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From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: Re: 1992 SENATE RACES
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 17:10:10 GMT

In article <1be45dINNcel@clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
ecpzp@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr V A Noronha) writes:
>Does anyone have any news (eg opinion polls, gossip, etc...) about
>the US Senatorial races in California, ie, Boxer-Herschensohn,
>Feinstein-Seymour?
>Any information would be appreciated as none is available in England?

Distribution: world,usa,alt,na
Well you did not have to do this distribution line like this.

D- Demo, R- Repub., Inc.-Incumbent

In brief:
Feinstein(D)-Seymour(R-Inc.) had their debate.  Seymour looked slightly better,
slightly better prepared, Feinstein found herself on the defensive early.

Boxer(D-Inc.)-Herschensohn(R)

The polls have both of the D women ahead of both R men.  I do not have current
numbers here.  Herschensohn is a virtual unknown in N. CA [I remember seeing
him on KABC in LA growing up].  Boxer appears for the most part to have the
House check bouncing issue behind her.

Herschensohn is the only candidate seriously using the airways (even noted
in national media) in CA.  Boxer is just now starting ads.  Campaign money
is surprising scarce in CA.

Feinstein is not as well known in S CA and is probably targeting more ads
down south (Seymour country), and some one in S CA could comment on that more.

Herschensohn is the only candidate running on a pro-life, pro-increased
military spending ticket (which is popular for the S CA aerospace
contractor comunity).

Seymour ads just now appearing as well.

All candidates are placing emphasis on personal visits around the State.

You might also ask in some of the various alt.election groups.

Business as usual.

This post does not in anyway constitue an endorsement up to this point.

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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From: judson@watnxt2.ucr.edu (Michael Judson)
Newsgroups: alt.california
Subject: U2 Tickets
Date: 8 Oct 92 04:26:09 GMT

I have four tickets for the U2 concert on October 30 in Los Angeles.  They
are really good seats: center stage, field.  I am asking $95.00 for each
ticket.  If you are interested, please E-mail me.  Thanks.


--
"I drank what?" -- Socrates

judson@watserv.ucr.edu
From: aquigley@unix1.tcd.ie (Aaron J. Quigley)
Newsgroups: alt.california
Subject: Is this group availible to all Universities in the U.S.
Date: 16 Oct 92 08:32:36 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

Can all universities in the states get this group 
and if so why is it so undersubcribed !!


O well good articles though
Newsgroups: alt.california
From: mfrancis@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (Ma. Elena Y. Francisco)
Subject: Re: Is this group availible to all Universities in the U.S.
Reply-To: mfrancis@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 23:19:43 GMT

aquigley@unix1.tcd.ie (Aaron J. Quigley) writes:

>> Can all universities in the states get this group 

mike@gordian.com (Michael A. Thomas) writes:
  
>  Everybody has moved here, therefore it is unnecessary for
>them to get this group in other states.

Oh, I don't know about that ... I'm just one of those silly Californians
who decided to go to the East Coast for graduate school!!!

It is nice to stumble upon such a group (and make me even more homesick
than before! :(  )

regards,

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Newsgroups: alt.beer
From: scarrobi@shearson.com (Steve Carrobis)
Subject: Re: Blackened Voodoo
Reply-To: scarrobi@shearson.com
Organization: Lehman Brothers, Inc.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:44:32 GMT

just had a bottle last week.. it was good... onlt $1.70 or so ..
it was a very dark beer , heavy stout color.. it had the usual Lager taste .. however 
it had a slight sweet undertaste like that of a dark beer(i.e. Miller classic dark)
all in all i liked it ... 

---
Steve C. 

 ==> A wise man once told me - There ARE NO Wise Men !
                             - Just fools who think they are.
---------------------------------------------------------------		
 I understand you need someone to do work.
 I don't do work, but, I know this guy who does.
    -Vladimir Taltos
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From: JER108@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.beer
Subject: Re: 220+ Beers
Date: 15 Oct 92 23:07:58 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

In article <1992Oct15.161727.12190@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
agillum@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Aaron C Gillum) says:
>
>A local Bar here at OSU has over 220 beers. If you try every kind within a
>year, you get a big pewter stein with your name on it, placed over the bar.
>Now
>*THAT'S* a trophy!
>
>Aaron Gillum

  Fogg n'Suds Restaurants in western Canada carry over 250 bottled and
draft beers form around the world. And the one I went to in Victoria had
a lot of them on the wall around the room. Impressive.
                                       John E. Runski
                                       <jer108@psuvm>
From: esharp@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Baker)
Newsgroups: alt.beer
Subject: MOST expensive beer
Date: 14 Oct 92 23:29:06 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center


 With the least expensive thread, I just thought I would try to find out
what the most expensive beer you have ever bought or considered buying
was and how much it was? Mine was a 6 (cans) of Guinness that a friend and
I ended up buying in an Irish import store in Germany (we were desperate
so we paid close to $15 u.s.).

******************************************************************************* All animals are strictly dry, they sinless live and swiftly die.
But sinful, Ginful, beer soaked man survives three score years and ten
                                                -origin unknown-
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Edwin Sharp
esharp@sage.cc.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: alt.beer
From: dbeedle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Dave Beedle)
Subject: Re: Youngs RamRod
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 20:23:11 GMT
Organization: Illinois State University

In article <1b21j4INN9cp@stanley.cis.Brown.EDU> you write:
>In article <1992Oct8.132116.7658@shearson.com> scarrobi@shearson.com writes:
>>bottles of Young's RamRod Pale Ale ...it wasnt bad .. but it had a
>>definite taste that took getting used to .. it was probably the barley ..
>>...but it was definitely on the weak side as far as taste ...
>>if anyone has had this maybe u know what i mean ...

   I'd say it's probably the malt.  I have found this one in Chicago and other
Youngs brews around.

>wasteland).     If memory serves, I found it not atypical for the style,
>if perhaps less hoppy than some.  Generally, ales get more of their
>distinctive flavors from the yeast and hops, with hops being especially
>predominant in classic pale ales,

   Actually, I thin that English pale ales (Bass, Watneys) lean more to the
malt side while american pale ales (Sierra Nevada) get more hoppy.
Characteristics from the yeast can be found in both cases.  Now India Pale Ale
on the other hand can be quite hoppy as the hop oils and the like help to
preserve the beer when it was shipped in days of old.

> so what you may have been tasting was
>hops (especially if you're accustomed to drinking the usual US megabrews).
>The taste of barley malt is fairly easy to pin down--

   I find that most english pale ales have a distict flavor which I would
atribut to the malt rather than hops.

> try a bowl of
>Malt-o-meal (which may actually be malted wheat, but it'll do),

   A better one might be Grape nuts...same ingredients as beer!  Barley malt,
water and yeast.

> or drink
>any fine German lager (e.g. Spaten Munich or Oktoberfest, or especially
>Ayinger Maibock).

   Yup, good and malty!

>
>(I'm ducking behind my workstation even now, waiting for an equally
>opinionated beer-lover to take issue with my assertion about ales,
>hops, and yeast. :-)

   That wasn't so bad now was it?
-- 
  Dave Beedle                                    Office of Academic Computing
                                                    Illinois State University
  Internet:  dbeedle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu                    136A Julian Hall  
  "Relax, don't worry!  Have a homebrew!"                  Normal, IL   61761
From: serickso@ub.d.umn.edu (Scott Erickson)
Newsgroups: alt.beer
Subject: Questions about Minnesota Brewing Company
Followup-To: alt.beer
Date: 14 Oct 1992 13:31:51 -0500
Organization: University of Conformity
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: serickso@ub.d.umn.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: ub.d.umn.edu

Hello:

   I was wondering if anyone knows a little history about the Minnesota
Brewing Company.  I am wondering who owns it, what brewing plants do they
use, etc.
   All I know right now is that they brew Pig's Eye, Pig's Eye Lean,
McMahon's Genuine Irish Potato Ale, Landmark, Landmark Light, and Grain
Belt Premium.  Do they brew any other beers?  
  Your information will be appreciated.  Thank you.
-- 

I have sold all of my dreams and I am too morally bankrupt to buy them back.

serickso@ub.d.umn.edu                                         Scott Erickson
Newsgroups: alt.beer
From: agillum@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Aaron C Gillum)
Subject: 220+ Beers
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:17:27 GMT

A local Bar here at OSU has over 220 beers. If you try every kind within a
year, you get a big pewter stein with your name on it, placed over the bar. Now
*THAT'S* a trophy!

Aaron Gillum
From: joseph@joebloe.maple-shade.nj.us (Joseph Nathan Hall)
Newsgroups: alt.beer
Subject: Re: beer DRINKING
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 08:25:10 EDT
Organization: 5 Sigma Software
Reply-To: joseph@joebloe.maple-shade.nj.us
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v5


In article <1992Oct14.205343.3987@ncsu.edu> (alt.beer), emeeks@unity.ncsu.edu (Edward Meeks) writes:
) In article <oer3KmO00awAAO7FYK@andrew.cmu.edu> Stephen Joseph Gordon <sg4e+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
) >What's the difference between bud and piss anyway?
) >
) >	Steve Gordon
) >	sg4e@andrew.cmu.edu
) 
) Uh, dispensing temperature?

No, piss is the rental return.  

Besides, most guys will object if you try to pull a mug of draught
piss from them.  (I'm not sure how one does this with the ladies.)

uunet!joebloe!joseph   (609) 273-8200 day   joseph%joebloe@uunet.uu.net
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Newsgroups: alt.beer
From: rickertj@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu (John Rickert)
Subject: Re: best beer under $6
Organization: Vanderbilt University Mathematics Department
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 22:27:37 GMT

In article <1b4n23INNp55@cs.utexas.edu> wardrb@cs.utexas.edu (Richard Byron Ward) writes:
>In article <1992Oct9.142817.26658@news.vanderbilt.edu> rickertj@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu (John Rickert) writes:
>|
>|
>|    Shiner Bock.  $5.69 a six-pack here, at least.  Great stuff.
>|
>You paid too much!  We get Shiner for about $3.50 a six-pack here.
>For the kind of money you are spending on Shiner, you should be able
>to find something better...  Sam Adams?  Bass?  Becks Dark?
>
>Rick


     I _knew_ I shoulda stayed in Texas. :-)  Bass, etc. are $8.79 a six-
pack.  You can barely afford beer to cry in around here...  


John R.
From: jamey@nucleus.amd.com (Jamey Moss)
Newsgroups: alt.beer
Subject: Re: Youngs RamRod
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:20:47 GMT
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Austin TX.

>Young's also makes a few more brews with a lot more flavor than the
>Ram Rod that can be found if you know where to look.  One is a not-
>very-bitter Bitter.  The only other that I can think of now is Old
>Nick, a barleywine that has my all-time favorite picture on the bottle.
>Old Nick was the first barleywine I ever had that made me realize why
>it's called barleywine.  The aroma literally reminds me of cheap red
>wine, and the flavor is entirely different, not unlike that of
>Samiclaus.

Young's also makes a good oatmeal stout.

BTW, Old Nick has a really cool bottle that has a picture of the devil
on it.  It's one of my favorite bottles.

-- 
===============================================================
Jamey Moss      jamey@nucleus.amd.com      (512) 462-4841

	"I'd quit drinking, but no one likes a quitter."
From: dwv@cs.brown.edu (David W. Vorbrich)
Newsgroups: alt.beer
Subject: Re: Please Help
Date: 8 Oct 1992 19:20:01 GMT
Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.cs.brown.edu

In article <Bvt8LD.FKI@wrs.com>, gak@wrs.com (Richard Stueven) writes:
|> Did that quiz get cut off in the middle somehow?
|> 
|> I missed the part about beer...
|> 

10.) What is your favorite type of beer?
Guinness in Ireland		[ ]
Guinness on tap anywhere	[ ]
Guinness in bottles		[ ]
Guinness in new cans		[ ]
other				[ ]

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From: an314@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Timothy Golobic)
Newsgroups: alt.beer
Subject: Re: Beer Games, help file
Date: 7 Oct 1992 14:46:52 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: an314@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Timothy Golobic)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, ipayne@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu (Ian Payne) says:

>I'd be happy to restrict my access to the hours of 6pm and 8am remote
>time, if someone will tell me the time difference between Finlan and
>the U.S.

i believe it's 6 hours ahead of eastern time, maybe 7.


-- 
tgolobic@ucs.indiana.edu        Timothy Golobic             an314@po.cwru.edu
   Indiana University     "Keeper of the Beer Games"      The Cleveland Freenet

What the world needs now is another folk singer, like I need a whole in my head
Newsgroups: alt.beer
From: rob@med.umich.edu (Robert Strawderman)
Subject: Re: 24 beers on tap???  Only in NYC
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 08:30:21 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Health Sciences, Ann Arbor
Distribution: umich
Reply-To: rob@med.umich.edu (Robert Strawderman)
Originator: rob@gaspra


Only 24 ?  Boston has 'em beat by a mile!  Sunset Grill (supposedly) has > 40 beers
on tap, and 2/3 times as many bottled beers.....
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From: x1rbrown@exnet.iastate.edu (Roger Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.beer
Subject: This 'n That
Date: 13 Oct 1992 17:50:47 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH.
Reply-To: x1rbrown@exnet.iastate.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu

Quick comments on recent posting...

I first tried Ballantine IPA in 1964 in the Washington, DC area. It was 
love at first sip. It came in green, 7 oz. bottles and tasted of 
honeysuckle. GREAT beer. The label is now owned by (I think) Heileman 
and it's still available here and there. It may have lost a little of 
it's pizzazz but it's still a fine brew.

Cave Creek Chili Beer is on of Crazy Ed's beers...from Cave Creek, AZ. 
The last bottle I had noted that it was contract brewed in St. Paul, MN 
(I suppose by Landmark.) I found it too hot. I'd love to try some of 
the other chili beers but don't think they're widely available.

The original San Miguel brewery is in Manila. They opened the brewery 
in Spain. San Miguel makes a nice dark lager (at least it's nice in 
Manila) and a strong Red Horse beer. "San Magoo" is (IMHO) less 
preferable than Singha with SE Asian food. However, it was great by the 
pool at the Army Navy Club on Manila bay (at 30 cents a bottle) in fall 
of 1964.

Cheers

Roger
-- 

Roger Brown, x1rbrown@exnet.iastate.edu
Extension Communications, Iowa State University, Ames Iowa.
From: MJB151@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.beer
Subject: feed me
Date: 14 Oct 92 16:55:15 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

I want pussy.
Give me pussy.
Place it on my face.
Let me slide it in.
My tongue is happy.
Feed me.
From: music@moravian.edu (Steve Heller)
Newsgroups: alt.beer
Subject: Re: Molson Gold
Date: 10 Oct 92 16:42:04 GMT

In <1992Oct9.160307.4759@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> agillum@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Aaron C Gillum) writes:


>So, is Molson Gold a 'Good' beer? Where does it rank as far as relatively 
>cheap bear goes?
Not very good, I'm afraid. However, it is better than some other mass
produced products. 

>Any recommendations of beer with similiar taste?
Give Stoudt's products a try if you can get them in your area (made in
PA). Look for some other, possibly nearby or regional, small brewers.
In many cases they can prove to be pretty good, and often better than
the big guys.
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From: gole@ee.umanitoba.ca (A.M.Gole (9959))
Subject: Test
Keywords: Test
Organization: Elect & Comp Engineering, U of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba,Canada
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 02:29:08 GMT

Test
Newsgroups: alt.beer
From: WTP.ADMIN@MHS.UNC.EDU (Bill Pitts)
Subject: Pete's Wicked Ale
Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 12:43:22 GMT

I bought a bottle of Pete's (my first) for a friend recently. From memory,
the label said that Pete's brewery was in Palo Alto but that the beer was
made in St. Paul (under contract).

Bill
From: brown@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Dan Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.beer
Subject: Re: FAQ list
Date: 16 Oct 92 01:18:00 GMT
Organization: Subversive Student Publications un-inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu

In an earlier posting mdick@acns.nwu.edu (Matthew S. Dick) writes:
>There definitly needs to be one.  I'll help organize it, but I feel it would be  
>a very good thing.  Items to include on the first draft (pun) would include:
>
>1) a referral to rec.crafts.brewing
>2) a detailed description of all major types of beers, ales, and stouts
>3) an explanation of '33' from Rolling Rock
>4) ftp information for brewpub listings, beer games, and other lists
>5) an explanation on the foaming device in draught guinness bottles
>
>email me or the group administrator if you want this to become a reality.
>
>matt dick
>msd@courtney.acns.nwu.edu

If you all would read the "first of the month" post... you would see that
there is already an FAQ, however neglected, and it is available by FTP'ing
to ftp.cwru.edu and cd-ing to  /pub/alt.beer.

later.
Dan

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brown@ins.cwru.edu
Newsgroups: alt.beer
From: visti@cs.hut.fi (Hannu Visti)
Subject: Re: Beer Games, help file
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
	<1akqocINNjfq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1aut8sINNeqr@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
	<1992Oct7.153937.11927@dxcern.cern.ch>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:24:35 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.153937.11927@dxcern.cern.ch> briard@dxcern.cern.ch (\) writes:

 * The time difference between USA and Finland is 6 o'clock during Winter Time.
 * Finland is on CET (Central European Time) time slice.

	Actually, Finland is on EET, that is GMT-2. But the load caused
by ftp'ing the games isn't so great that it causes any problems, so it isn't
really necessary to avoid the peak hours.

/hv


Newsgroups: alt.beer
From: morrison@tegra.com (Allan Morrison)
Subject: Re: MOST expensive beer
Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:00:08 GMT

Absolutely had to have a six of Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale for $15 US once.
 
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Newsgroups: alt.beer
From: jdecarlo@mitre.org (John DeCarlo)
Subject: Re: Youngs RamRod
Summary: "It's the hops."
Organization: MITRE Corporation, McLean  VA
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 11:51:07 GMT

In article <1b21j4INN9cp@stanley.cis.Brown.EDU>
 plutchak@pilsner.geo.brown.edu (Joel Plutchak) writes:

>In article <1992Oct8.132116.7658@shearson.com> scarrobi@shearson.com writes:
>>...last year i met a guy from england and i told him... i was interested
>>in some of the off the beaten trail brew of england .. he bought me 2
>>bottles of Young's RamRod Pale Ale ...it wasnt bad .. but it had a
>>definite taste that took getting used to .. it was probably the barley .. 
>>...but it was definitely on the weak side as far as taste ... 
>>if anyone has had this maybe u know what i mean ... 

I don't understand this comment, really.  All *true* beers, IMHO, are made 
from malt, particularly barley malt.  Only some of the megabrews (Heineken, 
Bud, etc.) use weird ingredients like corn and rice.

>   I wouldn't call Young's "off the beaten trail," since I've found it
>at widely diverse locations in the US (yes, even in Rhode Island, beer
>wasteland).	 If memory serves, I found it not atypical for the style,
>if perhaps less hoppy than some.  Generally, ales get more of their
>distinctive flavors from the yeast and hops, with hops being especially
>predominant in classic pale ales, so what you may have been tasting was
>hops (especially if you're accustomed to drinking the usual US megabrews).
>The taste of barley malt is fairly easy to pin down--

Yes, Young's seems to be a fairly large brewery in England, and I have also 
seen their products all over the place in the U.S.  Generally speaking, in 
the U.K. "bitter" is a draft beer, while "pale ale" is in bottles or cans.  
So I believe the Young's RamRod is supposed to be lightly hopped.  Youngs' 
uses Kent Goldings hops, if I'm not mistaken.

So, bitters and pale ales aren't particularly strong beers in England (
unless you get to an IPA or a Best Bitter).  

Anyway, I like the Young's products, but they are not exceptional and are 
really sort of mainstream.

John DeCarlo, MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA--My views are my own
Fidonet:  1:109/131  Internet:  jdecarlo@mitre.org
From: wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.beer
Subject: Re: Printing alcohol content on labels
Date: 7 Oct 92 16:16:15 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

In article <Bv1KAq.439@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, parsons@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Parsons) writes:
> parsons@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Parsons) writes:
> 
>>>- Do people in countries with alcohol content listed on labels really buy beer  
>>>based on how strong the beer is?
> 
Yes. If you stick to ales, in general the stronger the beer the better the
flavour. Compare draught keg bitter (3%, very little flavour), bottled Newky
Brown (4%ish, pretty good flavour), draught 6X (4.5%, good flavour), draught
Old Pec. (5%ish, wonderful flavour)
-- 

Stephen Wilcox             |   Remember what happened to the dinosaurs!
wilcox@maths.oxford.ac.uk  |    I did---and look what happened to me.