Re: Nostalgia
Julian Macassey <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:28:40 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:49:56 +0100, Ben Newsam <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>Plenty of beer is still brewed in accordance with it (plus or minus >>yeast as a specific ingredient) > > Indeed. When it was actual law, though, I heard of a tanker-load of > Whitbread Tankard that was turned back at the border. Guinness, on the > other hand, was allowed. I assume that was a customs officer being bloody minded. Once (Before EU) while I was lolling about in customs at Felixstowe, a tanker of Carlsberg from Denmark was coming through, they sampled about five gallons of lager to make sure itreally was beer and offered me a glass. I declined it was a bit early in the day for me. -- People come on Facebook and they talk about so many things that are irrelevant. - Rose Wong, former math teacher, 102 years old