[quote]countingbeans wrote:
Newcastle for example is better than most large scale American beers, IMO, and I’m sure you’ll tell me it is bottom of the barrel from your side of the pond. [/quote]
Nah Brown Ale is a good beer, although arguably not the same since it’s no longer brewed on Tyneside.
The have it on draught on the (European) continent, but I’ve only ever seen it in bottles in Newcastle. The taste is better from a bottle.
There is (or was) a taxi in Newcastle painted in the American flag with the Brown Ale logo and “America’s Favourite…” written across it. There’s a Chinese one, too.
It’s been a while since my last session on the Brown, and my ringpiece is thankful.
There’s also some excellent beer brewed in Brittany. One I love called Telenn Du that’s like a cross between Guiness and Brown Ale.
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You know what countingbeans, you are right: I shouldn’t have commented. The only reason I did was to offer support to what Rattlehead had been saying which I completely agreed with, and I felt a duty to give him a little back-up although I didn’t want to enter the conversation myself.
I tend to just stick to the training parts of these forums, because I personally find discussing topics like this difficult online. Honestly I’d love to sit down and shoot the shit with you guys in person, I love discussing this kind of stuff with friends, but I try to avoid it online. So I’ll head back to my hobbit-hole and let you guys continue!
All the best
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Online is the best place to have the conversation because you can think about what you want to say longer than you can in person. It also allows fact checking and consideration you won’t get in real time. At least IMO.
I don’t talk about this kind of stuff in person, because I’m naturally contrarian and people get angry.
[quote]Chushin wrote:
I hope they didn’t spell “favorite” like that.[/quote]
Like that? ^^
No, they spelled it correctly
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SOrt of unrelated, yet related at the same time:
I can’t think of the name of the book off the top of my head, but the gentleman that wrote it had a very good section on how the American vernacular (mainly southern v northern) was a product of which part of Europe those settlers came from, and how it developed over time.
Damn, that was a good book, wonder if it is still on my Amazon list.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
Newcastle for example is better than most large scale American beers, IMO, and I’m sure you’ll tell me it is bottom of the barrel from your side of the pond. [/quote]
Nah Brown Ale is a good beer, although arguably not the same since it’s no longer brewed on Tyneside.
The have it on draught on the (European) continent, but I’ve only ever seen it in bottles in Newcastle. The taste is better from a bottle.
There is (or was) a taxi in Newcastle painted in the American flag with the Brown Ale logo and “America’s Favourite…” written across it. There’s a Chinese one, too.
It’s been a while since my last session on the Brown, and my ringpiece is thankful.
There’s also some excellent beer brewed in Brittany. One I love called Telenn Du that’s like a cross between Guiness and Brown Ale.
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Have you ever had Skull Splitter? I’m curious because it is one of my favorites and it is brewed in your neck of the woods (although I’m certain I don’t know where)
[quote]Aragorn wrote:
Have you ever had Skull Splitter? I’m curious because it is one of my favorites and it is brewed in your neck of the woods (although I’m certain I don’t know where)[/quote]
I recognise the bottle but can’t recall the taste. It’s brewed in Orkney: that’s those islands stuck on to the top of Scotland… too far to walk from where I am
There’s some great beers in Scotland. My old uni has a brewing department and I tried one of theirs the other day which was really nice.
I tried some Black Douglas at the weekend. It’s a nice stout and worth a try if you see it.
[quote]csulli wrote:
Since this is randomly about healthcare now, one thing to mention that a lot of folks don’t think about is that as flawed as the US system is, it does promote certain advances in medicine that other more socialized systems really don’t encourage. I don’t have time to get into that much at the moment, but I mean just look at the Nobel Prizes for medicine over the last 80 or so years. Over half of them went to an American.
Although we do thank Scotland for penicillin :)[/quote]
I’m allergic to penicillin.[/quote]
I am too.
Now we know how to kill each other.[/quote]
When were you tested? I thought I was allergic for years because of a reaction as a child, but I grew out of it supposedly.
You know what countingbeans, you are right: I shouldn’t have commented. The only reason I did was to offer support to what Rattlehead had been saying which I completely agreed with, and I felt a duty to give him a little back-up although I didn’t want to enter the conversation myself.
I tend to just stick to the training parts of these forums, because I personally find discussing topics like this difficult online. Honestly I’d love to sit down and shoot the shit with you guys in person, I love discussing this kind of stuff with friends, but I try to avoid it online. So I’ll head back to my hobbit-hole and let you guys continue!
All the best
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Online is the best place to have the conversation because you can think about what you want to say longer than you can in person. It also allows fact checking and consideration you won’t get in real time. At least IMO.
I don’t talk about this kind of stuff in person, because I’m naturally contrarian and people get angry. [/quote]
Fair enough - to each their own. In my experience online discussion gets personal and inflammatory more quickly, so I just stay out. It’s great that we have both options though :).
