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Beer
Nov 28, 2015 19:08:12 GMT
Post by Moose on Nov 28, 2015 19:08:12 GMT
I must admit I am a bit of a neanderthal when it comes to beer .. I favour light lagers (about four percent alcohol .. any less tastes like water, any more is too much). I am not and never have been a fan of real ales or bitters and as for stout ... *shudders at the thought*
What about the rest of you?
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Beer
Nov 28, 2015 19:45:46 GMT
Post by jayme on Nov 28, 2015 19:45:46 GMT
I like wine. Beer is bitter and makes me feel burpy and gross. If I do drink beer, I prefer cider, or a mixture of cider and lager.
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Beer
Nov 28, 2015 19:54:20 GMT
Post by Moose on Nov 28, 2015 19:54:20 GMT
Cider and lager is a fairly lethal combination! Snakebite I believe it's called.
I don't really like wine . I will drink it on special occasions to be polite but I rarely buy it.
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Beer
Nov 28, 2015 19:55:38 GMT
Post by JoeP on Nov 28, 2015 19:55:38 GMT
I'm drinking wine this evening. Spanish wine - Sangre del Toro - with a little plastic bull attached to it.
But I like ales. Cornish: St Austell Proper Job. London Pride. Yorkshire: Marstons Pedigree.
And Belgian Trappist ales like Chimay.
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Beer
Nov 28, 2015 20:05:09 GMT
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Post by Moose on Nov 28, 2015 20:05:09 GMT
You can never go wrong with wine that has a plastic bull attached to it. Classy.
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Beer
Nov 28, 2015 21:27:57 GMT
Post by JoeP on Nov 28, 2015 21:27:57 GMT
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Beer
Nov 28, 2015 21:28:18 GMT
Post by JoeP on Nov 28, 2015 21:28:18 GMT
Miisa has a story about these plastic bulls.
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Beer
Nov 28, 2015 21:41:24 GMT
Post by Moose on Nov 28, 2015 21:41:24 GMT
I am not sure I want to ... oh, go on then Do you cut em off the bottle and keep em when it's empty?
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Beer
Nov 28, 2015 23:34:08 GMT
Post by Miisa on Nov 28, 2015 23:34:08 GMT
Well, I don't drink wine, but I used to keep the bulls when I was little and my parents got the stuff. But hey, I mean, who doesn't?!?
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Beer
Nov 29, 2015 0:44:35 GMT
Post by raspberrybullets on Nov 29, 2015 0:44:35 GMT
I prefer wine over beer, but when I'm in eastern europe I like their beer quite a lot and usually prefer to drink it over wine. Pils I believe they mostly sell. DG complains that the beer here in Australia has too much British influence.
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Beer
Nov 29, 2015 2:02:32 GMT
Post by Kye on Nov 29, 2015 2:02:32 GMT
I like rousse beer --I guess you don't call it red (or maybe you do). Or Japanese Sapporo.
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Beer
Nov 29, 2015 8:39:26 GMT
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Post by juju on Nov 29, 2015 8:39:26 GMT
I don't drink beer except when I'm on holiday in mainland Europe. I like light, European lagers.
Mostly I drink wine or a G&T.
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Beer
Nov 29, 2015 18:13:10 GMT
Post by Moose on Nov 29, 2015 18:13:10 GMT
Haha RB in the UK a lot of people complain that our lager has too much Australian influence.
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Beer
Nov 30, 2015 1:26:51 GMT
Post by tangent on Nov 30, 2015 1:26:51 GMT
I like Australian red wine (Jackmans Landing Shiraz), Marstons Burton Bitter, Hennessy brandy and single malt whisky with complex flavours (such as Lagavulin).
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Nov 30, 2015 1:40:06 GMT
Post by raspberrybullets on Nov 30, 2015 1:40:06 GMT
Haha RB in the UK a lot of people complain that our lager has too much Australian influence. Haha that's too funny! But must be the UK that influences Aussie beer and not the other way round I should think.
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Beer
Nov 30, 2015 8:05:41 GMT
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Post by juju on Nov 30, 2015 8:05:41 GMT
Haha RB in the UK a lot of people complain that our lager has too much Australian influence. Haha that's too funny! But must be the UK that influences Aussie beer and not the other way round I should think. Traditional UK beer is not lager. Lager comes from Europe. Despite advertising, I don't think Aussie beer has a good reputation in Britain.
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Nov 30, 2015 8:37:10 GMT
Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2015 8:37:10 GMT
I have never really liked beer, but I really tried to when I was hanging out with people who mostly drank beer. It was also cheaper than wine, so it was what the students generally had and I kind of gave in to the group pressure. The only one I liked was Becks Green Lemon, but since I don't drink alcohol anymore, I haven't had beer in years.
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Nov 30, 2015 21:41:47 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Nov 30, 2015 21:41:47 GMT
I am not a beer drinker. Beer here when I became of age was lager. We called it all sorts of derogatory names like 'Bear Whiz Beer' and the 'Scum Water of Tumwater'. My memory was that most beers were pretty much the same: pre-urine, served cold.
Since that time, though, my locale has been invaded by international beers in variety, then having the local brewers rise to the occasion and start offering their beers for sale...in brew pubs. My locale has since been adjudged by national arbiters to be "Beervana", the best place to go to sample the native offerings in their blinding diversity. After sampling some of the early starters, I decided on a nice amber ale made by Brigeport Brewing, called "Blue Heron". I have since decided that in addition to amber ales, I will willingly drink copper, or red, ales. I don't care for lots of hops, as they lead me to nod off.
Wine never sat well with me. It set off my GERD something fierce.
Mostly, though, when I imbibe, I stick to Gin & Tonic, Bushmills Irish, or a single-malt Highland Scotch like Glenfiddich.
These days, though, I've throttled back on alcohol, now that cannabis is legal. I can walk in to the cannabis store and buy a gram or more.
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Beer
Nov 30, 2015 21:56:07 GMT
Post by Moose on Nov 30, 2015 21:56:07 GMT
How much is a gram of cannabis? And how much IS a gram of cannabis? I always used to buy by the eighth of an ounce.
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Nov 30, 2015 22:24:50 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Nov 30, 2015 22:24:50 GMT
Well, that's what I ended up recently buying...two eights, or 3.5 grams each. I paid $50...for a quarter ounce.
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Dec 11, 2015 0:34:15 GMT
Post by Moose on Dec 11, 2015 0:34:15 GMT
Cannabis doesn't appeal to me anymore which is a shame really as it's probably less harmful than alcohol. Sets off my anxiety though whereas I find alcohol sedating.
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Dec 11, 2015 0:39:45 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Dec 11, 2015 0:39:45 GMT
Yeah...So I've heard from some. Alcohol just leaves me feeling wrecked the next day.
And these days, I'm a lightweight, as only a couple of drinks will engender that result.
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Dec 11, 2015 15:48:07 GMT
Post by Sarah W. on Dec 11, 2015 15:48:07 GMT
I don't like most beers I've met, but I do like cider. It was a relief to discover that, because if I'm at a pub I know what I can order without worrying that I'll hate it.
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Beer
Dec 11, 2015 16:07:58 GMT
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 11, 2015 16:07:58 GMT
Oh, yeah...cider is good. But I found that cider is dangerous. When in Salisbury, I sampled scrumpy for the first time in one of their pubs. It was so tasty and went down so easy, I had another. Then, I had started a third when the first two finally caught up with my metabolism. I never finished the third. Luckily.
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Dec 11, 2015 22:15:36 GMT
Post by Moose on Dec 11, 2015 22:15:36 GMT
I had a friend at uni who used to make home made cider. It was deceptively mild and sweet tasting ... not fizzy so much easier to get down than the fizzy stuff. It was also, as I found out to my detriment, quite terrifyingly high in alcohol.
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Dec 12, 2015 21:03:52 GMT
Post by yooperguy on Dec 12, 2015 21:03:52 GMT
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Beer
Dec 12, 2015 23:41:06 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Dec 12, 2015 23:41:06 GMT
Yooper! And green death....
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