Be Excellent To Each Other

Flutes, snifters, schooners, teku. Yeah.

Isn't this similar to what you were saying about not being 'precious' about food, though, and to forget doing it 'right'? Food snobbery and objective taste differences through being educated as to what is 'proper' in a beverage shouldn't get in the way of just enjoying what you enjoy. There's one way to encourage people to try new things, but telling each other that the drinks they enjoy or the way they enjoy them is 'wrong' and that your way is better is the same as making someone feel ashamed of their favourite foods because of food and drink snobbery.

That's not just at you, Craster (only because I remember talking to you about macaroni cheese at the cottage), but the 'right' and 'wrong' way to select and take your drinks shouldn't matter as long as you enjoy them.

I've not said keg is better than cask, but that it is better for certain types of beer. You have dismissed this. That is because you're a Gnomeser, Craster.

#StopGnomesing2014

errrr?

Still stand by that, as a simplistic generalisation. It's obviously a bit more complicated than that.

I guess my gripe is that it is a massive over simplification; however, I agree completely that the keg process allows a lot more flavour to be included. I personally love late hopped beers (some really nice New Zealand ones if you see them), but I am not a big fan of beers which are too gassy. The "mouth feel" (yeah, I went there) isn't right for me, the advantage of a lot of these is they can be degassed, but sadly some of them lose their flavour as they aren't robust enough.

You should come to the GBBF next year.

Does anyone else have problems posting with Chrome on Android? Generally navigating the forum is fine but Chrome seems to sometimes get totally confused when typing a post up. It'll freak out and move the cursor so you're suddenly adding characters in the middle of a previous sentence or just flat out stop showing new characters being added to the text box even though the keyboard is still giving the relevant autocorrect suggestions and whatnot. I get it on my phone using Swype and on my tablet using the vanilla Google keyboard so Chrome seems to be the only common factor. My last post before this one went so to shit that I had to swap over to Firefox just to finish it.

Will do. If you come to the London Craft Beer Festival.

oh, ow my arm. (didn't even know it existed!)

Yeah, it's that thing that hangs off your shoulder.

yeah, I can see how that might be taken that way!

I used to get that (not just here, but with other forums that used plain textboxes for input) but I always assumed it was Swype. Hmm.

To be fair I haven't used an alternative browser often enough to properly the blame at Chrome's door so it could be something to do with Android in general; I've no idea.

Ah, I suspect you're missing the bit where I'm arguing with Myp and dissing his latest hipster hobby because Myp rather than any actually held opinion

One for Mimi. Sort-of nsfw

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I wouldn't have it any other way.

Haha!!

I squinted as the link opened, nervous of what IT might be. In the Venn Diagram of 'Pictures for Mimi' and 'Pictures NSFW' the centre section is pretty small.

Darn tootin'

Anyways, so I meet my friend at 4pm at Fanny's and we have a beer and then we wanted some food so we went up the road the the Tram Shed but they weren't serving food at half four on a Saturday WHICH MAKES NO SENSE. So we went to the chipshop and then on to the Ring o Bells where Robert Baratheon has been seen. We had a couple in there and then went back to Fanny's and I had a few more pints of Saltaire Brewery's Cascade Pale Ale (all the while decrying the over hopping and over use of cascade hops nowadays). Then, a man with a double bass, a man with a banjo and a man with a guitar and harmonica started playing songs and singing and it was most awesome. So wes tayed and had more beer. Then I had a kebab. And then we went home or something and I played PS4. it was super.

Patty&Bun at the weekend, that was really fucking good. Better than MeatMarket.

Holy fucking shit do I feel awful. A relatively quiet Saturday went off the rails completely due to randomly meeting up with a mate I rarely see and we then went on to get utterly, shockingly fucking hammered. I hadn't even eaten anything that day apart from a pretzel for breakfast so it was all done on an empty stomach. I lay in bed literally all day yesterday and couldn't face food so that's pretty much two days without eating, my flat is a horrible tip and I still feel like frozen shit right now. It's going to be loooooooong day and teetotalism is looking like a really lovely idea about now.

What do they have that compares to Monkeyfingers?

Hint: The answer is NOTHING COMPARES TO MONKEY FINGERS.

Winger winger chicken dinner

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Just had an email saying that if I have pre-ordered a new release single on iTunes, its now available for download. Which is all fine and dandy, but I haven't preordered it (this email is from the fansite, not iTunes) and so surely they'd rather that if I had preordered, I'd have forgotten I'd done so and go and preorder it from elsewhere for a double sale?

Also, why the hell would I preorder a single that has been on Spotify for 4 weeks already? (It was an email from the same source that initially alerted me to this)

I like Taylor Swift's new album.

I'm just going to leave this here and back away quietly...

I haven't listened yet.

You must have seen her do Shake it off on the X-Factor result's show, right? Right? Right?

You're confusing me with the sort of cretin who would watch the X Factor.

Yeah, me neither. I heard about it through a friend or summarts.

Yeah, me too.

I can't believe Myp missed that rogue apostrophe.

I assumed it must have been a typo rather than a grammar usage decision, because it just beggars belief.

I'll tell you what beggars belief, those hot pants she was wearing.

I don't appreciate your sexist comments. I thought we were discussing music.

Miss Swift is a fine looking lady.

All I know about X-Factor comes from Gogglebox.

The concept of Gogglebox depresses me so much. I've caught bits of it a couple of times, and the first time they were talking about a special show that was meant to interest dogs. I was sitting on a sofa watching TV on which some people were sitting on a sofa watching TV on which there were some dogs WATCHING TV.

Me too. The fact that so many people lap up this bollocks is misery-inducing.

What is it? Other than Grim...'s description. Is it a comedy show?

It's people watching TV.

Is that it? Really? Wow, that depresses me.

Literally that. They put cameras in people's houses and you watch them watch the week's TV.

It used to be really funny, when it was fly-on-the-wall stuff. Now it is part scripted and they are their own brand of celebrity now, and know it. Plus they throw in "worthy" stuff for them to react to.
At the start it was normal people, watching shit TV and taking the piss out of the people on it.

Goggle box is ace, fools

Wow, I have never heard of it before; is it on ITV?

Channel 4