Alcohol

I like Brown ale but have p*ssed in the wardrobes many times after a good session on that.
I like Double as its brewed locally.
I like to try craft ales but a baddun is a real baddun.
Had a nice little 32% ale in The House of the Trembling Madness (original one) in York once. £5 for a third of a pint. Anyway getting slapped around the face off the landlord to get me off the floor at 2:30 in the afternoon was a tad embarrassing as I just slithered off my stool .
Not a lager drinker at all and only drink the odd rum snatch ( dark rum just a single measure, a dash of lime cordial and a little bottle of ginger ale/beer)

 

Yeah a double maxim is our michaels tipple

 

I'm an equal opportunities drinker.

 

Love the craft beers...hazies and ipas. My absolute favorite is sour beer, I get it whenever its on in the local micro pub, whatever flavour it happens to be. Love em.

 

Which sour beers do you like? I love them! Very few people seem to be in to them.

 

Love a gose, mate. The local micro brewery round here is Three Blind Mice and they do an amazing Kviek Key Lime Gose. In truth though, I'll drink any of the sours. Never had one I didn't enjoy, super refreshing. I think if they were more readily available more folk would drink them, nowt better on a nice hot day.

 

Barley, spring water and yeast, then a mountain of patience and skill, and some amazing wood. Nothing nasty in there to give you a hangover mate.

 

That key lime gose sounds nice. I've just looked it up. I've had a few nice lambics and guezes in Brugge. My favourite is Berliner Kindl Weisse though. But without the syrups that they serve with it in Germany. They are great on a hot day!

 

You need a tutor mate, happy to volunteer I was taught how to enjoy whiskey in Scotland where I worked for a couple of years. A guy who worked at Barlinnie taught me oddly. The trick, for me, is to start by learning how to cut it with tepid water, or ice depending on the flavour. Then it is how you taste it that counts. I was once at a party with Oz Clarke and he taught me how to really taste wine, same applies to good whiskey. A really good distillery tour in Scotland might make you think again. I dont think there is a more patiently or expertly made drink anywhere.

 

You lost me with cut it with tepid water mate.
Apart from the taste and smell...(I'm the same with wine btw) I like cold drinks I can slurp!

 

I like any of the lagers Stella peroni Moretti, enjoy Staropramen and the odd pint of Guinness. A glass of red wine occasionally. Love my Whiskies always neat but don’t like peaty ones. Clynish, Arran, Deanston, Ancoc, Benriach, McCallan, Dalmore in fact any of the Speyside whisky or indeed anything not to peaty. I have a soft spot for a couple of Irish whiskies as well Redbreast and Green Spot both very drinkable. There’s only one thing to do having typed that out. It’s whisky o clock.

 

Any reason you only drink the pint cans of Kronenberg...is it different to the 440ml stuff?
I buy the 440ml cans, case of 15 for £10.

 

I will drink almost everything going, but like Hobgoblin beers and all IPA’s. I enjoy a red wine Jam shed Malbec is very easy to drink but has a nice bottle of Zinfandel ( not to be mixed up with white Zinfandel) from Carnivore at the weekend which was very nice.

 

I used to drink half n half when The Cherry Tree in Ayton first opened. Used to mainly drink in the liberal club, which became Chevvies, and the cherry tree, and the Village was a decent night out.

 

Quite excited that Corona are advertising an alcohol zero tipple - I'm sure that makes me someone to disown though!

 

I started drinking Scotch, Vaux Samson and Double Maxim but got a taste for real ale when I moved South. At Uni I used to drink really cheap white wine Blue Nun, Hirondelle, Libfraumich, Piat D'or before going out and that probably explains why I'm not keen on White wine now. I never really drank lager but I don't mind the odd Pilsner Urquell, Moretti, Paulaner, Estrella Galicia or 1906 when on holiday or at home.
These days I like to try different beers and quite like craft IPA's Neck Oil, Camden Hells, Jaipur and even the odd wheat beer Hoegaarden or Franziskaner
My favourite wines are Chilean Reds - Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Carmenére or a Malbec. I always have a good bottle of Port at Christmas and New Year.
I don't drink many spirits now but do like Whiskey - Glenmorangie or even Jameson.

 

Simply and only cos they last longer mate haha.
Heineken is nice too.
I see you're from Ayton way? I used to live in that area for around 15 years.

 

I was mate, lived in Lambton with parents from 1980 till 1989, then got a house with the mrs in Ayton and lived there from around 1989 till about 2005, then moved to oxclose till 2015. Now in Crookhall, Consett....here for good now.

 

Very similar to me. Lambton with parents in 82 till 89. Moved to private part of Lambton with ex till 96 then oxclose. Then Ayton and top end of Lambton near Ayton. In Stanley now...hate it!

 

Bredon Close, Lambton.
Heron Close, Ayton.
Mitford Close, Oxclose.

Thirsty work this thread....