The English thread

[Ningüino CDR-lar]

an umbrella, an apple (vocal)
a car, a computer (consonant)

I know that. In fact, sometimes a word that begins with a vowel goes just with an a, like a University or a European. I was only hesitating if it was because of the next word or because the noun.

In Madrid we have a Belgic bar. I have never been there.

[Mr Winters]

an umbrella, an apple (vocal)
a car, a computer (consonant)

I know that. In fact, sometimes a word that begins with a vowel goes just with an a, like a University or a European.

That's because these are not vowels but diphtongs, which kind of work like consonants.

Actually they aren't diphtongs, my bad The first character would be /j/, which sounds like a vowel but is actually a consonant.

I failed Phonetics so feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken

[Psyro]

Nothing better than an strong ale (is it 'an' with an adjective between?). But I prefer Belgic beer over all.

Nope, it should be "a strong" ale.

I've never known the differences between ale, lager, stout and all that stuff. I just drink beer, bro.

I agree on the Belgian beer part. There's this bar near Sagrada Familia, they have a good selection of imported beers and the Belgian ones are by far the best.

Last week I spent a few days in Gran Canaria. One day we found a pub with an impressive selection of imported beers (about 100, or something like that, which is pretty amazing for Gran Canaria). They had Duvel and Rochefort 10 and also they gave me a free sample bottle of Viva!, a self-made beer produced by a local microbrewery that was slightly better than spanish industrial trademarks (or even worse, canarian industrial trademarks xD)

Pingu, in Madrid, near Bilbao, we have a pub and an international beer store. Thanks to that small store I could finally taste american beers (like flying dog, although it was a little bit stronger than I would have liked )

[Mr Winters]

Duvel is awesome.

By the way, I've been reading the whole thread, and I must say I kind of miss these arguments involving Gilles

[Ningüino CDR-lar]

For me the best are Duvel, Piraat and Kwak. Maybe Belzebuth too, but I have tried it just once.

[Mr Winters]

Hoegaarden Forbidden Fruit, Charles Quint, Delirium Tremens? These are great too.

Has anyone tried Samichlaus? They have it in the S. Familia bar I mentioned, and it's supposed to be hardcore shit (14% alcohol). But I'm not so sure about getting it because I once tasted a 12% beer and it was fucking gross, didn't even taste like beer.

[Ningüino CDR-lar]

I don't like Delirium Tremens that much, but I have heard a lot of great shit about Hoegaarden Forbidden Fruit too.

[Jessi]

 

[Ningüino CDR-lar]

Jessi likes beer when it is in English.

[Jessi]

Jessi likes beer when it is in English.