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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / General => Topic started by: PMC on May 29, 2004, 08:03:18 PM
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Here's an appropriate one for a holiday weekend.
Am just in from the gym and am sitting down to catch up on emails and enjoy a damn good beer :-)
I's a bottle of "Spitfire" courtesy of Shepherd Neame (advertising slogan: No Fokker comes close).
What's all your favourite poisons? Any reccomendations out there?
:pint:
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Mmmm, having pleasant thoughts about drinking Guinness now. Better let my dinner go down a bit :-)
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"Rolling Rock"
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I was never particularly romantic about beer. I just drank whatever was available.
And then I didn't. :-)
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Hoya!
My favourite poison is tea.
I do not like alcohol...
Be funky
M A D
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Admittedly a while back I had to go without many foods and drinks. I missed tea more than alcohol. As the shoe is now on the other foot, I'd miss alcohol more than tea :-)
And anyway, Guinness is more healthy than most teas :-)
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Yes, but tea isn't sold in 0,5 litre servings per person normally ;-).
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mikeymike wrote:
And anyway, Guinness is more healthy than most teas :-)
except green tea.
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except green tea.
Is that when you've left PG Tips for too long in the sun? :-P
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My favourite poison is tea.
Coffee here
:-)
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that_punk_guy wrote:
I was never particularly romantic about beer.
I am romantic about beer. Not the 'binge-drinking' way of romance, but more alike 'tea-drinking' way of romance.
Coffee is different. I need coffee so about 10 o'clock in the morning (not earlier)
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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
I am romantic about beer.
So am I. I've been a member of CAMRA (CAMpaign for Real Ale) in my time and have tried many different ales / beers etc. There's nothing nicer than a light, hoppy ale on a Summer evening - something like Hopback's Summer Lightning is just what the odctor ordered.
I've tried a few continental beers too, I love stuff like Hoegaarden and other types of white beer.
I think it's time for another bottle of Spitfire....
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PMC wrote:
There's nothing nicer than a light, hoppy ale on a Summer evening
Can't forget those evenings, with a slight red teint on the face, in the smooth fading red sun...
(I need a good vacation..)
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Mikeymike wrote:
And anyway, Guinness is more healthy than most teas
Not a chance in hell.
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KennyR wrote:
Mikeymike wrote:
And anyway, Guinness is more healthy than most teas
Not a chance in hell.
There's a bet you'd lose.
Caffeine increases blood pressure, as well as stimulating the digestive system (usually when people are looking to 'come down' rather than up). A nice way to encourage digestive ulcers.
Guinness was actually given out in hospitals to long-stay patients as it gave many of the minerals necessary to line the digestive tract without the harmful effects of the average lager.
Just as a by-the-way nugget of info, I've been advised to drink Guinness to provide for certain parts of my diet :-)
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Tea's full of antioxidants. Yes, it does have caffeine, but it's rich in flavinoids and things that improve digestion and reduce the risk of cancer.
Instead of caffeine, beer has quinine and alcohol. Quinine is from the same family of alkaloids as caffeine and has more or less the same effect on the nervous system, albeit a little weaker. Alcohol is bad all round - it depresses the nervous system, it attacks the liver, it coagulates proteins, its poisonous to tissue, it disrupts brain chemistry...it's bad. It's only good effect would be like toughening up the body by poisoning it a little every time.
And if you ever saw what some breweries used to do when making beer, you'd be appalled. In the 70s they used to collect whatever was on the pub floor and put it back into the beer kegs - vomit, cigarette ash, you name it. This was given back to the brewer, filtered, and added to the beer slurry - apparently for texture and flavour. I'm pretty sure that, due to European laws, they don't do that any more. However Guinness still does have a secret formula and a famously thick texture...
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@ KennyR
Just admit it that you are not strong enough to take the full bodied flavour that is Guiness :lol: :lol: :lol:
Damned fine stuff, not least the fact that I cannot get drunk on the stuff, simply because it fills me up long before I get that far :-)
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Heineken, Becks, James Boag just to name a few, I'm also quite partial to Miller Genuine Draft, but thats my summer line up. During winter I hit the Black Douglas, Johnny Walker Black, Jack Daniels and Cougar. Cheers :pint:
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Any reccomendations out there?
Tui of course!
If anyone knows where you can get this stuff in the UK I'd buy them a crate of it!
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Hoya!
Sounds Finnish... :-)
Be funky
M A D
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smithy wrote:
Tui of course!
If anyone knows where you can get this stuff in the UK I'd buy them a crate of it!
http://www.beersofeurope.co.uk/acatalog/Beers_of_Europe_New_Zealand_10.html#aNZT101
(You can buy me an Irn-Bru sometime, ha ha!)
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