Ingenious barrel cooling methods?

[Road Runner]

There was a big push on Irn Bru a few years back. Flashy ads on TV etc. "Made from Girders" and all that. Possibly explains the "rust" colouring.

I had it a number of times here in Sunny Essex. I think the supermarkets still stock it, but I haven't seen any TV ads for it for a few years now.

Edit: Just checked my local Sainsburys web site. They do stock it & also a low calorie version that looks a totally different colour. Less "Rust" perhaps. Only it looks like we get it in Plastic PET bottles.

[bod]

i've only ever seen it in london where my brother lives, but not in sheffield where my family are from, who love a few pints of ale! i have to take a stock with me when i visit.

its strange, cos every type of container of bru is manufactured in a different area it seems, and so they all taste ever so slighty different! cans and glass bottles taste the best. its like the whole buckfast thing, which is a myth though.

[bod]

QUOTE (Daft as a Brush @ Jun 8 2006, 06:34 PM) QUOTE "gees a swallie a yer bru big man eh?" for a moment I thought Rab c Nessbit had joined the forum
'mon the rab!

[mysterio]

What myth about buckfast?

[bod]

well, in my mis-spent youth there was a myth that the numbers embossed on the bottom of the bottle, which range from 1 to 22, tell you that number 1 was bottled first from the cask, and number 22 was from the bottom. so apparently the stuff from the bottom was sweeter than stuff from the top........ :huh: this ment that all my mates went to the offie and spent ages racking through the bottoms looking for their favourite number.

however, a few years ago, i sent an email to the distributors, and one of their reps actually popped round the flat cos he was bored with a load of free merchandise( i got a horrible buckfast t-shirt/cap/lighter/etc) and he explained that the numbers are just to do with the moulds that the bottle are made in, nothing to do with the taste of the stuff, which is brewed in huge vats, not casks. it all tastes the same basically.

[bod]

actually, we made our mecca trip to the buckfast abbey for a mates birthday once, it was full of scottish teenagers and bus loads of WI peeps, they were all sipping their fortified wine with great finess, we were just tanning the stuff!!!

[mysterio]

Oh you're kidding me! I used to always maintain that the lower numbers where the more bitter ones and the higher the sweeter... And there were certain rare 'vintage' numbers!

Dearie me.

[bod]

tell me about it, i used to think it was true as well. apparently its a very common question they get asked now since they set up their website!

[fizzypop boy]

Did you know that in all the countries that sold coca cola(a f^^% lot) only in Scotlandshire was it not the top soft drink seller.
Drum roll please drrrrrrrrrr yes Irnbru out sold it!!! thats one in the eye for those god damn yanks lol

[Andy]

QUOTE (fizzypop boy @ Jun 9 2006, 01:04 AM) Did you know that in all the countries that sold coca cola(a f^^% lot) only in Scotlandshire was it not the top soft drink seller.

Don't forget........drum roll.....


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_Kola




QUOTE Peru is one of only two countries in the world (as of 2004) where Coca-Cola is massively sold that it is not the market leader, the other being Scotland, where Irn-Bru shares equal footing with Coca-Cola.

Had some of this stuff while in Peru in 2001, was OK!

QUOTE Douglas Ivester, chairman of the Coca-Cola company in 1999, when he went to Lima for the buyout, was quoted as saying "Looks like piss, tastes like bubble-gum," upon his first experience with Inca Kola.

:blink:

[deadlydes]

QUOTE (andy @ Jun 8 2006, 04:29 PM)QUOTE (jim @ Jun 8 2006, 04:54 PM)Now I just stick my glasses in the freezer for an hour or so.
Don't you then keep bumping into things ?





LOL

[Steeev]

QUOTE (andy @ Jun 9 2006, 07:09 AM)

QUOTE Douglas Ivester, chairman of the Coca-Cola company in 1999, when he went to Lima for the buyout, was quoted as saying "Looks like piss, tastes like bubble-gum," upon his first experience with Inca Kola.


That'd do well in the States... Sounds like their beer.