Why, of course...
The high church ones who ape the Anglicans.

I was told some years ago that evensong was 'all the rage' in Sweden.
I've even seen it being done (not all that well) somewhere in Teutonic lands on youtube.

More seriously, I should think that something grand by Schutz would be just right.

If your penchant is for Samuel Smith's various brews, that makes you a friend of mine - though I much prefer stout.
(Someone once told me that the custom in England was to mix stout half and half with normal beer.
This sounds weird to me and I don't do it - and I hope that they don't.)

I don't recall seeing stout and bitter mixed in London. When dark Mild was more available, mild and bitter mixed was a declining fashion. The impecunious could once be heard ordering a half pint of this half and half mixture, in the local pronunciation: 'arf 'n 'arf 'n 'arf . There are signs of Mild reviving even across the pond, see.

Arrrgh!, Viola -

One is always somewhat astonished at the tasteless things (effete nonsense as you rightly call it) that the reputedly tasteful and 'proper' English do.
Beer and lemonade???
Horrid.
(Gauche, too!)

On a side topic -
If you've ever wondered about the history of beer, here is a fantastic book in PDF form by one of my favorite professors from when I was at university.
http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1025&context=llcpub

Speaking of mixing ... what about "depth charges" ?

Usually done in a pub. A mug or tankard of beer is drawn, and a shot glass of distilled spirits (could be whiskey, gin, vodka, ... ) is held above the nearly full mug. The shot glass of spirits is dropped into the beer (often on a signal, if several are doing depth charges at once), and the mixture is then drunk as rapidly as possible ("chugged"), at least in a pub game format. The first to slam his/her mug back own on the table is the winner of the round.

Forget British beers....Belgian monk beers are THE BEST. Give me Chimay, Trappistes de Rochefort, St. Bernadus or Westmalle.

Beer and lemonade???
Horrid.
(Gauche, too!)
not to mention... a hugely unappetizing color. :-x

Yes, I've heard them called Boilermakers, too. But I'm older than the rest of you!! LOL

A local Baptist(!) church I drive past daily advertises "Beer and Hymns" at a nearby watering hole. Seems to be about once a month. I'm pretty sure the watering hole doesn't have a pipe organ.

I have a friend who was born Baptist, became Anglican, became an Anglican priest, became a Catholic priest of what has become the Ordinariate, was for several years the pastor of Walsingham, and is now a diocesan priest in another diocese, whose Baptist mother, having had a sip of the wine he brought home, would ask him to bring a bottle home for her, but not to let anyone see him buying it or bringing it into the house lest she be disgraced. This same friend told me that it was well known in drinking circles that Baptist tea was what a Baptist would order at a drinking establishment, Baptist tea being understood to be Whiskey.

I've enjoyed seeing Baptists skulk into and out of a liquor store. They truly don't like to be seen. It is also amusing to watch them buying lottery tickets and scratching them off outside to see if they have won - gambling for those who don't know that is a Baptist sin. My great aunts of the Protestant wing of the family used to enjoy a bit of snuff, which they ran and hid at the sight of the preacher pulling into the the driveway. One wouldn't have thought elderly ladies could move that fast.

Isn't Bach German? Did he produce anything liturgically suitable for our Mass?

I often say no, but more because I really don't like Bach. Many - well, most - of his pieces are far too lengthy to fit within a typical U.S. mass without adaptations. You can do it, if you really want. If it has text, it is a good idea to examine it first and see if Bach's Lutheran theology fits Catholic theology. I prefer to use French compositions that were written for the mass, since they tend to be shorter and a more easy fit.

Now I will be castigated and condemned by the Bach fanatics.

I prefer the gifts of Christ the Meadgiver (an actual title of Christ in the early middle ages).

On the old comedy show 'Hee Haw', they had a Baptist preacher in guest shots occasionally (he was the brother of our next door neighbor, but that's not important). I remember his definition of a good Baptist - one who doesn't drink in front of his preacher!

I really don't like Bach.

I can understand saying this about Mozart, but Bach? I think you're pulling the forum's leg.

My understanding is a Boilermaker is one of two things: 1. a student of Purdue University, or 2. a drop shot involving a beer, and a shot of whisky.

It's true, Kathy, Charles is on record as not liking Bach.
None of us, after all, are perfect.

Charles

Interesting: I suspect a hefty cause for your take on Bach is that your encounter with him appears to be primarily as a performing organist expected to have mastered a number of his works for organ. There's a certain dynamic not uncommon among solo instrumentalists having mastered the core of the "typical" repertoire.

I am no keyboardist: I trained in horn for a decade, and became an amateur chorister for another generation. So my encounters with Bach are as a singer and as an audience member. And therefore, when I think of Bach, I first think of his more lyrical works, less his "mathematical" works. I never, ever, tire of the Aria of the Goldberg Variations - the variations, I can tire from, but not the Aria. Many of the arias of the St John Passion, the final chorus and final chorale - have the effect of a transporting, liminal, exaltation that is rare in other music (of other named composers, William Byrd is most likely to elicit a similar transformation from me). And so forth in other works.

Whereas, as I've noted in other threads where we get into these things, the transporting joys of Mozart are in ensemble performance together - instrumental and operatic especially. For solo instrumentalists who only perform occasionally with others, the joys of Mozart are likely to remain opaque. Mozart was certainly capable of making big and deep musical arguments - it's just that the patrons of his times were weary of that and elicited something different.

I am fond of the sound of French organs. Old French organs. And I preferred a brighter style of horn playing than the doppelbock-trippelbock Germanic style.

Today it is Guinness all the way.

And for those of us not blessed to hail from Ireland?