Useless information corner

[Mash]

The lid from a Yankee candle fits a pint pot brilliantly to keep the bugs out of your beer.

Most pointless wins.

Add yours here...

[gaza the instructor]

I was bought a wine saver for my Birthday,
not been out the packet

[Maker]

You can get a FREE shopping trolly at the supermarket by using a corn beef key instead of a pound coin.

[Moss]

You can get a FREE shopping trolly at the supermarket by using a corn beef key instead of a pound coin.

Does that work at B&M and Sainsbury’s? They won’t take my plastic trolley thingy

[Easydrinker]

If you run REALLY fast out of a Lidl, you get to take home one of those plastic baskets on a long or short handle. you know, the ones that stupid feckers use instead of a proper trolley and then get in your way all the time!
They can be very useful once you get them home...
Potato planter is my first choice.

Robert.

[Mr Mac]

You can use a UK 2p coin, instead of a 2 euro coin in euro shopping trolleys.

[Easydrinker]

You can use a UK 2p coin, instead of a 2 euro coin in euro shopping trolleys.

Serious money could be made here!


Robert.

[Easydrinker]

I admit to being absent from the European shopping scene for a while, when did the shopping cart rental fee rise by 100%?

Robert

[Maker]

They must be 100 euros each to make, seems odd to think adding 1 euro to the return coin would make a difference, surely even at a euro if you abandon it the local kids would return it.

[Maker]

HOMELESS PEOPLE: Cocktail umbrellas are very effective at keeping rain out of you glass of meths.

[Easydrinker]

HOMELESS PEOPLE: Cocktail umbrellas are very effective at keeping rain out of you glass of meths.

Ebeneezer Scrooge!
Named and Shamed!

Looky here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-englan ... a-teenager

Robert.

Edited post. Inspirational!

[Mr Mac]

The strongest beer in the world is 67.5% abv.

My beer of the moment is LAND VAN MORTAGNE, by Alvinne in Belgium. It’s 12.8% - which is plenty!

[Swedish Pride]

Never had a beer over 6% that is like to have again.
Bar the 6-8% mashes that are in my shed

[Mash]

Yeah I will second that, nicely put. And to be fair I have tried real hard.

[Easydrinker]

I can see a beer fermenting to above 12%.
How does it get to 67.5%, it can't be by fermenting?
About 5 or 6% seems about right for an English style ale, Some Belgian ones, bought or homemade, seem good up to 9%.
Don't think I have sampled above that strength, other than Barley wines, which are nice once in a while.
The Triple I have fermenting right now may finish higher, I will wait and see.

Robert.

[Maker]

Description

Snake Venom, a fortified Scottish beer, has been the world's strongest beer, at 67.5%, since October 2013. It has a sweet, nutty aroma, a fruity flavour and fiery, intense finish.

So I can beat this in 10 minutes with a can of speckled hen and a load of neutral spirit, I'm left confused.
Beer by definition is brewed. I remember reading a while ago about a beer that was called, correct me if I'm wrong.. Uncle Igors famous falling over water, it was over 20%, saw it in the Sun newspaper so it's guaranteed to be true...

[Easydrinker]

Your post said it all Maker.
A fortified beer.
And googling shows it to be basically high strength whisky, diluted with beer.
Marketing.
Once again.
People will buy just about anything.
I can't comment upon uncle Igor's whatever.

Robert.

[Pinky]

Bananas are not fruit and also do not grow on trees. The Banana is a giant herb.

[gaza the instructor]

Pinky have you been at the Mushrooms again??
A tomato is a fruit.

[Easydrinker]

Pinky have you been at the Mushrooms again??
A tomato is a fruit.

He may have been.
I thought Bananans were related to grasses?

Robert.

[buffalobob]

No thats a 70's myth, you can't smoke a banana, it's nothing to do with grass.....or shrooms.

[gaza the instructor]

Wow man keep off the grass!!

[Easydrinker]

And 'shrooms and dried banana skins!

[buffalobob]

When I was a hippie in the 60's it was a well known 'fact' that if you dried the pith from banana skins and smoked that, it would get you there. Seeing the words, grass and bananas in the same sentence transported me back to 1969 Absolute bollox obviously, I think the rumour started off life as an article in the daily mail which is a well known purveyor of bollox.

[Easydrinker]

Ooh boy, I can remenmber being fetched out of class, circa 1972, by the headteacher, because some, KNOB HEAD ,managed to name Me, in his 'i am going to smoke my way through mamma's herb collection.'
Memory reminds me that it tasted like shit, and did nothing.

Robert.