Nectar Of The Gods

[astfgyl]

I can't figure out why it's the one beer that never goes on offer anywhere ever. The price is the price and that's it. 4 large bottles for a tenner is the best I've seen. Now to be fair, 20 quid would have me broke up so not a bad result either I suppose

On another note but connected, remember the 330ml bottles of Draught that were supposed to be drank from the neck, for lads in the nightclub? I was always so locked drinking them that I can't remember if they were good or bad but I remember they didn't stay on the market for long is all

[Ducky]

Can of draught in a glass is great! It's a bit lighter than a pint, goes down (and more to the point, settles) much more easily.

Controversial booze opinion - I'd choose a pint of Murphy's or Beamish one hundred times over a pint of Guinness.

[mugz]

Can of draught in a glass is great! It's a bit lighter than a pint, goes down (and more to the point, settles) much more easily.

Controversial booze opinion - I'd choose a pint of Murphy's or Beamish one hundred times over a pint of Guinness.

Beamish is underrated

[astfgyl]

Can of draught in a glass is great! It's a bit lighter than a pint, goes down (and more to the point, settles) much more easily.

Controversial booze opinion - I'd choose a pint of Murphy's or Beamish one hundred times over a pint of Guinness.

I'd place them all on an equal footing but none of them give me the koi no yokan

[Carnage]

Beamish is too sweet, but I did go through a phase of drinking it in my youth. I also went through a phase of drinking cider too, but I'd drink my own piss before drinking that piss again. Bottles of Murphy's are nice.

[astfgyl]

Right with you on the Cider, I was weaned on it but never again. It just isn't worth the cramps

[mugz]

Right with you on the Cider, I was weaned on it but never again. It just isn't worth the cramps

is that not a sulphites thing

[astfgyl]

It's the only drink I know that warns me about sulphites

[mugz]

It's the only drink I know that warns me about sulphites

that just means the others are lying to you. to be fair I can drink cider like it's water, no bodily effects but there's a weird sulphite depression that comes about a week later that's kind of terrifying, didn't know about it until researching and hearing other peoples accounts. Never get it with any other booze

[ochoill]

Having seen the bags of shit that goes into cheap ciders (very specifically Devil's Bit) you would be amazed if they don't absolutely cut the guts off you.  Now that said, even after seeing a man kick piles of some sort of additive into a vat with the same boots he was standing in a puddle smoking a fag in not five minutes earlier, I still continued to drink flagons of the stuff for years out of some poorly placed local pride.  ...I'd still take a whoosh of a flagon if it was going to be fair.

[mugz]

Having seen the bags of shit that goes into cheap ciders (very specifically Devil's Bit) you would be amazed if they don't absolutely cut the guts off you.  Now that said, even after seeing a man kick piles of some sort of additive into a vat with the same boots he was standing in a puddle smoking a fag in not five minutes earlier, I still continued to drink flagons of the stuff for years out of some poorly placed local pride.  ...I'd still take a whoosh of a flagon if it was going to be fair.

what's the story behind this, did you get a job in a brewery- actually I shudder to think about what goes on/into a lot of our beverages and food items

[ochoill]

Having seen the bags of shit that goes into cheap ciders (very specifically Devil's Bit) you would be amazed if they don't absolutely cut the guts off you.  Now that said, even after seeing a man kick piles of some sort of additive into a vat with the same boots he was standing in a puddle smoking a fag in not five minutes earlier, I still continued to drink flagons of the stuff for years out of some poorly placed local pride.  ...I'd still take a whoosh of a flagon if it was going to be fair.

what's the story behind this, did you get a job in a brewery- actually I shudder to think about what goes on/into a lot of our beverages and food items

They used to bottle Devil's Bit in Gleesons, Borrisoleigh - I worked there for a while about 16 years ago.  Same place also did Tipperary water, score, cadet, finches, country spring, and the majority of the house brand drinks for tesco and dunnes.  Where they were all mixed on site, the cider was fermented in a brewery nearby then sent in a large truck to a vat on site to be bottled there.  They'd add a variety of bags of stuff in but I have no clue what most of it is, I assumed sugars and preservatives since bags of the same stuff got loaded into the other drinks machines.  Not much else hectic there, pure line work, most stuff was made exactly how you would expect with nothing surprising, bar of course whatever was on the bottom of that lad's shoes.  I did laugh at any childhood memory I had of "which is better - score of cadet?" when I saw them simply swap the bottles and labels but use the same drink to fill it.  Dunnes bottled water was Tipperary water too, all they did was change the bottle, for anyone who would convince themselves otherwise.  Don't know if it still is since the line is closed down know as far as I know.  Was once given the job of removing the dates and labels off of out of date 3 litre bottles of country spring with a bottle of acetone so they could be just re-labelled and re-dated through the machines.

Did drink two flagons straight off the line on an evening shift one time and got fucking poisoned, I was giving my notice the week after so I didn't care.  I know another lad who worked in the distribution center there too around the same time who took home countless rolls of those airline shots, they were like little condom wrappers filled with miscellaneous spirits.  If some were broken on a strip they would be written off to be thrown out, so obviously the lads would just take them.  There must have been hundreds.  We would put them in everything just to use them.  Having a few cans?  Drop a vodka into each one sure.  Having a coffee?  There's no milk bit sure have a double whiskey.  Some craic

[Kurt Cocaine]

On the Guinness and Middleton Very Rare 2017 Vintage Release my daughter got for my birthday two years ago. Still 3/4 full, lolz.....
Beautiful stuff.....

[mugz]

Having seen the bags of shit that goes into cheap ciders (very specifically Devil's Bit) you would be amazed if they don't absolutely cut the guts off you.  Now that said, even after seeing a man kick piles of some sort of additive into a vat with the same boots he was standing in a puddle smoking a fag in not five minutes earlier, I still continued to drink flagons of the stuff for years out of some poorly placed local pride.  ...I'd still take a whoosh of a flagon if it was going to be fair.

what's the story behind this, did you get a job in a brewery- actually I shudder to think about what goes on/into a lot of our beverages and food items

They used to bottle Devil's Bit in Gleesons, Borrisoleigh - I worked there for a while about 16 years ago.  Same place also did Tipperary water, score, cadet, finches, country spring, and the majority of the house brand drinks for tesco and dunnes.  Where they were all mixed on site, the cider was fermented in a brewery nearby then sent in a large truck to a vat on site to be bottled there.  They'd add a variety of bags of stuff in but I have no clue what most of it is, I assumed sugars and preservatives since bags of the same stuff got loaded into the other drinks machines.  Not much else hectic there, pure line work, most stuff was made exactly how you would expect with nothing surprising, bar of course whatever was on the bottom of that lad's shoes.  I did laugh at any childhood memory I had of "which is better - score of cadet?" when I saw them simply swap the bottles and labels but use the same drink to fill it.  Dunnes bottled water was Tipperary water too, all they did was change the bottle, for anyone who would convince themselves otherwise.  Don't know if it still is since the line is closed down know as far as I know.  Was once given the job of removing the dates and labels off of out of date 3 litre bottles of country spring with a bottle of acetone so they could be just re-labelled and re-dated through the machines.

Did drink two flagons straight off the line on an evening shift one time and got fucking poisoned, I was giving my notice the week after so I didn't care.  I know another lad who worked in the distribution center there too around the same time who took home countless rolls of those airline shots, they were like little condom wrappers filled with miscellaneous spirits.  If some were broken on a strip they would be written off to be thrown out, so obviously the lads would just take them.  There must have been hundreds.  We would put them in everything just to use them.  Having a few cans?  Drop a vodka into each one sure.  Having a coffee?  There's no milk bit sure have a double whiskey.  Some craic

the Score/Cadet identity swap broke my heart a bit, not gonna lie

[Ducky]

Cadet fizzy drinks!

Do we have a nostalgia thread, jaysus.