Recent content by corkybstewart

That's normal. We take what we like about a beer and modify it to fit our tastes. I never tried to clone a beer, I was always more interested in brewing my version of a particular style of beer without being slave to style rules. Negro Modelo was never a favorite of mine, but when eating at a...

One of the few commercial beers I will drink at restaurants.

Both of us have uncles and other family well over 6' tall. I forgot that both of my grandfathers were very tall.

We were in bed around 1 AM Friday morning when our 39 year old son called to say he hadn' t been feeling right and was going to the ER, 430 AM he called to say he had luekemia. We had a lunch planned for some family members so cancelled that to concentrate on train tickets to Paris and tickets...

One of my taps almost always had a version of kolsch we called Happy Wife beer. A wonderful light, refreshing beer year round.

We went to the south of France and had one day that warm, but the high the next day was 13C. In our area we've had a couple of days around 20, but nothing warmer than that. It's scary that your temperature is so high so early.

"Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair"

In our part of France it's been anything but warm and dry-mornings are 11-13C, it rains every day(raining very hard right now).

I have killed 3 in our house but I haven't seen any outside.

Some peaceful picturesque pics

My wife is much like your ex, but she pulls that stunt one or 2 times per year. I'm convinced that there is a genetic component but it's not the determining factor in who becomes an alcoholic and who doesn't. Normal days here are like normal days in the states, with regular sized meals and...

Who doesn't love the gargoyles?

My wife came to France in early December, I didn't get here until the end of February, so I cooked for myself for 3 months. I ended up losing 15 pounds because I cooked and ate reasonable amounts daily, cut way back on booze without our daily cocktail hour, and only one couple was invited for...

And then you invite a friend to help you empty the keg and half of the first glass killed it.

Bow and arrow paintball fights, what could possibly go wrong.