Druidry; beer or ice tea?

[Snægl]

Mead surely!

I'm seconding this!

[Tyriell_Whisperwind]

tea 90% of the time, beer occasionally usually at night or socially with friends but i will share this with you, i usually save this beer for the sabbats:
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and i usually drink it in this:
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[Dathi]

Guinness really "is good for you"!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3266819.stm


Commercial site, but it has a comprehensive collection of old-time Guinness adverts.
http://www.irishinspiration.com/acatalo ... aques.html

Dathi

[Twig]

Hey! Not ALL beer made in the US is bad. We've got several craft breweries here in Texas that produce some fine ales. I confess that I do like a couple of good beers on the week-end. But now that I'm past middle-aged, I am fighting the battle of the bulge, and a glass of dry red wine has fewer calories than a bottle of beer. So, I drink wine more often for that reason. <sigh> But, please. No wine from a box!

I love iced tea, but the caffeine is a problem. So, I usually have to pass it up.

So, in summation, I'm not sure how you'd count my vote, Merlyn. I'm thinking a "yes" for beer?"

[Merlyn]

Oh yes there are many very good American beers.
They are not found at 7-11 is all.

There are thousands of microbreweries and major brewers that are amazing, and that said I love the brews from all over the world as well.
I 'm not much of a tea drinker, occasional at best.

[Mudpaw]

As I got older, I transitioned from drinking a lot of mediocre beer, to drinking a bit of good beer . When we moved to England seven years ago, I walked into a pub and had an IPA hand pulled from the cellar. That was like drinking the essence of God, and it was just a run of the mill pub pint. Since then, I’ve explored the great beers of the British Isles and have found heaven in the pint glass .

I’ve been all over the world, and while I do enjoy a few American beers (Stone Brewery), some Mexican beers (Dos Equis), and the many wonderful continental beers from Belgium, Germany, etc…, I firmly believe the best beers in the world are made right here in the UK . There is nothing like a good pint of ale, and Scotland, Wales, and England all make wonderful contributions to the ‘real ale’ scene.

As far as tea, I also transitioned from the iced tea I used to consume by the gallons in Florida, to the nice hot cuppa (my favorite it PG Tips).

Since it’s difficult to find real ale and PG Tips in the States (and when you do, you pretty much need to take out a second mortgage to finance the purchase ) I feel very fortunate to be in my own beer Mecca.

As I start my Druid training, I wonder if the experience will be more like beer or tea. I imagine it will be a bit of both.

In a sense, I’m like the tea leaf, and I’ll use the hot water of the gwers to release my flavor. However, the release of flavor alone may just be a good starting point.

I expect that, like good ale, this druid path will be an intricate, complex process. Just as the tea’s flavor is released, hot water will be used to release the wort from my partially germinated grain (my inquisitive mind, my preconceptions perhaps?). Then only after sugar and yeast are added (training) and fermentation occurs (meditation and introspection) does the Druid ale start to take on its own flavors - flavors that are unique because of the nuances in the brewing process. As the process nears completion, the Druid ale is racked and then bottled (stored potential?). Once the Druid ale has been bottled, and the yeast has separated and settled, the Druid ale is crystal clear. Now this ale is ready to be poured and shared (the ability to tutor, mentor others).

Oh no, all this beer talk! There’s a bottle of Fuller’s London Pride in the kitchen just calling out to me! (must wait ‘til this evening, must wait ‘til this evening, must wait ‘til this evening)

[Nightfalls]

On a hot day, which is fairly often down here, I drink sweet tea. YES SWEET TEA!
If I'm out at night with my friends, and trying to pace myself lol, then its Sam Adams Seasonal. I have not yet tried but have heard good things about Fat Tire beer and Avalanche Ale. Maybe next year when i go to Colorado for snowboarding
Oh and after a Rugby match there is always the traditional Guinness Chug between the forward, back, and man of the match (and the wooden spoon or F-Up of the match)

[FoxPhantom]

I have never drink beer before. ( I tried non alcoholic wine, but it made the middle of my tongue tingly and the taste was bitter to me).

I can take iced tea, so long as it as some sugar to sweeten it. ( and I enjoy chai tea)

[Alatariel]

Two words - 'Lemony Cricket'.

Far outstrips any IPA.

Sadly it's cask only and only available from June to September at select pubs throughout the home counties.

[Spirit Bear]

I never drink any kind of alcohol and if you mean by Icetea the commercial one, I don't like that either - to much sugar.
I do like plain water, a good herbal tea or selfmade icetea and Earl Grey.
And that from someone living in Belgium, the land of Beer...

[Nikki 2]

Beer - ugh! Tea,tea and more tea! Hot, sweet and with milk.

[Oneonine]

Hey! Not ALL beer made in the US is bad. We've got several craft breweries here in Texas that produce some fine ales.

Are your craft breweries (we call them micro-breweries I think) making pasteurized beers?

I don't understand the English obsession with beer at room tempreture.

Perfect would have to be real ale for me. Cold, but not ice cold.

[Merlyn]

If it has to be ice cold (brew) than it's just fire brewed crud.
Such is the mass brewed rice beer and such.

Yes, we do have many amazing brewers in America, and like anywhere else, it is local and absolutely great with brick oven pizza (yum)

[Oneonine]

On a hot day, which is fairly often down here, I drink sweet tea. YES SWEET TEA!

I love lychee red tea just now. I suppose it should be drunk with nothing in it, but I take it with milk and sugar like my usual breakfast tea. Maybe a bit less sugar, it is naturally sweeter anyway.

[Frog]

I don't understand the English obsession with beer at room tempreture.

Err, it's not just English - if you look at some of the Bavarian beers it's the same. The difference, I would suggest, is down to the type of beer being drunk. If you move to the lighter coloured beers (lagers, summer session ales) then cooler is better - although there does seem to be a real focus on "chilled" beers, which I generally find are tasteless at the colder temperatures.

As you start to warm the beer, then you start to release the flavours and smells (not unlike wines) - and then as you head to the more complex bitters and then through to the porters and winter ales then the warmer beer is far more rewarding.

Having said that, the annual Great British Beer Festival (which supplies hundreds of beers from all round the world) quite often employs chiller blankets to assist in maintaining a slightly less than room temperature barrel.


Cheers!
Frog

[wolf560]

I enjoy a good Beer (or cider or wine for that matter).
I also enjoy a good iced tea (sweetened)

But to quench my thirst at its height I would have to say Lemonade..!!!

[cat]

aye a good pint of black rat cider

else it have to be tea though which one as there are so many like fresh hot mint tea at the moment


The cold beer thing it's cold n wet enough over here in the autum winter spring that beer don't need it to make us chillyer brrrr.

[cat]

ok how about

tea beer

you can make tea into wine so beer must be possible

or yuk beer tea

beer minus the alcahol served hot oh thats probably a marmite drink

er i think it time for my bed getting silly again