I reckon East Anglia has the best beer in England. There are so many great local brewers. Adnams is down the road in Southwold and keep putting out brilliant, innovative beers. Then there's Lacons in Great Yarmouth and a host of small names, from Nene Valley Brewery to Mr Winters. If you're in Norwich, check out the Trafford Arms: it's in a nondescript-looking building which was rebuilt after a WWII bomb, but it has a constantly rotating playlist of brilliant ales and a landlord couple who really know their stuff.
I love that I see this on hacker news of all places. As an east-anglian I would definitely second this opinion. Times are a bit harder now but there are still so many great breweries.
Perhaps (citation needed)! Barrel usage in Britain is a lot older than the Roman occupation of Britain. A cup is not a barrel.
If I was to bet, cooper is probably an anglicized form of a brythonic language word. Any Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Cornish or even Cumbric (int al) speakers hanging around here?
HN auto edits some clickbaity/tropey titles in submissions.
Submitters have a grace period of several minutes to edit them back to anything they want, which will not get autocorrected, but many fail don't. They may not realize it or be too lazy to care, we'll never know. (Personally, I think anyone who considers themselves a "hacker" would at least try to bypass such a primitive system, but I digress...)
Some HNers complain every time that happens, gleefully oblivious to the countless other times the autoedit feature works as advertised.
Thank you. You've articulated a common flaw in almost the entire comment-based internet. I'm an idiot and come here to learn, from a genuine curiosity standpoint - that doesn't stop experts behaving childishly though. It's simply far too easy to chide or downvote whilst 'hiding' behind account names, pseudonyms, and by the same token a flood of mob-rule can decimate curiosity in a matter of seconds. It's worse for kids. The best of the best is out there too, the well meaning, the guilty, the innocent, all at once.
I reckon East Anglia has the best beer in England. There are so many great local brewers. Adnams is down the road in Southwold and keep putting out brilliant, innovative beers. Then there's Lacons in Great Yarmouth and a host of small names, from Nene Valley Brewery to Mr Winters. If you're in Norwich, check out the Trafford Arms: it's in a nondescript-looking building which was rebuilt after a WWII bomb, but it has a constantly rotating playlist of brilliant ales and a landlord couple who really know their stuff.
I love that I see this on hacker news of all places. As an east-anglian I would definitely second this opinion. Times are a bit harder now but there are still so many great breweries.
I’ve always felt beer should be taxed on distance - the further from the brewery, the more expensive.
Beer is easy, every town should have their own.
To read the remaining 3/4: https://archive.is/4EDsj
> Walk around Burton and everything is named after beer: Cooper this, Brewer that.
I recently learnt that a "cooper" is someone that makes wooden casks or barrels.
"cooper" derives from the verb "coop", which likely derives from Latin "cūpa", from which we get the word "cup".
Perhaps (citation needed)! Barrel usage in Britain is a lot older than the Roman occupation of Britain. A cup is not a barrel.
If I was to bet, cooper is probably an anglicized form of a brythonic language word. Any Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Cornish or even Cumbric (int al) speakers hanging around here?
If there's one type of beer I didn't associate with Burton on Trent it was lager.
HN auto-title editor strikes again:
"The best pint in England" is the title.
Why is the cropped title HN's fault?
HN auto edits some clickbaity/tropey titles in submissions.
Submitters have a grace period of several minutes to edit them back to anything they want, which will not get autocorrected, but many fail don't. They may not realize it or be too lazy to care, we'll never know. (Personally, I think anyone who considers themselves a "hacker" would at least try to bypass such a primitive system, but I digress...)
Some HNers complain every time that happens, gleefully oblivious to the countless other times the autoedit feature works as advertised.
Probably because "The best X" is generally clickbaity.
One of the worst designed features of all time. More problems than solutions with that one
Why did you create an alt account for this comment?
I create a new account for every top-level comment, and have for years.
The moderation is so childish on this site I just take their power away.
They are not actually good enough to fully ban by IP or anything else.
Thank you. You've articulated a common flaw in almost the entire comment-based internet. I'm an idiot and come here to learn, from a genuine curiosity standpoint - that doesn't stop experts behaving childishly though. It's simply far too easy to chide or downvote whilst 'hiding' behind account names, pseudonyms, and by the same token a flood of mob-rule can decimate curiosity in a matter of seconds. It's worse for kids. The best of the best is out there too, the well meaning, the guilty, the innocent, all at once.
> a landlord couple who really know their stuff
Old boards with new lords?
Splintered floors? Gaps in doors?
Pay no mind – a fee will do!
Abundance for all, or at least these two.
Feudalism!
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