Brits Getting shafted on beer prices

**TSR2** · 25-05-2009, 04:37 PM

What,s he suggesting?

**Spin** · 25-05-2009, 04:38 PM

Originally Posted by blackgang

maybe your mama make you a sugar tit with a raisin for a nipple

No need, my missus has two of those already

**Nietzsche** · 25-05-2009, 04:45 PM

It's worse than you think over here.

There's talk about banning buying more than two drinks at a time, as well as queuing Post-Office style with those barriers they have, in an attempt to prevent trouble.

All those to tight-fisted to get a round in will be loving it, but I'm not happy.

**Spin** · 25-05-2009, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by Nietzsche

There's talk about banning buying more than two drinks at a time

The UK? bizarro. nanny state gone mental.

**TSR2** · 25-05-2009, 04:57 PM

Originally Posted by Spin

Originally Posted by Nietzsche There's talk about banning buying more than two drinks at a time

Christ they are Mad

except in the Commons Bar

**Fabian** · 25-05-2009, 05:45 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Butterfly

my cost have gone 100% over the last 5 years for basic expenses,

Mine have gone from about 70k a month to about 16k after moving to Udon.

If you cut those posh 70 baht beer at the local pub and drink lao kao at the corner shop as it is the local custiom you could cut your costs back to less than 10k I reckon.

**DrAndy** · 25-05-2009, 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by Nietzsche

but I'm not happy.

good

som nam na

**Nietzsche** · 25-05-2009, 06:32 PM

You are a bitter old man, aren't you?

People who take pleasure from other's misfortune dismay me.

**lom** · 25-05-2009, 07:00 PM

Originally Posted by Spin

I just wanted to say "fuck you and the foking donkey you rode in on" to Gordon Brown and all those cnuts that have destroyed sterling while they have been in power

It's not Gordons fault that the party is over for you Brits.
The sterling has been heavily overvalued for the last 15 years so stop whining and take the bitter medicine.

**Spin** · 25-05-2009, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by lom

The sterling has been heavily overvalued for the last 15 years so stop whining and take the bitter medicine.

Its already been taken and the pound will come back and stomp over the Euro as per usual. We have plenty of debt, yeah, but at least its our own and not piled into eastern bloc ponzi garbage like all those Euros that the Jerrys & co lent out.

**madjbs** · 25-05-2009, 07:06 PM

I will shortly have 2 kegs of top quality beer on rotation in my kitchen.

No need to buy Thai beer ever again thankfully.

**TSR2** · 25-05-2009, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by madjbs

I will shortly have 2 kegs of top quality beer on rotation in my kitchen.

Hey give us the recipe then

**madjbs** · 25-05-2009, 07:26 PM

Aberdeen Brown Ale

OG 1.043
IBU 23
SRM 18
abv 4.6%

2.50 kg Pale Malt (2 Row)
0.25 kg Cara-Pils/Dextrine
0.20 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 20L
0.20 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L
0.20 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L
0.10 kg Chocolate Malt
0.02 kg Roasted Barley
1.00 oz Williamette (60 mins)
0.25 oz Goldings, East Kent (10 mins)
1 Pkgs SafAle English Ale (DCL Yeast #S-04)

-12 L, 90 min mash at 66c

-20 L sparge at 75c

-90 min boil

**TSR2** · 25-05-2009, 07:28 PM

^

Ta
will buy some hops /yeast when back in UK June

ps where in Thailand can you buy ingrediants ?

pps its German style beer, mmhh very nice

**lom** · 25-05-2009, 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by Spin

Its already been taken and the pound will come back and stomp over the Euro as per usual.

Stomp with what, what can UK export to pay of its debt?
Who can afford to import it if the sterling is so over appreciated by the financial markets that your goods becomes price wise uncompetitive?
After Thatcher closed down your mining industry, what other natural resources do you have that rightify (sp?) a strong sterling?

**madjbs** · 25-05-2009, 07:55 PM

Originally Posted by TSR2

^

Ta
will buy some hops /yeast when back in UK June

ps where in Thailand can you buy ingrediants ?

pps its German style beer, mmhh very nice

It is a Northern English Brown Ale,

Ingredients have to be shipped from Singapore.

**blackgang** · 25-05-2009, 08:01 PM

And also milk is up 9 baht a half gallon too, and the baht is 304. terrible son of a bitch.

**Spin** · 25-05-2009, 08:07 PM

^^^ Too much attention is payed to coal, fuck coal, we can make more money selling nuclear knowledge than that shit. The UK still leads the world in many areas including pharma, technology, munitions etc etc. The Uk will be fine, albiet in the latter half of next year.
The uks housing industry needs to correct, due to demand consistantly outstripping supply during normal economic cycles values will remain high, unlike the US. This will help support sterling.

Originally Posted by lom

Who can afford to import it if the sterling is so over appreciated

Sterling was down something like 25-30% across the board, its recently rose about 7% against most currencies, due to the fact the beating it had taken factored in armegeddon in the financial industry which now seems to be off the table but still in ICU.

**TSR2** · 25-05-2009, 08:30 PM

Originally Posted by madjbs

It is a Northern English Brown Ale,

silly me

What I meant was that when I used to brew mi own in Uk in the 70s we used Glucose + barley

This is the natural way of making beer, no sugars (artificial)

**passengers** · 25-05-2009, 10:46 PM

Originally Posted by Spin

Originally Posted by passengers

Anyway this looks like a poor attempt at mimicking the ahead-of-its-time 'Rip-Off Thailand thread...

Noooo, that thread was all about the high cost of imports, this threads about important stuff like the price of beer for uk expats living here on pensions. Besides, that thread died because its author vanished. I think he was taken away by men in white coats

I believe that the principle aspect of the thread was actually beer prices. Anyway, its (regrettably) all history for me.

White coats? Some sort of posh dinner?

**crippen** · 25-05-2009, 11:13 PM

And you don't even want to know about U.K. price of beer: a lot of pubs are selling 3 per cent strengh ale at up to 3 pound a pint.And we complain about LOS prices?

**Spin** · 25-05-2009, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by crippen

.And we complain about LOS prices?

Yeah, because I expect this place to be dirt cheap, if it isnt then what the hell am i doing here. Its a tatty third world environment, I'll happily pay high prices in the uk becuase the place is pristine, not a dusty ramshackle gaff like Thailand

**Loy Toy** · 25-05-2009, 11:25 PM

Originally Posted by Spin

not a dusty ramshackle gaff like Thailand

Speak for yourself mate. My gaff ain't bad!

**November Rain** · 26-05-2009, 06:44 AM

Originally Posted by crippen

And you don't even want to know about U.K. price of beer: a lot of pubs are selling 3 per cent strengh ale at up to 3 pound a pint.And we complain about LOS prices?

Aaah, but Spin wasn't talking about pub prices but 7-11 prices to drink at home. When I was back in UK, I found pubs really expensive, but a lot of supermarket booze really cheap.

**Marmite the Dog** · 26-05-2009, 07:15 AM

Originally Posted by lom

what can UK export to pay of its debt?

Our superior intellect.

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