After falling in love with both recently, especially the latter, I am currently enjoying some tins of Zywiec and Okocim.
Tomorrow shall be spent on pints of Peroni.
What alcoholic (or non alcoholic) beverages is TTH enjoying?
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After falling in love with both recently, especially the latter, I am currently enjoying some tins of Zywiec and Okocim.
Tomorrow shall be spent on pints of Peroni.
What alcoholic (or non alcoholic) beverages is TTH enjoying?
I've got some Kronenbourg in.
Tetleys.
English Breakfast.
Nothing, still in the lab. A Taddy Porter shall be enjoyed later though.
Water.
I'll be on Peroni on the train in the morning before pints of vodka.
Has two of these at lunch for my birthday.
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/23108/72305/
Probably have some Guinness tonight.
I had an awesome weissbier yesterday.
Had a bottle of Hobgoblin before.
Got a barrel of the Hobgoblin Gold stuff to drink at Christmas too. Never had it and purposely avoiding it til Christmas Day.
I bought some Pepsi Max earlier.
I drank a 3 litre bottle of Frosty Jacks last night. Not really feeling anything tonight though.
Lol at that.Quote:
I had this on tap at Moxie in the Town Center Mall. Glad to see they offer about 8 local beers on tap.
It was served in a large tulip glass. The beer is a hazy yellow with an off-white skim off foam. Big clove and spice nose.
Lots of clove and banana esters. It is spicy with a bit of grains. I would personally like to see the spice dialed down a notch as the beer is in danger of being a one trick pony.
Mouth is excellent with a bit of heft and it is crisp.
Not my favorite offering from a great local brewery, but it is worth seeking out to have a few.
I bought my grandad a fairly expensive bottle of whisky for an anniversary recently but I've ended up with two so I'm having one myself. It's a 15 year old Glendronach and it's quite lovely.
A shitty little shop near me has started selling Peroni Red, which I hadn't seen being sold here before, so I've stocked up on that.
1664. Those smaller bottles are a quite excellent size.
Somewhat surprisingly, Coke Zero.
Tyskie is grand stuff, The only thing I'll buy internationally.
I had a banging cherry limeade with nerds in it at Sonic yesterday, and went back to get one today. Might have to get one every day from now on.
I'll tell you what I'm not drinking, American beer. Shit is disgusting. My parents have made my alcoholic tastes too sophisticated and ruined me for frats forever.
I would like to place a request for a sound recording of 'I had a banging cherry limeade'.
Got some cheap Bulgarian wine tonight. Pretty decent.
A Canadian geezer I know always said the beer here is shite so he gets his dad to ship him some cans every so often. I'm not sure if he's a sad bastard or an alcoholic but I never looked at him the same after he told me.
What do you mean by "American beer"? Do you mean horrid watery American lagers in the Coors/Bud mould? If so... well yeah, that's understandable, but there's lots of good American stuff if you find you like beer from elsewhere.
Anyway, tonight for me was initially some Kronenbourg and then at the point when I was about to go to bed, about three hours ago, I decided I'd have a glass of Monkey Shoulder. And here I still am. :moop:
Plenty of quality beer over here, just not from the mainstream producers. Even then, Sam Adams is pretty good.
EDIT: Check Anchor Brewing in San Francisco Spoons, they make a beastly Porter.
Had a bottle of Sprit that's gone now got Fanta Fruit Twist almost gone though xx
Stuff like Bud Light, PBR, IPA, I find all pretty shit. But that's the thing, I don't know if it's an American beer problem or just a beer problem.
Fanta Fruit Twist is one of my favorite drinks ever. Though that's probably in part because you can only get it in Europe, so it has good associations for me. But it is so good.
Need to have a trip up to Drygate again one day, not been in ages. Maybe once I'm back from holiday.
I haven't been in a year or so either, @Ian. It's just a little too out of the way although it is excellent.
When I drink at home it will be some sort of ale. I like Badger stuff but try to have a go at local ones if I can find them. When I'm out I embarrass my mates by sitting there with any flavour of brightly coloured Daiquiri.
Peroni red is majestic, but I can't really find anywhere that sells it here. </3
Calimocho is my drink. Ice, red wine and coke. Sounds disgusting, tastes great.
Red wine and Coke? Jesus Christ.
Why is it called Peroni 'red' in Scotland anyway?
And Shiner Bock at least means there is some good beer in the US.
I've never heard of it, but it's not the same as the standard Peroni even though it's also a lager.
Stella later, because it was on offer.
No thank you. Why would you ruin a red wine by messing with it?
Unless it's a cheap red wine.
Improve it by leaving out the wine.
Irish in lack of class shocker.
Aberlour 10 year old :cool:
Back on the Pepsi Max.
I'm about to get myself a jar of lemonade.
A jar? Does it come with a free beard?
Kept smashing glasses when doing the dishes, but jars seem more sturdy. I've a hotdog one, a gherkin one and a pickled egg one. The latter is 510ml of greatness.
I've got this beast waiting in the cupboard but I can't get the bloody lid off. :D
Actual jars and not hipster jars :D
Not so bad when the lemonade wasn't bought in the jar.
Had a Pepsi Max earlier.
Now on camomile and honey tea.
The only thing I'm finding lately, which I presume is a side effect of medication I'm on, is that all drinks taste flat now. I don't know if I'm more disappointed in the beer or the Pepsi :(
Big fan of these currently: http://www.theredchurchbrewery.com and http://pressuredropbrewing.co.uk (Pale Fire especially) :drool:
Just about to have some Jim Beam Red Stag with the last bit of coke I have left.
In non-alcoholic drink news, I've been drinking oceans of Volvic Juiced. They're on a long term 2 for £1.60 at Boots (one is £1.50), so I've been all over that. The Lemon one is a staple, and the Orange & Apple are pretty solid too.
Can I just say Schiehallion is absolutely disgusting.
A strange metal cup of incredibly weak Korean tea. Not good.
In other news however, I haven't drunk anything alcoholic for around 3 months. It's boring and I can't understand the people who finish work and need to have a beer.
It's utter shit. There's a reason why only Spanish kids and you drink it. Only thing worse mentioned in this thread is Pepsi Max that is simply the worst fizzy drink there is. Back to red wine though. I opened a bottle I got a a present quite a while a go yesterday and the wine is from Tenerife (not the most common wine area in Spain) as I always ask my dad to bring me something local food stuff or wine when he travels and he usually comes through with something decent. This wine was weird though as it needed to be open for a few hours before it actually came any good (I know wines should be opened in advance, but the difference between one and two hours was astonishing here).
So, in short, I was drinking a red wine from Tenerife and since it's now morning I'm on Berocca and coffee.
Red wine is the best kind of wine in my opinion. Unless it's merlot :sick:
Don't know why tinypic keeps landscaping my photos :moop:
Only pissing about the wine. Most I've drank from a shop have been rank but I've had a few nice ones on the hols. Friend used to bring me an epic one back from Portugal every year too. Think it was homemade.
I bought some O'Haras stout. Didn't see the chocolate and vanilla written on the neck label :sick:
I had a punk IPA before which is absolutely great. Nice fruity taste to it without having that overly fermented taste.
Now a glass of white to go with a fish curry.
Lots with @Baz
In the 3 months or so i've lived in Scotland, I've gone from hating whiskey to really enjoying it. Probably helps that I'm being introduced to stuff other than shit house whiskey and coke. Particularly enjoying the peaty stuff, and got myself a bottle of Laphroaig the other day. Lovely stuff.
The pale ale I got is going down much better than the stout.
£30 for 500ml of a good whiskey wouldn't be too bad at all as it would last a while. If you're beating it into you with coke in it then you might as well get tesco value.
They all have distinctive features depending on where they come from. Go for a taster sesh, find one you like and invest (15 yr+). It's too expensive to try different types per bottle.
Done one of those with vodka earlier this year and got a couple of great ones out of it.
Bow Bar on Victoria St near Grassmarket is another good bet, Igor.
I'd like a new bottle of whiskey to add to my collection. I've got a 12 year Glenfiddich, a vintage cask Glenfiddich and a standard Glenlivet (assume it's a 12 year).
tonight's a taaka night for sure
I haven't had much whisky since a couple of years ago, when the girlfriend's dad and I powered through a bottle and a half of Macallan on Christmas Eve and I could still barely eat on Boxing Day...
I have taken a love to bourbon-based Old Fashioneds though.
Yep, a well made old fashioned is my favourite tipple. Shame it's hit and miss the one you buy is any good.
You can't go too far wrong if you use good bourbon and don't fuck around by adding soda.
The barrelled stuff comes in bottles with standardised labels and only the name of the distillery written on it, none of which I remember, but the staff in that shop are uniformly excellent. Tell them what sort of stuff you like and they'll machine gun about ten recommendations at you, all of which will be perfect.
I still have the dregs of a bottle of fifteen year Glendronach that I've enjoyed in a big way recently, so I'd recommend that. It's sherry cask, so it's a bit different, and it's fifty quid a bottle, but it's absolutely brilliant.
As well as some bottled beers I'd got in Good Spirits Co. (Tsar by Buxton brewery is so good) my brother-in-law then cracked the Lagavulin 16 we'd got him for his birthday.
Ron Swanson's not wrong.
Those were all a little strong for me last night, ended up too drunk and with too much of a hangover. I really need to stick to 4% stuff as opposed to the 6/7%.
Was on Krombacher last night, feel a bit shit today but it was lovely to drink.
Dirt cheap Danoff Vodka, it's actually not as bad as imagined.
Pepsi Max Cherry is my soft drink of choice, after full sugar Irn Bru, but I never drink full sugar drinks these days so Pepsi Max Cherry it is.
Finished this last night -
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Jerez cask whiskeys and beers truly are special.
Can people really taste apple etc when they drink whisky?
I don't much beyond like it/don't like it when I taste whisky. I'm sure I read that there is a logical reason for it but I did lol when buying a whisky for my dad and one of the comments on the website mentioned sticking plasters.
Chocolate milk. It's bloody great. Also dissolvable vitamin C, apparently good after exercise.
edit- While I'm here, coconut water on sale. :drool: http://www.tesco.com/groceries/produ.../?id=289573302
A rather delicious Sumatran espresso the hipster coffee shop down the road roasts on premises. Home ground and brewed of course.
Found a new favourite.
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Sober tonight. Got myself in a right mess last 3 days. Think a 4th would ruin me.
Presumably you've married her, got her pregnant and then murdered them both?
Nah nothing bad. Just feeling knackered.
Iv'e been off the drink since November. I am seething at anyone having fun. Enjoy the booze you bastards.
That just water weight you're carrying then?
I'm technically a functioning alcoholic despite significantly cutting down on my consumption relative to college. A casual 4-5 drinks deep tonight for no reason, which has been par for the course for the entirety of my time at home.
Yolo.
Well at least you're speeding up the best solution for all of us, good on ya lad.
Had a pint of Phonics last night. Was really REALLY nice. :)
Sampling some of this N17 this evening. Very nice stuff indeed.
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N17 is hipster territory, I hope you know.
A growler?
Whatever it is, don't describe it like that if you're ever in Scotland. That word has a very specific meaning here.
Yeah, it has that same meaning here too. :D
And yes, that meaning also stands here too :D
1 litre also.
http://thetaste.ie/wp/wp-content/upl...11/growler.jpg
What's with the name? I can only think that maybe it makes a growling noise as it's being filled/emptied, but even then it's a daft name.
I bet there's a marital aid company marketing the 'Glass Growler'.
Tonight I'll be mostly drinking pink moscato my sister left over last time she stayed. I don't think that's hipster.
Porter is the black stuff, right? Like stout?
I either like really light or just plain black. Ruby and Dark (the inbetweeners) are my least favourite types of ale, I reckon.
That chocolate milk one is outstanding.
EDIT: and the turf smoked is odd.
I'm not big on smoked ones. There's a couple I can drink but not any I'd go out of my way for.
I've made a start on a handful of bottles too. Actually, the first was a can. A stout called "Dark Arts" by Magic Rock which was ace. Now at the other end of the scale Howling Hops' Pale Ale.
Only 3.8% but surprisingly tasty. Could spend the afternoon on this.
Porters are my favorite type of beer. Not a big fan of IPAs either, or most other 'hoppy' shite.
Must see can I locate that dark arts. Few places I've found have rarer stuff.
The hops just overpower any other taste for me. Never liked them.
EDIT: This smoked one is better the further down I go.
Also, one of the more popular ones here (which might mean it's exported) here @Ian is O'Haras Leann Follain. Well worth a try if you like a stout.
As usual. EVERYTHING.
One of the bottles sitting in the kitchen calls itself an "imperial mild", which seems like a bit of a contradiction in terms but I'm curious to try it.
The super hoppy American style IPAs are fucking gross.
I'm not sure there's a type of beer I uniformly dislike other than sour ones.
I fucking love sour beer! Lambic beers are brilliant. But yeah, largely I'm with Baz and Giggles on super pale or super dark and nowt much between. Adnams Ghost Ship is one of my faves on the former.
Just opened one I forgot I'd bought. A collaboration between Brewdog and Ilkley called "White Chocolate Stout" but is a clear, golden beer. It's a bit odd in truth. I guess you might be convinced it's a stout if you were trying it blindfolded but it doesn't properly match the description.
I don't feel that getting used to hoppy beers was any different to getting used to what I found to be an overwhelming malty flavour in stouts and the like. Now dark beers (stouts, porters, 'black IPAs') are probably my favourites nowadays but I still like a hoppy one as well.
I'm just finishing the few I didn't have last night. The Proclamation one (which I expect is just another one cash-in rebranded) is too hoppy for a porter. Eyes closed you'd think it was an IPA.
I have a growing appreciation for English ale, the type that's produced locally and is sold at near room temperature.
Can't get it in Ireland, but whenever I'm over there I make a point of partaking.
Nice glass of white wine this evening.
Classy bastard.
Actually, this white wine is fucking gross. Vinegary as shit.
I'm a rose wine man myself. Red/white gives me really bad shits.
Bad white wine is an awful thing. I had one in a restaurant a couple of weeks ago that tasted like it'd been cheap vinegary shit to begin with and had then been opened about a month prior to being given to me. Vina Sol is my go to white wine but it's rare to find it in a restaurant or bar.
My general rule of thumb is you can get away with a cheap red wine but never a cheap white. I put cassis into cheap white if we have it to kill the crap flavour.
You can get away with cheap red when you drink it, but it always gives me the worst hangovers.
Red wine hangovers are the absolute worst. :sick:
Rosé is for chavs.
It's the only one I can drink that doesn't give me terrible diarrhoea so what can you do?
It's just my oberservation from working in a bar. Rosé is drunk by the sort of people who drink alcopops. And they'll put ice in it.
Grey Goose
I just drink it cos it's more socially acceptable than whiskey on like a Monday night. Fuck beer as well, tastes lovely but don't touch the sides.
Grey Goose is the most overrated drink there is. Belvedere and Ciroq are both much better, and I'm fairly sure they're both cheaper too.
The bison grass vodka is pretty nice as well.
Currently in Chicago Midway Airport with a pint of Guiness.
Red wine. :drool: Love a rioja.
Just opened my last beer of the evening (:(), called "Willamina." It's a 9% and has spent eight months ageing in whisky barrels. I can believe it. Smells mostly of whisky and the taste is pretty peaty as well. Brewdog do a superb one with a bit of a whisky hit to it but with this one I think I'd just rather have a whisky.
Jesus, 9% :sick:
I struggle with anything over 6.
You lot all talking wine and I'm here with a pint of Aspall's. Absolutely lovely stuff mind you, probably better than Stowford Press.
Currently sipping on a Jameson on the rocks. Back to work tomorrow after 9 days off, I need the good stuff. None of this noncey wine.
I have a pint of Cobra :cool2:
I prefer bourbon to whiskey although I'm not too fussy. Woodford reserve is lovely.
Bourbon is ok but I can only drink it with coke. Scotch is by far the best, but Irish is decent too.
£3 a bottle Aussie Chardonnay.
It's passable.
Cheap red wine is for proper wrong 'uns (a bit like expensive white wine).
I prefer Irish to Scotch to be fair.
St. Peters Stout snd Guinness West Indies are both 6ish% but don't taste it. Gorgeous stuff.
Gardener's Tipple from Hogs Back Brewery. Keeping up their 100% success record of me liking anything of theirs I've tried. Not as good as T.E.A. or Hop though.
TEA is a belter of a beer.
My mate is getting back from France this evening so I'll have a couple of stupid 6% cloudy ciders if she can be arsed with the pub after travelling all day, else it might be down the garage to get a few cans to make wrestlemania more bearable.
That's the sort of scenario where our ten o'clock booze curfew is a fucking shambles.
Definitely worth me leaving Edinburgh to move back to Rugby if ya ask me. My terrible lack of foresight, compulsive nature and low-level alcoholism meant that caught me out far too often.
You used to be able to buy booze from nine every morning but a Sunday, when it was midday, then it changed so that the window starts at ten every morning.
The whole thing goes against logic.
I remember deciding I did need more beer after all during England/Italy at the Euros, got to the shop and then NOPE, can't be trusted to buy after ten in alcoland. :(
Picked up some Trouble Brewing Dark Arts Porter for tonight. Can't open it yet though as it was shelf :(
Has anyone drank plum brandy before?
Badger Poachers Choice.
No trip to a shop for anything more interesting so this evening it's been Caesar Augustus and Joker IPA out of the Co-Op. Both nice though.
They sell Brewdog in my local Tesco now, which is pretty handy.
Which ones have they got?
Just the Punk IPA. It's nice, very drinkable.
The local spot got this in on the growler taps. Have a 2l for tonight, hopefully not too orangey.
https://www.obrienswine.ie/james-bro...cl-bottle.html
Negra Modelo. Dece.
White wine. It is nice and un-vinegary this time. Yummy.
You girl.
The chocolate orange strout is awesome. The Mrs is gone to get me more :drool:
Wait a second, there is a Ms. Giggles? Bloody hell. :D
Yeah, you did. Bit slow, Pepe.
I've got some Belfast Black dry stout. It's not bad.
What was the name of the marmalade one? Have to look that up :drool:
Been my wedding venue tonight an had a look at the "craft and special beer menu". Seems quite good:
Samuel Adams Boston Lager 4.8
Vedett Extra Blonde 5.2
Vendett White 4.7
Anchor Steam Beer 4.8
Goose Island Honkers 4.3
Innis & Gunn Original 6.6
Flying Dog Easy IPA 4.7
Goose Island IPA 5.9
Charles Wells IPA 4.5
Shipyard Pale Ale 4.5 (draught)
Vedett IPA 5.5
That's me on Honkers all day. :drool:
Are you getting married in Wetherspoons?
Of course.
Anchor makes some excellent beers. Never tried that particular one though.
Anchor Steam Beer is nice. Anchor in general are pretty ace.
Had some rioja tonight. :drool:
Best pint I've had lately was called Big Wave. It's Hawaiian, apparently. £5.50 a pint though!
Lemsip.
Blackcurrant, obvs.
Just got 8 free Budweisers - 4 from the Co-Op, 4 from Tesco.
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I wouldn't drink that shite even for free.
Same, that and Miller, Coors etc can all get to fuck. Tasteless absolute shit.
I've got a couple of Punk IPAs for the football. Lovely stuff.
Brewdog is the only IPA I like.
I don't dislike IPAs, but they seem to make up something like 70% of the stock out there, which fucks me off as they are quite close to the bottom of the pile when it comes to beer style choice.
It's pretty much all I drink nowadays
Not surprised. :baz:
God I fucking hate the super hoppy American style IPAs. Each to their own though, like.
A woman in work got me 4 bottles of Brothers Toffee Apple cider for my birthday. Just opened one. It's not bad. Not something I would buy myself but I think I'll finish off my Wednesday with a second bottle.
We were offered a craft beer bar for ours at another 8 euro a head. Fuck that.
Everything I've had from the Eden Mill brewery in St Andrews has been shit.
Trying to find a low calorie drink. I was drinking Vodka, soda water and lime (or cordial) and it was fucking disgusting and I felt like a humongous poof (no slant on homosexuals, it's just how us straight guys equate to feeling like a tit).
I absolutely detest LITE beers so hit me up with some suggestions please.
Gin and Slimline tonic is as low as you're going to get.
Fuck Gin, I said less gay.
What about Kraken/Havana with soda water?
Quit drinking. It will change your life...and possibly your attitude.
Water.
Omw to arbroath, Johnson. Come and we can share some blue lagoon and shit
At Doc Stewarts tonight m8
Never been. Far too much out the road.
Eurgh. Your tongue is probably coated in a lavish layer of impenetrable halitosis.
Entering into the world of Rum. Honey Rum, to be precise. It's like children's medicine in a good way.
White only for me. The ones like Morgans or Oakheart taste like treacley vanilla.
Dark rum with ginger and lime is glorious.
I've got a few beers in this evening. First up is a Mad Hat Pale. Bit too hoppy for me. I mainly chose it because of the awesome artwork on the bottle.
I'm not big on Rum but I figured drinking a couple of whiskey cokes while I finish off work for the next day was a bit hardcore and Vodka reminds me of clubbing too much to enjoy it.
Went the shop. Got the cheapest they had. Last night I was on strongbow, tonight it's Carling. @Baz favourite drinks ;)
Morgans is fucking disgusting.
I miss the bite of whiskey. Rum's not really going to do that at a quarter of the strength and rum's sweet enough by default. It's not quite sickly though, which is a plus.
Rum is a quarter of the strength of whisky? What incredibly weak rum or incredibly strong whisky are you drinking? They're both usually somewhere close to the 40% mark.
Sorry, it's 20%. For some weird reason I thought it was 10%
That still seems pretty weak. What is it?
Feed of this yesterday. Not sure how I ended up on it but it wasn't too petroly. Not bad for a Pale.
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Pint of Oakham's Green Devil before getting the train there. Always forget how easy going it is for a 6% IPA.
Everyone should go to Brussels. :drool:
I'd go back for the Jupiler. Everything else tasted like methylated spirits.
That place was good (I'm not sure why it's often referred to as one bar with 3000 beers when it's an entire street with a bar for rum, absinthe, beer, etc.) but there are so many other top places.
It was probably more the company than the selection of bars, but yeah there was a still a LOT of beer. Plus after a few you get used to the super strengths of them, and actually breathe a sigh of relief when the one you order is "only" 8.5%.
My first beer was rasberry and the guy serving us laughed at me and said it was a girls. That's when I knew it was the beer for me.
Turned out I'm a fan of Witbeir :cool2:
White wine tonight, Tenner a bottle from the bar. Date loves the stuff, fucking inhaled it. I am now cunted.
6x is cold and fizzy, but well nice.
Had BrewDog Elvis Juice on tap last night. Really nice but the bar we were in was pricey and I'd not be bothered enough to spend over a fiver on it.
As mentioned in the football thread, this is lovely stuff.
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I had Mahou for the first time on holiday. It was really good.
I must say Douro wines are my new favourite though. What a cracking region.
Brewdog - Dead Pony Club for me. I've got a Laguinitas and a Goose Island IPA in the fridge too.
All bought from Tesco, which has apparently turned into a hipster craft beer shop :cool:
I am sure I have stated my disapproval of IPAs in here before, but Schlafly's Exhibition IPA is actually quite good.
Saturday will be no booze in 4 weeks which will be firmly broken on Sunday.
Still like Porters over anything else, mind.
Pale ales and Weissbiers (Hoegaarden/Leffe etc.) are my favourites.
I did a homebrew a while ago. The bottle I forgot about that got an extra fortnight was the best.
I've been checking out where I'm staying in London next week on Whatpub. 62 serving ale/craft on tap within half a mile of my hotel, apparently. :|
I've made cider before which is much easier, and I made an ale which didn't turn out well but it got me more used to the equipment. The one at the moment is a honey stout but, like Ias said above, I'm going to try leave it bottled as near to Christmas as I can as it's definitely nicer the longer it sits.
Quite like Leffe also, and the local has the Oktoberfest brew of Erdinger in at the moment also which is nice stuff.
Erdinger is really nice. As is Berliner.
Never tried Berliner before, we're going to the Porterhouse for a night out from work soon though and if anyone has it they will.
Berliner is really nice.
I've bought my mate - https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/...s-gold-edition - that for his 30th birthday. Can't wait to have a taste. Bet it makes a wicked old fashioned.
That's what came up under a Berliner search where I normally order stuff from. I don't think it's the right one as it looks a bit :uhoh:
http://www.drinkstore.ie/Siren-Tschu...5060433630484/
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Blueberry Berliner Weisse with Mint, Lime and Orange
That looks awesome Kiko, love an old fashioned.
That's not it Giggles, I think this is it although it's been a few years so the branding is different to what I remember.
http://www.berliner-pilsner.de/marke/produktwelt
Edit: I just looked through photos of my last trip over and that is it. Going again in March for Hertha vs Dortmund, so will be sampling some more then.
Wthin half a mile is what, a square mile overall? Doesn't seem that many (was probably double that 30 years ago) and hasn't every British pub since ever sold at least some sort of ale?
It's probably rarer now but at one point you had enough places settling for a tap for Guinness and some sort of smooth flow affair.
I mean obviously some of those will be sporting a single tap for London Pride or whatever. They're not all going to be fifteen-pump beer-twat havens.
hipster twat affairs that are £5/pint can be annoying, but I generally see having a good selection of ale a staple of a good pub rather than a shit one. pubs with flat roofs that sell carling, fosters and john smiths dying out isn't going to make me lose sleep.
Absolutely. Not that drinking a lukewarm Carling while contemplating investing in a stab vest doesn't have its charms.
What area are you in Ian? I might be able to recommend somewhere.
A touch East of Liverpool St. station. Is that Shoreditch? I think a couple of places in your post I quoted in the Travel thread are near me.
Yeah - lots of good places around there. Couple of Brewdogs, Craft Beer Co. in Farringdon (walkable), Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, The Old Red Cow, The Old Fountain plus a load more.
Didn't spot the Brewdogs that were near by but saw the Craft Beer Co. and the Cheshire Cheese. Will definitely have a look at those other ones as well.
I'll see if I take the notion, might see if there's an impromptu TTH meet on the cards while I'm there.
That's the spirit
Ye Old Cheshire Cheese is just a Sam Smith's pub. That hardly counts as craft beer wankery, does it?
It's just a nice, quirky pub. Worth a visit
I'm not disputing that.
Although it can be full of City boys. :sick:
You leave Kiko alone
More Byron tbh. He's the broker wide boy.
Didn't realise there was a Craft Beer Co. within ten minutes of my hotel. Smashing.
Meanwhile I'm hydrating in what I think is just the closest pub to me.
Edit: Bugger me, Craft Beer Co has ALL THE TAPS.
i'll be in london next weekend and the weekend after if anyone is about for a pint x
Knocking a couple of your recommended pubs off my list, Raoul. Hat and Tun just now (it's nice, though the beer selection isn't great today) and Strongroom is next.
Provided I don't die getting there, anyway. I've somewhat overestimated how far I can walk without praying for the sweet release of death today.
:thbup:
Strongroom is good, although better in summer. Lovely place to hang out in the beer garden.
Got a couple of bottles of Cute Hoor pale ale tonight to try. Pale ale my hole, it tastes like regular Smithwicks.
I was told something yesterday that I haven't been able to disprove yet:
If you drink two pints of different real ale and then for your third drink you get another ale AND a pint of water (not too cold and no lemon) and then close your eyes to drink a mouthful from each glass, you won't know which is which. It's hard to moderate yourself really because you know yourself what's going on, but maybe if you try it on a mate without telling him in advance - maybe say 'I bet you can't guess which is the one you had first' - you can see. At first I rubbished it, but after thinking about it I'm not so sure.
Another one is if you have one gin and tonic, the barman could give you just tonic for the rest of the night and you'd be none the wiser of the lack of gin. I can't test that one though because, as Taz once so eloquently put, gin and tonic tastes like licking PVA glue off your own mothers vagina.
Sounds like some night Baz
Decided to give crabbies raspberry alcoholic ginger beer a go.
Error. It's horrible.
I could have told you that.
Gonna tuck into some Four Roses single barrel in a bit. Thought I'd branch out from the usual Maker's Mark. Pretty nice.
Bought Tanqueray no.10 gin for my stepmum. It had better be decent at 33 quid a bottle.
Also had some Punk IPA on draft. It really is a pleasant pint. A definite if you're not getting on it.
I bought this for myself for over Christmas. Lovely stuff to even drink raw :drool:
https://www.obrienswine.ie/blacks-sa...-gin-50cl.html
Gin is more hipster than Coffee these days.
I'm really not a fan of gin but I don't think I've ever drunk it properly. I wouldn't even know how.
I seen my first gin bar today. Never knew they were a thing.
Been looking into Xmas booze, inspired by: https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/fe...piritoftheyear
That Garden Tiger gin, plus https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/...-pineapple-rum or https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/...-exclusiva-rum sounds right up my street.
Scottish bloke who works on an oil rig?
I thought Foe was a meathead, not a hipster.
I can't keep up.
I'll be getting this https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/...eries-ipa-cask
What is cask? I see it mentioned loads these days, especially with Scottish spirits that sound more like you're clearing your throat than an actual name.
It's the type of barrel being used. In this case the barrel previously had an IPA in it so the whisky takes on some of its flavour.
I've no idea - that seemed to explain it, but I know fuck all about whisky/ey
I had assumed you were asking about the cask in its name.
It generally is reffering to the barrel used. 'Oak smoked' whisky for example is smoky because the barrel was. 'Cask strength' isn't something I had even heard of.
In marketing detail is king these days. That's why you hear of 300 year aged balsamic vinegar and pepperoni pizzas or green tea smoked chickens ballsack. People (hipsters bro) go mad for this shit.
I love it. I draw the line at that whisky IPA though. Don't mess with perfection (on both sides)
I love both, so it's more than worth a try. I see no reason why it shouldn't work.
It definitely does, I was surprised how much but I suppose it makes sense.
Bourbon and sherry oak casks seem to be my favourite.
Oh and rye whisky is terrific. Would deffo recommend the Bulleit "95" rye.
How am I hipster?
Guinness Rye Pale Ale is absolute piss.
Shitey Fosters pint cans. Near to end date so corner shop were doing them £2.50 for 4.
I think it's the first rye one I've tried but I'll sample one more of a different brand before I write them off.
I like the Dublin Porter and Hop House 13 is ok if you're on a long day of it. That stout with the two X's on the label is the worst alcoholic drink I've ever tasted. Black water.
This evenings selection:
http://i.imgur.com/Y20JnYi.jpg
The sisters fella left some Lech here last night so I tried one. Absolute piss.
Warsteiner is lovely. Goes flat really quickly though.
Delighted Mike is still with us after the boys club news midweek.
Irn Bru.
Last night it was Red Stripe in a Jamaican restaurant followed by just about everything in the Brewdog.
Another perfect IPA for summer. I was only allowed to buy one 4 pack.
https://www.ccliquor.com.au/wp-conte...ar-Hog_B1x.png
This is one is my favorite drink but it's not for light weights.
https://www.mybottleshop.com.au/medi...bottleshop.jpg
This one is almost.impossible to find now.
http://growlerfills.beer/wp-content/...an4pkphoto.jpg
Why were you only allowed to buy one 4 pack?
I'm drinking The Belvanie at the moment. Very smooth.
The bloke who owns the bottle shop likes try and stop people from buying up all of limited releases so more than one can enjoy it.
He really tries to help out the regulars that way.
@Giggles
A 50/50 mix of Morrisons white chocolate milk and green lid milk. :drool:
Your favourite drink is 8.8%? Tried Special Brew?
Now onto Logan which is a blended whiskey. It's okay but can tell the drop off in quality.
Enjoyed this tonight why the wives drank some fruity shit. https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/...a-superstition
Nice. Though a bit too 'smokey' for me.
Nice. I'm always put off buying it because of the lame box.
It's decent, but there is better out there. Including from within the Jura family. Still, easily worth the £25 it's going for.
The homeless. :harold:
(Carlsberg. I've never tasted it.)
There's some decent Belgian beer which is stupid percent. It doesn't all taste like arse biscuits.
It might be in some parts but the wanker levels in coffee are so far ahead nothing will ever catch up.
Duvall is about 8% I'm sure.
@Spikey M I quite like that Jura but wouldn't buy it, I've had a couple of bottles as gifts and they are fairly decent.
My go to favourite is still the Aberlour 10 year old, almost always on deal in the supermarket and just so easy to drink. You tried it?
Im not sure you blokes realise but the coffee scene in Melbourne is really good and no where else in the world knows how to roast a fucking coffee bean
Ah yes, the coffee nazis, here to ruin you enjoyment of life.
On a coffee theme I had some of this last night:
http://patronspirits.1-877-spirits.c...on-xo-cafe.jpg
Not bad.
Yeah that Patron is nice but the regular clear stuff is the devil's jizz. :sick:
Can any of you whisky boffins suggest a single malt for my dads Christmas present, for about £30? At the moment I'm considering this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00...KL5A1OLE&psc=1
@Baz
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Highland-Pa...ghland+park+12
Not sure why that one is so cheap, unless I'm being blind and it's just on offer. Normally it's between thirty and thirty-five so if it's going for £23.50 that's a cracking of a deal that I may make the most of myself.
I mean, anything-bores are bad. Among people I know coffee is still the worst. I am a beer bore but at least I have the decency not to bang on about it unless a) it actually comes up in conversation and b) the person talking to me appears to actually be interested. There are people in work who talk about coffee all the fucking time and talk to me about it even though they all know I don't drink it.
That said I suppose I might sound like an alco if I started talking about how I could just go a nice stout at 8am.
I don't go into coffee places but walking into a 'craft' beer pub that's full of cunts in flatcaps and massive beards is always a touch disheartening.
What did he think of the Laphroaig? I mean, I fucking love Highland Park 12 but it's way easier-going than omething like a Laphroaig.
He never said he didn't like it. :sorry: My mum said he drank it. On Christmas Day he just seemed please than he got the deeds to a plot of land (or something?) included in the box.
To be honest he'all drink anything. Well except this one ale he got one time in Wetherspoons, but that's another story.
I'd be classed as a beer bore by a lot of people too (I must look like a right cunt putting the growler in the car) but so long as you're not the sort of twat that would turn down a can of Bud in someone's house (followed by a 10 minute lecture about great IPA's) then you're ok.
I work with a coffee bore. He won't use the nespresso machine and instead wastes 15 minutes of his hour break making things with his contraption. That'd be fine if he likes it (even though it makes the tiniest amount) but most days he'll tell us why it's far superior, even though he must have picked up we don't give a fuck.
Jupiler was the only beer I ever liked in Belgium, but I've never seen it for sale here.
I'm pretty sure Laphroaig (and perhaps the whole Islay scotch industry) is just an elabotare wind up to make the most undrinkiable piss imagineable all whilst making it equally unpronounceable to really flush out the n00bz.
Ah yes, the taste of peat, a brown, soil-like material characteristic of boggy, acid ground, consisting of partly decomposed vegetable matter. Just what you want.
I wish I'd read that glowing review this time last year and got him something else. :stamford:
I was a massive coffee wanker this morning with the missus drinking TWO different single origin v 60 filter. First ethopian then Honduras followed up with a lunch time 4 pack of 7% American IPA to last the evening. I dont know why she puts up with me tbh
I'm an inverse coffee bore. Instant rules supreme.
I like good coffee and will violently attack people who drink at Starbucks but I won't go on about it. Most people I work with like the same coffee shops so the violence is at a minimum.
Starbucks is next level. Their tall PikePla e roast (ie smallest size) has more caffeine than 3 average espresso shots. Gotta give them props for going all in on the addiction front
The beans taste like shit. I maintain that people who drink there only go because they like coffee flavoured milkshakes.
Those coffee flavoured milkshakes are pretty epic.
Shit. Blue Moon, Amstel, Something Orchard cider, red wine, Ron de Jeremy, cocktails, Sailor Jerry, Havana 7 and Krakken. Dying.
Quantities unknown.
Oh and Appleton estate. Loving rum.
How about this?
https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/...ld-sherry-cask
Yeah it's really nice. I tried it at the good food show the other week. Not too peaty.
Is peaty like peat, as in turf that you burn on a fire, or something different?
Yeah same stuff. Peat is burned and is used as part of the process of drying out grains.
Interesting. Makes sense though when you know.
Whisky price comparison spreadsheet from HUKD: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...rxE/edit#gid=0
And a gin one, if you're a lady: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing
https://groceries.morrisons.com/webs...Pack/320670011
Anyone had these four Brewdog beers?
Need to pick a present off the in-laws (to avoid getting a Lynx gift set) and saw this in the Morrisons magazine. Worth having?
Only tried the Punk but it was really nice.
Jackhammer is too sharp for me but that's a decent present Baz.
I'd say the local decent off licence might have it as it's where I got the Punk. Calling up this week anyway for a look so I'll keep an eye.
EDIT: This lot have it anyway. This the one?
http://www.drinkstore.ie/BrewDog-Dea...5060154911794/
EDIT2: Christ, I just read the write-up for the beer on that site.
That's the one.
And yes, BrewDog are utter tossers. First time I went to their one in the West End I looked at the menu and had a good laugh at some of the descriptions they'd given them.
That one reads like Merse writing about an album.
What's also amazing is that they also pitch still themselves as the plucky underdog.
You're opening a new brewhouse/restaurant thing in fucking Ohio, lads. Give it up.
Well, they're still independent so that's gotta count for something. You can't really give them shit for making a product loads of people like and not selling out to The Man.
Is it not just some gimp on drinkstore.ie writing that shite?
Also, the man :D
They're rich enough and big enough and all-over-the-world enough that they'll become The Man, if they're not careful. I like their beer a lot, I like their bars, I like that they're doing well without having been bought over by one of the massive companies. I just find the attitude they display a bit obnoxious.
It probably doesn't help that the interviews I've read/seen with the two guys they always seem like colossal bell-ends.
Following the above I'm drinking..... some BrewDogs. Ace of Equinox (tastes stronger than you'd expect for a 4.5%, quite nice) and am now on a festive-themed one called 'Santa Paws.' Which is really nice.
Last one for the night will be a can I have from a brewery called Modern Times which is described as 'hoppy, citrusy wheat' which I like the sound of very much.
I opened my gin tonight. It's fucking gorgeous but I'll near have to buy another for Christmas. To small a bottle for the price really.
I went to the local corner shop earlier to get some beer and spent about 10 minutes deciding. They have a Polish bit with 4 beers for £4 and it's an Alchoholics dream. There were 10% beers included.
I'm pretty sure it's 1) not legal (there's a pricing system based on units per £, right?) And 2) it would be fucking awful, but I really want to try it. Just not when I start work at 7 tomorrow morning.
As it is, I got 2 cans of Lech. Meh.
What about good working class ENGLISH beers?
And there isn't a price per unit in England either.
All about house red wines at the moment.
Havana Club rum is shit, by the way
I branched out and had a Carlsberg last night.
I'm currently enjoying a Pepsi Max.
Anyone ever try Brewdog Electric India Saison? For a two liter fill of it there.
Went to a spirits fair tonight which let me try some niche/small gin and whiskey. Came home with a Canadian rye whiskey with maple syrup which is really easy to drink(Tomahawk) and a liquor which is similar called King's Ginger.
Great stuff.
I recognised nowt on the menu tonight so I went with Budvar. That's alreet. I mean, at £5.45 a bottle, it better be.
Punk IPA one of the options for our freebie Christmas party drinks. That'll do.
Ours is in some 'brasserie'. The drink will be free but fuck knows what stuff they'll have.
EDIT: They've fucking loads according to their website :drool:
You havent had heaven if you haven't had A Berliner Kindl. The best of the night
The boss just buys everything for us himself, whatever we want He's really good that way in fairness to him, last year he had us up at the bar trying all sorts.
6 Irish ciders, 19 Irish beers, and 10 international beers I see on the menu. I see these two Scottish ones, ever try either? Interested to see what the seaweed one is like.
Williams Kelpie seaweed Ale
4.40% Scotland ale
Williams Joker IPA
5.00% Scotland ipa
Joker is nice enough. Pretty standard IPA. Probably one of my least favourite of the Williams Brothers ones though.
They've O'Haras Leann Follain so it'll mainly be that for the night I'd say but I'll try the seaweed early while I can taste it.
Joker's decent. Kelpie wasn't for me but I think it was that, rather than it actually being bad.
I've taken wanker beer drinking to the next level.
Brewed with corn, coriander leaf and fresh lime Peel.
http://drinks.world/wp-content/uploa.../Taco-TIns.jpg
I had a mint saison a few months ago that would genuinely have been brilliant with some roast lamb. And I don't normally go in for all the food matching stuff.
For tonight's enjoyment, as a reward to myself for surviving the day, I have Bengal Lancer, West Indies Porter, Dead Pony Club and Sierra Nevada PA.
I"ve got a couple of session IPAs from http://www.fourpure.com and http://flyingdogbrewery.com - both very much my kinda drink
Have you tried that Four Pure Pils on their site Raoul?
Fucking love a Pils.
I dunno if I talked about my trip round the Bermondsey Beer Mile in here but Four Pure was one of the better stops.
Nope, not tried it. Generally I prefer an IPA or a Pale Ale above most other things. Pils I'm so-so on.
I'm on for doing the Bermondsey Beer Mile with a mate of mine in the new year. Sounds grand.
I do like a good Pils myself. Barefoot Bohemian is lovely.
Flying Dog might be my new favourite brewery - they have Ralph Steadman doing the artwork and Hunter Thompson wrote about them (ish) some time back
Flying Dog are excellent. Their Horn Dog Barley Wine and Earl Gray Black Wheat are really nice, the Gonzo Imperial Porter is the stuff of dreams.
I'd start at the Four Pure end like I did and just make sure you check the closing times of the last few. I nearly fucked up by just going purely geographical. Also don't be one of the dickheads who scoffs at Eebria for "not being part of the mile." It's spitting distance from Partizan and had a decent choice when I went. It was also comfortably the quietest one I went to, which will make for a nice break before you queue twenty minutes to get a beer at BBNo.
Xmas booze collected today:
http://imgur.com/xUOQcWm
can of tyskie
To Ol haven't let me down yet, and Hibernate is another better.
Also had my first '360 lid' can. I poured it into a glass anyway but I'm not entirely sure I understand the point.
Having some white port. It's absolutely sensational.
Dry cider. Fucking yes.
Any of you drink mead? Had it for the first time last New Year and it was quite enjoyable. Might get some more for this new year.
On the mulled cider :cool:
Weirdly I've always wanted to try Mead.
Also lol at Baz, the skinniest least manliest man alive drinking viking juice.
Mead is viking juice? Tom and his brother turned up with it last year, so I guess it makes sense.
It's really nice and doesn't taste as strong as it is. Four of us finished a bottle in about twenty minutes.
If anyone can recommend one sub-£10 I'll get some for this years NYE party. :thbup:
Damn that Tom cunt. So jealous.
Every time you say Tom and link that thread I piss myself laughing for some reason :D such an odd thing to do.
Drank this on the train after some random dude offered me to have some. Really bloody nice.
Taking drinks off a randomer on a train? :cab:
Look at the quality. It could only happen to such an outwardly flash cunt.
He was with his missus and said do you fancy some so I said okay then :cab: It's not something I actively try and do.
ANYWAY THE DRINK WAS NICE.
(c)Smiffy
Did you neck it out the bottle or does your pocket watch have a receptacle function?
A lad offered me lucozade on the train once. He was drinking large bottles of it as he said the sugar was good for his brain injury.
Casual Patron. What a baller.
Common class...
To be, Magic, anybody sat next to you on a train would probably be too busy trying to think of the most polite way to ask you to stop touching yourself.
Tesco had a Hop House 13 lager on deal today so picked up a case of that. From Dublin, any good @Giggles?
That was Guinness' attempt at getting in on the whole craft revolution here. It's not bad, more like a session type, though it doesn't so that well as it's a bit strong for the Carlsberg/Heineken crew and the proper beardos won't touch it because it's 'macro'. I've got a few for around Christmas myself.
I found that Hop House stuff tasted a bit chemically, but that might just have been the shit pipes at the place I drank it.
I have also been a bit unimpressed by Meantime's London Stout.
Yeah it's decent, on number 3 already.
One of the lads in work called in on his way to the airport today (he's off for the week) and brought me a selection of Blacks and some Okocim Mocne :cool:
I find the Hop House very gassy.
Having a glass of https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tomahawk-Ma.../dp/B018M658CS that I picked up the other day. Dangerously nice.
I had an 8 year old whisky before and it was like drinking caustic soda that an elderly moose had pissed in.
Yeah normally I wouldn't recommend it but the maple disguises any crap in the whiskey. I've got a special reserve from tesco to have a drink of as well, quite liked the Aldi one recently as well.
If it's the same one I tasted from Aldi recently then it was very nice. I wouldn't know whiskey that well (only really like Jameson) but it was enjoyable.
This one? https://www.aldi.co.uk/p/3319/0
That's really nice actually.
Aldis booze is great. Picked up a bottle of bourbon from there yesterday and their Baron St Jean red wine is ridiculously good for the price.
It was Clontarf I think, so probably only sold here. I've seen that one though. The Burbon was nice with a drop of coke in it too, though that was a good while ago.
https://www.aldi.ie/clontarf-whiskey/p/052041004476600
I'm currently sampling this Abelour 10 (as recommended). 50/50 mix with water. It's alright. I can't tell if I'm really enjoying it. I think perhaps I just don't really get on with whisky.
Imperial Stouts are pretty common where I buy booze. Can't drink more than two at time though.
The Kiwis brew them that will have you seeing double!
It's when you get an imperial stout that hides it's strength well that you're in serious trouble.
Ruby port tonight. Nice.
Sierra Nevada Narwhal. That's a serious imperial :drool:
Hard as fuck to get though.
EDIT: And seemingly gone expensive as fuck. I didn't even pay half that last time.
http://www.martinsofflicence.ie/beer...mperial-stout/
I've had a couple recently that became instant favourites and were imperial stouts.Alesmith's Speedway Stout - Vietnamese Coffee and a pint can by Evil Twin called Even More Jesus. Both were fucking heavenly.
Stouts are disgusting.
Just looking through the gift baskets on the new Martins website and I seen this. Fucking all over that next year.
Or buying it tomorrow and catching up.
http://www.martinsofflicence.ie/gift...raft-beer-box/
I haven't. I was in Frankenstein's once though and at some point late in the night a mechanical Frankenstein's Monster was lowered from the ceiling while Monster Mash played and the lights went haywire. It would have seemed camp at a child's birthday party, never mind a huge bar in a prime location.
:D one of my earliest pub memories. Terrifying.
I had a solitary pint in Shilling recently. Seemed nice. Want to go back for pizza and beer one night.
Came into Brewdog to buy beery Christmas presents and try a few beers while I'm here. Had a third of a 10.8% IPA by Stone which is pretty much exactly what you'd expect and I like very much.
Just trying a 16.5% porter (another third) and fucking hell you could do yourself some real damage. I've had beers of half the strength which taste harsher.
Doghouse? Have you eaten there? It's incredible :drool:
Just got given a litre of Winter Apple Punch JD. It sounds hideous :drool:
Quinta Do Infantado Reserva Especial port tonight.
I need to go to Smoak. It sounds very me.
The Doghouse one is a 1/4lb of pulled pork, 1/4 of beef brisket and 1/2lb of ribs (I think, it's a pound over all, it might be 1/2lb of brisket instead of ribs) and it's absolutely superb. I'm really fussy about ribs but these ones aren't just a load of bones with thin meat and too much fat around.
Add the beer as well and it's just a dream.
I'm not sure where they are now. It was Pivo Pivo when I went but that's now an Irish bar, and they've done a few popups but I'm not sure whether they've found a home or not.
The brisket was perhaps slightly too melt in the mouth but still incredible, but the burnt ends were the best part. Even with the burger and barbecue revolution in full swing there still aren't enough places doing those.
Smoak have opened their own place in Royal Exchange Square.
Yep, that Trinity is unreal Ian :drool:
Smokehouse (hope everyone's keeping up with these unique names) also doesn't some pretty great burnt ends but not on a par.
Need some of those here. There's only a couple and the good one (Bison) is nigh on impossible to get into as they don't take bookings. And the other (My Meat Wagon) disappeared up its own hipster arse a long time ago.
Is Smoak a proper chain?
Nah. Independent place, one of the first street food type places in Glasgow that sprung up about 5 years ago. Spent their time hitting festivals and taking over kitchens of pubs (as John mentioned). They then got in tow with a New York style brunch place and took over their kitchen for a bit (think they might still be there) before opening their own shop.
Quite a few smaller places opened last few years. Tends to be one in Glasgow, then one in the West End and then one in Edinburgh.
We have a place called the Meat House. I've never been but it sounds like what you guys are talking about. Meat.
Customer gave me this yesterday. Some of you have had stuff like this before haven't you? Can you really taste the whiskey off it?
http://i.imgur.com/D6qpryM.jpg
I find the flavour to be too strong for my liking. But I'm really soft when it comes to proper booze.
I think Raoul and Ian have had some.
'regifting'
:sick:
Do Iceland sell beer? Got some vouchers.
I've got fuck all in the way of work gifts. They all go to my company in Inverness who put them in the canteen for people to help themselves. Cunts.
Yeah, IIRC it's illegal to use vouchers for alcohol for some reason.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/beertourprod...jpg?1389606767
Anyone tried this beer? Bought 4 750ml for Christmas day 2 of which my sisters boyfriend must finish...
It sounds vaguely familiar, but I don't know if Chouffe is some kind of generic Belgian term. Is it very strong or is he just accustomed to West End Draft or something?
Chouffe is a Belgian brewery according to Google.
Sounds like a french bumhole, hopefully it tastes better.
Wasn't if a Bond villain too?
I think I've had a bottle and it was lethal. I'm off to Brussels now for some more of the stuff so I'll try and report back.
I'd love to go back for some Jupiler. Impossible to get here and customs are stopping all the normal avenues for importing from Belgium now.
Are you blokes telling me that the man at bottle shop was exaggerating when he assured me it's the best thing to come out of Europe?
Pretty good reviews online. I trust my local bottle shop bloke like I trust me GP so I do have faith that it will be tasty.
Damn lucky I have some IPA in the fridge in case I've been swindled
Edit: Righto I'll just open one now because the suspense is killing me!
Ok so it's nice and easy to drink but does lack the Hoppy punch that I'm used to.
I did read they had more breweries per person than any country in the world. Its weird, you never hear much about French beer and Dutch beer is mostly just Heineken.
It's the season for chimay blue and golden drake afaic.
The French are too busy poncing about with overrated wine, while the Dutch... no idea.
Staropramen is the tits.
Amstel is decent for a standard.
I remember I hit 18 and thought I was posh drinking a Kronenbourg.
Czech or German for me due to the oft mentioned love affair with Pilsner.
Briefly supped on Amstel light before realising it was shit. Awful piss water.
I find it really difficult to distinguish between most of them. Obviously Carling tastes like a teenager's saliva after he's just kissed a girl with acne and terrible breath, but that aside I'd fail a taste test on any of them I think.
Update on the Mead situation:
(Spoilered in case its massive)
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Good old Tom.
The biggest problem with lager in pubs these days is that 90% of places are Weatherspoons with watered down beer and pipes that haven't been cleaned in a decade.
The boss just sent me home after handing me a €300 voucher and a grand in cash but, more importantly, this beast:
http://i63.tinypic.com/10x51fr.png
Took into the Franciscan Well Rebel Red. Didn't think I'd have liked it as much, very nice for a red ale.
Saw that mead when I was in Gretna. Do you just drink it straight?
I got one of these glasses for Xmas:
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The beer's pretty good too (Belgian). Tastes a bit like Hoegaarden.
La Chouffe, discussed earlier, is pretty good. I think it's from one of the oldest breweries in Belgium (if I remember correctly).
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/28/255173/
Drinking this. It's alright, nothing special. Got some Leffe Brune for tomorrow.
No hangover today after finishing off a 750ml bottle of the Belgium booze which was on the back end of a dog park IIPA session. It definitely is clean drinking
Just had a drink of this http://m.klwines.com/p/i?i=1145446 before. Absolutely brilliant.
I've got a Noble IPA on the go which is decent, and before that I had a bottle of Morretti. I picked up quite a few ales from school and early Christmas with my parents, including a couple of Saltaire Brewery ales I've not yet tried. One is a hazelnut coffee porter and the other simply called 'White Christmas'.
In Venice we had a glass of hot sangria and sampled a couple of others. It was a nice wintery touch to a summer drink. We also had a few glasses of Bellini which I liked.
You don't get that at the bistro.
Back on the Tacos tonight and I'm going to be a nuisance by 730.
A kid in work got me 4 bottles of Birra Moretti, maybe my favourite larger. Just cracked one open.
Cut your nails you fucking hippy.
I know it's embarrassing. At least I don't bite.
That is fucking disgusting.
Almost put me off my Hooper's alcoholic Dandelion & Burdock.
Pics of your nails please.
I've just Google imaged infected fingernails to troll you but I got a severe bout of the willies.
Finally into the Christmas haul :drool:
None of the beer chilled though :(
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Panoramic beer shot. :D
I'm having an Amigo, tequila flavoured beer. It's fucking rank.
I'm into my Christmas haul as well, Giggles. A Norwegian imperial stout called "Konrad's" has me off to a strong start.
Not feeling so good so just having an old man beer for tonight:
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Was also at a beer place today. 'Cast No Shadow', a chocolate and orange porter, was nice if a touch disappointing. I've got lots more beers to come and some (hopefully) cracking whisky for my dad's Christmas so it's going to be a good few days for the drink.
I've spied 3 whisky shaped presents thus far :cool:
Not your best work, that.
Not sure if it's the beer in between, I'll know better tomorrow, but after the Kinsale gin the Dingle gin is a huge disappointment. Tastes the very same as a bottle of Gordons.
Had a few drams of Bowmore- peaty but didn't really take my fancy.
Vodka cranberry and jagerbombs. Christmas is cool.
I got so much beer for Christmas. I think there are about 20 in total.
It's so beautiful.
I'm drinking water now as I'm as sick as a plane to Lourdes. Could well be a beer free day.
Currently this 7.5% beaut:
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Got a pack of four ranging from 7 to 10% and an awesome glass.
Cracking open a bottle of Bud because I need to drink something rather than nowt.
I got around 15 litres of cider various.
Caveat: I am from Somerset.
Williams Bros' festive one, Nollaig, is one of the better Christmas-themed pale ales I've had. They call it a 'spruce' pale ale and claim that it's brewed "with christmas trees." Whatever precisely it is they do with it, I'm in favour because it's not a weird, sickly-sweet spicy mess as these festive beers so often are.
I can get more tonic today. Only had 2 bottles, a complete rookie mistake. Should have known I'd never have been able to drink beer yesterday.
Going for rum, red wine and beer today before heading out tonight. Expect Gubbed v2 tomorrow.
Flying Dog's White Peach Saison is bloody splendid.
Drinking a Ringwood Circadian IPA.
I've also just had a black sheep.
Lancaster Bomber, Shiraz and OVD.
Drank my bodyweight in beefeater gin last neet. Slightly fragile.
Had a few Hatherwood craft beers today, which I've not tried (or heard of) before.
They went down well.
Basically went down like water last night.
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@SvN get on it!
Got an Atlantic A.P.A. from Brixton Brewery. Really nice and fruity :thbup:
De Molen's "Ferment and Drink" is one of the best 'session' beers I've had. Only 3% but pretty tasty. Onto O’Hara’s "Leann Folláin" and enjoying it very much.
smashing the vodka cranberries this xmas
The Dingle gin was a massive disappointment.
I'm drinking a bottle of Grimbergen at the moment. Good night sweet prince.
What is a session beer?
I've had a good day for dark beers. Just on Buxton Extra Porter. Wonderful stuff.
Wouldn't fancy that bourbon barrell ale much. Just don't like whiskey and it has that warm strong taste.
I do like whisky but whisky beers are incredibly hit and miss. Ones where they don't put enough other flavours in there are shite, ones where the whisky is just an extra hint I often quite like.
I've never had one that I could get past the first sip.
Just popping the Brewdog 2l that I got filled and then I've 2 measures of the gin left. That'll be me on the dry til the wedding then.
I had some 1AM saint, not as good as Punk.
This is some Saison or something, the tag has fell off. Think I posted it at the time when I got it filled the 2nd time. Nice stuff.
4 of this for today.
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Anyone ever had Koko Kanu? Never had coconut rum before, but it seems cheap enough on Amazon (£14.99 for 70CL down from £20). Can't find ANY good deals on rum right now, apart from Kraken for £18 for 70CL.
I bought Duvel and Le Chouffe for Nye to drink. They both come with great glasses to drink from as well.
Someone has drank all my Xmas booze, so I will have to go buy some more for NYE
I've only got two of my many Christmas beers left. :uhoh:
Might need to go for a trip into Brewdog on Saturday for my New Year's Eve night in.
I have five of these. Firestone have stopped making it. :(
Apparently black IPA's are not very popular.
https://www.missionliquor.com/images...1e912a9d0e.jpg
Afraid so me old muck stick. Firestone are winding down.
http://thefullpint.com/beer-news/fir...l-wookey-jack/
Having a pint of Belhaven craft Pilsner. Actually alright.
I've been enjoying a Glenmorangie 10yo for the past few evenings and it realy is tasty. Only one fifth left of the bottle (1l) too so I'll need to stock up or find a new one to keep at home
Lol called Steven Thomson a cunt for you @Waffdon
Someone got me these for Christmas, pretty cute.
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Monkey Shoulder. 👌
Good selection. What's that ending with Edradour and is it any good?
Love the bottles. Great collection of bourbons.
Yorkshire Gold golden ale tonight. Good old Leeds Brewery's.
@dino - Monkey Shoulder is the absolute boy. Need to pick up a bottle as I'm out of the habit of drinking whisky at the moment but it's not in the remotest bit intentional.
Drinking a selection of American style IPA's. It's becoming my 'thing', which is annoying as I've always been a real ale drinker, since before the phrase 'craft' became fashionable but I've properly fallen in love with the new generation.
Any of you whisky drinkers into non Scottish stuff? I've heard good things about some Japanese whiskeys, but haven't had the courage to buy one as I rather go for the safe Scottish options. Also, thanks Adamski :thbup:
Non Scottish stuff? Oh you mean mouse piss? Moose!
W all wear kilts in Scotland pertyuuuuu except the resist bigots brexut cunts orange order like asdam and John
Fuck sake. I'm voting yes in indyref2
Hibiki is lovely. I've got a bottle at home.
Yamazaki is a nice whisky as well. I'm sure the world whisky award things which use to be all anti- non-Scotch have given Japanese whiskies top awards a few times now.
Double Ron Zacapa 23 y0. Absolutey fucked. Lolwork
This will end well
I'm not a massive fan of Hibiki or Yamazaki. My mate loves em, but he definitely only ever bought them in the first place because he's a massive weaboo.
That's great stuff. Think I'll be moving onto whisky shortly tonight. Had about 300 beers this week.
I've really lost my love of beer. Mostly because it makes me feel bloated then like I'm going to shit myself all night. Shortz 4 lyf.
Likewise. Bloody love peaty whisky. Laphroig 10 was my gateway drug to whisky, which is a bit arse backwards I suppose. The less smoky stuff tasted fucking weird for ages after that.
Gin and tonic is the only one I could contemplate all night. If I'm having a whiskey it has to be on it's own and therefore too small also.
That said, I enjoy beer too much not to order it for as long as I can fit it in if I'm out.
I used to love gin and tonic but one day I just started to find the taste really disgusting. I'm just gonna assume I've repressed something really horrible that happened to me on a night out after drinking shit loads of em. Probz a snapchat exchange with MJ.
The only problem I have with it now is that I've been spoiling myself too much with nice ones and don't like ones like Gordons or CDG any more, so I'm having to stump up for Hendricks if I'm drinking it in a pub. Even the one I drink at home is bloody €80 a litre.
Could easily drink 20 G&T's on a day out though. If I was on whiskey/vodka/rum/etc I'd be projectiling after 6 or 7.
I can still knock the shorts back quite well, but I get queasy thinking about how I used to pre-drink at uni. 700ml bottle of cheap vodka, 2 litres of value lemonade, necked out of a pint glass. Maybe I'm getting old. :'(
I had two remaining Christmas beers that I'd missed! :dance:
Five Points Railway Porter. I've had it on tap before and it's bloody lovely from a bottle too. Last one for Christmas and tonight is a 10% Serbian stout.
Had a Tawny port tonight. Like drinking raisins. :sick:
Tonight I had my White Christmas from Saltaire Brewery and a Tyskie.
Whiskey anyone? https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/fe...in-31-12-2016&
Can we use the kitty?
Already registered interest. Could do with another donation drive though, we're about £1400 short.
Benefit all the rich islanders? Fuck em.
Wrong thread
Tonight's original lineup with plenty more for backup:
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Nice.
I was given these just now as a belated pressie by the brother in law. I dunno whether to keep them or give them away as I'm off it. Weakest is 7% so the lot in one sitting would have me steamed.
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I've got this espresso martini drink for tonight to soften the duvel. Loads of champagne in as well.
Sounds awful.
Someone gave me a £50 M&S gift card but I couldn't find any Mead (presume they don't sell it) and contemplated a £30 bottle of champagne but realised I wouldn't have any, so will probably just put it towards a weekly shop like a loser.
Champagne is great you bumpkin.
Fizzy vinegar.
Stop buying the cheap stuff.
I don't buy it at all, it's one of those things people shove in your face at occasions whether you want it or not.
To be honest, I just wanted to build up to another spaghetti thing but I've far too much to be doing at the minute and wouldn't be able to follow through on it properly. So carry on.
Oh no I drank too much last night now I'm pissing out my arse and because of a drunken error of judgement I now have to go to a "Western Themed" night at the pub, after paying £10 for a ticket. Hoping to get through it by #necknominating myself to drink the 10 cans of carling in my house and then having my festive pill at our premier parochial club when I'm reaching the point of passing out.
I wouldn't say I was with Giggles, certainly not over my main man Keeks but I find prosecco a lot nicer than champagne.
Yeah me too. It's fruitier and less harsh generally. I've had top champagne though and that was brilliant.
I had literally typed Prosecco > Champagne earlier, but pussied out because I thought that it might just be because I've only ever had shit champagne.
I'm currently drinking a Snowball.
Some horrendously sweet white wine.
I'm having an ale from the Black Sheep brewery I've not had before, called All Creatures. I like Black Sheep anyway but this is really lovely.
Staropramen. Not sold on it. Feels like a Czech Carlsberg.
Having Bacchus Frambozen just now, and it's basically a shit Lindemans.
I'm watching JR commentate World of Sport wrestling though so what I've drinking barely fucking matters. Estrella Damm up next.
I went back and forth between Corona and War Hog last night and I feel 20 years older today. Even the 1030 bed time didn't help things. :(
Time to go for a walk along the river to try and sort this hangover.
Struggling through with a bottle of Shiraz from SPAR. :(
Bought this in Dundee airport
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Flavoured gin? Just buy a crate of wkd.
What's it like Keek?
I'll report back in a few days. Not opening it yet.
Tried some lovely flavored edinburgh gins on new year.
Scumming it with a can of Strongbow. Drinking on your own never gets old.
Gonna buy a bottle of Ardbeg 10 tomorrow lads.
Working my way through the Drygate IPA's today. Utterly fucked the now and still have a party to go to. These pale ales sneak up on you like a hate crime.
Birra Moretti's the last of the Christmas haul. It's lush.
Think I'm on my last Christmas beer. It's a Hatherwood porter called Purple Panther and it's decent.
I am drinking cans of Carling.
A couple of Flying Dog session IPAs for me. Maybe some gin in a bit :thbup:
I had the two beers offered by Ikea, the light one was ok the dark is awful.
My mate just got double Morgan's spiced and coke for £2.99. Fuckin love spoons lads.
I thought this was our one chance at a relationship beyond our middle class heritage and senior places in the world.
"Ahab" by Up Front Brewing, who are one of a couple of seen who brew using Drygate's gear rather than actually having their own brewery.
And it's delicious. Malty, stouty thing.
I got some Appleton Estate Reserve for £17 off Amazon, it's bloody lovely with a mixer and lime. Not tried it on the rocks yet.
Back on the Merlot. Pass me the cheeseboard and my piss flaps may develop.
I found a new beer shop nearby so picked up a few items. Currently on something from King Of Hops which os ok. Nowt special
@Kiko owt?
ELB 'Barbed wit' which is an 'organic rhubarb wheat beer', which I basically only bought because it sounds bonkers but it's actually quite nice. Hoppy and the fruit taste isn't too powerful. Dece.
I don't normally like rhubarb but I can imagine if it was subtle in a wheat bier it'd be pretty swish.
Dry January got 9/11'd this weekend. I feel truly garbage.
Got some Elderflower Edinburgh Gin to drink with lemonade.
Sounds rank.
I really like Elderflower in general so not really.
Fuck off hot this arvo so I rehydrated with my mate War Hog so I'm swirling in happiness.
I will beer swap someone to spread the love of this necter?
I've not drank any of the Dundee gin yet. @Magic
Some Scottish beer called "Heavy" by a brewery I've never head of. It's not like an actual heavy, I don't think, but it's rather tasty.
Saturday night I had two slightly-bigger-than-pint bottles of lager, a small snifter of rye whisky and a little glass of aldi baileys. Not that drunk but I had the most persistent hangover yesterday.
Bird I'm seeing has gotten some dirty £3 red wine from aldi for tonight. Rather enjoying it tbh.
Just tried a bottle of "Glug M'Glug" and it's fucking vile.
Also saw a bottle of that Guinness rye one I think Giggles mentioned/ slated. Didn't pick one up but I probably will at some point.
Hoopers Alcoholic Dandelion and Burdock. I'm this close to making love to the bottle.
Unless it tastes completely different from non alcoholic dandelion and burdock they you are very very wrong.
It tastes pretty mich the same. :drool:
Bee Line by Fallen Brewing and Dead End Brew Machine is more like it than that bottle of shite I had first. Describes itself as a "Pear, guava and honey saison." I like a saison at the best of times but this is fucking delicious.
Alcoholic root beer is the one.
Unfortunately I had a bottle once so now I have no teeth left.
Indian Pale Lager is now my favourite beer.
I was drinking some Scottish lager at the weekend. Name escapes me but it wasn't bad.
EDIT - Three hop?
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Please ignore the horrific label.
I discovered tonight that Brewdog have a 110ml bottle called "Hop Shot." A 'quadruple IPA', at 22%.
Of course I bought it. And because I make awful decisions I am, of course, drinking it on a school night.
You'll be able to run the car on your piss tomorrow.
I don't have a car but maybe I'll be able to earn a few bob at the petrol station on my lunch break.
It's weird actually, When you first have a sip it's fine, then it really briefly hits you in the mouth like you'd expect at that percentage, and then it kind of mellows out (using the term loosely) again. I'll not be ever going back for more but I'm not unhappy to have tried it.
My mate has a bottle of Tactical Nuclear Penguin from them which is 32% :|
Fucking love gin.
Hot toddy. Great combinations.
New England IPA by Brewdog / Cloudwater. The guy in Good Spirits Co. sold it to me even though they were supposedly forbidden from doing so prior to 6pm.
It's fucking delicious anyway, that's what matters.
Got a Wold Top Marmalade Porter to come. :drool:
Fosters. Got 8 for £2.50 due to new idiot cashier at corner shop, bless her.
Not got onto the Marmalade Porter yet, that'll be finishing the night, but I have just tried a Swedish beer by a brewery called Beerbliotek (I see what they did there) and it's a "Mocha Latte Stout." And bloody wonderful.
Had some Stella for the first time in ages last night. Dreadful stuff.
Just ordered 70CL Ciroc and 70CL Tanqy No.10 for a combined total of £46 delivered. :drool:
Got a bottle of this the other day, after it came back in stock: https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/...-pineapple-rum - really nice but pretty fucking strong
Harp. Pints of proper Northy gut rot Harp. How I've missed it :drool:
Found a new bottle shop near us. Doesn't have a huge range but they had some Hilden ones I've not had before as well as a stout by Galway Bay that I'll be having later.
They also seem to have fucked their prices on Dark Island Reserve because I got a 75cl bottle for £11 which is significantly cheaper than I've seen it anywhere else. Lovely stuff.
The hotel I was in last night had their own lager, red, and IPA on draught. The lager wasn't bad at all.
Just having the Galway Bay "Buried at Sea" milk stout. it's livelier than I'd like in a stout but at 4.5% it's eminently guzzleable.
That's pretty nice stuff. Got it a few times up the road.
I had 7 pints of Fosters at the weekend. Absolutely vile stuff only done so as a 10 man kitty was in progress for ease of ordering drinks.
Also tried Rock Rose last night which was lovely and some straight Belvedere. Dece.
This shop we found had one or two others by them too. Is there range good or is that the only one you've had?
@Giggles
Has anyone tried Dark Matter rum?
I don't hate all cheap scuzzy lager but fosters really is horrible.
I feel like I've drank too much of that over the years. I'm not going to say it's alright but it's everywhere and usually cheap. Tastes ok but I've since realised how gassy it is.
http://foodanddrink.scotsman.com/dri...hosen-experts/
Only had two of these.
I've had:
Big Raspberry Dog Chew, which is wonderful.
The Cone, which I liked quite a lot.
Bomber IPA - bangin'.
Marmalade on Rye which I recall being interesting without being weird for the sake of it.
Ossian, which is absolutely not as good as being in that list would suggest but it's fine.
And both of the Fallen ones are thoroughly decent IPAs.
I have had the chance to have Mexicake but I'm not keen on chilli stouts/porters.
As much as they're bastards there isn't enough Brewdog in that list.
I lie, I haven't had New World Odyssee before but I had a can in the fridge, that's why I thought I had. Just opened it and it's okay but a bit average. More exciting reviews as I write them,
Just popped into the pub and you can hardly get in the door so I've got my self a bag of Smithwicks Blonde.
Why would they make the door so small?
http://i.imgur.com/XrA6GJk.jpg
Doghouse going Irish.
Had any @Giggles?
Plumped for a third of the Boundary. It's smashing.
Off out for tea. "I don't mind if you have two or three." Yes! But Ale or go Guinness while it's Paddy's "weekend"?
Do you need permission from your wife to drink?
RIOJA. I'm not a huge fan, but there's nowt else here. G&T at the pub probably.
Had Ciroc Snap Frost. As initially strong as Smirnoff or some other shit vodka but has a really bizarre lovely aftertaste. Strangely it tastes...mild (?) After the initial ethanolness.
Bailey's and brandy is not a good mix, no matter what they say.
Going round my mates to see his new house and taking these, which are leftover from Christmas:
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All four have the word 'refreshing' on the label. I'ma be soooo refreshed. :youpi:
Got some Irish ones in to discuss with @Giggles later.
#RacialProfiling
You're welcome. :cool:
First up is Eight Degrees' "Knockmealdown" which is....... alright. Nowt special but perfectly quaffable.
EDIT: next is The White Hag's "The White Sow." It's alright. Bit disappointing.
Ian gets some Irish booze, Giggles trumps Ian's massive image. Good job, lads. A nice little exchange.
Revenge good, Cloughmore meh.
I like ales but I've realised the marketing on the bottles affects my choice more than I would like to admit. Bastards!
Something called Wolf Rock, chosen because it looked like the only thing that wasn't lager. Rather nice.
I tried basic honey Mead yesterday at a market. It wa stunning. He said you can mix it with gin. :drool:
What's mead?
Honey-booze. it's quite nice.
Would it be anything like that honey Jack Daniels then?
:harold:
I was drinking hackney lager the other night. Not bad but nothing amazing. I'm actually trying to give up drinking so have dabbled with a few alcohol free beers. So far, not great.
Brockmans, rose lemonade and burnt grapefruit peel for me tonight.
Exhibit A (even if it was deliberate).
A happy coincidence that both ways you can take that apply.
Never doubt you. The world has gone mad on poncing it up. If it gets any worse it'll near be impossible to get a pint.
Also, sort it out Keeks. I don't want to give up booze.
The Scots trying to be all cosmopolitan :harold:
Cute.
Goose Island: 312 - quite lemony wheat beer. Nice enough for a Spring evening
I had that in a pub in Liverpool, it was pretty good.
Tonight I have 4 cans of Bud Light as it was all was in the fridge at the shop :cool2:
Mike knows.
Cold > flavour.
Had a few Smithwicks Pale Ale when I was in town earlier so I got a few bottles to bring home. Not bad stuff at all.
Few Leann Folláin for later.
I've got 4 cans of Scrumpy in for tonight. Worked my bollocks off in the garden and got a bit of a tan today. Has to be a Cider after a day in the sun.
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Kickstarted my subscription again so tonight will consist of a homemade balti and most of these bad boys :cool:
Some pretty gash white wine. My mate is playing music at a pub tonight, and I'm not really arsed about going. My other mate, his girlfriend and some other random lad are considering coming, in which case I'll have a few tonight. Caffreys possibly, as I quite like that and it is the only pub in Rugby that sells it. If not I'll stay in, have some cointreau, listen to the KLF then go to bed.
Ciroc, garnished with a slice of lemon and mixed with real lemon lemonade.
It helps with the pain of my terrible decision making and cowardice.
Aldo's own Pilsner beer. 99p a bottle, it's not bad.
Rum, ginger beer and lime :cool:
Camden Pale Ale is nice.
Bought some "Co-Op own brand" ales (they're not, they're brewed by Robinson's) today. Went for the one that promised to be dodgiest first and sure enough the "Golden Ale" is fucking rotten.
Got some nicer ones from Good Spirits Co. and had on Friday, though. Magic Rock's "Human Cannonball" is mega.
Had a dry martini last night. Very nice.
Drinking Ciroc with eighty quid in your account must be the council estate version of owning an Escalade you can't put fuel in.
I drank lots of lager and ale yesterday, and didn't even shit myself! A random headcase who looked like a fatter, hairier and older version of me bought me a shot of sambuca at one point too.
Sainsburys have got a bunch of new cans in near me. Started on Harviestoun Old Engine Oil (this is a stronger version than the one I've had on tap previously and it's fucking magnificent.) They have some Drygates I've not had before, another one that I forget who it's brewed by and cans of Orinoco stout by Drygate. I was gutted when they got rid of Manchester Star Ale given it was the best dark beer they had but this makes up for it.
Had some Gordons tonight. You know, it wasn't utterly terrible.
I've just grabbed a few for tonight for myself, with the BH and all. Aldi really have expanded their range in a big way.
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The Ulster Black oatmeal stout is lovely, tastes very like Dungarvan oatmeal stout. Would definitely get it again.
The JJ's stout, not so much. It's like that XX Guinness: basically black water.
I went for "Skeleton Blues" next, an American 'wheat ale' by Stewart Brewing. In trying to do something between a wheat beer and a hoppy American thing it doesn't really do either and suffers for it.
Not bad though.
My O'Sheas wheat beer tastes (and looks) like Budweiser.
33% hit rate so far and three IPA's to go. Doesn't bode well.
Weird Beard: Mariana Trench
Edgebrewing: Plutonium Typhoon
Some Swedish 'Sitrus' IPA
BBNo: Witbier Orange
...for me over the last couple of evenings. In ascending order of niceness. The first two were kinda tasteless. Citrus stuff is more up my street.
The Stony Grey IPA is gorgeous. Will definitely be checking out more of the Brehon Brewhouse stuff (they made the Ulster Black too).
Onto Drygate "Chimera" which I forgot I've had before. Seriously bitter in the aftertaste. Not so keen on it this time but last time was a couple of years ago.
I really like BBNo. Only that it was fucking heaving I might have stopped there for a swift second when I did the Bermondsey beer mile.
I need to try this. Seems to be a seasonal one though.
http://www.brehonbrewhouse.ie/shanco-dubh.html
I'm on The Kernel's "India Pale Ale Nelson Sauvin Centennial." I love these hop mix-IPAs by the Kernel. they're taste without having that harsh, punch-in-the-mouth aspect that some of the stronger American ones where they go all-out for a harsh, hoppy hit.
Got a couple of other new ones still to try too, including a stout called "Bourbon Milkshake" by Siren that I have high hopes for.
Few Beavertowns tonight. Very pleasant.
What ones you got? I like me some Beavertown. Never had a bad one.
EDIT: I've got Cloudwater's "DDH Southern Passion Pale" now and it's smashing. Cloudwater are fucking great. Haven't had one of theirs that I wasn't a big fan of.
Tanq 10. It really is great no wonder Snoop loves it. Garnished with cucumber of all things as I have no fruits that are acceptable.
Half way through now so on the hunt for the next gin to try (whatever is on offer at Amazon lolo)
This is top quality stuff, but I don't think you can get it anywhere off the island and posting alcohol isn't allowed (no amazon booze for me, which sucks).
It's obviously loaded with pure BS, but that's par for the course with modern gin. Shits all over this which it seems you may be able to get hold of.
Thanks for that Niko...
Here to help.
£42. Jesus. Looks nice though.
I've only had one by them and it was decent.
Fruit beers are fine as long as they're not a sugary nightmare. Get that mango-y bugger nice and cold first. It might surprise you.
One of the best "beer garden"-type beers I've ever had was a German apricot beer. Fruit beers can be fucking magic.
Got a 500ml bottle of Yorkshire Stingo for £1.49 earlier. An absolute steal.
Starting my beer night off with 144 Roman Heads, a Slovak imperial IPA. Pretty tasty.
You had anything by 8 Degrees, @Giggles ? From some place in Ireland I've never heard of called Mitchelstown. This is called "Full Irish IPA" and it's a bit of an American-y ALL THE HOP type but it's quite nice.
Yeah I do a good bit of work in the area. Used to always drink their Barefoot Bohemian Pilsner before I got more of a taste for the pale ales. Never seen that one though, might be only for the overseas market. The IPA of theirs I've had is Howling Gale but it could be the same thing. The stout, name escapes me, is lovely too.
EDIT: Ah I see it now. This one? http://www.eightdegrees.ie/thefullirish/ Never had that one, must keep an eye out for it.
I'm getting more of that Brehon stout and IPA for tomorrow night :drool:
Is it inappropriate to be lying in a lounger sunbathing drinking G&T in the back garden the day after my neighbour's husband has died?
Edit: in my back garden, not theirs #inb4disco
Not really. I wouldn't go firing up the tunes or anything but if you're lying back minding your own business then fuck it.
Case of Prazsky. Because it was in the cooler.
Jesus :D
Fucking hell, Magic. :D
Were you expecting a 'Save the Date' card through the post?
No, just even a fucking knock to say btw it's this date. She only let us know at fucking 7 in the morning after dropping off a parcel. Oh btw my husband died last night lol bye.
At least you're not a spiteful shit who actively pretended to be loving life, during one of the worst moments of somebody's life, while secretly seething your balls off.
KUTGW.
I wouldn't invite Magic to my funeral either, tbf.
I would just so there would be something else to pity.
Magic, you really are a social retard.
Always take the side of the dead guy ffs.
Jack Daniels
I had a code for a free 8-pack from Beer52, which somehow then upgraded to a 10-pack, and I just had to pay £5.95 postage. But I went through quidco for £5 cash back so it was ten beers for less than a quid. Is right!
Gonna give them my dad for Father's Day though so can't even enjoy them. :( I may not last til then though.
Mostly lager today. A rubbish Indian one called Lal Toofan, then one by Staropramen called "Pravha" which isn't as good as Staropramen but it's alright, then a load more of that, and now a load of Staropramen. Need to go a shop and get some good stuff before I go to Lithuania on Thrsday because I imagine that's going to be a lagerfest as well.
I had a staropramen last night, I don't really like it.
I never cared much for Staropramen either, or any Czech lagers actually for that matter. They all have this buttery - for lack of a better word - taste that I can't quite get over.
Of course it's still beer, so.
I got my bottle of Dark Matter, finally. Apparently it's best drunk neat with no ice, however an acceptable mixer is ginger beer (which I have bought to try it with).
On another note, Fever Tree really is the best tonic but fuck it's expensive in an already expensive Gin.
I bought my uncle a bottle of swanky gin at Christmas and the recommended tonic for it was Fever Tree. I think it was about three quid for four little bottles in Tesco, which doesn't seem over the line.
Compared to nothing. I don't drink gin but if I did I wouldn't object to paying three quid for good stuff, particularly if the alternative was spoiling a lovely bottle with rubbish.
Hmm, well it's £4.25 for 8 small tins, so basically 8 G&Ts, that's not too bad really if you look at it that way, however you can get 12 tins of Schwepps.
The rose lemonade and shit is another level.
Beer in bars in Lithuania (the bit I was in, anyway) isn't especially cheap.... in shops it's daft for decent local stuff though. 5% and 6% beers in pint bottles for either just under or just over a Euro.
I'm staying away in Cork tonight so I'm hoping the hotel has a drop of Murphy's.
Better again, Beamish :drool:
Girlfriend is away and kid is asleep. But I've been on a few (or more) steady beers a day for about 5 straight days or something now, and I feel like I should refrain. What a little shit.
Pale ales from Galway Bay, Jack the Lad, and Kinnegar for later. Starting with Carlsberg though, because it's cold.
Bud Light is on offer in the shop, so I have that in the fridge.
Got a bottle of water now. :cool2:
I spent €100 on Bulldog gin, Ciroc and Bombay Sapphire and Fever Tree tonic. Lol at my life.
Asian/Indian lagers are the dons though. Asahi/Tsingtao/Cobra etc. :drool:
I bought Sapporo a while back out of pure curiosity and admiration for the shape of their cans. It somehow tastes exactly the same freezing cold as it does at room temperature.
I could stay on this Carlsberg rightly, the IPA's are going to taste like petrol after it. Might nip down for a few pints instead of opening them.
I've been given a nice bottle of Scotch as my Father's Day present (a day early so I can have some tonight) but it couldn't be less Scotch weather right now. Might get some cider in, always fancy it in the summer.
I always love the idea of cider until my teeth start to hurt and I feel like I've a stomach ulcer. Though that's Bulmers (Magners over there), so it'd be the shittiest of shit cider.
I usually Old Rosie or Aspall. Less on the sweet end.
There's one here now in all the pubs called Orchard Thieves and if you melted down brown sugar it wouldn't taste as sweet.
I'm trying a coffee IPA by Stone Berlin. It's unusual but an otherwise nice beer is somewhat spoiled by the aftertaste.
I went to a beer festival in Motherwell many moons ago and one of their world beers was Sapporo. Came in a screwcap bottle "for your busy lifestyle!"
I'm on the pints of Canadian down the pub now so I might leave my bottles til next weekend. Tried a McGargles pale when I came in and it was too twangy for the weather.
Went to Brewdog tonight. First of all I had their new Abstrakt (22), which was delicious. And I assumed that was going to be my favourite beer of the night. Then I had one by an Ohio brewery called Rhinegeist, "Double Barrel Aged Mastodon." Fucking hell. Wonderful stuff.
The local used to have the regular McGargles IPA and the cider on tap, but they've swapped the cider for the 7.1% IPA version. I'm fucked.
Decided to keep my friend company on the cocktails she was drinking tonight.
I didn't realise the extent to which a Long Island Iced Tea contains much booze.
Glasgow Real Ale Festival tomorrow. :drool: Any of the Weegie Beer Nerd Crew going? I can't actually remember how big that "crew" is on the new board....
I never really understood the long island iced tea. What is the point of it other than trying to get off your tits/ill as quickly as possible?
This is why I tend not to drink cocktails. Not out of not liking them and certainly not out of any perceived "cocktails aren't manly" thing (probably because I'm a beta cuck) but because I feel like I'm getting a soft drink / juice / shake to get me wankered when getting wankered really isn't my end game.
I'm no cocktail hater, although I've largely grown out of them, it's just the long island iced tea specifically I never got. It's like some pseudo-student top shelf number which has somehow become a mainstream thing.
We used to have one at UCL called the Johhny Maze Special, which was 6 shots of white spirits (may as well have been white spirit) orange and blackcurrant. It was dreadful stuff, but highly effective (£3 a pint on Saturday nights) but you'd never countenance it beyond your early twenties, let alone open a chain of high street bars dedicated to it (those places are long gone now, admittedly, as is the the idea of 50p a drink specials, I guess).
I had a salt caramel porter from the meantime mob the other day. Quite nice, but I can never really get over porters seeming a bit light. I don't want them to be stout, but I always feel they taste a bit watery. Harviestoun's old engine oil is probably my favourite dark of the year so far (I don't try that many). I think Barons Black Wattle Ale is still my all time favourite, but that may just be rose-tinting on my part seeing as it was retired may years ago, sadly.
Meantime are pretty good. I know what you mean about porters though, there's a fine line where they can edge into just feeling like either a stout without the punch or a dark bitter that doesn't have the body.
Shilling in Glasgow have a deal on today to celebrate them being open a year and some new beers they're launching where you get a margherita for 5p (or a quid or something if you chuck a topping on) so that's my pre-festival lunch sorted. :drool:
I'm starting to drink cocktails more and more actually. If by cocktails that means standing at the bar going "ummm... fuck it I'll have an Old Fashioned again then".
Very occasionally I'll venture beyond Old Fashioned's, and then it'll likely be a Whisky Sour or a G&T (not sure if those actually qualify as cocktails really).
If someone hands me one of these fruity fuckers with umbrellas and leaves on them, I'll drink them, mind you.
Anyway, it's just that recently I've found that a whole day/night of drinking just beer gets me a bit tired after a while, the beer can get a bit tough to go down after you've had a few and starting to get a bit pissed, then it's nice with a bit of booze to sort of pick yourself up.
A new black IPA to try :drool:
Anyone ever sample it?
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Drinking one by a brewery from Baltimore called Stillwater. Beer's name is "Surround" and they describe it as an 'oak smoked imperial wheat stout.' I'm not always keen on smoked beers but this stuff is magic.
Beer :(
Tito's 6 times distilled American vodka.
Really (really!) quite smooth, so much so I'm not sure if I like it or not.
It's unquestionably good for the £21 delivered I got it for.
Yeah but it's still vodka which is just fuel for raging alcoholics.
Not really. It's a great drink. Had it with a slice of lemon, ice and some real lemonade. Fantastic.
Oof, that sucks.
Are there not yeast friendly beers?
Apparently a lot of the 'macro' beers like Heineken and Carlsberg are pasteurised which kills nearly all the yeast in them but anything bottle conditioned is a big no, which rules out all the smaller batch IPA's, porters, etc. There's none of them totally free of it though so I'm going to give it the month to see if there's a difference.
The process also rules out wine and the likes of vinegar and soy sauce, etc. Anything fermented too. Cheese :(
Giggles, you can now only drink the most commerical and un-hipster of lagers, this must be a dream come true in some ways?
I would have drank the normal ones on a night out anyway, but I always liked one of the strong ones at home.
I can see more after a while anyway. Could be the best thing I ever did, could be a complete load of bollocks, or could be somewhere in the middle where I just need to stop eating bread or something to keep it at a certain level. I'm still of the mind it's (b) but I paid €200 to have it done so I might as well try it out.
Phobos and Deimos from the Atom Brewery (?) - 7% Rye IPA - strong kick of alcohol to start with but was quite pleasant from thereon. Would recommend.
Only one I've had by them was a brown ale called "Bunsen" which was also good. A brewery to keep an eye out for.
I'm going to a festival called "Beer Makes Glasgow" on Saturday that was meant to be being organised by Hippo until they went into liquidation but some other breweries have picked up the slack, as I understand it.
I've also just got my second Beer52 box. First I got because it was a fiver, this because when I went to cancel they gave me a tenner off so eight cans and bottles for £14. Probably gonna fuck it off for definite next month but there's some nice looking stuff in it including a couple of Sierra Nevadas that I've not had before.
I have a small suite of their various sciencey named ones, although not Bunsen I don't think. Schrodinger's something and a few others I can't presently recall.
So those Atom ones were as follows:
Pulsar, 4.4% Pilsner, nice (it was a hot day), clean and refreshing.
Schrodinger's Cat, 3.5% US Amber, meh, not much to it really which I guess is a product of the abv to an extent.
Quantum State, 4.2% Session IPA, decent, but quite strong for a session IPA, I would say, not as good as something like Dead Pony Club.
Also had a mint and green tea saison from some Northern Irish brewery which was interesting.
Currently on the Elvis Juice.
Just been given half a dozen beers so on the slate for this week are:
Lorita, 4.7% passion fruit pale ale
Nine to Five Wizard (Brewdog), 7.5% India Pale Weizen
Truth (Rhinegeist), 7.2% IPA
Hop Fiction (Brewdog), 5.2% American Pale
Tangerine Session IPA (Brewdog Prototype), 4.5%
Brouwerij'tij, 7% IPA
That Lorita sounds like it could be nice. I've had a few by Amundsen who make that and they've been a mixed bag but there's some good stuff.
Between a Beer52 delivery and birthday beers I've got some good stuff ready to go. I was also at the Beer Makes Glasgow festival on Saturday and had some great stuff there, The highlights were a barrel-aged cranachan stout from Drygate, a 10% stout from Gallus and a heather/honey saison that would have been perfect for a roasting day in a beer garden.
The Lorita is quite tangy. Probably too sour for my liking. Top marks for the can though.
I'm slowly but surely getting into the sour stuff. I'll have to try The Kernel's London Sour again at some point and see if it still makes my face crumple.
It was vaguely reminiscent of Blue Moon, which I've found a bit off in the past.
The tangerine IPA and the Hop Fiction both get a thumbs up.
I've ventured into 7% country with the Brouwerij'tij and I just find that the alcohol in these types of beer can be a bit overpowering. It has the feel of a tripel. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a Duvel as much as the next man when out and about on the continent but I'm not sure I can get on board with this one. Not sure it bodes well for the next two seeing as they are 7.2% IPAs . . .
I dunno if I'm becoming more attuned to that and therefore don't notice it or if it's just I've had enough really good ones where they genuinely mask it. I've had 10+% beers that I really don't think taste mega-boozy.
Yeah, it's not specifically the strength, as in other beer types (usually darker) stronger doesn't seem to make as much difference. It seems to be specifically in the strong pales (which I have now learned tripels are) that I notice it. I'm not talking Delirium levels (although looking that up I thought it was stronger than 8.5%), it just seems that a lot of the lighter flavours you get in a pale ale get nuked when the alcohol content gets to 7%. Maybe these other two will prove me wrong, although I don't think I'll try one tonight.
Can't believe this is exclusively a thread for beer paedos. Come on guys!
'Beer Children' was the Chinese title for 'NEDS'
Fucking love sour beers, lambics 4 lyf.
The 9 to 5 wizard was good (Brewdog have done well out of this batch) and the Truth (as a strong IPA there has to be a Jack Nicholson joke/reference in there somewhere) isn't bad either.
I've not had the Nine to Five Wizard but it sounds right up my street.
Last night I was drinking too much of Peerless' "Penny Red Rye."
Got some good shit for tonight too. :nodd:
Couple of Brewdog Jack Hammer's tonight.
Is Brewdog popular daawn saaaf?
There's a couple of brewdog pubs in Aberdeen, obviously since that's where they basically started, but not sure whether there's many elsewhere or whether it's just the chains selling their bottled (and now canned) beer.
I've never been in a brewdog pub. The one in Norwich looked rubbish.
Guy I worked with was suggesting I should buy shares in them back in 2014 so I guess I missed a trick there.
Pub chains? I was at a Wetherspoon's and it was god awful. Terrible idea
I copped a hazelnut/caramel flavored whiskey (moonshine) from some shit today, the girl at the stand was cute and the free sample tasted good enough so I said fuck it and splurged but a 1-sip sample is different from having to drink an entire sesh purely of Nutella-tasting whiskey
Cigar City's Maduro Brown Ale is fucking delicious. :drool:
I had some Mezcal tonight. Was nice.
Wetherspoons is great. It's cheap, they've got plenty of beers (for the real ale wankers too) and the food is decent for the price. It's a national institution.
Obviously if you expect some sort of hipster 'experience' you're going to be disappointed.
Brewdog can fuck off though.
I had breakfast at a spoon's in south Croydon yesterday. Top qual and no wankers poncing around, just real people (some well on their way to the great licky window in the sky but still real people). 10/10.
All day brunch and a pint of Tickety Brew. :drool:
There are two weatherspoons near me. One is really nice, quite a nice building and decent people, the other is hell. Proper dregs of society (5 digit salary type).
Great one in the city actually, old bank conversion.
Wetherspoons varies so much. There are some I'm genuinely happy drinking in. There are others where I'd rather just get stabbed (probably by the staff) and be done with it.
They all look like large ballrooms from the 1950s.
Well the ones that were old ball rooms do at least.
Spoons serves a purpose, especially in crap or expensive places. In crap places (i.e. Rugby) it is genuinely the only place to go for dinner that isn't totally disgusting for less than about a tenner, and if you're going for a big old sesh in an expensive city it is nice to get some cheap drinks in.
Also, if you want to go to a cosy atmospheric place you'd obviously be better off going to an independent pub, but actually if I'm catching up with old friends for example, the bright lights and no music is a real winner. Shite trying to have a proper conversation with some old bloke playing folk music in the background or whatevz. Wish they'd all have pub quiz machines though.
Having Stillwater's "A Saison Darkly" just now. This is the third beer of theirs I've had and they've all been really nice. I'll need to be sure to have more when the opportunity arises.
EDIT: Onto Marble's "Madame Cheron" now. Crikey, it's magic.
I'm full to the absolute bollocks of gin and bitter.
For fuck's sake.
A pub quiz is a quiz held in a pub or bar. These events are also called quiz nights[1] or trivia nights[2] and may be held in other settings. Pub quizzes may attract customers to a pub who are not found there on other days. The pub quiz is a modern example of a pub game. Although different pub quizzes can cover a range of formats and topics, they have many features in common. The pub quiz was established in the UK in the 1970s by Burns and Porter and became part of British culture.[3] The Great British Pub Quiz challenge is an annual event.[3]
Quiz machine is a term used in the UK for commercial coin-operated video quiz games that offer cash prizes for winning performances. These machines are usually found sited in pubs, bars and other places of entertainment. The term quiz machine is often used interchangeably with the trade term SWP ("Skill With Prizes") although not all SWP games are quiz based.
I'm lookin on the Wiki and it looks like it's an actual trivia night? Everybody's on their phones guaranteed. Wtf is the point
Because it's fun, you massive fanny.
Also, points will be deducted/teams disqualified if phones are seen to be used. And even if they're not seen, it's just shithead behaviour to use them.
Like fuck I was deleting them when copying and pasting from wiki :nod:
Caught on your phone? Disqualified! Lose with honour you plebs
And to think your country makes fun of Americans for playing drinking games...
Drinking games are for boring wankers.
I'm the only person I've ever met who thinks pub quizzes are shit. Let's go and ruin one, mokkers.
Americans and drinking games should be a laugh.
We like to drink with Merty . . .
Sorry lads, Merty appears to be in a lite beer pong induced coma.
Ring of fire or gtfo tbh imo brb afk asl lol
You wouldn't last ten minutes in a real pub.
I would and I have. Fuck with me.
Omega White Cider. Stopped posting pretty much until tonight. There's a strange pattern emerging here.
Agreed with all of that. When I was home last year I met my mate at spoons one afternoon. We hadnt seen each other in a few years so it was perfect to have a pint in a somewhat quiet environment and at a decent price for the city center that we could actually converse and catch up.
10/10 would spoons again.
Never done one of those pub quiz things but they sound shit. Drinking games are also woeful.
Pub quizzes (is that really the plural?) aren't shit in and of themselves, although the people that participate in them generally are, especially the competitive ones.
I had kind of assumed smart phones had killed them though.
We should devise a TTH drinking game for Christmas. Whenever Floyd mentions cheese have a sip. Whenever 'Daws' ignores Waff trying for a meet do a shot. Whenever GS' Christmas jumper comes up eyeball a bottle of turps... Even you would enjoy that.
Maybe not.
1 finger everyone
If you can't handle it just say.
I was going to add something but now he went and ruined it.
They're always reasonably quiet (I'm sure they're horrible at night, but I don't go at night) and normally big enough that you don't have to sit near people.
How much do they charge for a milk?
They are crap for milk. Places that do have it, once they have gotten over themselves, either put it through as a cordial (so like fifty pence) or let me have it for nothing. I went somewhere the other week and the woman not only gave it to me for free, but she let me in on her private stash of biscuits (oi oi). I reckon if I took a shoebox full of creepy shit in next time we could be married by Easter.
You're going to turn into your avatar.
Do you ever go fancy and do a chocolate milk or something, or do you always have it straight up?
Drinking milk after nursing age is actually abominable, or so I've heard
Got some Brewdog 'Elvis Juice' - grapefruit-infused IPA. Really quite nice, never had it before.
Last week I went on the Bermondsey Beer Mile and had a fine ol' time. Went to a bunch of different breweries and sampled the wares. BBNO, Anspach & Hobday and some place called 'The Barrel Project'. Great mix of booze.
I had a couple of bottles of Whitstable Bay.
Is the Barrel Project new? Either it wasn't there when I went last year or I just didn't find a Beer Mile list that mentioned it.
Also did you do Eebria? It's right by Partizan but I overheard a few people sneering at it because it wasn't on whatever list they'd looked at. All it meant was it was quiet and I got my pint of 8% whatever served to me almost instantly.
Just got a case of Jet Black Heart - should I chill it or drink it at room temperature?
Ordered a bottle of Bulldog for £16 off Amazon.
Brewdog would serve it super cold for whatever that's worth. If I could be arsed being organised I'd probably bung a couple in the fridge for an hour then drink them but it'll really be alright however you do it. If you're settling in for a few have the first at room temperature then stick some more in the fridge and you'll try it at each way.