Beer?

[threebikesmcginty]

I tried a bottle of that last weekend, it is aptly named.

Yes it's lovely stuff isn't it.

 

[Chromatic]

Yes it's lovely stuff isn't it.

Not really my can of 20/50.

 

[Maverick Goose]

Ooooh, that looks good!

It is-not cheap though.

 

[John the Monkey]

Topical:
Beer Friendly US Presidents;
http://draftmag.com/a-12-pack-of-beer-friendly-presidents/

Winter Warmers - a blind tasting;
https://ohgoodale.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/o-dark-dark-dark/

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Topical:
Beer Friendly US Presidents;
http://draftmag.com/a-12-pack-of-beer-friendly-presidents/

Winter Warmers - a blind tasting;
https://ohgoodale.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/o-dark-dark-dark/

FDR gets my vote. I think this would be a good time for a beer and a song...



Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32nd U.S. President, Democratic, served 1933-1945): Elected during the Great Depression, his campaign called for the repeal of Prohibition. Temperance had been tested and failed. FDR realized brewing, winemaking and distilling would create jobs and tax revenue. Once in office, Roosevelt pushed Congress to repeal the Volstead Act. On March 22, 1933, Roosevelt signed the Beer and Wine Revenue Act, and said “I think this would be a good time for a beer.”

 

[nickyboy]

Topical:
Beer Friendly US Presidents;
http://draftmag.com/a-12-pack-of-beer-friendly-presidents/

Winter Warmers - a blind tasting;
https://ohgoodale.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/o-dark-dark-dark/

So Trump or Clinton? Which one is the beer drinker?

I suspect neither...Trump looks like a Wild Turkey man and Clinton is surely plain boiled water

 

[John the Monkey]

Nice introduction to sours;
http://allaboutbeer.com/article/headlong-into-sour/

 

[threebikesmcginty]

 

[John the Monkey]

Guinness and the Rise of Pub Grub;
http://boakandbailey.com/2016/11/quick-clint-to-the-pub-grub-mobile/

 

[MossCommuter]

Guinness and the Rise of Pub Grub;
http://boakandbailey.com/2016/11/quick-clint-to-the-pub-grub-mobile/

the North West of England (where pub food was particularly wanting, we assume

hhhmmm, maybe they meant:

"The North West of England (where the sophisticates, being ahead of the curve, were ready for such radical developments)"

And that Guinness Steak poster; I'm sure I remember seeing that some years later (natch) and gazing in wonder at "steak" and imagining just how rich you'd need to be to afford it. I think I was in my 20's before I ate a steak (that wasn't "braising" and in the slow-cooker).

Aaaaannnddd... I though Ploughman's Lunch was invented as a marketing device by the Cheese Board (titter).

 

[John the Monkey]

Aaaaannnddd... I though Ploughman's Lunch was invented as a marketing device by the Cheese Board (titter).

I'm astonished that anyone thought Cheese would need a marketing board. I mean, it's cheese. It's delicious.

 

[John the Monkey]

Aaaaannnddd... I though Ploughman's Lunch was invented as a marketing device by the Cheese Board (titter).

well, it didn't need a board, it needed a "Bureau" - the Milk Marketing Board also in on the act, apparently;

However, the specific term "ploughman's lunch" is believed to date no further back than the 1950s, when the Cheese Bureau (a marketing body affiliated to the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency) began promoting the meal in pubs as a way to increase the sales of cheese, which had recently ceased to be rationed. Its popularity increased as the Milk Marketing Board promoted the meal nationally throughout the 1960s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploughman's_lunch

It also notes that the Cheese Bureau existed;

for the admirable purpose of popularising cheese...

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Was sorely tempted by Guinness West Indies Porter at three for £5.00 in Waitrose tonight. But that was trumped by the Shepherd Neame Double Stout at four for £6.00.

Sat in bed, listening to Radio Four, typing this and drinking one now.

 

[srw]

Was sorely tempted by Guinness West Indies Porter at three for £5.00 in Waitrose tonight. But that was trumped by the Shepherd Neame Double Stout at four for £6.00.

Sat in bed, listening to Radio Four, typing this and drinking one now.

The World Tonight?! No wonder you need the beer, to soften the impact of the real world.

At 10pm, there's nothing to listen to. That's why the good lord let us invent the CD.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

The World Tonight?! No wonder you need the beer, to soften the impact of the real world.

At 10pm, there's nothing to listen to. That's why the good lord let us invent the CD.

Midweek, actually.

The World Tonight is on but I am not listening.