Drinks - What's Yours?

[Lou]

Been Christmas drink shopping today.
Plenty of the usual stuff
and......
my own little treat for xmas day... following Lou's advice and recommendation...
a Jeroboam of Prosecco from Aldi to go with my Cointreau.

Bloody hell! Is it the ginormous bottle cost about £40?

[Port Jack Chippy]

Cider, Henry Weston and the Strongbow range.

[rodoz]

Well summer's here for the moment so I fancied a cider
Found a Smirnoff Cider with Raspberry & Pomegrante.
Three 500ml bottles for £5.25, bit pricey compared to my usual tipple but verrrrrry nice
Mixed one of them with my home made Rose wine to create 'Son of Power Shandy'
What a great idea that was at the time..............

[racesgirl2000]

Just a Dr Pepper for me

[Auf Wiedersehen, Pet]

This is my current tipple. Lidl’s own.
A ‘grapefruit aroma with notes of zesty citrus fruit’. Bloody love this stuff. 5.5%. It’s bitter tasting but light and not sweet at all.

[Tracy]

Bitta ?!

[Auf Wiedersehen, Pet]

Bitta ?!

Not as bitter as where we come from!

[Lou]

I was on white wine and soda for a couple of years but recently binned off the soda. A really nice easy drinking red wine is Morrison's The Shy Pig range. They do a blush one as well. Gin and tonic is still the fave tipple though but it must must must be served in a proper fishbowl gin glass and always with ice and a slice

[Lou]

This is my current tipple. Lidl’s own.
A ‘grapefruit aroma with notes of zesty citrus fruit’. Bloody love this stuff. 5.5%. It’s bitter tasting but light and not sweet at all.

You know what lee, I think a lot of the "cheaper" supermarket versions are better than the branded drinks. I much prefer the aldi version of baileys to the real thing. And their version of dissarano is better too. I think it's called ammaretto.

[racesgirl2000]

Pepsi for me today, loike

[rodoz]

Ordered my Christmas pressie from myself over the Black Fri weekend.
It's a Perfect draught machine which takes 6 litre kegs.
Ordered 4 different kegs to try with it as part of the really good deal they offered, along with 2 Leffe goblets.
Waited in all day and it finally arrived at 4pm.
Couldn't wait to try it out so unpacked everything and there was 4 kegs and 2 glasses, no machine, gutted.
Will update on taste once I've got the machine. Anyone else got one.
Looks like it would be great addition to any hut...….

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[rodoz]

So, finally got my perfect draught machine up and running.
I've decided to have a religious evening in respect to the Premonstratensian canons of the abbey of Notre-Dame de Leffe, who founded the brewery in 1240
Therefore tonight I will be...
Drinking Leffe Rituel 9, a deep golden beer with grain, spices and hints of bananas at the fore, and a hop character balancing the 9% ABV
Using my Leffe, Trappist style, chilled nucleated glass which I am informed will accentuate the aroma release.
Eating fish and bread (fish finger butties)
Watching Sister Act.

[Tracy]

Convent Nights more like !

[Breaking Away]

So, finally got my perfect draught machine up and running.
I've decided to have a religious evening in respect to the Premonstratensian canons of the abbey of Notre-Dame de Leffe, who founded the brewery in 1240
Therefore tonight I will be...
Drinking Leffe Rituel 9, a deep golden beer with grain, spices and hints of bananas at the fore, and a hop character balancing the 9% ABV
Using my Leffe, Trappist style, chilled nucleated glass which I am informed will accentuate the aroma release.
Eating fish and bread (fish finger butties)
Watching Sister Act.

And can you taste the banana?

[rodoz]

I'm going to say yes, I could taste the banana, but that might be because I had read it in the description.
The first gob full was like a taste explosion, something I'm not used to. It's like discovering beer all over again.
The religious theme continued with me saying 'God this is nice' out loud a number of times, but didn't end up with me speaking to him on the great white telephone, despite the 9% ABV.
I honestly can't remember drinking anything as nice as this, went down easily but deserves to be treat with respect due to it's strength.
Overall a wonderful drink, perfectly conditioned and dispensed by the machine.
I have 3 more kegs to try once I've finished this one
Tiny Rebel Clwb Tropicana
Tripel Karmeliet
Kwak
I reckon the lads would approve