trip's trip into scottish cuisine

[AFK]

Heh, I was driving I-95 the other day and I saw a mini Oscar-Meyer Weiner mobile.  Just thought I'd share.

Carrion. 

[Jenne]

[Bruno]

I just looked up the difference between ale and beer (partly because I hadn't realized that a Stout is technically an ale) and apparently the categorical difference is that ales are brewed at a higher temperature and use a different kind of yeast which propagates throughout the liquid during brewing, whereas beer is brewed at a lower temperature and uses a kind of yeast that propagates at the bottom of the vat.

The more you know!

I believe what you are calling beer is lager, and both ale and lager are beer.

Almost all American beer is Pilsner, which is a kind of lager.

I had a dream last night about YOU and about this thread...but your name was different...was like Oscar_Wiener or something...weird.

Anyway...carry on.

If my name was different, how did you know it was me?

It just so happens that I drive a mini Oscar-Meyer Weiner mobile. Coincidence, or proof of Eris.

[Jenne]

I just looked up the difference between ale and beer (partly because I hadn't realized that a Stout is technically an ale) and apparently the categorical difference is that ales are brewed at a higher temperature and use a different kind of yeast which propagates throughout the liquid during brewing, whereas beer is brewed at a lower temperature and uses a kind of yeast that propagates at the bottom of the vat.

The more you know!

I believe what you are calling beer is lager, and both ale and lager are beer.

Almost all American beer is Pilsner, which is a kind of lager.

I had a dream last night about YOU and about this thread...but your name was different...was like Oscar_Wiener or something...weird.

Anyway...carry on.

If my name was different, how did you know it was me?

It just so happens that I drive a mini Oscar-Meyer Weiner mobile. Coincidence, or proof of Eris.

The avatar...

[Bruno]

And you're sure it was this thread?

I had a dream once where I ran into this guy's avatar in the woods.

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showprofile.php?User=100314

[Jenne]

Might have been the other one...but I'm not sure...it was either this one or your alkeehall one.

[Rumckle]

b]ale[/b] - i don't like it. i now know why Guinness (also an ale) disappoints me nearly every time i drink it. it tastes like flat beer. which is, probably, because it is flat beer. and not in a metaphorical sense, i'm pretty sure it's actual flat beer. they should just cool it and inject it with carbon dioxyde like normal beer. fortunately, pubs serve normal beer for pretty much this exact reason.

But then, there would be no use for the widget in the cans of Guinness, also I think it does have a bit of CO₂ in it anyways.

[Suu]

This thread makes me wonder what I would do if I hosted Zip or Payne or Cain or one of our many European friends and had to give them an American experience.

Fortunately, most of New England is relatively low-key when it comes to brand name insanity. Though, if planned properly, I'd be happy to host someone for a road trip to Florida and back and show them the Eastern Seaboard.

Oh, and we WILL stop at South of the Border. Pedro demands it. 

And Waffle House. Damnit.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I just looked up the difference between ale and beer (partly because I hadn't realized that a Stout is technically an ale) and apparently the categorical difference is that ales are brewed at a higher temperature and use a different kind of yeast which propagates throughout the liquid during brewing, whereas beer is brewed at a lower temperature and uses a kind of yeast that propagates at the bottom of the vat.

The more you know!

I believe what you are calling beer is lager, and both ale and lager are beer.

Almost all American beer is Pilsner, which is a kind of lager.

Oh, yeah, I looked it up again and you're right, both ale and lager are a subset of beer. For some reason the site I looked at initially defined beer as being different from ale. Or, possibly, I was drunk and read it wrong. 

It's almost impossible to find a decent lager around here, almost all the beer in grocery stores and on tap is ale.

[LMNO]

This thread makes me wonder what I would do if I hosted Zip or Payne or Cain or one of our many European friends and had to give them an American experience.

Fortunately, most of New England is relatively low-key when it comes to brand name insanity. Though, if planned properly, I'd be happy to host someone for a road trip to Florida and back and show them the Eastern Seaboard.

Oh, and we WILL stop at South of the Border. Pedro demands it. 

And Waffle House. Damnit.

You know what I want?


I want to become massively wealthy, rent a tour bus, and take the lot of us through BBQ country:  NC, SC, GA, TN, TX, and then end up in NOLA.

We'd eat massive amount of pork, oysters, crawfish, chili, catfish, beer, whiskey, and tequila.



And we'd end up hating each other for the rest of our lives because of "The Incident" on the next-to-last night.

[Payne]

We TOLD you to keep it in your pants. At least until it was dark.

[LMNO]

...I swear to god, the midget was already on fire when I got there.

[Suu]

This thread makes me wonder what I would do if I hosted Zip or Payne or Cain or one of our many European friends and had to give them an American experience.

Fortunately, most of New England is relatively low-key when it comes to brand name insanity. Though, if planned properly, I'd be happy to host someone for a road trip to Florida and back and show them the Eastern Seaboard.

Oh, and we WILL stop at South of the Border. Pedro demands it. 

And Waffle House. Damnit.

You know what I want?


I want to become massively wealthy, rent a tour bus, and take the lot of us through BBQ country:  NC, SC, GA, TN, TX, and then end up in NOLA.

We'd eat massive amount of pork, oysters, crawfish, chili, catfish, beer, whiskey, and tequila.



And we'd end up hating each other for the rest of our lives because of "The Incident" on the next-to-last night.

Oh my god...bahbeecue!