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Useful hints from family members! 
Beer Club Thread
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USA is both a drier and a more extreme weather than UK, so the typical garments are very different. UK I’d suggest synthetics for regularly daily use and consider down for camping or to throw on when out of the rain. My down parka didn’t get used last winter but this did
I paid £75 for it 9 years ago
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@professor you continue to make me jealous with your photos! Not only the countryside, but the beer and the travelling as well. We are not able to travel here right now because we’re in a bubble with few cases and going anywhere with a sizeable population outside Helena would require quarantine on the return 
@Chiquinho I visited that webiste and I wasn’t aware of the Bavarian purity law of Willhelm IV - good rule! Also, I’m currently listening to “Bach Trios” By Yo-yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile, you may appreciate it 
https://www.yo-yoma.com/news/new-album-bach-trios-chris-thile-edgar-meyer/#:~:text=Share%3A,Art%20of%20Fugue%2C%20and%20more.
Chris Thile is typically an American bluegrass (folk) musician but plays the mandolin beautifully on this album.
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Thanks.
You may not be able to travel far but
Being human powered I don’t get far, so it’s quality over distance.
You have an awful lot of attractive far-from-people places on your doorstep, I’m possibly more envious of you than you of I.
This virus going around, once I had first knowledge of it, I concluded there would never be a successful vaccine, so we’ll all have to encounter it and fight it at one stage, and when that day comes, need the strongest heart and lungs possible, so get out and live in fresh air, humans don’t need much, we walked out of Africa and survived far worse than a cough in our past, and natural selection means those of us alive are the 0.001% who were stronger than those weeded out in the unwritten history.
Go find the biggest hill and walk up it!
The purity law.
Always when I take a look at the ingredients of beers brewed without that I am really surprised.
Many chemicals are used eg. “stabilizers”, “preservatives” (Those are E- components called here)
(food additives)
What an awful list!
Beer from plastic bottles:
I know those exist but I never will touch!
Cheap stuff here : ALDI, LIDL etc.
What are the "boozer friends " 
here thinking about?
I do avoid cans too (Plastic inside)
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Hey @Chiquinho
I believe Bud make screw top beer bottles made from glass.
No, definitely no plastic please!
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Not that Bud!
If Budweiser this one only!
But its Pilsener, no Weißbier! 
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Yes, the cans have the worst kind of plastic liners. I avoid whenever I can and use glass as often as possible. This is a good reason for drinking the local beers that come in reuseable containers.
When on an adventure sometimes Cans are easier to manage than glass. I do have a few reuseable steel growlers though. Those are my go-to when on the move.
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Been a good summer, it feels.
Keep having the “last days of summer” feeling and soaking up the sun. Wearing a jacket a bit more often and don’t like it dark at 7.30pm
Wondering if my 3 year old just-right-size Powercore II 6700 will keep working, one full phone recharge in a small package.
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I’m hearing you @professor
I dislike the dark evenings but I do like the “nip” in the air and the pending cold weather.
So much so I just bought a bargain Parka from last years range.
Cold Has its upsides.
Less dependent on water supplies.
No chance of sunburn.
Cold is easy to handle, it’s just moving to a down parka which packs about the same size as a summer evening jacket.
But it’s the dark which is worst.
But I’m ready.
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WiFi is bad
Beer is Cumberland and Wainwright’s
This is a biking camping trip, I’ll connect when I get WiFi or a phone signal but the campsite has no network.
That one was Wainwright’s.
On Cumberland now
As we get through the autumn it gets easier to camp as need less water and warm clothes weighs little. Below freezing clothes is smaller than above freezing clothes. Only downside of winter is dark at 4pm
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I’ve had a few Cumberland’s and enjoyed a lot. Our local Marstons often have it on.
Enjoy your drink and have a cosy night @professor
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What a lot of different beers you got meanwhile in UK.
When I was there 45 years ago there weren’t so many.
While here the breweries are closing they seem to grow in UK!
Great.
PS: And meanwhile there is “foam” on the beer, which was not when I was over there. 
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