The angry thread

lionwing · May 28, 2013, 05:20:13 PM

Beer / Lager with added fruit / chocolate flavours...

Leave it alone...there is a good reason it has been brewed for centuries and no one added fruit or anything else...'coz it's is pretty much the perfect refreshment!

You want fruit...drink cider!

EtchedPixels · May 28, 2013, 07:27:46 PM

But you make fruit beer out of the stuff that would otherwise be undrinkably bad, that was the idea anyway.

lionwing · May 28, 2013, 07:49:29 PM

Not one of their better ideas I'd suggest!

...and another thing...the contestants on The Apprentice....they need

Bealman · May 28, 2013, 10:51:26 PM

I have an old book on home brewing with a recipe for nettle ale if anyone's interested...

moogle · May 28, 2013, 10:55:35 PM

Quote from: Bealman on May 28, 2013, 10:51:26 PM
I have an old book on home brewing with a recipe for nettle ale if anyone's interested...

Would that be stinging nettle ale? I've heard it has quite a bite to it!

Bealman · May 28, 2013, 11:08:23 PM

Actually it was... I might go and see if I can dig that book out, later. Mind you, I bet it would taste just like you'd expect - nettles. It's funny, I tried kangaroo meat in a restaurant once, and though I'd never had it before, it tasted just like I imagined a kangaroo would.... kangaroo.

Reading that back, it doesn't make a lot of sense, but I've never had it again, put it that way.

Skippy, Skippy....

moogle · May 28, 2013, 11:14:31 PM

I know what you mean. I made some wine once from apple juice, the not from concentrate type.
And it tasted like....

....apple juice. Just rather alcoholic apple juice!

Bealman · May 28, 2013, 11:59:35 PM

Reminds me of me 21st which I spent at a campsite near Cheddar Gorge. Spent the night drinking what I believe were called 'Jackboots' which were a mixture of Guinness and Scrumpy cider. Boy did that lift me lid off. I think I ended up sitting on top of a Belisha beacon!

scotsoft · May 29, 2013, 12:01:59 AM

Quote from: Bealman on May 28, 2013, 11:59:35 PM
Reminds me of me 21st which I spent at a campsite near Cheddar Gorge. Spent the night drinking what I believe were called 'Jackboots' which were a mixture of Guinness and Scrumpy cider. Boy did that lift me lid off. I think I ended up sitting on top of a Belisha beacon!

I think that is also called Black Velvet

Bealman · May 29, 2013, 12:06:58 AM

Nothing velvety about the stuff I was drinkin' that night. The Scrumpy had great lumps of apple in it!

daveg · May 29, 2013, 07:04:14 AM

Looks like this thread is brewing into the Happy version!

Dave G

surfaceman · May 29, 2013, 10:02:26 AM

Quote from: scotsoft on May 29, 2013, 12:01:59 AM
Quote from: Bealman on May 28, 2013, 11:59:35 PM
Reminds me of me 21st which I spent at a campsite near Cheddar Gorge. Spent the night drinking what I believe were called 'Jackboots' which were a mixture of Guinness and Scrumpy cider. Boy did that lift me lid off. I think I ended up sitting on top of a Belisha beacon!

I think that is also called Black Velvet

Real "black velvet" is a mix of stout & champagne ... apparantly it was the favourite tipple of Chancellor Bismarck!

Alex

EtchedPixels · May 29, 2013, 11:47:38 AM

Guinness and lime - possibly the most foul drink on the planet. It exists solely to fool people into trying it

Guiness and soda is funny too if the bar staff are not on their toes. The bubbles are generated faster than they can leave the guinness so if you just pour badness happens

Greybeema · May 29, 2013, 12:50:48 PM

If you are ever in Dublin - you should of course visit the Guiness Store House in St James Gate. It is Guinness' brewery. After the walk around the interactive - his is the history, this is now we make it, tour you get to go to the top of the hop store and sample the goods.

If you are a Guinness connoisseur - you will love your pint (better than the Guinness you get in ol' Blighty) but the real entertainment is watching our "cousins from across the pond" takinf their first sip and hating it (the faces they pull are the entertainment)... Unfortunately they then lash Blackcurrent juice in it to sweaten it (The second face they pull is almost as entertaining as the first)....

So there are loads on pints left on the bar with a pink kiss in the middle of the head and two sips missing. What a waste...

Newportnobby · May 29, 2013, 12:59:41 PM

Guinness in England has never been as good as the 'Mothers Milk' in the Republic IMHO but I hate the way they chill it down like lager. Last time I was in Ireland I'd ask for a bottle from the shelf to be poured into the glass first before topping it up with the chilled rubbish. In Dingle I have even had microwaved Guinness from an understanding landlord

When can we get back to being angry?