What alcohol are you drinking right now?
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@StarryEyed I share your views on connecting with people over something like you say. The connection enhances the material thing, and the material thing enhances the connection. Win-Win!
I had an alcohol free day yesterday, it was so hot and I was drinking pints of sparkling water so fast that if they were even shandies I'd have passed out
How are the premixed drinks, out of curiosity? Do they taste different to ones you mix yourself? I always find when I buy a ready-made bottle of Vimto or Ribena it tastes different to just mixing the squash with water at home 🤔
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Hi @66Mustang 👋🏼 Win-win indeed! I especially enjoy this on the forum because we don't see eachother or do anything together, so connection through objects and experiences makes the person more real. Does that make sense?
The Jack Daniels Coke was repulsive. It tasted dusty, too sweet and had very little alcohol taste.The Coke killed a perfectly perfect whisky! Plus it really upset my stomach. I don't typically buy mixed drinks, do you? Actually I don't typically order them either because they're ridiculously expensive. But buying a bottle is so huge for one person, so I don't usually buy a bottle either. I have the vodka because one of my friends likes it, and that's a brand I like, so we'll have a snort together every now and again. Once in a while I'll buy something, and I'm thinking on getting one soon.
You know the water will run right through you unless you replace the electrolytes you've also lost with the water in your sweat? The water bonds to the electrolytes. My faves for salt are blue cheese (with watermelon) and feta cheese (with canteloupe), and for the other lost electrolytes I eat a lot of fruits and veggies.
Are you a fan of sparkling water? I have that too every day along with regular water just to change things up a bit. It's quite nice.
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I will, I'm planning on getting some in a few days time. I had no idea booze was only sold in a few government stores in Canada.
That's a really nice looking glass!
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Baileys espresso crème. I had it from christmas (I know it’s august) but finally decided to have some. It tastes like tiramisu.
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Tennent's have a new 'Tennent's Tops' out, Ive ordered some on my delivery tomorrow. Do people in England and Wales ask for a 'lager tops' in the pub - lager with a dash of lemonade? (just enough to remove the bitterness).
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Nothing that special, just a generic lager, but it's nice and refreshing on a hot day like this.
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@Ross1975 I knew you'd love the glass!! That's a passion we share - mugs and glasses. 😁Heineken is a very refreshing beer. It's really popular both here and in Canada.
@inmybubble Bailey's espresso creme sounds awesome! Bailey's anything is awesome. That's the only alcohol I can't keep in the house. It's not for the alcohol I can't control myself, but the taste is impossible to resist. 😋
@ChrisR777 I couldn't find any of the beers you've mentioned in the British store today either. Now I have a proper excuse to go to the beer pub. 😊
So this is the beer selection I saw today at the store that has a lot of international products, including British products...
And this is the one I picked...
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Tennent's is brewed in Glasgow, it is Scoland's favourite lager beer, brewed since 1885. At one time they were the world's largest exporter of bottled beer, but I have no idea if their lager sells outside Scotland nowadays, except perhaps by purchasing online.
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I'm spotting so many beers/ales that I've tried and loved in those pictures, there's Chouffe Cherry, Delirium Tremens, Blue Moon, and St. Bernardus Abt 12.
I actually have a small collection of beer and cider caps that I continue to occasionally add to. I really enjoy the designs on some of them and so when I have a bottle of beer or cider which has a cap on it that I don't have, I'll add it to the collection. The cool thing is they're free and you can have many of them without them taking up much room, I keep them in KP Nuts tin.
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Hi Chris! That's amazing to have been around so long! That's shortly after the 1867 Confederation of Canada! In Canada our biggest brewers are Labatt (founded in 1847) and Molson (founded in 1786). I'm going to ask for your beer at the beer specialty pub. I'll go next week because this week everywhere is heaving with people due to the city fair. Hopefully they have it and I can send you a pic. 🤞🏼😊
Hi Ross 👋🏼 What an impressive bottle cap collection!!! Wow!! Thank you for sharing it with us. 🙏 What a fun collection too! And it's so colourful. I'll try out those you picked out from the pic from the store. Yay! Two of your beercaps are very traditional, yummy and popular Spanish beers that I've had here - Cruzcampo and San Miguel. They're everywhere. And this is one in your collection I bought recently that I just had. I liked it, but not as much as the Paulaner wheat beer, which has more depth and grit...
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StarryEyed, yes, I'm sure that was one of the wheat beers I had spotted recently in my supermarket.
San Miguel you say? I've got a couple of glasses for that. Yes, I have a beer glass collection too, I should show it someday.😊
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Tennent's go back to the 16th century, but lager brewing came late to these shores. Lager is only beer brewed and conditioned at low temperatures, using a bottom fermenting yeast. Tennent's Lager is nothing fancy, just a decent session lager, at a moderate 4% abv.
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Good morning, Ross. OMG what gorgeous beer glasses! I only have four beer glasses, one of which you've seen in previous pics here, and two are the same. So I only have three types of beer glasses. I'll showcase them with the beers I'll post here - as I try them. I'd love to see your collection OF COURSE 😁
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Good morning, Chris 😊
I checked out Tennant's website and I'm really hoping to be able to try this as the ingredients actually come from Scotland rather than China.
Back to your question here about whether people from England or Wales add a dash of lemonade to beer to make "lager tops"…
I know this wasn't directed at me, but I'm dying to comment.... 😁 In Canada it's called a shandy. In Spain it's called a Radler or a clara. Strictly speaking a Radler uses lemonade and a clara uses lemon pop, but they're used interchangeably. Clara means clear in Spanish. Because the beer is diluted by the lemonade/pop, it looks very clear.
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I notice you happened to be at the section that has Belgian / Trappist beers. Are you a fan of those? I love them in the winter!! I find them a bit strong for summer drinking, and even in winter I have to have one I REALLY like, because due to the ABV it has to replace 2 normal beers. 😆
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Shandy is certainly known about here @StarryEyed, although i rarely saw it ordered in a pub. If you ever were in company and it was your turn to buy a round, a guy with 5 pals might ask for 6 Tennent's, 2 of them tops. The added lemonade is only a dash, not the half and half or whatever of a shandy.
I don't know how popular it is now, but i certainly remember my mum and aunts etc asking their husband to get them a half lager and lime, that is a dash of lime cordial added; such sophistication!
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Hey Mustang 😊 I know zilch about Belgian beers. Could you pick one out from this pic for me, please? I have no idea where to start. Bear in mind that I like wheat beer and light beers like Heineken, and don't like bitter beers. Anything come to mind? This interactive hobby is such fun!! 😁
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OMG I remember lime cordial in Canada from my 20s. Forgot about that stuff. That's so cute with your mum and aunts! 🤣
Confession: I misspoke here this morning because afterwards I went out for brunch with a friend, and the menu listed the Radler separately from the clara...
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6€ for a lemonade?
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The 3 at the top-right of your second picture are Trappist-style, if not Trappist themselves (the middle of the three may be genuine Trappist). "True" Trappist beers - for which there's a special seal they can qualify for to display on their bottles - are a style of beer made by monks in monasteries. The genuine ones are made by the monks and the profits have to go back into the business or the running of the monastery, they can't be paid out to shareholders.
They tend to be quite strong. I have this theory that the monks were only allowed one beer a day, so they made sure they were nice and strong. I think in reality they were strong because when refrigeration wasn't available they'd be more likely to stay fresh 😁
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