mmmmm beeeeer (in Off-topic)

Newcastle Brown have certainly surpassed themselves this time...

/me runs off to the supermarket...

Gahh!! Give me a London Pride or Spitfire any day!

;)

One very bad day I made Guiness Ice Cream.....

ewwwwww beer, the killer of brain cells (if you have them :p)

The Litany of Beer, From "Goats - The Comic" (shan't link to it since if you browse that site you might see non-pg material)

I must drink beer. Beer is the mind-killer. Beer is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my beer. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see it's path. When the beer has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
-- Phillip May 17, 1999

<speechless>

who wants to drink cow pee?

Eh?

beer taste like cow pee (I can only imagine) I cant believe u guys like that awful taste :/

It is reasonable here to ask, how exactly do you know the taste of bovine urine? And why is that you are sampling that, but don't know what beer actually tastes like?

It's bitter and awful. :P

Ah... You're talking about Bitter.

Which is different to Ale, Mead, Lager (light or dark), Stout. To name some varieties.

If you're not old enough to sample the wide range just yet ( I feel for you Americans, I really do...), just wait until you can emerse yourself in the vast gulf that is beer.

You should find something to your taste...

Ah, bitters. Definitely not a type of beer easy to find in the US. One more thing to miss about England.

24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? - I think not.
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

Of course, if you're under age then you're under age and shouldn't touch the stuff ;)

If they're underage and not touching the stuff then that means there's more to go around for the rest of us.......

London Pride...Yum.

Quite partial to IPA too

I like the way you're thinking :)

Actually I don't think beer is the greatest invention. I would award that prize to the humble pint glass, because otherwise we would be stood around in pubs holding barrels and then where would we be?

With larger portions of beer. Duh.

beer taste like cow pee (I can only imagine) I cant believe u guys like that awful taste :/
--Captain Obvious, 8:00 AM EDT

Actually I agree with Monty here - that is exactly what American beer is like. Our Canadian beer is OK, but the best is from the UK and Germany ;)

Maelstrom, perhaps you should try something other than the mass-marketed swill like Bud, Coors and Miller. There are plenty of fine American beers out there, you just have to look.

Yeah, you're right, I was talking about the mass-marketed stuff.

I can't spell the name, but I can't reccomend the American brewery Gorden-Beirsch enough.

It's where I help my wedding reception (? Evening meal..) out in vegas, and their beers were great!

You could get a half pint sample of the 5 types of beer they brew (Red, Light, Dark and two others..) so you could find out which one you liked best.

I, um, tried them all, somewhat equally...

:)

The real problem with American beer IMO isn't finding the good stuff, it's paying through the nose for it. A half liter of of Bitburger is something like sixty euro cents in Germany, any decent american beer is usually above a buck-a-bottle, and it's only 12 ounces...

I have dabbled in the art of homebrews over the past couple of years, and it's really made me wonder. How did monks many,many years ago stumble upon this complex process.
"Friar Smith your malted liquid seems to have gone bad."
"Well, I guess I'll just put some sugar in it and put it in an airtight container, in a dark, temperature controlled room. That should make it better"

Beer is bad enough, but as Billy Connelly said, "The guy that first drunk milk, what the hell did he think he was doing ?"