by NorthView » Tue Jan 01, 2008 7:02 am
ZOMG some realism in this thread at last, from K3nt. Terrible news for the US that even the bureaucratic and uncompetitive French have surpassed it in earnings/hr. What is the world coming to? Time for a rethink maybe?
ED, it's pretty hard to take patriotic claims made about American wine seriously from someone who's never so much as set foot in France. Ditto, perhaps even more so given beer's dislike of travel, with your views on ale when you've never been to England. For this reason, it seems pointless discussing this any more with you until you remove your stars 'n' stripes glasses.
LD: some interesting links, thanks. I've got to say, if the compliers of the Best Beers of England list really think that Fullers' best beer is a porter, then that says a lot. I mean, porter's a novelty beer, not the sort that makes you want more and more of it: every time I've been with someone who's started off the evening on a porter, they've soon switched to a bitter.
Maybe loads of good quality micro breweries have sprung up It's 10+ years since I was in CA? As I said, what was available was decent enough (though not exactly moreish), but not very widespread.
I guess the problem with assessing international beers against each other is always going to be one of calibration. When many good English ales (and probably American beers too) often don't travel particularly well around a country that's not exactly huge, I'm not sure ho you pit each beer at it's best against the others?
Also, alcohol is famous for tasting far better in its country of origin than at home. It's a common occurrence here for people to gorge themselves on a delicious tasting foreign wine or beer while on holiday, and bring home large quantities of it only to find it borderline undrinkable - the holiday romance syndrome?
Mon May 12, 2008 1:46 am
When I play a patient and relaxed game I win - that simple.
Mon May 12, 2008 10:55 pm
Seriously, fuck poker.
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[21:03] NorthViewBTP: mac is a fellow mexican
[21:03] Mekosking: yup
[21:03] NorthViewBTP: you should support your bro
[21:03] Mekosking: therefore hes a fat worthless tsr obv