Bevvy thread

[mowgli]

Off to Wilkins cider farm in the morning to collect my supply for Christmas.

 

[JaseTheVillain]

Are you a chilled or room temp guy Jase ?

Room temp mate. I find I get more of the flavour that way. The missus is a chilled kinda person, always tries to put my wine in the fridge and gets shouted at.

 

[Leo]

Room temp mate. I find I get more of the flavour that way. The missus is a chilled kinda person, always tries to put my wine in the fridge and gets shouted at.

 

[smat]

 

[Techno Natch]

What's the opinion on cans or bottles for beer? Does It make a difference? I've always preferred a bottle but pretty sure that it's just because it feels better rather than it actually tasting different. I don't even find decanting a can into a glass as satisfying as drinking a cold beer from the bottle but at 29p extra for a Tyskie I'm not sure it's worth it.

 

[JaseTheVillain]

I prefer cans if it's a fizzy one, if it's flat (I'm a cider man) it has to be bottled.

 

[mowgli]

I prefer cans if it's a fizzy one, if it's flat (I'm a cider man) it has to be bottled.

I only drink cider without bubbles in it and it looks like piss I'm lucky having several cider farms near me that make perfect Somerset farmhouse cider usually around 6%.

 

[JaseTheVillain]

Living in the Midlands, I have to wait for one of the local ale places sticking a couple of ciders on at ridiculous prices (£4 a pint half of the time, for perspective, a pint around here is usually around £2.10-£2.50 maximum) to get a good cider unfortunately.

 

[mowgli]

Living in the Midlands, I have to wait for one of the local ale places sticking a couple of ciders on at ridiculous prices (£4 a pint half of the time, for perspective, a pint around here is usually around £2.10-£2.50 maximum) to get a good cider unfortunately.

Jesus mate i get pissed off paying £3 a pint of cider in my local as when i go to the farm for some it's under a £1 a pint and what i drink when i'm there is free

 

[Leo]

What's the opinion on cans or bottles for beer? Does It make a difference? I've always preferred a bottle but pretty sure that it's just because it feels better rather than it actually tasting different. I don't even find decanting a can into a glass as satisfying as drinking a cold beer from the bottle but at 29p extra for a Tyskie I'm not sure it's worth it.

Can, bottle it made no difference to me as long as they were chilled....

 

[Leo]

Jesus mate i get pissed off paying £3 a pint of cider in my local as when i go to the farm for some it's under a £1 a pint and what i drink when i'm there is free

Fucks sake.....you'll be a frequent visitor then Mowgli ?......

 

[JaseTheVillain]

I definitely need to move to Somerset. I would say Herefordshire too, but, Hereford...

 

[Bobbin']

Definitely bottled lager for me when drinking at home, ice cold.

Ale very slightly chilled and red wine at room temperature.

 

[mowgli]

Fucks sake.....you'll be a frequent visitor then Mowgli ?......

5 or 6 times a month mate and if my neighbour goes up and i'm busy he picks up some cider for me,my body must be pickling from the inside

 

[Leo]

Decided that wee Ben from the Tipping Point is such a c*nt today that I shall partake of a bottle of red....so there!......

 

[Leo]

 

[mowgli]

What again!?

 

[Leo]

What again!?

 

[Craig]

Has Leo been taken by cirrhosis?

Anyways... twoje zdrowie

 

[Stevencc]

I love Zubr and Zywiec - that black can looks like it contains something POWERFUL.

 

[Craig]

Yeah I should probably drink the black one last.

 

[Leo]

For the past couple of months I have been partaking of...

with

 

[Indian Dan]

Apart from Guinness, I detest all canned beer/lager.

 

[mistermagic]

What's the opinion on cans or bottles for beer? Does It make a difference? I've always preferred a bottle but pretty sure that it's just because it feels better rather than it actually tasting different. I don't even find decanting a can into a glass as satisfying as drinking a cold beer from the bottle but at 29p extra for a Tyskie I'm not sure it's worth it.

Friends of mine are starting to brew their own lager and have been taken lessons from professionals. Now, I've always started the evening with 2 cans of light beer (1664, Heineken mostly) and was often laughed at because drinking beer from cans is frowned upon in France (this is wine territory remember) but since some pro told my friends that keeping beer in a can is much better for its taste, they've shut up and let me have my pair of cans before drinking what is shown below.

For the past couple of months I have been partaking of...

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with

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Drank that for a while and it gets me in a right state. Most nights, I can't remember all the events that happened and need to ask my friends how on earth I got home safely (I don't drive (thank goodness) but walk a lot). BUT, I do find CM quite expensive especially as you have to buy the Coke to go with it. Lately, I've been enjoying this bad boy:

Granted, more expensive than CM but no Coke to buy. That's pretty cool.

 

[Leo]

Drank that for a while and it gets me in a right state. Most nights, I can't remember all the events that happened and need to ask my friends how on earth I got home safely (I don't drive (thank goodness) but walk a lot). BUT, I do find CM quite expensive especially as you have to buy the Coke to go with it. Lately, I've been enjoying this bad boy:

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Granted, more expensive than CM but no Coke to buy. That's pretty cool.

I'm surprised that the Cap'n Spicey gets you in that state mate. It is certainly a lower AVB than the likes of vodka & whisky.....mind you it depends on how much you actually drink haha.
A litre bottle over here could be bought, before our Scottish government introduced minimum unit pricing, for between £16 and £18.....so I stocked up on it. Then you have the coke which I got for around £6 for a 24 can case or even occasionally a 30 can case (that was by watching supermarket offers).

 

[mistermagic]

I'm surprised that the Cap'n Spicey gets you in that state mate. It is certainly a lower AVB than the likes of vodka & whisky.....mind you it depends on how much you actually drink haha.
A litre bottle over here could be bought, before our Scottish government introduced minimum unit pricing, for between £16 and £18.....so I stocked up on it. Then you have the coke which I got for around £6 for a 24 can case or even occasionally a 30 can case (that was by watching supermarket offers).

I overdid vodka as a young boy (got me epileptic) while whisky is far too strong for me. I get fits the next morning if I drink too much of it. On rum, I can get completely hammered (whole bottle of CM say) and be almost alright the next morning.

 

[claret50]

My home made ale (not lager) and red wine does me nicely.

 

[Leo]

Had a few spiced rum & DC this afternoon.....Aaaaaah! Early dark the night methinks.....

 

[Redpelt]

I love a few glasses of JD after work. I did have a 3.75 litre bottle of 12 yr old Johnny Walker black label which I paid £150 snots for but my wife decided to take it upon herself to open it the last time her family were over from France ,I so wanted to challenge that decision !

 

[Leo]

I love a few glasses of JD after work. I did have a 3.75 litre bottle of 12 yr old Johnny Walker black label which I paid £150 snots for but my wife decided to take it upon herself to open it the last time her family were over from France ,I so wanted to challenge that decision !

....decisions decisions.....Dry day for me today, got to have them occasionally.