"A wedding, in London? That means the day after it can be the Ticket to Ride World Championships. In Greenwich! In a pub!"

"A wedding, in London? That means the day after it can be the Ticket to Ride World Championships. In Greenwich! In a pub!"

26th Jan, people. Organise.

It's all right. The beer is a bit tasteless, fizzy CO2 beer rather than ale.

Real ale is fucking horrible. The entire time I'm drinking it the only thing going through my head is, "Man, this would be genuinely tasty if only it was colder and fizzier."

I've done my usual and put the last £10 I won on it, back on 5 lines. I expect i'll win another tenner and do the same the next time it gets up to ludicrous levels!

I did my usual last Friday, and put on two lines through their website - one lucky dip, the other numbers selected manually.

You don't get to see your lucky dip numbers until you've actually put the ticket on.

6 of the 7 lucky dip numbers were the same as the numbers I selected manually.

You should climb out of your hipster ass and try some beer that doesn't have a pretentious label.

The term ‘Real Ale’ and its definition no longer mean anything. CAMRA have lost sight of the beer industry and continue to impose 1970’s arbitrary distinctions which no longer apply. According to this part on their website http://www.camra.org.uk/page.aspx?o=180630 keg beer is:

· Chilled, filtered (to remove all yeast) and pasteurized thus ‘killing off’ the product

· Has the natural CO2 removed then is force carbonated

· Served cold to disguise lack of taste

However, with BrewDog, Thornbridge and Lovibonds kegs to name just a few, this simply is not the case. It is also completely untrue for the US craft brewing industry where craft keg is leading the revolution.

Production of craft beer has moved so much since the 1970s. Our beers are fermented under pressure so the CO2 in the final beer occurs naturally from the initial fermentation. The beer is then filtered very lightly (to around 6 Microns which leaves yeast in the beer) and we then package (without any pasteurization) before shipping.

Does this make it real ale? Probably, but who really knows anymore. And who actually cares? The fact is that beer no longer must be either bottle/cask conditioned or filtered & pasteurized. A new way has emerged with the craft brewing wave that transcends these out-dated conventions.

keg beer is:

· filtered (to remove all yeast)

Anyone who brews wheat beer would like a word about this.

Oh, there is no doubting CMARA are up their own asses, but to say that beers like Citra, Hophead and many many others are lacking in flavour is just silly.

Citra won best beer at the GBBF, run by CAMRA. It is non-gassy and rather nice. You dismissed it because it is non-gassy; not by the size of the brewery.

Citra won best beer at the GBBF, run by CAMRA. It is non-gassy and rather nice. You dismissed it because it is non-gassy; not by the size of the brewery.

But Myp said CAMRA hate it and it is a fizzy CO2 beer!

Citra won best beer at the GBBF, run by CAMRA.

I am generalising, obviously. There is still some excellent stuff being made in casks. Just the real ale business as a whole (with ginormobreweries such as Greene King) is pretty stagnant and boring these days.

Bobby: we should go to Buxton brewery at some point for a tasting session - would be fun!

I just don't think hitting the breweries is the way to go against it.

Time it when I am visiting the in laws please

Beer can be real ale without any kind of quality control of the flavour, that is the main problem.

Beer can of course also be craft beer without any kind of quality control of the flavour.

It can in the US too. Unless you're seriously telling me it has to pass a 'how does it taste' commitee before it can have a 'craft' label stamped on it.

Craft only refers to how it's made, not if it's any good.

An American craft brewer is:

Small
Annual production of 6 million barrels of beer or less (approximately 3 percent of U.S. annual sales). Beer production is attributed to the rules of alternating proprietorships.

Independent
Less than 25 percent of the craft brewery is owned or controlled (or equivalent economic interest) by a beverage alcohol industry member that is not itself a craft brewer.

Traditional
A brewer that has a majority of its total beverage alcohol volume in beers whose flavor derives from traditional or innovative brewing ingredients and their fermentation. Flavored malt beverages (FMBs) are not considered beers.

Beer can of course also be craft beer without any kind of quality control of the flavour.

The main problem I have with many beers at present is they are over hopped to fuck. This is a pain of a trend. Also, cask beer is better than kegged beer. And lager has been perfected so much people cannot tell the difference between them.

You shouldn't actually have to change anything per se to connect here, but if the router's gone back to it's original settings then it'll have reverted to the default network name and password. As zaphod79 has said you should have that info either separately or, very often these days, stuck to the bottom of the router itself. The password you need should be called WPA Key or something similar.

If you're not seeing that default network name available to connect to then it would imply the router has lost even the default ISP settings. If that's the case just phone them up and tell them that because it's not worth buggering about with it when their own settings have been lost from it.

You don't like beer at all!

Taste is subjective though. You don't like beer at all!



By definition any beer that is made this way will taste 'better' than Coors Light or Greene King IPA. CAMRA say as long as it's cask conditioned it can be defined as real ale. This means Greene King (sorry to pick on them, but they are the worst) can mass produce their flagship IPA on a quick turnaround, with scant regard to quality, as long as it's made in a cask.

Taste is subjective though. You don't like beer at all!

You're in here pretty much saying it isn't though. And I do, I like a number of ales. Just don't understand why anyone on earth would want ales to be fizzy.

Or cold. Or with a head.

I was reading through the Glasgow based burger review blog 'James Vs Burger ' and came across this from a time when the reviewer was in Vegas and now my taste buds won't let go of the idea. I love peanut butter and something about having it in a burger sounds fucking amazing.

Eugh. If you put something fizzy down in front of me it had better be made from an unexpected blend of lemons and vodka.

Fixed that for you.