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#42
mjf said:
hello.
so.........if i understand correctly an ipa is a kind of "strong beer" or "special beer" with a lot of alc inside.
i think i will drink it slowly.......ceremonial..........
(and after that some cold clear water!)
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I find the name somewhat misleading. As far as I am concerned there is only one Ur-Bock: Einbecker, the original and first Bock beer. Praised by Martin Luther at which point they've been making it for 150 years already.


Einbecker Brauhaus AG

And a damn fine beer it is!
 
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In Oklahoma the maximum alcohol content for beer is really low. I don't want to make a liar of myself so I can't say exactly what it is but I am thinking something like maybe 3.2% or something. But in any state you can make it stronger than the maximum for beer but you just can't call it beer. You can call it Malt Liquor for one thing.

In WW2 when the British Spitfires went up against the German BF-109s each plane had advantages and disadvantages over the other. One advantage the German BF-109 had was fuel injection. If they could get a spitfire to roll upside down for very long the Spitfires engine would die (in aviation a stall is something different so you don't say stall when an engine dies) because of the carburetor. An engine dying during a dogfight can be a major disadvantage. But because of the fuel injection the BF-109's engine would not die because of inverted flight.
 
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i love shiner bock. when i lived in fortworth they always said it was a texas beer for texans. and they wouldent sell north of the red river.
when i moved up here, and my parents came to visit i would tell dad load up the jeep....strap mom to the hood if you have to.
but now, in the last few years it avalable all around here so i keep it stocked
not a ipa, or german bock but worth a try.
 
#50
Here's me thinking that "BOCK" referred to the use of "Hallertau" hops, the use of which gives these beers their distinctive aroma and flavour.
By the way; can any-one else taste the difference between Grolsch swing-tops and their stupid twist top??
 
#52
Not really. "Bockbier" is a slurred pronounciation of "Eynpöckisch Bier" - Beer from Einbeck. (Spelling was not normed back then). It was the first German beer that kept stable when transported long distance.
The citizens of Einbeck still call their town the beer capital of Germany, and a visit there might make you agree - provided you can remember the experience.

Pit
 
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#54
sakellogg, I live in Fort Worth. I know that around here they say that anybody who crosses the red river is a yankee. But what that really means is anybody outside of Texas even if you don't have to cross the red river to get here. And before somebody asks that would include the west coast. I am not the one who made these rules up. Here people from California are considered yankees. So are people from the south. There are 2 kinds of Americans. Texans and Yankees. Yankees are not persecuted or anything. They are just not expected to have a lot of common sense or to have any social graces so they are cut a lot of slack. I moved here from California in 1972 so I used to be a yankee but I have been here long enough that I am accepted as a Texan now.
 
#55
I live in the UK and everybody from anywhere in the US, including Texas, is a septic.

(cockney rhyming slang: septic tank=yank)

We do not expect any of them to have common sense or social graces until proven otherwise individually. Most americans need some coaching in how to use knife and fork properly before one can take them to a good restaurant without embarrassment.
 
#56
CD, there are Americans and there are Americans. The allegedly ugly evil rednecks can be the politest people you´ll ever meet - and the nicely clad yuppies who insist on Germans understanding them when they shout at us never come back for a second try.
And talking Cockney to foreigners is unfair anyway - who but a Cockney is supposed to get the puns unless he´s a Brummie?

😀Pit

P.S. The "septic" was new to me - but I´m not even English, so I hope you don´t mind.
 
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#57
That's funny. But so is attempting to mock attack Gibralter (which you can see from 400 miles at sea) but attacking Spain by mistake. We are talking after GPS systems had been employed for years too.

Just so you will know, you would be better off calling people from Texas or people from the south tanks than you would be calling them yanks. Unless you WANT to make them mad in which case yank or yankee is probably the best thing to call them. They don't like being called yanks or yankees. From my experience a lot of you "Ringos" don't know that.

I will define that for you.

Ringo - when used in the singular form means an English person.

When used in the plural form it means British people. Some Americans actually do know the difference between English and British.

Example - Tony Blair is not a Ringo but he is one of the Ringos. (he is Scottish)

I guess it is still up for debate whether Welsh are English or not. So Welsh people are Ringos but I am not sure if a Welsh person is a Ringo or not.



RAF = Ringo Air Force

I guess the correct grammar is Ringos Air Force unless they only have English people.
 
#58
😀😀😀Look at medieval and premedieval history - the English are mainly of German, French, or Scandinavian antecedants and speak a lot of Latin. The Britons left are in Wales, speak a language not even themselves understand and the Scots will sooner or later start another secession war, aided by the French who are in cahoots with us Germans but suspect us to be mainly from Poland.
 
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The allegedly ugly evil rednecks can be the politest people you´ll ever meet
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...ie social graces

and the nicely clad yuppies who insist on Germans understanding them when they shout at us never come back for a second try.
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......ie what they call yankees here. Even the few of them that are from here.

And talking Cockney to foreigners is unfair anyway - who but a Cockney is supposed to get the puns?
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Writing Cockney is one thing but if you actually speak it to us we will never understand what you are saying and therefore not even know what the puns are. Much less get them. We can understand the ruling class Ringos but when you guys go to talking slang we can't even tell what words you are saying much less understand what they are supposed to mean. Except for those of us who have been around Ringos a lot and over time learned what some of that stuff means. Like I don't know if I can say "pissed" or not on here. It means drunk to you but it means angry to me. Americans who have never spent time around Ringos probably do not know that if we tell you we are pissed you might think we are drunk or if you tell us you are drunk (pissed) we might think you were angry. Still we can only understand maybe half of the total words that come out of the mouth's of working class Ringos and especially that Cockney stuff. Our ears just have a hard time dealing with that. We can't convert the sounds into words. Whenever they have somebody talking Cockney on TV here they nearly always put sub-titles with it.
 
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