What's wrong with Canada?
Mar 13th 2009 | 7:51 am
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Re: What's wrong with Canada?
But lager is just a type of beer of which I would say are about 12 different styles
Wheat Beer, Lambics, Belgian Ales, Pale Ale, English Bitter, Scotish Ale, Brown Ale, Porter, Stout, Pilsner, American lager, European lager, Bock, Alt, French Ale, German Amber Ale, American Special, Smoked Beer, Barley Wine and Strong ales
and CAMRA just tend to focus on about five of them, and most of there members just one
Mar 13th 2009 | 7:56 am
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Re: What's wrong with Canada?
They would if I had used Ale and Lager, but most CAMRA members know very little about beer, they just spew retoric
But lager is just a type of beer of which I would say are about 12 different styles
Wheat Beer, Lambics, Belgian Ales, Pale Ale, English Bitter, Scotish Ale, Brown Ale, Porter, Stout, Pilsner, American lager, European lager, Bock, Alt, French Ale, German Amber Ale, American Special, Smoked Beer, Barley Wine and Strong ales
and CAMRA just tend to focus on about five of them, and most of there members just one
But lager is just a type of beer of which I would say are about 12 different styles
Wheat Beer, Lambics, Belgian Ales, Pale Ale, English Bitter, Scotish Ale, Brown Ale, Porter, Stout, Pilsner, American lager, European lager, Bock, Alt, French Ale, German Amber Ale, American Special, Smoked Beer, Barley Wine and Strong ales
and CAMRA just tend to focus on about five of them, and most of there members just one
Mar 13th 2009 | 8:45 am
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Re: What's wrong with Canada?
They would if I had used Ale and Lager, but most CAMRA members know very little about beer, they just spew retoric
But lager is just a type of beer of which I would say are about 12 different styles
Wheat Beer, Lambics, Belgian Ales, Pale Ale, English Bitter, Scotish Ale, Brown Ale, Porter, Stout, Pilsner, American lager, European lager, Bock, Alt, French Ale, German Amber Ale, American Special, Smoked Beer, Barley Wine and Strong ales
and CAMRA just tend to focus on about five of them, and most of there members just one
But lager is just a type of beer of which I would say are about 12 different styles
Wheat Beer, Lambics, Belgian Ales, Pale Ale, English Bitter, Scotish Ale, Brown Ale, Porter, Stout, Pilsner, American lager, European lager, Bock, Alt, French Ale, German Amber Ale, American Special, Smoked Beer, Barley Wine and Strong ales
and CAMRA just tend to focus on about five of them, and most of there members just one
Here is a useful local beer site (very GTA centric)
http://www.bartowel.com/
http://www.greatcanadianpubs.blogspot.com/
Mike/Souvenir..ever tried Lug Tread from Beau's Brewery in Vankleek Hill, Ontario..
Mar 13th 2009 | 9:38 am
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Re: What's wrong with Canada?
Spinnakers in Victoria serves real ale at 10C. Perfect.
Mar 13th 2009 | 10:19 am
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Re: What's wrong with Canada?
Are you a 'bitter' ex-CAMRA member. I've run into those sorts in pubs in the UK and they can be rather like train spotters in their obsessiveness in regards to beer, ABV, IBU values etc.
Here is a useful local beer site (very GTA centric)
http://www.bartowel.com/
http://www.greatcanadianpubs.blogspot.com/
Mike/Souvenir..ever tried Lug Tread from Beau's Brewery in Vankleek Hill, Ontario..
Here is a useful local beer site (very GTA centric)
http://www.bartowel.com/
http://www.greatcanadianpubs.blogspot.com/
Mike/Souvenir..ever tried Lug Tread from Beau's Brewery in Vankleek Hill, Ontario..
In my world 'Craft Beer' means the brewmaster hasn't a clue about the Biochemistry in his beer, so he has no idea why some brews go bad and why some are great, doesn't mean to say he doesn't brew great tasting beers, just that he doesn't know the 'why' and drinking it can be hit or miss
Fellows Morton and Clayton in Nottingham was a classic, when it was good it was brilliant, when it was bad it was awful, and it changed from brew to brew
I've never heard of Beau's Brewery and to be honest North American Micro breweries (not all) have a bad habit of putting in to many hops and then boiling the sh1t out of them giving rise to what I'd call a nasty hop tea with a hint of malt and alcohol
having said that I still keep trying them out
Last edited by MikeUK; Mar 13th 2009 at 10:23 am.
Mar 13th 2009 | 10:52 am
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Re: What's wrong with Canada?
Mar 13th 2009 | 10:58 am
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Mar 13th 2009 | 12:44 pm
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Re: What's wrong with Canada?
that is very true so much red tape
Mar 13th 2009 | 2:46 pm
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Re: What's wrong with Canada?
Gibberish.
Still let's see if we can deconstruct it and derive some sort of meaning.
Firstly, putting quotes around exclusive makes a lie of the term, the author knows that there aren't any exclusively cultural-specific retail developments.
One can buy a hot dog, Polish or Italian sausage at the Pacific Mall in Markham. Incidentally that's a place I first knew about because my highly Jewish office manager gets her bootleg Abercrombie scarfs there; a perfect example of cross-cultural synthesis.
Secondly, a mall in which an ethnicity predominates among the stall holders, such as the Pacific Mall, isn't actually culturally specific. The traders are nearly all Asian (Asian in American usage, not English) but that doesn't make them all the same. Even I can distinguish westernized, gadget crazy Japanese or Malaysian bimbos from Laotian Bhuddists.
Thirdly, the cultural orientation of a retail facility derives from the local population, not the other way around. Thus, the Welfare Mall (also called Gerrard Square), for example, once had mainly stores catering to white people, then to Indians and now it has mainly stores run by Vietnamese people. It's not the case that if you put up a perogie store Poles will swarm into the neighbourhood.
Fourthly, well, I was going to take a crack at "diminish overall community cohesiveness" on the basis that there isn't any to begin with but really this is just such a feeble phrase. He's a secret admirer of Jack Layton isn't he?
Still let's see if we can deconstruct it and derive some sort of meaning.
Firstly, putting quotes around exclusive makes a lie of the term, the author knows that there aren't any exclusively cultural-specific retail developments.
One can buy a hot dog, Polish or Italian sausage at the Pacific Mall in Markham. Incidentally that's a place I first knew about because my highly Jewish office manager gets her bootleg Abercrombie scarfs there; a perfect example of cross-cultural synthesis.
Secondly, a mall in which an ethnicity predominates among the stall holders, such as the Pacific Mall, isn't actually culturally specific. The traders are nearly all Asian (Asian in American usage, not English) but that doesn't make them all the same. Even I can distinguish westernized, gadget crazy Japanese or Malaysian bimbos from Laotian Bhuddists.
Thirdly, the cultural orientation of a retail facility derives from the local population, not the other way around. Thus, the Welfare Mall (also called Gerrard Square), for example, once had mainly stores catering to white people, then to Indians and now it has mainly stores run by Vietnamese people. It's not the case that if you put up a perogie store Poles will swarm into the neighbourhood.
Fourthly, well, I was going to take a crack at "diminish overall community cohesiveness" on the basis that there isn't any to begin with but really this is just such a feeble phrase. He's a secret admirer of Jack Layton isn't he?
