Pint in England

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dash2•about 4 hours ago

I reckon East Anglia has the best beer in England. There are so many great local brewers. Adnams is down the road in Southwold and keep putting out brilliant, innovative beers. Then there's Lacons in Great Yarmouth and a host of small names, from Nene Valley Brewery to Mr Winters. If you're in Norwich, check out the Trafford Arms: it's in a nondescript-looking building which was rebuilt after a WWII bomb, but it has a constantly rotating playlist of brilliant ales and a landlord couple who really know their stuff.

jdsnape•about 1 hour ago

I love that I see this on hacker news of all places. As an east-anglian I would definitely second this opinion. Times are a bit harder now but there are still so many great breweries.

n4r9•about 4 hours ago

> Walk around Burton and everything is named after beer: Cooper this, Brewer that.

I recently learnt that a "cooper" is someone that makes wooden casks or barrels.

throwrioawfo•about 4 hours ago

"cooper" derives from the verb "coop", which likely derives from Latin "cūpa", from which we get the word "cup".

gerdesj•about 2 hours ago

Perhaps (citation needed)! Barrel usage in Britain is a lot older than the Roman occupation of Britain. A cup is not a barrel.

If I was to bet, cooper is probably an anglicized form of a brythonic language word. Any Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Cornish or even Cumbric (int al) speakers hanging around here?

mmooss•about 4 hours ago

HN auto-title editor strikes again:

"The best pint in England" is the title.

IndySun•about 3 hours ago

Why is the cropped title HN's fault?

airstrike•about 2 hours ago

HN auto edits some clickbaity/tropey titles in submissions.

Submitters have a grace period of several minutes to edit them back to anything they want, which will not get autocorrected, but many fail don't. They may not realize it or be too lazy to care, we'll never know. (Personally, I think anyone who considers themselves a "hacker" would at least try to bypass such a primitive system, but I digress...)

Some HNers complain every time that happens, gleefully oblivious to the countless other times the autoedit feature works as advertised.

ahartmetz•about 3 hours ago

Probably because "The best X" is generally clickbaity.

whynotisay•about 3 hours ago

One of the worst designed features of all time. More problems than solutions with that one

andybak•about 4 hours ago

If there's one type of beer I didn't associate with Burton on Trent it was lager.

Pint in England

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