I drank

[Pogue]

An ale called Old Empire. Was this wrong of me?

[Wanted Man]

http://www.marstonsdontcompromise.com/beer/empire.asp

Naw. :lol:

[Pogue]

dyu like it too? i found it really nice actually. i cant bare lager too so

[Wanted Man]

I don't know it, I just sarcastically said "no", because of the imagery on the website. :p

I don't drink English ale often, because there's only one liquor store that sells a decent selection of it, it's a bit more expensive than Dutch and Belgian beer, and it's in the city. Recently, I did buy another ale with a questionable name there, Landlord. It was damn good though.

[Pogue]

I don't know it, I just sarcastically said "no", because of the imagery on the website. :p

I don't drink English ale often, because there's only one liquor store that sells a decent selection of it, it's a bit more expensive than Dutch and Belgian beer, and it's in the city. Recently, I did buy another ale with a questionable name there, Landlord. It was damn good though.

lol

well i didnt actually buy it, it was given to me. most ales over here are drunk by tory types cos lager is proletarian

although carling is really nationalistic

i actually wasn't gonna dirnk it but then i thought its just a name, you know? plus it was free

i wouldnt buy it though

[Wanted Man]

Well, if it's good...

And is it really true, what you say about ale and lager in England? I know lager is being drunk much more everywhere in Europe, because the aggressive marketing used by the big brewers, who just want to sell as much of their mass-produced piss as possible. But I thought that this was much less the case in England. Wrong, I guess.

Although, a British comrade once claimed that the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is basically infiltrated by the Communist Party of Britain. :laugh:

[Pogue]

Ale is popular with older people and in more traditional pubs, but lager is certainly the most popular generally I'd say. Its disgusting, in my opinion.

[Wanted Man]

No doubt, Heineken and the like are utter piss. But you can always wake me up for a good Czech lager. Some German ones are good as well, though not as good as the Germans would like to think. ;)

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

If it comes in a can or a bottle pour it down your throat.

[Angry Young Man]

errr... Vinegar comes in a bottle, catfood comes in a can.

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

Indeed.

[Pogue]

lmao

[Angry Young Man]

On a related topic, in Withnail & i, they filled a bottle of lighter petrol that Richard E Grant was to drink from with vinegar and told him that it was water so that he really did hurl. Jesus I hope they don't pull that one on me when I play Withnail next year.

WHAT'S IN YOUR TOOLBOX? You've got anti-freeze!

[An archist]

What's the difference between ale and lager?
Edit: on the topic of beers with questionable names: Bush is great beer.

[Angry Young Man]

Bitter's smoother and thicker, and lager tastes like alcoholic sweat for the most part.

[bellyscratch]

I was drinking ale that tasted like bath water, but it was the only alcohol on sale :(

[Wanted Man]

What's the difference between ale and lager?
It usually depends on the fermentation used. Ale is usually made of top-fermenting yeast, lager of bottom-fermenting yeast. See: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovengisting and: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondergisting

This is not always the case, but that's a different matter.

The distinction ale/lager is mostly used in English. In Belgium, you have beer like Stella, Jupiler, Maes, etc. which are bottom-fermented, and are called "pils" or, in English, "lager". And beer like Duvel, Westmalle, etc. which are top-fermented. In English, people call them "Belgian ale", but I don't think terms like that are used in Belgium (or the Netherlands) itself, so it's kind of an anglocentric way of looking at beer.

English ales include bitter, mild, brown ale, ESB, IPA, etc. It is properly conditioned in and served from the cask, without the use of nitrogen (like in the dispensers from kegs in beer from other countries), but by handpump. People here usually have the prejudice that English ale is crap because it's served warm and with little foam. :lol: But that's a load of horseshit. More on real ale: http://www.camra.org.uk/page.aspx?o=180657

That should give a bit of an idea. Some more on beer styles, by the late Michael Jackson (the other one): http://www.beerhunter.com/beerstyles.html