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Posted: 02 Mar 2014

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Tasted, judged.

Tasted, judged.
I don't think I like better than this one any of the other pictures I
took at the CAMRA sessions I used to attend 27 years ago. These are
the glasses of beer that have been tasted by judges and left for
dumping. They were blind tests so the glasses were not labelled.

Kodak 100 film in Minolta X370.
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 Justfolk
Justfolk club
You're right: the word "ale" -- along with other words like "beer" -- is used pretty undefinedly. But that's the way it is in English: there is a general term "ale" (for *all* brewed-from-grains drinks), and a specific term "ale" (for the darker varieties, somewhere between stouts and porters on one side, and lagers on the other).

The CAMRA crowd produced the full array of barley-brews.
11 years ago.
 Justfolk
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:) You can be as technical as you want! Thanks.

I can see there are at least three different uses. The informal one (all beer); the one of the (North American) marketplace (essentially colour); and the one of the brewers (which you just gave).

I was afraid to make really light beers when I was brewing. They always smelled skunky. But then I discovered the temperature of my then house was actually quite good for Pilseners and that is what i made for a couple of years.
11 years ago.
 Justfolk
Justfolk club
I bet that was some fine beer.
I never got beyond twenty-litre batches -- except the very first time I made beer in a 45-gallon ex-rum barrel. At four litres to the gallon, that was 175 litres or so of beer. A group of about a dozen friends cooperated on making it, tending it, and bottling it. It was bad beer but every bit of it got drunk eventually.
11 years ago.

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