I’m finding this quite amenable this evening..

Stellas here,anyone tried the new cider yet 🙄

I’m not surprised at 7.2%. you’ll not be able to taste much after a few of those.

I had four pints of Doom Bar at lunch admiring the scenery in Mayfair and can’t take any more now as riding tomorrow. It was a slow afternoon after we finally got back to the office.

Stella here too. It’s washing down my Asda vindaloo 🙂

Few 1664 here then a half decent bottle of red for later

Alcohol is sooooooooooooo lst year….

glass of red now

bottle of Thwaites’ new IPA (Indus Pale Ale) and a pint or two of this to follow:

it’s really quite tasty and at about 40p a pint, is very dear to my yorkshire heart 😉

Carlsberg Export here. Bottle of Shiraz is winking at me seductively though. Would it be frightfully bad form to order some crack to go with it? Hmmmmmmmmmm 😀

first ever bottle of hoegaarden rosee here. Not half bad…

Morrison’s St Omer, it’s the same stuff from French supermarkets and at £7.29 for 18 you can’t go wrong (well actually you can if you drink too many)

not really, i’m drinking one of these..

Kev

Would it be frightfully bad form to order some crack to go with it?

I say.. why not smoke some of these on a spoon..?

why has this happened to my innocent booze thread.. 😐

laudunum is sooo last century

Vodka & tonic.

Mellow way to end the week

5 pints of a homebrew pale ale here. Now practising rehydration therapy ahead of a busy weekend.

vodka and orange ‘juice’ here 🙂

The Stella Cider is ok. had one the other night, just tasted bit like Magners etc, but i’m not a Cider expert! Tasted ok though!

inexpensive red from the coop that is surprisingly quaffable

A Glass of red will soon follow.

Ah temazzis yunki.. tho they look like little 10s in your pic rather than the big fat green dogs 🙂 .. good times. It’s been mainly fursty ferret tonight mind.

Spent last night on Castle Rock’s Screech Owl. Got poorly head now, and working later.

Oops.

APF

http://www.henneys.co.uk/henneys-vintage-cider.html

Had a couple of these last night. The best cider I have had in a long time.

Try Gwatkins (http://www.gwatkincider.co.uk/home.html)
Unlike most cider producers the majority of there ciders are made from vintage variety apples. Gwatkins charge about £2.20 a bottle for a minimum of A 12 bottle case (mixed if you want) …….OR £47 DELIVERED FOR 20 LITRES, ABOUT £1.20 A PINT. BIG CHOICE AND 1 OF THERE PERRYS CAN BE BOUGHT BAG IN THE BOX TO.
Definition of vintage variety apples; – apples (and pears for that matter) which have no other purpose than cider production. And a secondary definition for the purist is can be used on there own i.e. unblended.
Example of vintage varieties Foxwhelp, Norman (very popular, taste great smells shite) Stoke Red, Yarlington Mill (Gwatkins won best in Briton for there’s) Slack my girdle although latter is normally used as a blender, and so on. SEE
http://www.greenworldorganic.co.uk/categories.php?cat=Cider+apples
http://www.ciderappletrees.co.uk/cidervarieties.php

Hope this helps those who want to drink proper stuff unlike the crap that Magners sell which actually brags about using up to 17 varieties of apples to make there cider or put another way any old shite. They also are the manufactures of Bulmer’s cider in the Irish Republic again the manufactures of total crap. Buy good and buy cheap!!!

PS I always buy Gwatkins when my own cider runs out. Made 34 gallons last year but didn’t drink it all myself as I found I had a lot of new friends once it got out that it was drinkable!!

Went for 50 miler yesterday across the Lincolnshire Wolds, pub in the middle had a dinner turned out to be far to big with 6 pints (mainly Bateman’s XXXB) the 24 miles home (missed a few turning on the way there) was interspersed with a quite a few stops for some very minor evacuation of the stomach due to heartburn. First time that’s happened putting it down to the big meal. Normally just do pub crawls without food will revert to that……….pity good scuff. Went to the click’em Swinhope 6 cask beers……..nice

I haven’t had a drink in 3 days, i seem to have toothache 😥

Its making me cranky..

you rode 24miles after drinking six pints ? crikey. If I drank six pints I’d probably ride 24feet and then plant my bike into the nearest hedgerow.

Kev

Which my wife misheard as “Dragon’s Doubt” – which is a much better name.

Finchley’s [Bateman’s] IPA from Aldi for me tonight

Hmm, left to right, or right to left ?

Had some of the Stella Cider last night, was OK. expensive though.

nothing tonight.

a good selection there Graeme. I’d start on the left, by the time you get to the hobgoblin you might not notice that it’s in a can 😉

Great minds think alike ! The cans were just to see how much difference there is to a bottle. Give me an hour and I’ll report back. It’s a dirty job but somebody has to do it in the name of market research .

Emptied 2 jars of spare change this evening and cashed it in at asda change machine brought a bottle of this with the proceeds

Great straight but prefect with just a dash of coke.

I’m having some codeine, washed down with this:

It might just be my addled taste buds , but the canned Hobgoblin seems to be a bit more malty/chocolatey than the bottled. The head seems to be a bit tighter though . I did use a clean , dry glass for this comparison ( off to get another from the cooler )

Morgans spiced for me!

all this booze is steering a spliff in the making…

finished off a bottle of red (had 2/3rds mid week) then a glass of Glenlivet, no on the Jamesons….may finish with JD