dont worry neely you sound nothing like an amateur scottish drunk - perhaps a little like a southern nancy boy though
dont worry neely you sound nothing like an amateur scottish drunk - perhaps a little like a southern nancy boy though
There once was a scotsman named Drew
Who put too much wine in his stew
He felt a bit drunk
And fell off his bunk
And landed smack into his shoe ~(C) Ms Niamh Anne King
Ha, I was just about to say I am not a southern boy, I am from Yorkshire, but then again I suppose everyone is a southerner for a Scot? Anyway, I am not a nancy boy, I am as hard as nails. However, let's not derail this beautiful thread with Nationalistic bickering.
Belgian Beer Festival:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEerv...eature=related
Be there or be square.
PBR in the picture? tis a blue moon month here (two fulls in 30-31 days). However, my favorite pub has removed Blue Moon from the tapped kegs list and replaced it with another supposed Belgian. Is the only Belgian beer I can get here a poser?
Come again? Has your pub got rid of a Belgain beer is that what you mean?Originally Posted by gbrekken
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How to serve the perfect Trappist beer (taken from the westmalle website):
So now you know...1. It is best to keep the beer in a dark place at a constant temperature from 8° to 14° Celsius. Leave the bottle to rest for at least a week before serving. The yeast will then sink to the bottom and you will get a nice clear beer in your glass.
2. Serve the Trappist beer in a Westmalle goblet. This does full justice to the complex character of the beer and you can fully enjoy the rich head. Ensure that the glass is free of grease, so that the foam does not immediately disappear.
3. Hold the glass at an angle in the glass and begin pouring slowly along the side. Continue pouring in one movement and hold the glass vertically at the end in order to end in the middle. You thus get a perfect head. Leave around one centimetre of beer in the bottle. That is the yeast base. It is rich in vitamin B and has a blood cleansing effect. It is best to drink this remaining part separately.
To your health!
I just tried Guinness for the first time. I thought that it really tasted like soy sauce. There was also some hard little thing in the can. Probably a baby tooth, that's my guess.
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Oh, Guinness is a fine dandy old Irish drink, really you need more than one to make comparisons.
It is strange to think that somebody has tried their first Guinness as I take all that stuff for granted, as many do I suppose over here. I certainly remember my first Guinness, I was 10 and in Ireland on a fishing holiday, it was like creamy Irish heaven. I drank three of them and sang to myself in the mirror. Good days, good memories...
Last edited by LitNetIsGreat; 12-07-2009 at 10:07 AM.
the thing in the can is called a widget. If you are trying your first guinness, getting it from a can is not a great idea. you need to get it poured for you in a bar... preferably an irish one that knows how to pour a proper pint. And try it with a drop of blackcurrent first to help ease the taste. Personally i think its manky.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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I'm quite shocked to here someone of Irish origin attack the nature of Guinness in such a harsh and bitter manner. I do agree though that you need to experience it from a tap and not from a can. Guinness is not something that you can have one drink of and either like/dislike, it is one of those drinks that you have to let grow.
Personally, I'm having a little rest from the beer myself, instead I'm drinking the drink of the wise: water; for a little while at least...
you obviously dont know many Irish people then
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
Oh, I know enough.you obviously dont know many Irish people then
Over the last couple of weeks I have been returning to an old fling - Leffe Blonde! Leffe Blonde has to be one of the most widely available Belgian beers on the market today. It is found in just about every supermarket and many pubs, both real ale pubs and ordinary ones alike, worldwide, so there is little excuse for not making this beer part of your daily life. Technically, it is classed as an Abbey beer, which is a beer brewed under the guidance of monks, but not by the monks themselves. Just how much influence those monk experts have over this beer in real terms though, is perhaps questionable and its mass production no doubt lessens the quality of the finished product. However, despite of it having a large commercial base it is still a satisfying and delicately tangy little drink, which just needs to be consumed on a fairly regular basis. I like to think of it in terms being like a reliable table wine, it is nothing outstanding but perfectly drinkable and inexpensive into the bargain.
Certainly my re-acquaintance with it has to do with it being so easily available and perhaps as a psychological rebellion against my once so beloved Devonshire Cat, who have recently hiked the prices up all round - taking many top quality Belgian beers above the four pound mark per 330ml bottle! Of course I will return and pay these prices anyway in small doses, but I will certainly be writing frantic letters to my MP over such a sudden increase in the basic standards of living - how can one be expected to live a noble and decent life without quality Trappist brews?
For anyone unfamiliar with Leffe (as unthinkable as that may surely be) I’ll include a little video clip of my old butler pouring me a Leffe (he was sacked on the spot for tasting the brew - he now breaks up rocks somewhere cold):
http://www.leffe.com/en-gb/de_bierproeverij.html#video1
Naturally, one must drink this one in the correct glass. It goes without saying really, though anyone doing the unthinkable (drinking from the bottle) should be given life with absolutely no chance of parole. Oh to bring back stoning...
Leffe Blonde, eh? I think I tried a couple of these during my brief tour several months ago of the available Belgian beers in my area. I remember not having much fondness for it. But I think I drank it straight from the bottle. (A friend and I brought four of these brews along with some cheap cigars [i.e. the cheapest we could find] with us to a small lake to do a little fishin' for trout. We portaged the canoe, paddles, beer, cigars and bait to the lake ("forgetting" the life vests in the car: that's the official story, anyway). . . . but I digress.
These bottles, they have some gold-colored tin-foil around the top, right?
Anyway, upon reflection, the setting was probably not the suited well for my work with Leffe Blonde. There was the drinking straight from the bottle, the foul cigars we were smoking, and Slim Jims we were eating. . . . all very bad -- the latter two no doubt thoroughly contaminated our palates.
Time to make amends, I say. After my daughter's swim lessons, we will make a stop on the way home to pick up a bottle to drink properly. Yes! Amends must be made! Yes!
Last edited by The Comedian; 02-02-2010 at 04:39 PM.
“Oh crap”
-- Hellboy
Yes time to make amends before you get sent off breaking rocks! Though, I must admit I have not drank the beer in a fishing trip on a canoe, that sounds pretty cool and I'll excuse you for not adhering to the correct etiquette on this occasion...
Yes it is the beer with the golden wrapper around it. Like I said though, think of it as a decent enough table wine and not a grand narrative. Enjoy all the same and do share thoughts, see if you like this one this time.
Neely, I feel I must interject here in praise of Leffe. It may not have the super strength and taste of other Belgian lagers, but it is immeasurably better that the fizzy cats piss that passes for beer as produced by the multi national trash merchants posing as brewers. Of course, in the way of all things in this multicultural world, it will be ironed out into a 'global' brand where profit rather than competition beating quality will ensure its downgrading to the Eurofizz that is usually on offer. Enjoy it while you can.
Yes it is the beer with the golden wrapper around it. Like I said though, think of it as a decent enough table wine and not a grand narrative. Enjoy all the same and do share thoughts, see if you like this one this time.
Oh, yes Brian I certainly don't want to offend Leffe, it is a very good drink really and my comparision to table wine was not meant as an insult to its delights - really I have been drinking it almost constantly for the last two weeks, and I would hardly do so with something inferior!
You are right though, the way of the world and its dictates suggest that it will become another Hoegaarden - sold to the masses (or Scottish horse riders) in order to make a quick buck, as they say.
However, if you compare it to the likes of the outstanding Chimay, Westmalle, Rochefort, La Trappe or even other blondes such as Delirium Tremens it is a table wine, in comparison to these greats.
As for the cat piss, I leave that for those further north to "enjoy".
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