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What are you drinking? - "Someone is bringing you ice?"

The Liberal Media said:
Maybe its just my pallette who knows, I do prefer coke from a can as opposed to those "classic" bottles they sell at double the mark up. something ridiculous like 4 quid for 6 bottles.
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Can of coke in UK = 60p at best. Multiply by 6 = 3.60 Which is 6 cans for your 4 english pounds. Spot the difference.

Peruvian Inca Kola ftw. ;)
 
I get my cokes 4 for a quid, 330ml cans
Those classic coke 6 pack for 4 quid are way smaller than 12 ounces, just a complete rip off, and to think they charge like 2 quid for them in pubs, of course the glass is half full of ice so you think your drinking more than you are. But dont get me started on prices of soft drinks in pubs.

I guess a lot has to do with set and setting, in Japan you can buy those Sapporo cans, the really sleek ones from street vending machines and just holding the can and walking down the street is great. The beer in itself is prety rank, but tastes a lot better than if you are walking down the High street here drinking it and feeling like a complete bum.
 
I'm drinking my standard two coffees when I get in from work, both with ONE sugar each instead of two, based on Mr Liberal Media's advice, amongst others, but after reading some of your rantings on this and previous page I'm not so sure...

I'm not ready to make the step from Ribena to "green powder" in water. (but I am trying hard to make my ribena weaker). Water round here smells like sewage and tastes rank, might have to get one of them filters. Been fucking shitting meself about me pancreas all day :)

In fact, your posting style reminds me very much of someone else, I know you aint him, but you fucking go don't you!
 
Mailmonkey said:
I'm drinking my standard two coffees when I get in from work, both with ONE sugar each instead of two, based on Mr Liberal Media's advice, amongst others, but after reading some of your rantings on this and previous page I'm not so sure...

I'm not ready to make the step from Ribena to "green powder" in water. (but I am trying hard to make my ribena weaker). Water round here smells like sewage and tastes rank, might have to get one of them filters. Been fucking shitting meself about me pancreas all day :)

In fact, your posting style reminds me very much of someone else, I know you aint him, but you fucking go don't you!
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Aye them Brita filters are really nifty, can usually get em on sale at places like Robert Dyas.
After working in the far east for the best part of a year, its nice to taste some London water again, the stuff out east is fucking rank. Hard to even brush yer teeth with that shit.

As for my posting style, lol yeah its alwas been like that, most get used to it, some dont.

I will flounce off the forums once in a while, but thats usually if work takes me someplace, but here to stay for a bit now lol :) , at least 6 months i should imagine.
Been on and off this place almost 11 years now if you count my old ID, which when the site was updated was somehow disabled .

Not seen many of the old faces here since returning, what happend to the kid and fishface and androo ? family life I guess

Harry at Piernika(sp) was the funniest poster though, shame he got banned
 
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Strongbow! Got mesen a six pack and will probably be on my arse in about five minutes due to my newly found alcohol intolerance. It's fun but it's also hard to get used to after ten years or so of killing two 3l bottles of cider a go and still being standing.

Edit: Jumping in on the can/bottle debate, I have to say I prefer bottles because cans make the stuff taste like wet dog to me but in fairness I don't exactly drink 'nice' beer so I'm willing to concede the good stuff in cans could be good, fuck knows where I'd get any though. Think the only beer I've had in cans that doesn't taste odd (due to the can, anyway...) is Desperados.

Cider has always been fine though.
 
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bogman said:
somebody mention my name, a few good beers in cans like http://www.fullers.co.uk/rte.asp?id=46

during the summer Tesco had about 5 or 6 different cans of ale and this crowd also stock them http://www.drinkstore.ie/WORLD-&-CRAFT-BEER-U.K./
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I mentioned american microbrews before, but there are also some great canned beers from ontario, for some reason usually pils tyes, I think Pils taste a bit better in cans cos of the hops and the grainy natural bitterness, theres something about the tinniness of the can that actually makes the beer taste better for me. makes it taste way more " bready" than similar bottled beers ( IMHO of course) :)

This guy (Denis LD) does some great reviews of canadian beers , canned ones as well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1cPHBCMtYo&list=UUMiNXtODdhEi-EzPKIs3URA&index=8&feature=plpp_video
OR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62jzAr5jJ1c&list=UUMiNXtODdhEi-EzPKIs3URA&index=13&feature=plpp_video

Even a nice CANNED IPA as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_AiSvB1eKU

All these beers are brilliant examples of canned beer being as good if not better than bottles.


I stand by my initial assertion though, drink Staropramen in green bottles and its way too bitter, drink a comparable bohemian pils in a can like the mighty Gambrinus and it actually tastes way better. even though its universally regarded as an inferior product to staropramen

Shame we dont get canadian beer here( small brewers), on the whole its very good compared to what we get in Europe
 
Mailmonkey said:
Okay.



Okay.

I think you got yourself started on both them topics =D
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£2 in London for a fucking 284ml coke in "classic" glass bottle .
WTF
Makes my blood boil !!!
lol you could endure a trip to wetherspoons and get a proper pint of guest ale for £2.50

RANT OVER lol :)
 
I get equally enraged when I pay the same for a pint of Tribute (nice beer, St Austell brewery) shandy, as I pay for a pint of Tribute.
 
Re US Microbreweries

I have noticed on sites like beeradvocate that the US has a much larger range of beer available than we seem to have over here.

They get better reviews on beeradvocate too. But it's a site dominated by US beer drinkers!

When I was in Portland, OR, which I think I mentioned is touted as "The Microbrewery State" or something similar, I noticed too that there was a large variety of microbrewery beer on offer at the major supermarkets. It is most visibly available in bottles, not cans. They are sold in cardboard trays holding six bottles, like we sometimes see for wine bottles in the UK.

When I was offered a beer by a resident, he offered me a bottle. Obviously he might not be up on the whole can thing.

I drank various beers. They were very nice. I probably didn't drink the right beer, but going on that experience I would say there are beers in the UK which taste just as nice.

I think what the US has going for it is the variety. There is definitely a bigger variety than we get here, because it's a fucking massive country with a rampant bourgeois culture / tradition of "enterprise".
 
All the local brweries here sell their beers to the public in polypins (like wine boxes, a bag in a box), or in bottles. I don't know any small local breweries who use cans, presumably its a cost thing?
 
Well, it always pisses me off that if I buy a bottle of HP Sauce it is more expensive in a washable, recyclable (or, heaven forbid, reusable, if we had any fucking sense) glass bottle than in a throwaway, rapidly deteriorating, tainting (although admittedly recyclable, where facilities exist) plastic "bottle".

So I suppose yes, plastic is (currently) cheaper than glass. Don't know how it compares to cans, can't get cans of HP sauce.
 
I think I read someplace that there are more microbreweries in the States of Washington and Oregon than there are total breweries in the uk.

Cans are not the default yet by any means, but are really taking off in the western hippy states like Oregon and Washington. Mainly cos of the eco argument.
There is a really great documentary called " Beer Wars" that is well worth downloading ( or buying)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY-Bg5Odi0M

On the whole we get far less choice here in supermarkets as the typical American would get where he can walk into a place like trader joes and literally have 50 craft beers to chose from.

This is a shelf from a trader joes in usa
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Here we walk into sainsbury or tesco and get a few bitters and a few ipa bottles, mainly from a select few brewers like Fullers or marston, hardly a hint of anyone independant.
 
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If they can do britvic in those naff bottles which are plastic, dont know why most beermakers couldnt do the same, less chance of people using them as a weapon as well.
 
You will notice the quality decreases as it goes down. :) ie the $4 stuff on bottom row
Rogue is a brilliant ale , as are the likes of Sierra Nevada, anchor, or Bridgeport or Stone/Arrogant bastard.

Knocks spots off the stuff we brew here.

All this bloody talk is making me want to run out on a beer run :)
BBS
 
The Liberal Media said:
If they can do britvic in those naff bottles which are plastic, dont know why most beermakers couldnt do the same, less chance of people using them as a weapon as well.
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At festivals and some clubs, they do serve you beer in plastic bottles, for (I believe) the weapon reason. I know you said "most beermakers" so you might be aware of this, but just saying.
 
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