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Blackadder (none / 1)

So what are your cunning plans?

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 at 01:00:40 PM EST
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Re: Blackadder (4.00 / 3)

Drink is the urine from the last leper in hell

I thought we'd agreed to stop slagging off budweiser.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 at 01:05:46 PM EST
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Re: Blackadder (none / 0)

Actually, no.

But we could say Kronenbourg instead (the standard pig wee, I mean).

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 at 02:37:27 PM EST
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Re: Blackadder (none / 0)

I think Kronenburg is preferable to St louis rice beer. Grievous global abominations in the name of beer include skol, anything polish, anything chinese and Castlemaine XXXX

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 at 02:48:03 PM EST
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Re: Blackadder (none / 0)

I find Tyskie and Zywiec quite drinkable, but you're the expert. What do you think about Foster's?

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 at 03:13:11 PM EST
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Re: Blackadder (none / 0)

Well, the Foster's made in Sheffield, UK is not a nice product, that much I can say without fear of contradiction.

Tsingtao seemed relatively ok in Shenzhen.

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 at 03:16:40 PM EST
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Prostituted art (none / 0)

I confess to doing the voiceover for Foster's TV ads in Finland - spoken in Strine, of course. One of the few occasions when I have advertised something I wouldn't use myself.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 at 03:54:30 PM EST
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Re: Blackadder (none / 1)

Those two polish beers are really not nice : you live in berlin, what are you doing drinking polish beer when you've got the good stuff all round ?

fosters ? There is a railway station at the Northern end of the Piccadilly tube line in london that adequatley captures my feeling : Cockfosters. A friend of mine really likes it so I've often persuaded myself that I can try it and the sheer nastiness of it never ceases to amaze me.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 at 03:23:12 PM EST
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Re: Blackadder (none / 0)

I saw a US beer called Old Skratch on Wednesday, brought by one of our guests. Has a Ralph Steadman etiquette. Supposed to be good. I know nothing as you well know...

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 at 03:43:07 PM EST
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Re: Blackadder (none / 0)

Soon as you said Ralph Steadman I was thinking Flying dog, but this is the one you mean

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 at 03:52:14 PM EST
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Old Skratch (none / 0)

Exactly!

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 at 03:55:16 PM EST
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Re: Blackadder (none / 0)

When I was living in Berlin, 30 odd years ago, the local beer was Schultheiss.
Still remember their slogan (Was trinken wir? Schultheiss Bier!) plastered all over the sides of the double decker buses. At this time, I was too young to drink beer anyway, so I can't tell whether it is any good.

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 at 05:41:23 PM EST
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Re: Blackadder (none / 0)

It isn't, but it's cheap. Of the local beers I prefer Berliner (which has to be kept separate from Berliner Kindl). Decent beer and still cheaper than a Becks (bad) or Warsteiner.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 at 05:50:53 PM EST
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Re: Blackadder (none / 0)

Anyway, I was a kid back then.
BTW, do you live in Wedding? That's where my family was living, not far from the French cultural center on Muellerstrasse...

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 at 05:59:10 PM EST
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Re: Blackadder (none / 0)

Yes, in Wedding, about 2 kilometres east of the French cultural centre. I've walked past it quite a few times on a Sunday stroll. With the mini Eiffel tower. Funny.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Fri Jan 2nd, 2009 at 06:18:31 PM EST
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Re: Blackadder (none / 1)

Mini Eiffel tower? I guess Berlin has changed a lot since the mid-70s... (duh!)

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Sat Jan 3rd, 2009 at 09:56:42 AM EST
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