Comments on: MNBeer’s Minnesota Beer Challenge http://www.thedeets.com/2007/02/03/mnbeers-minnesota-beer-challenge/ Consistently against torture. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kirk http://www.thedeets.com/2007/02/03/mnbeers-minnesota-beer-challenge/#comment-466 Kirk Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:12:37 +0000 http://www.thedeets.com/2007/02/03/mnbeers-minnesota-beer-challenge/#comment-466 I'm drinking a great Minnesota Beer Right now, brewed by yours truly. An even better challenge is to not buy any beer for home consumption for a year, only the ingredients for beer. Think of the tax savings! Pawlenty might have to supplement the state's income with another "fee".. I’m drinking a great Minnesota Beer Right now, brewed by yours truly. An even better challenge is to not buy any beer for home consumption for a year, only the ingredients for beer. Think of the tax savings! Pawlenty might have to supplement the state’s income with another “fee”..

]]> By: The Other Mike http://www.thedeets.com/2007/02/03/mnbeers-minnesota-beer-challenge/#comment-462 The Other Mike Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:00:59 +0000 http://www.thedeets.com/2007/02/03/mnbeers-minnesota-beer-challenge/#comment-462 This an easy challenge for me to embrace, maybe not a challenge at all since I haven't been traveling. You should give yourself an exemption for traveling, because when traveling it is all about experiencing that which the other country exposes to you--in other words, enjoy that Croatian beer and save the MN beer for MN drinking. Now, for domestic travel, you would have a tougher choice--drink the local micro-brews there or work hard to find the MN beer outlet (for example, when in Arkansas...personally, I think I would go for the experience angle and at least try the Razorback beer or whatever it might be called). I've been leaning that way for years from a standpoint of supporting the local economy and keeping my two cents away from the corporate giants--Miller (owned by South African) and Anheuser-Busch (while USA-based as far as I know, it is still big outta state corporate to me). I even cut way down on my Leinies, when I heard they were bought by Miller, and substituted Summit and Surly when I had a choice. And, actually as a side benefit of my 'support the local econ' approach, I stumbled into the value of micro over macro-brewing in the quality and taste of beer. Mmm, beer. This an easy challenge for me to embrace, maybe not a challenge at all since I haven’t been traveling. You should give yourself an exemption for traveling, because when traveling it is all about experiencing that which the other country exposes to you–in other words, enjoy that Croatian beer and save the MN beer for MN drinking.

Now, for domestic travel, you would have a tougher choice–drink the local micro-brews there or work hard to find the MN beer outlet (for example, when in Arkansas…personally, I think I would go for the experience angle and at least try the Razorback beer or whatever it might be called).

I’ve been leaning that way for years from a standpoint of supporting the local economy and keeping my two cents away from the corporate giants–Miller (owned by South African) and Anheuser-Busch (while USA-based as far as I know, it is still big outta state corporate to me).

I even cut way down on my Leinies, when I heard they were bought by Miller, and substituted Summit and Surly when I had a choice.

And, actually as a side benefit of my ‘support the local econ’ approach, I stumbled into the value of micro over macro-brewing in the quality and taste of beer. Mmm, beer.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.thedeets.com/2007/02/03/mnbeers-minnesota-beer-challenge/#comment-451 Ryan Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:44:06 +0000 http://www.thedeets.com/2007/02/03/mnbeers-minnesota-beer-challenge/#comment-451 It came as more of a joke fueled by local beers more than anything. I think I'm going to take it and roll with it. It came as more of a joke fueled by local beers more than anything. I think I’m going to take it and roll with it.

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