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Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters.
IIRC it became "The Widowmaker" after "G" modifications had an adverse effect on the C of G.
7 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jun 2011
@ Steve Davies 3
Suprise! No, not from "the Fosters/Carling mob" but a real ale fanatic. (No beard),
"IMHO, lager isn't proper beer."
Hmm.. Depends what you mean by lager.
A proper lager beer can be good. A chemical gassy, flavourless lager, with its many side effects is a triumph of marketing over substance and a particularly nasty substance at that.
"Only beer brewed with a bottom fermenting yeast is proper stuff."
Lager / lager-beer is bottom fermented
"Mines a pint of Harvey's (Lewes) please."
I believe that Harvey's, as an ale, is top fermented.
Cheers!
@Bassey
I understand your sentiments.
Larger? An imperial pint is larger than the typical serving where bar staff are encouraged to shortchange punters of the full 568ml in order to sell "72 pints", from a barrel or keg. Supposedly having a head on a pint excuses them from serving a full pint.
Lager is bottom fermented, normally at lower temperatures than Ale which is top fermented.
Is there good lager? Yes there is, though it's bloody rare as rocking horse droppings. Real lager can be really good. I brewed some a while back from a kit (now discontinued unfortunately) and a bag of spraymalt. It was fantastic! Better than any commercial lager I've ever tasted, including some really good real lagers.
Chemical lager on the other hand, which makes up something astronomical like 99% of all lager consumed, is as you say "fizzy, expensive piss".
"Southerners" is maybe a generalisation as lager brewing took off in Scotland after success at exporting IPA a very long time ago. Microbreweries have had an enormous impact in the South.
Real Ale is the only growth area in brewing at the present time.
(Yes, I have some Macc Lads CD's - "You are what you drink and I'm a bitter man")
Cheers!
Yes, Mitsubishi "flat" CRT tubes were excellent. I did get a headache if I was too close to my TV though.
Found this article which talks about Matt versus chemical coated displays. It also mentions UV and to look for CRTs that protect you from UV. Well I never heard that one before..
Never seemed to get a tan from television, though I could be mistaken..
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-an-anti-glare-computer-screen.htm