Cambon La Pelouse 2004. Very dark and chewy with life ahead, but good now with a burger. Quite Rhone like.
Stella Artois.
Domaine de Canton, a French made ginger infused cognac liquor. Great stuff.
Glenfiddich 15 year old, the distillery edition i.e. unchillfiltered and at cask strength, getting towards the richness of the 30 year old.
Sainsbury's red label tea at the moment. I drink a lot of that.
Many of the pubs in the country seems to have a beer festival at the moment.
Avoid Ha'penny ales Gog and Magog ale. It is described as having a 'sulphurous' nose. It smelt of vomit to me and many others. Glad I was not drinking it. Their London Porter was pretty bad too.
Ha’penny Brewing Company
Cuckoo Hall Brewery, Unit 8, Aldborough Hall Farm, Aldborough Road North, Aldborough Hatch, Ilford, IG2 7TD (020 8599 1338/www.hapenny-brewing.co.uk). Barkingside tube.
On a farm near the eastern end of the Central Line, this cask brewery (the name is an amalgam of the brewers’ surnames: Happé and Penny) began as a weekend project at university for friends Gavin and Chris. It is run during the week by Gavin’s dad Lee while they are busy with their day jobs in accountancy and law. Without knowing it they built the brewery on the site of the historic brew-house of a nearby pub. The beers are named after characters of London legend: the Guildhall giants Gog and Magog, and from Sweeney Todd, Mrs Lovett’s Most Efficacious.
From Wetherspoons
JW Lees, Manchester. Chocoholic 3.6%. Easy drinking chocolate flavoured beer. The beauty of it was you could drink a pint of bitter after it. Not at all cloying.
Birra del Borgo Castagnale. Italian beer brewed by Everards in Leicestershire. Chestnut flavours. Nice
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Laphroaig Quarter Cask, 48% ABV - not as much peat as standard Laphroaig but far better and now my #1 malt.
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Picked up some Badger Fursty Ferret, one of my favourites, at £1.22 a bottle in Waitrose this afternoon. Sadly, the 2 for £3 deal for Fullers and Greene King is finished.
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Banks Bitter £1 from Lidl. Tasty beer from the Wolverhampton brewer noted more for mild.
Redbreast Irish pot still whiskey from Waitrose.