Duck and Cover

You a CAMRA member Requiem? I'd totally forgotten about real-ale; the festivals are pretty sweet IMO.

Nope just your commonal (pub) garden drunk, whose local has a different speciality ale every month .

Arjuna wrote:Beer is winning chaps, I guess no hard drinkers here... perfectly sane.

How come fallout fans don't enjoy the rot-gut?

Its because most people see beer as the be all, end all in drinking.
Beer is a leisure drink when other people are drinking it at some place in a bar where you can't afford anything else.
The stuff tastes like shit and everyone knows but won't admit it.

Plus, it has a terrible amount of alcoholic content. Highest beer i've seen was 10% and it tasted like absolute shit, while the 5% Canadian beers are easily the most drinkable. Americans get this weak assed 2-3% stuff and think they developed drinking.

My country has alot of decent cheap wines, so I mostly drink wine tho I always love a good cold beer.But mfg is right beer does taste like shit, usually you have to drink quite a few times before starting to like it, and most people only drink it cold.

thats true... but cold beer really goes down well on a hot day. And the matter of aquiring taste applies to drinks like wine, rum, whiskey (totally awful shit but every here in Scotland wants a wee dram,whatever that is).

Beer is an acquired taste, it is stupid to out and out say it's awful.

Mandy: I'd heard American beers are usually 2-3%, surely this cannot be true?

Arjuna: A wee Dram is a reference to Drambuie, it's just a brand of whiskey.

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that guy looks pregnant..

It's a matter of taste, requiem.

S4ur0n27 wrote:It's a matter of taste, requiem.

Yeah I know, but still the majority of wine drinkers are pretentious snobs.

boywoos wrote: A wee Dram is a reference to Drambuie, it's just a brand of whiskey.

Drambuie means yellow drink IIRC and a wee dram is the same as saying a small drop. Dram probably = drink.

When I drink beer I usually have either Hahn Premium, Victoria Bitter or if I got the cash to spare I may indulge in an imported beer like Guinness, Heineken or Löwenbrau.

And the majority of beer drinkers are fat, ugly, redneck and stupid?

Got milk?

S4ur0n27 wrote:And the majority of beer drinkers are fat, ugly, redneck and stupid?

Bit hard to get a red neck when you're in the pub all day supping pints. Aren't all drinkers stupid?

BTW Arjuna I've just remembered 1/16th of an ounce is called a dram in the old imperial measuring system, so a dram is also a measure of whiskey.

I was just saying, saying most wien drinkers are snob makes you look full of shit.

requiem_for_a_starfury wrote:BTW Arjuna I've just remembered 1/16th of an ounce is called a dram in the old imperial measuring system, so a dram is also a measure of whiskey.

thanks.

Isn't it the popular perception that drinking beer makes you working class and wine makes you a snob?

S4ur0n27 wrote:I was just saying, saying most wien drinkers are snob makes you look full of shit.

Most wine drinkers are yuppies, and some are snobs. Mostly the yuppie part, though.

Heh I dunno about Canada, England or Israel but in latin countries all social classes drinks wine, it doesn't belong to a specific class, beer on the other hand is more of a youth drink or a summer drink. Aquiring taste applies to wine too, but it's takes less time to start enjoying it.

boywoos wrote:Mandy: I'd heard American beers are usually 2-3%, surely this cannot be true?

It sure is. Maybe if they are lucky they can get some 4%. Americans aren't allowed to have alcoholic beer because they get excited and cause mischief.