God I miss proper Real Ale. When Iām home itās 6X or Doombar. Over here in the last 3 or 4 years we can now get London Pride, Pedigree or Hobgoblin on āonly slightly pressurisedā tap. We have a place out in the desert that had a range of about 20 bottled Ales but had run out on my last visit.
Beer at home is OSH canned or Tsing Tao, a nice light clean lager (and the cheapest we can get here in cans)
God I miss wine with a meal in a restaurant. We can get wine from 5 quid a bottle up to 500 quid in the desert or +30% tax and +30% profit in a licence holder only shop in town. BUT when you go out for dinner they charge you 50 quid for a 5 quid bottle of skank so sod that. We eat at home!
Evening drink is Bacardi & Coke Vodka Orange or Red Bull havenāt had a Bullfrog for at least 6 months - price went up to about 10 quid sod that.
One drink I have learnt to love is Polish Vodka. Iāll post a review on that and how to drink it properly tomorrow when the golf isnāt on telly.
Originally posted by @jet-sounds
Originally posted by @Halo-Stickman
Originally posted by @jet-sounds
I met up with some friends I hadnāt seen for years the other Saturday. We started at 1 in the afternoon in the Grapes and finished at about 1.30am in the London Hotel. I started on the Doombar but after 6 pints started to feel quite sickā¦after a food break at Pizza Express it was lager and spiced rum for the rest of the nightā¦it took me two days to recover, but it was well worth it!
Have they still got Knob on tap at the London?
It always makes me smile when I ask for a Knob in there.
Sorry, I never noticedā¦I was too p****d
It may have been a promotional guest ale but they had it in there the last time I went. I canāt remember what match it was but me and Mrs S popped in after the game and were watching the England v France rugby match. I was stood at the bar with an empty glass when the barman asked what I wanted. I was very involved in the rugby and said without thinking, āIād like another knob, pleaseā to which he replied, āweāve run out of knobā, to which I replied, āokay, Iāll have a hobgoblinā. Mrs S pissed herself laughing
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Start with Ale (less gassy than larger), then move on to spirits. Dark Rum or gin and tonic!
Donāt drink beer too often these days, but when I do I prefer a good ale to a lager (though a decent lager can go down very nicely on a hot sunny day). Red wineās what I drink most of, and my spirit of choice is gin - has to be a decent gin, and mixed with a proper tonic such as Fever Tree. Iām quite partial to whisky but I rarely actually drink it; I think I actually prefer a really good Bourbon to a Scotch malt. I love short coktails such as a Sidecar, Manhattan or Martini, but canāt be arsed with those things that are mostly juice.
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Donāt drink that often these days. But when I do itāll be ale and significant amounts of it. Harveys Best would be my ideal.
Also quite partial to these new overhopped pale ales that seem to be everywhere these days.
Well it depends if at home or work.
At work nothing from the time I arrive to the time I leave minimum 28 days later.
At Home on a good day.
Coffee with a rum livener in it.
Followed by an Orange juice with a vodka and Galianno (spelling here)
Next a few San Miguel Pale Pilsenās as has more flavour than San Mig.
This will be then assisted with either a Rum and Coke Philippine Tanduay Rum or a Vodka and Coke Gilbeys Vodka.
The occaisional bottle of white or red wine with a meal then a couple more drinks of the day to finish with.
Today I am at the San Miguel Pale Pilsen stage
Originally posted by @Fowllyd
Donāt buy beer too often these daysā¦
Changed it for you
I think that in the holy trinity of beer, wine and spirits the UK is top in two out of the three. Nothing beats a decent real ale or a smoky Islay single malt.
The two pubs I frequent most both have an excellent staple ale, on all the time (Harveyās and Courage Best) and five or six guest ales. I donāt think thereās ever been a wider range of beers available.
Fowllyd and I were virtually weaned on Galeās HSB, and I think that remains my favourite, although sadly no longer brewed in Horndean, or by Galeās
Lager-type beers in other countries seem a bit samey. Iām not sure that Iād pass a taste test with Singa, Tiger and Tsingtao for example. However, Peroni is lovely, and I can tell Mahou (Madrid) from Estrella (Barcelona).
I remain to be entirely convinced that French wine is the best in the world. For reds, certainly, I prefer a Montepuliciano or a Rioja. Whites - ok, nothing beats a good flinty Chablis
I love a G&T made with a Bombay Sapphire or Plymouth, but no spirit comes close to an Islay malt - Laphroig, Lagavullin or an Ardbeg, which is like Godās tears
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Oh yeah, I drink a bottle of red wine on my Friday TV night with Mrs Sfcsim! Suppose that counts!
Usually beer on the rare occasion Iām drinking. Iām quite lucky where I live as itās about a 4 minute walk from a small brewer, which is nice. If Iām wanting a lager, which is what Iād drink in the summer, my favourite is called St Mungoās. Brewed in Glasgow, donāt know if you can get it down south but waitrose sell it.
Cask Bitter or English IPA for me, itās an overwhelming preference for me.
Iāve mentioned it before on the other site, so a couple of you might already know that I brew my own. Too cheap to buy imported ale, and fed up with American craft brew having too much of everything in it because of the bigger is better mentality, I found that home brewing is the only way around it all. It also means I can make a lower ABV and drink a shedload without getting shitfaced too quickly.
My garage always has at the very least a 55lb sack of imported malt in itā¦Even grew my own hops for a few years until the price came back down.
After ale, then itās bourbon for me. That is one area where I have embraced my limited metamorphosis into becoming American. I used to like scotch, but bourbon is so much more throat and taste bud friendly. Love the stuff.
Originally posted by @saintbletch
Haha! Nope, Iām not that kind of brewer. I use 1 litre bottles and donāt make labels for something that I will be throwing down my neck while everyone around me wonders what that dark stuff is, and say 55 degrees? WTF! ā¦Itās all for me, and me alone.
10 gallons per brew is too much trouble for all that pissing about.
Hmmm, when I first started drinking I started on Lager, strangely (as I was in Blandford) it was Badgerās lager that I started on , Hofbrau I think. Never really like the taste of it but it was what everyone drunk, Uni tought me the joys of bitter and looking after properly (I was cellarmaster at the Student Union for 4 years and we used to sell gallons of āliveā ales and used to have to look after them). The Uniās beer festival was legendary in the ales we procured.
I like most āliveā ales these days but do miss HSB, had a session on ESB once that gave me the hangover from hell. Sitting in a pub in Richmond watching football on my own (was on a course) and didnāt get up from my barstool until after the 5th pint. I practically hit the floor straight away, oh well. Ringwood ales are my mainstay these days due to them being in my locals. Ringwood Best when Iām driving 49er when Iām sessioning, Old Thumper when I really donāt care.
I will keep away from the pasteurised crap that they sell these days, John Smiths. etc and if there is no real ale in a pub I will have a cider.
Spent some time in the offices in Seattle and the beer out there was fantastic, craft and micros breweries all over. Still managed to drink the Yanks under the table though AND shocked them with downing an American pint in 8 seconds and not falling over.
After Ale whiskey please, a nice decent Whiskey will have me purringā¦
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I love BTripz, and plan to make him my bitch one day
Grew up in a Courage pub so it was always Directors for me. So difficult to find a pub round here that knows how to keep an ale these days but will always go for an ale, really canāt take lager. Cider has got a lot better than the 2 old favourites from my youth ( Strongbow + Dry Blackthorne) but if i thereās no ale then it would be Rum and coke.
Is that a good or bad thing?
Really must try the Poole Brewhouse and Kitchen one day, all my friends have given it good reviews.
Sorry, I just canāt get past your user name. Your entire post just sounds like something a Gerry Anderson puppet hero would never actually say.