Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've never visited the fort, the nearest I ever got was wet weekends rewiring old aircraft at Caernarfon airport! If you like the more floral hoppy beer styles I'm confident you will like the Mws Piws or the Roosters. I would love to buy you a pint or six but I'd probably bore you to death talking about my all time favourite sport.... I suppose you get that all the time. We could talk about cameras instead. Cheers Marc Frank Dernie wrote: > I was in Beaumaris last week to meet my new (Mk3) grandson for the first > time. Our daughter settled there 8 years ago and we holiday there often. I > will check out the Porthmadog brewery next time I am there. Kirsty had her > wedding reception at Fort Belan on the mainland overlooking the straights. > It was the first reception held there and was beautiful, though the > weather was not good on the day, sadly. > Frank D. > > On 26 Feb, 2010, at 08:30, Marc Thomas wrote: > > >> A good attempt at remembering how to spell Blenau Ffestiniog ! Its only >> Welsh speaking Welsh men ,like me, that can remember how to spell it! >> As for Brian's Porter, I'm not familiar with that brewery, perhaps you >> meant Brains ? (a popular South Wales brewery) >> After viewing the picture I have to say it looks too light for a porter, >> I'd say it was a bitter. >> By the way my favourite brewery in Wales is located at the end of the >> narrow gauge railway in Porthmadog, Bragdy Mws Piws or the Purple Moose >> Brewery, its almost as good as my all time favourite brewery >> Roosters/Outlaw in Knaresborough. >> So good I moved from Wales to a small village within ten miles of the >> brewery....hic... >> >> If I was organised enough here would be a link to a picture of me >> drinking too much Roosters/Mws Piws >> Cheers! >> Marc >> //Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: >> >>> Daughter Karen is enjoying a glass of Brian's Porter at the town's oldest >>> pub in Blainau Ffestiniog, Wales. Blainau Ffestiniog was the center of >>> the >>> Welsh slate mining industry in the 19th century and gets more rain than >>> any >>> other town in the UK. A narrow gauge railroad connects it to Porthmadog >>> on >>> the coast. You are not expected to remember how to spell these names. As >>> I >>> recall, the beer was served at room temperature and it was very good. >>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Karen+with+beer.jpg.html >>> >>> An interesting note on the picture. It was taken with my first >>> experimental >>> digital camera, an Agfa ePhoto 307. The camera was about the size of an >>> M3 >>> but weighed much less. It took 35 pictures with its fixed focus lens, >>> allegedly high resolution (180 MB), and stored them on an internal >>> memory. >>> When all pictures were taken, they had to be downloaded or deleted before >>> more could be snapped. I bought the camera in 1995 and it was obsolete >>> just >>> a year or so later. We have come a long way in a couple of decades. >>> >>> Larry Z >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >