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    Originally posted by leitmotiv:
    I'd like to drink a beer called "Thunderbolt."
    Your wish has been granted. Warbird Beer
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    South Africa has 'Castle Lager'. Maybe being an ex-English colony has something to do with that.
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    If you call the lukewarm reddish colored low carbonized, low alcoholic liquid you drink in the pubs of England beer, I suggest you go to Bavaria or Bohemia and taste what the rest of the world call beer. The ingreadiences are the same but the outcome differs.

    Perhaps you also call Sake wine and roibos tea.
    Cheers.
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    Stella isn't beer - not even ale; It's a chemical stain remover
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    Originally posted by zugfuhrer:
    If you call the lukewarm reddish colored low carbonized, low alcoholic liquid you drink in the pubs of England beer, I suggest you go to Bavaria or Bohemia and taste what the rest of the world call beer. The ingreadiences are the same but the outcome differs.

    Perhaps you also call Sake wine and roibos tea.
    Cheers.
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    Originally posted by Hoatee:
    South Africa has 'Castle Lager'. Maybe being an ex-English colony has something to do with that.
    I think it was named after the Cape Town Castle, which has been there since 1666. This beer used to be OK until early 1990's until SA Breweries (SAB) did something to it. They claim not to, but I'd suddenly get a 'hang-over' head-ache after 3 beers ??, where's with other beers this was unheard of. It definitely had 'chemicals' added to accelerate fermentation to increase production.

    The naming of products like this is genreally all part of taking advantage to the indoctrination process (plus re-enforcing it), which says that you're a winner if you buy/drink this.
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    Different cultural background I guess

    LA BIERE DU CORSAIRE VOL.ALC: 9,4%


    LA GUILLOTINE VOL. ALC: 9,3%


    and of course.... best beer of the World :

    DELIRIUM TREMENS VOL.ALC:8,5%


    Altough most of the time they seem to associate beer with nice fat peaceful Trappist brother, busy all day brewing and sipping beer.

    Got a bottle of Spitfire here, but honestly it's nothing special apart from the name, Bishop's finger is lightyears ahead and almost compares to this stuff above. Anyway, I've gotto wait for the Adlertag anniversary to give some flavour of taking that bottle down.
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    Spitfire's not so great, I tend to avoid it which isn't hard. Very coarse and 'teaish.' Bombardier's a nice tipple though for a big brewery ale. You'd probably like a go on Old Peculiar Kurf, it's very rich and complex, like a porter, even if it's another big brewery pint.
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  10. #20
    Originally posted by BBB462cid:
    Well I sure as shooting call Scotch a whiskey- because it is

    And we all know that "beer" is a generic term for this stuff...be it an ale, stout, lambic, bitter, mild, porter, lager, weiss, pale ale, etc

    If sake is a substance made in the manner of wine, then it is a (gasp!) wine, no matter how sophisticated it may seem, if it is made by the same process that is used making wine, then guess what?
    You is WRONG.

    "Scotch" is WHISKY.

    Only proper Irish Whiskey is allowed to call itself whiskey all the rest is BOGUS hooch aspiring to be WHISKEY.


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey
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