three and a half pints....

[Ziggy]

 

[JohnH]

I hardly touch booze anymore, just doesnt appeal to me the whole 'getting wasted' thing.

Maybe 1 or 2 pints a month, normally with a nice roast dinner on a Sunday.

I had a few beers and a glas or 2 of wine at Christmas, with the odd Port before bed

Me and the Mrs have rediscovered shandy recently, sharing a can of Fosters with lemonade! Childhood memories

I gave up the booze a few years back. When people invariably ask why, I tell them the truth: "I got bored".

Alcohol free lager doesn't taste too good (unless it's Cobra) so when I'm in the pub, I'll order a shandy made with Beck's Blue.

 

[cchris2lou]

Stella and most other brands mass produced lager make me into a c*ck, unless I am abroad, where lager is good.

Ale or wine or spirit for me (sometimes all three).

I definitely noticed the same thing. I found myself being aggressive and having massive hangovers when I was on the mass produced crap. Then I moved to Ales about 7 years ago and what a world of difference, and I agree drinking lager abroad is different too. Take San Miguel for example, the stuff in Spain actually tastes different, it's clean and crisp, it's brewed in Barcelona, the stuff here tastes more "chemically" and is brewed in Glasgow (i've done a blind taste test on friends and they all went for the Spanish stuff). I have been saying this for years but I do think a lot of the violence problems are down to the lager and alchopops here.

could not agree more .

that is why I always drink becks when drinking lager , lots of flavour and no crap inside .

 

[barry2017]

If you're only drinking at home, home brewing is the way to go.

I used to do loads of it, and it was brilliant! It combines cycling (going to get the ingredients), a bit of science, a bit of tinkering, and some magic . You get some really, really great booze and some really terrible stuff, but it's so much better for having made it yourself. And apart from the small outlay to get started (about £20 is easily enough), it needn't cost you a penny.

Have given it up now. I've no time this year, and I am too fat. But I'd like to do it again when my life settles down a bit.

 

[cyfa2809]

that is why I always drink becks when drinking lager , lots of flavour and no crap inside .

im a corona guy myself, since it is imported too, expensive though but then again i dont drink very often, couple times a year maybe.

 

[velomaniac]

To be a hardcore drinker who can consume a lot with little effect requires lots of consistent practice. Most of us except for the hardened boozers dont keep that up past our early twenties and thus we increasingly become lightweights.

1 Beer and I'm somebodies,
2 Beers and I'm anybodies,
3 Beers and I'm nobodies :roll:

 

[Easy_Rider]

that is why I always drink becks when drinking lager , lots of flavour and no crap inside .

im a corona guy myself, since it is imported too, expensive though but then again i dont drink very often, couple times a year maybe.

The real stuff is called Coronita

Got to agree with the home brewing, made 5 gallons of plum wine in 2008 from my own plum tree that produced a bumper crop, it was all drunk during summer 2009 . Also made jam from it.
2009 the plum tree gave up producing any fruit but had like a gazzilion pears, threw away 5 heaped wheel barrow loads as i didn't know what to do with it, the trees are so damn big that i couldn't pick em. Anyway, got an experimental 5 gallon tub of pear wine, we'll see how it tastes in the summer.

 

[cyfa2809]

what as in its called coronita in mexico? and the name corona is just for imports? its nice either way! i didnt really know people made their own wine, is it easy to do on a really small cheap scale? like one bottle?

 

[TheGreenRabbit]

I brew my own beer, and very nice it is especialy when you work it out to under 20p a pint. I want to make turbo Cider, It was sugested that that ideas was not very good idea by the SWMBO.

 

[crud]

but so expensive.........