bitch Light facing off between wardrobe
malfuctions during the half-time show?



Where are your Arrogant Bastard Iguana commercials or
your "Wassup?" ads that instantly become part of the national psyche,
repeated again and again over the water cooler by Samsonite-briefcase-toting,
Seiko-wearing, soon-to-be-laid-off-poster-boys- for-the-Peter-Principle Fortune
1000 lower-middle-managers?



How can you be worthy if you don't have a label that
changes color when your beer reaches tepidity?



Oh... and San Diego? WTF... how does that qualify you for
a superior status? Is your brewery protected by Simon and Simon?
Did you pass BUDS and make it through hellweek over at NSWC Coronado?
Does the jetwash at Aladdin's Parking Garage somehow make your hops more
potent? Or do you add some secret ingredient from the Naked Mole Rat
rodentia exhibit at the San Diego Zoo that increases your Ale's Pucker Factor
faster than the French Army running from the Wermacht??



Well, I am here to say that your unbelieveable arrogance
is... completely deserved...

this is the most superlative beer I have had in
years. Love it. Enjoying it now, which is how I managed to type big
words. Keep up the good work.



You probably have to look up the words tepidity, rodentia
and superlative.



Cheers,


*************** What they sent back ********************

Greetings

Mr. Sirhrmechanic or whatever your name is—


I presume that, by now, you have given up your epic missive as having been lost
at cyber-sea. While imitation is conventionally considered to be the sincerest
form of flattery, I think you have set the bar higher in that regard, having
poured your talents and acerbically delicious pronouncements into what was a
very enjoyable read for us. Please forgive the tardy reply—we’ve
simply been trying to figure out how to best acknowledge such impassioned correspondences
from our fans in a way that does them justice. That said, while we can’t
yet post such writings as a company sponsored blog (seems the higher ups can be
a bit squeamish when it comes to calling specific brands out on the carpet for
their charlatanry), we’re keeping this little essay of yours around. If
we were to post it somewhere, do we have your permission to do so (albeit with
a few edits here and there)? Let us know and keep up the good fight.



Yours
in Arrogance,

Boss-man-type-guy


So you may remember this... but it tells me that the guys that run Stone Brewery and make Arrogant Bastard are as awesome as the beer they brew!!!!!

Cheers,

Sirhr