Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Frank, Being a member of the Real Ale Society, and having lived and worked in Burnley, Lancs, I appreciate and love real British ale. I confess also to downing a few pints of Guinness at times. Jerry Frank Dernie wrote: > Joking apart, there are two sorts of beer here, what we call beer here > you would probably call ale, it is best drunk at about the same > temperature as red wine for the same reason. What you would call beer > is referred to here as lager and it has become increasingly popular, > very few youngsters drink traditional English beer. It is drunk very > cold - probably colder than white wine. I am not a lager lover and > always claim the colder the better because the colder it is the less > it tastes ;-) > Personally I like red wine and traditional (English) beer. I pretty > well never drink white wine or lager, although when we lived near > Sancerre we drank quite a lot of the local wine, though I still > preferred the Sancerre rouge to the much better known blanc. > It is rarely hot enough here for a lager to be an attractive > proposition for its temperature alone! > Frank > > > On 7 Apr, 2007, at 03:00, Sonny Carter wrote: > >> I've always heard that Lucas refrigeration is the reason Brits drink NOT >> cold beer. >> >> >> >> >> On 4/6/07, Jerry Lehrer <glehrer@san.rr.com> wrote: >>> >>> John, >>> >>> No, no! The Jaguars and the AH-Martins as well as Bentleys had the >>> awful >>> Lucas systems. Lucas was an Equal-Opportunity >>> purveyor of garbage. They sold crap to Austin as well as Rolls Royce. >>> >>> Some say that Labour Unions were the cause of the downfall of the UK >>> automobile industry. Not so! It was Lucas. >>> >>> Jerry >>> >>> >>> John Collier wrote: >>> > Yes they had Lucas electrical systems but not the cheap, nasty stuff >>> > that penny pinching designers inflicted on the MGs, Triumphs and >>> Lotuses. >>> > >>> > John Collier >>> > >>> > On 6-Apr-07, at 6:29 PM, Jerry Lehrer wrote: >>> > >>> >> Chris, >>> >> >>> >> Are you OOYFM? Remember they all had Lucas Electrical systems! >>> >> >>> >> Jerry >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> Chris Saganich wrote: >>> >>> If I were ever to own a car again, I'd like it to be one of those. >>> >>> Chris >>> > >>> >>> >>> _ >>