Whats your poison?

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  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    Clever Pun wrote:
    Fuller honey dew is lovely also mentions to Doom Bar, Tribute, timothy Taylor or the beers front

    I do like single malt... a lot, I'm a member of the Scotch Malt Whiskey Society http://www.smws.com

    Always Tyred... try Benromach Organic it really is a cracking dram
    http://www.oddbins.com/products/productDetail.asp?productcode=27698
    Also Talisker and Mcallen might be more your type of thing

    You friends were giving you Islay whiskeys which are an acquired taste. Although the 15 Larphroig is awesome and so much nicer than the 10.

    For someone so knowlegeable about malts it's a shame you don't know how to spell it :wink:

    I gave up spirits about 2-3 years ago, vodka was almost my ruination. Since then I have seriously gone off the idea of whisKY or whiskey for that matter.

    Now I only drink lager and wine, but boy has my appreciation of wine increased.

    Jen J, I drink tonic water with ice and a slice when I'm not drinking booze in pubs, have you tried it? Better than just coke.
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  • Bikerbaboon
    Bikerbaboon Posts: 1,017
    pear cyder or a vodka drink made with lemons... ( 6 lemons zest and juce, 6 table spoons suger, 1L vodka and then freeze)
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  • _Brun_
    _Brun_ Posts: 1,740
    Islay malts are the drink of the Gods. I like the fact that they're an acquired taste, gives those of us that appreciate them a sense of smug superiority. ;)
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Littigator wrote:
    Jen J, I drink tonic water with ice and a slice when I'm not drinking booze in pubs, have you tried it? Better than just coke.

    Having been a barmaid for some years, I have an incredibly illogical and unreasonable hatred of the phrase 'ice and a slice'.

    I don't know whether it's the rhyming bit, or the fact that it was always middle-aged ladies in the bar I worked in who would say it with a smug look on their face as if hoping I wouldn't understand it. Patronising cows.

    Maybe it's them I harbour a hatred for, rather than the phrase.
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Littigator wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:

    You friends were giving you Islay whiskeys which are an acquired taste. Although the 15 Larphroig is awesome and so much nicer than the 10.

    For someone so knowlegeable about malts it's a shame you don't know how to spell it :wink:

    I gave up spirits about 2-3 years ago, vodka was almost my ruination. Since then I have seriously gone off the idea of whisKY or whiskey for that matter.

    Now I only drink lager and wine, but boy has my appreciation of wine increased.

    Jen J, I drink tonic water with ice and a slice when I'm not drinking booze in pubs, have you tried it? Better than just coke.

    what did I get wrong other than a potentially lazy pluralisation?? whisky and whiskey are both acceptable terms

    _Brun_ damn straight 8)
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  • _Brun_
    _Brun_ Posts: 1,740
    Whiskey is Irish.
  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    Clever Pun wrote:
    Littigator wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:

    You friends were giving you Islay whiskeys which are an acquired taste. Although the 15 Larphroig is awesome and so much nicer than the 10.

    For someone so knowlegeable about malts it's a shame you don't know how to spell it :wink:

    I gave up spirits about 2-3 years ago, vodka was almost my ruination. Since then I have seriously gone off the idea of whisKY or whiskey for that matter.

    Now I only drink lager and wine, but boy has my appreciation of wine increased.

    Jen J, I drink tonic water with ice and a slice when I'm not drinking booze in pubs, have you tried it? Better than just coke.


    what did I get wrong other than a potentially lazy pluralisation?? whisky and whiskey are both acceptable terms

    _Brun_ damn straight 8)

    Nope, whisKEY is the Irish way of spelling the word and therefore cannot apply to ISLAY malts which are produced in Scotland (of course). For those you must apply the Scottish spelling of the word ending "KY"

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  • Surf-Matt
    Surf-Matt Posts: 5,952
    At a pub: Local Ale - Skinners or Sharps (who do Doom - wife's grandad built their industrial units!)

    To quench thirst: Becks Vier or similar light lager. Or a nice G&T.

    With food: Depends on what it is. Seafood - Sancerre or Chablis, red meat - nice Bordeaux or Rioja. Easy drinking - a light Italian red.

    For celebrating - Bollinger or Laurent Perrier. Moet is nasty.

    For a wee dram - in non peaty mood - Highland Park. In peaty mood - Laphroig.

    Alcohol should be enjoyed, not used to get wasted - unless you are a teenager. I don't "get" alcholism one bit.
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Mmmm - increasingly becoming a bitter man:
    Tribute
    Green King IPA
    Spitfire
    Black Prince
    Also like Union from the Greenwich Union brewery.

    Lager wise - prefer artisan brewed stuff, but happy with Peroni, Heineken, Budvar. Not Fosters or Stella.

    Wine - mainly NZ Sauvignon Blanc and Riesling. Also Gruner veltliner.

    Spirit wise I'm a bourbon man, now water, sometimes ice, never Bulleit Bourbon. Ideally Blanton's, Woodford Reserve, but I'll take what I can get in pubs. The Rockwell bar in London has a great selection of bourbon.
  • UnworthyPapaLazaru
    UnworthyPapaLazaru Posts: 422
    Underscore wrote:
    UnworthyPapaLazaru wrote:
    Port Ellen (I have a very rare unopened 30-odd year old in the house - opening on next special occasion - is buying a bike a special occasion?)

    Hmmm! I've just finished a bottle of the 1979 3rd release. Lovely stuff. Bought it to celebrate the birth of my first son; finished it to celebrate the birth of my second son! Buying a bike must be a special enough occasion...

    _

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  • dirk_van_gently
    dirk_van_gently Posts: 826
    Anyone reading this thread, may get the impression that cyclists are not only

    Lycra Louts
    RLJers
    Pavement riders
    but Alco's too

    I'll get mi coat :D
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  • Jen J
    Jen J Posts: 1,054
    Dirk Van Gently wrote:
    Anyone reading this thread, may get the impression that cyclists are not only

    Lycra Louts
    RLJers
    Pavement riders
    but Alco's too

    I'll get mi coat :D

    Ex-Alco thank you. :wink:
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  • Bikerbaboon
    Bikerbaboon Posts: 1,017
    Dirk Van Gently wrote:
    Anyone reading this thread, may get the impression that cyclists are not only

    Lycra Louts
    RLJers
    Pavement riders
    but Alco's too

    I'll get mi coat :D

    thats if you can walk to the coat stand :P
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Lager:

    Grolsch
    Kroennborg
    Sol
    Corona
    Peterman Stella

    Wine:
    Grenache
    Grenache Shiraz
    Cabinet Sauvigon - which is a red.

    Hard drinks:
    Wrey and Nephews overproof white rum (from the Caribbean as the one sold in England is a lot weaker) with ice.
    Bison Grass/Zubrowka straight with ice (or with apple juice)
    JD and coke
    Appleton Rum (the brown one)
    Bounty Rum (has a coconut taste to it, again from the Carribean) - Also great cooking a steak with it or soaking said steak for a day in the rum before cooking.
    Food Chain number = 4

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  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Wine:
    Grenache
    Grenache Shiraz
    Cabinet Sauvigon - which is a red.


    Surely that's a piece of furniture??? Cabernet Sauvignon on the other hand....

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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Littigator wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Wine:
    Grenache
    Grenache Shiraz
    Cabinet Sauvigon - which is a red.


    Surely that's a piece of furniture??? Cabernet Sauvignon on the other hand....

    I love making friends me!

    The sweet irony is that I looked up how to spell Sauvignon and overlooked Cabernet.... ah well.
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Littigator wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Wine:
    Grenache
    Grenache Shiraz
    Cabinet Sauvigon - which is a red.


    Surely that's a piece of furniture??? Cabernet Sauvignon on the other hand....

    I love making friends me!

    The sweet irony is that I looked up how to spell Sauvignon and overlooked Cabernet.... ah well.

    :lol: brilliant!
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  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Brothers Pear cider - discuss!
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Asahi's a nice, refreshing drink.

    Belgian and Dutch beers. Mmmmmm. There's a bar not far from where I work, Lowlander. If your LBS contains bike porn, Lowlander contains beer porn.
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    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Asahi - is drier than Tonto's Mocassins......!
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    gtvlusso wrote:
    Asahi - is drier than Tonto's Mocassins......!

    :lol:

    (just bl00dy choked on my water!)
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    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    Ginger beer
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    gtvlusso wrote:
    Asahi - is drier than Tonto's Mocassins......!

    And Gayer than Julian Clary's knickers.

    Holy God Bottled Japanese piss.

    Beer should be brown and warm and preferably made in Masham.

    Theakstones, Green King IPA, etc etc
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Greg T wrote:
    gtvlusso wrote:
    Asahi - is drier than Tonto's Mocassins......!

    And Gayer than Julian Clary's knickers.

    Holy God Bottled Japanese piss.

    Beer should be brown and warm and preferably made in Masham.

    Theakstones, Green King IPA, etc etc

    Alright Grandad, mind you don't choke on your pipe.
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    No longer a drinker, although a former beer monster extraordinaire, and no doubt a total a$$hole when drunk...pretty much packed up drinking on meeting the wonderful person who is now Mrs SecretSam.

    Anyhoo, when I do indulge, it's decent ale, in pubs London Pride is a favourite. And I quite like the Swedish lager they sell as Ikea... :oops:

    Jen J: full respect for you drying out. As an ex-smoker, I can appreciate at least part of how tough it must be. Total respect 8) .
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • Jen J
    Jen J Posts: 1,054
    SecretSam wrote:
    Jen J: full respect for you drying out. As an ex-smoker, I can appreciate at least part of how tough it must be. Total respect 8) .

    I don't really deserve any credit, as it wasn't something I struggled with.

    I first gave up alcohol 4 years ago (a couple of years after the worst of the 'problems') , then started again 2 years ago when I started going out on dates again ( :oops: ). But gave up for good last November, mainly prompted by a blackout in Sydney, when I was alone, and a hangover from hell the next day, which I spent on a plane on the way back to the UK. As I'm not a good long-haul flyer anyway, the severe hangover just made an unpleasant experience even worse.

    (Plus once I hit 30 the hangovers became too much to handle ;))

    It was the same with smoking - I smoked for 14 years, but just suddenly stopped one day.

    (Does everyone hate me now?)
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  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    Jen J wrote:
    SecretSam wrote:
    Jen J: full respect for you drying out. As an ex-smoker, I can appreciate at least part of how tough it must be. Total respect 8) .

    I don't really deserve any credit, as it wasn't something I struggled with.

    I first gave up alcohol 4 years ago (a couple of years after the worst of the 'problems') , then started again 2 years ago when I started going out on dates again ( :oops: ). But gave up for good last November, mainly prompted by a blackout in Sydney, when I was alone, and a hangover from hell the next day, which I spent on a plane on the way back to the UK. As I'm not a good long-haul flyer anyway, the severe hangover just made an unpleasant experience even worse.

    (Plus once I hit 30 the hangovers became too much to handle ;))

    It was the same with smoking - I smoked for 14 years, but just suddenly stopped one day.

    (Does everyone hate me now?)

    Naaah don't worry...we always did!

    What? :shock:
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  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    Jen J wrote:
    SecretSam wrote:
    Jen J: full respect for you drying out. As an ex-smoker, I can appreciate at least part of how tough it must be. Total respect 8) .

    I don't really deserve any credit, as it wasn't something I struggled with.

    I first gave up alcohol 4 years ago (a couple of years after the worst of the 'problems') , then started again 2 years ago when I started going out on dates again ( :oops: ). But gave up for good last November, mainly prompted by a blackout in Sydney, when I was alone, and a hangover from hell the next day, which I spent on a plane on the way back to the UK. As I'm not a good long-haul flyer anyway, the severe hangover just made an unpleasant experience even worse.

    (Plus once I hit 30 the hangovers became too much to handle ;))

    It was the same with smoking - I smoked for 14 years, but just suddenly stopped one day.

    (Does everyone hate me now?)

    Did we like you before? :wink:
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Greg T wrote:
    gtvlusso wrote:
    Asahi - is drier than Tonto's Mocassins......!

    And Gayer than Julian Clary's knickers.

    I actually have evidence to support this - in London I live with 2 gay guys and occasionally their boyfriends and Asahi is the only beer they have in the house, and also their preferred beer in pubs...

    Greg, you're onto something....

    But if you keep going on about real ale you'll be relegated to 'yokel' status.
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  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Yokel status - I feel like a minority.....

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