Perfect time of year for you Guiness drinkers

[Thumper 2006]

I have a problem. The problem is that since i have been in college I have developed a taste for expensive beer. With that said, this time of year especially for backpackers when you can put your beer in the river and let it get cold. If you are a Guiness fan like myself, go to the store before your weekend excursion and pick up six of em put them in the top of your pack and enjoy the night with Guiness in hand. The river gets the beer extra cold and makes it perfect for drinking. Makes a cool picture too.

[Lone Wolf]

You ain't spose to drink Guiness cold. Pabst Blue Ribbon should be ice cold though.

[jlb2012]

PBR should be poured back into the horse it came from

[Alligator]

Guinness has two n's! Wolf has it right. It is suggested to be served in the near 55 F. Pub draft beers such as these were typically stored in the basement. Drinking a stout cold like that masks the flavors.

[steve hiker]

If you are a Guiness fan like myself, go to the store before your weekend excursion and pick up six of em put them in the top of your pack and enjoy the night with Guiness in hand.

Hike with a 6-pack of beer in your pack? I don't guess you're exactly an ultralite backpacker, are you?

[Blue Jay]

Hike with a 6-pack of beer in your pack? I don't guess you're exactly an ultralite backpacker, are you?

Big deal, a pound a piece. It's sad no one can carry weight (other than their own fat) anymore. Arnold is right, we're becoming a nation of girlymen.

[weary]

I have a problem. The problem is that since i have been in college I have developed a taste for expensive beer. With that said, this time of year especially for backpackers when you can put your beer in the river and let it get cold. If you are a Guiness fan like myself, go to the store before your weekend excursion and pick up six of em put them in the top of your pack and enjoy the night with Guiness in hand. The river gets the beer extra cold and makes it perfect for drinking. Makes a cool picture too.

When I went to school I was too poor to get a taste for expensive beer, though I became pretty skilled at brewing my own with "Blue Ribbon" malt and sugar.

I also lacked refrigeration so drank mostly beer at room temperature. When I finally graduated -- 12 years out of high school -- and found a job I found that at first I could no longer drink cold beer. I used to irritate the owner of a neighborhood store by insisting that he go out back to find me a warm six pack.

I tried to re-acquire my warm beer taste when I walked the trail -- but with only moderate success. These chilly fall days, however, I find a cold hallway provides chilling enough, especially for expensive beer, which I vowed never to acquire a taste for, but like that first taste of drugs, one taste leads to another and soon one is addicted to those yuppie beers at eight bucks a six pack.

Weary

[Palmer]

I have very fond memories of one cold night at a shelter in Pennsylvania many years ago. I can't remember which shelter it was, but I think it was at least five miles from the closest road crossing. Sometime after I had set up camp and built a fire, a couple of fellows came walking into the clearing with a case of beer in their backpacks. They were happy to share, and we enjoyed a very nice night around the fire. I don't think they were thru-hikers.

[SalParadise]

I didn't start out college poor, but I ended up that way with all the good Wisconsin beers to choose from. Heaven is 50-cent taps.

Granted, PBR ain't the best, but it still beats out Schlitz or Blatz.

Good idea, Wonderer, some room-temperature Guinness and M&M's will make a great dinner tonight.

[BookBurner]

Palmer-

They were bru-hikers!

[weary]

....Granted, PBR ain't the best, but it still beats out Schlitz or Blatz.

Yuppies will sneer, but my favorite pop beer is Old Milwaukee.

I once was camping with an English couple, though naturalized Americans. We had driven for many miles through the private paper company woodlands of Maine on a blistering hot day. We hiked to a favorite lunch spot of mine on Chesuncook Lake, a mile from the road.

As my wife and friends dug out the sandwiches, I dug out a reasonably cold 12-pack of Old Milwaukee. The response: "Everything I know about beer tells me differently, but this is delicious."

Weary

[Ridge]

Being a REDNECK from the South I try to spell the beers I drink korectly. I purrsonallay like Heineken. Howeber, if Guinness is on sail I'll buy hit.

[Doctari]

After years of drinking guinness & other "hearty" beers at my summer job, I find I no longer can stand American beer.
Tried the canned Guinness, nasty give me the on tap stuff.
My favorite beer is Tennents from Scotland.

Doctari.