which beer is the best in the world?

@izzythepush,

Yeah - but so far it's only two of us saying so.

@izzythepush,

Correct. IN US, wine and beer (and other drinks of low alcohol percentage) are in one category of adult refreshments. Booze or distilled spirits are in another. To further along this discussion there are convenience and supermarket stores that sell only wine and beer whereas 'package' stores that are allowed by license to sell distilled spirits along with beer and wine.

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@ossobuco,

Well unless any other Americans come along to disagree I'll believe you. In the UK it's always meant all alcoholic drinks. Pubs are colloquially known as boozers.

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@izzythepush,

Didn't know that, that pubs are boozers.

How about sauce, as in you should get off the sauce? to me, us, it's another word for booze, as in liquor, as in spirits.

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@ossobuco,

It's not an expression we tend to use, but we're familiar with it.

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@izzythepush,

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So, as far as America goes, booze just refers to spirits?

Yeah, there's this quaint notion here that people who drink 2 six-packs a day aren't alcoholics.

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@panzade,

They're just a bit thirstier than you and I.

We still call them boozers...but that's where we get fuzzy and into general terms. Winos and Beeros is more descriptive?

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@panzade,

Nah, I'm plenty sure there are alcoholic beer drinkers. Thinking there aren't isn't why I/we don't think of beer as booze.

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@Ragman,

Ragman wrote:

Correct. IN US, wine and beer (and other drinks of low alcohol percentage) are in one category of adult refreshments. Booze or distilled spirits are in another. To further along this discussion there are convenience and supermarket stores that sell only wine and beer whereas 'package' stores that are allowed by license to sell distilled spirits along with beer and wine.

However, that all being said... Alcoholics may walk out of both places in similar quantities. People who do drink to excess of distilled spirits may have less patience are more interested in expediting matters than do those who imbibe heavily of wine or beer.

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@Ragman,

In the UK a Wino is a homeless alcoholic, we don't have Beeros.

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@glitterbag,

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I do like the taste of beer, but more so as accompanying certain foods

I'm like you, I have a beer every night with dinner. It used to be wine but no longer.

At a good steak house I'll start with a dirty martini but then it's a beer with the steak.

When I'm playing a gig with my band I'll try a good draft IPA but the second drink is a Cuba Libre made with Myers Rum.

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@izzythepush,

I was being poetic/comedic. Won't really refer to beeros. Winos...(though not necessarily homeless) also has a different connotation here..just as you would refer to.

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@Ragman,

I can't think of anywhere in the UK that would sell wine and beer but not spirits.

Actually I tell a lie, there is a shop I frequent that just sells beer, but lots and lots of specialist beer from all over the world, they don't have room for anything else, but I'm sure they could sell spirits if they wanted to.

And I went to the Dorset Steam Fair on Friday, there was a tent that just sold cider, but that was run by the brewery.

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@panzade,

I like Cuba libre too, I like a golden rum, something like Mount Gay.

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@izzythepush,

that is why I indicated the difference in our cultures. Point in fact, that is not the case in all states... many eastern states have laws that control which type of stores sell what product and when (Sundays...restriction on sales). In fact some Midwestern states even sell low alcohol beer (3.2% beer vs 5.5-6.0%) in the saloons but not sure about the stores. I recall in the early '70s...saloons in Colorado only sold 3.2% beer. I think Kansas was that way, too.

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@izzythepush,

Bridgend Wales is where I had my first Cuba Libre. With an ice cube lovingly brought to me in a small bowl.

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@ossobuco,

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Thinking there aren't isn't why I/we don't think of beer as booze.

Yeah, that was my point.

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@izzythepush,

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Mount Gay.

My fourth choice if there's no Goslings or Pussers.(which causes me to sing sea chanteys at the top of my lungs)
J Wray & Nephew rum is impossible to find. That's a given.

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@panzade,

Ah, so.

Cuba libres, I remember them well and fondly. Snort, I don't drink coke anymore. Rum, many kinds, is one of the spirits I like. I'm not really interested in vodka, no matter how they smarten it up, though I will drink it with fruit juice and lots of ice, and stopped drinking gin somewhere around '72. (Maybe it was the tonic I grew to hate.) Never did have any martinis after that first one my uncle made for my same age cousin and me. Pfuiiiii.
But - I did like gin gimlets for a while.

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@ossobuco,

good times osso

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