Have they still got Knob on tap at the London?
It always makes me smile when I ask for a Knob in there.
Originally posted by @saintbletch
On the ale front, I do enjoy an Old Thumper - although a number of the Cocks for Lou club gave me the opportunity to develop a taste for Dublin Porter when I was stood up at the…
sorry Bletch. Again.
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Originally posted by @Coxford_lou
Originally posted by @saintbletch
On the ale front, I do enjoy an Old Thumper - although a number of the Cocks for Lou club gave me the opportunity to develop a taste for Dublin Porter when I was stood up at the…
No problem, Lou.
I’m over it, or at least my therapist says I soon will be.
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Maybe we should all turn up un-announced at the butler’s gaff to make up for it?
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God I miss proper Real Ale. When I’m home it’s 6X or Doombar. Over here in the last 3 or 4 years we can now get London Pride, Pedigree or Hobgoblin on “only slightly pressurised” 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 haven’t 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. I’ll post a review on that and how to drink it properly tomorrow when the golf isn’t on telly.
Originally posted by @Halo-Stickman
Originally posted by @jet-sounds
I met up with some friends I hadn’t 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 sick…after a food break at Pizza Express it was lager and spiced rum for the rest of the night…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 noticed…I was too p****d
Originally posted by @jet-sounds
Originally posted by @Halo-Stickman
Originally posted by @jet-sounds
I met up with some friends I hadn’t 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 sick…after a food break at Pizza Express it was lager and spiced rum for the rest of the night…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 noticed…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 can’t 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, “I’d like another knob, please” to which he replied, “we’ve run out of knob”, to which I replied, “okay, I’ll have a hobgoblin”. 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!
Originally posted by @Halo-Stickman
Originally posted by @jet-sounds
Originally posted by @Halo-Stickman
Originally posted by @jet-sounds
I met up with some friends I hadn’t 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 sick…after a food break at Pizza Express it was lager and spiced rum for the rest of the night…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 noticed…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 can’t 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, “I’d like another knob, please” to which he replied, “we’ve run out of knob”, to which I replied, “okay, I’ll have a hobgoblin”. Mrs S pissed herself laughing
Ha!, dodgy thing to say in the London…I wonder if any pub has sold Dirty Tackle and Knob at the same time?
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Don’t 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 wine’s 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. I’m 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 can’t be arsed with those things that are mostly juice.
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Don’t drink that often these days. But when I do it’ll 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 Pilsen’s 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
Don’t buy beer too often these days…
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 (Harvey’s and Courage Best) and five or six guest ales. I don’t think there’s ever been a wider range of beers available.
Fowllyd and I were virtually weaned on Gale’s HSB, and I think that remains my favourite, although sadly no longer brewed in Horndean, or by Gale’s
Lager-type beers in other countries seem a bit samey. I’m not sure that I’d 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 God’s 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!
Originally posted by @SO5-4BW
Originally posted by @Fowllyd
Don’t buy beer too often these days…
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 (Harvey’s and Courage Best) and five or six guest ales. I don’t think there’s ever been a wider range of beers available.
Fowllyd and I were virtually weaned on Gale’s HSB, and I think that remains my favourite, although sadly no longer brewed in Horndean, or by Gale’s
Lager-type beers in other countries seem a bit samey. I’m not sure that I’d 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 God’s tears
A friend of mine’s spirit of choice is gin when not drinking wine, and they’ve just discovered Bombay Sapphire and love it…going back to the real ale though, some years ago I’d occassionally go to the Flower Pots at Cheriton and enjoy a pint of Diggers Gold…haven’t been there for a long time though so not sure if they do it anymore.
Usually beer on the rare occasion I’m drinking. I’m quite lucky where I live as it’s about a 4 minute walk from a small brewer, which is nice. If I’m wanting a lager, which is what I’d drink in the summer, my favourite is called St Mungo’s. Brewed in Glasgow, don’t know if you can get it down south but waitrose sell it.
Cask Bitter or English IPA for me, it’s an overwhelming preference for me.
I’ve 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 it…Even grew my own hops for a few years until the price came back down.
After ale, then it’s 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.
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Originally posted by @saintbletch
Haha! Nope, I’m not that kind of brewer. I use 1 litre bottles and don’t 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! …It’s 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 Badger’s 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 “live” ales and used to have to look after them). The Uni’s beer festival was legendary in the ales we procured.
I like most “live” 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 didn’t 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 I’m driving 49er when I’m sessioning, Old Thumper when I really don’t 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 purring…
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