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# Brews You Can Use
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/7985/
- Published: 2009-02-27T07:04:11.000Z
- Updated: 2009-02-27T07:04:11.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Food and Drink, #wpChunk

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/smithwicks.jpg "smithwicks")

This might be a 2009 first: Drinking while writing BYCU. I used to do it regularly. Truth revealed: in the early days, BYCU was normally written after a few hours at the drinking club or, at a minimum, a few hours of front porch drinking. After I felt sufficiently steeled, I'd lumber downstairs with my last beer of the evening and crank out the next morning's post. I haven't done that lately, and even last night, I merely cracked open a single bottle of [Smithwick's](http://www.answers.com/topic/smithwick-s?ref=thedailyeudemon.com), a most-righteous and rich beer from Ireland. It's expensive stuff, but packs a pretty good wallop. I first tried it three years after a TDE reader gave me a six-pack of it. Since then, I've drunk it off-and-on. I'd rank it in my Top Ten of favorite beers.

Another friend and TDE reader sent me an article about one drinker's Top Ten beers. Great beginning: ["The only New Year's resolution that I've managed to keep is to drink more beer."](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/wine/4799334/10-of-the-best-beers.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ten-beers-300x187.jpg "ten-beers")

I wish I'd thought of that resolution, especially since I've only heard of one of his Top Ten, and it's a beer that I have to sneak for fear of allegations of homosexuality from my virile circle of acquaintances: the Lindemans Framboise. I can't drink it straight, but two ounces mixed into 20 ounces of a wheat beer? Hoodoggy, it's excellent. Our local brewpub offers the concoction, and it's my favorite. (Ten best beers article: [Via Lew Rockwell](http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/10-best-beers.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).)

If you want to see a lot of good beer talk, Google "Ten Best Beers." You'll get a lot of interesting articles, like [this list of top beer names](http://www.tampabay.com/features/food/spirits/article503293.ece?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) (unfortunately, I can't pronounce a few of them).

If I had to rank my Top Ten beers of all time, I wouldn't. Tastes change. When I was 20, my list would've looked something like this:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/pabst1.jpg "pabst1")

\*Red White and Blue  
 \*Busch  
 \*Pabst  
 \*Whatever My Dad Has in His Fridge  
 \*Generic Beer  
 \*Hamms  
 \*Stroh's  
 \*Pretty Much Anything On [This List](http://returntomanliness.com/2008/08/10/a-manly-american-pastime-cheap-yard-beer/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)  
 \*Half Glasses (sans cigarette butts . . . I'm not a pig) on Tables After Getting Cut Off  
 \*Old Milwaukee (probably my favorite beer at this time)

Twenty years later, my list looks something like this:  
 \*Smithwick's  
 \*Oberon  
 \*Pabst (stands the test of time)  
 \*Miller Genuine Draft (not "64," which is wretched)  
 \*Paper Pilsner  
 \*Alpena Wheat Ale  
 \*Leinenkugels  
 \*Anchor Steam  
 \*Blue Moon  
 \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

[It appears Charles Coloumbe has begun writing for Taki](http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/where%5Feverybody%5Fknows%5Fyour%5Fname/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). The topic class: "Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms." Let's hope they make this a regular feature. Coloumbe is perhaps the best little-known Catholic writer I've ran across in the past five years. He strikes me as a tad eccentric at points, but erudite and polished.