real ale

The is below is correct,if a little oxford. Basicly yeast is added to the "container" so that the beer continues to be live ie improve with age. Two basic types; cask and bottle conditioned.Cask will see a hand pull/pump used for dispence rather than a font,bottle condioned will need careful lable reading to identify if you dont know the brand.although there is now a "CAMRA says this real ale" labling scheme starting to appear,to help the uninitiated.

Forget the keg i'll have the REAL ale

by toymi69 May 29, 2008

fosters

AKA skippys piss.Cheep lager that is a triumph of marketing over taste like so many;eg stella(worse than),carling(better than)heineken(same page)

fosters ? what else have you got?

by toymi69 May 30, 2008

firkins

nine gallon cask. A barrel is a thirty six gallon cask, although that term has gained curreny for any size of comercial beer cask or keg.

can i have two firkins of bass this week please (brewery-ha! would be nice!)

by toymi69 May 30, 2008

stella

shortened common usage for stella artois, see that.

stella stela stellaa etc bang or barf

by toymi69 May 30, 2008

bitter

ref below;about accurate on the abv, but not generally pale, although the new trend for "summer beers" tends to be going that way. Traditional pale ales are different as they tend to be less bitter or strong and are so a different category.IPA:India Pale Ale is again different as it is hoppier and generally paler but in its proper form much stronger, above 6%abv.There is a modern trend to label light hoppy beers as IPA,this is wrong they are pale ales. Duchars is a prime example it is a nice beer but at3.6 definatly not an IPA.

Pint of bitter please landlord

by toymi69 May 29, 2008