January 25, 201610 yr Yeh, but back in the day it was 11%. Now just 7.5 Bastards! Quite liked Thomas Hardy ale too. Durham brewery do some superb strong ales along these lines too
January 25, 201610 yr BCG likes this Ha ha forgot I'd seen this the other night and I knew you'd bite. They used to have to dust the can/bottle before giving it to me. It's the real life version of 8 ace
January 25, 201610 yr When I worked at Vimto for a year, the amount of the stuff I drunk was ridiculous. 24 cans for about £2.50, and the taste testing for new products was amazing. Vimto flavoured jam, ice cream, drumstick lollies, muffins, jam tarts etc, so good. Half the stuff never got launched but it tasted incredible Wow I'd love to work for vimto
January 25, 201610 yr Yeh, but back in the day it was 11%. Now just 7.5 Gold label is cracking stuff! When I worked at the university, a seikh chap came on a post doc. He was a man mountain, first thing he asked was for me take him to an offy for some ale. He grabbed a four pack of gold label and necked the lot. Some introduction to British beer! I cycled down to Darcy Lever Cricket Club years ago and the beer delivery had included a case of GL which the cricket club were selling off cheap. I had a few and when it was time to go home I got half way up Smiths Brow before my head fell off. I finished up chucking my bike over the fence near the lodges and going to find it the following day. They used to call it knicker dropper (Gold Label, not my bike).
January 26, 201610 yr I cycled down to Darcy Lever Cricket Club years ago and the beer delivery had included a case of GL which the cricket club were selling off cheap. I had a few and when it was time to go home I got half way up Smiths Brow before my head fell off. I finished up chucking my bike over the fence near the lodges and going to find it the following day. They used to call it knicker dropper (Gold Label, not my bike). Perhaps it's time to try and make some!
January 26, 201610 yr I can't be bothered waiting, me. I've seen home brewed beer cloudy as fck poured from height to get a head on it, unsuccessfully I might add. Leave it to the experts is my motto.
May 6, 201610 yr Author San Miguel and a few Rums, First Friday where summer is almost fully upon on us after the snow last week it's time to celebrate!
May 6, 201610 yr I'm having a period of being bone dry, so for me a few pints of home-made fizzy Vimto, I'd been buying the ready made stuff for a good while until I noticed it was £1.70, used to be a quid...They do it all the time, put prices up on the sly (Asda). Anyhow, a good glug of sugar-free stuff in a pint and top up with carbonated water and it's rock n roll. Sugar-free Vimto is £1 a litre at Burnden Poundland, Nb, or anyone, if you don't mind mixing with the Riff-raff...To be honest it's always empty (Poundland), must be too posh for the good folk of the district...
May 6, 201610 yr San Miguel and a few Rums, First Friday where summer is almost fully upon on us after the snow last week it's time to celebrate! The Celebrities will be celebrating you having the afternoon off! edit: I hadn't noticed you had visited the terrace talk Edited May 6, 201610 yr by deane koontz
May 6, 201610 yr I'm having a period of being bone dry, so for me a few pints of home-made fizzy Vimto, I'd been buying the ready made stuff for a good while until I noticed it was £1.70, used to be a quid...They do it all the time, put prices up on the sly (Asda). Anyhow, a good glug of sugar-free stuff in a pint and top up with carbonated water and it's rock n roll. Sugar-free Vimto is £1 a litre at Burnden Poundland, Nb, or anyone, if you don't mind mixing with the Riff-raff...To be honest it's always empty (Poundland), must be too posh for the good folk of the district... You appear to have missed out your unique process of filtering said Vimto through a tramp's sock?
May 6, 201610 yr Author The Celebrities will be celebrating you having the afternoon off! edit: I hadn't noticed you had visited the terrace talk
May 6, 201610 yr Been drinking yourself, RRF? Tim Vine read that last post out (in my head). Me? Never (well not Vimto anyway). If I'm being compared to Tim Vine then I must be slacking or p*ssed. I like to think my style is more Coogan/Chris Morris/Stuart Lee.
May 6, 201610 yr Well I once met Martin Coogan when I worked in a bank in Cheetham Hill, Johnny Morris is before my time, and my old man used to tell my that Stu Francis used to live above his folk's bookies on Halliwell Rd, what is now a tanning salon. So I guess I'm making slow progress. But Tim Vine, no, no way am I having that.
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