I'm drinking my favorite drink Milo with cream.
sounds crazy but yes I put cream on my Milo, just try and post your reaction.

I just want to know who are they who love Milo with cream.
come on guys.

Looks good stuff, except Ralfy's wrong on one point; you can't buy supermarket whisky in Holland. I shall send him an email chastising him.

Currently drinking Ledaig 7 year old. 

Probably not a good idea to be drinking whisky in the mood I'm in. Just spent two weeks working 12 hours on a tender and was five minutes away from finishing it and then going out to celebrate by getting tremendously beer drunk and merry, when the telephone rang with an irate client pissed off about late deliverables and with the 'end user is demanding we go to another supplier' routine. 

The last time I was this pissed off, I yanked the chandelier (yet to be replaced) from the dining room ceiling and dislocated my shoulder in doing so. That was a mere two weeks ago this very evening.....

Fortunately, Art Pepper's 'Modern Art' may assist with the whisky in taking the edge off the pressure cooker.

Depends if I had her working the streets or not, like some greasy beastley Beasley Street, it was scary then and still is now.

The damage done by the banksters, is in many ways, equal to war.  And of course it was and is a war.  And my daughters will have the pleasure of paying for the 'reparations' of Blair's and Bush's folly until they're close to retirement.

'Effing repulsive isn't it?  Someone ought to do something, and of course they will. 

As an experiment in abject degeneracy, I have been following Blair's diet of a whisky before his evening meal and half bottle of wine with the food. Still I haven't been able to dissect this man who wanted to be rock star and married a groupie and a scouse git's daughter.  Maybe, we shouldn't expect more.

It's not enough booze for me, maybe if Blair drank more, he would have made better decisions instead of leading us to the empire of dirt.

Of course, 'Blair' is only six letters short of being an anagram of Bastard Liar, the prognosis was there at the beginning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8CzFVm1Yio&feature=related

Thanks Grossgrain, that brought me back to reality. 

Still been following Blair's apertif and wine diet, no pronounced ill effects. No dt's as yet.

I won't state the name of the wine, other than it could be Lidl's finest or if not, Aldi's finest.

Greysec '05 - OK but will benefit from a few more years.

Lidl have great ales on at the moment - Spitfire, Bishop's Finger etc. for £1 for a 50cl bottle. That is a cracking price.

I avoid wine to cut down alcohol consumption. It is difficult to know what to buy. Too many newspaper columnists pushing mediocre stuff. Wine tastings are all very well but there is a limited window of opportunity.

Good sherry - anybody know why prices seem to have rocketed? Matusalem seems to be twenty quid a bottle now. Last time I looked it was around a tenner. Sherry is fine because you do not have all the fuss with vintages etc. Lustau Almacenista stuff is very good indeed. Madeira and port are never major disappointments either.  More tea vicar?

I came home last night after dinner and drinks with friends wanting another drink before going to bed.  A lack of prior planning on my part left me with only vermouth, Angostura bitters, and Gordon’s gin that a friend had left a couple of years ago.  Knowing that gin doesn’t go bad since it’s bad to begin with, I pondered whether my desperation could defeat my aversion to the stuff.  Apparently it could as I drank two pink gins and a wet martini.  I still taste the Christmas tree flavor.

Now I'm drinking black coffee.

Anticipating a good night in listening to the last night of the proms, I opened a half way decent bottle of claret and some port.

Ch Houssant, Grand Bourgeois, St Estephe 1995. 12.5%: a wine I have not seen much, if at all, in UK, but which I have bought 3 or 4 vintages of  in France,   A decent wine a little past its best and somewhat dried out but soft with good length and a very good value traditional lunchon claret.

The Fonseca crusted port was bottled in 2005, although a decent drink and better than any LBV I can remember, it remains a disappointment compared with the v good 2004 bottling. Not for the first time, with non-French wines where I am less familiar with vintages,  I got caught out by Majestic Wine’s frequent ploy of promoting a good vintage of a wine then switching to a less good. In this case having tasted the very good ‘04 I went back for more less than a week after the first purchase and did not notice the change in vintage Grrrrrr. Tanners crusted port produced by Johnny Graham under the Churchill name remains my favourite crusted port, the 2000 bottling is especially good.

Last edited by JohnL (2010-09-11 16:30:50)

Was drinking some of this fine ale yesterday:

http://www.ramsesbier.nl/?page_id=43

Hoppy ale brewed in the English and American renaissance style. Which reminds me, the reason that Belgium ales are often too sweet and not as good as the English counterparts, is that sugar cane is added as a substitute to hops. 

Hops or the lack of hops is a sure sign of the quality and drinkability of an ale.  There are peat heads in the world of whisky and in the beer world, there are hop heads.

Last edited by Maximilien de Robespierre (2010-09-19 02:52:02)

Tried Penderyn Welsh 46% whisky for the first time yesterday.

It was in the 'upmarket' Wetherspoon in Putney. I only popped in for a wee, after a beer fest in The Bricklayers. They always have clean toilets and no queues in Wetherspoon.

Anyway, it was a new bottle and they gave me a glass of water to go with it. The ales were not up to much so I had an Erdinger wheat beer