This occurred to me too. We should have a GOG beer night. I can understand the trepidation involved, however if we trial one with big people, then others might be more secure.

Sounds good to me! I'll be around from the 1st to the 14th, so somewhere in the middle of that timeframe works for me. Perhaps a little later on we should make a dedicated topic about it.

Sounds like a plan!

So how do you guys feel about this?
My timing is going to be a bit off, I'm flying off for about a week on Friday.
I can do pints before and after that though.
When are people available?

I've only just spotted this sooo small education time.
All beers are not Ales, though all Ales are beers. Entries in brackets after the type below are an example of the beer
Modern Lager,(Fosters), what many people call a beer outside the UK and Ireland it's quick brewed and multi-filtered most of it's flavour comes from the yeast used (and in the US the adding of rice for some reason) uses female hops which give it a sweeter after taste. Cooled to upto 0 degrees usually very fizzy.
Bitter, (Stones), Slower brewing time the Malted barley is lightly flamed giving it a darker colour male hops lead to a MUCH stronger after taste.
Smooth,(John Smiths) close to a bitter but with a much rounder after taste uses a mix of both hops almost coffee flavours (personally preferred over a bitter)
Stout/porter (Guinness) dark roasted malts where almost all the sugar is caramelised very dark almost black colour stronger coffee tastes and hints of chocolate in its flavour
All of the above have nitrogen injected at the tap causing a head and very slight sparkle and normally sold at the same temp as Lagers yes thats right THE SAME TEMP.
Ales, there is nothing set for an ale the only rules are it must be made with 1.Water (duh) 2. Malted barley 3.Hops 4.Yeast. After that anything goes they come in a multitude of flavours, colours they really are a matter of taste and cover everything from Lagers to Porters in flavour and looks. They even branch out a little Buffy's Hop leaf for example uses hop leaves in the brewing process giving it a much more floral flavour. Theres also a cadburies Ale which uses chocolate in the brewing process...

Btw CAMRA (the real ale campaign) also includes continental lagers as part of their charter the only thing they are really against is the modern chemical brewing methods used by companies like Fosters etc in the UK.

One maybe in Cologne for German GOGgers for the gamescom wouldn't be a bad idea either.
Erm. OK. Just wanted to say - HERFORDER!

:P The UK never had an equivalent of Germany's beer laws so our beers are rather... different... to the rest of the EU's...

I know what the difference is on paper, my point was that all non-lager beers taste the same to me (with the exception of stout). And by same, I mean awful!

Lol try a honey beer like waggledance :P

I'm always up for a beer (almost), after next week though, I've a feeling it will be late nights at work coming up this and next week.