There's seriously people ITT who don't know how the FA Cup draw works??

It's the luck of the draw, btw

Doesn't craft = small batch? So all of those would technically be small batch.

Absolutely love trappist beers. Moving to the Netherlands in a few months and the ease of great beer is exciting me greatly.

Yeah, obviously the voice is ****ing terrible, as is Strictly and Dr Who. However, you have to wade through that **** for every War & Peace, Sherlock (admittedly pretty bad now), and the Night Manager.

apropos of nothing, this is the funniest image I've seen on the internet for some time so I thought I'd share it with you guys:

Yeah, but at least they flog Strictly and Dr Who to other countries for $, and they are popular here too.

However, The Voice cost a fortune and no one watched it.

Not all

whut

If only we had an xG for the FA cup draw, we could moan yet again about Arsenal getting a soft tie, and have empirical data to support our argument.

It obviously depends on what styles you like and all that but as a self-identifying craft beer snob myself, there is definitely a need for a craft beer scene in the UK.

I was excited to try some of the local English stuff when I was there and was not impressed by any of it. Again, warm lagers and ales aren't my style, but even the IPAs fell way short of what I prefer. That's not to say they were generally good or bad, but the craft beer scene over there does not seem to be nearly as easily accessible as it is here, if it even exists at all


(We've def had this discussion before btw)

Group stage and L16 where teams are protected from one another. It sucks.

Sorry I missed that.

Congrats to your Burnley..(and Boro)..

I guess you won't be watching PSG-Barca or Arsenal-Bayern next week

Must hate the World Cup too...

Sorry, I don't.

A few years ago, I didn't even know what the FA Cup was.

But I do know how the NBA lottery works..and I know all about how the NCAA tournament committee decides brackets for March Madness..since I grew up with them, just as you grew up watching the FA Cup.

But thanks for the snark..

Who said anything about not watching? Im saying I hate the protection. I love open draws.

Cannot wait for 48 team World Cup draw!! Going to be amazing!

The draw will probably last longer than some countries are in the competition.

Stu, in Pete's day there were precious few pesky foreigners playing in or fans of the beautiful game (in england)

...and that made the World Cup so much better, a proper global competition.
Not just a Euro based allstars competition.

I used to love it in 82/86, before the internet, when you didn't know who these great South American players were unless you saw them at the previous World Cup.

Also, let me be clear. It's great we have some top tier imports in the PL. It's the mediocre ones who are killing the game. Liverpool could easily find an English left back as bad as Moreno.

not enough s in the world for this one

Frozen balls is all you need to know

You're from NZ? I based my claim that a handle is 570mL from Queenstown, wasn't aware there was regional variation.

British IPAs are an entirely different genre from American IPAs. But yeah, I don't really like them.

Yes we had this discussion and we all loled at how little actual exposure you had to the beer scene in the UK but how typically Yankian you were in making such concrete and hard assumptions thereby.

True beer drinkers like myself are ignorant to craft beers because our innate love of beer means we like all the supermarket known ones

Yea beer not that accessible, I live in small provincial town but there are two pubs I can walk too that brew their own beer, one is amazing and makes the most sublime beer I have ever drunk.

Can go into a standard supermarket and buy numerous brews from very small independent breweries.

When you are fresh off the boat in a country and have not had several months exposure to it, its not really good idea to rush to such absolute conclusions about it, I know that is the American way, but try harder next time.

Just because it was not immediately accessible to a tourist =! not accessible.

Should not even need saying.

From what I can gather from looking at craft beers in the UK it means beer from a relatively smaller brewery that has spent much more on branding and marketing than your standard small local traditional brewer who has been putting out the same stuffy labels and corny named beers for decades.

Oafk how do you feel about Americans?