I'm not sure if there's anyone out there, apart from me, who may enjoy a modest glass of beer now and again but from tomorrow Lidl have some of the usual suspects on a reasonably good offer.
Box of 12 X 500ml including Hobgobbling and Pedigree for £13.99
500ml bottles of Shepherd Neame ' 4.4.2. ' bitter. World Cup promotion @ £1.
Usually goes quickly at these prices, my SIL is bringing his son over in the morning andcpasses a big Lidl. I've charged him with the task of getting me 40 quid's worth on the way.
Just laid down 40 pints of Woodforde's Great Eastern ale but that won't be ready for a couple of weeks.
Ted
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>> I've charged ... with the task of getting me 40
>> quid's worth on the way.
You should be in for a fine afternoon, then!
>> Just laid down 40 pints of Woodforde's Great Eastern ale but that won't be ready
>> for a couple of weeks.
Oh. You do that, do you? Is it still cost-effective?
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Don't tempt me! I already look pregnant, being very slim with a belly is not a good look!!
Spent Sunday afternoon getting lost in the Horse and Jocky not liddle prices but lots of good german stuff at 8.6% for £3.60 a 500ml bottle. Don't remember much about that day apart from the nice people at the irish club letting me in for free and then chatting to the 80 year old doorman about how I will probably be dead soon because of all the beer I have drunk this weekend.
Lidl often do a lot of good beer promotions though, make the most of it before the government ban them.
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>> Spent Sunday afternoon getting lost in the Horse and Jocky
If the Horse and Jockey is the pub across the 'green' from where I lived* then that was once my local Rattle. I lived in a house opposite the entrance to the car park for the Irish Club as a student. I bet that's worth a few quid now. It was across three floors and we could only use two for fire regs.
* When I drank there Curly from Corrie used to prop up the bar any night we ever went there.
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I've not made any for quite a while but I still had all the gear and I had a kit which I bought last year.
It was about £15, so not bad for 40 pints. Probably gone up now, I'll get another one when I get to Stockport, about the only specialist shop in the area now.
It's not as good as bottled beer but it's palatable and strong.
With supermarket prices hovering around £2 or more it's becoming a luxury item.......it'll be cheaper to drink champagne soon.
I don't like the kits they sell in the supermarkets, but Woodfordes do a two can with yeast which is quick and easy to do. drinkable in about 3 weeks.
I save plastic lemonade/tonic/fizzy water bottles, etc.....cheap way !
Ted
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When I get older I may convert my lockup to a little brewery, it dosn't have electricity will that be a problem?
I have images of it becoming a jack duckworth style hide out where all my mates go to hide from their mrses and get a bit drunk.
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i buy my bottled beer from a shop that specialises in out of date stock
seeing as im still eating proper baked beens from hp 5 years after the sell by date beer wont kill me im sure
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Out of date beer tastes like urine. I had some once I promptly took it back!
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>> i buy my bottled beer from ... out of date stock
>> im still eating proper baked beens from hp 5 years after the sell by date beer
>> wont kill me im sure
My God. It may not, but you could end up in orbit!
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are ye not men?
i still have a tin of corned beef from my great great grandad from the first world war
it isnt expanding anywhere so no botulism
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T.O.G.s take not a blind bit of notice of the best before date thing, i'd hazard a guess that most of us here take those dates with a pinch of out of date salt, managed to grab a couple of just out Flakes yesterday at less than half price when i filled up, delicious.
Just can't do beer anymore it repeats on me too much, even a pint of bitter shandy i'm still tasting hours alter.
My favourite cold drink maybe i bottle a week (two pints and i'd be on the deck) is one of the Mexican or South American lagers, Morrissons usually best for these.
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>> Just can't do beer anymore
"Do"?
>> My favourite cold drink maybe i bottle a week (two pints and i'd be on
>> the deck) is one of the Mexican or South American lagers
That *is* beer!
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>> That *is* beer!
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No it's not it's smooth and light, the stuff Ted was salivating over would make a good engine degreasant if only it could be thinned enough to paint on.
.;)
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i have a sort of friend who did the marketing for a new cuban drink in this country about 5 years ago
he was the marketing director and all the snazzle and kept going on about how it would change our perception of drinking foreign brands
he droned on and on and how the first bottles were so difficult to get into this country and well im bored no
suffice to say i secured a bottle of this elixiour and took it home
i kept it in the fridge for a week to procur its best temperature
then opened it
it was ghastly
and i mean ghastly
the brand bombed by the way
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Well, a big rufty tufty trucker drinking girlie beer.........I've heard it all now !
Rob,who owns my local Costcutters, usually gives me any well out of date beer.
There's nowt wrong with it but he says he can't sell it as it gets stronger with age and then doesn't match the ABV on the label. Of course, his generosity might be something to do with the £350 drinks order I gave him for our Ruby Wedding party last summer !
I used to frequent the Horse and Droppings as a young blade.....it was all stone floors, proper oak beams and Watney's Red Barrel then. (and Whitbread Big Head Trophy bitter, the pint that thinks it's a quart )
Ted
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what no spitoons in the corner?
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Pretty much still is, but its been refurbished to make it look more old fashioned. Its a proper ale house now, all the fosters crap has gone. Sadly so have the £1.99 a pint prices. I really like it though as I can spend a few hours in there slowly drinking the strong stuff and then move on.
It used to be the sort of pub I would just want to leave after half an hour.
I didn't realise beer went stronger with age.
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I was just leaving Asda one day when the tannoy announced out of date beer at 50p for 6 cans !.......I got another trolley and rushed back in. Filled it up, it was just out of date by a week or so.
It was Boddingtons, when it was made in the right place, with the right water !
Tasted fine to me and I didn't have to hang around the bathroom afterwards !
BB , drank in a few places in the city in the 60s which had spitoons..... and sawdust on the floor !
Ted
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.....BB , drank in a few places in the city in the 60s which had spitoons..... and sawdust on the floor .....
Sounds a bit posh Ted .
Some places I used to go in the 60s had a pig as an air freshener..........
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Dirty Dicks in the City used to pride itself on never having been cleaned in hundreds of years,
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>> Well, a big rufty tufty trucker drinking girlie beer.........I've heard it all now !
Hand planted firmly on hip and a flounce to you big boy.
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>> Hand planted firmly on hip and a flounce to you big boy.
Big boy ??.....you been out dogging again ?
Ted
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Saw it in Lidl near work this morning. I'll call in to the one nearer home on the way back tonight. As it's a reasonably new one, fewer people are up to speed on those sorts of offer so hopefully there will be some left. I also tend to take advantage of the Franziskaner Weissbier when it's in Lidl at £1.50 a bottle.
Aldi also have decent beer - especially their own label 'Specially Selected' range which is brewed by Batemans.
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>>I'm not sure if there's anyone out there, apart from me, who may enjoy a modest glass of beer now and again>>
Well Done That Man! just as well bob the builder is not around though :)
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there used to be a pub in yorkshire that was called the pig inn
and they sold trough ales
you couldnt make it up could you
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Damnit - I impulse bought to 500ml bottles of Leffe (brown) on offer at Tesco this morning...
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The deed is done !
SIL arrived this morning with a hot 5yr old for us to look after and 36 bottles.....£40.
Got a bottle of the 4.4.2. in the fridge to have with me tea.
Just a quality check, you understand !
Ted
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>> bottles of Leffe (brown) on offer at Tesco
Two for a fiver PU? I sometimes get the Blonde on that basis, in champagne bottles. But it isn't as good as the draught on a good day.
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>> Damnit - I impulse bought to 500ml bottles of Leffe (brown) on offer at Tesco
>> this morning...
Is that the "spiced" stuff? I had a bottle of that to try, 660ml, and tipped it down the sink after a taste. Best place for it.
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Not spiced as far as I can established - just a nice dark brown beer, bit gassy in a bottle and a rifle heavy for some people's taste, but fundamentally a pleasant nutty beer...
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Ah - ideal for the M.P.s' holidays, then.
("there used to be a pub in yorkshire that was called the pig inn
and they sold trough ales)
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>>Shepherd Neame ' 4.4.2<<
They do a 9 gallon firkin btw - something for the weekend, like.
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Beer day. - FotheringtonTomas
