Vermont Apple Cream Cider Bailey's Irish Cream Four Roses Kentucky Bourbon A bottle of German eiswein Beers: Kentucky Bourbon Ale Shiner White Wing Belgian Ale
I'm sampling some of my Aldi sourced German Pilsner right now. Berliner Kindl - you can taste the iron in it. Nice and cold so very crisp. Cheap as chips. Recommended. Should have bought more.
They had those big bottles of Staropramen for £1.49 in Aldi. I may go back tomorrow for some. Is the Kindl a bottle or in cans?
Interesting Xmas for you then- do a shot of Gin, shot of Baileys & a pint of your German Lager and you've got a Ladyboy (of Alan Partridge fame).
True words. Then I can have a bit of sick and fall asleep stood up. Incidentally, my girlfriend, obviously, likes Baileys. She drinks it on occasion. She fills her glass with ice, as I believe is the rules, and pours in the sickly, milky stuff. Then, as she takes EVERY sip, she shakes the glass in her hand nonchalantly, before swigging. It's a ritual of sorts. She HAS to do it. Make the ice jingle. Drives me ****ing mental. Like when she burps. For God's sake. Merry Christmas.
I've enjoyed a Bailey's every now and then since my dear old Nan introduced me to it, during competitive Scrabble games, back in the 70s. A wonderful drink. At room temperature. A couple of years ago I was in a hotel bar in Puerto Mogan, in Gran Caneria. 32 degrees. Late on a balmy evening. I spied Baileys on the digestive menu. Sounds good I thought, so I went for it. Five Euros fifty. I was given it in a half pint tumbler. Full of ****ing ice. And a little pissy bit of ice cold Baileys. I was so stunned I was rendered speechless. Ice cold Baileys. I'll accept that as a good idea on an ice cold day in Hell.
Did you jingle the ice? It's not the beverage for me, far too sweet and sickly. It's the ritual of the shaking that I object to. It's a habit. A needless habit. Hang on! I have drank Baileys, and enjoyed it, in Manchester Arms. Their world famous '**** On The Grass' shot. A lump (yes, it looks like a lump when poured in) of Baileys atop some sort of mint liquor. Quite nice, after 6 pints, surprisingly.
Tried that cotes du rhone, not really a fan, not big on wine myself but it being Christmas I thought I'd snob myself up with a few expensive bottles just to show off to my skint neighbours when I stick the recycling out next week. Back to the shop tomorrow. Any good recommended popular golden ales I might find in a supermarket? Fancy trying something new.
If you want to be a proper snob, just go to Topshop and point and laugh at the staff. Like I do. Probably.
, Bloody hell, the last thing we need is solutions, options are just great. You work for me, mate. Gonna tell me mates on Boxing Day, have a Ladybird and all will be well!
In order to jingle ice with style you need more liquid than solid. In the aforementioned hotel bar case it was literally a tall glass crammed full of ice with a third cum of the night amount of liquor pathetically splashed over the top. Believe me, nothing was jingling apart from my nerves. I've never fully recovered. The wife often comes home to find me gibbering in a corner. Although to be fair that happened before the ill-fated chilled Baileys experience.
...dunno, can't remember, drank it all. Cold shower & taxi on the agenda to replenish the stocks before the local "official" booze shops close ('effing early) tomorrow. No supermarkets or corner shops sell alcohol in this god-forsaken city. Think I'll come back to civilization. Even my local is closed on Christmas eve & Christmas day !! Expect a knock on one of your doors imminently, you all seem well stocked, except Quill, but tastes change. I might as well be a Pilgrim Father's union member.
I am a big fan of decent islay malt too... And as for the Tesco Chateau NduP it's rank and not on a par with the decent stuff at over double the price they are booting it out for. It's a typical supermarket reduced wine that's more priced right and bought in for such an occasion. With wine you get what you pay for and these deals are rarely proper reductions. I have had a sublime CNDP from a vintner, and one from a supermarket at a tenner that was all label and no substance. You can get passable stuff under a tenner, but it's about twenty and over where you get on to the stuff that's noticably better. Same with whisky... Older the better and more expensive!
I also shamefully neglected to mention that knocking around the back of every Christmas drinks cabinet should be a bottle of blue bols.
I'm off in Debenhams and Next soon, I'm going to check out their level of Islamophobia. Seething hotbed of it I reckon. Inshallah
