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Fawbish
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PostPosted: 10:11 - 29 Sep 2009    Post subject: "Nanny State" Lager! Quality. Reply with quote
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A brewer criticised for making what it claimed is Britain's strongest beer has unveiled an ale with a 1.1 per cent alcohol content, which it has called Nanny State.


BrewDog said it launched Nanny State in response to the outcry caused after launching Tokyo* with an 18.2 per cent alcohol content.


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PostPosted: 11:36 - 29 Sep 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Laughing , They should market that in the USA.

What's the problem with 18% lager (apart from it probably tastes rank)? Should Smirnoff start selling 5% Vodka?

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PostPosted: 11:49 - 29 Sep 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
yellowninja wrote:
Laughing , They should market that in the USA.

What's the problem with 18% lager (apart from it probably tastes rank)? Should Smirnoff start selling 5% Vodka?

Sometimes I'm glad I'm mortal. If the do-gooders get their way 2032 will look like a scene from Demolition Man Rolling Eyes .



Almost exactly what I said.


What the fucks the difference between that and drinker vast quantities of archers and smirnoff? (Which is what the country does anyway...)

18% is still very weak for a shot, when most stuff is between 30 and 40.


And they even said they'd be selling it by the 300ml I believe, which is a can of coke.

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PostPosted: 11:54 - 29 Sep 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Fawbish wrote:
yellowninja wrote:
Laughing , They should market that in the USA.

What's the problem with 18% lager (apart from it probably tastes rank)? Should Smirnoff start selling 5% Vodka?

Sometimes I'm glad I'm mortal. If the do-gooders get their way 2032 will look like a scene from Demolition Man Rolling Eyes .



Almost exactly what I said.


What the fucks the difference between that and drinker vast quantities of archers and smirnoff? (Which is what the country does anyway...)

18% is still very weak for a shot, when most stuff is between 30 and 40.


And they even said they'd be selling it by the 300ml I believe, which is a can of coke.

Rolling Eyes


The bottom line is that drunks will use the 18% stuff to get pissed quickly but so what? If they are drinking less volume then they won't have the same obesity problems, which makes the liver transplant easier.

You'll never stop people abusing alcohol, an 18% beer is neither going to exacerbate nor reduce the problem. The Nanny State comeback is class Mr. Green

Cheers

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PostPosted: 12:11 - 29 Sep 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
yellowninja wrote:
Laughing , They should market that in the USA.

What's the problem with 18% lager (apart from it probably tastes rank)? Should Smirnoff start selling 5% Vodka?


tokyo is a porter/stout and like almost all of brewdogs beers is an edge too fizzy for what it is.

anyway round here (yorkshire) they do 0.5-1.0% stuff for teh beer festivals usually called something like "designated driver"
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PostPosted: 16:07 - 29 Sep 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
the grim reaper wrote:
The bottom line is that drunks will use the 18% stuff to get pissed quickly but so what? If they are drinking less volume then they won't have the same obesity problems, which makes the liver transplant easier.

You'll never stop people abusing alcohol, an 18% beer is neither going to exacerbate nor reduce the problem. The Nanny State comeback is class Mr. Green

Cheers

Grim


Plus it's £10 a bottle - not exactly an alcoholic's dream.
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PostPosted: 16:17 - 29 Sep 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Someone needs to sell a drink called Responsibly. The government and other drinks companies would be advertising it for free, "Drink Responsibly". Very Happy
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Ste is a marketing genius.
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PostPosted: 21:08 - 29 Sep 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
We may joke, but there is a historical prescedent for the government taking over the running of pubs altogether. It happened in Carlisle to stop the workers at the munitions plant turning up drunk for work.

Beer production was state controlled and all the pubs had a salaried civil servant installed as the landlord.

The idea being that the landlord had no interest in selling alcohol.

Buying of rounds was forbidden and the pubs only sold the beer made in the government run brewery.

This went on right up to the early 70's.
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PostPosted: 21:41 - 29 Sep 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
stinkwheel wrote:
We may joke, but there is a historical prescedent for the government taking over the running of pubs altogether. It happened in Carlisle to stop the workers at the munitions plant turning up drunk for work.

Beer production was state controlled and all the pubs had a salaried civil servant installed as the landlord.

The idea being that the landlord had no interest in selling alcohol.

Buying of rounds was forbidden and the pubs only sold the beer made in the government run brewery.

This went on right up to the early 70's.


thanks for that Stinky, I was cycling and thinking randomly the other day and I got to thinking about the state breweries and if they were still with us.
I believe one of the Theakstons breweries was under state control at one time.
The 18% beer is not aimed at the alki market btw, it is fired straight at the beer snob or the get dad blotto on father's day crowd.
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PostPosted: 00:16 - 30 Sep 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
1930 Ariel wrote:

thanks for that Stinky, I was cycling and thinking randomly the other day and I got to thinking about the state breweries and if they were still with us.


The closest you'll get is made not 1/2 mile from where I'm sitting.

Derwent Breweries make Carlisle State Bitter to the original, home office approved recipe.

It's a micro brewery located in the port area in Silloth. I have no idea why they call it Derwent because it's nowhere near the Derwent.
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stinkwheel wrote:
Derwent Breweries make Carlisle State Bitter to the original, home office approved recipe.

What's it taste like?
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I drank "State beer" a few years ago and it was good. I am sure it was brewed by Theakstons in Carlisle. A quick Google says that Theakstons purchased the Carlise State Brewery in 1974 after it was a denationalised by sailor Ted.
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PostPosted: 21:06 - 30 Sep 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Doug97 wrote:

What's it taste like?


Bitter.

I'm not a fan of bitter but the locals say it's a decent session beer.

It's definately made by the Derwent microbrewery in Silloth now.

They make:
Carlisle State Bitter, Parson’s Pledge, Whitwell Marks IPA and Auld Kendal.
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