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Oh yes, you lot are working today
There is nothing to memorialize for us. We celebrated the Queen's birthday last Monday. Going dry today. Might indulge tomorrow.
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Oh yes, you lot are working today
Why spoil life by drinking Peroni?
Fullers 1845, bottle-conditioned strong ale. Well regarded. £2 for 500 ml bottle. Four for £6 in Waitrose. With Waitrose £4 voucher on bills over £20 works out at £1.25 a bottle. A steal. Mix in Fullers London Porter for variety if you like, same deal. Not session beers or even summer beers.
Read an interesting report on drinking in France. One litre of wine per meal recommended medical limit not so long ago.
More interesting was school kids were allowed half a litre of wine with meals in 1956. Alcohol for school kids only banned in 1980.
Britain was reasonably enlightened regarding children’s drinking in my youth. Kids not allowed in pubs, so they were proper grown up venues. However teenagers could get served fairly easily in pubs if they behaved themselves. Get the tallest kid to go to the bar. Beer was not that strong and youngsters were not taking drugs.
https://www.france24.com/en/2019032...ign-daily-intake-wine-french-culture-drinking
Read an interesting report on drinking in France. One litre of wine per meal recommended medical limit not so long ago.
More interesting was school kids were allowed half a litre of wine with meals in 1956. Alcohol for school kids only banned in 1980.
Britain was reasonably enlightened regarding children’s drinking in my youth. Kids not allowed in pubs, so they were proper grown up venues. However teenagers could get served fairly easily in pubs if they behaved themselves. Get the tallest kid to go to the bar. Beer was not that strong and youngsters were not taking drugs.
https://www.france24.com/en/2019032...ign-daily-intake-wine-french-culture-drinking
We Brits are pretty much up there with the traditional Russkies for tolerance and alcohol abuse. We can do it as good as anyone.
Is that something to be proud of?
Dim sum is usually an afternoon thing in London Chinatown.
Are you in Toronto? Spadina Avenue?
Toronto must be nice at this time of the year. Everyone out and about enjoying the weather.
I woke up yesterday at 515 to do my bus commute to work. There were bus issues on the return leg and I ended up being back by 2000 instead of 1930 so I was late meeting my mate and his girlfriend.
Had 3 Manhattans and a brandy at a wine bar with some live blues musicians. Whilst they took breaks I was chatting up our lovely waitress and bartender at the back. It's 2300 and my mate's dozing off in front of the performers so I have to get the cheque.
We went next to play foosball, street fighter, pinball and some light gun games. 2 double Jameson.
Went to a club next and had a double Jameson but my mate's girl didn't like the scene.
Popped over next door to an old bartender I knew and ordered a bottle of champagne and some more brandy. It's 230 when we finish so we decide to go to Chinatown for dim sum and I staggered home after 4.
I'm wrecked today. I barely made it over to see my barber at 11.
Some bad drink combinations there, a drinking man should be wise to such obvious mistakes.
If you had inserted a Chinese meal before the foosball and stuff, I reckon you'd have been fit as fiddle in the morning.
paging doghouseRoyal Dutch Negroni mixed with Brick gin and London Essence tonic water:
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I am not a big rum drinker. I prefer Navy rum - Woods and Lambs. That said, I also like Stroh Austrian rum which is a nice cold weather drink during the ski season.
Otherwise whatever rum in a cocktail on holiday for drinking abroad.
Gin sales double in the U.K. as interest surges among millennials
"In Britain, where the drink was first popularized more than 300 years ago, gin sales have nearly doubled in the last two years to a record £2.2-billion ($3.5-billion) and the number of brands has jumped from around 20 to close to 1,000. Similar trends have been seen across much of Europe and Asia, as well as Canada where gin sales climbed 11.2 per cent in 2018. Last week the world’s largest spirits maker, Diageo PLC, hailed a “gin-aisance” after reporting that its best performing products during the last fiscal year, which ended on June 30, were Gordon’s and Tanqueray, which had together a 22 per cent increase in global sales.
Indeed young drinkers have been imbibing gin like never before, intrigued by the myriad of flavours and the ever-widening variety of cocktails. More than half of British drinkers between the ages of 18 and 24 drink gin, according to market research firm Kantar. That’s up from 43 per cent four years ago.
It’s quite a turnaround for a drink that was once blamed for so many social ills in the 1700s it was nearly banned in Britain. Even in recent times, a gin and tonic with lime was considered a pleasant if boring drink. That began to change in the 1990s after the advent of Bombay Sapphire and it’s trendy blue-tinted bottle. Then in 1999, Lesley Gracie, a master distiller at Scotland’s Hendrick’s Gin, broke the mould completely by creating a gin with rose and cucumber essences. Ms. Gracie’s recipe was the first to move away from juniper-heavy gins that all tasted roughly the same, and it sparked a revolution that continues today."
That's it. It shows I'm a man of the 2000s and not 2010s as I'm interested in big and brown. I always thought the chap who came around to introduce Sipsmith over here said it was them who started the gin craze by applying for a licence to distill gin - first since Beefeater in the 19th century.
Agree about Gordon’s. Someone will say they offer a stronger version but that’s not the point. It’s a matter of principle.
Gin is widespread because it is easy to manufacture. So every Tom, Dick and Harry is now offering their own ‘small batch, craft’ version.
If it's a matter of principle what about the various alcohol percentages of single malt whisky. That ought to be regulated.
There was a subsection about Fevertree sales.
Macallan changed their age statements to lyrical grades here. After a few years of higher prices and I presume declining sales, I remember seeing a sales rep come out to say they will put age statements on again.
I was also at a Macallan tasting when a rep introduced the lyrical grades.
A lot of single malts use colour agents similar to Coca Cola to give a consistent colour. Glenfiddich. Others chill filter.
Thats my man2 bottles of pinot grigio
2 bottles of corona
4 double vodka soda
1 20oz pint of Helles
From 1930-330.
Macallan changed their age statements to lyrical grades here. After a few years of higher prices and I presume declining sales, I remember seeing a sales rep come out to say they will put age statements on again.
A lot of single malts use colour agents similar to Coca Cola to give a consistent colour.
Thats my man