Beer and Grapefruit

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Roderick Jenkins on 23/09/2018 23:14:47:

Fortunately for me, Ringwood brewery is now just down the road and Badger ( I'm particulary fond of Fursty Ferret – pity about the name) is not far away.

I do like a drop of Old Thumper

Fursty Ferret isn't bad either.

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

Sorry, I still quite like a number of the Citra hopped beers. In my defence, I try to make sure that the landlord gets a barrel of Green Jack Baltic Trader in for every beer festival. When visiting sister and brother-in-law in Northern Germany, we drink Veltins Pilsner. It's quite pleasant in a subdued sort of way. £0.65p/pint equivalent price from the local shop last time I was there!

[oilcanParticipant @oilcan]

Been going to the Lakes for over 40 years. The fells might be feeling steeper, but fortunately I can still manage a good few pints of Sneck Lifter. I suppose when the day comes, I can always drop down to Jennings Bitter. I think that would qualify as one of Rod's great tasting 3.5 percenters

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

Restaurants not content with charging well over the top prices for a pint are now swindling us with a schooner measure of 2/3 of a pint, perhaps they hope no one will notice it equated to over £7 a pint. As I was des I ordered a coke, volume shrinkage was also in evidence here, £3 for a 200ml bottle of Diet Coke! Or £8.52 for a pint

Mike

Edited By Mike Poole on 30/09/2018 12:08:05

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

Is it now permissible to serve beer in a non-crown marked pint or half-pint glass? If so, I need to bring this up with my MP!

 

Bugger! Just read that draught beer (the only sort) may only be sold in 1/3 pint, 2/3 pint, ½ pint or multiples of ½ pint (½ pints must always be available).

 

What is the world coming to?

Edited By Mark Rand on 30/09/2018 20:53:40

[Richard MarksParticipant @richardmarks80868]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 22/09/2018 19:29:11:

Nah.

Any fool can serve lager, it takes an expert to serve beer

N.

Try telling that to the St Austell chain who insist on pulling their beers through sparklers that ruin the beer, make it flat and take away the taste, I asked for the sparkler to be taken off the pump in one of their pubs and the young lad said in a loud voice " so you like flat beer then " and proceeded to rapidly pull the pump until the glass was full of flat beer with no head, I explained to him how to pull a proper pint and he just ignored me and went back to work, in a local village last week with 2 friends we sampled the local brews and they were gorgeous, in the pub next door we tried the St Austell Proper Job but once again ruined by being forced through a sparkler and even worse the local Jail Ale was also being pulled through a sparkler, the barman didn't drink real ale so as far as he was concerned we were nothing less than grumpy old men moaning about his beer. Re the Starlight bitter a friend and I got plastered on it in the early 70s.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Mark Rand on 30/09/2018 20:45:31:

Is it now permissible to serve beer in a non-crown marked pint or half-pint glass? If so, I need to bring this up with my MP!

Banks were serving beer in non-marked glasses in the 1980s, using metered pumps with a 1/2 pint piston and chamber on either side. Apparently the pumps were certified and tested.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Old Thumper.

Enjoyed malty, bitter and warm

Neil

[Stuart BridgerParticipant @stuartbridger82290]

Just back from a holiday to Italy and can report that it is not all bland lager over there. Happily tripped over a beer festival in Venice on our first night. Italian craft brewing is doing well. Plenty of stouts and porters available as well as reds and ambers alongstide the more traditional blonde beers

[Stuart BridgerParticipant @stuartbridger82290]

Posted by Mike Poole on 30/09/2018 12:05:49:

Restaurants not content with charging well over the top prices for a pint are now swindling us with a schooner measure of 2/3 of a pint, perhaps they hope no one will notice it equated to over £7 a pint. As I was des I ordered a coke, volume shrinkage was also in evidence here, £3 for a 200ml bottle of Diet Coke! Or £8.52 for a pint

Mike

Edited By Mike Poole on 30/09/2018 12:08:05

Putting the cost aside, I find a schooner is a perfect size for drinking the stronger craft beers. Also if you aren't on the stronger ones. you can taste more of them

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

1/3 or 1/2 is ideal for a festival where it’s nice to try some new beers without getting completly b*****ed too quickly. Serving up an Italian lager that would cost 60p in an Italian supermarket for a hugely inflated price in the uk must be close to being mugged, I quote the supermarket price to highlight that we are not dealing with a high value product but we are charged a premium price to consume it in a uk restaurant and they attempt to hide the price with the short measure, the same scam as the ever shrinking chocolate bar and snack sizes. What happened to family sized tubes of toothpaste?

Mike

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Stuart Bridger on 02/10/2018 08:54:51:

Posted by Mike Poole on 30/09/2018 12:05:49:

Restaurants not content with charging well over the top prices for a pint are now swindling us with a schooner measure of 2/3 of a pint, perhaps they hope no one will notice it equated to over £7 a pint. As I was des I ordered a coke, volume shrinkage was also in evidence here, £3 for a 200ml bottle of Diet Coke! Or £8.52 for a pint

Mike

Edited By Mike Poole on 30/09/2018 12:08:05

Putting the cost aside, I find a schooner is a perfect size for drinking the stronger craft beers. Also if you aren't on the stronger ones. you can taste more of them

Cripes. I used to drink sherry by the schooner… they seem to have gotten bigger!

Neil

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

A Canadian schooner is almost a litre. That's probably their Scottish heritage showing through. Not surprisingly, Mercan schooners are smaller and ill defined.

Be careful if you ever fancy a sherry in Canada, Neil.

Murray

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