Club Arnage

what is your most inventive way of keeping your beer cool on a hot race day?

In our camp, we fill a paddling pool with cold water, put the un-opened boxes of beer in, let the box dissolve and the beer sits in the water and is cool and easily reached when needed. how do you do it Le Man style?

Moped Boy - try a search on 'Beer', you'll probably get a fair few hits, some of them with other interesting ways to keep it cool, others may have content of a more seedy nature.

happy searching  ;)

Drink it!

I am somewhat concerned by moped boy if he is indeed 13 years old should it not be how to keep the lemonade cold?????

I agree Chris, couple this with his last post on the joke thread and I am begining to think that Moped Boy is a very mature 14 year old.

Or someone being somewhat creative when calculating there age maybe they mean 31?

Also consider he is trying to get his dada to take a 50cc scooter down for him to ride around on!!!

So, if we see a 14 year old drunk moped rider heading for the Spearmint Rhino tent we'll know who he is!!  ;D ;D

yes mopeds and quads with kids on them sounds like MB last year I wonder if robbo can get a stinger to take with us???

Prehaps he is Paula the drooler's nephew?

The newest member has signed on as Billy Moped, coinsidence? Maybe a plague of teenage tearaways on mopeds terrorising the campsites. Hells Kidlets.

He's a precocious talent and no mistake.

This is appalling. Some of us only go to get away from the wife and kids.  And if the place is full of mopeds, we won't be able to get up any speed on the gopeds, and they'll be syphoning fuel out of our tanks and drinking our beer AAAAAAAAAHHHH!

hey, i am rather mature for my age (eccept when drunk) i don't keep 'Lemonade in the beer pool! i am interested in taking the moped because of the lax french laws, allowing me, 14, to use it on the roads. i wish people would stop questioning my age! any way, i don't now, Paula the drooler???(please fill me in) Steve Browns entry was the best way of keeping beer cold, thanks!

You shouldn't be drinking at your age. It's very bad behaviour. When I was a lad etc......

i drink responsably, i know exactly how many i've had, until about 6 and i lose count...

we will have 750 litres on draught

no further comments... ;D

Respect!

Mind if we pop round?

Steve

geez! you're gonna put all the local bars out of buisiness!!!

Absolutely marvellous post Paddy!
This is what LM's all about, never mind all the other stuff. Rock and roll!
We managed, if memory serves me correctly, and by definition it never does in these scenarios, 600 litres of draught Stella one year. As it was there, chilled, on draught, and mocking us, we drank it at every opportunity, and hardly touched anything else. It was quite an experience! "Never before, in the field of humans drinking...etc."
May I pop round for a swift quarter of a litre?
H

750 litres is three quarters of a ton.  How on earth do you cart that around?  How much is that per man per day?

We used to allow a case per man per day, about 12 pints, I presume you can beat that, but we're probably down to half of that to allow for the bottle of wine/gin/whisky/port.

What is worse, about 10 years ago LM was very hot, and by mid afternoon most of us felt unwell.  It was dehydration.  A litre of water later we were back on the beer.  To restore the image of the KKOC, in the year that bottles were banned from the stands, we arrived at about 3pm, discovered the problem, and put in a pace attack to polish off half a case each in half an hour.

Memories!

We'll put it in front of the scaffolding, which in return will be in front of the fridges and freezers.
The following is planned, and we even have permission from Jan Lammers himself to put a full color of the Dome on the side. If we do so, he wouldn't like our slogan on the side aswell ;D

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We're with a group of 25 definitely from Wednesday onwards. So that works out 750 divided by 125 (25 man x 5 days) is 12 pints a day on average. Ex visitors that is.
Ofcourse you're right about the pace and quantity, I don't think I can keep up an average of 12 pints a day for 8 days in a row.

And BigH, ofcourse you're welcome to do so. I'm looking forward to have a pint with a few of you guys.

Four weekends here in Holland left. Departure is probably the 11th 8)

(tear in eye) sob, you guys are true Le Man heroes! ()which actually counts for very little in the real world, but what the hey!)

Anyone recognise anybody here?

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Yes! they're those crappy super heroes from 'sometime' that no one remembers cos' they're rubbish or summin or nuffin???

I can't see Captain Goped or his trusty sidekick, Rent Boy

was that a personal attack??? and who is in the pic anyway???

I dont actually recognise any of them - but i bet Commerman is a close personal friend of one or two...or more.

F

Is it Brian Ferry in the second row puffing the cigar?

And the guy in white with the full race harness...must be a Cobra driver or summat... :-)

 ;D Only officers and gentlemen need apply.

It'll be them little f**k*rs on the quad bikes running amock on MB last year.

I reckon the guy on the left in the blue muscle suit is Steve Martin.  

Don't you agree, Mrs Murhellmurhey?

Where is this BEEEEER  :D  thread going?
I was enjying a good laugh on Moped boy, this is a serious pilgrimage we make each year. And he wanted a cold BEER!
I think there is also alot of noisy cars, but that revs you up for another BEER  8)

T  - 36 and counting

I didn't know you were famous JP. You need to put a CA logo on the Codpiece!!

BEER.    Mine's a Laarge one! ;D

Probably right.  But what is this wonderful Dutch lager that is being shipped in bulk?

Real Heineken does seem better than most Frech brews so this must be special.

I do recall some very cheap Royal Dutch Post Horn lager we had at Brands Hatch for the 1000Ks.  Tasted like we were the second to drink it, but it was only 30p a tin

Andy, have a beer and sit down, the tickets haven't arrived yet >:( >:( >:(
Am chasing ACO tommorrow.
Did Jan pass her bike test?

And did she get you your coffee???  ;) ;D :-\

Jan failed on both of your questions.
oh hum!

Ain't nothing special to us, but having lived in the UK for a few years I can easily admit the Dutch stuff is very different (and better) from the stuff brewed elsewhere. For all Dutch our Heineken is just for mass consumption, and that's what we're taking it for ;D

Wow, those are more like Aldi-prices. Don't think it has anything to do with Holland though :)

Thanks.  I was worried that Heineken was considered rubbish by the locals.  Certainly the Danes don't like Carlsberg, but neither do I.

As for Royal Dutch, its too cheap for Aldi.  I'm more concerned that it may have caused a national disgrace, and occaisionally I claim to be Dutch

This should be a serious thread.

What are the preferences between Kronenberg, Kanterbrau, Heineken, 1664, Stella, 33 etc

Or is it a case that as long as its cold it doesn't matter?

This must have been discussed at length somewhere.

Moped boy can comment on Shandy Bass v Topdeck Shandy, which for a time was stronger than Watney's Red Barrel, so legend has it

In general life Stella from 330ml bottles is excellent (ideal for posh UK barbecues). It all tastes pretty much like piss in pints, I'm a cider drinker in the UK (on second thoughts that tastes more like piss than lager - perhaps I just like piss  :-\ )

When it comes to La Belle France I think you'll find that anything will do and it all tastes the same in 25cl bottles as long as it is as cold as modern camping technology will allow. There's only enough for two swigs in one of those bottles anyway.

As long as the alcohol content hovers around 5% I'll take anything, just don't try any of this 3.5% business  :P Shame they don't do diamond white in small bottles  ;)

can everyone please stop with the young'est coments! its starting to wear thin, ok?

Brand of beer has been a long discussion at our group last year. Some people wanted Grolsch, some wanted Alfa, Hertog Jan, Heineken and even Dommelsch was mentioned.
As for us it's a matter of supply. Last year I stuck to Heineken, basicly because Heineken is for the masses. And mass-consumption is our aim. Not that I get the stuff for free, but a mate of mine -beerman, he's coming aswell this year- runs an off-license (handy friend ;)) which means I can get all 50-litre barrels on a pay-at-return base and without a deposit.

Try and beat that ;D

personally i'd just go with the cheapest they have - usually 33 export or something. its 2 euros a case cheaper and when you've had 20 bottles you cant tell the difference between stella/kronenbourg and the cheap stuff anyway.

buying cheaper allows you to buy more. but i have a sneaky suspicion that we'll end up with kronenbourg anyway

Bloody students!  ;)

The cheap stuff is generally low ABV, low taste and looks pretty much the same in the bottle as in the urinal.

Myself, as I'm an Officer and a Gentleman, it can only be a cold .........

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Calm down dear, it's only a website.

The point is, Moped boy my lad, is that you are conversing here with a load of seasoned, top-league, hardened drinkers. We have been there, seen it, drunk it and fallen over it since before you were even so much as a twinge in your dad's groin.

People on this famous forum have been shot at, arrested, chased down the street and across fields, chased by gays with no trousers on through the woods, broken limbs, fallen into ditches, been stripped naked, had their genitals written on, ended up in hospitals, thrown out of pubs, clubs, bars, chemists, casinos, McDonalds and all manner of other establishments, been found upside down in wheely bins, thrown up all over themselves, shat themselves, pissed themselves  and goodness knows what else, all as a result of drinking. And that was just at pre-qualifying. I myself have been known to drink enough to kill a goat.

Thusly we are hardly likely to be impressed with the drinking yarns of a fourteen year old three-pot screamer. What I am trying to say, in the nicest possible way, is that you should not be trying to teach your Grandmother to suck eggs. Or your Grandfather how to drink beer.

That said, your presence on the forum is most welcome, and quite you clearly have the makings of very fine Le Mans (note spelling!)  material in the years to come. Think of it like being in the "Liverpool Bootroom", your apprenticeship. Certainly if you persevere and learn from your elders and betters, with any luck you'll have threadveins on your nose and acid reflux disease by the time you're thirty. Stick with it, watch and learn and know your place in the pecking order and my son, someday you shall be Alpha Male too.

Salut!  ;)

thanks ( i think ) i already got the spelling thing (le mans) and i but a teen, with a hell of a lot of drinking before me! whoot!

I wouldn't drink anything that had anything to do with monks, quiet or not.

Kanterbrau has always been a preference as its not as sweet as Kronenbourg, and usually cheaper.  

I suspect that this is my imagination as if you search the web you'll see that Kanterbrau are owned by Kronenbourg, who are owned by Scottish and Newcastle.  I.e. its Fosters, not Heineken

Anyone for a Becks?

Das belgische Brauunternehmen Interbrew übernahm im Jahr 2002 die Brauerei Beck & Co.

I think this means that Becks is really Heineken.

Anyone for Shepherd Neame?

I must say I thought that was a brilliant post Mr Z.  ;D

You're not a teacher, by any chance,are you?  I've known a few, (and must admit to being one myself, many moons ago.  ( I escaped though, got out under the wire one fine summer's eve...)

 ;)

Further research reveals that
33, Pelforth, Fischer & Amstel are all Heineken too

There is no such thing as French beer

I beg to differ!!!!!!

i'll hold you to that. i feel a challenge coming on....*evil scheming*

All this  talk of Beer has made me thirsty. Looks like the campsite tours are going to fulfil my taste buds with variety and the liver will love me to death!!

We had three barrels of homebrew last year. Don't qite know what the strength was, but it certainly made you fall over!
And it cost about 20p a pint ;D

That's extremely philosophical Mr Zarse. Have you been at the absinthe?

Way to go Mr Zarse! You missed out flagpoles and tarry thighs though.

Has anyone ever seen their grandmother suck eggs? It's good grounds to get her out the house and put in a pool table if you ask me. What happens after they're sucked?

Maybe it's not eggs. Maybe Grandads in on it. And the local dentist. Why, at her advanced age does she need teaching anyway, and who's going to teach her? Another Grandmother? Is there an Sucking Grandmothers Community somewhere?

Has Andy Wallace got a drive?

ok could we stop with the student jokes. its wearing a bit thin ok?  ;) ;) ;)