that We Buy Any Car Philip Schofield shite
― Number None, Sunday, 10 December 2017 17:23 (six years ago) link
today i learned that perpetually-irritating beer salesmen brewdog's crowdfunded expansion programme is called 'equity for punks' and now i want to kill myself
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 10:35 (six years ago) link
definitely not overvalued either
http://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/company_news/15826190.Brewdog_claims___1_8_billion_value_as_latest_fan_fundraiser_hits_target/
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 10:53 (six years ago) link
sure, why not, nothing means anything anymore
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 10:58 (six years ago) link
that brewdog stuff is stocked everywhere, but I've never actually seen anyone drinking it. I had some on a train once and thought it was overpriced piss in a small can. For £2.57 Asda sell 4 packs of continental style lager in small cans that is much superior.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:10 (six years ago) link
i've had some of their punk ipa and it's fine i guess but it's called 'punk ipa' ffs
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:19 (six years ago) link
It's called punk IPA and it's subtitled "a post-modern brew" or some shitTheir beer is terrible imo
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:21 (six years ago) link
here are the founders of brewdog fyi
https://digitalnewsroom.media/uploads/2014/01/Martin-and-James-logo.jpg
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:22 (six years ago) link
one of their pubs is just round the corner from where i work and the windows look v smashable
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:23 (six years ago) link
Brewdog beer is pretty good but there are literally hundreds of beers that taste broadly like that now and their entire brand image is abysmal. They have a (virtually) zero alcohol beer called Nanny State, which should tell you everything.
Unfortunately it's the only stuff like that you can get in Sainsbury's and a lot of local off-licenses.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:24 (six years ago) link
I was bought a bottle of Punk IPA for my birthday once so I acted grateful and later drank it and I thought it was ok but no way would I buy this nonsense
― hard to be a spod (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:26 (six years ago) link
Brewdog beer is pretty good but there are literally hundreds of beers that taste broadly like that now and their entire brand image is abysmal.
yeah, that
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:27 (six years ago) link
They've been around so long now they should be well into the Plaintively Whining About Where Is The New Punk IPA phase by now.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:29 (six years ago) link
My friend was raving about how delicious their "Elvis juice" is so I got a pint and it tastes like fucking rancid lilt
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:30 (six years ago) link
elvis... juice?
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:31 (six years ago) link
Yeah I don't even wanna know their process there
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:32 (six years ago) link
i wonder how many brands' sales would plummet if you were forced to put a photograph of the owners on all yr merchandise
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:34 (six years ago) link
An American IPA with a bitter edge that will push your citrus tolerance to the brink and back; Elvis Juice is loaded with tart pithy grapefruit peel. This IPA has a caramel malt base, supporting a full frontal citrus overload - grapefruit peel piled on top of intense us aroma hops. Waves of crashing pine, orange and grapefruit round out this citrus infused IPA.
'fucking rancid lilt' seems v otm, keep your fucking fruit out of my beer u shits
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:35 (six years ago) link
I almost feel proud that their shit often ends up on the reductions section in my local Onestop. If it isn't Stella or high strength cider in a blue bottle, local pissheads aren't going to extra to be "punks".
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:38 (six years ago) link
I have had some citrus-y beers recently and quite liked them. I also like that banana beer you can get in supermarkets. I am a disgusting savage. Haven't tried Brewdog one though because fuck Brewdog.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:38 (six years ago) link
yeah I wd drink a grapefruit beer that wasn't punk
― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:40 (six years ago) link
Grapefruit wtf? I thought Elvis was more into peanut butter and bacon
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:40 (six years ago) link
i realised last year that my preference for coffee- or chocolate-flavoured stouts and plus früüüli was bcz i actually don't really like beer at all but do like chocolate, coffee and strawberries
lots of lagers taste like banana anyway, apparently someone called esther is responsible (this is my attempt at a smoothie-aesthetic joke obv)
― mark s, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link
Fruit beer is mostly rank and there's some woeful stunty crap available these days but a dark beer w2ith coffee or chocolate in there is a wonderful thing. I had a chocolate milk stout on New Year's Eve that was astonishing.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:45 (six years ago) link
lager definitely improved with fruit flavour
― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:45 (six years ago) link
obv tho I am largely about the drunkening rather than the taking my palate for an adventure
― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:46 (six years ago) link
That German rasperry beer that is sold in bottles delightfully wrapped in paper, I think it is called Bacchus, that is some nice shit and as aesthetically pleasing as bottled beer can get imo.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:48 (six years ago) link
litre of Radler on a summer's day FTW
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:50 (six years ago) link
Re drunkening you can get 4 bottles of 6.5/7% ales for £6 in Morrisons and I don't think I've had one I didn't like, so I'm probably not the most sophisticated beer drinker.
Had a couple of coffee-flavour beers recently, an ale and a porter, didn't really like the ale but the porter was quite good. Helps that I really like porter in general probably.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:51 (six years ago) link
Nasty over hopped pish which sadly makes it to Australia where it is indistinguishable from the rest of the nasty over hopped pish that is craft beer. It’s probably for the best I don’t really drink beer any more.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:53 (six years ago) link
I can't deal with ale hangovers, so having cheap tastes completely suits me as a crass, tasteless pisshead bum.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:54 (six years ago) link
sometimes i wonder if i'm wrong about liking the taste of whatever crap I happen to be drinking or eating but then I stop worrying about it because
― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:55 (six years ago) link
https://www.chemistryworld.com/feature/beer-music-to-your-taste-buds/3008206.articleThis is quite a good intro to the compounds & interactions that affect a beer's tasteI think there are a lot of really nice very hoppy beers that don't have the signature metallic taste of your brew dogs
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:59 (six years ago) link
Yeah, brewdog stuff is generally... better than I'd like, given how laughable their marketing is ("fucking hell, punk beer! No reverse gear on this trip baby!"), but it doesn't rise to the level of 'good'. Too metallic as wins says.
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 12:40 (six years ago) link
Anyway, for all their marketing, an enthusiasm for Brewdog stuff is a pretty sure marker of a total normie (a term I never ever used until a few months ago, but am increasingly finding indispensable), one of those ironies that isn't actually that ironic.
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 12:48 (six years ago) link
I was just gonna say I know quite a few alt/punk kids that buy into it, I dunno if it's just for norms unless we travel down the "'alt' as normative" wormhole
― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 12:54 (six years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41AuZCog0uL._SX300_.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:21 (six years ago) link
I know quite a few alt/punk kids that buy into it
kids these days eh
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
I say kids, they'll be somewhere between actual kids and my age so y'know
― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:29 (six years ago) link
anyway out here in the provinces we're a long way from reaching that post-hipsters cynicism that so many posters here like to affect, people are still loving drinking over-priced concept beer out of jam jars on wobbly tables as far as I'm aware, I keep out of them places
― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:31 (six years ago) link
i wish it was affected tbrrwu, i'd like to straight-up enjoy something for once
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:33 (six years ago) link
can't even drink a pint without reflecting on the ills of capitalism nowadays
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:34 (six years ago) link
They have cans of punk ipa in Tesco in Ely, never tried it, but it seems to have reached the sticks already.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:34 (six years ago) link
Love me a wobbly table
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:35 (six years ago) link
doesn't get more real england than a wobbly table
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:36 (six years ago) link
Don't love me a jam jar (for drinking out of, fine for containing preserves)
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:36 (six years ago) link
also good for saving your ejaculate in so that you can dunk your my little ponies in it iirc
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:37 (six years ago) link
look forward to brewdog's forthcoming 'pony cum' pale ale, hitting shelves in march
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:38 (six years ago) link
omfg
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:38 (six years ago) link
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― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link