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.
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!
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.
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!
Brockmans Gin with Fever Tree tonic - one of the better gins out there.
I once purchased a Sapphire gin….imagine my surprise when it wasn’t blue but clear when it came out of the bottle!
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.
Brew Dog Triple Hazy. Looking forward to Gin and Tonic when my girl returns home from hospital just in time for the New Year! 😊
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 😕
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.’
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.
