Thankee thankee....I still have 4hrs to go in this time zone.....Heading to a friends birthday party in about an hour (Saturday) and then at Midnight in turns in to mine :) ...hope they got 2 cakes....and I don't turn into a pumpkin :(
Drink Beer ( a decent one though none of this Bud Light, or Coors Gold, or fuckin' Samuel adams crap masquerading as good beer)!
*looks at his 18-pack Bud Light which was free and shouldn't be thrown away*
What do you recommend? :grin:
When I can afford it I buy imported Portuguese beer like Sagres or Superbock from bevmo.com. But around my house all I can find is Sapporo, Pacifico, Modelo, Octoberfest-something... and then there's all these ales but I have no idea of what is what.
Feel free to pm me. Don't want to turn this into a beer topic. :p
*looks at his 18-pack Bud Light which was free and shouldn't be thrown away*
What do you recommend? :grin:
When I can afford it I buy imported Portuguese beer like Sagres or Superbock from bevmo.com. But around my house all I can find is Sapporo, Pacifico, Modelo, Octoberfest-something... and then there's all these ales but I have no idea of what is what.
Feel free to pm me. Don't want to turn this into a beer topic. :p
Ah now it's different if the crap beer is free, you can drink it safe in the knowledge that you didn't waste any money on it :D
I would recommend Brown Ale :lol:
When it comes to not buying shite beer I'll be honest I have a soft spot for Corona Extra, although I used to drink that back in England sometimes as it's really nice when it's freezing cold and it was only 99p a bottle. But I usually buy Brown Ale, not cos' it's brill or anything sadly enough I guess it reminds me of home :D
It's not one of my faves but I haven't seen it in the USA, but thinking about it now I could murder a bottle of San Miguel.
No need for the PM as you can see this is a burfday fwedd! The more talk of beer the better :p
Is Corono Extra different to just Corona? I'm quite partial to Corona but it must have the slice of lime in it as this adds a certain 'zing' to it.
tbh I think Corona Extra is pretty much identical to regular corona, I'm not sure if the extra refers to alchohol content or the slightly larger bottle?
I'm impressed to see so many Corona fans. Didn't know that Mexican beer was popular worldwide. :) I don't really like its taste (unless it's really, really ice cold) and it gives me headaches. Someone once told me the darker the beer is, the better. But I think dark, slightly filtered beer is an acquired taste!
Oh, and Mexicans put not just lime, but also salt on their Corona. :-?
One beer i really do not like is Guinness, i know it's very popular but seems to be an acquired taste. It takes ages to pour a pint of the stuff. Theres a guy in my work and that's all he drinks but he's put on so much weight now, which he blames on the Guinness.
Guinness is a marmite drink, I've even heard somebody who doesn't like it actually say it tastes like marmite :lol:
Admittedly there is a yeastiness about it but it doesn't really taste like marmite. I do like Guinness, and I discovered recently that the canned stuff here in the US isn't actually that bad. Maybe it's cos' I've been away from home for so long but my wife bought some because she needed it for something she was cooking. So she used one can of it and I necked the other 3 :D
Usually I thnk canned and bottled Guinness is bloody rotten!
Yea a lot of people think the canned stuff is horrible and only drink it on tap. Everyone who drinks it says it tastes better if you're in Dublin rather than in the UK, not sure why cos it's the same stuff.
Yea a lot of people think the canned stuff is horrible and only drink it on tap. Everyone who drinks it says it tastes better if you're in Dublin rather than in the UK, not sure why cos it's the same stuff.
I know it sounds crazy but it really does have something to do with how it's poured, if you really wait for it to be poured properly it's great especially a properly poured pint of Guinness extra cold. If some cowboy barman just sloshes it into a glass it almost takes on a thinner consistency and bitterness. I don't really know how or if it's psychological even but I have drank some crap pints of Guinness before, because they haven't been poured right.
Apparently a properly poured pint of Guinness should have a head on it dense enough to balance a 50p piece on top of it without it dropping into the glass.
The Dublin thing could be true, when I was there about 4 years ago, I got a pint of Guinness in the bar ontop of the Guinness warehouse and it was really nice, the missus had chewing gum in her gob, so she couldn't taste it properly. Or at least that was her excuse for not drinking hers. Didn't bother me though, just meant I got 2 free pints instead of 1 :D
I know it sounds crazy but it really does have something to do with how it's poured, if you really wait for it to be poured properly it's great especially a properly poured pint of Guinness extra cold. If some cowboy barman just sloshes it into a glass it almost takes on a thinner consistency and bitterness. I don't really know how or if it's psychological even but I have drank some crap pints of Guinness before, because they haven't been poured right.
The story of Guinness:
" The recipe for Guinness was discovered by Sir Alec Guinness and bares his name to this day.
Sir Alec was visiting a small village in Ireland in the the mid 20s on a family holiday. Sir Alec discovered a leprechaun stuck in a rabbit snare and upon releasing said faery creature was bestowed with the recipe for a deliciously dark drink.
Although the recipe and the right to produce this drink were passed to Sir Alec the Leprechaun community hold the copyright and still do to this day. It is and always has been a legal requirement for all vendors of Guinness to mark each pint poured with the Leprechaun copyright logo also referred to as the shamrock. Any drink not recognizing Leprechaun copyright is instantly turned into undrinkable piss."
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Drink Beer ( a decent one though none of this Bud Light, or Coors Gold, or fuckin' Samuel adams crap masquerading as good beer)!
Have a Gudden!
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Have a Splendiferous day!
*looks at his 18-pack Bud Light which was free and shouldn't be thrown away*
What do you recommend? :grin:
When I can afford it I buy imported Portuguese beer like Sagres or Superbock from bevmo.com. But around my house all I can find is Sapporo, Pacifico, Modelo, Octoberfest-something... and then there's all these ales but I have no idea of what is what.
Feel free to pm me. Don't want to turn this into a beer topic. :p
Ah now it's different if the crap beer is free, you can drink it safe in the knowledge that you didn't waste any money on it :D
I would recommend Brown Ale :lol:
When it comes to not buying shite beer I'll be honest I have a soft spot for Corona Extra, although I used to drink that back in England sometimes as it's really nice when it's freezing cold and it was only 99p a bottle. But I usually buy Brown Ale, not cos' it's brill or anything sadly enough I guess it reminds me of home :D
It's not one of my faves but I haven't seen it in the USA, but thinking about it now I could murder a bottle of San Miguel.
No need for the PM as you can see this is a burfday fwedd! The more talk of beer the better :p
tbh I think Corona Extra is pretty much identical to regular corona, I'm not sure if the extra refers to alchohol content or the slightly larger bottle?
Oh, and Mexicans put not just lime, but also salt on their Corona. :-?
Admittedly there is a yeastiness about it but it doesn't really taste like marmite. I do like Guinness, and I discovered recently that the canned stuff here in the US isn't actually that bad. Maybe it's cos' I've been away from home for so long but my wife bought some because she needed it for something she was cooking. So she used one can of it and I necked the other 3 :D
Usually I thnk canned and bottled Guinness is bloody rotten!
I know it sounds crazy but it really does have something to do with how it's poured, if you really wait for it to be poured properly it's great especially a properly poured pint of Guinness extra cold. If some cowboy barman just sloshes it into a glass it almost takes on a thinner consistency and bitterness. I don't really know how or if it's psychological even but I have drank some crap pints of Guinness before, because they haven't been poured right.
Apparently a properly poured pint of Guinness should have a head on it dense enough to balance a 50p piece on top of it without it dropping into the glass.
The Dublin thing could be true, when I was there about 4 years ago, I got a pint of Guinness in the bar ontop of the Guinness warehouse and it was really nice, the missus had chewing gum in her gob, so she couldn't taste it properly. Or at least that was her excuse for not drinking hers. Didn't bother me though, just meant I got 2 free pints instead of 1 :D
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My fave is Carlsberg, possibly the best beer in the world :)
By the way, don't you think we need a new beer-smiley, due to the large amount of beer topics in this forum? :-D
The story of Guinness:
" The recipe for Guinness was discovered by Sir Alec Guinness and bares his name to this day.
Sir Alec was visiting a small village in Ireland in the the mid 20s on a family holiday. Sir Alec discovered a leprechaun stuck in a rabbit snare and upon releasing said faery creature was bestowed with the recipe for a deliciously dark drink.
Although the recipe and the right to produce this drink were passed to Sir Alec the Leprechaun community hold the copyright and still do to this day. It is and always has been a legal requirement for all vendors of Guinness to mark each pint poured with the Leprechaun copyright logo also referred to as the shamrock. Any drink not recognizing Leprechaun copyright is instantly turned into undrinkable piss."
Oh happy birthday mate!!!!. :)