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Don’t mind a Bud..when i’m in the States i drink Bud or Michelob!

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But you have to experience one extreme to the other before you can fix your ‘moderation’ point!:D

It returns with practice. In-between wives, I had 4 years of flying solo again. 1996 to 2000, and I was in my early 40’s at the time. Out 6 nights a week, almost every week.
I built up my ability to drink, and was soon able to reach British Standard Supping Rate of 4 pints per hour. So, starting at 8pm until 2am, it could get into the 20 pints level. Most of it went straight through, I may as well have stood at the urinal whilst drinking. I was also running very long distances at that time, 9 miles per night was a breeze, sometimes 16 miles just to kill 2 hours. So, my body needed the liquid.
My liquid intake has always been massive, I can easily shift 10 or 11 pints of Tea during my 8 hour work day.

However, last Christmas, on the “Works do” I drank about 9 pints and a bottle of red wine. Sick as a dog!!! Bad body all the next day.
I think I had a Single malt at some point. It must have been that which made me ill, one must never mix the grape and the grain!!!!! LoL.

What’s moderation? I hope it’s edible. On the other hand I don’t want my beer in moderation I want it in a glass.

Everything in moderation!!

But you have to experience one extreme to the other before you can fix your ‘moderation’ point!:D

Oh, I thought it was just me. I have found the same thing, over the years my capacity for alcohol has decreased. I think that the years of restricted intake whilst raising the kids helps to reduce your capacity so by the time they’ve grown up you’re out of practice. 2 pints and I’m anybody’s, 3 pints and I’m nobody’s coz I’m flat on the floor.:D:D

Everything in moderation!!

Oh, I thought it was just me. I have found the same thing, over the years my capacity for alcohol has decreased. I think that the years of restricted intake whilst raising the kids helps to reduce your capacity so by the time they’ve grown up you’re out of practice. 2 pints and I’m anybody’s, 3 pints and I’m nobody’s coz I’m flat on the floor.:D:D

When I was young, I drank my own body mass in ale, but didn’t (Nor my pals)seem to get off my skull and seek fights etc.
There is some other factor working these days.
Also, the old guys in the pub would clip you round the ear if you mis-behaved, and we respected that. These days I shudder to think what would happen in most YPV’s (The brewery calls them Young Person Venues!!!)
Even then we went for flavour over strength.

These days, I don’t get out much for a night on the ale, it’s too expensive for a start.
When i do I end up drinking too much…simply because I can’t take it like the old days LoL.

My boys must be old then as they’ve grown out of that.

I’m with you there OS, except I’d rule out the Belgian lagers as they’re generally not to my liking. I have figured out that if the flavour’s right they can be as weak as gnat’s p they’re still good. The same goes for any beer or wine. Anyway if you need alcohol to have a good night then you need to find new ways to enjoy yourself and if you can’t remember what you did last night it was a waste of money. Not that the youngsters of today realise it though. Just my opinion of course, many may disaree and they are quite entitled to if they wish

Most.. if not all youngsters.. think they need to get blind drunk to have a good time..very sad

I’m with you there OS, except I’d rule out the Belgian lagers as they’re generally not to my liking. I have figured out that if the flavour’s right they can be as weak as gnat’s p they’re still good. The same goes for any beer or wine. Anyway if you need alcohol to have a good night then you need to find new ways to enjoy yourself and if you can’t remember what you did last night it was a waste of money. Not that the youngsters of today realise it though. Just my opinion of course, many may disaree and they are quite entitled to if they wish

Reading that made my morning, I thought I was the only one who thought the same, well not quite, I gather it’s also Madonnas favourite beer, she caused a sensation at the Brewery in Keighley after she announced the fact on a TV chat show. They had to double the production overnight as all the kids in the area dumped the Stella/Becks crap and started demanding Landlord. I gather that Timothy Taylors sent her a cratefull and a thank you for the best free publicity they could possibly get.
Try a pub crawl round Keighley, TT own most of the pubs, better hurry though before the local religous radicals get the place shut down.

I used to drive 35 mins to a pub in Halifax, it may have been called the Shay? It was down a 1 in 3 hill between two mills. There was a stream at the bottom.
He sold “Best”, “Golden Best” and “Landlord”. She drove home. 🙂
I was once in CAMRA for my sins, went to plenty of festivals, tasted tens of dozens of beers but I always came back to Landlord. It is the benchmark.

I am hundreds of miles away from there now, but thankfully my local free-house is run by a Monkey Hanger, not exactly Yorkshire but he knows that Northern brews are best and has a plethora on sale. 1:38am, he’ll still be open…I just might go for a pint now!!

Some ales are brewed for strength, but taste like battery acid, the ones brewed for flavour tend to be in the 3-4% area, not strong – just mouthgasmic.
The only Lager worthy of entry to a festival are the German and Belgian ones, brewed under the local purity laws.
The rest are just overpriced blingwater.

Reading that made my morning, I thought I was the only one who thought the same, well not quite, I gather it’s also Madonnas favourite beer, she caused a sensation at the Brewery in Keighley after she announced the fact on a TV chat show. They had to double the production overnight as all the kids in the area dumped the Stella/Becks crap and started demanding Landlord. I gather that Timothy Taylors sent her a cratefull and a thank you for the best free publicity they could possibly get.
Try a pub crawl round Keighley, TT own most of the pubs, better hurry though before the local religous radicals get the place shut down.

So Mad Donkey can do something useful then. Maybe the local youth learned the error of their ways from it.:D:D

I don’t mind a nice beer now and then.. especially a Newkie broon

I thought you said a nice beer:D

That’s good, spreading your largesse around the Commonwealth!

I’ve probably tried lots of beer or ale..there’s only one i didn’t like and would not recommend..it’s this liquid bitumen from Scotland

Partial to an icy cold Moosehead in the summer

That’s good, spreading your largesse around the Commonwealth!

Timothy Taylors Landlord is the finest ale in the world IMO.

Reading that made my morning, I thought I was the only one who thought the same, well not quite, I gather it’s also Madonnas favourite beer, she caused a sensation at the Brewery in Keighley after she announced the fact on a TV chat show. They had to double the production overnight as all the kids in the area dumped the Stella/Becks crap and started demanding Landlord. I gather that Timothy Taylors sent her a cratefull and a thank you for the best free publicity they could possibly get.
Try a pub crawl round Keighley, TT own most of the pubs, better hurry though before the local religous radicals get the place shut down.

Wouldn’t have guessed that Geordie!:D:D

Partial to an icy cold Moosehead in the summer

I don’t even like the real stuff along with Amstel, Stella Artois and Beck’s. Call me fussy if you wish but I knows wot I likes:D Whilst I have nothing against a decent lager type beer I much prefer a decent pint of bitter. The other reason I don’t like Grolsch, Amstel and Stella is the fact that one bottle of any of those three is sufficient to give me a headache and I just don’t like the taste of Beck’s.

Hear hear!
Well, I don’t get a headache unless I’ve had a shedfull of it, it’s chemical kosh after all. and it leaves the taste of gorilla shi* in your mouth next day.
Timothy Taylors Landlord is the finest ale in the world IMO.
As for stuff like Stella, it is marketed at the gullible and dumb, they fall for it, and then it’s rubbed in their face and they still don’t wake up!!!
“Reassuringly expensive”
Got to hand it to the marketing team, that is a gem! For something that cost pennies to make, they make that gem in order to hike the price. And mugs STILL buy it!!!

Not mine. I hate Grolsch, that’s the best thing to do with it.

Haha, i couldnt agree more 😀
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