The Friday Question
First off, before I get on to the Friday Question I just want you cask ale lovers out there know that the Scottish Ale is now the Brewer’s Choice beer engine at The Pratt Street Ale House, it’s big and bold, full of malt character with an underlying sweetness and hints of smoke and peat and is a little over 7% a.b.v.
O.K., on to last weeks question, what is the weight of hops used in producing the Strongman Pale Ale? Well Mr. Sandy Mitchell’s “price is right strategy” paid off this time as the actual weight of hops used is a little more than all of the guesses at 14lbs. For those of you interested the hop additions are as follows: start of boil… 5 lbs First Gold, after 1 hour of boil 1 lb Kent Goldings, after 1 hour and 50 minutes 1 lb Kent Goldings. In the hop percolator 3 lbs Kent Goldings and 2 lbs Bramling Cross and last but not least 2 lbs of Kent Goldings for dry hopping in conditioning. Congratulations Sandy.
As you know, this weeks prize is something a bit special, a bottle of the super rare and super expensive Tactical Nuclear Penguin, BrewDog’s “strongest beer in the world” monster. Because of the nature of this prize I’m going to let this Question stand for 2 weeks, the winner will be announced on Friday 29th January. As usual, answers must be posted via the comment section below, one answer per person only please and the closest guess to the actual answer wins it! In the event of a tie the answer posted first gets it, judges decision is final etc. Oh yeah and you have to be able to come and pick the prize up, o.k. So, the question …. this beer is well travelled. Firstly from Scotland to my parents’ house in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. My mother then dispatched the 2 bottles to me courtesy of the Royal Mail. She posted it on 6th January and it arrived on 13th January. What I want to know is how much did it cost my Mum to ship these 2 bottles from England to Baltimore? Good luck, one of those bottles could be yours!
Tags: Cask Ale, scottish ale, the friday question
£37?
$55
Crap! $55 = £33.8102305674653.8
I left half of it off1
£30
£50.79
I am guessing that you used Global Priority? Maybe.
£9
14.46 pounds
£56
£45.99
27 pounds?
I’ll go with the first number that popped into my head:
$137.55
£30.12
£21.
And some newspapers.
22GBP…assuming she didn’t send you any belated Christmas presents in the package.
£50.79
£13.58
You know, this isn’t exactly “random.” We do have access to the GPO’s postal rates, you know. I’ll cast a guess after I wrap up two BrewDog bottles I have here for shipping, run down to the Fayette Street PO, weigh them, get a weight, and then look up said weight on the GPO website.
Or, you know, you *could* have been quite evil and had her ship them by some other carrier, like DHL or UPS, and had them charged to the PSAH’s account….. hmmmmmmm……… would he be that positively EVIL as to pull off a trick question like that?…..
£41.05
34 Pounds
£41.99
£23.58
£38.19
£63
28.50 pounds sterling, love!
£19.75
18.10 pounds. I may pay the price of airfare to get from the source if this doesn’t work out.
£18.86, hopefully
Goddammit, the only thing I’m left with to do here is pick an answer that both works and gives me the widest latitude for winning amongst all the other dart throws left here……. if they went Airsure, which is what BrewDog used to send a bottle to Casey the other day, with insurance for two bottles, it would run about £36 or so….. so, even though I haven’t a clue how well she packaged the bottles, I’m guessing £36, just to go between Dominic and the guy who guessed £38……….