The power of advertising, just look at the cars people drive!!
Dave Vodden
Plus 4 4 Seater
Hampshire UK
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From: J D McCague
To: Vodden, Dave
Cc: Gary Kneisley; William Zehring; morgans@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: in their defense (was: Halogen headlamps)
Date: Tuesday 15 December 1998 10:07PM
The number one selling beer here in London, as well as the rest of the
UK,
is Budweiser! (for the pst 5 years) served cold in bottles! Go figure!
J D McCague
London, England
'96 Plus 8
"Vodden, Dave" wrote:
> British beer (as opposed to Lager, Pils, American or Australian beer)
> should be served at cellar temperature. As Will correctly says that
is
> somewhere around 50 to 54F I believe that this also applies to German
> beers in Germany. Although I have had a number of occasions to visit
> the US I have noted that the American gentlemen I know tend (where
there
> is a choice) to drink imported or even British beers, unless there is
a
> "microbrewery" around.
>
> Dave Vodden
> Plus 4 4 Seater
> Ha,pshire UK
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> From: William Zehring
> To: Gary Kneisley
> Cc: morgans@autox.team.net
> Subject: in their defense (was: Halogen headlamps)
> Date: Tuesday 15 December 1998 09:03PM
>
> Fellow Morganist Gary K. writes:
>
> >
> >PS: And the British drink warm beer too,
> >
>
> Now, it seems that whenever discussion of the electrics in our dearly
> beloved british cars flares up, and the vicissitudes of the Lucas
> electrical systems are cast into question, we are reminded that the
> Brits
> drink warm beer, hinting that they can't wire a refrigerator
correctly,
> either.
>
> Well, two things (sorry, but I just have to speak up here):
> (1)Its never been my impression that they drink "warm" beer (i.e. beer
> that
> is warmer than room temperature (which in England is no better than
65F,
> most of the time, if any of the scenes in the Alistair Simm version of
> "A
> Christmas Carol" are to be taken as accurate)). I'm prepared to admit
> that
> the Brits have a number of odd habits (like boiling their vegetables
to
> a
> state of mush, and now-and-again going over to France to beat up on
> soccer
> fans), but I cannot believe that they drink WARM beer. The thought of
> imbibing 'warm' beer (beer from which steam is rising) is revolting,
in
> the
> extremus!
> (2)And even if they did, who the heck are we yanks to cast the first
> stone?
> The American habits of drinking freezing ice cold beer has NEVER made
> sense to me (even as a sodden college student). Not only do we
> Americans
> brew the most flavorless of beers (whose idea was "lite" beer,
anyway?),
> but we numb our tongues further by serving the stuff just shy of
frozen,
> in
> glasses coated with frost. What little taste there might have been is
> made
> fully inaccessible by such cold temperatures. It is my 'umble opinion
> that
> beer is best served at a temp roughly equidistant between refrigerator
> and
> room temps (i.e. approx. 50F). That is, I would say, 'lightly
chilled.'
> Having said that, I'm more than willing to allow that those list
members
> who live in Texas, where it is well recognized to never drop below
90F,
> may
> have a hankering for an icy draught now and again. We may forgive
them
> for
> this tendency, living as they do in the trackless Great American
Desert.
>
> thirsty (as usual), I am
> yours, etc.,
> Will Zehring
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