So what exactly is a 'pint of bitter?'


>Bass pubs seem to be getting more scarce nowadays - and I don't notice it in liquor stores. Maybe they no longer exist as a brewery per se. My very 1st pint, bought by me, solo, in a pub, was draught Bass, in a pub in Conwy, Wales, when I was 14.
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>>Personally, my current favorite is Bass Ale, which of course comes from your side of the pond. I never cared much for the mass market domestic brews, I prefer something with a more body and flavor (oops, flavour).
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>>>Nah, we'd need to drink at least twice as many of that gnat's pee before our spelling was affected. :-)
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>>>>heh heh, after several Bud's that probably is the way one would write it in English. Of course, you Brits would add a couple of extraneous "u's" and maybe a trailing "e" or two, right? < smile >
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>>>>>I thought that was just American spelling!
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>>>>>>Deze Bud is voor u
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>>>>>>which is "this Bud's for you" in Dutch, or at least as near as I can get Babel Fish to come to it.
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>>>>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/14/anheuser.inbev.ap/index.html
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>>>>>>>I don't drink it, but I still think it's sad to see it sold. What's next? Mount Rushmore?