Compliments of zippy, he suggested it.

Porter is available in the US, but varies in quality. Penn Brewing makes a Pennsylvania Porter (not round enough flavor) and Yuengling has a passable Porter, but it's not as easy to find as their Black and Tan (which bears no relation to a real Black and Tan).

I actually tend to prefer the Samuel Smith's Taddy (Tadcaster) Porter, which should be a lot easier for Sundae to get, since she's closer to Yorkshire than I am. Their Nut Brown Ale, by the way, is exactly as delightful and satisfying as James Herriott led you to believe.

Love Sam Smith's nut brown ale.

Uh-huh, just as I suspected all along.





:p

beer nuts!

I'm a lifelong reader and my vocabulary is pretty big, and I love words, so I'm always excited now when I read something that has unfamiliar words.

some other works I found which increased my vocabulary:

The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes;

Ficciones (in translation) by Jorge Luis Borges.

The Hobbit. One of the best stories ever written.

LOTR was better, though.

OMG! Something we agree on! Let's just set aside the fact that there's millions of other readers and literary critics also agree. :)

kind of a tangent...
 

I know many words, that I've picked up from books, that I will never use in an actual conversation because I don't know how they're pronounced, and I don't want to embarass myself. However, I will use them in typed communication, like here.

know how to pronouce "dictionary"?

Okay, okay, I know what you mean. Like the word, "dour." You'd think it would rhyme with sour, but it actually sounds like "do-er"

They occur to me as the context surfaces. I can't stop and open a new tab in real life.

open a tab? drinking your vocabulary, are you?

:D

I was thinking more like an actual book, you know. And if you look it up once, you own it.

I would say dour like sour.

"dow-er expression" ...see, that's why I don't try to say shit.