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BritishBeer & RCEMERalf & ssj – THANKS VERY MUCH !!!

Many thanks to BritishBeer & RCEMERalf & ssj for correcting my misconception that most beers are served throughout Great Britain at “room” temperature when most of those beers are actually served at “cellar” temperature.

BritishBeer:
I used to think that the British currency conversion from “old pence” to “new pence” – which started about a year and a half before I visited Great Britain – was the only thing that was purposely done to confuse tourists like myself. While I only drank British beer when I was in Great Britain, most of the beer I drank was bottled beer and not keg beer.
I bought an Anschutz 1413 in 1968 and shot it for years with no problems at all, and I never used a torque wrench on either of its action screws.
Thanks for your offer to “reacquaint” me with British beers. Unfortunately, I doubt that I’ll ever again leave the United States for the rest of my life. I’ve never had any need for a passport – my United States Army Military Police Identification Card served as my “passport” when I visited Great Britain back in 1972, and I never needed a passport any of the times I visited Canada. (Of course, the last time I visited Canada was in the early 1990’s).
Military slang has added quite a few important terms to the English/British language. “SNAFU” and “FUBAR” are probably the most used of those terms, but “GI shower” and “short timer” are two of my favorite terms.
I commend you for your continued commitment to diligently investigating why most British beers are served at cellar temperature.

RCEMERalf:
I believe that some extremely misguided Americans are primarily responsible for unjustly characterizing British Lucas automobile/motorcycle electrical components as being “unreliable” when almost all American automobile/motorcycle electrical components of the same vintage were equally unreliable. Similarly, I believe that some extremely misguided Americans are responsible for unjustly characterizing Lee-Enfield bolt action rifle as “inferior” to almost all American bolt action rifles because of the Lee-Enfield bolt action rifle’s rear locking bolt and two-piece stock only because almost all American bolt action rifles of the same vintage have front locking bolts and one-piece stocks.

ssj:
I’ve consumed my fair share of beer, and I’ve never consumed any German beer nor any British beer – either keg or bottled that had an “awful” taste. However, I
have consumed quite a few American beers – both keg and bottled – that had “awful” tastes. For the record, I gave up drinking beer – for health reasons – more than twenty (20) years ago.

Thanks again for all of your insight and information.

RALPH VAN BUREN (45B40-95B40)