CHM picture thread!

Looks like a cozy space!

A new cool relationship, a new office.
Cool all those new things.

Now that is what I call good marketing!  This truck belongs to The Dookie Boys--a local septic tank cleaning company!  I love the name of this vehicle!

I like the 02 on the side.

Their smaller truck also has that!  It's hilarious!

Of course, it is almost as good as this towing company from West Palm Beach, FL

We went for lunch with a couple from the new church to a local O'Charley's.  They had a big display for Breast Cancer Awareness.  You will never guess who had to become part of the display!

More bargain furniture for your new office?

I wish!  It was so comfy!!!

Just some sunrise pics from our condo here on Okaloosa island!

Very cool!

The wife made me go on a Christmas Boat ride last night.  My oldest son was supposed to come with me, my wife and our daughter...but he couldn't get out of work so we took an old family friend with us.

Great pictures!  That looks like a lot of fun.  What kind of beer is that?

They do Christmas boat rides around the bay here in Coeur d'Alene too.  We went in the summertime which was great though we're considering maybe doing it again now too. 

kerrick wrote:

Great pictures!  That looks like a lot of fun.  What kind of beer is that?

They do Christmas boat rides around the bay here in Coeur d'Alene too.  We went in the summertime which was great though we're considering maybe doing it again now too. 

It was actually more fun than I expected.  There was a choir from one of the local high-schools on the ship and they were quite good, we had a small fleet of personal craft all decorated with Christmas lights that were following us and we made two stops on our trip where a hundred people or more gathered around bonfires on the shore and listened to our choir (they amplified them singing from the boat).  They also had Santa on the boat and my grandson loved interacting with him.

I guessed you would be the one to ask about the beer!   They had just ran out of the Pyramid Hefewiezen on tap, so I had to settle for an Alaskan Amber.  They had several local Pale Ales on tap, but I am just not a big fan of Pale Ale (too bitter for me).

Should've had a porter or stout instead. Just sayin' 

Ha, you can't post a picture of a beer and not expect me to comment.     That amber isn't bad.  I went to a beer festival some years ago and between all of my friends who went, the best beer there (and there were literally hundreds) that we tasted was from that brewery.  I think it was a barley-wine style ale.

But Jeff's right either way: dark beers are best!  Except for maybe Belgians which are my favorite. 

Through The Dark Radio wrote:

Should've had a porter or stout instead. Just sayin' 

I second this

Through The Dark Radio wrote:

Should've had a porter or stout instead. Just sayin' 

Those are usually a little to rich for me...like you are trying to drink a glass of slightly liquefied marbled rye bread, and the few I've had have been rather bitter.  I'm actually more of a wino than a beer aficionado (and more recently I'm getting into mead).  The problem is I can't stand bitter beers, which is why I usually gravitate towards the ambers and hefeweizens as they tend to have a smoother finish.  90% of what they had at this little ship bar was cheap massed produced rice beer (coors, bud etc.) and a half dozen IPA's from local breweries.  In my experience nearly all of the IPA's finish with a really bitter note.

kerrick wrote:

dark beers are best!  Except for maybe Belgians which are my favorite. 

+1 (as long as you mean the Lambics from Belgium).

Maybe some of the import beers are good, but in my experience all I remember about beer is that it tasted disgusting.  It was putrid.  Because of the bad taste of what I have tried, I will never try anything else.  I know--someone will probably say that I don't know what I am missing.  Good.  I'd just rather not know.

Nothing wrong with that, Chris . . . it means more beer for the rest of us 

Oh, and Gary, you might like a Lambic beer . . . it's a fruit beer.  Kind of like a wine cooler.

Through The Dark Radio wrote:

Nothing wrong with that, Chris . . . it means more beer for the rest of us 

Oh, and Gary, you might like a Lambic beer . . . it's a fruit beer.  Kind of like a wine cooler.

Well I wasn't at all a fan of Bartles and James, but if I can find one I will give it a try. 

topshot rhit wrote:

kerrick wrote:

dark beers are best!  Except for maybe Belgians which are my favorite. 

+1 (as long as you mean the Lambics from Belgium).

Lambics are pretty good, though not something I typically am in the mood for.  I prefer a good Belgian quadrupel: dark, sweet, fruity, complex, delicious.  Lambics tend to have the sweetness and fruitiness more up front, whereas the quads (and dubbels and tripels which I also greatly enjoy) are more balanced to my palate.

I've had the good fortune of enjoying a couple times what many consider to be the best beer in the world: the Trappist Westvleteren 12.  I gotta say, it was quite good!  I don't know if it's quite $20/bottle good though haha.
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Staybrite wrote:

In my experience nearly all of the IPA's finish with a really bitter note.

Indeed, that is their design so stay away from pale ales or anything you see that has IBU > 20 perhaps for ales or 40 for stouts. Some porters and stouts can be bitter but some are very smooth (depends on how much malt and other sweet things it has). I don't find Guinness too bitter.

alldatndensum wrote:

Maybe some of the import beers are good, but in my experience all I remember about beer is that it tasted disgusting.  It was putrid.

You likely tried the typical mess-market American beers and I agree in that case. I don't care for lagers/pilsners even from craft breweries. Ales taste totally different to me, but that doesn't mean they are all good either.

kerrick wrote:

I prefer a good Belgian quadrupel: dark, sweet, fruity, complex, delicious. 

Gotcha. It seems most mean a witbeer when referring to Belgium style, which I don't care for anywhere near as much as German wheat beers, but I've sort of lost the taste for those, too. Will try some again in a couple years. Not sure if I've ever had a quad. I'll look for some to try.

^Right on.  Wheat beers are pretty much the only type of beer I don't like.  You'll probably have to go to a specialty store to find a quadrupel - and be prepared to spend some $$$ because they're usually not particularly cheap.  But I guess that helps make them that much more special.

Back on topic... here's the wife, baby, and me:

Great looking family Kerrick!