BS: What happens when beer runs out

Subject: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Apr 20 - 07:18 AM

Carbonation for US beer is running out due to plant closures.
Flat beer is the alternative f

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 20 Apr 20 - 07:28 AM

I'm afraid it's coming to it, as the writer Hilaire Belloc said, ' when you have lost the last of your Inns, drown your empty selves for you will have lost the best of England '

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Apr 20 - 07:44 AM

Are people revolting?
Time will tell
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2020/04/17/coronavirus-to-burst-another-bubble-carbonation-shortage-threatens-seltzer-

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 Apr 20 - 07:48 AM

No need to artificially carbonate beer. The real stuff does it all by itself :-)

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Apr 20 - 08:15 AM

The horse piss Joe six pack drinks here is not the real version. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ethanol-beer/beer-may-lose-its-fizz-as-co2-supplies-go-flat-during-pandemi

I can think of nothing more rebellious than a Fox news watcher without sports and fizzy beer.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: leeneia
Date: 21 Apr 20 - 12:37 AM

Give it a good shaking to aerate it, and it will taste all right.

I do that with bottled water, and it helps.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Apr 20 - 01:17 AM

A thread like this would not be appropriate without a link to: The Pub With No Beer

Or maybe we should Drink Old England Dry.

Aye, dry, aye dry, me boys, aye, dry

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 21 Apr 20 - 02:52 AM

Of even Glorious Ale :-)

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Murpholly
Date: 21 Apr 20 - 03:06 AM

Sam Smith's brewery trying to cheer the locals by delivering to the door by courtesy of their magnificent shire horses. Unfortunately you have to live within five miles of Tadcaster but I bet their sales go up as people will just want to see the magnificent beasts.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 21 Apr 20 - 03:40 AM

God will surely send more !!
Jim

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Apr 20 - 07:17 AM

Work and play
Live on hay
We all will get by
with beer from
clear skies

Ancient Egyptian Pyramid builders were paid in part by beer at the end of the day. Without a supply of beer, social unrest and revolts broke out.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 02:52 AM

Work and play, live on hay,

You'll get pie in the sky when you die.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Mr Red
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 05:54 AM

You could drink cider

Unfortunately the cider makers of Gloucestershire sell on farmers' markets and they are not classed as suppliers of food in the current hiatus. I would have thought nectar would qualify!

Meanwhile lend an ear to The day the Pub Burnt Down - Wapakiwi Town & Manuka Jones (NZ's finest liar) will anchor the song firmly in rural NZ, and should you wonder at what shikers were, they are drinkers who are probably (normally) drunkards.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Mr Red
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 05:59 AM

spelling - shikkers.
Oh! And Moreporks are NZ owls that go "morepork" instead of Toowit Towoo.

Though an Ozzie once told me there were Tasmanian owls the Oz called Mowporks.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 06:01 AM

Can't stand beer, a glass of Malbec for me please - all the way from Argentina!!!

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 06:28 AM

Malbec's a bit too rustic for me. I heard that the Tesco one was good, but that's what I found. A terrific value red is The Fire Tree Nero d'Avola from Aldi, £4.49. There are two Negroamaros that are really good, the Asda Wine Atlas one, six quid last time I looked, and a Morrison's one that's been on offer at £6.50. I'm a southern Italyophile.

I won't drink beer that's been gassed up, unless it's something like little bottles of Cruz Campo or Peroni on a very hot pre-barbie summer's evening. I was a member of the flavour panel for Doom Bar at Sharp's for several years. All beautiful, all cask-conditioned. There are some good bottle-conditioned brews too. Pour carefully then swig the yeasty bit straight from the bottle. Very good for you. Artificially-gassed beers are pasteurised. They may taste like something, but the flavour is drastically different from the real thing. Bottled Doom doesn't taste anything like the cask-conditioned beer, but it's brewed in just the same way.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 07:10 AM

I've never liked the taste of beer ever since I got drunk on the Isle of Wight in 1972 and was faced with a very choppy solent crossing and drive back to Hackney afterwards!

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Raedwulf
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 03:30 PM

Non-fizzy beer is the alternative, Don. Or, more properly, real beer that has been brewed properly, has flavour, and isn't successful merely because it's been pumped full of CO2 & marketing dollars, whilst not tasting of anything!

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 03:41 PM

My point is about what happens when a nation stops self medicating.

As for beer I've never liked it. In fact I dislike it.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Raggytash
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 04:14 PM

Chances are that in the USA you've never had the opportunity to try good beer.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: The Sandman
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 04:36 PM

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Bonzo3legs - PM
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 07:10 AM

I've never liked the taste of beer ever since I got drunk on the Isle of Wight in 1972 and was faced with a very choppy solent crossing and drive back to Hackney afterwards!"
Perhaps it was returning to Hackney that made you ill, you should have got a hackney carriage

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: EBarnacle
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 05:53 PM

Joe and Red, you beat me to it.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 06:39 PM

It's Croydon where he lives, Dick. I lived close to Hackney. I had friends In Hackney. I can tell you this: Croydon is no Hackney...

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 07:11 PM

The best brew I ever had was a beer from Denmark called Giraffe.
It was illegal in the USA.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 07:31 PM

Did the bottle have an exceptionally long neck?

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 08:26 PM

The Fire Tree Nero d'Avola from Aldi, £4.49.
Ah, the benefits of living in England.
As a bottle is 9.8 units there would be a minimum price in Scotland or Wales of £4.90

Of course the 'standard' answer to "What do you do when the beer runs out?" is "Run out after it!"

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 08:38 PM

It's out of stock online anyway, Nigel, and I live way beyond a justifiable driving distance to my nearest Aldi.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 09:18 PM

Giraff beer had the loong neck with foil that resembled giraff spots.
One was silly, two were face numbing and three were flat on the floor yelling "we are upstanding citizens". The reason we could get it under the counter in Boston was because of Whitey Bulger. They said the white residue at the bottom of the bottle was yeast but I'm not so sure.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Jim McLean
Date: 23 Apr 20 - 05:16 AM

There seems to be plenty beer at the moment, the publicans are scared it might go stale as the problem is there are no people/customers to drink it!

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: JHW
Date: 23 Apr 20 - 05:54 AM

Any Real Ale I fear will be off by now as the pubs aren't open (in the UK). Plenty of willing customers but we're not allowd to socialise in pubs or anywhere else.
If you pour undrinkable beer down the drain you need a licence from the Water Company (well we did at a small brewery) and the Excise Duty still needs to be paid unless the unsaleable beer is collected by the brewery. Doubt that will be happening. Maybe someone is devising concessions.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Bainbo
Date: 23 Apr 20 - 07:00 AM

When the beer runs out, I suppose it will be the bitter end.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 23 Apr 20 - 07:07 AM

Nothing will happen when the beer runs out AFAIC. For medical reasons, I haven’t drunk alcohol since 21/12/2005, and I don’t miss it (apart from the two or three large sherries I used to have whilst we were cooking Christmas Dinner).

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 25 Apr 20 - 05:33 AM

To be fair there's some wonderful US craft beers, so much so that pretty much every craft brewery in the UK does its own version of an American IPA (IPA stands for India Pale Ale - it was traditionally heavily hopped as a preservative for export, the US version takes it to the extreme).

Might be a shock to the system though if your usual tipple is Bud!

LFF

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 25 Apr 20 - 05:38 AM

Freddie - is Bud actually ‘beer’? My recollection of Bud is that it resembled watered-down weasel-pee.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 25 Apr 20 - 06:12 AM

We had a tasting of foreign beers once at Sharp's brewery when I was on the flavour panel there. We did find one or two that came out of America that tasted OK. It was a long time ago and I can't remember what they were. All other US beers, to me, taste like they come out of Americans.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 25 Apr 20 - 06:23 AM

Just posted this to the music section - the last song-sheet reported to be sold around the fairs and Markets in County Clare - some time in the 1950s
Jim Carroll

THE BAR WITH NO STOUT
Now we’ve heard quite a lot of the Pub with no Beer,
And some people claim it's the hit of the year,
But during the war I was rambling about,
And I called for a Pint in a Bar with no Stout.        

The bar owner sat on a chair by the fire,
I’ d swear if you touched him he’d scrape like a brier,         
When I said “Fill a Pint” then his rag he got out,         
Saying “Your order is tall in the Bar with no Stout".

A customer came in a donkey and car,
He tied up his ass and took in a big jar,
But the ass jumped and reared, from the door he pulled out,
Its no place for an ass near a Bar with no Stout        

A customer came in a donkey and car,
He tied up his ass and took in a big jar,
But the ass jumped and reared, from the door he pulled out,         
1t's no place for an ass near a Bar with no Stout.

The Garda on duty the first time in years,
Came back from his beat all shaken with fears,
The Sergeant said Pat, why you look knocked about,
He stammered and told him the Bar's got no Stout.

The Postman returned from his rounds on the street,
And when he had entered his time on the sheet,
The Postmaster seeing no froth round his mouth,
Guessed on the spot that the Bar had no Stout.

Now ’tis lonesome to part with the one you love dear,
Or to sit on a stool in a Pub with no Beer
But there’s nothing more lonesome without any doubt,
Than to call for a Pint in a Bar with no Stout.,

Copyright by Cuthbertson, Printer, Listowel.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 25 Apr 20 - 06:32 AM

There was a beer I used to drink back in my Houston TX days called, IIRC, Shiner Bock. It was actually quite palatable.

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 25 Apr 20 - 06:35 AM

Oh indeed, Backwoodsman; hence the contrast with a powerfully hopped IPA.

I think things have improved nowadays, Steve!

US IPAs

LFF

Subject: RE: BS: What happens when beer runs out
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 25 Apr 20 - 06:45 AM

Good to hear it! Next task is to stop Californian red wine tasting like jam...