Alcohol

[Soloman Tump]

I'm a whisky and ale man, fairly peaty single malts such as Talisker and Jura really float my boat. Also love wheat beers, had a big weekend in Munich a few years back and found some amazing stuff out there.

[david lloyd jones]

being able to drink beer at the top of mount snowdon was great, and relaxing enough to go down again.
both available beers were below 4% and good idea too.
the paths down are well tricky.being tired is bad enough, don't go down pissed, or stoned (colleague smelled dope).
whatever path

[david lloyd jones]

figure celebrating my 1100th post here as good as anywhere.
the pub, a warm emotionally secure place to drink your regular, nod to others here for the same thing.
home from home, decompression chamber, public yet personal.
here is praise for where we all go-pubs, bars, restaurants etc where we sit, drink, think, read,  chat, piss it away, socialise and return home pissed as a fart.

[david lloyd jones]

from Bellingham's latest brewery

Illuminati Brewing Company

Skull & Bones Foreign Extra Stout. 6.5% ABV, 40 IBU, and dark as the Ace of Spades.  On nitro at their taproom!

i could go a few of these

[Deadpriest]

Found a 14% wine. heavy stuff and bad headaches. just knocked back a disgusting glass of very thick lemon ligure (which I can't spell) am am listening to Rectile Hygienics (you mean nothing to me!!), have sore legs and am about to go up and try and find a 14% white wine. May kill myself today.

[david lloyd jones]

Found a 14% wine. heavy stuff and bad headaches. just knocked back a disgusting glass of very thick lemon ligure (which I can't spell) am am listening to Rectile Hygienics (you mean nothing to me!!), have sore legs and am about to go up and try and find a 14% white wine. May kill myself today.

lets hope so.

[Deadpriest]

Found a 14% wine. heavy stuff and bad headaches. just knocked back a disgusting glass of very thick lemon ligure (which I can't spell) am am listening to Rectile Hygienics (you mean nothing to me!!), have sore legs and am about to go up and try and find a 14% white wine. May kill myself today.

lets hope so.

Now you wishing suicide on me will be here forever, well done, \I hope you can live with that on your conscious?

[david lloyd jones]

no problem

[david lloyd jones]

usual beer off tap.
drinking black horse porter, a good alternative, the plum mild other beer being disappointing

[david lloyd jones]

drinking 'agent of evil' black ipa from moor beer brewery at 7%.
not the substitute for imperial stout hoped for but still very drinkable

[david lloyd jones]

fucked up on the same shit as usual.
sorry mr k to not post new exotic stuff, but going to the pub for your usual is integral to the going...

looking to be the kevin and david thread at this rate!

[totalblack]

One of the only things that I miss about living in North America is the abundance \ relative normality of having craft \ local brews on tap. I'm not sure if it's because of the strict brewing purity laws in Germany, but even in Berlin it's really behind on having any sort of selection here. End up drinking shit pilsner after shit pilsner everywhere you go, and always the same few bigger brewers as well. Every spati has 15 different kinds of pilsner or hefeweizen and not much else. Contrast that to Montreal where every bar had a huge selection and it wouldn't be double the price for something decent. Price is normally right though, average cost for a pint is about 2,50. Fortunately most of my fellow ex-pat friends also feel the same way so we end up hanging out mostly in the few decent spots with good bottle\tap selection talking about records. My wife works in a natural wine bar so I've basically switched over to that, hangover is much more gentle and a lot of really wild flavors.

For tonight i've just picked up some shit 2 euro organic wine from the lidl just for staying in.

[totalblack]

Beer fact:

Yakima Valley in Washington State (the state i live in) grows more hops than any other place in the world, surpassing Germany.

wow 77% of the hops in the US- sure enough just starting to type "yakima valley" into google completes search with hops. Seems it's a big wine region as well.

Drinking now this bottle of Gamay, made by L'insolent Negoce called 'Provoke'. label is ridiculous, drawing of a naked woman spread eagle in red thigh high boots with a bull skull instead of a head. Wine is really nice though

[Andrew McIntosh]

Am I to understand my nation was founded by a bunch of Egyptian impersonators?

[Duncan]

One of the only things that I miss about living in North America is the abundance \ relative normality of having craft \ local brews on tap. I'm not sure if it's because of the strict brewing purity laws in Germany, but even in Berlin it's really behind on having any sort of selection here. End up drinking shit pilsner after shit pilsner everywhere you go, and always the same few bigger brewers as well.

Interesting point because this has always been my favourite bit of going to Germany! I suppose it would get dull after a while but the culture of cheap, decently made local beer - even if it's just pilsner - being everywhere certainly licks what we have here in the uk. 6 tins of corporate lager for a fiver or impossibly wanky craft beer and all of it really over priced. I still drink and enjoy all of it, of course and am unfairly skimming past what goes on in decent pubs. My favourite things in Germany are booze shops with chairs outside. Talk about a progressive culture.