Comments on: The Language Of Beer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/26/the-language-of-beer-o/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:24:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Colin Coxall https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/26/the-language-of-beer-o/#comment-1438680 Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:24:56 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189589#comment-1438680 You missed “bottoms up”. Said when raising g a glass bottomed tankard to ensure no coins were put in the beer that could get one inducted I to the navy.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/26/the-language-of-beer-o/#comment-1438626 Mon, 29 Nov 2021 08:36:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189589#comment-1438626 Interesting definitions. I’ve heard someone acting a bit daft being called a Dipstick

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/26/the-language-of-beer-o/#comment-1438345 Fri, 26 Nov 2021 12:45:44 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189589#comment-1438345 GA, what a fun list of beer terminology. It reminded me of the many vocabulary lists (followed by quizzes, of course) that I made for my students. An example would be Poe’s “Cask of Amontillado” that contains many archaic terms for various vessels in which wine was kept.

]]> By: paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/26/the-language-of-beer-o/#comment-1438335 Fri, 26 Nov 2021 11:46:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189589#comment-1438335 Is it not the worst?
When you get a thirst
And the only thing you can think
Is I “feel like a drink”
I could do with a beer
If only the pubs were here
However did they disappear?

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/26/the-language-of-beer-o/#comment-1438317 Fri, 26 Nov 2021 10:19:25 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189589#comment-1438317 The sizes of the barrels was a nice reminder – I had become a bit hazy about these delightfully non-metric quantities. As a young boy I used to watch my uncle manoeuvre barrels (22 gallons) in his pub cellar – not easy. In Manchester the Holt’s Brewery delivered its bitter in hogsheads (54 gallons) and that was a serious business in dropping one of those from the dray to the cellar. But a butt? Did breweries ever deliver those? By my reckoning that’s half a ton of beer!

But there were bigger barrels. In former times there were huge barrels that beer was matured in for months on end. One was big enough to christen it with an inaugural banquet held inside the barrel for a large number of people. In 1814 one of those barrels burst destroying a large area and killing eight people. Needless to say those barrels weren’t used for deliveries!

See Wikipedia – London Beer Flood

]]> By: Milo https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/26/the-language-of-beer-o/#comment-1438286 Fri, 26 Nov 2021 08:19:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189589#comment-1438286 Excellent. You missed out “What’s ‘Jaws”? which is what people like me react to with a jaunty “pint of Stella” please rather than a “It was a gigantic movie of the mid 70’s which launched the career of a fine director called Steven Spielberg.”

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/26/the-language-of-beer-o/#comment-1438265 Fri, 26 Nov 2021 06:43:16 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189589#comment-1438265 Wonderful terms from the pub scene. I didn’t even know most of them. — In dumb times like today, you should become a “crawler” …

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Valery https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/26/the-language-of-beer-o/#comment-1438260 Fri, 26 Nov 2021 06:31:24 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189589#comment-1438260 What a glossary! Many thanks for that.

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