DarloRich
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euphemism for off to the pub: I am going to take the dog for a walk love/see a man about a dog pet
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Beer in cans versus bottles
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euphemism for off to the pub: I am going to take the dog for a walk love/see a man about a dog pet
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Bletchleyite
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Never tried it but I know what you mean!
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GRALISTAIR
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F\Draught, bottled then can. However cans are lighter and easier to carry. The USA now has a lot more microbrews IPAs in cans. I will post a few pics if I get chance.
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185143
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The air con vents of a turbostar/electrostar work well for opening a bottle of beer. So I'm toldAnd don't try to open them on the luggage rack of a class 158 (as you can with a sharp-edged table by hooking the edge of the cap on and whacking the top), as if you do you'll look an idiot stood there with a smashed bottle and a load of glass slivers in your beer.
DarloRich
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The Yankee special: Brown Lager
( there are some good ones but many are quite generic and seem to go for HOPS punching you in the face over any kind of actual taste )
Bletchleyite
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The air con vents of a turbostar/electrostar work well for opening a bottle of beer. So I'm told
I've seen that done, though I forget when. They do have the "lip" I was talking about.
GRALISTAIR
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Bit like New World especially Californian Red Wines. The style is “in your face”The Yankee special: Brown Lager
( there are some good ones but many are quite generic and seem to go for HOPS punching you in the face over any kind of actual taste )
DaleCooper
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I don't like the sound of fraught beer, does it cause anxiety?
GRALISTAIR
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Yes fraught with danger! LOL Corrected now.
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A passenger infront was very impressed when I did it on a SE 375/9!
It went viral as the "Southern Fail life hack" during the strikes I believe.
GRALISTAIR
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Agreed especially American style
Bletchleyite
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Ah, that's probably where I saw it.
e.g. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/...at-every-commuter-needs-to-know-a3691011.html
Ashley Hill
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At the end of the day beer tastes better out of the barrel. I've always looked upon these craft beers with suspicion. By calling it a stupid name,packaging if in a garish coloured can and flogging it to people that think Bass is a swear word seems a gimmick. The trouble is that it's catching on and even regional and national brewers are latching onto the trend for "posh keg" beers.
Spamcan81
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And charging silly prices for them.
Pakenhamtrain
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Don't come down here then. You get charged silly prices no matter if it's craft or not!
My last beer purchase was 38 pound for a 16 pack. Admittedly it was the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show's bush fire fundraiser beer.
Even If I buy bog standard 24 pack of whatever it's 25 pound.
Strewth!
Rick1984
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I find keys work reasonably well for opening a bottle. I have used the whacking method but you don't always get it right. I do have a keyring bottle opener.
Apparently you can use a lighter
Apparently you can use a lighter
Seen it done many a time. Not being a smoker myself I've never personally used that method.
Puffing Devil
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You should be buying Brewdog in cans and saving the empties for a free share. 50 cans for one share, which gives you bar and shop discounts.
https://www.brewdog.com/blog/cans-for-equity
https://www.brewdog.com/blog/cans-for-equity
DaleCooper
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Do you heat the cap until it expands enough to come off?
DarloRich
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You shouldnt buy brew dog. Buy proper beer
Kingspanner
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Having always been a beer snob and drunk out of bottles, I was appalled to be handed a can of John Smith's at a party. However, poured into a glass it was quite palatable. And it became my everyday drink at 18 cans for £15 at Morrisons. Value for money there.
Never drink out of the can, always in a glass, might reduce the tinny flavour people complain about.
Always drink Budweiser out of a bottle, under no circumstances put it in a glass, that is awful.
Never drink Guinness out of a bottle - put it in a glass, despite that ad campaign they ran a few years back.
Never drink out of the can, always in a glass, might reduce the tinny flavour people complain about.
Always drink Budweiser out of a bottle, under no circumstances put it in a glass, that is awful.
Never drink Guinness out of a bottle - put it in a glass, despite that ad campaign they ran a few years back.
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Please explain why BrewDog is not "proper" beer.
DarloRich
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It isn't real ale. Real ale is defined as beer brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed, and served without the use of extraneous carbon dioxide
Brew Dog is brown lager brewed for hoxton hipsters with no idea. It is all style and no substance: the virgin trains of the beer world if you will
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Bletchleyite
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Not at all, there's a huge variety of it. If you were going to use "it's nitrokeg" as a reason, it's long been the case that nitrokeg is the favoured method of delivery in Scotland; handpumps are more popular in England and Wales.
It might not appeal to your "anti-pretension", but that's purely the image, not anything to do with the quality of the actual beer.
Crikey, to think that ale nearly died out in the late 1990s and you're worried about Brewdog.
nlogax
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Indeed. 'Not proper beer' is a misconception that many microbrewers and craft brewers continue to fight to overcome. I'm no huge fan of the way Brewdog markets their products but some of their beer is pretty decent. Cloudwater and Fourpure are better examples of great craft breweries that have emerged in recent years. Their stuff knocks the spots off some of the murky brown twig-water found in certain stickier-carpeted establishments.
There's room for all styles. Horses for courses!
DarloRich
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There is nothing wrong with the quality but I find it horrible, stupidly flavoured, fizzy, overly strong and all style. It is hype. Nothing more. No issue if people disagree with me but I am right and they are wrong
Not in the north east and Yorkshire it didn't
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Black Sheep Whereas I and anyone sensible knows these breweries knock out trendy cockney hipster muck.
There is. That doesn't change my opinion.
nlogax
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Tell that to the good people of Cloudwater. In Manchester. Or Rooster's in the cockney holdout that is Harrogate. Obviously you've tried all their beers?
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