Extremely late to the party here but British real ales tend to be <4% in many cases (bearing in mind our pints are 568ml as well vs US pints at 473ml, and a pint being the most common serving measure as opposed to 12 oz etc). A lot of this is due to ABV being reduced to 3-4% around the time of WW1 basically to stop munitions workers being p!ssed…
Which is a long way of saying a lot of cask ales called IPA in the UK are not what would be recognised as an IPA originally (or in modern craft beer) since the ABVs were reduced in the early 1900s. Greene King IPA is probably the most famous (https://www.greeneking.co.uk/our-beers/greene-king/greene-king-ipa) and it’s 3.6%, and doesn’t really bear any relation to an 1800s IPA.
Keg IPAs tend to be US style and much stronger by ABV and are very common now. But a confusion now is that you are getting a lot of these IPAs in cask format too which means you will see cask IPAs at 3.4% or like 6.5%, which can be confusing
Then there’s the other thing where modern IPAs bear little relation to traditional IPAs anyway as they’d never have been drunk fresh, cold and fizzy, but I guess thats pretty common knowledge.
Years ago, a police officer friend told me a story of them pulling over an ID10T who had an issue with their license plate. Michigan, for too many years put out a sticker instead of a new plate. The instructions are really rather directly worded to say to put the new sticker ON TOP OF THE EXISTING STICKER, but so many people () actually put the stickers side by side, across their plate, and around the corners and down the sides, etc… They told the driver that they were guilty of defacing a license plate because the stickers covered the state, and pretty much everything on the plate except the actual numbers. They were incredulous that they were being encouraged to commit a crime by the officer. I don’t know who laughed harder. But on a serious note, I had possibly 7 or 8 years of stickers on my place, so I peeled most of them off, and my secretary at the time said that she wouldn’t turn me it, but that I should be careful of being around police because I ‘destroyed state property’. I have never been more in fear of the future than I think I am right now.
That was our Nautilus Stepper until I started using it. I loved that thing in the end… (I ended up doing 90+ minutes at lever 15! Our first Peloton was rusting away)
I still have my Century shirt around here somewhere.
The funny thing was they didn’t do the same thing for other levels. It was hilarious to see people that hit their Thousand complaining about not getting a shirt for that too. Some wanted ‘more’ for that milestone. Some complained about having to wait for the century shirt! People were talking/demanding free membership and other perks. (There are people in their 10,000 and 20,000 rides, so should they get the company? )
No, you got the health benefits (if any) for the time you spent in the saddle. If you rode for the shirt, now what? But so many that I followed from my Peloton days have just quit POOF. One I googled and she’s very much alive, but has apparently completely dropped off the sports map. No Strava, no Peloton, interesting. (It’s not a cost issue as she married a very wealthy attorney and just moved into a huge mansion)
So Peloton has been bleeding members/riders. Post pandemic losses, or just losses.
100% guilty! It was a highlight of a Trek Trip I took. There was a lazy left then right I could see ahead on the Explorer which looked like NBD, but then I saw the grade changed so I jumped on it, and there happened to be one of those narc boxes, and I hit near 40 on a 25! YESSSSS!!! Life’s small victories…
Later, people were comparing their speeds. I was surprisingly in the top 5. Another win!
But, you know, I’m really happy that I’m not like Bill. I saw a picture where he was just getting into cycling and wore his bibs inside out! Don’t be like Bill…
It must be all of the Peloton people looking for a new coat rack…
) actually put the stickers side by side, across their plate, and around the corners and down the sides, etc… They told the driver that they were guilty of defacing a license plate because the stickers covered the state, and pretty much everything on the plate except the actual numbers. They were incredulous that they were being encouraged to commit a crime by the officer. I don’t know who laughed harder. But on a serious note, I had possibly 7 or 8 years of stickers on my place, so I peeled most of them off, and my secretary at the time said that she wouldn’t turn me it, but that I should be careful of being around police because I ‘destroyed state property’. I have never been more in fear of the future than I think I am right now.
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I thought people demanding shirts for milestones was silly and hysterical.
Life’s small victories…
