Sorry,
Couldn’t resist[:D]
Kim
Don’t be sorry. You’ve come up with the best suggestion for an off topic forum yet. Have you ever visited the coffee houses in the other trains.com forums? If coffee produces that kind of drivel we don’t need a coffee house. If you do open a pub I’ll visit regularly.I’m fussy about my tipples though and only drink beer, wine and spirits.
Cheers
Bob
Kim;
Make mine a large snifter of good cognac.
Copious quantities of Grand Marnier, in a snifter, a glass, a mug, doesn’t matter.
Walt
This is the spirit, get everyone smashed out of their heads and then we can talk about garden railroads and no one will remember anything about it so we can then do it again. Now we are on the right tracks!
Cheers,
Kim[swg]
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Talking off which, the old station house at Dinmore, in Herefordshire, England is up for sale right now. Not only is it beside the Hereford - Shrewsbury rail line (at the southern entrance to Dinmore Tunnel) but there’s a pub next door!
I’m a real ale man myself, will be helping at the annual Worcester Beer Festival (that’s Worcester, England) which is from Thursday 11th August to Saturday 13th on Worcester Racecourse which is only 10 minutes walk from Worcester Foregate Street train station. (see http://www.camra-worcs.freeuk.com/branch/festival.html)
Cask ale, the finest drink known to mankind. ‘Warm beer’ to the rest of the world but nectar to us Brits. Have a good festival Tulyar and enjoy the offerings.
Cheers,
Kim
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I guess you are swapping one form of brain rot for another.
I can never understand why Americans drink so much coffee. I’d be seriously off my tree by lunchtime if I had as much as I have seen many LS’ers drink.
Then I guess we Brits still drink an awful lot of tea even if the Coffee lobby wants otherwise.
I don’t particularly like coffee and never partook of the coffee house camaraderie that was common in the 50’s and 60’s when I was a teenager.
So for social acceptance and an appreciation of something that has so much variety to offer, I stuck to wine bars and pubs.
Always found that in pubs and wine bars it was much easier to spot the BS artists.
Especially after a great bottle of a Jimmy Watson house red.[;)]
I’ll join in.
To set the record clear.
I am not a wino…I am a RUM-o!
Joe, if you are a RUM-o ther’s no such thing as a clear record, hazy - yes, clear - no.
Meeting Gail from work this afternoon and we are in Preston for a few beers around the cask ale pubs, half a dozen within a few yards of each other, yum yum! Early evening meet the youngest lad & his girlfriend for a chinese & then home and a few more beers. Gail had made other plans with her mates for tonight but our wonderful summer weather has put paid to them, so plan B.
Cheers,
Kim
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I am much curious. In South Texas most people secure their libations from glass bottles (beer…mass produced and bottled at some distant factory in some distant time). What types of ale’s are commonly consumed in British Pubs?
As I recall from Beowulf there are meades and ales; but I image there has been some upgrading. Being that I have go frame of reference…please cure me of my ignorance.[:p]
Jose,
Kim lives in the heartland of good beers.Most English people enjoy their beer.My favourite is the black stuff (Guiness)
But a night spent in the pub working through the guest beers is a wonderful experience (well it is until you go numb)
As Kim says.Real ale.Room temperature.(and someone to carry you home)
Been quite a bit of talk lately regarding Coffee Shops and the like … all not very positive. Too bad, really. After all, choice is what these forums are all about. Compared to some of the absolute nonsense being posted - polls on polls, for example - I’d prefer to spend my time chatting with those who have similar interests. Which brings me to the point of THIS post:
C’mon over to Classic Trains and visit us at “Our” Place an honest to goodness cyber bar 'n grill, where the talk is about Classic Trains real and model, along with lots of good natured adult fun.
Tom, Proprietor of “Our” Place, an adult eating & drinking establishment!
Troy ya forgot to mention Meade, an ancient drink made from fermenting honey, never got to try it thought , too many “Pasturization” rules over here for any real daring drinks. Though i did get to drink Pulque (Pool-kay) in Mexico, Pulque is pre-spanish fermented Agave which the Aztecs and Mayans used in rituals, tastes literally like an alcohol mixed with Mallox. the spanish distilled the Pulque into Mescal, the best Mescal comes from one area in Mexico, Tequila. Kinda like Cognac and Champaigne, you cant call it that if its from somewhere else.
Vic-
Meade is very nice but very sweet.
Try some proper abysynthe (spelling) in a VERY small glass.Helps if you have a doctor near by.
Anybody tried some proper moonshine?
Troy;
Some 45 plus years ago, my cousin and I found a earthen ware jug of “shine” that my granddad had hidden in the hayloft of the barn. Being that we were 15 or 16 at the time we had to give it a try. One of my uncles found us in the barn and drug us to the house. (We were no longer capable of walking) Dad took an old lard bucket (think 5 gal painters bucket with sealing lid except made out of metal) attached some wires from a spark plug to the car motor, put in a shot glass full of the “shine” sealed the lid. When he started the car, the bucket BLEW UP, left a hole in the asphalt driveway over a foot deep and three feet across. Dad and Uncle John both agreered that if it was good enough to explode it surely would be good enough to consume. My headache lasted six days, stomach took about two weeks to settle down.[xx(][xx(][xx(][xx(][xx(][xx(][xx(][xx(]
Ha ha Trigg.
I assume that moonshine is a sort of whisky type thing?
I remember when I told a friend that I can’t stand the taste of Scotch or Whisky.
“Oh,you havn’t tried the right stuff yet!” he said
Four hours later I woke up in a field ,talking to a stray dog (true)
I still don’t like the taste of either.
(mind you,I’ve stayed in contact with the dog[:D] )
Absinthe is actually illegal in the United States! Ocar Wilde…“The first stage is like ordinary drinking, the second when you begin to see monstrous and cruel things, but if you can persevere you will enter in upon the third stage where you see things that you want to see, wonderful curious things.”
I have never partaken of this drink, my Brother was interested in finding a bottle but on one we ever asked had heard of it.
Troy:
The stuff Granddad “produced” started life in a corn field, with a couple of mashed potatoes tossed in as good measure. BTW the jug that we found had been hidden and lost in the barn for almost 30 years! Grandad always uses a carved corn cob for a stopper, and then he poured a lead seal around the corn cob and mouth of the jug, he then scratched in the date. 1929
Ha ha ha Troy,
Some even think it’s almost like “Bourbon”. The name had me puzzled for a while since I suspected it had nothing to do with the French royal family.
Then one day it dawned on me; it was most likely the genteel form of “burp on”. [:)][;)][:D][:D]