Comments on: Edwin Taylor’s Extra Stout

By: Zythophile

Zythophile — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:58:12 +0000

Mrs Beeton recommended cooper, a mixture of stout and porter, for nursing mothers. She didn’t say anything about pregnant ones, though …

By: maeib

maeib — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:39:09 +0000

Jeff – So I’m told. Never been pregnant meself! It’s all to do with iron apparently.

As far as Milton is concerned, they’re not too bad IMO. Mammon and Marcus Aurelius are both VERY good.

By: Bailey

Bailey — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:44:53 +0000

I quite like Marcus Aurelius stout usually, but even that was flat, greasy and a bit boring the last time I had it.

Moravka’s a good reason to go the Pembury, though!

By: Tandleman

Tandleman — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:30:23 +0000

One sunny day in a pissing wet summer isn’t ordinary. The summer still is!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:01:45 +0000

Milton Mammon isn’t ordinary.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:01:22 +0000

maeb, I’d heard that nursing mothers (i.e. post natal) were given stout, but not pregnant women.

By: Tandleman

Tandleman — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:08:11 +0000

Jeff. It is overconfident to point out to a fellow blogger you agree with them? (I could have quoted less I agree mind you.)

I am just glad that someone whose opinion I value, thinks – in this case at least – the same as me. That being that Milton, as a brewer, is ordinary. To have agreement is a bonus, but its all open to challenge at the end of the day.

By: maeib

maeib — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:46:24 +0000

Stout always used to be recommended for pregnant women albeit in small quantities. A half would have been perfect.

By: Bailey

Bailey — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:13:28 +0000

We were telling our chum that we’d heard some German alcohol free beers were bearable. Not nice, exactly, but better than water.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:59:38 +0000

Tandleman, quoting yourself in comments on other people’s blogs is a little … over-confident, shall we say.

Boak and Bailey: my mate Ross visited Bavarian Beer House with a pregnant pal recently. She drank litre steins of Erdinger’s alcohol free wheat beer all night. What a trooper. On the other hand, the pregnant wife of another friend recently visited my pub and enjoyed half a Landlord before switching to mineral water, so people have different approaches.