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22 Feb 12 - 06:52 AM (#3311768) Subject: BS: Unabashed keg bitter From: Nigel Parsons In my opinion there are many many beverages (particularly those with "Smooth" in their titles) Keg beer suffers from the infusion of too much gas, which does not make it a good drink when dancing at ceilidhs. |
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22 Feb 12 - 08:36 AM (#3311787) Subject: RE: BS: Unabashed keg bitter From: gnomad Why the last four words? Anytime, I'd have said. A very few kegs can, when equipment is meticulously maintained, be fair enough. The problem is that very few of those selling keg know good from bad, and even fewer will put in the effort. Most of those who will put in the work do so on real beer, unsurprising when you consider how much better their efforts may be rewarded. My ceilidh days are past now, but as I recall it too much of any drink tended to impair, but a modest consumption of decent (proper) beer aided enjoyment without taking too much from the performance. |
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22 Feb 12 - 09:00 AM (#3311790) Subject: RE: BS: Unabashed keg bitter From: Mr Happy Beats me why they add gas at all. Why not just have a barrel with a tap & spile? |
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23 Feb 12 - 03:24 AM (#3311987) Subject: RE: BS: Unabashed keg bitter From: Dave Hanson Because it's been sterilised, ie. flat so it needs gas to serve it and make it taste somewhat similar to beer. Dave H |
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23 Feb 12 - 05:33 AM (#3312022) Subject: RE: BS: Unabashed keg bitter From: GUEST,Eliza Keg 'bitter' also seems too sweet for me. I like bitter to be just that. The perfect ale would be NOT gassy, NOT ice cold and NOT too sweet. (Fussy old bat aren't I?) |
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23 Feb 12 - 03:38 PM (#3312282) Subject: RE: BS: Unabashed keg bitter From: Newport Boy You may be a fussy old bat, Eliza - but you're my sort of fussy old bat!! Phil |
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23 Feb 12 - 03:54 PM (#3312290) Subject: RE: BS: Unabashed keg bitter From: EBarnacle Cheap beer needs carbonation to hide the fact that it does not taste good. |
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23 Feb 12 - 06:12 PM (#3312351) Subject: RE: BS: Unabashed keg bitter From: Herga Kitty Some folks is teetotal, they drink Watneys neat.... anyone remember the party 7s that used to circulate from party to party but nobody wanted to drink them..? Kitty |
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23 Feb 12 - 06:43 PM (#3312370) Subject: RE: BS: Unabashed keg bitter From: GUEST,PeterC anyone remember the party 7 I have just spent 45 years trying to forget! |
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24 Feb 12 - 04:25 AM (#3312558) Subject: RE: BS: Unabashed keg bitter From: Nigel Parsons Party 7 (other brands were available) The beer was passable (I should know, I passed quite a bit of it) but the format was handy. • Easier to carry than 3½ flagons • The empty cans made great chimneys for makeshift ovens at Scout camp! |
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25 Feb 12 - 04:08 AM (#3313107) Subject: RE: BS: Unabashed keg bitter From: GUEST,Eliza We used to call it Grotneys. |
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25 Feb 12 - 05:54 AM (#3313139) Subject: RE: BS: Unabashed keg bitter From: GUEST,Captain Swing Recently I was in my local, a very good real ale pub. There were four different beers on sale ranging from 3.4% to 4.9%. A customer came to the bar and asked for a taster .............. of the smoothflow! Now call me a pompous old git if you like, but isn't that like going to MacDonalds and asking for your burger to be cooked medium to well? |
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25 Feb 12 - 05:55 AM (#3313140) Subject: RE: BS: Unabashed keg bitter From: GUEST,Captain Swing Then, despite having tasted it, he proceeded to buy two pints of it. |