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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (22037)	8/14/2001 8:58:01 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Laz, I noticed you had mentioned that you thought maybe you and Ish went over the top a little on "the discussion". I appreciate that. Maybe I did too. But I'm a little sensitive about discussions of violence on public forums due to events in this country in the last few years.. I hope you understand.. I'm through with it. So here's an olive branch to you and Ish. coug

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (22037)	8/15/2001 7:40:00 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Well, best visit again to drink real ale while you can... it's severely under threat. 'Real ale' is distinguished by cask conditioning - not all the yeast is killed before the beer is put into cask. Hence it undergoes secondary fermentation, which - exactly as with the maturing of wine - allows far more complex, sophisticated flavour. This is especially notable if proper wooden barrels are used, rather than steel kegs. The problem is that it also requires more skilled (i.e., expensive) care and storage, or it spoils... and of course this hits brewery profits. So the larger breweries, now more dominant in the UK market than ever before, are keen to end supply and replace it by 'dead' beers. Which last longer and give better profit margins, even if they do taste like urine. (Hence they're served colder, to conceal the faint but dire flavour which does remain). I've never worked out why nowhere else in the world brews beer British-style, however...