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[Lamp]

I've got 14 pieces of streaky bacon cooking away



Ren & Stimpy is superb. I love the fragments of classical music in the background

 

[Madmaxx]

 

[Lamp]

 

[ileks]

I'll have the crispy one on the left please Lamp

 

[Lamp]

They all though I was crazy when I told them about baking bacon in the oven...

*peers through boarded up windows. 1000 yard stare*
*swigs on the whisky bottle*

.... But with those things out there...

*pats shotgun *

 

[caLLous]

Sigh. Like.

 

[Bodhi]

I have just discovered Brewdog is available in Tesco. If you have not sampled their ale do so. Now.

 

[old.user4556]

I have just discovered Brewdog is available in Tesco. If you have not sampled their ale do so. Now.

Have done for a while. Tried Brewdog Tokyo? Man that's good.

 

[Lamp]

2nd pic

 

[CorNokZ]

Those Pellegrino pops are godly @Lamp! The lemon one is best though

 

[Ch3tan]

I have just discovered Brewdog is available in Tesco. If you have not sampled their ale do so. Now.

Been in Tesco for years now

 

[Scouse]

I have just discovered Brewdog is available in Tesco. If you have not sampled their ale do so. Now.

Actually, I disagree.

/rantmode ON

Not with the taste of their "ale" - some of it tastes very good (some of it is fucking awful). However, brewdog is a brand, not a beer. And thats where my problems with them start.

They're also a "craft brewer". Craft brewer - is an american marketing term. Microbrewery is a legal definition in America which means there's a legal maximum output from the brewery to stop quality suffering. Brewdog (and many of the other american ales) cannot be sold under that definition - they're high-volume producers and can sell up to 6 million barrels of beer a year.

To put 6 million barrels of beer into perspective - Wells, who brew Bombardier (amongst many others), produce somewhere near 500,000 barrels a year - and nobody would call Wells a "craft" brewer.

Brewdog is just the "carlingization" of real ale. Big corporate dicks who care about sales first, quality of their product second. And it's already showing as they whine about not being allowed into many beer festivals in Britain because some of their beers do not fit the definition of real ale - i.e. they're not actual real ale - just a nice tasting drink.

Brewdog's response? "Who gives a fuck"?

Microbrowers give a fuck. That's who. People who spend their lives caring for a very exact product type and then selling it in festivals and pubs across Blighty. If you want to brew actual Real Ale then you'll be allowed in. Otherwise CTFOADOA. Go sell your product in some other festival - there's fucking loads of them - but not in Real Ale festivals, because that's not what your product is.

/rant off

There. Said it.

 

[CorNokZ]

Actually, I disagree.

/rantmode ON

WELL COLOUR ME SURPRISED!

 

[old.Tohtori]

They all though I was crazy when I told them about baking bacon in the oven...

No other way really, less mess, less fuss, the manly way

Though you don't need two trays, just put them really close to another. You can fit around 16 on a regular tray.

 

[TdC]

but I like brewdog punk IPA #hipsterscum

 

[Raven]

If you like its taste then drink it.

All this bollocks about microbrewerys being threatened... its bigger now than it has been in years, thanks to the commercialisation of "craft beer" No they won't get into many beer festivals, certainly not CAMRA ones but then neither will wine.

I can't/don't drink a massive amount of beer any more as it doesn't agree with me but I don't mind the odd brewdog now and again or any other bottle conditioned beer. I also have the odd pint of ale in the pub, depending what they have on as a guest, well looked after, cellar cooled and delivered via a gravity pump.

Mostly a wine snob these days though!

 

[Vae]

Actually, I disagree.

/rantmode ON

Not with the taste of their "ale" - some of it tastes very good (some of it is fucking awful). However, brewdog is a brand, not a beer. And thats where my problems with them start.

They're also a "craft brewer". Craft brewer - is an american marketing term. Microbrewery is a legal definition in America which means there's a legal maximum output from the brewery to stop quality suffering. Brewdog (and many of the other american ales) cannot be sold under that definition - they're high-volume producers and can sell up to 6 million barrels of beer a year.

To put 6 million barrels of beer into perspective - Wells, who brew Bombardier (amongst many others), produce somewhere near 500,000 barrels a year - and nobody would call Wells a "craft" brewer.

Brewdog is just the "carlingization" of real ale. Big corporate dicks who care about sales first, quality of their product second. And it's already showing as they whine about not being allowed into many beer festivals in Britain because some of their beers do not fit the definition of real ale - i.e. they're not actual real ale - just a nice tasting drink.

Brewdog's response? "Who gives a fuck"?

Microbrowers give a fuck. That's who. People who spend their lives caring for a very exact product type and then selling it in festivals and pubs across Blighty. If you want to brew actual Real Ale then you'll be allowed in. Otherwise CTFOADOA. Go sell your product in some other festival - there's fucking loads of them - but not in Real Ale festivals, because that's not what your product is.

/rant off

There. Said it.

Scouse - Where do you get these figures from because they are quite surprising to me. Based on what I see in the shops/pubs I can't believe that brewdog produce more beer than Wells. After all they only have 19 bars!

The latest information I could find about Brewdog's productions volume was that their old brewery could handle 25,000 hl (15275 barrels) a year and that their new brewery (opened in 2013) is scalable to 250,000 hl (152750 barrels).
http://www.brewersguardian.com/index.php/brewing-features/breweries/1539.html

The best info I can find about Wells is that in 2010 their brewery capacity was 500,000 barrels (as you mention) but they have since taken over Youngs as well as bought some Courage brands.

 

[Billargh]

Even better with the music

 

[DaGaffer]

As a cyclist the thing that bugs me the most is when cycling in town pedestrians judge wether they can step out based on the size of the vehicle, lorries and buses get full respect, cars and they edge out, pushbikes, they simply step out right in front of you and then look in disgust as you slam on and miss them by an inch, it's a strange part of the human psyche, 'it's only a bike'..actually it's a man doing 15 mph who weighs 13 stone.

Usually they step out because the light is red and they (incorrectly) assume the cyclist is actually going to stop. The "lack of respect" usually comes after the cyclist swerves around them and sails over the crossing with much effin and jeffin.

This one made me laugh the other morning. I'm getting my morning coffee when Mr. cyclist comes riding down the pedestrianised street I'm stood on; big "no vehicles except delivery vehicles" signs at either end of the street. Young Garda stops him; "you can't ride your bike down here, pedestrians only". Mr. Cyclist, very well-spoken, goes absolutely bananas. "How dare you tell me where I can go, I can ride where I like" etc. etc. Young Gard stares him down, tells him to turn around and go around, very politely but firmly. Yet more ranting from Mr. Cyclist. Then Mr. Tubby rocks up and starts berating the Mr. Cyclist "Yeah, its delivery vehicles only, you lot nearly kill me every day roidin down here" etc. Young Garda turns to Mr. Tubby and says "Tanks for yer help Sir, now could ye feck off please?", Mr. Cyclist starts grinning "...and you can feck off an all, yer not roidin dewn here". I don't like the Gards very much but it was nice to see some plain talking. Two seconds after I took the photograph another bike came flying down the street from the opposite direction...

 

[DaGaffer]

they're not actual real ale - just a nice tasting drink.

So its a nice beer then? So why do I give a fuck whether the people who make it have straw in their beards and body odour?

 

[Bodhi]

Actually, I disagree.

/rantmode ON

Not with the taste of their "ale" - some of it tastes very good (some of it is fucking awful). However, brewdog is a brand, not a beer. And thats where my problems with them start.

They're also a "craft brewer". Craft brewer - is an american marketing term. Microbrewery is a legal definition in America which means there's a legal maximum output from the brewery to stop quality suffering. Brewdog (and many of the other american ales) cannot be sold under that definition - they're high-volume producers and can sell up to 6 million barrels of beer a year.

To put 6 million barrels of beer into perspective - Wells, who brew Bombardier (amongst many others), produce somewhere near 500,000 barrels a year - and nobody would call Wells a "craft" brewer.

Brewdog is just the "carlingization" of real ale. Big corporate dicks who care about sales first, quality of their product second. And it's already showing as they whine about not being allowed into many beer festivals in Britain because some of their beers do not fit the definition of real ale - i.e. they're not actual real ale - just a nice tasting drink.

Brewdog's response? "Who gives a fuck"?

Microbrowers give a fuck. That's who. People who spend their lives caring for a very exact product type and then selling it in festivals and pubs across Blighty. If you want to brew actual Real Ale then you'll be allowed in. Otherwise CTFOADOA. Go sell your product in some other festival - there's fucking loads of them - but not in Real Ale festivals, because that's not what your product is.

/rant off

There. Said it.

That's nice. However my response is the same as Brewdogs - who gives a fuck? The beer is good, much better than the other shite you can get in Birmingham City Centre. It's also produced in Scotland, so where your assertion that they're an American beer comes from I have no idea. Their beer does taste quite similar to the output of the craft brewers in the US (having visited a few of them) - i.e much nicer than the "real ale" pish we serve over here.

And no, I wouldn't call Wells a craft brewer. I'd call them a brewer of soap flavoured dishwater, frankly. Bombadier is fucking nasty stuff - I'd rather drink Carling.

 

[Bodhi]

Been in Tesco for years now

Come to think of it I'm pretty sure I've seen Punk IPA in there before - never seen 5am Saint though. They just need to sort out some Jackhammer and Fake Lager and I'll never need to go to Birmingham even again.

Well, apart from work that is. Bugger.

 

[old.Tohtori]

If you like its taste then drink it.

This. On anything. Beer, bacon, women, friends, movies, candy.

Unless you don't like jelly babies, then i don't want to know you or your family of jelly baby hating weirdos.

 

[Raven]

Also, cycling!

They are installing cycle stations around the area I work in to accompany the excellent cycle routes. Kind of like Boris bikes in London.

Still sucks though according to @Tom who has probably never been here but can make a judgement by looking at a 2 year old photo of a random roundabout on the estate.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Well i had my own biker "problem" coming back from the store; finland has, in most places, seperate lanes for bikes and walkies.This biker came swooshing towards me on the walkies lane and rang his bell for me to move out of the way. I did not move, naturally, so he swerved to his rightful lane and i could hear some cursing going on as he went along his merry way.

For a moment i was;

Hit me

 

[ileks]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrcg-QwYtCs

 

[Lethul]

Cyclist can really be arses, everyone has to follow their rules but they are more than happy to jump a redlight or drive on restricted areas.
And I hate them when driving my car aswell, why do some HAVE to ride in the middle of the road slowing traffic when there is a bicycle lane 2 meters to the left of them? Cnuts

Edit: And with the risk of stepping on toes (considering threads on this forum), people with more expensive bikes/bicycle tights/etc seem to have a MUCH higher retard-ratio compared to casual bikers.

 

[ileks]

Edit: And with the risk of stepping on toes (considering threads on this forum), people with more expensive bikes/bicycle tights/etc seem to have a MUCH higher retard-ratio compared to casual bikers.

I find the opposite tbh. It's the divs on hipster (sorry, dunno what else to call them, retro or whatever) bikes that seem to cause all the problems for me.

 

[Lethul]

I find the opposite tbh. It's the divs on hipster (sorry, dunno what else to call them, retro or whatever) bikes that seem to cause all the problems for me.

I don't see them much here in Gothenburg if I'm totally honest so can't compare them to the "middle-aged racers" (expression evolved from boy racer)

 

[Job]

Just watched a decent rip of ways to die in the desert..a bit meh and he was totally just Brian all the way through..in fact he started using Brians voice in parts and the ultra crude jokes were out of place with the run of the comedy.