I hear ya RE the bloat.
What do your tastes in beer run? I’m not a fan of American pilsners and some of the big-house ales aren’t bad - Bud’s “American Ale” is passable (pun intended).
New Belgium (Fat Tire) makes a great winter ale called “2 Below”. I’m stocked with that right now.
My summer barbecues are almost always accompanied by an IPA (Goose Island). If I have company, I’ll grab some Sam Adams Lager or Leinies.
I usually do the Leinies. We visited a friend and his family a couple weeks ago who had some Point ale. It was pretty good. He used to bring it back from hunting trips, but says some local liquor stores near him (West Chicago) now carry it. I haven’t checked yet whether Lundeen’s in Sycamore carries it (that’s the big “everything” store I go to), but I know it’s not available here in Rochelle. I’ll also have to check out that Goose Island and New Belgium stuff...
A neighbor is kind enough to plow our driveway during snow storms, so I keep him in Heineken. I too enjoy a Heineken occasionally, but prefer to mostly stay with the Leinies. But my beer consumption comes to about 5-6 bottles a year. So I don’t spend a lot of time on varieties.
Hey guys, I should have reported this earlier, but forgot. We had our bi-monthly II-District 13 Kiwanis meeting again last night in Dixon. Why I never noticed before is beyond me because there’s a big plaque on the wall outside the entry, but the meeting is held in the fellowship hall of First Christian Church in Dixon. That was President Ronald Reagan’s church from 1922 - 1940. Kinda neat I thought...