My beautiful Weber!
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Its only a barbi
I have just seen a "Weber", it a BBQ, thought it was a side arm, or summit like than.
Local Spinneys, has a special display.
Now I can sleep happy.
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Local Spinneys, has a special display.
Now I can sleep happy.
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One is confuzzled.
First trip to SA, met at bottom of airstairs @ Smuts by on Maj John Orr, ( RIP) Mirage mate, who proffered two tinnies ( AP days), one Castle, one Lion. I accepted the Castle. "Good " he said "t'other stuff is for feckin Browns, Recce Pukes and Gay Boys".
One noted that Castle seemed to be the tinny of choice in SWA's Ops Area too.
One supposes that since the "enlightenment" and Mandela's Y-Fronts etc, that there are better brews available?
First trip to SA, met at bottom of airstairs @ Smuts by on Maj John Orr, ( RIP) Mirage mate, who proffered two tinnies ( AP days), one Castle, one Lion. I accepted the Castle. "Good " he said "t'other stuff is for feckin Browns, Recce Pukes and Gay Boys".
One noted that Castle seemed to be the tinny of choice in SWA's Ops Area too.
One supposes that since the "enlightenment" and Mandela's Y-Fronts etc, that there are better brews available?
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Real men use LOX: YouTube - How to light a grill in 2 seconds
And, while admitting chemistry was not my strong suit in school, isn't LOX pretty close to (at least after the transition) a gas?
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One supposes that since the "enlightenment" and Mandela's Y-Fronts etc, that there are better brews available?
Lion no longer being made either. It was reintroduced for about six months using a "new, improved recipe" but the response wasn't good. Plenty of good brews around from smaller breweries now. SAB can't compete with their quality so they spend gazillions on advertising instead.
Drop by Gilroy Natural Beers - Brewery, Restaurant, Bar, Beer Garden, if you're in town. Owned by a good mate. Great beer and having it served by his nubile daughters just makes it that much better.
WORT HOG BREWERS BEER BREWING CLUB - SOUTH AFRICA - BEER NATURALLY ! (HOMEPAGE) also worth a look. They have an annual tasting fest for members which usually ends up with everyone well oiled and wearing lampshades as hats by 2am. Braai relevance is that pig, ox and lamb on the spit are part of the festivities.
Windhoek and Tafel also reasonable brews if you can get the original stuff from Namibia, particularly the Tafel from Swakopmund (although it is filtered and pasteurised which detracts from the quality).
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SRT,
You could always keep up with modern management trends and outsource. We'd be quite happy to export all of our Fosters and VB - every last can - and then have VB sponsor your cricket team instead of ours.
If Castle is that bad, then there's a certain logicality to the proposal. We'd get rid of rubbish beers; you'd get beers that are less rubbish than your 'national brew;' you'd have a sponsor (Vomit Beer) that's more aligned to the quality of your team
; and, finally, you'd have beers that approximate to the quality of food produced by methods other than that delivered by the sacred (non-GAS) orb.
Surely this is a win-win for everybody!
You could always keep up with modern management trends and outsource. We'd be quite happy to export all of our Fosters and VB - every last can - and then have VB sponsor your cricket team instead of ours.
If Castle is that bad, then there's a certain logicality to the proposal. We'd get rid of rubbish beers; you'd get beers that are less rubbish than your 'national brew;' you'd have a sponsor (Vomit Beer) that's more aligned to the quality of your team
; and, finally, you'd have beers that approximate to the quality of food produced by methods other than that delivered by the sacred (non-GAS) orb.Surely this is a win-win for everybody!
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Not much to choose between Castle, Fosters and VB. Bit of a Hobson's Choice there. Perhaps CAMRA could mobilise their military wing to have a go at the factories that produce the stuff.
VB is dumbing down to cope with charcoal-burning demand: and it's all BEagle's fault 
Melbourne Herald Sun
Melbourne Herald Sun
AUSTRALIA'S favourite beer is about to become lighter.
The alcohol content of Victoria Bitter will be cut by 0.2 percentage points to 4.6 per cent next month.
The price will stay the same, but the reduced alcohol content could save brewer Foster's tens of millions of dollars a year in beer tax.
VB spokesman Paul Donaldson said it was the only way the brewery could avoid raising the price.
"This is all about making VB better value so that when every other beer goes up in price this August, VB won't be," he said.
"The drought has started to really impact brewing. We've had ingredient costs go up 20 per cent.
"I think we buy 30 million kilograms of barley a year from Australian farmers so this is one way that we can keep the costs under control and keep the beer good value."
The change will come into effect on August 1 and applies to all full-strength VB products including stubbies, cans, long necks and on tap.
Punters were not fussed by the change.
Ben Ilett, 24, of Newport, said even a price rise wouldn't stop VB drinkers from buying their favourite beer.
"People who drink VB are diehard VB drinkers," he said.
Lauren Thermos, 21, of Carlton, said reduced strength beer was a good idea.
"If VB was my beer of choice I'd rather a cheaper price with a bit less alcohol," she said.
Malcolm Pfrunder, 47, of Brisbane, said only die-hard full-strength beer drinkers would switch off VB.
"If the taste stayed the same and I drank VB it wouldn't change my buying patterns," he said.
Brian Donnelly, 20, of St Kilda, doubted drinkers would notice the change.
"People aren't going to notice if it's a 0.2 per cent drop," he said.
Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre said the change would not reduce beer sales.
One in four beers consumed across Australia is a VB.
The alcohol content was cut by 0.1 per cent two years ago.
The latest cut means the original 4.9 per cent full strength beer created about 50 years ago is now 0.3 per cent lighter.
The alcohol content of Victoria Bitter will be cut by 0.2 percentage points to 4.6 per cent next month.
The price will stay the same, but the reduced alcohol content could save brewer Foster's tens of millions of dollars a year in beer tax.
VB spokesman Paul Donaldson said it was the only way the brewery could avoid raising the price.
"This is all about making VB better value so that when every other beer goes up in price this August, VB won't be," he said.
"The drought has started to really impact brewing. We've had ingredient costs go up 20 per cent.
"I think we buy 30 million kilograms of barley a year from Australian farmers so this is one way that we can keep the costs under control and keep the beer good value."
The change will come into effect on August 1 and applies to all full-strength VB products including stubbies, cans, long necks and on tap.
Punters were not fussed by the change.
Ben Ilett, 24, of Newport, said even a price rise wouldn't stop VB drinkers from buying their favourite beer.
"People who drink VB are diehard VB drinkers," he said.
Lauren Thermos, 21, of Carlton, said reduced strength beer was a good idea.
"If VB was my beer of choice I'd rather a cheaper price with a bit less alcohol," she said.
Malcolm Pfrunder, 47, of Brisbane, said only die-hard full-strength beer drinkers would switch off VB.
"If the taste stayed the same and I drank VB it wouldn't change my buying patterns," he said.
Brian Donnelly, 20, of St Kilda, doubted drinkers would notice the change.
"People aren't going to notice if it's a 0.2 per cent drop," he said.
Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre said the change would not reduce beer sales.
One in four beers consumed across Australia is a VB.
The alcohol content was cut by 0.1 per cent two years ago.
The latest cut means the original 4.9 per cent full strength beer created about 50 years ago is now 0.3 per cent lighter.
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SRT,
Unfortunately the only ordnance that a decent weaponeer (in the widest sense of the term) would use - napalm - probably isn't in CAMRA's inventory.
As for you, JE, this has nothing to do with charcoal or BEagle's perverted proclivities. It has everything to do with your fellow travellers. While you may not be a VB devotee, and your likeness for Boag's attests to that, the fact is that GASSERS are compromisers willing to accept the second-rate, as are the punters who accept a watering down of something that tastes like P155 in the first place. In short, immediate gratification at the expense of quality; not that there is any quality when it comes to either VB or GAS.
Unfortunately the only ordnance that a decent weaponeer (in the widest sense of the term) would use - napalm - probably isn't in CAMRA's inventory.
As for you, JE, this has nothing to do with charcoal or BEagle's perverted proclivities. It has everything to do with your fellow travellers. While you may not be a VB devotee, and your likeness for Boag's attests to that, the fact is that GASSERS are compromisers willing to accept the second-rate, as are the punters who accept a watering down of something that tastes like P155 in the first place. In short, immediate gratification at the expense of quality; not that there is any quality when it comes to either VB or GAS.
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Yerrrsssss.....
All the fault of those who subscribe to the gas perversion.
How do you think they get the artificial fizz in the stuff anyway?
Now a good braai using ysterhout, a couple of skilpadjies sizzling gently on the side as appetisers while the world is put to rights and the main course marinates gently in red wine and rosemary. Can't beat it with a big stick.
All the fault of those who subscribe to the gas perversion.
How do you think they get the artificial fizz in the stuff anyway?
Now a good braai using ysterhout, a couple of skilpadjies sizzling gently on the side as appetisers while the world is put to rights and the main course marinates gently in red wine and rosemary. Can't beat it with a big stick.
Mate, you're welcome to your minced testicle and entrail appetisers! Only those who inhabit the barren wastes north of Watford eat such unmentionable parts of beasts here in the Mother Country!
Main course sounds lekker though.
VB sold over here is 4.8% ABV; will that reduce to 4.6% in future? Even 'Budweiser' is 5% - and that weasel wee called 'Coors Light'
is 4.5%...
The nanny state is trying to make 4.3% the norm.....
Main course sounds lekker though.
VB sold over here is 4.8% ABV; will that reduce to 4.6% in future? Even 'Budweiser' is 5% - and that weasel wee called 'Coors Light'
is 4.5%...The nanny state is trying to make 4.3% the norm.....
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I see there are more and more closet GASSERS here.... with their namby pamby 4.6%ABV Beer.
Real mean drink > 8.5 % beer, like this nice beer with the pretty pink elephants
(As an aside, you see more elephants after three or four of these puppies).
From Wikipedia
Real mean drink > 8.5 % beer, like this nice beer with the pretty pink elephants
(As an aside, you see more elephants after three or four of these puppies).
From Wikipedia
Awards
Delirium Tremens was named as "Best Beer in the World" in 1998 at the World Beer Championships in Chicago, Illinois, USA.[1][2] Stuart Kallen gives it the number one spot in his The 50 Greatest Beers in the World.[3]
Etymology
Delirium tremens is Latin for "trembling madness", commonly nicknamed "the DTs", indicating a violent sickness induced by withdrawal after alcohol abuse.
Delirium Tremens was named as "Best Beer in the World" in 1998 at the World Beer Championships in Chicago, Illinois, USA.[1][2] Stuart Kallen gives it the number one spot in his The 50 Greatest Beers in the World.[3]
Etymology
Delirium tremens is Latin for "trembling madness", commonly nicknamed "the DTs", indicating a violent sickness induced by withdrawal after alcohol abuse.
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Of course viewing an Atlas in itself might be shocking to most nGUs - the world being round an all that.
*Hint: remove gloves for easier page turning.
World Beer Championships in Chicago, Illinois
Riiiiiiiiggggghhht.....
We True Fuel users don't feel the same need to spot one another as you gas users. Presumably you need to be on the look out for people with a similar 'orientation' to yourselves....
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.......understanding that you could be the 40% nGU's Brain Trust does not mean that we GU's understand your need to bark at the moon when grilling.
You'll be asking for NH relief on glove purchases next
Notwithstanding I do agree with your beer championship comment.
You'll be asking for NH relief on glove purchases next
Notwithstanding I do agree with your beer championship comment.
Originally Posted by birddog
I see there are more and more closet GASSERS here.... with their namby pamby 4.6%ABV Beer
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Herewith my preferred headgear for gassing and VB-ing. Note the return to normal Brit climatic conditions. Oz mate's 747 arrived late - now down to 36 hours before we pour him back down to Heathrow. Still, VB now well-chilled for him, albeit might have to forego barbie (mainly thro' need to maintain duration in pub).
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What's the problem? They selected a European brew as the winner....
You should give some of the smaller breweries a try... you'll be amazed.
That all being said, I shall now be heading off to knock several dozen back in commiseration for the hiding that the bok's got today.
The Lions played very well, congratulations to them for winning, though one would be hard pressed to say the team they played against today were South Africa's finest.
I'm not sure I have it in me to light up the coals tonight...
You should give some of the smaller breweries a try... you'll be amazed.
That all being said, I shall now be heading off to knock several dozen back in commiseration for the hiding that the bok's got today.
The Lions played very well, congratulations to them for winning, though one would be hard pressed to say the team they played against today were South Africa's finest.
I'm not sure I have it in me to light up the coals tonight...
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Hope you had a great holiday Brick.
Well done to the Lions... A tough game and they certainly dominated the 'Boks. Not our best lineup but still world class rugby and a determined win by the visitors.
Well done to the Lions...
A tough game and they certainly dominated the 'Boks. Not our best lineup but still world class rugby and a determined win by the visitors.