The **Now Drinking** Thread

[Lysander]

Currently Duvel, about to embark on the Guinness Foreign Extra.

Happy Xmas and New Year all.

Simon, if you're reading this - yes, I'm aware of every post. You know what I mean.

 

[Lysander]

I love how as I wrote this, I thought 'I'm so witty'.

I don't even understand it.

 

[Lysander]

Budvar Dark

By the way, for anyone who is in doubt, I am gay.

 

[Lysander]

Time to start the evening off with Old Speckled Hen. I'm never going to the Grifffin in Whetstone again on a Saturday night.

 

[Lysander]

Coke Zero. Cancer in a can.

 

[Lysander]

Waitrose Bavarian Weissbier. Surprisingly good, actually.

 

[Lysander]

A quite excellent Cabernet Sauvignon.

 

[Lysander]

Some of this stuff, a favourite of mine recently. Better than spending a night at the Royal Free. Just.

Annoying, having to use a flash; atmosphere completely removed. Can't wait till I get a better camera.

 

[Lysander]

I've just had a Badger's Golden Champion myself which was lovely.

I think they sell that in the local Waitrose. I shall pick some up.

haha thanks 9 isnt that much tbh is it? i can usually have 6/10 before going into town

It's people like you who create bad statistics.

 

[Lysander]

Sambuca

I always thought Sambuca was kind of, you know, chavvy. Does any decent stuff exist?

 

[Lysander]

Really? Chavs get everywhere these days

If you can name a decent one I'd be interested to try it. I generally see the fat, patterned-shirt wearing idiots down in pubs throwing the stuff down their gullets like it's about to become illegal.

Oh, and it looks like I'm on the Honey Dew again.

 

[Lysander]

Tennents. Ew.

Bleh. Leffe blonde here. A great staple but there's nothing amazing here beerwise after Waitrose closes.

 

[Lysander]

Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale.

Sierra Nevada is great. Got me thrown out of a bowling alley after drinking too much though. Fell over in the lane...

 

[Lysander]

Right so... who's on what. Come on, there must be some of you out there. Leffe blonde at the moment. I have some superior stuff on the way and started late this evening, not that Leffe's bad at all for what it is.

NP: Death - See Through Dreams

Meh. Really, really average beer. Tastes like a jumped up cheapo lager.

Thanks, I'll avoid it, keep seeing it around. Though the label does make it look average.

 

[Lysander]

Poland's finest, Zywiec.

OK it's not their finest but it's all the sodding shop down the road sells at this time on a Sunday.

 

[Lysander]

Gestos Shiraz. The best red I've discovered in a long, long time.

 

[Lysander]

So how many people are able to finish a bottle of vodka? Should I be worried? :/ Sometimes I'm fine, others I'm pretty messed up.

Depends how big the bottle is and how often you do it.

You could probably get through a 50cl one in one evening occasionally. But even that feels like seriously pushing it.

 

[Lysander]

nah I'm fine. it's a normal 700ml

You drank that in one evening?

 

[Lysander]

Banrock Station Reserve (red)

Which one? Is that a Shiraz? Don't they do a Shiraz/Mataro blend as well?

Another Shiraz from me from one of the [slightly] better chain labels.

Off to play Quake II now.

 

[Lysander]

Well, times are hard. But this stuff isn't bad at all for what it is, I expected much worse. Bless the Poles.