Unless Scrotar is saying, that he knows it does work, but he doesn't believe an explanation will cover it, in which case I'll shut the fark up.

Explanation here BTW

Jay_vees right, use th ink dropper tool in PhotoDraw
RGB value of bothe squares is 107:107:107

My lifetimes ambition is to actually post on topic one time!

Jay_vee - just what in the hell are you going on about?

Let it go man and concentrate on beer for farks sake.

GravyTrain
My dad bought loads of honey last summer, about 10 gallons or so. I didn't have any airlocks or demijohns last summer when I brewed wine, so the vinegar bug got into the wine and made them think I didn't know what I was doing. I think I'll have to work hard to convince them I know what I'm doing. Also I have to look around for a beer-winemaking supply store or order supplies over the internet. If I talk dad out of some honey, probably no more mead than 10 gallons this year, then buy more honey next year.

Mmm, beer!



YAY ON TOPIC!

/lifetimes ambition fulfilled!

Frasermoo:- (a) illusion in my profile and (b) fair enough. Back to the beer.

Sheilanagig:- Do you ever go to local microbreweries?

LionelHutz:- I've never been to Australia, but I'm going to Sydney and Townsville next month. In New Zealand they have some fairly tasty dark strong lagers. Do you have anything like that over there?

Jay_vee - 'You're either not covering well enough...'

Oh, man. Well, holy shiat! You're right!

That's a good one.

/covered it so that only a small portion of either square was visible

Apologies to everyone for the threadjack, of course.

At least no one posted any images...

It's a myth that all English people like warm beer (and why doesn't anyone ever pick on the Scots, Welsh or Nothern Irish who all have pubs serving beer more or less the same way as the English?). When I lived in Australia they published an article in the paper saying what pubs in Sydney served the coldest beers, along with the temperature it was served at in each pub. The thing is Australia is much hotter than England and so a super cold beer is just what you want on a hot day, In England the last thing you want when you're already freezing you ass off is a super cold beer, just plain cold is alright.

No, I don't know of any local microbreweries. I might end up being the only one in the area if I bother to start up. We have a local winemaker who makes native fruit wines, and is beginning to bottle them and sell them to local shops because he's been granted a permit to do so. I'd like to try my hand at traditional beermaking to see what I can do. Either that or throw in a shiatload of sugar and let it brew for three months to see how strong I can get it. I've also been told of a method of distilling alcohol by freezing it and pouring off the neat alcohol. I'd rather try an old-fashioned still, to be honest, though.

Hear Hear HereHareHere.

Sheilanagig:- I look forward to the FARK thread where we get to name your beers then ;)

Don't hold your breath for the next 6 months, Jay_vee, I need to start a batch first, then keep at it until it's perfect. Then if anyone wants any, they can damned well come and visit me to get it. (Also I need the practice. I've done wine to perfection, but also some really bad wine too...the rhubarb was apalling...ex-hubby drank it, though, with lots of lemonade.)

Leffe Blonde (Belgian) and Liefmans Frambozen (Belgian) are my current favourites - along with Ayingerbrau (which I think is a British brewed beer by Samuel Smith's brewery???)

European beer is the best in the world.......period. Keep yer yankee tooth rotting sweet beer and as for the aussie stuff......strewth it takes like a dingo's dirtbox.
Any man worth half his salt knows this to be true.

The end.

My best beer story...

My buddy Mike and I were having a Rull On Friday. However, with still 20 mnis to go before Happy Hour commenced, we decided to hit a supermarket first, and purchase ourselves a warm-up. We happened upon a bottle of Hertog Jan Grand Prestige. We were in a inquisitive mood, so we grabbed it.
Arriving at the till, the 16 year old, disinterested shopkeeper didn't know the price of our beer (it ha no label). She asked her colleague what the price was for the bottle. Reply came back - 70 cents (about 20 US cents at the time). "Hmmm," we thought, "this beer is usually about 15 times that ammount - this must be the deposit on the bottle". Dumbass shop girl charges us the 70 cents. Wehead to the park, drink the (abso-bloody-lutely delicious) beer, take back the bottle and reclaim our 70 cents.

Aaaah, good times.

I think there are different definitions of warm. I would describe British ale as deliciously cool, but not overly chilled. It should be 10-12 Celsius. I would describe it as warm and would not enjoy it if it was warmer than that. All beers should be served at the temperature that have been brewed to be served at. Cold lagers are usually acceptable; warm lager is horrid. Cold ale is tasteless and bland, but at least can be warmed up by holding the glass.

HereHareHare: La Chouffe is one of my faves.

HHH,
The reason we don't pick on the Scots, Welsh, or Northern Irish, is because the English are the ones who taught them how to serve beer..

Micro Brews are gay

Hiphopopotamus
Yeah and GM make the best cars.

Do I get the feeling Hiphopopotamus is not going to end up being one of those erudite, witty posters who make FARK threads so interesting.

15p extra per pint.
Aw naw! That's gonna cost me an extra 45p to get pissed at the weekend.

If you can call that sugary, molasses-loke foam beer....


When the barman in Blighty pours you a pint, he looks at a calender when you ask when it will be done foaming.

Crap!

Drink Czech beer and Irish stout.

The firms blame the rise on spiralling advertising costs

Oh, do they indeed, well in which case I'm not going to drink that piss. I will drink other piss instead.

British ale is good....because ale is served cold.

(or it should be, if not)

I wouldn't wash my toilet with John Courage.....

What you call beer we call lager. The beer is not warm it is just not chilled. The reason is it masks the flavour. Dont get me wrong I like cold lager, its great if you want a refreshing drink. I am not one of these beer snobs who looks down their noses at Amarican and Australian beer. Budwieser is great, I even drink Fosters (mostly because its cheap). But if I want a beer that has a great taste I will have a nice pint of bitter like Directors or Tanglefoot or Badgers best. Dont knock it until you have tried it.

And please stop putting green dye in the lager on St Patricks day it tastes like shiat.

Notice the article did not mention the increase is for better dental care for it's employees.

Fosters and Bud are good lager beers to drink ice cold to get wrecked, but that's about it.

Fosters with ribs or Buffalo wings is excellent, and Bud goes great with pizza.

I like stout with oysters or seafood, and a good strong ale goes beautifully with steak.

British beer is an aquired taste. If you don't want to acquire it, then don't, stick with soda and hamburgers like you had when you were a kid.

"Taste" is a subjective matter.

Some tastes take a while to get used to. I started enjoying beer a year or so after I started drinking it cos that's what my mates were drinking. The taste for whisky came later still. At least, that was the way with me.

GravyTrain: Thanks! I'll keep an eye out for that one. There's a good beer shop near Old St. in London that sells less easily available beers (including Belgian) and ciders.

The irony is, brewery's over here are moaning about falling profits, and now they want to charge an extra 15p for the p1ss they sell. Give me a good pub that sells Hoogaarden and Warsteiner any day of the week, and failing that I'll buy my beer from Adsa Wall-mart as it is all imported from Germany, Austria and Holland - the true homes of good beer.

Carling? No Darling! It tastes like crap and is gassy as hell.

VonEvilstein The Dutch are one of the most value-conscious, bargain-hunting nations of consumers on the planet.

Yeah, I noticed the word "goedkoper" many times when I moved here...

BTW, have you discovered ExpatsNL?

The only English beer I miss:

Abberadon,

I agree with ya. I really enjoy quite a bit of German beer. Schiender-Weisse is my all-time favorite brew.

HereHareHere: No problem. A'Chouffe also do a beer called McChouffe which comes in 75cl wine-type bottles very nice. And if you ever go to Amsterdam, visit Cafe Belgique
not far from Damm Square.

My personal favourite.

And I should give a rat's ass because...why?

LionelHutz, the reason most people in the UK say Aussie beer is so bad is because we only get the piss. Australia has the worst beer (VB, Fosters) and some of the best (Coopers, Cascade, Goathead, anything brewed on Tasmania)on the planet.

Coopers is a great drop - in the red or green bottles.

As a Brit living in NY, I can safely say the beer in the UK is reassuringly cheap compared to over here.

In NY, you are usually charged $5 a pint - plus they expect you to tip them, sometimes as much as a dollar a drink.

In London, a pint of lager can set you back up to #2.80 which is about $4.45. And NO tipping! It's probably cheaper up North - but who would want to go there?

I wouldn't wash my toilet with John Courage.....

I thought that's why they made it.

JJ_UK,

You could always head out west to Bristol.
You can get a good pint (*offer limited to availability of decent beer) for about 180p there.

And don't worry, we wouldn't want your kind up North, anyway ;-)

Barry the Baptist: farking northern monkeys!

Lenny: I hate these southern fairies!


Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

Two things- ONE the pic of the Beer has WAAAYYY to much head. Much over teh legal limit on head (of a beer that is)

and TWO- Carling currently only costs £1.29 a pint at the Wetherspoons pubs (I work at one). Much cheaper than some of the other beers.

If you're in london a great place to go check out is the Microbar (14-16 Lavender Hill, London, SW11 5RW) They have god knows how many different types of beer.

Don't go expecting a cheap night, you won't get much change out of £5 for a pint, but the quality is excellent, i believe they even have the belgium trappist monk variety.

Pinko_Commie: And there's the Porterhouse at Covent Garden. They have their own beers (keg-only unfortunately, but brewed in Porterhouse in Dublin) and a phenomenal range of beers. Cost per pint was around £5, IIRC.