Good stuff.Originally Posted by niko_cee
I asked in here because we got a 2000 Rioja earlier and it was exceptional. The wife has got me on espresso martinis now like a true chav.
Good stuff.
I asked in here because we got a 2000 Rioja earlier and it was exceptional. The wife has got me on espresso martinis now like a true chav.
A chav is better than whatever a red wine drinker is.
A Kiko.
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I started off with a white russian so I'm going in reverse to you. The white russian was better. Haven't got through the sort of fortified taste I always feel these sort of wines bowl in with yet, although it is improving.
I had a really good Rioja the other week, wouldn't have been that old but it had a bit of age on it.
Give me a decent Australian red any day of the week though.
I find it very difficult to drink the frog stuff compared to new world. It's like sticking on Netflix versus firing up a cine projector to watch some boring old toss with no dialogue.
Is there anything about the French you do like?
Marcel Desailly.
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Camembert
Their roads
Almost all of their architecture (Corbusier can do one)
Cézanne
The Pyrenees
Reblochon
Camus
The glorious pathos of Jean Van De Velde
Claude Makélélé
The pantomime villainy of Jean-Marie Balestre
Montmartre
The Normandy countryside
Comté
REALLY French people - like, people who are astoundingly French. Houellebecq and upwards.
That Fred bloke off the telly
La Haine
Yann Tiersen
Philippe Auclair
Edith Piaf
Claude Debussy
Brie
Amélie
MC Solaar
Voltaire
The fact that François Hollande had that affair
Allo Allo
The Bayeux Tapestry
Manu Chao
Onion soup
Literally everything to do with Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Jacques Santini's eyes
Having the cheese course before dessert
Café culture
Roquefort
Philippe Sella
The 1997 Ligier
The smell in one of their myriad town centre food markets
Aligot
Cardinal Richelieu as played by Peter Capaldi in 'The Musketeers'
Lupin
Bonnie and Clyde
Lake Annecy
1998 World Cup
Pierre Gasly
Orangina
Off the top of my head.
I am prepared to say that anybody who doesn't like Philippe Auclair probably has something very, very wrong with them.
Yeah but I am to red wine appreciates probably what a Tennents die hard would be to a beer wanker like me. Maybe not as bad as that but I don't really tell the difference that much. I like a rioja though.
Absolutely nothing wrong with an Espresso Martini though. Lovely, just too drinkable for the price.
Some of you do those beer52 things don’t you? Some car channel I watch has an offer on it at the minute too (just pay postage I think) using ‘salvage’ in the link.
I did a for a bit before realising I'd rather pick my own.
Don they usually give you 1 for free but sign you up for further deliveries which you have to pay for and often people forget to cancel?
Basically. That said when you do phone to cancel they're super chill. They literally just asked me why and then they thanked me and cancelled my subscription, which it's annoying when you can't just do it online but at least they're not dickheads on the phone. Or weren't back then, at least.
You can cancel via email.
Oh can you? Well that's much better then.
What’s the email address to cancel?
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That’s a cunt trick not having it on the website.
It's literally in the "Contact Us" section.
I mean not having a cancellation link on the site and making you phone.
Oh. Yeah, it's annoying. Not so bad if they'll do it by email but there should still be a button.
Today I gave Totonko by Brew York. A decent tonka bean stout, and tonka stouts are ace.
My brother in law won today (or I did, depending how you look at it) as he gave me a stout which was a collab with the bloke from the excellent Old Chimneys brewery. 11% impy. Absolute winner.
What about Saint-Saëns, @Jimmy Floyd? Organ symphony is great.
Bit much for my taste, but if you asked me whether I've been gettin' into m' Chopin, particularly the ballade in G minor, then it could have been a different story.
As a proud Pole this sickens me. He's awesome, but he's as Polski as Apple Pierogi.
Take it to the France thread, twerps.
I've been to his grave and I didn't smell a single dumpling on the metro in, only the nauseating stench of Gauloises. Frogger.
Don't make me tap the sign.
The french red was very much better on day 2, which is good and all but I can't be dealing with that sort of lead time normally.
Oh.
Call yourself a manc?
Best put thein.
I drink it from a pint glass.
Proper Stone Roses stuff. All forgiven.
Kirkstall's Tangerine Porter is decent. Sufficiently festive, without being over the top or sickly/artificial tasting.
Today's supermarket specials were Siren - Golden Ember Red IPA [very good] and something passionfruity by Seven Brothers which was also pretty good.
Saw Pilot's "New York Sour" in the shop. Having that, in the basket it goes.
Poured it and then properly inspected the can just there and turns out it's a 10.5% bourbon barrel aged sour.
And absolutely delicious.
Crabbies.
Tomorrow is a sad day. Final day of the best advent calendar ever.
My daughters Polly Pocket one has a door for 25. Oh how I wish.
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Tyskie with the occasional Jamesons and Coke inbetween.
I'm getting back into the Aberlour. I err ... also won a bottle of Presecco at a work raffle.
“Back in my day” that was the norm but I haven’t seen a 25 for about 20 years now.
I’m sort of glad I made my own because of what the off licenses put into their ones. That said, it was all gone by the 15th because I knew what was in it anyway.
My final can is a 10% chocolate peanut butter porter.
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I’d say most sets will be along similar lines and thankfully I won’t be anywhere near one of them.
My day 24 from my brother in law is this, as a nice gentle follow up to last night's...
https://brewcavern.co.uk/product/christmas-tart/
I live in Kirkstall.
I don't really frequent this thread but my partner's mum always buys me ales/ipas for when I come over at Christmas so I currently have a Saltaire blonde (also very local to where I live) on the go.
Been substituting milk in my coffee for Bailey's the last couple of days. Just had a lightbulb moment a few minutes ago and did a reversal: a glass of Bailey's and ice with a shot of espresso chucked in.
6.30 on Christmas eve and I've not even had a drink yet because I've got the guts ache. Fuck's sake.
That last calendar beer could be kill or cure.
That was my morning drink while on holiday in October. Also discovered Baileys and Kahlua, for the evenings.Been substituting milk in my coffee for Bailey's the last couple of days. Just had a lightbulb moment a few minutes ago and did a reversal: a glass of Bailey's and ice with a shot of espresso chucked in.
Baby Guinness that if you pour them carefully.
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