Every day I will provide you all with one tip to improve your life.
I think you all will find this most useful. Prepare to have your life changed.
This OP will track all of my tips.
Please note, I am not interested in a discussion and will not reply to any of your responses. Take it and improve or leave it and continue to sink. *Edit - rule relaxed and I'll sometimes reply to or insult participants.
Originally Posted by Delano:
This thread gonna die quick if your life tips are just common sense.
One thing I've learned over the years, and hammered home like a sledgehammer to a nail these past 5 or so years, is common sense is not really all that common. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Vladimir_Kyrilytch:
In England, Womble is actually a term for a homosexual, which is something I doubt a lot of posters in this thread knew, but also something I doubt a lot of posters in this thread will be surprised by.
What is a 'womble' in British slang?
A person, usually male, prone to making outrageously stupid statements and/or inappropriate behavior while generally having a very high opinion of his own wisdom and importance. [Reply]
This one's for beer drinkers. If you're shopping for beer take note of the 'date brewed' dates on the side/bottle of the can rather than the expiry dates for IPAs, especially for double/triple dry hopped IPAs. Hoppy beers degrade quickly and the flavour of the beer will change dramatically after 2+ months into an intense mangoey drink that bears little resemblance to its original flavour. This new flavour of old IPAs isn't exactly unpleasant but it makes beers that initially tasted very different now taste the same. For me the best hoppy IPAs are between 2 weeks and 4 weeks old. You'll often get hop burn if it's just been canned a few days prior.
You don't really need to check the dates for lagers, they stay good for a long time. Also imperial stouts generally get better as they age so I'd advise you to hold fire on drinking them after you've just bought it.
Finally, Guinness tastes better fresh. You'll often hear Irish people say that "the Guinness in this bar/pub is good" and they're normally right, even if they don't know the reason for it. It's pretty simple really, if you go to a place where Guinness is drunk by most of the patrons then they'll be getting through barrels more regularly than your average bar, and thus it tastes better because it's fresher. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Eureka:
What is a 'womble' in British slang?
A person, usually male, prone to making outrageously stupid statements and/or inappropriate behavior while generally having a very high opinion of his own wisdom and importance.
An over is 6 plays. The format is t20 which means both teams bat for 20 overs each. Both teams finished on 159 runs so instead of just a 'tie' they each play one extra over and the team with the highest score in that over is the winner. Pakistan are a major cricketing nation and USA aren't, hence why it was a pretty remarkable result. [Reply]
Aging stouts these days won't hurt, but for the most part won't change nearly as dramatically as say 10-15+ years ago.
A 2024 Bourbon County Stout that's not aged at all is going to taste far closer to a 2008 Bourbon County Stout aged 6 months than a fresh 2008 BCS.
If you have a big barrel stout that's 15%+ with no adjuncts, that's about the only time these days I'd consider aging... and even then, probably only after I've tried it once unless there's a bunch of reviews saying it's boozy right out of the bottle or something.
I think even some Prairie Artisan stouts and others will tell you on the bottle to drink it now... but those have so much sugar and other stuff in them, you probably wouldn't notice much of a change anyway.
I would really like to find the same IPA that was bottled a week or two prior and a month or two prior and do a side by side... I'd of course do this if I ever found them consistently freshly bottled and would just go back in a coiple months, but seems harder to find those here (granted, can't say I look all the time either). [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bearcat:
Aging stouts these days won't hurt, but for the most part won't change nearly as dramatically as say 10-15+ years ago.
A 2024 Bourbon County Stout that's not aged at all is going to taste far closer to a 2008 Bourbon County Stout aged 6 months than a fresh 2008 BCS.
If you have a big barrel stout that's 15%+ with no adjuncts, that's about the only time these days I'd consider aging... and even then, probably only after I've tried it once unless there's a bunch of reviews saying it's boozy right out of the bottle or something.
I think even some Prairie Artisan stouts and others will tell you on the bottle to drink it now... but those have so much sugar and other stuff in them, you probably wouldn't notice much of a change anyway.
I would really like to find the same IPA that was bottled a week or two prior and a month or two prior and do a side by side... I'd of course do this if I ever found them consistently freshly bottled and would just go back in a coiple months, but seems harder to find those here (granted, can't say I look all the time either).
The aging the stouts thing came from a conversation I had with the head brewer of Cloudwater. I simply asked him whether I should drink the imperial stouts I just bought (mixture of normal and BA impys) sooner or later and he said that the flavour will intensify over time and he would recommend aging it a bit further. I guess it's an each to their own thing, which is why I dedicated so little to it in my original post.
The changing of flavours in very hoppy IPAs is very noticeable. Me and my mate drank an incredible 2 week old DDH 7% IPA can and then had the exact same can a month later and it was so different and tasted nowhere near as good. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Womble:
If you are in the company of someone you don't know well and are struggling to make conversation, simply ask them about themselves. Most people think they're terribly interesting (even when they aren't) and they'll appreciate you for taking an interest in their mundane existence.
You’re starting to interest me, Womble. Tell me more about yourself… [Reply]
