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Minnesota

I always have a cup of coffee or ice cold pop at hand, unless the work is done, I'll have a few beers.

4/16/2008 9:48:49 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

As my daughter would say "that is random"

4/16/2008 10:10:37 PM

Apple Hill. CA.

I like a glass of Barbera wine (at 5pm) from this vineyard which is right down the street from my house...

http://www.boegerwinery.com/vineyards.html

probably why I have never grown a 1000 pounder.

Scott

4/16/2008 11:18:40 PM

Paradise Mountain, New York

Ice Tea

4/16/2008 11:22:25 PM

Nikiski, Alaska 99635

Neptunes Harvest with a biomin calcium chaser. Hey it works for the pumpkins.

4/16/2008 11:31:14 PM

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Water is the most common but Samuel Smith's Pale Ale is the most special.

4/17/2008 12:59:53 AM

San Jose [email protected]

sierra nevada pale ale

4/17/2008 1:47:33 AM

Rhode Island

can of soda or water out in the patch just to keep refreshed.
after the work is done? a shower in the pumpkin shack, a couple ice cold draft beers in frozen mugs, then? a nap

4/17/2008 6:18:40 AM

Ohio

Well, since money is usually low because of patch prep costs in the spring,I usually take a few 12 packs of that cheap rot gut beer, or sometimes even a few bottles of that warm MadDog wine out with me when I pollinate at 630 in the morning. After I pollinate my females Ill just sit down beside one of them and just start pounding the alcohol until I pass out. I usually wake up in the patch about 1am in the morning and stagger myself back to the house to my bed. I wake up the very next morning refreshed and ready to start the routine over again.

4/17/2008 6:42:25 AM

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The best time to drink is when I am watering, pruning, or pollenating, which pretty much covers all the time I spend out there. Favorite beverage? Oh, thats easy... Ice cold Sam Adams Cherry Wheat beer. Sam Adams has a nice variety, so you cant go wrong there, but the Cherry Wheat and Cream Stoudt are two of my faves. After that, whatever the neighbor brings out with him after he gets tired of watching me work in the patch.

4/17/2008 6:58:26 AM

South East

sweet tea

4/17/2008 7:33:35 AM

western PA

Brooks, Romancing the females with cheep beer? you'll do better with the fruity Vodka drinks.

4/17/2008 8:49:53 AM

western PA

Bud, water, iced tea, or whatever i can come across after an few hours out in the hot sun.

4/17/2008 8:51:20 AM

Georgia

Well its definetly not wine if it was itd be the stuff in the Box. Heck I drink a couple beers before I even start my work...Its like fuel for me.

4/17/2008 9:12:00 AM

Waquoit Mass

theres just something wrong about a glass of wine after a hard days work in the patch oh its california lol hamr

4/17/2008 9:13:08 AM

Wi

Gatorade...but usually the patch work is either preceeded or followed by a 10 mile run :)

4/17/2008 9:33:50 AM

Eugene,OR

There is nothing quite like hose water on a hot afternoon.

4/17/2008 10:16:39 AM

Indiana

mountain dew

4/17/2008 11:40:16 AM

Santa Rosa California

snapple

4/17/2008 11:50:58 AM

Knopp, Germany

I live in Germany, we call my favorite refreshment liquid bread.

4/17/2008 12:35:00 PM

Berlin,mi.([email protected])

amp

4/17/2008 12:36:05 PM

Coke or pepsi and a frash and still cold bottle of water from time to time is not far from the patch

4/17/2008 1:05:16 PM

Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

New Belgium beer

water

Sweet tea

4/17/2008 1:18:57 PM

Westford, MA

Bud Light

I'm watching my girlish figure.

4/17/2008 2:03:45 PM

United Kingdom

A cup of good british tea (erm, which actually comes from China !!)

4/17/2008 2:19:11 PM

Cologne Brescia Italy

ice tea

4/17/2008 2:37:44 PM

Pembroke, New Hampshire

Guiness- ice cold.
Sometimes a black and tan.

4/17/2008 3:03:55 PM

Pocatello ([email protected])

>> There is nothing quite like hose water on a hot afternoon.

Absolutely!

4/17/2008 3:18:41 PM

Long Island,New York

I take a crystal light single serving powder pack designed for 10 oz and add it to about 30 oz of water to water it down....after I'm done and facing the 1:15 min ride home I'd pick up a large decaff coffee..

4/17/2008 4:01:50 PM

Waquoit Mass

thats why we keep our girlish figures g lol hamr

4/17/2008 5:46:57 PM

North Smithfield, RI

When the the work is done ,,, then It's Miller Time !

4/17/2008 5:56:12 PM

Putnam Ct.

Coffee in the morning, grape kool-aid extra ice on those hot days!!

4/17/2008 7:57:53 PM

Sort of Sunny Sometimes, WA

One of the first things my pumpkin mentor told me was "never drink alcohol in the patch. One tends to step on things one shouldn't".

4/17/2008 8:53:33 PM

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No alcohol unless a pumpkin goes down to soft spots, see diary from last year. Otherwise, its usually lemonade or iced tea during the hottest days of Summer. Like others have said, when work is done, then it's time for beer/wine.

4/17/2008 9:49:48 PM

Darfield, British Columbia, Canada

Water from the hose, Beer, sometimes lots of beer. When the plants move faster then I do then it's time to call er a day.

4/17/2008 10:52:47 PM

Rapid City, SD

bud heavy......very heavy...lol

4/17/2008 11:32:35 PM

Santa Rosa, CA.

Water and the occasional slug that comes with it from the hose.

4/18/2008 12:06:47 AM

Windham Maine

Moxie

4/18/2008 6:13:33 AM

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

I second the Guiness. Actually, I just finished a 10 gallon batch of stout, which is amazingly close to Guiness. I made 5 gallons of summer wheat and its been waiting for the day I will, so it's time is approaching.

4/18/2008 9:37:58 AM

blackberry koolaid

4/18/2008 10:27:01 AM

Johnston, R.I.

Mountaim Dew

4/18/2008 12:02:17 PM

Parts Unknown

I've learned not to cull vines while drinking beer. You might just cut the main vine!

4/18/2008 7:22:41 PM

porterville, calif.

Im a Dew man, but have to cut down on the sugar. Cold water has started to taste better lately to me . I do really like Green Diet tea made by Lipton, can,t tell it,s diet. But not sure about the caffine. Want to get away from that too.

4/18/2008 9:19:45 PM

Minnesota([email protected])

I usually don't drink anything in the patch. I do take frequent waterbreaks on hot summer days.

4/18/2008 9:42:20 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

CCW, I am amazed that anybody from Colorado knows the benefits of "sweet tea"!! and Don....LOL Peace, Wayne

4/18/2008 11:26:45 PM

Sequim, WA

Water, and when the work is done, Dick's Bottleworks IPA, under the shade of a tree.

4/22/2008 1:31:18 AM