Tonights Beer.

I'm still waiting my first batch so tonights ale is

Sneck Lifter and Meantime Pale Ale. It's Saturday so I've treated myself to 3 of each.


A dark beer with a reddish tinge, derived from the use of coloured malts, perfectly balanced with specially formulated brewing sugars and English aromatic hops.

A strong, satisfying ale, wonderfully warming and full of complex flavours, which create an intriguing beer of great character.


First introduced in 1990 as a winter warmer, Jennings Sneck Lifter has become a firm favourite of the portfolio.

In northern dialect sneck means door latch and a sneck lifter was a man's last sixpence which enabled him to lift the latch of a pub door and buy himself a pint, hoping to meet friends there who might treat him to one or two more.

Available in 9 and 18 gallon casks. Also available in 500ml bottles.

Jam packed with English Fuggles and Goldings, the beer is brewed with as many hops as we can physically get into the copper. We then fill the lauter tun with hops for a further infusion and then we dry hop with the beer with even more hops using our own unique circulation process to ensure maximum contact between the bops and the body of the beer. All this gives us a final hopping rate of well over 2lbs of hops per barrel.

English is a Germanic language.

In German "schnecken" means "snails".

homebrewer_99 said:

English is a Germanic language.

In German "schnecken" means "snails".

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A tell thee. Non so queer a' folk. Germanic yes. A THOUSAND years later after the celts gave up to the romans we had angles, saxons, vikings, normans. We managed to shake off the last invasion of the krauts despite the 'hershey bars and nylons' stories of our great grandmas and the US invasion! Orfy is right. Regional dialects....

Like it or not, from the Germans. You're more like cousins than you want to admit. The Saxons were German!

Whether you know it or not, you've had Germans sitting on the "British" throne before. The last German as I remember it came from Coberg Saxony (Sachsen) during the 1800's, if memory serves me correctly.

Tonight's beer: Spaten Oktoberfest Marzen!

So HB99, just exactly where are you drinking this Spaten Oktoberfest Marzen.
As memory serves me , it ain't at home.

orfy said:

First introduced in 1990 as a winter warmer, Jennings Sneck Lifter has become a firm favourite of the portfolio.

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I'd buy it just for the bottle. Looks like a warmer to me.

Sudster said:

So HB99, just exactly where are you drinking this Spaten Oktoberfest Marzen.
As memory serves me , it ain't at home.

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Yes, it is.

I picked up a couple of cases when I was in PA week before last. (The US Gov't ships it in through AAFES).

A couple cases, sounds like you'll be home for a couple days ,Huh?

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I picked up a couple of cases when I was in PA week before last. (The US Gov't ships it in through AAFES).

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The Costco near my house has it right now too - 19.99/case.

HB99 doesn't have to pay taxes on it so he probably gets for about 12-13$ a case.

Sudster said:

HB99 doesn't have to pay taxes on it so he probably gets for about 12-13$ a case.

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I wish! It actually cost more thanthe Costco price.

Too bad I wasn't in FL.

Like I said I purchased it through the Gov't system, AAFES, the Army, Air Force Exchange System, which everyone knows it really stands Another Agency F*cking Every Servicemember.

Man! how things have changed.

Yeah. Even when I was overseas I had to show my wife that food was cheaper on the economy.

I think she just liked to shop AAFES because she could speak English.

Twas nice, (The beer)

And yes there's a lot of German blood in the Royal Family and the average "Anglo" blood line fizzled out and got mixed up from 900ad onwards.
There was a some widening of the Gene pool with Europeans around the time of the Romans as well. 400 AD(ish) Then we had the Vikings as well.

But when it comes down to it if you go back far enough they reckon we all cam from north and centralAafrica anyway.

Sneck Lifter........
The last sixpence am man had got him into the pub (Door opener) old northern English for door latch was "Sneck" hence "Sneck Lifter"

Actually, I think Julius Caesar and the Romans were there in 50 BCE.

Constantine became Emperor in the early 300s AD in York.

I'm Irish and English myself. I don't think any of us are pure.

Quite Right,

By 400 AD the "Angles" had been Romanised (Tamed and interbred)

Quick history lesson of the British Isles for the goons.

Pre 55BC - Celts, Celts, Celts, General killing and trading between themselves. Bless.

55BC - Caesar did quick check on the South Coast of England for Cash, got battered by the local Celt tribe and when home after his little 'Road Trip'

46AD - The Romans came back for the real invasion after reading Caesar's expense claims and decided it looked good, took advantage of the 'pre 55BC situation' (i.e. celts too busy killing themselves to worry about the new boys on the block) and stayed for about 3 Centuries.

400AD(ish) - 'Any legionnares in here for an olive oil rub in the spa for a few Quadrans?' 'Ok, anyone here claiming to be Roman?' 'OK, i'll get my cloak....'

'Romans' gone

DARK AGES begin with the lack of Roman Legions and the increasing invasions of the ANGLES and SAXONS.

VIKINGS, NORMANS, EASTERN EUROPEANS, INDIANS, WEST INDIANS, PAKISTANIS ETC ETC (in a rough order) joined the fun afterwards to make the Germanic Language of the UK so much fun....... I ALWAYS Make sure my door is full of Snails before getting out of the house!!!!

Anyway forget the Germans, Look to the old Russia. The bolsheviks knew how to treat Royal Families anyway.....

Yup........

Caplan said:

Quick history lesson of the British Isles for the goons.

Pre 55BC - Celts, Celts, Celts, General killing and trading between themselves. Bless.

55BC - Caesar did quick check on the South Coast of England for Cash, got battered by the local Celt tribe and when home after his little 'Road Trip'

46AD - The Romans came back for the real invasion after reading Caesar's expense claims and decided it looked good, took advantage of the 'pre 55BC situation' (i.e. celts too busy killing themselves to worry about the new boys on the block) and stayed for about 3 Centuries.

400AD(ish) - 'Any legionnares in here for an olive oil rub in the spa for a few Quadrans?' 'Ok, anyone here claiming to be Roman?' 'OK, i'll get my cloak....'

'Romans' gone

DARK AGES begin with the lack of Roman Legions and the increasing invasions of the ANGLES and SAXONS.

VIKINGS, NORMANS, EASTERN EUROPEANS, INDIANS, WEST INDIANS, PAKISTANIS ETC ETC (in a rough order) joined the fun afterwards to make the Germanic Language of the UK so much fun....... I ALWAYS Make sure my door is full of Snails before getting out of the house!!!!

Anyway forget the Germans, Look to the old Russia. The bolsheviks knew how to treat Royal Families anyway.....

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You've been watching the History Channel again, haven't you?

Heck the BBC will teach you all that.

Guys, how many times do I have to tell you. I don't have time to watch the History Channel or the BBC. I'm too busy with my 'Love Boat' collection....

Did you ever notice that the vast majority of the programming on the History channel is about WWII and the Nazi party? My friends and I jokingly call it the Hitlery Channel.

-walker

Hey Walker brought the Germans back into this - Not me!

Es tut mir leid. Ich halte sofort die Klappe.

-walker

Where's HB99 with the translations now? Captain Merrill Stubing... what i guy.....

translation (rough, b/c I use a decent bit of german slang):

I'm sorry. I'm shutting the hell up immediately.

Direct translation (which make little sense):

It does me harm. I am stopping the clabberboard immediately.

-walker

I got the 'I'm sorry' bit Walker, my German is terrrible despite my Father being more than fluent in it. I personally never want you to shut up Old Boy! Any idea what a 'clabberboard' is? I haven't....

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I'm sorry. I'm shutting the hell up immediately.-walker

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Das ubersetz ist recht. (The translation is correct)

Sorry, I was late. I just got in from work.

homebrewer_99 said:

Das ubersetz ist recht. (The translation is correct)

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I hate to be a stickler for the rules here, but I think you meant

Das Uebersetzung ist richtig.

Caplan said:

Any idea what a 'clabberboard' is? I haven't....

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I actually meant "clapperboard". It's that thing they use in Hollywood and TV to log what scene and movie is being shot. You know... the black-and-white board with stuff written on it and the little piece at the top that they use when saying "The Art of Brewing, scene 8, take 3"... CLAP

I looked the word up just now in a more general sense, and it basically means anything that flaps or claps... like my mouth, for example.

-walker

Walker said:

I actually meant "clapperboard".

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I guessed you may have meant that but I was hoping for a whole new take on stealing this thread into deaper realms with a new spark!

And just as a side note to the 'Sneck Lifter' story where i come from it's pronounced as 'snack' - i.e. "you out lad? Put snack on't door.." Not sure you guy's get the northern dialects of the UK - I'm still learning US regional ones (from the love boat episodes as well as here )

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I hate to be a stickler for the rules here, but I think you meant

Das Uebersetzung ist richtig.

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Ja, stimmt. Schuldig. Und ich will "Ü" gegen "Ue" benutze.

Viel spaß!

homebrewer_99 said:

Ja, stimmt. Schuldig. Und ich will "Ü" gegen "Ue" benutze.

Viel spaß!

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I would go ahead and agree with HB99 on this one..he's got some real big guns!

Sudster said:

I would go ahead and agree with HB99 on this one..he's got some real big guns!

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Yeah, my 155 mm howitzer and 120mm mortar...just for backup mind you...

I'll be heading off to Korea on 15 Oct so I'll be out of the loop for a couple of weeks after that unless I get get my hands on a PC.

homebrewer_99 said:

Yeah, my 155 mm howitzer and 120mm mortar...just for backup mind you...

I'll be heading off to Korea on 15 Oct so I'll be out of the loop for a couple of weeks after that unless I get get my hands on a PC.

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Surely that howitzer has an embedded PC with WIFI.

homebrewer_99 said:

Yeah, my 155 mm howitzer and 120mm mortar...just for backup mind you...

I'll be heading off to Korea on 15 Oct so I'll be out of the loop for a couple of weeks after that unless I get get my hands on a PC.

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Whats the diffrence between a howitzer and a mortar? I have mortar fireworks so i think i get the concept of that but i dont know what a howitzer is.

A howitzer is a gun that can shoot from low to high angle (a high trajectory). They are used for shooting over mountains, ergo, an "indirect fire" weapon because you usually never see your target. There's a Forward Observer telling you where your rounds are landing and then relays more info to the Fire Direction Center who recomputes the numbers to allow you to walk your bullets onto the target.

Technically, a mortar is a shorter range howitzer.

A tank on the other hand, is a "direct fire" weapon where you see your target to hit it (first hopefully).

I tried to keep it simple, but I've been drinking.

El Pistolero said:

Surely that howitzer has an embedded PC with WIFI.

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Almost, but not quite there yet...

homebrewer_99 said:

Yeah, my 155 mm howitzer and 120mm mortar...just for backup mind you...

I'll be heading off to Korea on 15 Oct so I'll be out of the loop for a couple of weeks after that unless I get get my hands on a PC.

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Ok so if thats your backup, whats your primary?

Edit: you got some pictures for us??