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Hi Joe, sorry to take so long answering your question on beer, been busy drinking the stuff! The drinking scene in the UK is very diverse with lots of silly rules and regulations and the advertising guys trying to push chemical crap in place of the real stuff. A lot of the big national brewers have now sold off their brewing rights to companies like 'Interbrew' that brew, as their name suggests, internationally, this leaves them as pub owning companies and they now buy their beer from 'Interbrew'. We have lots of regional brewers who are still pub owners and brewers and it is one of these pubs that I do most of my drinking, the only down side is that they only sell their own products. We now have a country full of 'micro' brewers who can only brew a few barrells at a time because of the size of their plant. These guys have the odds stacked against them in that they are limited to the pubs they can sell to, some brewers allow their publicans to sell a guest beer and some, like where I drink (Thwaites) don't. On Friday I spent a few enjoyable hours with wife, son & future daughter in law in Preston visiting a half dozen pubs that stock micro brews, the selection was fantastic, we had a choice of over 20 beers in 4 pubs. All of our brewers produce beer, because they use hops to flavour the beer and to give varying degrees of dryness. Ale is beer without hops (I hope I've got this right!) and is the brew that has been made for hundreds of years. Mead is, as stated, a honey concoction and whilst you could probably find ale and mead it will be in a very few specialist pubs. We have an organisation called 'Camra' that was founded many years ago when brewers tried to phase out cask ale and replace it with chemical stuff. They have done an excellent job and it is a direct result that we have so many micro brewers. I keep going on about chemical beers, this is beer that during the brewing process nitrogen and goodness knows what other gasses are introduced to give the beer a smooth creamy head, it is then pasteurised and they are called nitro kegs and guinness was the original one -sorry Troy! Cask ale is a living thing because of the yeast in it, a natural by-product is CO2 which keps the beer fresh when the cask is sealed (when not in use). The beer is dispensed by handpump, gravity or electric pump and the style varies around the country, in Troys and Ians area they probably like their beer with no head and filled to the brim, in my area we like a head on the beer that clings to the glass all the way down as it's drunk. The American brewing scene is coming on leaps and bounds in pubs that brew on the premises and several people I know have had holidays in the states with the sole purpose of drinking and checking out trains. Strange how the hobbies go together. Cheers, Kim [tup]
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