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LOL, this is getting painful to read. Poor Thomas.
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Enjoyed a couple of these last night while playing board games with friends.
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Whilst in Manchester for the weekend and unable to get to my locals for decent ale (not that Manchester doesn't have it, far from it, but I was with family etc..) I decided to have a half pint of Shipyards. Friends of mine have recommended it to me on those occasions when a Wetherspoons is the only option for hand pulled beer, and then that place doesn't have anything I like.
Normally I go for a bottle of Devils Backbone or Brewdog Punk IPA, the latter of which is now on draught, and is still pretty damn good despite not being hand pulled.
BIG MISTAKE. Sorry if anyone here likes it, but I thought it was bland compared to the Punk IPA. Once bitten twice shy as they say...
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It is Beer Week here in the Bay Area, and I went to an event at the Pacific Pinball Museum yesterday. Several local microbreweries offered tastes of some of their beers, and although each taste was only two ounces, you could go back for multiple tastes. I focused on the IPAs, and had some great beer I had never tried before. Since the event took place in the pinball museum, there were close to 100 pinball machines on free play, so I spent a few hours drinking beer and playing pinball. Not a bad way to spend part of a Sunday.
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You know, I could probably pick IPA as my favourite beer type. It tends to be medium to strong and has plenty of hops. Wonderful stuff!
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Now here's a thing. I'm fine with beer that has notes of flavours like fruit, chocolate, liquorice etc... characteristics of the hop choice or the malt. But I'm not a fan of beers with these flavours added. So no fruit beers, chocolate stouts with chocolate actually in it. The reason I like beer is because it tastes like BEER! A hop flavoured cool drink brewed using malt. Stopped drinking pop/soda sweet drinks when I got old enough to drink beer. Which I like nice and bitter tasting.
And yet I prefer my hot drinks with sugar in them.... Weird innit?
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Feb 11, 2020 - 4:50 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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I'm in detox mode now, after drinking daily on the Good Ship Corona Virus the other week.
The draught Heineken was quite nice, even if it's not my usual lager tipple, and it was aided, during the various hours of the day and night, by cocktails, Cointreau, Bailey's, Disaronno, Port/Sherry and any other sweet liqueurs on offer, most just with added ice, as I don't like adding soft drinks to my spirits.
Since I've been back, I've only sank a few Buds and the odd nightly Benedictine, purely for medicinal purposes 
The body needs a rest.
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Well if I'm to be totally honest I do find that if I have any trace of a hangover, and while I'm waiting for the kettle to boil, I find myself looking in the fridge to quench my thirst and occasionally find a bottle of coke left by my daughter. Having a good ol' slug usually hits the spot. I can feel my dehydrated body soaking it up inside.
Those liquors. Once on a Wardair overnight flight back from Canada as a late teen (but old enough to drink), they kept coming around with nightcaps while ever someone was still awake. And I stayed awake... Shots of all manner of liquors I had never tried. Drambuie, Cointreau, Grand Marnier... the list went on and I had them all! Now I find them sickly, best on a desert including ice cream. But I certainly had my fill, and did eventually sleep pretty soundly.
And I still have a soft spot for sweet sherry and port, because they were things that I was allowed a tiny nip of at Christmas as a kid. But the best of 'em all has to be Advocaat, always Warninks. Whoever came up with alcoholic custard deserves a medal!
So maybe I DO like sweeter drinks after all. Just occasionally.. Like eating sweets/candy. NEVER in a pub. This afternoon it will be good ol' White Rat (American style) pale ale, Barnsley Gold and whatever wonders are on in the Crown. Think it's Chantry Brewery's Hoppy Road IPA.
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Feb 11, 2020 - 6:41 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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"And I still have a soft spot for sweet sherry and port, because they were things that I was allowed a tiny nip of at Christmas as a kid"
-------------------------------thumbs up
Funny story.
I'd pretty much forgotten all about my 'snifters/wee tipples' my parents would allow me and my sister, of things like Harvey's Bristol Cream and Port and such, when we were little kids.
Then, at my Dad's funeral, a table had been set up (for the elders) of glasses filled with Harvey's, and me and a mate picked up a glass, took a sip (probably the first SINCE we were wee nippers) had a light bulb moment, as our eyes widened and ALL THOSE MEMORIES came flooding back of those younger days, and polished off a couple more glasses in sweet nostalgia and reminiscence.
Lovely stuff.
There's ALWAYS been a bottle of Harvey's or Tawny Port in our house ever since.
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