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Re: Old Speckle Hen Beer

To: Lawrie@britcars.com
Subject: Re: Old Speckle Hen Beer
From: miker15@juno.com
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 12:06:11 EDT
On Tue, 19 May 1998 06:58:52 -0700 "Lawrie  Alexander"
<Lawrie@britcars.com> writes:
>Chris.....
>
>The only problem with the advice you gave is that, in the States, all 
>beer
>is consumed at one or another degree F, not C. Most of us OFs haven't 
>a clue
>what a degree C means in the real world, and to have to convert 
>numbers
>before sitting down to a beer rather takes some of the fun out of it!

In a previous incarnation, just after getting kicked out of dental school
i spent about 9 months training as a bar cellarman (if the hours dont
kill you the booze will!)
As a rule of thumb, draught beer should be served 3-4 degrees below the
ambient temperature of the bar at 70 dec F - a greater differential on
hot days
Bottled beer should be served at shelf temperature but should be
restocked twice a day - in other words, you can be as technical as you
like but  it all depends on how cool your cellar is!!!
>
>Indeed, when I lived in England, real beer was always consumed in 
>degrees F there too, so I don't know what these CAMRA people think they
know 
>about the subject...........:-)

Back in the days when i still drank beer i blessed the day that those
guys kicked up such a stink about the pitiful state that English beer had
come to - if it werent for CAMRA there would only be budweiser type beers
in the UK (ironically bud is extremely popular there)
>
>Of course, those were the days when a good pint cost one-and-six,  so 
>maybe the world is passing this OF by altogether!
>
Unfortunately I missed 1/6 by a couple of years - it was two bob by the
time i got to it - 
"but yah cud go oot ont satdy night, buy ten woodbines,tek bird
t'pictures,get pissed and have bag a chips ont way home and still av
change outa arf a quid!"

mike robson
69 roadster
70 BGT
72 roadster


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