As an American, I must voice my opinion and be heard!

Again your points are only valid when taking into account you are talking about piss water otherwise known as lager. I meant |REAL beer. As far as Im concerned I dont care if most of the world does class lager as beer. Or indeed only has this and considers it the only meaning of beer. To me it isnt :P

Get some bitter or a pint of smooth down you folks or better yet some real ale. That is real beer and the earliest form of it.

There's a place in my local market that sells Mountain Dew so I'm not too fussed about that

They sell Mug's root beer too which is taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasty. But I want to try A&W nao!

I always thought the technical term for lager was "light beer" and that ale was a catch-all classification for stouts, bitters, milds, etc. (i.e. dark/heavy beers), but I've met a lot of people with different ideas on that score. Wikipedia goes with pale lagers and ales as the two main classifications of beer.

You're looking for stouts rather than bitters/milds then - some bitters are opaque and very smooth/viscous/creamy like a stout (but brown in colour rather than the darker almost-black of a stout), but a lot are see-through and just look like a dark lager with less bubbles.

Beamish Stout is a fairly decent substitute for Guinness if you can't get the latter - very similar iron-heavy taste and viscosity. It was known as Beamish Black the last time I drank it (it is now simply called Beamish Stout, according to their website), which was in Dublin, where ironically most of the locals I spoke to recommended it and preferred it to Guinness. As I've only drank it in Ireland (Dublin and Cork) on draught, and have never seen it sold on draught or in cans anywhere else, I have no idea if it travels as poorly as Guinness, but in Ireland I found it was very hard to tell it apart from Guinness (a lot harder than the Pepsi Challenge ). (linky - not much use, as website is under construction).

Murphy's Irish Stout is a little sweeter than Guinness/Beamish, but it is also a nice heavy stout. When I lived in the UK I didn't find it too hard to get in cans and it was pretty good in cans - very close in quality to the draught. In Yorkshire quite a few pubs I went to had it on draught too, but the pubs I frequented when I lived in Buckinghamshire never had it, so it probably has limited regional availability (and consequently is probably not as Internationally-available as Guinness). I can buy it in cans from off-licences/supermarkets here in Guernsey though (and we're pretty much the back-of-beyond when it comes to buying specialised stuff), but nowhere here has it on draught. (linky)

My grandfather (r.i.p.) always used to talk about Mackeson's milk stout as being the best stout - something he had drank a lot in his youth. We thought it was no longer in production until, when I lived in Yorkshire, I found an off-licence that sold it and was able to buy it for him on a semi-regular basis. It came in very small half-size cans back then, and from what I recall it was less viscous than the aforementioned stouts, but it was sweeter too. Nowadays it appears that they are selling it in bottles instead and brew it in the US too (linky).

Those are the only stouts I have experience of, apart from our local brand, Randall's Guilty which I didn't like as much as Guinness, and wouldn't be available outside this island anyway (tbh I don't think they make it anymore). Personally if I'm drinking bitter its because I can't get stout (very few places have Guinness on draft where I live) - on those all-too-common occasions I go for an opaque bitter that forms a nice thick creamy head (like stout's do), which is when I tend to go for Theakston, Bass, Tetley, Boddingtons, etc.

Just be grateful you get root beer at all T_T

Depends which part of Manchester youre talking about Gohan, It may be a programme but Shameless hit the nail on the head for parts of my home city - "Scattoh!"

You can still buy peanut butter Lion bars in poland.

Eco.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow [The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."

Don�t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. - R.W. Emerson

Probably a stupid question but this thread stirred my curiosity and I had to check at the grocery store. The one I usually go to has an aisle dedicated to several other regions and countries. There's Mexican, Italian, Jewish/Kosher and... *drumroll* a British section. So I looked. And yeah, there's a Lyon Bar and Marmite and a bunch of other interesting looking things and now I have to know.

What the heck is that!?!?!

Only 'cause the frigg'n can is extra sized and they wanna emulate Paul Hogan! Sadly most folks (well kids in the US - I started drinking at 15) intro to beer is Buttwiper (easy to get like Milwaukee's Beast, Natty Ice, etc - my neighbor's dad worked at the brewery and had a full pallet of the stuff sitting around all the time) and you either get a taste for it or right around 21ish (when you can legally sample everything under the sun as is the proper rite of passage for a young male in the US) you move on to much better stuff.

How 'bout this one; Panama Cerveza, yeah straight from central america and enough damn yeast to bake a loaf of bread right out the bottle


Marmite is good stuff (I haven't been able to find vegemite), spread it sparringly on some buttered bread and give it a whirl. My brother doesn't care for it (he says it taste like gooey soy sauce) other than adding it to soups, chili, SOS, ect.

I wish there was a real international/gourmet market around my AO; there's a sizable asian and latin community around here and you can buy those items pretty easily, but mediterranean (easily my favorite - I'm gonna lump arab, jewish, turkish, ect food here - no offense inteneded to the repsective parties but I like food from just about every bit of land that touches the sea in the region) food is hard to come by as well as Indian. We also have a smattering of carribbean here. Italian is also well represented, however I suspect its not the best you could get.

Interesting, I must now research this!

Oh, and Poland you say, MrCaptainMan_NA?

This is most pleasing.

Most pleasing indeed.

Urgh.... I'd rather drink a pint of warm Bud Light!

You sick, sick man ...

Even I wont drink that.

...fixed that for you.

As to the greatness of American snack foods, may I cite the Cinnabon:



...and also that smuggling large amounts of Oreo cookies (for your Long Island raised brother) cross-border into Canada, en route to a cheap flight home, is not a wise idea. Canadian drug dogs like them. A lot. There was snapping of rubber gloves before the source of their joy was discovered.

The best thing to do with warm beer is mix it with 3 cups self-rising flour and a third cup of sugar, then bake at 375 for about 45 minutes.

Mmmmmmm... beer bread...

Are you sure there's enough... substance... in Bud Light to make beer bread?

I prefer San Francisco sourdough.

Don�t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. - R.W. Emerson

Any beer'll work, I just don't choose to use one that has... flavor...? Is that the word I want? Nah, I don't like beer anyway. I just use whatever's on clearance.