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Offline TG

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Booze
« on: March 09, 2008, 12:18:40 PM »
Whats your favourite alcoholic tipple.

Just curious.

and bored.  noooo:
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Re: Booze
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2008, 12:23:28 PM »
Quote from: tailgunner on March 09, 2008, 12:18:40 PM
Whats your favourite alcoholic tipple.

Just curious.

and bored.  noooo:
happy100

I love a good pint of bitter, London Pride, Bishops Finger, Bass... pretty much anything that has been well looked after... 'cept Abbott Ale, piss water shite!  evil:
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Re: Booze
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2008, 12:28:07 PM »
Quote from: Barman on March 09, 2008, 12:23:28 PM
Quote from: tailgunner on March 09, 2008, 12:18:40 PM
Whats your favourite alcoholic tipple.

Just curious.

and bored.  noooo:
happy100

I love a good pint of bitter, London Pride, Bishops Finger, Bass... pretty much anything that has been well looked after... 'cept Abbott Ale, piss water shite!  evil:

Is it easy / cheap to get british beer over there?
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Re: Booze
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2008, 12:32:22 PM »
Quote from: tailgunner on March 09, 2008, 12:28:07 PM
Quote from: Barman on March 09, 2008, 12:23:28 PM
Quote from: tailgunner on March 09, 2008, 12:18:40 PM
Whats your favourite alcoholic tipple.

Just curious.

and bored.  noooo:
happy100

I love a good pint of bitter, London Pride, Bishops Finger, Bass... pretty much anything that has been well looked after... 'cept Abbott Ale, piss water shite!  evil:

Is it easy / cheap to get british beer over there?
No!  Banghead

99% of bars only sell Keo or Carlsberg lager. My local also sells Guinness in cans with a widget at some outrageous price.

There are some Irish pubs that sell Guinness and a couple of micro breweries – one in Limassol and one in Pafos but I haven’t tried those yet.

Just recently Carrefour has started selling Bishops Finger, Spitfire, etc. in cans and bottles.

Hence the home brew.  whistle:
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Re: Booze
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2008, 12:35:37 PM »
You had best take the pledge then.  whistle:
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Re: Booze
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2008, 12:36:44 PM »
Most beers taste the same nowadays. They have a process known as "Burtonisation" in which many brewers now treat their local water to produce the same taste in their beers wherever they are brewing. It is an abomination as it has killed most "local" beers. E.G. Wherever you go a pint of Marstons Pedigree tastes the same despite the fact it may have been brewed in any one of a dozen places around the UK. (Obviously this assumes that the landlord knows how to look after his ales)
Personal favourite is Fullers "London Pride", which is still brewed with local water.
I used to like Courage "Directors" but it went off a few years ago. Round here it is almost all Green King  sick2: so I stick to lager (or did when I was drinking ..... before the NHS Gestapo warned me off)

If you are going for bottles the Spitfire is good or Theakstons.
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Re: Booze
« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2008, 12:37:38 PM »
Quote from: tailgunner on March 09, 2008, 12:35:37 PM
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Re: Booze
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2008, 10:30:56 AM »
Anything by the Sharpes brewery although Doombar has to be my favourite.

Magners when I'm in the mood for it

Glayva

Lager wise proper Czech Budweiser Budvar

And back in the day, whatever that dusty bottle of whiskey was at the back of the bar at my old local before it was taken over and turned into a family friendly pub. (How could they turn the Pirate into a bleedin family pub, I still can't believe that  cussing:)
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Re: Booze
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2008, 10:35:41 AM »
Quote from: Grumpmeister on March 10, 2008, 10:30:56 AM


Glayva



Oooh. I was introduced to that on a visit to the glennfiddich distillery where they make that.

Lovely stuff.  cloud9:
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Re: Booze
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2008, 10:42:14 AM »
Yes it's ok for a liquer but not like a good single malt. Glen Turret is my personal favourite. SWMBO prefers Jura.
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Re: Booze
« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2008, 10:48:27 AM »
Quote from: tailgunner on March 10, 2008, 10:35:41 AM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on March 10, 2008, 10:30:56 AM


Glayva



Oooh. I was introduced to that on a visit to the glennfiddich distillery where they make that.

Lovely stuff.  cloud9:

Found it by accident when I was 18. A mate of mine was going off for the summer to teach archery at an american summer camp (He did almost kill me with the bow a couple of days before but that is another story). Our local was a 2 part pub, one part was all real ales and the other had the biggest whiskey selection in Cornwall. We'd been working through the whiskeys to give him a send off.
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Re: Booze
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2008, 11:50:55 AM »
Quote from: Snoopy on March 10, 2008, 10:42:14 AM
Yes it's ok for a liquer but not like a good single malt. Glen Turret is my personal favourite. SWMBO prefers Jura.

Me bruv' got me a bottle of that for Christmas. Haven't tried it yet, but I'm sure it can't be as good a Black Bushmills.

Fullers London Pride gets my vote too.
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Re: Booze
« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2008, 12:30:21 PM »
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on March 10, 2008, 11:50:55 AM
Quote from: Snoopy on March 10, 2008, 10:42:14 AM
Yes it's ok for a liquer but not like a good single malt. Glen Turret is my personal favourite. SWMBO prefers Jura.

Me bruv' got me a bottle of that for Christmas. Haven't tried it yet, but I'm sure it can't be as good a Black Bushmills.

Fullers London Pride gets my vote too.

Oh ~ different animal altogether.
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Re: Booze
« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2008, 09:02:12 PM »
Although tonight the Young's is going down too well. Ten(ish) pints and Mrs TMR (to be) will not be happy when I stagger back. Happens...
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Re: Booze
« Reply #14 on: March 10, 2008, 09:11:30 PM »
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on March 10, 2008, 09:02:12 PM
Although tonight the Young's is going down too well. Ten(ish) pints and Mrs TMR (to be) will not be happy when I stagger back. Happens...
The ol' red wine is slipping down okay tonight...  cloud9:

But I have to be up early tomorrow to take somebody to the airport...  Banghead

Still... D&D is okay here and I can go back to bed after...  cloud9:
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