Clints beer

Friday night and it's been kind of a long week. So I came home and cracked open a Rainier beer. Rainier was brewed in Seattle for years and only distributed in the northwest along with Olympia. Sadly the old Tumwater plant closed down and Oly is no longer produced. Rainier got moved to California. Rainier is my favorite beer. It has kind of a bad reputation but I think it is due to a lack of education. Either people love it or they have an attitude about it. They would rather drink beer that was made with water from the Mississippi that has to processed over and over to make it even drinkable and get the mud and who knows what all else out of it. Go figure.

Anyway here is some trivia. Clint Eastwood often drinks Rainier or Oly in his movies. In Bridges of Madison County he drinks Rainier while having dinner with Meryl Streep, and I don't think Rainier was ever available in Iowa. And in the Eiger Sanction he drinks an Olympia at the top of a climb somewhere in South America. Clint knows his beer, and is himself from the northwest. He either did this to make a statement, or he hauls NW beer around with him because he likes it. I doubt it is product placement. I think it's cool anyway. If I ever get to see him, I'll ask him.

On another note, I'm heading up to hunting camp this weekend with Hunt Club. I'm not going to hunt as it doesn't start until Monday and I have to work. But I'm going to go up and hang out with my friends in the woods. It's a beautiful place. There's a big tent with a wood stove. It's pretty cool. We all have campers to sleep in. I'll post a photo of camp on Sunday night when I return.

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I heard a joke about beer drinking at Hunt Club this weekend...
Two guys were drinking beer and driving and they get pulled over by a cop... The passenger says to the driver "quick hide the beer!" The driver peels off the label from the beer bottle and puts it on his forehead. Then the officer askes him.. "have you been drinking?" "No," he responds,.. "I"m on the patch."

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lastly there's a woman I'm kind of interested in. She works for a company that we are a vendor for so that makes it kind of difficult. From what I can tell she's single. I've been near her twice. Both times I felt a little like a school boy. If nothing ever comes of it, at least it was nice to have this feeling about a woman again.

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I stand corrected; Eastwood is from California. Thanks Stan.