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* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'': On the Origin of PCs'' provides the page quote and [[Trope Namer|the name]]. Note that he got the best beer you can find in human lands, but when compared to Dwarven ale.... Though the "best beer" comment is probably just standard advertiser hyperbole.
* In ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' Stonewater thinks of [http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2006-02-07 human beer] this way. Halflings also think Dwarf beer tastes like "piss water" (Dwarves find Halfling beer "snobby").
* ''[[The Gods of Arr-Kelaan]]'': [[Snake Oil Salesman|Bikk]] tried to [http://www.rmcomics.com/Mirror/GoingHome/?viewDate=20020204 jumpstart a religion]{{Dead link}} for Ronson (God of Alcohol) by impersonating him and giving two soldiers mugs of ale that would always be full when turned upright. But since Bikk doesn't know squat about brewing, the ale was very poor quality. One of the soldiers was able to [http://www.rmcomics.com/Mirror/Current/?viewDate=20100507 start a bar using his mug]{{Dead link}}, since "if it's cheap enough, people will drink anything." Said beer does prevent aging, though. The other soldier started a temple based around his mug, though he had to forbid his followers from drinking any of the "holy ale" to make it believable.
* In one arc of ''[[PvP (webcomic)|Pv P]]'', several characters decide to take up brewing, and make an incredibly horrible-tasting beer, which they market as coffee flavored. Robbie proves to be such an apalling brewmaster that his first attempt produces something with the flavor of a quite excellent lager, but the consistency of soft-serve. They test-market it as "lagurt" in a tube (ala Go-Gurt) for hip young frat boys on the go, and it tests quite well, but Robbie is so bent on making high-class brews instead of profitable trendy fad hooch that he throws a tantrum and gives up on the whole thing.
* Kenny of ''[[The Kenny Chronicles]]'' is of the opinion that ''all'' beer tastes [http://www.kennychronicles.com/2010/10/25/todays-comic-contains-a-gross-out/ worse than piss] (and he would know).
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* Americans for their part have similar reaction to the idea of beer not being chilled. Probably because just about every mass-market American beer is a lager. Lagers are always served cold, the world over (if there is any infrastructure to allow it). Ales, Porters, and Stouts; there there is some debate (you definitely don't chill them as much as lagers though).
** When President Obama met Prime Minister David Cameron for a casual beer (in front of eighty million cameras) each brought a favourite beer from their own home country. Despite Cameron's protests that the flavour of the (very cultured) [http://www.wychwood.co.uk Hobgoblin Beer] from the Wychwood Brewery in his constituency of Oxfordshire that he brought for Obama to try would be ruined by chilling it to ice cold, Obama absolutely insisted on putting it in the fridge. You would think Obama would trust him, or at least, the guidelines on the bottle, enough to try a beer as intended. Apparently not. See a picture of the event [http://www.eurobrews.com/images/hobgoblin/World%20Leaders%20Hobgoblin.jpg here]{{Dead link}}. Incidentally, Hobgoblin is well known in England for its [https://web.archive.org/web/20101212231330/http://birra.ru/uup/images/news/577/hobgoblin-6.jpg humorously scathing criticism] of people who drink cheap tasteless larger, something [[Magnificent Bastard|Cameron would have been very aware of]].
** Sometimes its a storage thing. Beers are sometimes served at "room temperature" outside of America, but because of the way they're stored (sometimes in specially designed cool rooms, even), a British "room temperature" beer is a good ten degrees cooler than an American one, meaning that, confusion over wording aside, a room temperature beer there isn't the warm, nasty, skunked-out swig of sadness it is here in the US.
*** A British top-fermented beer is supposed to be served at cellar temperature, which for a proper cellar keeping the beer at its best will be too cool for the drinker to be comfortable in the bar. The beer shouldn't be at ambient temperature and should feel cool, but certainly not ice-cold.
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