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19 Jun 2011, 11:59 am

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I learnt that Adnams Lighthouse (3.4%) was woolly piss-water.

that is something i suspect i will never learn. your description alone is entirely nonsensical to me, so the actuality of your consciousness is completely concealed from me due to my lack of inclination to appraise you with effort.

sorry i am taken by gravity and will return tomorrow when i have developed enough charge to overrule it.



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19 Jun 2011, 12:14 pm

b9 wrote:
Tequila wrote:
I learnt that Adnams Lighthouse (3.4%) was woolly piss-water.

that is something i suspect i will never learn. your description alone is entirely nonsensical to me, so the actuality of your consciousness is completely concealed from me due to my lack of inclination to appraise you with effort.

sorry i am taken by gravity and will return tomorrow when i have developed enough charge to overrule it.


I'm guessing the beer was watery and tasteless. I'm not sure about the wooly part. :eew:


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20 Jun 2011, 8:07 am

b9 wrote:
that is something i suspect i will never learn. your description alone is entirely nonsensical to me, so the actuality of your consciousness is completely concealed from me due to my lack of inclination to appraise you with effort.


What it means that it's a blonde ale with a very low-ABV. It's a very low ABV even for cask consumption but when bottled it's far too low - subtle flavours with low ABV beers don't tend to mix well in bottles.

The result was very watery with an unpleasant Stella Artois-style aftertaste. Not particularly pleasant.

If it was perhaps 4.4% instead of 3.4% it might have come out considerably better. :)



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20 Jun 2011, 11:34 am

Today I learnt that there is a beast known as the Mongolian death worm.

This pleases me more greatly than I can express, even though it is described as a "cryptid" - i.e. overwhelmingly likely to be completely imaginary.



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20 Jun 2011, 11:35 am

Yeah destination truth investigated it and found it to be a bunch of hogwash.


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20 Jun 2011, 1:38 pm

I've learned to be real once again, in these past 19 months that Ive enjoyed as the real me. :)


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20 Jun 2011, 2:15 pm

Tequila wrote:
b9 wrote:
that is something i suspect i will never learn. your description alone is entirely nonsensical to me, so the actuality of your consciousness is completely concealed from me due to my lack of inclination to appraise you with effort.


What it means that it's a blonde ale with a very low-ABV. It's a very low ABV even for cask consumption but when bottled it's far too low - subtle flavours with low ABV beers don't tend to mix well in bottles.

i do not know what a "woolly piss water is"
also, what is ABV? is it "alcohol by volume"?

Tequila wrote:
The result was very watery with an unpleasant Stella Artois-style aftertaste. Not particularly pleasant.

If it was perhaps 4.4% instead of 3.4% it might have come out considerably better. :)


well there one goes . i do not really care for alcohol much.



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20 Jun 2011, 2:16 pm

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20 Jun 2011, 2:24 pm

that 'pall mall' cigarettes cost £4.82 and only contain 19.. :?



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20 Jun 2011, 2:28 pm

b9 wrote:
i do not know what a "woolly piss water is"
also, what is ABV? is it "alcohol by volume"?


"Wooly piss-water" means that it's a light beer that really tastes of very little, and isn't helped by the alcohol content being too low. Bottled beers with low alcohol percentages like this one tend not to stack up well. My point was that very, very few cask ales that aren't mild are this weak, never mind any other kind of beer.

I'm basically saying that it's an unimpressive, weak, watery-tasting blonde ale with a not-so-nice aftertaste. May have been better if there was more alcohol in it so the flavours might have fleshed out more.



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20 Jun 2011, 2:37 pm

Tequila wrote:
b9 wrote:
i do not know what a "woolly piss water is"
also, what is ABV? is it "alcohol by volume"?


"Wooly piss-water" means that it's a light beer that really tastes of very little, and isn't helped by the alcohol content being too low. Bottled beers with low alcohol percentages like this one tend not to stack up well. My point was that very, very few cask ales that aren't mild are this weak, never mind any other kind of beer.

I'm basically saying that it's an unimpressive, weak, watery-tasting blonde ale with a not-so-nice aftertaste. May have been better if there was more alcohol in it so the flavours might have fleshed out more.

i understand your portrayal of what you wish to say, but i can not see how the term "woolly piss water" is a satisfactory description of what i understand your sentiment to be.

it is late and i am off to bed so there is no need to bother answering me.



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20 Jun 2011, 2:44 pm

Because blonde beers often look like piss.



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20 Jun 2011, 3:58 pm

I learned that "ceidwadwr" means "conservative" mewn Cymraeg.



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20 Jun 2011, 5:00 pm

I learnt that English is the only (or maybe one of the few?) languages that has the words "opportunity" and "challenge".
In Russian, for instance, the nearest translation is "possibility".

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06 Jul 2011, 12:21 am

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06 Jul 2011, 11:52 pm

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