What are you drinking? ( The Not Coffee Edition)

PortafilterProcrastinator

Prompted by @Systemic post mentioning beer…

Not proposed to be only beer, but thought a separate thread that isn’t coffee might be good.

I’m currently enjoying both sides of the country…

North Cotswold Brewery - Hung Drawn and Portered

Nethergate - Old Growler

Both delicious, but HD&P is my all time favourite. Rich, malty, slightly roasty maybe, but very smooth.

DavecUK

It’s done, we now have the food and drink tag…..

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dfk41

I do not drink, even though I used to be a Publican many moons ago. My tipple of choice, is the virtually sugar free version of Vimto! I like it in iced water and drink 4 to 6 pints a day…..no beer can touch it!
As a side issue, I bought my two sons 12 bottles of Clarksons Diddly Squat farm lager. The bottom fell out of the box I used to split the 24 up, and the seal on the cap of one bottle lifted, so I had to drink it. I can only describe the taste as being ‘dry’. There is an Italian bottled lager the same, maybe Perroni……..hope you understand!

DavecUK

dfk41 I do not drink, even though I used to be a Publican many moons ago. My tipple of choice, is the virtually sugar free version of Vimto! I like it in iced water and drink 4 to 6 pints a day…..no beer can touch it!

Then you do drink…Vimto is a drink..I never mentioned alcoholic.. Beer, Cider, Wine, camomile tea, fruity stuff, super smoothies. This is a place to start a thread about it. So someone might start a specific wine thread in this tag area.

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dfk41

To digress further, what is the most expensive, or best bottle of anything you have drunk or owned? For my 60th, I had had a bottle of 1950 Port put to onside for many a year. I think when I bought it, 20 odd years ago it was £50 or £60
Was delicious!

Flat_Eric

dfk41 what is the most expensive, or best bottle of anything you have drunk or owned?

For my 50th birthday (many years ago) my son bought me a bottle of Lagavulin 10 year old single malt whisky, it cost him £70. Best I’d ever tasted up to then was some of the Laphroaig whiskys. The Lagavulin beat the lot and remains the best for me. However, I no longer drink alcohol.

Elcarajillo

dfk41 That is really heavy head mixture

Beverast

dfk41 Most expensive bottle I have bought is a Springbank 21 year old from 2020…cost was £199. Sounds like a lot but a year later you are paying 2-3 times that for the same bottle. A few years ago these bottles would sit on the shelf for a while…now it is virtually impossible to find any at RRP.

Best bottle I have bought is a very tough one to answer - However I will go with the Lagavulin 16, the very first bottle of Scotch I bought way back in 1998. Never had anything like it…took a while to grow on me, but was my “gateway” scotch to peated malts. Newer bottles of Lagavulin 16 imo are nowhere near as good as they were back in the 90’s, however it could also be that I prefer cask strength releases to the general releases - the annual release of the Laphraoig cask strength never fails to disappoint.

HVL87

Brockmans Gin with Fever Tree tonic - one of the better gins out there.

DavecUK

I once purchased a Sapphire gin….imagine my surprise when it wasn’t blue but clear when it came out of the bottle!

Systemic

Flat_Eric did a whiskey trail way back. Blagged our way into Knockandoo distillery at 9.30am on a miserable February morning and surprisingly they let us in. Was shown round even though the distillery wasn’t opened to the public. Then offered a dram. Manager opened an impressive cabinet and my eyes were drawn to a bottle of some trendy spirit based drink whose name escaped me. Drinking a single malt on site at 9.30am was a memorable experience.

Manager asked what malts I liked. I replied Isley malts especially Lagavulin. He mused for a moment and replied softly - ‘a wee too much phenol for me.’

LMSC

Brew Dog Triple Hazy. Looking forward to Gin and Tonic when my girl returns home from hospital just in time for the New Year! 😊

hornbyben

LMSC I’ve just had a brew dog triple hazy too. A good way to start some new year celebrations

4W5

Just had couple of gin cocktails called “Fine & Dandy” and “a Gimlet”. Now I am having a bit of leftover Xmas prosecco which is a bit flat 😕

LMSC

hornbyben Hazy Jane and triple hazy are my favs. The next couple of them are Beer 52 and Bevertown’s Neckoil

hornbyben

LMSC I do like a New England IPA. I’ve also been enjoying some milk stouts from brew dog

DavecUK

I’m gonna weaken soon and open that bottle of beer I have in the fridge!

LMSC

DavecUK What do you have in the fridge ?

Beverast

Systemic I am partial to Campbeltown and Islay malts so you are in good company. Drinking some nice Ardbeg and Springbank this evening 😀

Flat_Eric

Systemic Drinking a single malt on site at 9.30am was a memorable experience.

I remember rolling out of “The Whisky Experience” in Edinburgh at midday and going back to the hotel to sleep it off. Ahh, the good old days!

Elcarajillo

Systemic A bit like Laphroaig , very peaty, developed a liking for it when I was up there diving.

Find it too peaty now.

Went to the distillery when up there caravaning but of course being summer they were shut down for cleaning and awaiting the new supply of cereal.

Systemic

Beverast I am partial to Campbeltown and Islay malts so you are in good company. Drinking some nice Ardbeg and Springbank this evening 😀

Love Springbank. Not easy to come by - like Campbeltown, it’s triple distilled - fiery but still refined. Prefer the 10 yr old to the 12.

tompoland

Dom Perignon … but it is probably my #1 memory because I won it in a bet over a tennis match with a friend whom I had never played before but who was super confident he was going to win. Liquor won in a bet always tastes better.