Green and Gold: I loved it! Really! Not to try to undermine your uniqueness... I thought it was delish. Which is shocking, cause I don't really care much for either of the components alone. Mmmmm, bubbly synergy.
Green and Gold A can of Genesee Cream Ale mixed with a can of (original, grapefruit-flavored) Fresca. Others who've tasted it claim to like it, but I've yet to see anyone mix themselves one, so I think they're just lying to protect my feelings.
I've tried it twice on my own: once in Genesee and another not in Genesee. Twice I was with other people (in Genesee, I was with local Genesee people), twice people looked at me funny, twice people tried it and then really looked at me funny, and twice I wondered how in hell you could like that crap. But I'm nothing if not dogged and loyal. :)
Sail boat? Row boat? That'd be cool to watch. And I believe you about the difficulty of making one seaworthy. I've seen how much water my grandfather's row boat ships when it's first put into salt water after a season in the shed, and it's well made.
It's his last boat, and he didn't make this one. He did build a wooden sail boat in his backyard (in New Haven - it wasn't a very large boat) when my mother was a toddler. He told me this for the first time about a year ago. My mom was at the right age to want to help all the time. Hard to wrap my head around that scene, my grandfather in his thirties, my mother shorther than the stack of sawed logs... but I like trying.
This also explains why my kitchen table, which was once my great grandmother's, is varnished with spar varnish. My grandfather still had some around when he refinished it. It's hard to damage my table wth anything liquid, but anything you leave on it for more than ten minutes starts to stick...
The only reason I haven't had green and gold out here is that there's no Genny out this way. Maybe I'll try it with some Tecate. I had a radler yesterday, though, so that's something. :)
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I've tried it twice on my own: once in Genesee and another not in Genesee. Twice I was with other people (in Genesee, I was with local Genesee people), twice people looked at me funny, twice people tried it and then really looked at me funny, and twice I wondered how in hell you could like that crap. But I'm nothing if not dogged and loyal. :)
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That'd be cool to watch. And I believe you about the difficulty of making one seaworthy. I've seen how much water my grandfather's row boat ships when it's first put into salt water after a season in the shed, and it's well made.
It's his last boat, and he didn't make this one. He did build a wooden sail boat in his backyard (in New Haven - it wasn't a very large boat) when my mother was a toddler. He told me this for the first time about a year ago. My mom was at the right age to want to help all the time. Hard to wrap my head around that scene, my grandfather in his thirties, my mother shorther than the stack of sawed logs... but I like trying.
This also explains why my kitchen table, which was once my great grandmother's, is varnished with spar varnish. My grandfather still had some around when he refinished it. It's hard to damage my table wth anything liquid, but anything you leave on it for more than ten minutes starts to stick...
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