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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen

Oh MissT! I thought you of all people would know the difference between beers?
I do.

I dont drink much of it this days (cant take the volume or the alcohol!) but occasionally a real ale at 6% is wonderful!
Quite possibly.

You can brew a decent beer at 3.5% (Banks's is very good and a real ale), but the stronger ones dont lose flavour by way of alcohol, it adds to the mix and makes it worth a quaff or two.
I beg to differ here. Most serious beer drinkers i know would disagree with you on this.

Mind you, the 10% type beers we have here are awful. Theyre brewed to cater for the alcoholics market, and they taste of nothing in particular but get you pissed (drunk) very quickly.
Hmm as far as im aware the strongest beer we sell over here is 8%.

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ORIGINAL: Rumtiger

History of malt liqour

http://home.earthlink.net/~ggghostie/maltliquor.html

look towards the bottom however:

"In order to solve the "malt liquor problem," the Center for Science in the Public Interest has called for legislation that will restrict the alcoholic content of all malt beverages to 5% by volume. Should such legislation ever pass, beer styles such as barleywines, winter warmers, strong lagers, old ales, bock beers, imperial stouts and India Pale Ales would be banned and unavailable. This would affect every brewpub, every microbrewery, most importers, and millions of beer drinkers in the United States who would no longer be able to find the beers they enjoy. The legislation would create a windfall for the major brewers and take us back in time to 1972, when all that was available to beer drinkers was light American lager and a few light imports. And that is why you, as a beer drinker, should be paying attention to the debate over malt liquor."

No...
NO....
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen

Thanks MissT - saves me a trip LOL! Tes, its Carlsberg Special Brew, not super as I thought. But then, I wouldnt buy it anyway!

But there is one that is 12% I'm sure; tastes like treacle and is totally disgusting. We used to swig a can of that before going out in the good ole days when I could drink - saved a fortune at the pub, 'cause we were pissed before we got there LOL!

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ORIGINAL: missturbation

Rum, Before i state an opinion on this discussion im curious why it would be such a big deal for you not to be able to purchase malt liquor over 5%?

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ORIGINAL: Rumtiger

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ORIGINAL: missturbation

Rum, Before i state an opinion on this discussion im curious why it would be such a big deal for you not to be able to purchase malt liquor over 5%?

I know we look different ways on many many many things and we constantly get on each other's asses whenever we cross paths....but jesus christ, I woulda thought beer was the one thing we could have been civil about.
I was being civil hun. Trying to find out why you object before i jump in and say what i think helps avoid us biting each others asses.

Simple answer, most 5% beer quite simply, sucks. It isent about alcaholic content, its about taste.
Ok, well the higher the alcohol the less the beer tastes of beer and the more it begins to taste of alcohol, more paint stripper like. If you enjoy the taste of that then well good on ya but to me its rather like the curry comparison i made, the hotter it is the less you get the best taste.



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What you don't witness with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. Proverb.

If it fit's in a toaster, i can cook it.

Buying 10 item's or less is not shopping !!

(in reply to Rumtiger)