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celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
St Louis has a great hockey team, Toronto has a team..... |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
St Louis has a great hockey team, Toronto has a team..... This start to be very off topic. However Börje Salming played in Toronto Maple Leaf. He is also nominated for a Hall of Fames! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6rje_Salming |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
The day that I can't walk into a BRITISH pub and buy a BRITISH pint of beer in a BRITISH pint glass, I will personally start WWIII, I kid you not..... And it should be served with FULL BRITISH glasses:) |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34264 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
Just for Info Chris. German beer glasses have a calibration standard gauge. The foam is always above that gauge so you always get the amount of beer you are paying for. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34054 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
And it should be served with FULL BRITISH glasses:) In France they dont like foam so they call for "sans moustache" Thats why they use wooden spatular. As you say Guiness have to have foam in the top of the glass. But ales and bitters when I was in England was always filled to the top:) |
Dena Wiltsie Send message Joined: 19 Apr 01 Posts: 1628 Credit: 24,230,968 RAC: 26 |
And it should be served with FULL BRITISH glasses:) Not being a drinker, I have to use other peoples judgment on this but my roommate and I went to a brewery tasting room where you could sample their products. For your first round they would pour two glass with one poured down the side and the other down the center. Everybody agreed that the one poured down the center was smother because the beer was bottled with to much CO2 and driving a bit of it off took some of the bite out of the beer. From what I understand this may not be truce of all brands but it seems to be true for most. They also used chilled glasses and the beer was well chilled Beer closer to room temperature might lose more CO2 when poured so the best advice I can give you is test your beer to find out which system produces the best tasting beer. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
And it should be served with FULL BRITISH glasses:) There is a difference between lager and bitters and ales. Lager is normally served chilled but not the others. Bitters and ales are served cool but not chilled. Taste and flavours often get lost with lower temperatures. |
Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
With some beers that is an improvement! |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
With some beers that is an improvement! Oh, oh oh..... |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34054 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 3868 Credit: 2,697,267 RAC: 0 |
The warmer guinness is it tastes better (up to a point) but it gets worse to pour. On hot days we used to turn the cooler up to make it easier to serve, but we got some complaints that it was too cold. It was a juggling act. The worst beer in the whole wide world is universally acclaimed as Watneys Red Barrel, now thankfully discontinued. Watneys Mild was nothing more than coloured water and came a close second. You need to widen your horizons to find truly bad beer. This is what I had in mind when I said "for some beers removing tastes and flavours is an improvement". |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
The warmer guinness is it tastes better (up to a point) but it gets worse to pour. On hot days we used to turn the cooler up to make it easier to serve, but we got some complaints that it was too cold. It was a juggling act. The worst beer in the whole wide world is universally acclaimed as Watneys Red Barrel, now thankfully discontinued. Watneys Mild was nothing more than coloured water and came a close second. From a Review. "... smells chemically with a hint of sulfur, toilet, nail polish and corn. ... tastes at first nothing, but then comes the aftertaste. It is a chemical stuffy corn flavor that I have a bit hard to describe, it really tastes not like beer made of malt, hops, yeast and water as one is accustomed to. " |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19114 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
But we do digress a bit here chaps, we already have a beer drinkers thread. And talking about the French why did they change Billion from a Million Million to a Thousand Million when they already had the word Milliard (or Milliarde) for a Thousand Million. Which confused the Americans no end, and led the Americans to adopting the wrong definition, causing confusion ever since. |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34264 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
But we do digress a bit here chaps, we already have a beer drinkers thread. I never understood this one. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24881 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Does it really matter? Whether it is mph/kph, pounds or kilograms, pints or litres... ...it's the same liquid & food going down one's throat & the same distance time wise in travelling! |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
I vote Yes! |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24881 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
I leave that to the carpet fitter & other professionals :-) |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19114 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Does it really matter? Whether it is mph/kph, pounds or kilograms, pints or litres... Except they got it wrong it is 14 1/3 * 7 5/6 or 43 * 47 3 * 6 = 4042 / 18 = 112.277777 obviously someone who is not very good using fractions. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19114 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
= 4042 / 18 Should have been 2021, but as I originally did it by converting it all to 6th's on back of envelope copied wrong number. so my original answer on envelope was 112 10/36 |
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