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We don't all have our head buried inside our servers! There is a big wide world out there and sometimes even the most 'dyed in the wool' geek needs to mouth off about something other than M$ vs. Linux or pay vs. happiness!

Keep it up fellas...I can't handle computers 24/7 without a little 'variety'...after all, it is the spice of life!

I agree Guru, I enjoy my occupation and I like technology a great deal but I need some diversionary topics once in a while to remind me of the blood that flows through my veins.

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A beer lover myself, I get confused by Imports.
Imports could mean such rare to North America brews such as Boddingtons or Harps. Guinness WAS but now can be found everywhere.

If I go across the border for gas (not so much anymore due to distance now)I can buy Imported Molson Canadian for less than it sells in Canada?!

You can buy Imported Labatts here, Labatts is one block from my development office in New Westminster. I guess to get it to Vancouver Island they consider it importing, even though it's American beer brewed in Canada (in the same factory Budweiser and Coors [shudder]is brewed in).

Labatts also imports and bottles Scotch, Russian Vodka and Lambs Navy Rum [wino liquid].

So what is imported beer really? It's brewed and bottled locally, distributed across Canada and carries an imported from the USA label?

After reading my last post it reads as if Labatts is American, what I meant is that Labatts can be bought here with the Imported from the USA label, even though it is Canadian beer, brewed down the road from my AD office.

As you will probably realise, this particular Guru is pretty well travelled. There aren't many places I haven't been, and there are a few places I've been that I'd rather not go to again (Israel springs to mind)!

When I was ten years old, back in the late 70's, our family lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. The Old Man was working there for a year on a naval contract and there were about 20 British ex-pat families living in Rio. All the kids went to the British School, and at weekends we'd all head for the pool or the beach. The 'wrinklies' used to drink the local brew, which had the intriguing name 'Brama Chop' and for some reason this is one of the memories that has always stuck in my mind.

Near where I live, there is a company called The Beer Seller, who claim to be able to import ANY beer from ANYWHERE in the world. Now in my mid-30's, I decided to give them a challenge...could they find me a few cans of Brama Chop?

Well, paste my balls with maple syrup and stick them to an ant-hill, a week later, I got a call asking me to come in and collect them. Off I went, paid my money and drove home to imbibe some nostalgia.

I'm not kidding....this stuff was God-awful! It even made Budweiser taste drinkable and up to now that has to be the worst attempt at beer I've ever sampled.

No wonder that when the British Antartic Expedition called in to Rio for a few days on HMS Endurance, there was a run on the ship's bar when the ex-pat Brits were invited on-board! Worthington Party 7's never tasted so good!

Talk about a candy store ! I can't belive thay got you a case. You sure they're not just rebottling Coors (that tastes like shite too)?

I am off to the Isle of Wight soon and simply can't wait to suck back a few in the Spyglass. I think the pub crawl on the IOW is probably the best in the world, you can literally CRAWL from pub to pub with little effort (good thing for me).

I will undoubtedly be bringing a rather vast collection back with me, just to make the fridge look pretty.

Godards Fuggle-Dee-Dum, Ale of Wight and Duck's folly and Ventnor's Oyster Stout, maybe a little Holy Joe from the Undercliff. I can hardly wait, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer!

Burts Island Ales...brewed in Ventnor! Lovely drop!

Let me know when you're over...if I can find time and the wife lets me, I'll hop over on the ferry from Southampton and have a jar with you :-)