Sparklers

[Pearlfisher]

3 pubs in my area have recently started serving real ale without the use of a sparkler . :evil:

Flat beer ought to be reserved just for Southerners!

 

[graysalchemy]

Beer with no head is not beer IMHO :evil:

 

[Darcey]

Bitter for stock control :thumb: easier than training your staf :thumb: Just not how its surposed to be! :evil:

 

[Pearlfisher]

Bitter for stock control :thumb: easier than training your staf :thumb: Just not how its surposed to be! :evil:

Yes one of the pubs excuses was that they were wasting too much beer!

 

[graysalchemy]

Never used to be a problem in the days of measured pints and oversized lined glasses.

Very short sighted in my opinion as if people don't want a flat pint they won't buy it!!!!!

Basic principal of business give the customer what he wants.

No wonder pubs are closing. :twisted: No sorry that is down to beer duty, the smoking ban, monopolies commissions force of sale of pubs by breweries and the formation of massive Pubco's with serviceable debt the size of that of a West African state....................... I could go on.

 

[Steve R]

Flat beer, yuk, is it chilled?

 

[fbsf]

Doesn't a sparkler kill any remaining gas in the beer? So what you get is a flat pint with a decent head?

Never seen the need for them myself (yes, I'm a southener...)

 

[Hawks]

Doesn't a sparkler kill any remaining gas in the beer? So what you get is a flat pint with a decent head?

Never seen the need for them myself (yes, I'm a southener...)

That's pretty much what I thought as well - that the sparkler gets more CO2 out of solution - hence the larger head.
I am sure I had also read somewhere it can make the beer taste more bitter :wha:

I too am also a southerner... :whistle:

 

[graysalchemy]

Doesn't a sparkler kill any remaining gas in the beer? So what you get is a flat pint with a decent head?

Never seen the need for them myself (yes, I'm a southener...)

That's pretty much what I thought as well - that the sparkler gets more CO2 out of solution - hence the larger head.
I am sure I had also read somewhere it can make the beer taste more bitter :wha:

I too am also a southerner... :whistle:

Yes I have that too :hmm: :hmm:

We also sacrifice virgins, wear clogs and flat caps, breed whippets and keep a ferret down out trousers as well. :lol: :lol:

Actually it makes it taste less acidic and you can actually taste and smell the hops :grin:

 

[Hawks]

We also sacrifice virgins, wear clogs and flat caps, breed whippets and keep a ferret down out trousers as well. :lol: :lol:

I knew it....

Actually it makes it taste less acidic and you can actually taste and smell the hops :grin:

Now this is interesting though... I am using a beer engine this weekend for a party, and I do have a sparkler somewhere :wha: I will now have to dig it out for some side by side comparison :thumb:

 

[Hawks]

Sparkler found and ready for action :thumb:

 

[graysalchemy]

check your trousers for ferrets after you have used it :lol:

 

[Hawks]

check your trousers for ferrets after you have used it :lol:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Bike clips as the ready to stop the little buggers

 

[PD]

I'm a Northerner and I like a bit of head now and again although I dont worry about it.
I try and brew with the aim of the beer having a head ( wheat Malt Barley additions etc) occasionally a brew comes out with only a small head... thats life.
I've only recently started using cornies via daplex taps with fitted sparkers. I hope the beer will pour with a head with the sparkler very loose ( its dropped off on occasions into the beer ) If the beer doesn't want to play with giving me a head I tighten it up a bit.
I must admit to getting to like no head beers, especially the 5/6% dark malty beers they seem to taste better in the glass, as does the last few sips of a glass of bitter has a longer lasting taste.
Perhaps my tastes are changing, but I dont now get worried about the beer having a head on it, although it certainly looks better with one.

and ferrets down trousers use to be an urban myth propagated for the amusement of Southern visitors, however its caught on and there are now comeptions held at summer fetes etc.
I'm told that its quite safe as the ferret likes the dark and is quite passive. Unless onlookers start hitting the competitors trousers that is.... :twisted: )

 

[PD]

oh and bike clips must be worn after the ferret is inserted ...its part of the rules !

 

[Tim_Crowhurst]

Beer with no head is not beer IMHO :evil:

The same is true of SWMBO's :twisted:

Flat bear, yuk, is it chilled?

Yeah, someone un-picked the stitching and took all the stuffing out. It's difficult to tell if it's chilled, since it's now a little heap for faux fur on the floor.

 

[dennisking]

We also sacrifice virgins

Got to find one first.

We like a bit of head down south as well. I use my hand pump without a sparkler and get a reasonable head. I have got a sparkler and have used it but the head seems too artificial to me, more like the head on a Guinness rather than a bitter. Having said that when I have ventured t'up north I have enjoyed the beers I've tried.

PS you forgot the cobbled streets and Woodbines

 

[PD]

it were just after waar,
me an me mum went doon t'shops for some real bu'ah........
Hovis as good for you today as it's allus been......'cept smaller and dearer oh course.

 

[Algernon]

What's a sparkler?
Clearly not what I thought of at first - I must say I was initially surprised to hear of beer being served with a sparkler - usually they reserve little indoor fireworks for hideous over-priced cocktails on the Costa del Sleaze...

 

[WelshPaul]

Sparklers are the work of the devil! They knock any body out of a beer and it takes forever for your drink to settle.