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Charles Helm — Wed, 30 May 2012 05:48:15 +0000

Interesting that you mentioned the Rolling Rock Beer. Back in 1971 a friend of mine and myself left Concord,NC to go to the Franklin, NC show via South Carolina. (This is before Interstate 40 was completed.) On the way back we had a blow out and took out two reflectors on the side of the highway. Within minutes a South Carolina Cop who looked like an extra from the movie Cool Hand Luke -Complete with mirrored sunglasses asked us what we were doing on the side of the road. I carefully tried not to state the obvious. Then he noticed the Rolling Rock Club sticker on our rear window (Some of you old timers probably remember the Rolling Rock Club. It was an attempt to have a national club with no real rules and no membership requirements. The meetings were usually held at rock shows throughout the country. More fun that decorum. With all due respect this reject from the Dukes of Hazard movie shades of Boss Hawg could not wrap his head around the fact that we were not drinking that old Rolling Rock Beer. When we explained to him that we were rock collectors and this was a club of people who liked to collect rocks he muttered something to the effect that that was the stupidest damn thing he had ever heard of and left us to change our tire. I feel sure he went back to the station house and had a good time telling his fellow officers about those strange non beer drinking fools that collect rocks. I am glad I didn't tell him "What we have here is a failure to communicate."

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Harjo Neutkens — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:31:55 +0000

Thanks all for the mouth-watering input ;-)
Here's Chateau Roubine (Chateau Ruby), bought a box the other day. Very nice wine, very nice label lay-out!!

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Jean-Claude Costes — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:08:40 +0000

This is one of the greatest sauvignons of the world

Made by a great person

Didier Dagueneau

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Norman King — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:19:15 +0000

>Does anybody collect crystals growing on wine corks?<

No, but I have quite few that are moldy (that's mouldy, to you brits).

Any mycologists in the group?

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László Horváth — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:23:16 +0000

Somebody wrote an article in Lapis a few years back with illustration of wine labels with mineralogical themes. Last year we had several
bottles of an excellent Italian wine called Aragonite with an aragonite collector friend, but I did not keep the label. Of course in the US everybody knows the cheap Australian wines labelled Black Opal. I am still waiting for somebody to name a wine Eudialyte. I did have quite a few bottles of Domaine Saint-Hilaire when it was avilable in Ontario, but I have not seen it lately.

Does anybody collect crystals growing on wine corks? We have been doing that for about 30 years and have quite a collection.

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Joachim Esche — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:26:26 +0000

Hello friends of a nice wine,

here is another one. I hope nobody will suffer a plumbism.

Cheers
Joachim

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Mario Hendriks (2) — Mon, 07 May 2012 23:00:08 +0000

In Dutch the word for Garnet is the same as the word for Grenade (Granaat),
so talking about looking for garnets with friends in a bar can result in some very confused people :)

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Aleš Tomek — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:36:17 +0000

I have a couple of beers with minerals and miners from Bohemia:

The first is here - Granát - as Garnet - this one from Budweiss has the best etiquette.... otherwise there is at least 10 beers with name Granát (Garnet) in Czech republic (because of red color and favourite Czech gem stone pyrope) ...
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Ken Doxsee — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:22:19 +0000

Benitoite wine: [mineral-wines.com]. I have no connection; just wanted to follow up on Michael Cline's recollection and tried Google.

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Ruth Debicki (2) — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:07:09 +0000

How about the range of Stone Hammer beers (pilsener to stout) from the F&M craft brewery in Guelph, Ontario?

Stone Hammer was one of the beers on offer at the 11th International Platinum Symposium in Sudbury in 2010.

The company also brews a Nickel Brook Ale.

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Nate Alger — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:56:48 +0000

A friend of mine owns a vineyard in California, they make fantastic wines all of which are named after minerals. The specimens used for their labels are all from their personal collection. Enjoy!

[www.coghlanvineyard.com]

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Gerhard Brandstetter — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:39:42 +0000

"Amethyst-Sekt" - Sparkling wine from Maissau, Lower Austria.
"THE" Amethyst village!
[www.amethystwelt.at]

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Mario Hendriks (2) — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:48:00 +0000

Since Ice is a mineral to: iceberg Vodka :)

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Michael D. Cline — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:25:47 +0000

I once saw a bottle of "Benitoite wine" from California with a nice specimen on the label. I do not have a photo or any information on the vinyard. Pretty sure it was a small run.

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Mario Hendriks (2) — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:19:20 +0000

Steven Kittleson Wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I don't have a photo, but how about Rolling Rock
> Beer!
>
>
> To absent friends...in memory...still bright.

They got that in a bar in Utrecht I'm going this wednesday :)

California pinot noir

lovly — Mon, 07 May 2012 11:22:59 +0000

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Norman King — Mon, 07 May 2012 02:48:58 +0000

Fabulous, Mario! I'd love to get saturated on that stuff.

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Mario Hendriks (2) — Sun, 06 May 2012 15:51:43 +0000

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A local beer brewn for the official presentation of the Mosasaurus "Prognatodon saturator", nicknamed Bèr, the second Mosasaurus found in the Netherlands, near Maastricht. I just hope that the French will not steal this one too :)-D

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Martin Rich — Sun, 06 May 2012 12:24:18 +0000

Hey guys!

What shall the people in whole world think about us mineralcollectors - that we drink the whole day wine?

No! If on some days vodka is a too hard drink for us, we are drinking also beer. :)-D

Martin
"Komme gleich!" ("I´ll be right there!") - Gotot

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Alex Homenuke — Sat, 05 May 2012 16:10:15 +0000

In Idar-Oberstein in 2006 we stayed at the "Amethyst Hotel". There was a large amethyst geode in the hallway (1.5 - 2m?) and we had bottle of wine with a label that had a picture of the geode and "Amethyst" on the label.

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Spencer Ivan Mather — Sat, 05 May 2012 15:49:14 +0000

I have a friend in Rotterdam, Holland who collects Quartz, he has two cans of Quartz beer!

Spencer.

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Tomasz Praszkier — Sat, 05 May 2012 13:52:57 +0000

How about mindat "Crystal Vodka"?

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Steven Kittleson — Sat, 05 May 2012 13:43:00 +0000

Hello,

I don't have a photo, but how about Rolling Rock Beer!

To absent friends...in memory...still bright.

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Gord Howe — Sat, 05 May 2012 13:40:32 +0000

I can remember drinking an Australian wine called "Porphry Pearl" a few years back

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Harjo Neutkens — Sat, 05 May 2012 12:40:33 +0000

Pala wine :-)

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Harjo Neutkens — Sat, 05 May 2012 12:34:01 +0000

Austrian "Smaragd Wein" (= Emerald wine)

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Or how about a glass of Quartz wine?

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Norman King — Sat, 05 May 2012 12:08:43 +0000

Surely there are brews or vintages out there using the terms "Gold" or "Silver." (In fact, I have a bottle of "Silver Tequila" in my liquor cabinet right now!)

But hopefully not "Aresnic," "Thallium," or "Uranium."

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Peter Andresen — Sat, 05 May 2012 09:40:50 +0000

Here's a Danish beer I picked up a couple of days ago, on a short trip to North Jylland - didn't go to the small island Fur where the beer was brewed, and where you can collect fossils and even a few minerals. In my collection I have opalized diatoms and natrojarosite. But what does this have to do with volcanoes? Well, in the sedimentary layers there are distinct darker volcanic ash layers from the "Skagerak volcanoes", having regular eruptions during early Tertiary period Eocene (ca 55 million years ago).

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Dana Slaughter — Sat, 05 May 2012 03:55:18 +0000

Here is one for Copper Queen Whiskey that I found at an estate sale in Apache Junction, AZ. I was asked to help disperse a collection rich in minerals and mining antiques and jumped at the chance to get this old porcelain jug with this label and I assumed it was associated with the Copper Queen mine in Bisbee. I noticed the Calumet, Michigan portion on the label and have found out very, very little about this particular whiskey produced by N.R. Bianchi of Calumet, MI. Anyway, it is a permanent part of my decor in my mineral room.

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Dan R. Lynch — Sat, 05 May 2012 01:28:20 +0000

I still have several bottles of "agate ale" from the World of Agates show in Wisconsin a few years back. Kept them as a collector's item, but they've been around a while and I wouldn't dare drink them now! They also had a special root beer there, but I forget what it was called...