Ha ha,
I have 40 pintsof IPA sitting in a barrel.
It’s nearing completion !
Long live real ale !!
Goodbye reality!
Hello wife,(only had the one,honest!)
Troy
IPA, lovely stuff. For those who don’t know it stands for India Pale Ale and was brewed for the all the boys in India at the time of the Raj. It had to be a special brew to survive the journey to India by sailing ship and one such ship carrying Cains (a Liverpool brewery) IPA foundered shortly after leaving the Mersey, the casks washed ashore and the contents where consumed by the locals and that, plus the demand from soldiers returning from India, created the home market. I know that there are a lot of small breweries and brew pubs in the states, any of you guys know/use any.
Cheers,
Kim
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if we are discussing beer,(and why not)The best beer is from Gods country the other UK lot will know where i mean.And i dont mean John Smiths smooth.
Hi Warrior,
Lots of good beer comes from that place where you live, it used to be said that lots of good things come out of Yorkshire and they are all roads to Lancashire!! One of my greatest friends is from that place and we have hours of entertainment taking the p**s out of each other over a few pints, I usually pay for most of 'em. Have the railways reached Yorkshire yet?, I see trains from Lancashire disappearing into holes in hillsides and I wondered…[;)]
Cheers,
Kim
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OK some of you’z guys over here have got the wrong notion about warm beer! It aint warm, its just ment to served at or just below the ambient room tempurature…of course in England thats somewhere around 65 degrees. Actually most Anglo/Gaelic brews are best served around 50 degrees, I keep mine in the fridge just like everyone else does and when I pour them on a hot summer day they warm up to the right temp soon enough. My “stock” brew is Murphy’s Irish Stout, some might claim Guinness Extra Stout is better, I claim otherwise. And my “special” brew is the occasional bottle of Youngs Double Chocolate Stout or Young’s “Old Nick” brandywine ale. That stuff will curl your chest hairs!!!
Bartender, another Murphy’s please…
Hi Guys,
Thanks for all your welcome messages - this sure looks like THE place to be. It’s also great to find that Troy lives about 30 minutes away…and we both have an interest in trams - sorry, streetcars as well as garden railroading. Amazing!!
One thing I have to learn is how to post pictures to this site - I’ve tried but no luck so far. Give me some more time to suss this out as well as all the smilies.
Have to admit to one thing - I can’t stand warm flat English beer. Started on the beer when I was living and working (with a British bank) in Saigon, Vietnam in 1968 - and thanks to our Vietnamese cookboy (who later turned out to be a VietCong commander!!) we had access to the black market and various brands of American beer - all served well chilled. Great place, great beer…(apart from the Falstaff which was the lowest priced on the black market…and I quickly found out why!!)
Keith
Which is why we have all the building societys.we look after our money.White rose rules OK.
At least it wasnt Shaffers…I remember when I was younger me and some buddies got a 24 case of Shaffer because it was the cheapest beer we could get for our measley incomes. We went to go drink it one evening out in the middle of the local school field next to my friends house where we could hang out without being bothered by anyone (This was a long time before all the security hazzapoluza at schools today). We’ll about halfway into those first cans we were sooooooooooo turned off by the rancid taste of that [censored] in a can, we ended up just leaving, walked away, leaving the rest of the case out in the middle of that field. We just calling it an evening, went home, disgusted in our misguided attempts to get quality without paying for it. We NEVER bought bad beer again after that.[xx(]
BTW I’ve always wondered what happened the next day when all those kids went back to school, we never did hear anything on the news about drunken 8th graders running amok in the school, so I guess nothing bad came of it[:p][;)][:o)]
Warrior, Northern Rock mate, up in geordie land!!
Vic, One of my favourite watering holes is a railway station buffet bar that has been converted into a pub, at Stalybridge just outside Manchester. It’s a lovely place to visit at any time, in summer there are tables out on the platform and you can watch the trains go by and in winter there is a roaring coal fire to welcome you. On a few visits I have actually left the train exactly opposite the pub door, five strides and I’m in the bar. Eight handpumps serving beer from around the country and a good bit of home made food as well. Sometimes it just doesn’t get better!
Cheers,
Kim
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Well Keith it is about time you should understand things, there is only one real pond and you are nowhere near it. The pond I speakof course about the Pacific Ocean and more precisely the Coral Sea, any thng else is small and of no cnsequence. Ask Vic Smothh and he will tell you the same thing
I have also worked for a bit of my career in the east, mainly Singapore but also Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia etc.
As well i will be visiting Troy and Kim during August, as i will be living at Chelmsford in Essex as a result of a house swap.
Regrds Aussie Ian.