We have this beer on tap right now, Avondale's Vanillaphant Porter. I think you'd like it. It is a little hoppy, but sweet and vanilla-y too. It's thick as hell but has a really good flavor to it.
Yuengling is good. We don't really get it around here but I'll have it when I'm traveling. There's a few breweries around here that only seem to have ales and hoppy ales on tap and it makes me sad. But fortunately there's a whole bunch of others that have stuff on the other end of the spectrum on tap with glorious options like a peanut butter porter or schwarzbier. If it pours like used motor oil you're usually off to a good start.
My favorite easy drinking beer is Shiner Bock. Bewildered that sounds amazing. I have some Hefeweizen in the fridge and...I want to like it. But... Have y'all gotten in on any sours?
My go-to stout around here is something called the Back Hand of God... and it's fucking amazing. https://mikescraftbeer.com/2012/07/29/back-hand-of-god-crannog-ales/
There's a brewery down the street from us that has been developing sours for awhile. We just picked up a bottle of their flagship sour that was made with rasberries for an end of tax season toast next week. The brewer there is great. Schell's near my hometown has been doing a few with this big old cypress fermenting tank and a couple have been just amazing. They're the second oldest family brewery in the US, behind Yuengling. The Belgian Lambic beers are what got us into sours- they're a lot more tame than some straight sours that are tangy like sweet tarts but some can be too sweet. Can't remember which but one brand in particular is really good, not Lindeman's that stuff is like soda. This is a good cherry lambic. Spoiler: St. Louis Kriek
See I take beer like that and pour a couple ounces in a chocolate stout. I'm working on sours. My first was Six Points Apollo. Fucking kangaroo piss.
Dilemma: my truck randomly blew a speaker today. The local Ford garage is less than 1km away, but for the entire course of my life they have had deplorable, ineffective, horrible service. Like they will keep it all day then claim nothing is wrong, over and over with the same problem. There is an AWESOME Ford dealership that I trust, but they are 80km away. Which means almost four hours of driving. Do I gamble that the problem is so obvious that even the idiots can fix it, or do I inconvenience myself and drive to the pros?
How important is a stereo while you drive? Try going a while without it, with the stereo off, see what happens. If you find you really want it to work, don't reward those idiots at the nearby garage, get it done right, drive the 80k
The truck is 16 months old. I'm not going to not use the stereo. It's about a 45 minute drive away. 45x4+15 minutes to drop it off is 3hrs15min, assuming no traffic issues. Edit: so many nots it's like I'm drunk. Fixed that shitty sentence.
If it's under warranty, I'd take it to people I know and trust. My experience with dealerships is they generally don't give a shit. About 20 years ago I had a 300ZX which was 10 years old at the time. The FM on the radio quit working and I wanted to keep the car original, so I took it to the Nissan dealer. This was a low mileage, pristine car. There were minimal signs of wear on the car, it still smelled new inside and had all the warning stickers on the interior meant for the buyers of the car when it was new. It showed pride of ownership. It was also Nissan's flagship, most expensive car. The dealership fucked up my center console putting several deep gouges in it. When I mentioned it to the service manager he told me "The car's 10 years old, what did you expect?" They never touched my car again.
Went with the Mrsanthropic to a local microbrewery opening tonight. Great Porter and ESB. Now I'm at a dive bar with a friend. The drunk at the corner of the bar insists we're cops. Time to have some fun.
We've alternated between denying we're cops and talking about what's going on down at the precinct. The only thing I'm violating is his intelligence