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If Pedals were Beers

The digital delay would have to be Toby Bitter. Not because digital delays are bad pedals - they aren't - but because a session of Toby Bitter (which in some countries does not qualify as beer) could keep going for weeks and amount to several hundreds of pints being consumed with no degradation in bodily function!! At something like 2.8%, much of the alcohol from the previous pint is metabolised before you get to the end of the next one - you get a hangover before getting drunk:
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The Xotic Robotalk would have to be Rochefort 10. At 11.3%, this is the antithesis of Toby - strong, elegant, moreish and, from dim and distant memory (Le Tiffany's, Arlon, Belgium, 1991), capable of mind-bending trickery:
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