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On 1/4/2014 1:56 AM, Christopher Helms wrote:
> On Friday, January 3, 2014 9:25:21 PM UTC-6, Hench wrote:
>> Yummy.
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>> It's how beer was flavoured back in northern parts of Blighty a century
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>> or 2 ago. In my 20 years of drinking all manner of beers and brewing
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>> them as well, it's the first time I've had beer flavoured with treacle.
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>> It carries a hint of bitterness to remind you to respect it. Oddly
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>> enuf, a century ago it was used to cheapen porters and ales now it's a
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>> premium brew.

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> Sometimes certain cheap foods will develop a large enough following that people will forget that they were once bottom shelf items.



Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Bob