'Two-Buck Chuck' Wins Wine Competition

North County Times/The Californian ^ | Friday, June 29, 2007 | BRADLEY J. FIKES - Staff Writer

[5Madman2]

Aww, you beat me to it

http://www.bumwine.com/

[Freedom4US]

Well, good beer is sold on tap in my experience. Don’t get me wrong, it’s good in bottles too. But I never understood how bars could serve Hefes on tap. Because the sediment yeast is part of the deal. ‘Kristall’ is just filtered hefe weissen, which is a high quality beer, but I don’t like it.

I went North too - and tried a “Berliner Weisse” in a totally wanker globe glass. Yick. German beer is all good, but it’s not necessarily drinkable. “Rauchbier” or smoked beer is interesting but I’m not gonna slame 12 of them in a night. Maybe some people do.

[Royal Wulff]

On my way to Trader Joe’s!

[Feiny]

Hilarious. I had one good bottle of Shaw many years ago....then it got very nasty...I couldn’t even drink it while drunk....but that was the cab & merlot....never was a big chardonnay fan.....so maybe it is “quaffable”.

;^)

[Recon Dad]

Try the Cheap Chuck “Cab” it’s as good or better than wines at 4 times the price.

Oh, another Cab, that’s better than Chuck is Crane Lake, but it sells for $3.00 to $4.00 a bottle.

[AnnaZ]

I liked the cab, but you're right, it could be hit or miss.

I miss that fab sparkling white Italian you used to buy. Yum!

[Vision]

Between this and high end wines going to screw caps, I love to watch the wine snobs reap what they have sowed.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Around $5. Its Czech beer.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Hehehe, I was just going to ping you, Slings :)

As far as “decent wine” goes, try Turning Leaf Merlot. I haven’t found a good white wine in my price range, however I love Beringer’s White Zinfandel. Goes great with ham and turkey for the holiday glutton fests ;)

[LibKill]

hehe!

Back when I was young and reckless, I drank some of that MD 20/20.

It's not wine, it's embalming fluid.

[Slings and Arrows]

The synergy!

[glorgau]

A friend of mine was a judge at that competition for years. He got some mighty fine wine - we drank a lot of it.

[HangFire]

Ah, good times, good times...;-)

[art_rocks]

Back in late 91, got a six for about 35 cents.

[America needs to wakeup]

"I like Dog Fish Head but I don’t care much for any other beer."

Harpoon IPA is also good stuff, even better if you get in on tap at the brewery.

Free tour/samples, it's in Boston near the World Trade Center there.

[America needs to wakeup]

"Around $5. Its Czech beer."

I'll look around for it. Highly doubtful it will be $5 in Connecticut, can't get warm urine for that price is this state.

[Feiny]

well, come back for a visit....and I’ll buy a few bottles.

[Feiny]

well, come back for a visit....and I’ll buy a few bottles.

[Feiny]

Yep, I miss you both....couple of doofi moving away....leaving me all alone. sniff sniff