The place is packed out Phil, did they know you were coming?
🍻🍷 The Map of 🇲🇷 Booze thread whatever the title says (or is changed to when moderately intoxicated)
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The Ayatollah is out with work and apparently there is an after party here later
Not sure what will be more painful, my back or her pissed up colleagues
I am taking no chances. Decided to self medicate
A couple of kaleidoscopes and now I have broached one of my favourite every day whites
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Out of stock…thanks for the recommendation 
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They had cases in Southampton store this week - maybe they have it elsewhere
They have it every year - it is worth looking out for
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We’re going to the one down the road in Esher to stock up at some point this month so will look out for it. Better be good
I bought a dozen
Just a word of caution - there are two types same bottle - Tourraine and Tourraine Chenonceau- you want the second one
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I’m guessing
- It’s out of my 3 quid a bottle budget
- I’m not gonna find it at Lidl tomorrow morning
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Out on the piss in Southampton and arrived atThe Butchers Hook. No @ant but have just had a half pint of Chubbles 3 (cubed). Probably the best beer I’ve ever samples.
Mental. Mentally good. Wonderful and complex flavours.
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are you still there?
The Ayatollah and I have decided to have some decent wine tonight so I was mooching about my wine cave for some inspiration- found a half drunk bottle of wine in there
I have a corovin so you can get a glass of wine out of bottle without pulling the cork and stores it perfectly - apparently
I couldn’t remember doing this- usually we drink the lot. Then I remembered we did a virtual lock down wine tasting where we share a number of bottles of wine between households - in March 21
I opened it and it was perfect 2 and half years after first tasting the wine
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Meets the Lidl test - not the money test, at least not in this country
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One will keep an eye open!
No.
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Bletch’s Beer, Breweries and Bus Binge
Well, I’ve just done 800+ miles with German Andy in a motorhome and have taken in some of the UK’s best breweries and taprooms. I can highly recommend it.
For those who sensibly don’t associate driving with drinking, lots of rules were followed and breathalyser readings were taken to ensure I wasn’t pished behind the wheel.
Those rules:
- Water (usually a pint) had to be consumed with each round
- If the beer was less than 6% we could have a pint
- If the beer was between 6% and 8% we could have no more than a half
- If the beer was above 8% we could only have a third
- If driving the next day, stop drinking at 9 pm
- If driving that day, and you’d drunk the night before, don’t drive until 11 am and after a FULL English breakfast and clear breathalyser reading.
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IfWhen Bletch starts to be a complete cunt, drag him back to the motorhome - If you’re staying in Todmorden Cricket Club’s campsite, and you’re pissed, and you head back to their clubhouse where you were told you would get members’ prices, and you’re drinking double Jamesons, and you’re in conversation with a gruff, 70-year-old Yorkshireman cricketer about the relative merits of Irish and Scottish Whiskey / Whisky, and you’re seated around a packed bar, and everyone has stopped to listen to your conversation, and you ask him if he has any Irish in him, and when he says “Nay lad”, under no circumstances should you follow-up with “Do you want some?”.
Rule 7 also kicks in here.
Beers Consumed (some omissions - hic!)
A week well spent
Cunts.
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That looks fucking magic. Provided the mate you go with isn’t a cunt.
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You go anywhere with @NotBletch and there’s always going to be, at least, one cunt in the party…
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Yeah, i was directing that to German Andy.
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