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That’s awesome! Blue Point is one of my favorites. I was just drinking their Toasted Lagger last night!

That is really cool! Thanks for posting. That is so cool that I wouldn't worry about it's not being realistic or to scale.

I've been to Blue Point (I'm a native Long Islander) but even though I'm a beer lover I've never had Blue Point beer. I'll have to see if it's available in Florida.

Just sent out for a 6 pack......Love the LIRR...

Ah, the Lone-guy-land RR! Old enough to have ridden behind those wonderful G5 steamers out to my granpa's in Hicksville in the late '40's.

Tinplate Art posted:

Ah, the Lone-guy-land RR! Old enough to have ridden behind those wonderful G5 steamers out to my granpa's in Hicksville in the late '40's.

You did pronounce it correctly..all the best....joe 

Joe: My late uncle, Nick Brigandi, was a Captain in the Hicksville Volunteer Fire Dept. years ago. 

joe krasko posted:

Tinplate Art posted:

Ah, the Lone-guy-land RR! Old enough to have ridden behind those wonderful G5 steamers out to my granpa's in Hicksville in the late '40's.

You did pronounce it correctly..all the best....joe 

Correct spelling....gotta put more LAWN-GUY-LAND into it. Us locals can appreciate this.....

Love the beer can!

joe krasko posted:

Tinplate Art posted:

Ah, the Lone-guy-land RR! Old enough to have ridden behind those wonderful G5 steamers out to my granpa's in Hicksville in the late '40's.

You did pronounce it correctly..all the best....joe 

I pronounce it Lawn-Guy-Land myself. But to each his own. 

My speech professor at Adelphi College in Garden City in 1960 called the "lawn-guy-land" mispronounciation the "ng click" sound!

Blue Point makes really good beer, it's hard for me to pass up a toasted lager! They were recently bought by Anhouser, so the beer should be more readily available throughout the country. I haven't heard of the 'delayed' beer before, but as a former LIRR employee I'm sure I will find it spot on, haha. Its time for me to take another brewery tour there.

Tinplate Art posted:

My speech professor at Adelphi College in Garden City in 1960 called the "lawn-guy-land" mispronounciation the "ng click" sound!

Alumni Class of '05 (I'm older than a typical alum), worked here for 21 years and counting!

BTW, my favorite beer is a Czech beer, Pilsner Urquell, the original Pils. Incidentally, the Czechs consume more beer per capita than the Germans! True beer should be made with only four ingredients: malt, hops, yeast and water. Corn and rice adjuncts, present in many American beers, are not found in the better German and Czech beers. Wheat can be substituted for barley malt for the German wheat beers, but I prefer the malted barley. 

Spectac posted:

Blue Point makes really good beer,  ...snip... They were recently bought by Anhouser,

Change that to "made"; now that AB owns them, the quality will disappear.

American beers, unless they are carefully produced craft beers, are generally not really good beers compared to European beers, especially Czech and German. Even mega-mass produced Heineken and Stella Artois will beat any AB product. The rice and corn adjuncts are cheaper than barley malt, hence the cost cutting. Of course, like wine, there are personal tastes and uninformed palates!