I have just been down to the local bottle shop here in Townsville and I 
notice they had 500ml bottles of Sneck Lifter ale brewed by Jennings 
Brothers, Castle Brewery, Cockermouth, Cumbria.  It did cost a fortune 
($7.50 a bottle) but I bought a few and have them in the fridge cooling down 
at present.  This will be my first Jennings since my last trip to the old 
dart when I had a Jennings with Ian Z.  I have never seen it before in Oz.
Ray

"Ray Ingham"  wrote in message
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> I have just been down to the local bottle shop here in Townsville and I
> notice they had 500ml bottles of Sneck Lifter ale brewed by Jennings
> Brothers, Castle Brewery, Cockermouth, Cumbria.  It did cost a fortune
> ($7.50 a bottle) but I bought a few and have them in the fridge cooling
down
> at present.  This will be my first Jennings since my last trip to the old
> dart when I had a Jennings with Ian Z.  I have never seen it before in Oz.
> Ray
>

Well, THAT'S BIG news, Ray. Are you sozzled now? Gowan, tell us all. Was it
good beer? Are you sitting on your backside under a coolibar tree singing
Once a jolly swag man camped by a billabong,  while passers by look on and
take pictures, wondering if you've gone 'round the bend. I bet you are.

Edith bets.

> I have just been down to the local bottle shop here in
> Townsville and I notice they had 500ml bottles of Sneck
> Lifter ale brewed by Jennings Brothers, Castle Brewery,
> Cockermouth, Cumbria.  It did cost a fortune ($7.50 a
> bottle) but I bought a few and have them in the fridge
> cooling down at present.  This will be my first Jennings
> since my last trip to the old dart when I had a Jennings
> with Ian Z.  I have never seen it before in Oz. Ray 


I wonder if they'll start selling Jennings here in Canada?

I'll go around to the store on the way home and have a look. We 
need some beer in the house regardless.

Johnny-Canuck

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On 9 Jul 2005 10:10:00 -0500, Johnny@ominous.portent wrote:


>> I have just been down to the local bottle shop here in
>> Townsville and I notice they had 500ml bottles of Sneck
>> Lifter ale brewed by Jennings Brothers, Castle Brewery,
>> Cockermouth, Cumbria.  It did cost a fortune ($7.50 a
>> bottle) but I bought a few and have them in the fridge
>> cooling down at present.  This will be my first Jennings
>> since my last trip to the old dart when I had a Jennings
>> with Ian Z.  I have never seen it before in Oz. Ray 
>
>I wonder if they'll start selling Jennings here in Canada?
>
>I'll go around to the store on the way home and have a look. We 
>need some beer in the house regardless.
>
>Johnny-Canuck


For the full flavour, DON'T cool it too much.

J.
(Back from darkest Africa: saw all sorts of howling and growling things).

"JH"  wrote in message
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> On 9 Jul 2005 10:10:00 -0500, Johnny@ominous.portent wrote:
>
> >> I have just been down to the local bottle shop here in
> >> Townsville and I notice they had 500ml bottles of Sneck
> >> Lifter ale brewed by Jennings Brothers, Castle Brewery,
> >> Cockermouth, Cumbria.  It did cost a fortune ($7.50 a
> >> bottle) but I bought a few and have them in the fridge
> >> cooling down at present.  This will be my first Jennings
> >> since my last trip to the old dart when I had a Jennings
> >> with Ian Z.  I have never seen it before in Oz. Ray
> >
> >I wonder if they'll start selling Jennings here in Canada?
> >
> >I'll go around to the store on the way home and have a look. We
> >need some beer in the house regardless.
> >
> >Johnny-Canuck
>
> For the full flavour, DON'T cool it too much.
>
> J.
> (Back from darkest Africa: saw all sorts of howling and growling things).
>

AFRICA! The man's crackers. Tell us about it. Where were you.? Pity none of
those growling things got yuh. Tell.Did you ride an elephant, J?

Edith.

On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 17:25:20 +0100, JH wrote:


> For the full flavour, DON'T cool it too much.


Quite it's a real beer not lager. Lager needs to be just above 
freezing point so you *can't* taste the damn stuff. Beer should be at 
cellar temperature, about 55F or 12C. Fridges are below 5C far to cold 
for real beer.

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JH wrote:

>
> J.
> (Back from darkest Africa: saw all sorts of howling and growling
> things).


you came back too soon mate, she's still babbling on about the friggin'
verandah.

Al



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"Dave Liquorice"  wrote in message 
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> On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 17:25:20 +0100, JH wrote:
>
>> For the full flavour, DON'T cool it too much.
>
> Quite it's a real beer not lager. Lager needs to be just above
> freezing point so you *can't* taste the damn stuff. Beer should be at
> cellar temperature, about 55F or 12C. Fridges are below 5C far to cold
> for real beer.
>
> -- 
> Cheers                                              new5pam@howhill.com
> Dave.                                             pam is missing e-mail
>
>

I think it is against the law to drink non icy cold beer in Australia. 
Particularly so in North Queensland!!
Ray

> For the full flavour, DON'T cool it too much.
> 
> J.
> (Back from darkest Africa: saw all sorts of howling and
> growling things). 


They didn't have any Jennings. Bought some Molson Export for a 
certain friend for when he comes over, and some raspberry 
tequila coolers for the missus and some Kilkenny for myself.

Our fridge is 4C, our house is 24C inside thanks to a/c and 
outside it's 32C. We don't have a beer fridge at a decent 
temperature. If you ever come over here, be prepared. Beer is 
served "ice-cold". When it's 32C outside, there's some merit to 
that.

Hope you had a great time on the dark continent. Oops, is that a 
forbiddent non-PC term?

Johnny-deepest-darkest-Ontario

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> On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 17:25:20 +0100, JH wrote:
> 
>> For the full flavour, DON'T cool it too much.
> 
> Quite it's a real beer not lager. Lager needs to be just
> above freezing point so you *can't* taste the damn stuff.
> Beer should be at cellar temperature, about 55F or 12C.
> Fridges are below 5C far to cold for real beer.


Canadian beer is nothing like your real beer. The cold kills the 
taste. So that's a good thing.

Johnny-ex-Canadian-beer-drinker

PS, Canadian beer is still beer though, unlike American 'beer'.

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"Alfred Packer"  wrote in message
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> JH wrote:
> >
> > J.
> > (Back from darkest Africa: saw all sorts of howling and growling
> > things).
>
> you came back too soon mate, she's still babbling on about the friggin'
> verandah.
>
> Al


Hey! So the furniture is piled up in a corner and the tiles are up again and
it has to dry for a week or more. It
s
finished....................................................................
....................................................................... me
thinks.

EDith.

ps Muggins.

<Johnny@ominous.portent> wrote in message
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> > On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 17:25:20 +0100, JH wrote:
> >
> >> For the full flavour, DON'T cool it too much.
> >
> > Quite it's a real beer not lager. Lager needs to be just
> > above freezing point so you *can't* taste the damn stuff.
> > Beer should be at cellar temperature, about 55F or 12C.
> > Fridges are below 5C far to cold for real beer.
>
> Canadian beer is nothing like your real beer. The cold kills the
> taste. So that's a good thing.
>
> Johnny-ex-Canadian-beer-drinker
>
> PS, Canadian beer is still beer though, unlike American 'beer'.


It's unbelievable. A man goes to Africa for a holiday and the only thread he
can start is one about beer. I'm in shock.

Edith.

On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 19:37:58 +0200, "The Traveller" 
wrote:


>> (Back from darkest Africa: saw all sorts of howling and growling things).
>>
>AFRICA! The man's crackers. Tell us about it. Where were you.? Pity none of
>those growling things got yuh. Tell.Did you ride an elephant, J?
>
>Edith.
>


Oh where to start. Our first Hols for 4 years: we went to SA for 4 weeks:
stayed with new relos (new son-inlaw from Howick in Kwazulu Natal). Went to
coast, mountains, bush etc. Saw lions, elephant, (you don't ride African
Elephants, well, not the wild ones: unless you are pretty foolish); rhino,
baboons, vervet monkeys, hyenas, impala, kudu, buffalo, the tail of a
leopard disappearing into the bush, duiker, loads of birds including black
eagle, vultures, kingfishers, honey buzzard. 
Trip of a lifetime, made even better by staying with "real" people.

Came back to a scorching Lake District (hotter than Africa).

TTFN

On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 19:23:07 -0500, "Alfred Packer"
 wrote:


>JH wrote:
>>
>> J.
>> (Back from darkest Africa: saw all sorts of howling and growling
>> things).
>
>you came back too soon mate, she's still babbling on about the friggin'
>verandah.
>
>Al


:-) 
Same old uklc.

J.

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:28:52 GMT, Ray Ingham wrote:


> I think it is against the law to drink non icy cold beer in 
> Australia. Particularly so in North Queensland!!


But "beer" in Oz isn't real beer it's a lager of some description. 
Lagers have little decent flavour so they have to served cold so you 
can't tell they are flavourless gnats pee. (Can you tell I don't like 
lager...)

http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Beer
http://www.soggycat.com/recipes.htm

Just a small glass at the end...

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On 9 Jul 2005 20:39:20 -0500, Johnny@ominous.portent wrote:


> Our fridge is 4C, 


OK for lager...


> our house is 24C inside thanks to a/c and outside it's 32C. 


A fairly steady 22C even with it getting to the high 20's yesterday, 
just a shade under 25C today. No air con, just good solid stone 
construction, keeps the inside cool in summer and warm in winter (but 
don't turn the heating off as it takes several days to warm back 
up...)

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JH  wrote:

>
> Oh where to start. Our first Hols for 4 years: we went to SA for 4
> weeks: stayed with new relos.....


Picked up some of the local dialect I see....

Kezzi. . .

> A fairly steady 22C even with it getting to the high 20's
> yesterday, just a shade under 25C today. No air con, just
> good solid stone construction, keeps the inside cool in
> summer and warm in winter (but don't turn the heating off
> as it takes several days to warm back up...)


There's nothing like stone, even over here. I once called about 
a stone house for sale near here that I love the look of. Nearly 
a million dollars - four times what my larger house is worth.

In summer our houses don't cool off overnight. They are so well 
insulated that if you let the heat in during the day it stays 
with you and you cannot sleep. There's no breeze most nights so 
opening the windows doesn't help. Keeping it cool with a/c is 
the only civilzed thing to do. We have air-to-air exchangers 
which mean we have fresh air regardless of the sealed up doors 
and windows.

Johnny-blue-sky-32C

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"JH"  wrote in message
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> On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 19:37:58 +0200, "The Traveller" 
> wrote:
>
> >> (Back from darkest Africa: saw all sorts of howling and growling
things).
> >>
> >AFRICA! The man's crackers. Tell us about it. Where were you.? Pity none
of
> >those growling things got yuh. Tell.Did you ride an elephant, J?
> >
> >Edith.
> >
>
> Oh where to start. Our first Hols for 4 years: we went to SA for 4 weeks:
> stayed with new relos (new son-inlaw from Howick in Kwazulu Natal). Went
to
> coast, mountains, bush etc. Saw lions, elephant, (you don't ride African
> Elephants, well, not the wild ones: unless you are pretty foolish); rhino,
> baboons, vervet monkeys, hyenas, impala, kudu, buffalo, the tail of a
> leopard disappearing into the bush, duiker, loads of birds including black
> eagle, vultures, kingfishers, honey buzzard.
> Trip of a lifetime, made even better by staying with "real" people.
>
> Came back to a scorching Lake District (hotter than Africa).
>
> TTFN
>

You appreciate real people too, J. I bet that holiday did you the world of
good. Not to mention coming back to Cumbrian sunshine. Awiting more details.

Earthly Edith. (not snipping)

"Kezzi" <dirty_s@nchez> wrote in message
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> JH  wrote:
> >
> > Oh where to start. Our first Hols for 4 years: we went to SA for 4
> > weeks: stayed with new relos.....
>
> Picked up some of the local dialect I see....
>
> Kezzi. . .
>

Relo. Brilos. What's the different.

Edith.

>>
>>> For the full flavour, DON'T cool it too much.
>>
>> Quite it's a real beer not lager. Lager needs to be just
>> above freezing point so you *can't* taste the damn stuff.
>> Beer should be at cellar temperature, about 55F or 12C.
>> Fridges are below 5C far to cold for real beer.
>
> Canadian beer is nothing like your real beer. The cold kills the
> taste. So that's a good thing.
>
> Johnny-ex-Canadian-beer-drinker
>
> PS, Canadian beer is still beer though, unlike American 'beer'.
>

Hey!  Oh, guess you're right.  Since discovering Bitter I have to agree.  If 
you get Sam Adams cold enough (we're talking ice crystals here) it's 
drinkable.  For lack of anything better.  I do like Molson Export when I can 
find it.

Discovering Jennings at the local liquor store would be like Christmas.

Tania

There seems to be some sort of mis-understanding about newsgroups.
In an effort to broaden your understanding and I  wonder if I
could explain the function of < uk.local.*> news groups. All of them,
have been from the very beginning and will be to the very end safe
play areas for all sorts of rageing nutters, social malcontents,
controll freaks and malevolent beings. 

You may feel that they should go elsewhere but where? The asylums are
all closed. What would YOU  have off them? 

Standing in their back yards at midnight howling to the full moon and
frighting the shite out of the neighbours into the bargain? 

Have them running around shafting masons, suspected werewolves,
communists, socialists, conservatives and women with vaginal warts by
the  dozen? OR harmlessly making utter cunts of themselves in a
uk.local group?

 Lets face it what is one other utter cunt amongst the many in this
group?? I know what I prefer!! The uk.local hierarchy of newsgroups is
a valuable safety valve which helps to keep society a wee bit more
safe. 

You may disagree. I would be interested to hear your opinion and no
doubt would the rest of the group. 

Thanks in advance.