| Author | Message | ||
     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 289 Registered: 05-2005 |
well the weekends here and im in the mood for beer! whats your poison? mines are guinness or miller or bud, and a nice glass of red back and forward. if pushed for a favourite, its probably an ice cold bottle of miller | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 264 Registered: 04-2005 |
Guinness or any other good dark or stout beer. Kevin, you're serious? Miller and Bud? I thought only people in the States drank that stuff. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 290 Registered: 05-2005 |
totally serious kurt. if you go into any bar in the UK the fridges are crammed full of american beers. every supermarket cannot stack the shelves high enough with these beers. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 287 Registered: 10-2004 |
sierra nevada usually does the job just fine | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 332 Registered: 05-2005 |
Don't drink that much nowaays, but with Kev on this bottles of Bud are nice, red wine Shiraz, Carling bottles go down ell too. I did go on the gin last year but it ruined me without drinking too much of it so I gave up. | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 271 Registered: 03-2006 |
Red wine for me...Shiraz Or Pinot Noir is about my speed... Like the lager, but I try to keep the "Molson muscle" (belly) to manageable size (just like the record collection)..., so I try to stick to wine. You can blow a lot of money on wine, particularly here in Cali since people are so insufferably snobby about it, now I stick to cheaper, but decent stuff... Like a good martini or scotch every now and then, too... Hell, who'm I kiddin'? I like it all.... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 265 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hardin, do you buy wine at Trader Joe's, home of Three-Buck Chuck (formerly Two-Buck Chuck)? It's not bad at all--pour it in a decanter and the snobs need not know you bought it on the cheap. | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 272 Registered: 03-2006 |
Absolutely, Kurt. TJ's is *my store*, not just for the cheap wine, but the cheap (but high quality) everything....though, it, like the Ikea here, is a total madhouse. On Saturdays you pretty much have to dodge snotty, entitled OC housewives - it's lousy with them and they don't yield an inch with their shopping carts. So you have to go pretty much late at night... I believe it's still 2 Buck Chuck here, but yeah, it's not bad at all. The very idea of it really chaps the asses of my wine snob friends...lol, I bet they couldn't pick it out in a blind taste test. I saw a thing about it on 60 minutes where they gave it to a bunch of top wine critics and they couldn't...the wine world really is a perfect example of the emperor's new clothes...a friend of mine's filthy rich brother in law spent 30 K last year on wine alone. Isn't that obscene? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 275 Registered: 05-2005 |
I pretty much poisoned myself with half a bottle of sparkling Australian red wine and four bottles of some beer (Hahn I think) last night while watching Waratahs get beaten by the Crusaders. Very hungover this morning. It was the sparkling wine that did for me. In Ireland I always used to drink Guinness, but when I was home last year I drank Beamish, which is also a stout. I drank Miller when I lived in the US. And Molson and Moosehead (both Canadian beers). I do not like Bud at all. Cascade is a top drawer Australian beer and my home brand of choice. In the pub I'm a VB man (Victoria Bitter), or Guinness occasionally. | ||
| David Matheson Member Username: David_matheson Post Number: 80 Registered: 12-2004 |
I'm a teetotaller. I have met several people whoe are quite amazed that there are actually Australians in the world who don't drink beer, let alone don't drink any alcohol. I enjoy fruit juice and water! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 248 Registered: 08-2004 |
I haven't had a drink since March 5th. It's a long & winding road. Normally it's Guinness/vodka & lemonade. The Guinness is for starters, I don't want to start on the hard stuff with an empty stomach. | ||
| Todd Slater Member Username: Todd_slater Post Number: 43 Registered: 01-2005 |
I work in the wine industry and drink/taste for a living. Beer wise Australia is in the midst of a surge in small good micro brewries. On a day to day level Coopers is pretty hard to beat. They make a great variety of beers (I had a long neck of Stout last night)and all are very good. Wine wise - where do you start I love Riesling, Australian, German, or Austrian; Hunter Valley Semillon. Italian reds or Barossa blends as well as good Pinot Noir and Spanish wine including manzanilla sherry (serve chilled on a hot day it's very delicious) Aperol, Campari, Vodka (42 below is good) and Bombay white Gin is also good. Padraig, Sparkling Shiraz is great Seppelts make one with a crown seal for about $20. Having said all that, a lot of water is also good and refreshing anytime ! | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 91 Registered: 11-2004 |
It's occured to me recently that most major music venues in Britian are totally dominated by Carling. Mean Fiddler and Clear Channel - who basically own all the venues must have a massive deal with Carling. What a horrid drink! I call it dishwater - to me its a big cop out as I imagine it's designed to taste bland so that it can be drunk in huge UK style quantities! Carling is really the only British larger that is widely available in the UK. Strangely I really like Carling in bottles! it's a completely different drink to the draught. The most popular larger - Stella Artois is commonly thought to make people feel aggressive...I definately agree with that. I also really like Fosters. Living in London I was told by my old housemates who were Australian that in Australia Fosters is regarded as 'an old mans drink' and isn't very popular. I've never been to Oz but I also like VB and Toohey's. Real Ale of course is another subject... I won't bore people further! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 303 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matt, up here in Scotland the two biggest football teams, Celtic and Rangers, are both sponsored by Carling - their logo is very prominent on the football strips. Strangely enough i do not know anyone who claims they like this drink. Stella Artois has another name here in Scotland - people refer to it as "wife beater" so your aggressive description seems to ring true  Then again, perhaps thats symptomatic of the British approach to drinking beer, ie drink as much as you can before falling over. our continental cousins probably drink this beer in moderation, preferring to compliment it with wine. then again, that may be a massive generalisation on my part! | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 92 Registered: 11-2004 |
Yeah I forgot about the Auld Firm being sponsored by Carling too Kevin. Your right about 'Wife Beater' it's known as that in the North East where I'm from, and to a lesser extent in London. There is a myth going around that two chemicals in it react together which to the drinker promotes aggression! What really gets me is that Carling even 'sponsor' buskers on the tube! they are determined to become synonymous with UK music thats for sure. There are designated areas at tube stations where buskers can perform - all buskers must be auditioned and approved. The areas are marked out on the floor with Carling logos! Sorry to any Londoners in the forum - this post must be old hat! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 249 Registered: 08-2004 |
So, Stella would be the best accompaniment when listening to Streets OYT, eh. What happened to Labatts, were they swallowed up by Carling? It was pretty grim when Carling sponsored the premier league & that was the only beer on tap in the ground, a piss-awful drink. An old favourite of mine were the golden ales of Belgium. Duvel is particularly choice, strength & flavour. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 308 Registered: 05-2005 |
enjoying a fine white venitian wine tonight - pinot grigiot. a fine accompianient to Morrisseys latest Italian based epic! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 105 Registered: 05-2005 |
Beers -Boags Premium or St George. It's Tasmanian and very, very good. Worth checking out. Wines - Summer: Any NZ Malborough Sounds area Savignon Blanc. Winter: Any Auz Coonawarra area Shiraz. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 284 Registered: 05-2005 |
In January 2001, at an NME gig at the London Astoria, I drank five cans of Carling in about 30 mins as it was a pound a can. I was pretty drunk, pretty quickly and in absolutely no mood for rubbish music (there was a lot of other stuff going on in my mind at the time too). So I started shouting abuse at Campag Velocet, whom NME were promoting as "The band Radio 1 are afraid to play". Their singer's made up name was Jacques Lu Cont. My abuse, in my broadest Limerick accent found somewhere in the depths of my soul, went something like: "Go home, you're terrrrrrrrrible. Radio 1 isn't afraid to play you; they won't play you cos you're shite. Go home. Jacques Lu Cont, you were well named." Everybody started moving away from me. My sister, her husband and my girlfriend were all embarrassed. But I didn't care. We laugh about it now, especially my use of the word terrrrrrrrrible | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 93 Registered: 11-2004 |
Blimey Padraig! I've never known drinks be £1 a can at the Astoria, even in 2001 - if only they were that price now...I would definately cram 5 :-) I was a big fan of Campag at one point - I don't remember singer Pete Voss calling himself 'Jacques Lu Cont' - but i'm no authority on the band. They always got a lot of stick because NME put them on the front cover and promoted the band a great deal - it's a shame their records never sold. It took them 5 years to bring out a second record! I January I went to see The Editors at the Astoria which was sponsored by NME. The tickets said 6:30 start and not a note was heard until 8 o'clock. Typical NME mischievousness! - get them in early and improve the sales over the bar. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 307 Registered: 03-2005 |
Margaritas at one particular notorious "cash only" Mexican food restaurant in Los Feliz known for keeping the alcohol content up. I have a wine expert friend (or wine snob depending on your view of these things). I just drink what he hands me and never really pay attention to what it is. He favors French and a lot of what I've been drinking are whites from the Loire valley. I have one remaining bottle of a 2001 "Bernoota" (Cab/Shiraz blend) from Oz that I have a liking for. Somebody recently turned me onto a Belgian beer that was really sweet. I don't remember the name except I think it started with a "C". I expect I'll be revisiting that one. I love the herb but everytime I indulge it takes 2 to 3 days for my voice to recover. So that only happens once every few months. Middle age can be a bitch. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 292 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matt, I may be getting mixed up with the Jacques Lu Cont stuff - though if I am there is definitely some equally awful English musician who uses that name. The rest of what I said is gospel though! Yeah, £1 a can. It was a post Christmas treat - plus the only way to guarantee shifting sizeable quantities of Carling I imagine. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 24 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, the most popular belgian beers starting with a "C" are the "Chimay" or the "Ciney". Two of the 700 kind of beers that are brewed in my country ! http://www.belgourmet.be/fr/bieres/index.php For me, nothing like a widespread Hoegaarden ! http://users.pandora.be/hoegaarden/ | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 313 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks, TROU. I'm pretty sure it was Chimay. It was great. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 53 Registered: 01-2006 |
TROU, I'm going to Antwerp in a few weeks with some friends for the weekend, any tips or suggestions? Thanks. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 25 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hello XY765, Near Antwerp, you could visit Brugge, one of the most touristic town of Belgium. The historic city centre was officially recognised as UNESCO world heritage. http://www.brugge.be/internet/en/index.htm The fun is that I've never visited this town. I live in the french part of Belgium. | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 278 Registered: 03-2006 |
Damn, you guys are a bunch of alcoholics! Seriously, reading all of the above makes me want to go on a beer/wine drinking tour...maybe we can make that part of that GBs convention... Whoever mentioned Chimay above: it is delicious, but deadly...it will, as they say in the South, "knock your dick in the dirt"... And Randy, they have good herb up your way...not that I know from personal experience. A "friend" told me (wink wink)... | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 54 Registered: 01-2006 |
TROU, Thanks for that, we've got three full days there so we may be able to take that in. With all this talk of herb, are there coffee shops (like the ones they have in Holland) in Antwerp? | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 23 Registered: 08-2005 |
Beer of choice would be Becks or Samuel Adams Boston Lager (£1 a bottle at Sainsburys). When I live in Australia my usual beers were VB or Resch's. Wine of choice would be a big, buttery and oaky Chardonnay, though I've also a fondness for Rieslings (such as Wynn's Coonawarra) and occasionally dessert wines like Brown Brothers Orange Muscat and Flora (I'm very worried about sounding far too pretentious here...). I've combined cycling and wine-tasting. Several days in New Zealand I would visit a winery or two and then spend the rest of the day cycling (during a 3-month long, 3,000 mile "world tour"). Have also had some very great days in the Barossa and Hunter Valleys. Ah well, back to work now... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 297 Registered: 05-2005 |
A nice cup of Barry's tea right now. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 345 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bennilin cough mixture, I'm laid up! | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 112 Registered: 07-2005 |
Hey Spence you've had a few colds lately, bennilin/co-proxamol and a shot of whiskey gives you a good night sleep.If not away with the fairies. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 113 Registered: 07-2005 |
Wine-NZ sauvignon favourite white Red-Love Chateau Musar form Lebanon beer good english bitter, hoogarden,Petes wicked ales from the USA are great, usually steer clear of shorts but love a G+T, and a Pimms in the summer is great | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 114 Registered: 07-2005 |
Professional responsibility has got to me so don't go and try the benylin/coproxamol/whisky remedy.In fact a friend who is now a GP/family practioner in the wilds of NZ recommended just Co-proxamol and Whiskey. Benylin and alcohol was a bad call alot of amnesia and weirdness-to be avoided. |