Fucking hell, Magic.
Were you expecting a 'Save the Date' card through the post?
Fucking hell, Magic.
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.
I think she's senile so really, who's the winner here.Originally Posted by Ian
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.
I'm a twit
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.
Staro is crap. It's all they sell here if you don't want a 1664-like. Crap stuff.
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? Schweppes? It's twice the price. Fentimens is equally as expensive.
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
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.
I quite like a Carlsberg. Of the shite beers it's definitely near the top
It's surprisingly ok, someone left them here a few weeks ago when there was a few round. I think I'd still rather a Canadian out of the normal ones though.
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.
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.
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.
Nah not going, my mates running a food truck at The Big Feed this weekend so hitting that up for free food on Sunday insteadDecided 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.
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.
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
Anyone ever sample it?
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.
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