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Fermented seed milk (home made)

Pilsner Urquell 'tankovna' at St Albans beer festival
http://pilsnerurquell.com/uk/article/why-we-love-tankovna

Lovely drop and we got vouchers for a free pint in some local pubs.

Also nice Fuller's stout at 10.7%  and a nice green hopped beer from Kent - westerham scotney castle harvest ale.

Thomas Dakin gin neat as nightcap last night. Some of these premium gins are quite good with a drop of water sans tonic, or as a pink gin with lashings of Angostura bitters Noel Coward style: nine or ten generous drops of the bitters, swirl around the glass until the class is covered in a film of bitters, turn upside down and get rid of the excess and then add gin and water to suit. It's an ideal aperitif when you want something that hits like a whisky or vodka, but not as heavy.

Another interesting mothballed distillery was St Magdalene in Linlithgow, shut around the same time as Port Ellen in 1983. You could get 35cl bottles for €60 ten years back and one I had was a quite an interesting nightcap. Very distinctive.

Drank slightly more than half a bottle of a Argentinean Syrah last night, you should always stop half-way with these rich and high alcohol new world wines. Where half a bottle is just right, three quarters is getting towards too much, a bottle most definitely.

He's somewhat controversial is Glaser, but much better an interesting blend, then paying top dollar for a very bland and mediocre single cask, just because it is a single cask.

The name of the game is authenticity through provenance, however tenuous. For example, mothballed distilleries reopening and then marketing as if they've been in continuous operation since the 19th century.

We'll probably drink some local and regional beers this weekend. We have three days this weekend, too, to do it in.

http://baltimorebeerweek.com/

We enjoyed some barrel-aged Bell's Expedition Stout at Max's Taphouse last evening. We had what I would loosely call an adventure finding our way home. Essentially, we forgot where to catch the bus and therefore ended up walking all the way home, including through the city's famed "block," largely a self-contained city block of prostitution, drug dealing, and general crime just down the street from the police headquarters.

This week I have mostly been drinking Keo and Leon(avoid) Cypriot lagers.

The upside was that I had temperatures in the 30s and was able to get some decent dives in. Including the Zenobia in Larnaca harbour.   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Zenobia

You must be vibrating at a very high frequency today Shooey!