Beer thread
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@Kruse Macs Mid Vicious is a decent drop for a low alcohol one too.
You should also try Heineken light or zero
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I've never actually bought a Good George beer unless I was at one of their pubs/restaurants. But they seem to be everywhere now.
I was sampling some local brews over the holidays. That included some of the Sunshine Brewing beers in Gisborne and before that beers at Fork and Brewer and Hashigo Zake (Wellington). Unfortunately, the latter had a reduced selection available. I could have spent hours at Fork and Brewer, such was the number of beers available.
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@taniwharugby said in Beer thread:
@Kruse Macs Mid Vicious is a decent drop for a low alcohol one too.
You should also try Heineken light or zero
I had a Mid Vicious somewhere along the line this summer and it was watery an flavourless compared to the Good George one.
Not saying that the GG one stands up to a full strength but it is one of the better ones out there. Actually has a little body and flavour.
As for that 0.0 shit, I sipped one and couldn't see the point. May as well have water. -
@Crucial I havent had the GG one yet, but for a low alcohol one, MV was one of the better ones I have had...generally not into low alcohol ones (due to most being average to poor) certainly not interested in zero alcohol ones.
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@taniwharugby said in Beer thread:
@Crucial I havent had the GG one yet, but for a low alcohol one, MV was one of the better ones I have had...generally not into low alcohol ones (due to most being average to poor) certainly not interested in zero alcohol ones.
2.5% (as in the GG one) is 0.7 of a standard drink.
Standard drink is the amount of alcohol that an average person can process in one hour. While there is no 'safe' calc as it depends on individuals the guidelines for a 85kg, 180cm tall male are 3.5 std drinks over 2 hours (which actually seems a lot to me)
The beauty of drinking mid strength is that you can process the alcohol without it building up a backlog.
e.g., if drinking 5% beer at 1 per hour, after 1 hour you have a residual amount of 1% still to process, have another and it is 2%, You third beer becomes a 7%er which starts to fuck you up.
At 2.5% you are clearing the alc out every 45 minutes as long as you aren't throwing them back fast.I was stopped at a random check after 2 Speights Mids (barely drinkable) over a couple of hours and didn't even trigger the reader. I'm only 75kg.
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I know I can comfortably have 3 if I am driving and come in well under...I could have a 4th and be under the limit too, but no point testing it given there are other factors that could affect me one day.
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@taniwharugby said in Beer thread:
I know I can comfortably have 3 if I am driving and come in well under...I could have a 4th and be under the limit too, but no point testing it given there are other factors that could affect me one day.
I drink 4% beer and I can have 4 handles comfortably, 6 would be a risk.
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@taniwharugby said in Beer thread:
I know I can comfortably have 3 if I am driving and come in well under...I could have a 4th and be under the limit too, but no point testing it given there are other factors that could affect me one day.
You sure about that with the 240 rule? You won't hit the 400 and lose your licence, but you still get hit with a fine.
I'm over 90kg and have had 3 pints and been well under the old 400, but reckon I would have been over the newish 240 law.
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@Snowy you look like a lightweight!!
Pints are bigger than a glass/stubbie....
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For a 100 kg person 4 handles in two hours puts you way over
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@taniwharugby 6ft 5 stretches 90kg a long way.
I did get pulled over outside the Nelson golf club after about 4 or 5 pints, and was under but that was the 400 again. 240 doesn't seem like much.
4 handles at 470ml is just over 3 pints and probably over the 240 for most of us.
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@dogmeat said in Beer thread:
For a 100 kg person 4 handles in two hours puts you way over
..... what about 130 KG?
All I know is that I have pulled out of the pub on more than one occasion with at least four under the belt and have failed the detection part (name and address conversation) and then blown a pass when you just keep exhaling.
One time I may have had 6.
I have just realised that the handles are only 440ml rather than the 500 standard.
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@Snowy I got pulled over many years back after having 6 5% (330ml little creatures pale ale) beers over about 4 hours with a meal...long story short, my driver fell through and had to drive, got breath tested, failed the youth one, but ok to carry on my way.
that was at old limits, not new ones.
you dont look that tall
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@Hooroo how long had it taken you to drink your 4 handles?
That's the problem with any of these things so much can influence the result. I wouldn't risk 4 handles.
I wouldn't risk two but I'm five minutes walk from two OK bars and 12 minutes by bus from the CBD
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@taniwharugby I must be shrinking. 195cm at last medical which is 6ft 4.77. No wonder I can't reach the top shelf anymore.
Need to move the whiskey down a bit.
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@Hooroo said in Beer thread:
@taniwharugby said in Beer thread:
I know I can comfortably have 3 if I am driving and come in well under...I could have a 4th and be under the limit too, but no point testing it given there are other factors that could affect me one day.
I drink 4% beer and I can have 4 handles comfortably, 6 would be a risk.
god, i would never drive a car after 4 beers!
my limit is 3 midstrengths over the course of 2 hours.
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