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NorthernGent -> RE: Houston (10/12/2015 2:33:07 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: BitaTruble quote: ORIGINAL: NorthernGent I'll settle for inconspicuous if it means I can go about my business short of a hat. I'm a Texan and I promise you, sun stroke is a real thing. Hats or caps are just wise in the blistering heat. Oh, the other thing.. if you can't stand blistering heat.. just wait a minute. The weather doesn't hold much truck with boundaries and it's sure to change if you give it a minute. Hate the thing. As far as I can tell the sun is a nuisance and has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Give me rain and clouds any day of the week. I'll stay indoors admire the walls or something.

NorthernGent -> RE: Houston (10/12/2015 2:35:15 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: angelikaJ In my opinion, many beers are served ice cold because the cold hides the various issues mass produced beers often have. America does have some fine micro craft beers. The United States certainly does and they're well received over here. As said, there are beer festivals going on all over the show and these days Americans are invited over to showcase their brews. Wouldn't happen were the US beer producing industry not respected.

MercTech -> RE: Houston (10/12/2015 8:37:03 PM)
Warm beer... in limited travels to the British Isles and Germany; I didn't find the beer warm. The beer was just served at cellar temperature of 50-55 degrees Fahrenheit. That is a bit warmer than the U.S. standard of 32-34 degrees Fahrenheit. A German engineer I often work with is convinced that American beer is served so bloody cold so you don't notice how bad it tastes. When it comes to mass produced beer; he may be right. If having a beer in Texas' you will find the ubiquitous Lone Star Beer. But, for my money, Pete's Wicked Ale from San Antonio is world class. As long as they haven't been bought out by a large conglomerate Pet's Wicked should still be a good brew. (Lamenting what happened to Sam Adams, Tuborg, and Loewenbrau - made under license to the big beer conglomerates.) If you are ever in my home state, Mississippi, try some of Magnolia Brewery's "Pecan Lager". The use of pecan hulls along with hops for a bittering agent makes for an interesting different taste.

NorthernGent -> RE: Houston (10/13/2015 12:41:59 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: MercTech Warm beer... in limited travels to the British Isles and Germany; I didn't find the beer warm. The beer was just served at cellar temperature of 50-55 degrees Fahrenheit. That is a bit warmer than the U.S. standard of 32-34 degrees Fahrenheit. A German engineer I often work with is convinced that American beer is served so bloody cold so you don't notice how bad it tastes. When it comes to mass produced beer; he may be right. If having a beer in Texas' you will find the ubiquitous Lone Star Beer. But, for my money, Pete's Wicked Ale from San Antonio is world class. As long as they haven't been bought out by a large conglomerate Pet's Wicked should still be a good brew. (Lamenting what happened to Sam Adams, Tuborg, and Loewenbrau - made under license to the big beer conglomerates.) If you are ever in my home state, Mississippi, try some of Magnolia Brewery's "Pecan Lager". The use of pecan hulls along with hops for a bittering agent makes for an interesting different taste. I have been in Mississippi and I always make a point of drinking the local beer, good or bad. I did have a Pecan something but can't remember what exactly. If it's a lager in terms of what we think as lager, then it's not really for me for the reasons stated in earlier posts. Americans use term 'craft beer' widely and it's pretty much a catch all and so does include some 'beers', such as lager, which to us simply isn't beer. At the moment, there's a real divide in English brewing: the traditionalists who believe beer should be brewed in casks, which is what we terms 'Real Ale' and those moving towards brewing beer in kegs. But, there are plenty of English brewers being inspired by the American beer industry at the moment, craft beers I should say; just as Americans were inspired by English beer and English festivals back in the 1970s. Personally, I prefer English ale to anything on offer elsewhere, but that's just my taste. Either way, American beer isn't the joke it once was; and I did read somewhere that the United States does have a long beer producing history (of decent beer) which was lost sometime when mass produced lager flooded the market. So, the current upturn perhaps a return to old ways rather than a departure.

Spiritedsub2 -> RE: Houston (10/13/2015 12:52:09 PM)
Such a guy thread. Starts out with the topic of a work move to another country, ends up being all about beer. At least it isn't all about blow jobs [:D]

LadyPact -> RE: Houston (10/13/2015 12:58:59 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spiritedsub2 At least it isn't all about blow jobs [:D] Sound the official Ron call.

Spiritedsub2 -> RE: Houston (10/13/2015 1:06:05 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: LadyPact quote: ORIGINAL: Spiritedsub2 At least it isn't all about blow jobs [:D] Sound the official Ron call. He must be asleep.

LadyPact -> RE: Houston (10/13/2015 1:07:22 PM)
He'll feel the disturbance in The Force in no time.

NorthernGent -> RE: Houston (10/13/2015 1:07:59 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spiritedsub2 Such a guy thread. Starts out with the topic of a work move to another country, ends up being all about beer. At least it isn't all about blow jobs [:D] Blow jobs are ten a penny, but a good beer is one of life's pleasures! Not sure how it is over your way but where I come from, and generally in the working class areas of England, the old conundrum of beer, women and football always results in women being a poor third in that particular race; while beer and football is a closer run thing. Personally, I've always been football then beer then women, others would go beer then football then women. Either way, a blow job's nowt to write home about!

Spiritedsub2 -> RE: Houston (10/13/2015 1:24:44 PM)
Women are third place in that line up? I take back everything I said. Go to Houston. Walk barefoot in the desert! [sm=jaw.gif] And by football I assume you mean rugby [:@]

NorthernGent -> RE: Houston (10/13/2015 2:14:13 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spiritedsub2 Women are third place in that line up? I take back everything I said. Go to Houston. Walk barefoot in the desert! [sm=jaw.gif] And by football I assume you mean rugby [:@] 'Fraid so, Spirited. I grew up on a council estate which is something like our version of your trailer park, and no one where I come from is going to be overly impressed with a woman batting her eyelids like she's the last one you're ever gonna see. And, football here is very much about community, family and mates. It's a working class sport where your dad takes you when you're very young, in my case I first went to a Sunderland match when I was 3, your dad takes you until you're about 14 and then you go to the match with the your mates. By the time you're 16 you're travelling all round the country to watch your team with your mates. So, football isn't just about the sport, not by a long chalk, it's about the times you had with your dad and your mates and the pride you have in your local area; as, after all, the football team is an extension of your local town/city. In contrast, women simply do not have that longevity in your life and so she has to be pretty good and been around for a long time to earn that place in your heart that the local football club has for a lot of working class Englishmen. I always set my stall out when I meet a woman: I'm a loyal person so you can pretty much count on me not to mess around with other women, but you won't see me Saturday as that's the day I go to the football - if that's not for you then no bother. And, rugby is very much a middle class sport here. You'd be surprised by the strength of feeling between the classes: English rugby fans love to see the England football team lose to any other national team; English football fans, mostly working class, tale absolutely no notice of the English rugby team and think they're an absolute joke not worthy of any attention.

LadyPact -> RE: Houston (10/13/2015 2:51:50 PM)
Sorry, NG. I think you are probably going to be disappointed in most of the domestic beer here. That could just be me. I don't drink the stuff often and the times that I do, most decent beer/ale drinkers tend to call my version something like lightly yellow tinged, flat tasting type of one step above **. Once arriving, if you get to know folks, they will tell you where the good pubs are at with the decent beer. I can't speak for Houston but in some parts of the country, our football inspires a lot of the same things that your type does. You'll be in Texas**. They take football pretty seriously around there and even the High School games will give you the same kind of feel that you are used to. Much of it is very much like the extension of the town/city, especially if you are talking about local (High School/College) games. It's softer compared to yours but it can still be fun.

mnottertail -> RE: Houston (10/13/2015 2:54:00 PM)
And Anheuser is trying to buy Miller which would take us into 70% market. There is no joy in beersville.

PeonForHer -> RE: Houston (10/13/2015 2:56:26 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: NorthernGent quote: ORIGINAL: Spiritedsub2 Women are third place in that line up? I take back everything I said. Go to Houston. Walk barefoot in the desert! [sm=jaw.gif] And by football I assume you mean rugby [:@] 'Fraid so, Spirited. I grew up on a council estate which is something like our version of your trailer park, and no one where I come from is going to be overly impressed with a woman batting her eyelids like she's the last one you're ever gonna see. And, football here is very much about community, family and mates. It's a working class sport where your dad takes you when you're very young, in my case I first went to a Sunderland match when I was 3, your dad takes you until you're about 14 and then you go to the match with the your mates. By the time you're 16 you're travelling all round the country to watch your team with your mates. So, football isn't just about the sport, not by a long chalk, it's about the times you had with your dad and your mates and the pride you have in your local area; as, after all, the football team is an extension of your local town/city. In contrast, women simply do not have that longevity in your life and so she has to be pretty good and been around for a long time to earn that place in your heart that the local football club has for a lot of working class Englishmen. I always set my stall out when I meet a woman: I'm a loyal person so you can pretty much count on me not to mess around with other women, but you won't see me Saturday as that's the day I go to the football - if that's not for you then no bother. And, rugby is very much a middle class sport here. You'd be surprised by the strength of feeling between the classes: English rugby fans love to see the England football team lose to any other national team; English football fans, mostly working class, tale absolutely no notice of the English rugby team and think they're an absolute joke not worthy of any attention. Did you play that boy who had a kestrel as a pet in that film 'Kes'?

NorthernGent -> RE: Houston (10/16/2015 12:39:58 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: LadyPact Sorry, NG. I think you are probably going to be disappointed in most of the domestic beer here. That could just be me. I don't drink the stuff often and the times that I do, most decent beer/ale drinkers tend to call my version something like lightly yellow tinged, flat tasting type of one step above **. Once arriving, if you get to know folks, they will tell you where the good pubs are at with the decent beer. I can't speak for Houston but in some parts of the country, our football inspires a lot of the same things that your type does. You'll be in Texas**. They take football pretty seriously around there and even the High School games will give you the same kind of feel that you are used to. Much of it is very much like the extension of the town/city, especially if you are talking about local (High School/College) games. It's softer compared to yours but it can still be fun. 30 years back it may have been the case. These days the United States beer producing industry has a very healthy reputation. True, there remains a boat-load of mass produced stuff, but not the only country by a long chalk. Believe it or not, some English producers have taken lessons from the Americans in recent years - as the current United States industry is seen as innovative. True to form, traditional English brewers aren't happy with this state of affairs to the point that 'craft beers', which is an American forte, were not invited to the Great British Beer Festival. Some think these craft beers aren't 'real ale'; others think Americans are moving beer production in the right direction. Depends upon point of view. I like light ale so I don't mind the craft beers, but still think the beer is better in this country.

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