To those who complain

I can get a beer with the Aussie contingent...

Then you guys can teach me all the cool Aussie terms so I can talk about the hispanics here in FL behind their back and they'll have no idea what I'm saying. ]:)

All we would have to do is unplug it so it could be warm for the POM's! It would save adding a second tap as well. :D

All we would do is add a second Water {eh Beer} cooler for us to drink from and then when the bottle is getting down plug back in the POM's one so they wouldn't drink it cold and there would be more for us. You know when the bottle is getting down as much as 1 inch from full. :p

Col ]:)

by Member 25348569 Jul 11, 2005

We don't drink "warm" beer. It's just that our beers are brewed to taste best at cellar temperature rather than the teeth-chattering sub-zero fashion that robs your stuff of ANY TASTE AT ALL!

Lagers, we drink cold. Just like you. But, as you said, better get a second cooler else we'd drink it ALL!

:p

If they got wind of this they would want it for themselves. :D

Incidentally I didn't see your comments about "The Friday Yuk!" Was it a little too close to home? :^O

Col ]:)

From the reports that we've been getting I would have thought you'd have been blowen away to the Land of OZ. :D

If you where comming up to the REAL AU I'd organize a 6 pack of Darwin Stubbies just for you and make sure you drank them all in one sitting. :^O

After all it's only a 6 pack. :p

Col ]:)

it would be much appreciated :)

If I could bring you some of my homebrew, I would. But, I don't know about Aussie law and what not. Only way I know I could get some there would be to recycle it for you through my bladder...and I Don't think you wanna try that...hahaha :D

I bottled it on Sunday morning (after 11 days fermenting). Seems to be pretty strong (I'd say...7-7.5%?) and I have 8 liters of it carbonating now in the bathtub of the guest bath.

As for beers...strongest I've ever had (that I knew the %abv) was "La Fin du Monde" made by Unibroue(sp?) out of Canada. Triple fermented, 9% abv. Ah...sweet nectar...6 pack of that...will get you seeing flying monkeys!!! :D

So, get the stubbies ready if I head over...if they're good, I'll drink them. If they taste like poo, I'll let your dog drink them!!! ]:) j/k

by oz_media Jul 11, 2005

For Colin, a 6-pack of US beer is something you drink in a restaurant while waiting for your drink to arrive.

I bought 12 pack of Heineken for $13.99 US COLD, with a $2.00 discount for having a Safeway (grocery store) Club savings card.

That same box of COLD beer in Canada's 'beer stores' is over $26.00 + GST + PST and deposit. APPROX. $30.00 all done.

A liquor store is a few bucks cheaper but it isn't cold.

That's one I will give to America, you can buy beer ANYWHERE, gas stations, corner stores, supermarkets I am surprised MacDonlds doesn't have an off-sales cooler.

Canada could learn something there, sell beer in Canada Safeway and give us our club card savings too! :D

Hey, it's FREE SLURPIE DAY IN CANADA TODAY!!!

7-11 is giving away free slurpies all day! Don't drink 'em anymore though, had brain freeze one too many times ( as most of you already know) :p.

Is 2 LT's and a 6 pack would be 12 LT's do you still ant to drink them all in a single sitting?
The last time the wife drank one she went to sleep in a pile of leaves in the back yard and we had a hell of a job moving her into the bed as she kept insisting that she was in bed and nice and confory. :D

Then the next afternoon when she woke up she was demanding to know who put all the bits of leaf in her hair. :)

Col ]:)

by gadgetgirl Jul 11, 2005

Seconded!

:p

Your idea of "Cellar Tempter" is only a few degrees F warmer than what we serve our beer at. ;)

What you have to remember is that your Summer is getting close to our winter and your winter is closer to the AU Antarctic Territory Summer where they keep Ice Cores in Freezers turned off to stop them freezing. :p

Right at the moment at the height of Winter where it's very cold we are only getting up in the High 10's to low 20's C here and in summer it is closer to 40 C at which most POM's would just melt away or be hospitalized for Heat Stroke. We have to serve the Beer cold here or it would boil off and we wouldn't get to drink any of it. :)

Col ]:)

by oz_media Jul 11, 2005

YOu mean spring, fall, and most of summmer here. :)

Actually a girl that was camping with me a couple of weeks ago was moving here from Norh Carolina, she found it cold, until she shaw how big our campfires get here, then started peeling off the sweaters.

Vancouver's mild though. you see 10C in winter, and 20C in summer. except for exceptionally cold or hot days, it's always around the same temp (and weather) really these days. Calandars are important, you wouldn't know the season otherwise.

Then again, back East BRRRRRRRRR and BRRRRRRRRRR.

Up North , it's either BRRRRRRRRRR or sweat 10lbs off each day.

But us west coasties have it pretty easy. Like the three bears, not too hot, not too cold, JUUUUUUUST right!

That's something I've learned about beers that I didn't know before.

Lagering is a process that includes cold-bottling of the beer to reach it's ready flavor, as opposed to Stouts and Porters which are room-temp carbonated then transferred to cooler temps to slow the activity of the yeast.

Anyways...yeah...Grolsch, Grants, Guinness, McEwans...all those taste good at "cellar" temp...i.e.- about 48-56F (that's what my book said).

If you could dig a cellar in FL (5-35 feet down, you hit sea level here), the cellar temp would only stay around 64F-70F. Too warm for a beer to be stored.

Heheheh...oh well...I will brew for effect first...taste later :)

by gadgetgirl Jul 11, 2005

You?

Store beer?

Come off it, how many people will believe that you actually want to store the stuff?? ;\

If it ever got to storage, which I very much doubt, how long were you intending keeping it for??

oh, hang on, I just got it - this is for when Dennis's friend comes looking for him, innit?

:^O

by jdclyde Jul 11, 2005

well, shoot dang, but I never seen anyone actually type that let alone say it.

That is like all the people that type BAH! in duscussions but would never actually say that in the "real" world? Or DO you say that?

Never know.

But I have to agree on the storing aspect. You NEVER store more beer than you will drink in a week! That is why God created 7 elevens. For slurpees and cold beer.

http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20050710.html

mixing/cooking (brewing) - takes about an hour to 3 hours, ideally...depending on your situation, temp of your tap water you add the wort to, etc.

Fermenting - takes (suggested by Mr. Beer) 7 days minimum...and as much as 4 weeks, dependent on beer type.

Carbonation - can take up to a month. Plus with some types of beers, the longer it ages the better the flavour matures (because of the yeast working slowly on the molecules in the brew).

So sometimes, it is bottle and not ready for about 2-3 months...sometimes 2 weeks...all depends on the type.

My stout should be ready by the end of the week (hopefully). I have 4 pairs of bottles, with varying mixes of primary sugars (to see which gives the best flavour with the recipe).

Hopefully...the beer is ready so that if Emily develops and I have to die, I'll have some muscle relaxant.

Maybe Ford Prefect will show up. :D

by dmambo Jul 11, 2005

when they call Brits (just Englishmen??) POM's. What the origin of that monniker? I would ask them, but I'll probably get a more civilized answer from you.

by jdclyde Jul 11, 2005

love my daily dilbert! Free if you only get one. I guess I could sign up for one under 20 different free accounts and have them all forward to main?

That we only shorten the words because we are all basically lazy! :D

Unlike the Yanks who change the spelling just to mess with out minds. :p

Oh by the way the grace period in the One Day Cricket is over if you didn't already realize. :^O

Col ]:)

by oz_media Jul 11, 2005

My friend still bug me for saying that one all the time. Seems every time I've had a few, the English accent seems to dominate my speech, usually after reeling off some MP for a while, and I get pretty common in my words. The other one I use a lot is 'dunnit' You smack em in the 'ead and say "'urt's dunnit?!"

My friends toddler still stares at me like a deer in headlight if I say "OI NIPPER!" or "Cor Blimey!" My dad was a bit of a cockney, gone south.

I think he's catching on though. LOL

Her eldest kids, 8-10 just think I did too much of that STUFF at all the rock concerts, because I'm always tripping them out.

Hey, in my defense, MY dad told me stinging nettles only sting in winter too! Why can't I pass on my wisdom at the suffering pain of children. :D

by cuteelf Jul 12, 2005

Where the URRRRPH and AAAAAAHhhhh come in?

Storing beer? Naaaaaah. (urp / belch)

Cute

by jdclyde Jul 12, 2005

I assume this is a greeting to a child?

NIPPER [i]2 a chiefly British : a boy employed as a helper (as of a carter or hawker) b : CHILD; especially : a small boy[/i]

But where does the "OI" come in? What is that the shorted bawstardized version of?

And Canadians go on about how AMERICANS don't know how to pronounce.......

And elf, any woman comfortable enough with herself that can belch around friends is a thing of beauty in dead! (as long as you don't get any on you!)

by jck Jul 12, 2005

I prefer "nipply" over "nipper"...hahaha ]:)

by Member 25348569 Jul 12, 2005

Oi! or Oy! Is a common, generic attention-getting cry.

In Cockney, "innit" is pronounce without the final 't' and the 't' is "swallowed" - a glottal stop.

Iss green, inni'. Tol' yew yew shuddnav etti'.

Trust me! we don't all talk like Prince Charles!

:p

by jck Jul 12, 2005

LTs? Litres?

That'd be a bit much...12 liters...

I dunno tho...what's the abv of a Darwin Stubbie?

I did have 14 pints of Guinness the first night I was in Ireland. I do have a well-conditioned liver. :D

by oz_media Jul 12, 2005

When I moved to Canada, people would joke about Brits, (pinky in the air) "would you like a spot of tea!" as if even resembling an English accent. The other one that kills me is when people speak in short choppy words thinking it mimicks a British accent, but just sounds stupid.

I had actually not even heard the 'POMPUS' British accent until coming out here. The accent ALL Brits supposedly have is actually the accent I think the LEAST Brits actually have. Stereoptypes brought on by a Canadian Red Rose Tea commercial.

A bunch of toffee nosed Brits sitting around for tea in Canada, one asks about the tea and is told it's Canada's Red Rose. To which he replies, "ONLY IN CANADA?....PITY!" :D

I grew up speaking propa Engrish like wot queen does n'all.

YEAH riiiiiight. I'm a typical bloody southerner who had a 'half' cockney dad.

by jdclyde Jul 12, 2005

The image I get is typically where the words are more drawn out, rather than choppy.

pip pip, cheerio! (I have always wondered what the he11 that was suppose to be! What is a "pip"?)

Then there is the Mary Popins thing......

by jck Jul 12, 2005

the accent outside of London is probably more realistically English than in London since there's so much intercultural mixing and what not in the urban areas.

And...well...hehe...I dig that accent over there...I just know I'm going to end up marrying some girl from the UK, Ireland or Australia.

I want the kids to call us "mum" and "pop"...hahahahahaha

and I'll eat crisps in a pub with my mates over a pint while enjoying the craic...hahahahaha

by oz_media Jul 12, 2005

Just move, mate! Wouldn't it be easier? British girls are great, you'd fall in love in minutes and then the litter of children would follow. Your other dreams of hanging out in pubs with crisps and pints, in most cases North American women frown on it. In Britain, it's how you meet teh cool women.
(Hope the British women don't hear me saying that :O )

by hal 9000 Jul 13, 2005

Up in Darwin they are big drinkers who would put even the Irish to shame. :)

But on the other side of the coin it's BLOODY HOT up in Darwin. :D

Col ]:)

yeah, I noticed that about Ireland too. And, every woman I've met from England was the lady.

In the states, the women mainly won't want you out at the pub having pints cause they're afraid you'll "pick up" someone.

In Ireland, almost everyone's girlfriend/wife went out to the pub and it was no big deal.

The "bar" in the states usually ends up being a drunken meat market.

The "pub" (at least in Ireland) was where people got together and hung out, BSed, had fun, joked around, watched sports, etc.

And yeah, I met a TON of women in Ireland at pubs. Most notably, one girl from Donegal who I'd have got to talk to more if her friend wasn't wasted and needing to be walked back to their hotel.

Note: I will be stopping in Donegal on my next trip to Ireland :)

Yup, I do say innit - but I pronounce both 't's!!

Never store more beer than you can drink in a week? Wel, so far, for the TS week the list looks...well....
1 x 3l box Stowells Tempranillo
1 x 3l box Chardonnay
22 x mixed half bottles, red, white and rose
10 cans Grolsch
20 stubbies Stella
8 cans Scrumpy Cider (oo-ar!)
24pack Fozzies.

Oh dear.

Looks a bit like I'm short then....

]:)

(yeah, ok, five foot and a very important half inch, ... I know....)

so, just what WAS that I wasn't supposed to hear?

:D

GG

is, with Irish and English women alike, that I would have to get used to some of the more gutteral accents...but, I did well within 3 days in Ireland keeping up with everyone.

So...beware...when I hit the ground in Dublin next year, I'll be on the lookout. ]:)

I saw not one drunk bum passed out in Dublin even in the bad parts of town...I think the Irish can't be put down in any manner.

BTW...according to a newscast I heard a few weeks ago...Ireland consumes the most beer of any country in the world...and they have only 3M people.

2nd was the USA...and we have almost 100 times the people.

Jesus...we gotta win that back...jdclyde...let's go start drinkin...I'll get my clubs out! :D

you made that sound a bit rough!

No, gutteral is good. Exercises the mouth, and tonsils. Elasticates the vocal membranes...

no good, can't keep this up, I just KNOW you know where this one was headed...

and no, not into the gutter this time....

RIGHT DOWN THE THROAT!!!

giggleiggleiggleiggleiggle

:^O :^O

beer of course, right? a good...Geordie girl like you would never...ever...would you? ;)

]:)

the motion of the ocean? ]:)

I've only ever been on a gambling cruise ship, so I don't know what a smaller ship is like.

Another band I knew guys in sang something about that too... "There's a First Time For Everything"... ;)

well...not *everything*...hahahahaha

every time you do something for the first time with someone new.

(Ok, I admit it, I'm the eternal optimist. Bottle is always half full, not half empty. Unless it's alcohol, of course, in that case I'm half way to the bar.....)

Or were you just trying to tell me that your virgin-like innocence was just a facade? ;)

In that case....

come over and see me some time ]:)

GG

HAHAHAHA!!! ]:)

I lost that...erm...long before I should have...

Nonetheless...if it is part of the price, I'll put on suspenders, my old thick-rimmed glasses, pants up to my chest, and put a pocket protector in and be a nerdy geek virgin swill...hahahahaha ;)

And...I won't say ever that I will do *everything*...cause God knows...no man will ever get permission or encouragement to touch parts of me, unless he is a medical doctor doing an exam... :D

Somethings just will not happen...QED

by hal 9000 Jul 13, 2005

What you need to do is break it down by areas. Then I think you'll find that Darwin has the highest consumption of Alcohol per head of population. :)

They don't mealy get drunk they get totally plastered just to try to forget the heat. One Darwin resident was flown down to Adelaide for Hospital treatment and after two weeks he demanded to be sent back because he had finally sobered up. :D

Their idea of a small party is just 1 X 50 Gallon Keg and those are imperial gallons not those little US Gallons. Usually only 3 people will show up for something so small. ;)

They only have at best a bout 100,000 and they drink more beer than the rest of AU put together and it's real beer not that 7% stuff which by law here is called "Light Beer." :^O

Col ]:)

honestly, you're safe. Hang on a mo'..

Yes, I'm definitely female! I can't see past my chest!!!

;\

hahahahahahahaha!

hrm...er...my man boobs get in the way sometimes...or I've had a big dinner...unless I tilt my head a little...or I have my natural hatrack out...hahaha ]:)