This Beer's Been Watered Down, Guv
This story has particular resonance for Victoria, the state where I live - because we've just been through the worst flooding in the history of the state's farming area. A couple of days ago, I was intrigued to read that beer tankers were being used to get safe drinking water to flood-stricken British communities. Five of Britain's main brewers have already made 23 tankers available. The British Beer and Pub Association quipped it was a reversal of their normal business of turning water into beer. Many pubs, God bless them, offered food and shelter to evacuated householders and rescuers.
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God Bless those pubs. And God Bless alcohol.
Hi Dan,
There's is absolutely nothing I can add to that statement!
There is nothing better than an English pub!
Keep smiling
David
Hey. I will put my Real Canuckian Beer up against an English Draught any day. You hit me where it really hurts with your pub nonsense, David - for shame!
G'day Les,
Hanging my head in shame. And I'm just going to try and find some Real Canuckian Beer to guzzle real quick, so I can give you an opinion.
All in the name of serious research, of course.
Keep smiling
David
Hope those kegs were well and truly empty before they lent them out - think of the waste (perish the thought).
My big sis' was caught up in this, her High Street was a river last week, but her house has survived, thank God.
I heard about the terrible floods in Great Britain on the radio, all the while travelling through the most beautiful scenery and in great summer weather in Austria and Southern Germany. We were lucky, though, Southern Italy's Apulia Region has been under a relentless heat weave since we left less than three weeks ago, and pyromaniacs (or worse) have turned part of the incredibly beautiful coast around the Gargano into a fiery hell, with tourists having no other escape but into the sea.
Hi Carol,
Hope your sister and her family came out of it okay. Our thoughts are with them.
Keep smiling
David
Hi Merisi,
I didn't know about the Gargano fires. Will check the news websites. Firebugs are the bane of our summers, too.
Cheers
David
If they have Real Canuckian Beer in Australia, I will be there by October. Meet me at the airport.
With a beer. :-)
G'day Les,
I'm onto the search! October? Why not tomorrow!!
Cheers
David
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