Film Noir Buff Style Forum / What are you drinking at the moment ?

4F Hepcat · 2012-10-14 01:08:02

Glengoyne 12 year old: a touch of water and then wait 10 minutes for heightened flavour and vast vista of pure whisky taste. This is a distillery that has a reputation for the kind of whisky you can give to your grandmother, and it was the Queen's Mum's favourite tipple. Well, they obvioulsy have exquisite taste: it's the real deal and according to Ralfy.com, the 17 year old expression is even better. And only 29 Euros for the bottle!

After that, decided to experiment with some remaining dregs that had been oxygenating in bottles for some time. A miniature of JW Black with some remaining drops of Chapter 6 from the English Whisky Company and it worked! Both whiskies reinvigorated the other. This is a good technique if you are short of a good single malt, mix in small proportions to a blend and the blended whisky will carry the single malt further and improve the blend no end.

The_Shooman · 2012-10-14 01:11:26

* sesame seed sprout milk (dinner)

Kingston1an · 2012-10-18 07:28:45

At the Wetherspoons in Farringdon a beautifully hopped pint of Itchen Valley pale ale.

Oystercard fare decrease after 7pm subsidised the cost of the drink.

The_Shooman · 2012-10-23 01:38:53

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Albert · 2012-10-23 11:46:35

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Bishop of Briggs · 2012-10-23 14:29:40

It's Fullers ESB for the Champions League tonight.

Kingston1an · 2012-10-23 14:46:12

^ Strong stuff.

Mixed night. Celtic lost in injury time; United came from 2 nil down and Chelsea lost to Shaktar Donetsk.

Bishop of Briggs · 2012-11-05 16:13:51

Sauvignon blanc to toast the sacking of Craig Levein - 3 wins in 12 competitive matches, 2 of which were against Liechtenstein!!

4F Hepcat · 2012-11-06 11:05:04

Bishop of Briggs · 2012-11-07 10:39:15

fxh · 2012-11-07 10:51:33

A beer and 3 glasses of Shiraz at a meeting then on way home had 3 different Sake outside at Fed Square with 6 crisp Gyoza. Sake 1 hot, one cold and one sparkly. Noice

Kingston1an · 2012-11-07 12:32:35

Very nice Australian beer at Wetherspoons beer festival

4. FERAL AUSTRALIAN IPA 5.5% ABV
Feral Brewery, Perth, Australia. Est. 2002
After his impressive début at our 2011 spring real-ale festival, Brendan Varis, from Feral (Australia’s reigning
champion brewery), has returned to brew another beer for us, this time collaborating with Banks’s Brewery,
in the West Midlands. This impressive IPA is brimming with recently released Australian-grown-and-bred hop
varieties, providing an intense tropical fruit aroma and flavours of pineapple, mango and passion fruit.
Hops used: Galaxy, Stella, Topaz
Beer style: strong bitter

also various others on different days. This was also good yesterday

47. STEENBRUGGE BLOND 6.0% ABV
Brouwerij Palm, Belgium. Est. 1747
This is an imported, lower-strength, cask version of the authentic Belgian abbey ale, brewed on behalf
of St Peter’s Abbey, in memory of its founder St Arnold, the patron saint of brewers. The beer’s full
and slightly smoky yeast aroma leads to a highly distinctive, spicy flavour, created by the use of ‘gruut’
– a mixture of spices typical of the nearby city of Bruges.
Hops used: Magnum
Beer style: speciality

4F Hepcat · 2012-11-07 22:53:46

Kingston1an · 2012-11-16 05:06:00

Beers from Egham beer festival http://www.eghambeerfestival.co.uk/

Quite by chance I met a colleague who lives in Wiltshire and currently works on assignment in Birmingham. He told us Egham is a noted festival among 'scoopers'. Once again I saw people bottling beers to take away
http://www.scoopergen.co.uk/scooping.htm#bottle

Lots of good session beers - Aureole at 3.3% for example. Roman Imperial Stout at 9% was disappointing though.

4F Hepcat · 2012-11-16 06:43:54

Those Imperial Stouts you need to be in a very specific mood to enjoy.....like on a very cold night once in every 18 months. You will enjoy it but the once, try it the next night, or week and they'll never fail to be all treacle like and yucky.

Kingston1an · 2012-11-16 06:52:10

^ I wanted a Courage Imperial Russian taste-alike but this was a coffee-flavoured one.

Chévere · 2012-11-16 11:21:17

4F Hepcat said "After that, decided to experiment with some remaining dregs that had been oxygenating in bottles for some time. A miniature of JW Black with some remaining drops of Chapter 6 from the English Whisky Company and it worked! Both whiskies reinvigorated the other. This is a good technique if you are short of a good single malt, mix in small proportions to a blend and the blended whisky will carry the single malt further and improve the blend no end."

HEPCAT!!!!!!
Hahahah I've always felt guilty about doing that, but I do it anyways because it's always a kick and never disappoints. Especially when you want the hint of a winter whisky in the summer or vice versa.
Talking about raping single malts try this my mother taught me- Chocolate ice cream, a cask strength Islay (Laphroaig 10 cask strength or Ardbeg 10, gotta be a man amongst whiskies to stand up to ice cream) and ground coffee beans on top. Then tell me.

Bishop of Briggs · 2012-11-16 11:39:49

Le beaujolais nouveau est arrive. Georges Dubeouf - £6.99 @ Waitrose.

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JohnL · 2012-11-16 15:24:56

Smith Woodhouse Vintage Port, 1991. hic!........

fxh · 2012-11-24 07:18:09

Kingston1an · 2012-11-24 14:46:49

Just had a pint of Bass at the Express Tavern on Kew Bridge.

prince nez · 2012-11-26 18:33:43

The weather has finally turned warm here and there's nothing like watching the humidity stick to a cool glass of Aussie white.

A Tasmanian pinot gris "South" the other night and D'Arenberg VM last night.

4F Hepcat · 2012-11-27 03:48:19

Bishop of Briggs · 2012-11-27 14:29:58

Irn Bru.

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