Re: Old Taverns

Janet Baraclough wrote:
The message <1142440431.751139.252730@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
from "Larry Caldwell" <larryc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> contains these words:


Farm1 wrote:


"Janet Baraclough" <janet.and.j...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> I fear you may have unwittingly taken part in some of the > unofficial
> experiments to find out if Americans can tell the difference between
> beer and a bottle of chilled piss :-)



You mean that flat, warm, brown pond scum you Poms call Beer?


Hell Fran, now you're in a deep hole...at least us Poms have more
taste than to name a baby after a lager can :-)))))) How is little
Four X?


I was just about to give up out of gallantry. There's no way I was
going to post what I was thinking.


That's okay Larry. Posting after thinking is preferable to the
alternative :-)

Then you chimed in to point out

that Brits wouldn't know beer if they were drowning in it. It's for
sure that Australians know their beer, it being the national drink and
all. You can buy a liter can of Fosters at about half the supermarkets
here on the West Coast.


:-) I rest my case. Fosters is lager not beer. It's
bottom-fermented, and we all know what comes out of bottoms.

Not only that, but the stuff they sell here under that name
is produced in Canada. A far cry from when a member of the
Australian consular corps travelled from Chicago to Austin
to lobby the TX legislature to permit the sale of those large
cans of Foster's.


For a real connoisseur's beer, try one of the Arran ales brewed here
and exported round the world.

Janet

There are a number of good beers and ales produced in the USA
but, as the current advertisement for one of the bland varieties
reminds us there is a distinction (comments in brackets are my
interpretation):
This is Budweiser [pointing to their product]
This is beer [pointing at a microbrew].



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