Beer thread
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@MN5 Cure cancer? Stop COVID? Create nuclear fusion?
Nah mate - when it comes to technology, it's all about the beer.
Speaking of which, I was in Beer heaven yesterday. What a fucken treat Beervana was.
good fun, eh. Tasted a shedload of different beers. BOTD was Garage Project Excessive Machine. https://garageproject.co.nz/products/excessive-machine Just insane.
Plenty of good brewers, and good food too. Finished up after 5 hours there to go to the pub, then another pub, then a pub for dinner, then a cafe, then off to bed. Great fun.
It's worth a trip to GABS sometime too. Quite a different expereince, but a chance to drink a wider range of beer (they do paddles). Nice thing about the Cake Tin is that you never see all the people - it's curved, so it gets busy but never nuts.
GABS?
Great Australasian Beer Festival
GABS Festival | Beer Festivals, Craft Beer & Food Experiences
GABS Festival: Beer festivals bringing people together for exceptional experiences. 500+ beers, wine, cocktails, & entertainment! Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane.
Australia and Auckland, but a very different setup to Beervana.
@mn5 did the same as you, but in reverse! Avoided the auckland breweries, but smashed all the welly ones we could find.
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@MN5 Cure cancer? Stop COVID? Create nuclear fusion?
Nah mate - when it comes to technology, it's all about the beer.
Speaking of which, I was in Beer heaven yesterday. What a fucken treat Beervana was.
good fun, eh. Tasted a shedload of different beers. BOTD was Garage Project Excessive Machine. https://garageproject.co.nz/products/excessive-machine Just insane.
Plenty of good brewers, and good food too. Finished up after 5 hours there to go to the pub, then another pub, then a pub for dinner, then a cafe, then off to bed. Great fun.
It's worth a trip to GABS sometime too. Quite a different expereince, but a chance to drink a wider range of beer (they do paddles). Nice thing about the Cake Tin is that you never see all the people - it's curved, so it gets busy but never nuts.
GABS?
Great Australasian Beer Festival
GABS Festival | Beer Festivals, Craft Beer & Food Experiences
GABS Festival: Beer festivals bringing people together for exceptional experiences. 500+ beers, wine, cocktails, & entertainment! Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane.
Australia and Auckland, but a very different setup to Beervana.
@mn5 did the same as you, but in reverse! Avoided the auckland breweries, but smashed all the welly ones we could find.
I did want to try that red bubble Garage Project one but there were too many lines so fuck that then they sold out. But again, I can get Garage Project any time I want so didn't really see the point in any of the others.
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@Crucial said in Beer thread:
True. I've been in pubs in SA where the regulars sit at the bar with little 'ponies' (a small schooner) and the barman just continually tops it up from the tap and keeps a tally. When it's 40 degrees your beer gets warm pretty quick.
And if it is humid the glass sweats like a bastard leaving your table looking like a recently de-commissioned ice rink.
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@Crucial haven't heard "pony" in years BTW. We called them "sevens" for which I have no reasoning as they're actually 5 fl oz.
5 Beer Glass Sizes in Australia Explained | Man of Many
Ever wondered how many mls in a schooner glass? Or how many mls in a pint of beer? Discover all the Australian beer glass sizes by State here.
South Australia: fucking it up for everyone else.
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@NTA said in Beer thread:
@Crucial haven't heard "pony" in years BTW. We called them "sevens" for which I have no reasoning as they're actually 5 fl oz.
5 Beer Glass Sizes in Australia Explained | Man of Many
Ever wondered how many mls in a schooner glass? Or how many mls in a pint of beer? Discover all the Australian beer glass sizes by State here.
South Australia: fucking it up for everyone else.
My experience was that it was different in every state. Schooners, middys, pints. That article says the term pint (for a proper pint is everywhere except SA but as you know, ask for a pint in NSW/ACT and they will wonder what you want. Also only ever heard of a pony in SA/NT
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@Crucial said in Beer thread:
In NZ we do this weird shit where we call whatever the bar uses as their 'big' glass a pint. Hardly ever is that actually a pint. Closest probably about 500ml
yep. And sometimes 440 ml, which is nothing like a pint.
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@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
Google tells me a pint is 473.176 mls. Most ‘big’ craft beers at the pub are 440ml as opposed to the 285ml option.
only in 'murica!
in UK it's a proper 568 ml glass
Snap
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@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
Google tells me a pint is 473.176 mls. Most ‘big’ craft beers at the pub are 440ml as opposed to the 285ml option.
only in 'murica!
in UK it's a proper 568 ml glass
Ah righto, Imperial vs US.
I could do 10 pretty easy in the UK but I was a massive pisshead in those days. Would be much more of an effort these days.
It works out just over 17 handles in NZ.....also not taking into account the litany of much stronger beers on the market.
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@MN5 said in Beer thread:
@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
Google tells me a pint is 473.176 mls. Most ‘big’ craft beers at the pub are 440ml as opposed to the 285ml option.
only in 'murica!
in UK it's a proper 568 ml glass
Ah righto, Imperial vs US.
I could do 10 pretty easy in the UK but I was a massive pisshead in those days. Would be much more of an effort these days.
jesus, no kidding.
Mind you, they have lower alcohol beers too - 4% is a sessionable beer. Also, cool and not too fizzy makes easy drinking. We paced ourselves pretty well on Saturday at Beervana, and made sure we ate and drank water. No one got munted, and felt pretty good the next day - just tired
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@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
Google tells me a pint is 473.176 mls. Most ‘big’ craft beers at the pub are 440ml as opposed to the 285ml option.
only in 'murica!
in UK it's a proper 568 ml glass
Ah righto, Imperial vs US.
I could do 10 pretty easy in the UK but I was a massive pisshead in those days. Would be much more of an effort these days.
jesus, no kidding.
Mind you, they have lower alcohol beers too - 4% is a sessionable beer. Also, cool and not too fizzy makes easy drinking. We paced ourselves pretty well on Saturday at Beervana, and made sure we ate and drank water. No one got munted, and felt pretty good the next day - just tired
Yeah I deliberately chose a couple of sours cos they had the much lower alcohol content. That helped us pace ourselves. I also had three separate meals during the day !
Not sure off the top of my head the strongest beer I had, possibly the pecan pie one or a scotch ale, both just under 10% from memory.
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Got bored at work so left 20mins earlier than needed to get the kids from school and treated myself to a beer at this little bottlo nearby that has some tables outside. Haven’t had a blonde (beer or otherwise) for a while , pretty good!
Edit, fucking portrait, sorry
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@voodoo said in Beer thread:
Got bored at work so left 20mins earlier than needed to get the kids from school and treated myself to a beer at this little bottlo nearby that has some tables outside. Haven’t had a blonde (beer or otherwise) for a while , pretty good!
Edit, fucking portrait, sorry
fuck you. that is my frame of mind today as well
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@voodoo said in Beer thread:
Got bored at work so left 20mins earlier than needed to get the kids from school and treated myself to a beer at this little bottlo nearby that has some tables outside. Haven’t had a blonde (beer or otherwise) for a while , pretty good!
Edit, fucking portrait, sorry
On my second Panhead APA.
God bless beer.
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@mariner4life said in Beer thread:
@voodoo said in Beer thread:
Got bored at work so left 20mins earlier than needed to get the kids from school and treated myself to a beer at this little bottlo nearby that has some tables outside. Haven’t had a blonde (beer or otherwise) for a while , pretty good!
Edit, fucking portrait, sorry
fuck you. that is my frame of mind today as well
Wedding anniversary today. Getting the kids now, dropping them to the in-laws, then have drinks, dinner, and a hotel stay. 30 hours of glorious no-kids time to drink and eat and get rejected.
