[Drinking] Friday night "Liverpool at home is the dullest game of the week" drinking thread

[maffew]

You ****ing chav. You're letting yourself down, your family down, and the club down.

weird that the black label in SA is I think 6% and really is the equivalent of Stella to an extend except much better tasting. Also available like most beers in quarts (750ml) bottles with a return on them for 70p ish

 

[Mackenzie]

Weak orange squash.

 

[LlcoolJ]

About five bottles of wine. #hic

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Wow. Carling Black Label. Is that still around? My first ever alcoholic drink in the sports fields at school. I also remember fingering a girl whom we shared a couple of cans at lunchtime.

And they say romance is dead.

Largest selling lager in the UK mainly up north. Pays my wages so not all bad!!

 

[maffew]

Largest selling lager in the UK mainly up north. Pays my wages so not all bad!!

Carling ad Guinness TV adds were the best

 

[Don Parasol]

Been drinking white burgundy with seafood dinner at home... and a little whisky to finish as I'm already getting excited about tomorrow!

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

weird that the black label in SA is I think 6% and really is the equivalent of Stella to an extend except much better tasting. Also available like most beers in quarts (750ml) bottles with a return on them for 70p ish

Carling Premier is the stronger one 4.7% over here but standard in SA is 5.5%

 

[maffew]

Carling Premier is the stronger one 4.7% over here but standard in SA is 5.5%

Ah it does have some kick. I dont know if it new it seems it there is a new weaker Carling Blue Label

 

[Withdean and I]

A nice smooth Malbec followed by a warming Sloe Gin and tonic.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Started off on the red wine earlier as Mr K came home with a bottle (and dinner).

He's gone to bed as he's up early for work though, so I'm back on the traditional sauvignon blanc

 

[Washboard Didgets]

Had a Beavertown Gamma Ray with dinner, then a delicious Stone Xocoveza brought over from the USA (by request) by my wife’s American colleague.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

Had a couple of pints of this and a few glasses of that and sat down to watch La La land. We all decided after 10 mins it was crap so ended up watching Ted 2 which was effing hilarious

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Was pretty knackered tonight really. Just had 4 cans of Punk whilst, amongst other things, watching Harty v Barber (very good it was too). One cat ill - cystitis, the other cat trying to fight the ill cat, or vice versa, not quite sure, not sure they're sure either. Full days work, vet this morning, keeping them apart, snoozing in the armchair, jumpers for goalposts. My Friday nights are so wild these days. Up at 8am to take the unwell kitty back to the vet. Oh the joy, bad cat week in the SN household.

 

[perseus]

Liverpool in the Premier League? It's like the under card for the other two games this week. How bizarre is that.

Anyway: Aspall Premier Cru.

Not for me. Best of the three.

Calvados nightcap.

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

Salmon, roasted potato home fries, roasted carrot home fries with this beauty...

 

[Thecoffeecake]

I had enough Flying Fish Hopfish IPA to be thoroughly confused about what this thread is about until page two. We had a hockey game to watch tonight, it didn't start until 9 p.m. as it was in Denver. Flying Fish is one of our local Jersey beers, it's been around since the beginning of our craft beer revolution. Hopfish is supposedly an English style IPA, with more balance and malt character than the West Coast IPAs that really took hold here. Pretty much just hop-water appealed to the less than informed beer drinker that can be amused by a highly bitter brew that lacks other character, is what hits home runs here. "New England IPAs" are beginning to become all the rage, though (because whatever is new and different wins in the US beer scene), which are essentially brighter English IPAs, the style that was popular when craft beer first became a thing here.

Flying Fish gets a bad reputation now and then, but it's because they stick to the classics. I can drink Hopfish like water, it's the perfect balance.

I'm pretty sure the brewery I work for, Shipyard, is the top selling US craft brand in the UK.