Nectar Of The Gods

[astfgyl]

So 13 years since I had one of the worst hangovers of my life then!

I remember very little of the week around when I left.  There was a lot of drink taken.  Some fuckin craic

You really need to add your last couple of days before Canada to the fear thread because that last one in particular was spectacular

[ochoill]

So 13 years since I had one of the worst hangovers of my life then!

I remember very little of the week around when I left.  There was a lot of drink taken.  Some fuckin craic

You really need to add your last couple of days before Canada to the fear thread because that last one in particular was spectacular

When I had to get on the actual flight?  Man I think about that every week without fail, honestly thought I was going to die for eight hours

[astfgyl]

So 13 years since I had one of the worst hangovers of my life then!

I remember very little of the week around when I left.  There was a lot of drink taken.  Some fuckin craic

You really need to add your last couple of days before Canada to the fear thread because that last one in particular was spectacular

When I had to get on the actual flight?  Man I think about that every week without fail, honestly thought I was going to die for eight hours

I regularly think of the time

[StoutAndAle]

New cocktail experiment from the weekend.

The Hipster Dude;

45ml Absolut Vodka (other vodkas are available)
25ml Kahlua
100ml cold brewed good quality coffee

Pour above over ice, stir gently.

Top up with oat milk to taste. Add more ice if needed. Stir. Imbibe.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Heading back to France after a few days home, manys a lovely pint of Guinness enjoyed. Most expensive was €6.10 in Greystones, cheapest €5.60 in Bray. Not so bad overall!

[ochoill]

I think €5.20 is the going rate down this neck of the woods, it is that in my locals anyway.

Weather holding up, I will be piling at least four cans into meself in the park on the way down to see Full of Hell shortly.  Can't wait lol

[Carnage]

Fiver in my local and a couple of others in town, but I think thise days are short-lived. They're wary here of any new increase, the last one was by 50c and you could see the numbers in pubs drop overnight.

[astfgyl]

I can't understand why the pubs don't take the view of sell it as cheap as you can and get the arses on the barstools. Yeah you'll only make the same money but by god it would have to be less depressing than the same few gimps at the bar every night and of course then because the places look happening they might attract more to the establishment.  Like if I was a lad out looking for beors or vice versa would I go to the depressing place with the expensive pint or the place with sex in it and it costs less? The married lads like me then can be happy to pay the extra 50c so we don't have to fraternise with those other cunts.

Everyone's a winner in that scenario but the landscape would have to change

[astfgyl]

Picked up 4 cans of brú lager in tesco this evening on clearance for 4 quid and I was fuckin robbed. This shit was meant to cost 9 for 4. S sweet Jesus it's worse than pretty much anything.  Goes to show you can get away with all sorts once you let on there's some sort of craft or cool hops to something.  I predict the arse to fall right out of this shitty market very soon.  Fine for homebrew enthusiasts and collectors etc but fuck the commercial craft from a great height and good riddance as I see it

[StoutAndAle]

Ended up at 40th birthday party out in the sticks of Cork the other night. A fairly dry affair for one of my sister-in-law's brothers.

My own brother caught the bored look on my face and gave me the nod. I wandered over to him.

"Say nothin'" he says "just follow me in two minutes".

Two minutes later we're going through a dimly-lit courtyard, over a stream bridge and onto a pitch-black road.

"The fuck are you bringing me?!"

"Whist a second and all will be revealed" and 30 yard up the road, there's the light of a pub. Legend. In we go.

"Two pints of Guinness please".

Two Guinness duly handed over.

"That'll be €12.70 for the pair, gents".

"Quiet in here tonight" says I to the barman.

"Ah, the ould Covid killed it all, didn't it?"

"Killed what, the extortion racket that you're running here?!" says the brother.

"Hah! What did you say to me?"

"I said two more Guinness when you're ready" says the brother. He looks at me and shrugs "Fuck it. Might be dear but it looked like a rosary was about to break out at the house."

[Carnage]

€6.35 for a Guinness, in the middle of nowhere? A hefty fuck that. Fiver in my local (which is pricey enough, but comparitively...). He said, jinxing it.

[hellfire]

I can't understand why the pubs don't take the view of sell it as cheap as you can and get the arses on the barstools. Yeah you'll only make the same money but by god it would have to be less depressing than the same few gimps at the bar every night and of course then because the places look happening they might attract more to the establishment.  Like if I was a lad out looking for beors or vice versa would I go to the depressing place with the expensive pint or the place with sex in it and it costs less? The married lads like me then can be happy to pay the extra 50c so we don't have to fraternise with those other cunts.

Everyone's a winner in that scenario but the landscape would have to change

A mate of mine who owns a pub had a poster of the breakdown of profit on pints. The governments share is excessive.

[The Butcher]

Powers is deffo the best of the cheaper ones (though most are grand altogether), cannot for the life of me understand the bad reputation it has. That Three Swallows is absolutely divine alright, love spicy pot still stuff in general.

Just reading over the past few pages and I agree 100%, the 3 swallows Powers is top notch for that price point, beats everything there under 50 euro I reckon - unless someone else can say otherwise, would like to hear suggestions 

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

I'm just looking forward to the Christmas offers again, picked up a couple of bottles of the Three Swallows for 30 quid a pop, savage value

[Slaughterday]

Manislav in Tesco, Budvar clone, 2 quid a bottle. Not sure if they have changed the recipe or maybe it's the change from green to brown bottles helping the skunking, but it's hitting the spot lately.