Any Other Interests???

[Alistair]

...sorry still horrible stuff....and these days there most are 5% ....but a few are 4%....Heineken years ago when brewed independently was only 3.4% from memory but that was as I said years ago...when the uk brewing company was bought the new lot scrapped that version and brought out the standard 5% version...and as for carlsberg special brew no wonder it was the alcoholics favourite.....

The UK mass market is still very much 4%ABV. Carling, Fosters, Carlsberg, Coors Light are the top 4 brands by volume (in that order), at 3.8%, 4%, 3.8%, 4%ABV respectively.

UK Stella Artois is at 4.6%ABV and is still a terrible beer.

 

[PARA45]

@CJW love the picture of the double Mustang and the Sandy, they are all beautiful.

 

[Daniel Cary]

Art, 18th & 19th Century militaria, great books, and great wine. I am a bit of a Francophile and our French Empire porcelain collection is special. I love to travel, and I have a lot of the planet yet to go. When not indulging those passions, I spend a lot of time working on our little piece of Texas and the FJ40 (I now have power steering!)

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Stunning!

 

[Daniel Cary]

Yes sir. Maerklin.

I run an AC setup, mostly Maerklin, and a few Roco and Liliput. Epoche II.

Covid gave me the time to finally pull all the trains out of their storage boxes and start building a layout.

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I even built a Rifle shop to cater to all the big game hunters living on my layout:

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That's great!

 

[Red Leg]

The UK mass market is still very much 4%ABV. Carling, Fosters, Carlsberg, Coors Light are the top 4 brands by volume (in that order), at 3.8%, 4%, 3.8%, 4%ABV respectively.

UK Stella Artois is at 4.6%ABV and is still a terrible beer.

The Belgian import Stella is pretty darn good here in the States.

Coors and Miller - and for Christ's sake, from a Brit no less! Still struggling with this. I think I just threw up in the back of my throat again.

Sam Adams is another pretty good mass produced lager in this country. Apparently, it would make a Brit weak-kneed on a Friday night as well?

 

[Daniel Cary]

I am a nerd and read a ton. I also write.
I really like traveling, even if not for hunting. Have been to 49 countries. Mostly shoestring budget backpacking overland trips. (Nairobi to Cape Town, Abidjan to Lagos, Panama to El Salvador, Entebbe-Kigali-DRC-Burundi-Kenya, London to Athens, etc.) My wife grew up in Europe and also loves to travel. We actually met at the airport in Nairobi, so travel has been good to me.
The last two years I have played in an adult ice hockey league my buddy talked me into. I played as a kid and teen but put it away after high school, so that has been good fun and exercise. Get to get some aggression out in a legal way as well...and now I have a 3-year-old who lives and breathes hockey so my focus will shift to getting him going.
I play guitar for fun. No real gigs since college but enjoy playing.

Awesome, cool story!

 

[Daniel Cary]

Some people have some real impressive hobbies and talents here

God, no doubt!

 

[Daniel Cary]

Other than a hunter, I am a petrolhead. I enjoy just about any type of enthused driving - single-seaters, endurance, sprint, karting (the 100mph type, not the children’s toys) and mountain roads. Few times a year, my friends and I get some cars together and spend time driving hundreds of kilometres each day, enjoying the twisty roads.

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Speaking of mountains, I do like mountains. I like them for their rugged beauty, for their winding roads, the hiking trails, and the skiing.

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I am a passionate sailor and master mariner. I’ve had the incredible opportunity of seeing both the aurora borealis and australis from the yacht’s deck. I’ve visited places that are virtually inaccessible in any other way. I’ve sailed across the Atlantic and around South America. I’ve sailed in the tropics and subpolar regions. I’ve seen the sea at her kindest, and I’ve seen her fury and having seen I agree that “If you would know the age of the earth, look upon the sea in a storm. The greyness of the whole immense surface, the wind furrows upon the faces of the waves, the great masses of foam, tossed about and waving, like matted white locks, give to the sea in a gale an appearance of hoary age, lustreless, dull, without gleams, as though it had been created before light itself.”

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Speaking of sailing I enjoy ice sailing too, a fantastic sport.

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Spearfishing and freediving are another great pass time.

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And something I’ve been spending less time on lately but used to enjoy a lot and will no doubt be doing more of again is photography, mostly landscape, some wildlife too.

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And at the end of the day, a relaxing drink with the locals is always a pleasant way to wind down.

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Phenomenal!

 

[IvW]

The Belgian import Stella is pretty darn good here in the States.

Coors and Miller - and for Christ's sake, from a Brit no less! Still struggling with this. I think I just threw up in the back of my throat again.

Sam Adams is another pretty good mass produced lager in this country. Apparently, it would make a Brit weak-kneed on a Friday night as well?

We also get the imported one here

 

[Alistair]

The Belgian import Stella is pretty darn good here in the States.

Coors and Miller - and for Christ's sake, from a Brit no less! Still struggling with this. I think I just threw up in the back of my throat again.

Sam Adams is another pretty good mass produced lager in this country. Apparently, it would make a Brit weak-kneed on a Friday night as well?

Don't knock Coors and Miller. I'm not a fan of Coors Light or Miller Lite personally, but the full fat versions, Banquet especially, are an extremely good 'American style' lager.

Personally I tend towards the craft stuff, belgian abbey styles, German dark lagers, or british ales, but there's a time and a place for something cold and refreshing without massives of alcohol, and Banquet meets that need for me! Just try day drinking on Belgian Trippel or a 9% DIPA. You'd be done and having a kip by lunchtime! Even traditional Pilsner gets a bit hard work after 5 or 6.

Sam Adams is pretty good. We have that in the UK too as an export lager. Us Brits are actually pretty good at alcohol, the mass market just seems to lean more quantity and value than straight ABV. Not that it matters if you're gonna burn through 15 pints of a friday evening.

 

[spike.t]

Don't knock Coors and Miller. I'm not a fan of Coors Light or Miller Lite personally, but the full fat versions, Banquet especially, are an extremely good 'American style' lager.

Personally I tend towards the craft stuff, belgian abbey styles, German dark lagers, or british ales, but there's a time and a place for something cold and refreshing without massives of alcohol, and Banquet meets that need for me! Just try day drinking on Belgian Trippel or a 9% DIPA. You'd be done and having a kip by lunchtime! Even traditional Pilsner gets a bit hard work after 5 or 6.

Sam Adams is pretty good. We have that in the UK too as an export lager. Us Brits are actually pretty good at alcohol, the mass market just seems to lean more quantity and value than straight ABV. Not that it matters if you're gonna burn through 15 pints of a friday evening.

....only 15....

 

[gbflyer]

Always fun to see what other folks have as a past time. This is the only place I go that has a good number of folks from different countries so that makes it all the more interesting.

My family had lodge/guide business for a number of years. That included fishing, flying small aircraft, and boating. Once we got out it took a long time to want to have much to do with any of those things. Never turn a hobby into a job. Hahaha. Anyway, now back to enjoying them. But normally it all gravitates back to the gun shop/reloading room for me. I enjoy building a good bolt action rifle about as much as anything I can think of. Probably more so than using them.

 

[Daniel Cary]

Though we don't have much say .. depending on the vessel at the meet, I often ask the lockmaster to hold us for the "Arthur M Anderson". Edmund Fitzgerald's sister ship.

 

[Daniel Cary]

 

[VertigoBE]

Don't knock Coors and Miller. I'm not a fan of Coors Light or Miller Lite personally, but the full fat versions, Banquet especially, are an extremely good 'American style' lager.

Personally I tend towards the craft stuff, belgian abbey styles, German dark lagers, or british ales, but there's a time and a place for something cold and refreshing without massives of alcohol, and Banquet meets that need for me! Just try day drinking on Belgian Trippel or a 9% DIPA. You'd be done and having a kip by lunchtime! Even traditional Pilsner gets a bit hard work after 5 or 6.

Sam Adams is pretty good. We have that in the UK too as an export lager. Us Brits are actually pretty good at alcohol, the mass market just seems to lean more quantity and value than straight ABV. Not that it matters if you're gonna burn through 15 pints of a friday evening.

Ah, a fan of Belgian beers. Have you tried the West Vleteren (10.2%) already? You might need to come over to Belgium to try it though, its not exported I believe.

For me, the beer I consume the most, is indeed also something lighter. A Belgian lager, which is (very surprisingly, as it is probably the best lager with a 52% market share in the beer mekka of the world) quite unknown in other countries: Jupiler (5.2%)

 

[Jörg Krüger]

Looks too me we have to start a beer tasting thread

 

[Chukar]

Last I knew Westvleteren is not exported but there is a secondary market that the monks are not happy about. I've gotten to try it twice and it is tasty.

St. Bernardus Abt 12 is much easier to find here in the states and also quite tasty in my opinion.

Orval is out of this world!

 

[Alistair]

Ah, a fan of Belgian beers. Have you tried the West Vleteren (10.2%) already? You might need to come over to Belgium to try it though, its not exported I believe.

For me, the beer I consume the most, is indeed also something lighter. A Belgian lager, which is (very surprisingly, as it is probably the best lager with a 52% market share in the beer mekka of the world) quite unknown in other countries: Jupiler (5.2%)

I don't think I've tried that one, no. What style?

I've tried most of the common brands though, so Orval, Le Chouffe, Westmalle, St Bernadus, Rochefort, Chimay, Bosteels etc. We used to distribute Rochefort and La Trappe for the UK at one point, so I got a couple slabs of that free on my product allowance. The La Trappe Quad especially goes down well.

Jupiler I've tried a couple places. It's good stuff, if a bit 'basic pilsner'. I think my prefrence for light Belgian beers is Palm. It's not strictly lager, but fits the bill.

If I was going for Pilsner,you can't beat Germany or CZ. I'd choose Veltins, Warsteiner, Pilsner Urquell, Radeberger or Waldhaus.

I like Helles or Dunkel better than Pilsner though.

 

[HWL]

The UK mass market is still very much 4%ABV. Carling, Fosters, Carlsberg, Coors Light are the top 4 brands by volume (in that order), at 3.8%, 4%, 3.8%, 4%ABV respectively.

UK Stella Artois is at 4.6%ABV and is still a terrible beer.

...studied in Weihenstephan and have some experience in drinking Bavarian beer!



HWL

 

[Arthur Morta]

When not shooting In general OR an exciting 50/50 walk and stalk African hunt, The greatest go to is drifting down that mighty Zambezi - throwing out live bait on a line for that monster, "Hydrocynus vittatus", Tigerfish...