BF2S Forums Official Beer Thread

All I know is that if it's clear and yella, you've got juice there, fella; but if it's tangy and brown, you're in cider town.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

AO is 5% ABV. I assume Europe has 10% ABV?

And then some if you look in the right places.
But tbf not just about the ABV...

When you go the bar, how do you like your beer? I really hate drinking out of bottles so I always ask for a glass to put my drinks in. Much easier to gulp beer down in a glass instead of bottle.

depends on the bar.  Sometimes bars in the US don't do a good job of cleaning their tap lines out and it reflects in the beer taste.  If the draft beer tastes like shit, ill order a bottle.

I've been really getting in to lagers lately.  Give me some suggestions.

I've recently purchased a case of a winter porter and also received a pint glass as a gift this Chrimbo. For the fuck of it, I broke it out and used it the last time I had one. I'm still more partial to the bottle, but if I chilled the glass, I could go for it. I do enjoy being able to see the color and the head when I pour it.

To what are you referring?

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Bottles sitting around in a warehouse

Or bottles bottled in a bottling plant.

Researchers at Granada University in Spain found this Nobel Prize-worthy discovery after months of testing 25 student subjects, who were asked to run on a treadmill in grueling temps (104 degrees F) until they were as close to exhaustion as possible. Half were given water to drink, and the other half drank two pints of Spanish lager. Then the godly researchers measured their hydration levels, motor skills, and concentration ability.

They determined that the beer drinkers had "slightly better" rehydration effects, which researchers attribute to sugars, salts, and bubbles in beer enhancing the body's ability to absorb water. The carbohydrates in beer also help refill calorie deficits.

https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-eve … than-water

Beer is better than water for hydration after exercise apparently, something I've always known.

Maybe people would be better off on crack cocaine or crystal meth - please report back.

yeah it hardly seems like a scientific breakthrough to identify that a drink full of sugar and salt can prove more effective at rehydrating someone in extreme circumstances.

it's surely not better 'after exercise' as it's full of empty calories -- slightly counter-productive if, you know, you're exercising to control your weight.

shame about the addictive poison part, eh.

Maybe people would be better off on crack cocaine or crystal meth - please report back.

i don't think anyone is ever going to make claims for the medicinal benefits of crack or crystal meth. they are undoubtedly Bad. but are they '1 in 5 people in a hospital bed' levels of bad? i don't think the crack epidemic in the 1980s was anywhere near those levels. what will it take for you to lose your cognitive dissonance?

Last edited by uziq (2019-07-04 01:44:32)

I would have actually smoked crack the other day at the bar if a stranger offered me some. I have never done that before. I was thinking about this while at the bar. Can't smoke pot right now because of work but crack doesn't hang around in your urine. Whenever I drink to a certain point, I get this huge urge to smoke pot because of how awful drinking is. Drinking is awful. You don't vomit or get hangovers from pot.

uziq wrote:

mac, why would you smoke crack? it puts you in a far worse position than a hangover.

Does it? It just seemed like a better pair for alcohol than meth which I would have also accepted but have never done. The buzz, taste, delivery, etc of liquor is just so bad that my brains begs me to go get high instead.