Pandemic personal consequences

[Teaboy]

(and a wine box )

Wine box's are great. Get a plastic tumbler, set up a gazebo in your living room and put some dreadzone on. Living the festival dream right there.

 

[Badgers]

My local Nisa has an acceptable 12.5% Pinot Grigio for £3.49 a bottle so got a 'few' bottles of that in. Plus a 10 pack of Strongbow for £8 just in case. Also a cheeky 70cl bottle of rum as a back up. Then a 70cl bottle of house vodka for medicinal purposes.

 

[Teaboy]

My local Nisa has an acceptable 12.5% Pinot Grigio for £3.49 a bottle so got a 'few' bottles of that in. Plus a 10 pack of Strongbow for £8 just in case. Also a cheeky 70cl bottle of rum as a back up. Then a 70cl bottle of house vodka for medicinal purposes.

You'll be back in there by 8pm tomorrow. You know how this works.

 

[bellaozzydog]

My local Nisa has an acceptable 12.5% Pinot Grigio for £3.49 a bottle so got a 'few' bottles of that in. Plus a 10 pack of Strongbow for £8 just in case. Also a cheeky 70cl bottle of rum as a back up. Then a 70cl bottle of house vodka for medicinal purposes.

I’m salivating reading that

 

[Badgers]

You'll be back in there by 8pm tomorrow. You know how this works.

8am

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Wine box's are great. Get a plastic tumbler, set up a gazebo in your living room and put some dreadzone on. Living the festival dream right there.

They only had boxes of white wine in Sainsbury's though

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Lockdown is like being perpetually stuck at some house party late on and hunting for booze, isn't it.

"Dammit, it's white wine... some cheap shit too... oh well. Somebody's left some cider out here too. Can you do anything with vermouth? Does anyone have any fags left?"

 

[MickiQ]

My local Nisa has an acceptable 12.5% Pinot Grigio for £3.49 a bottle so got a 'few' bottles of that in. Plus a 10 pack of Strongbow for £8 just in case. Also a cheeky 70cl bottle of rum as a back up. Then a 70cl bottle of house vodka for medicinal purposes.

I approve, in times like these it is important to be prepared.

 

[Epona]

I'm reduced to cheap cider atm, a wine box would be a luxury (actually the Morrison's ones are alright, but I always was a cheap date )

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

My local wine merchant delivers

 

[mx wcfc]

My local wine merchant delivers

As does my local brewery

 

[two sheds]

As does my local brewery

I phoned the local pub to suggest I could be public spirited in taking on some of their beer if they delivered but they're not answering

 

[Epona]

I phoned the local pub to suggest I could be public spirited in taking on some of their beer if they delivered but they're not answering

Maybe they are busy polishing it all off themselves...

 

[Sue]

Lockdown is like being perpetually stuck at some house party late on and hunting for booze, isn't it.

"Dammit, it's white wine... some cheap shit too... oh well. Somebody's left some cider out here too. Can you do anything with vermouth? Does anyone have any fags left?"

Yeah, there was some stuff about people claiming they're drinking less under lockdown. Not anyone I know -- they're all busy knocking back that dodgy East European spirit they brought back from their hols 10 years ago and wondering if 2pm is too early to start.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Yeah, there was some stuff about people claiming they're drinking less under lockdown. Not anyone I know -- they're all busy knocking back that dodgy East European spirit they brought back from their hols 10 years ago and wondering if 2pm is too early to start.

Whenever you get back from your "essential items" scavenger hunt - bag of salad, some cherry tomatoes, fuck it ten pack of Stella plus three bottles of red - is officially booze o' clock.

oh and twenty b&h sky blue please mate

 

[Epona]

Yeah, there was some stuff about people claiming they're drinking less under lockdown. Not anyone I know -- they're all busy knocking back that dodgy East European spirit they brought back from their hols 10 years ago and wondering if 2pm is too early to start.

Honestly the recycling bin in our road is overflowing with cans and bottles within a day of it being emptied

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Honestly the recycling bin in our road is overflowing with cans and bottles within a day of it being emptied

I am taking my own recycling out now so the caretaker doesn't see that the bags are entirely stuffed with empty cans of Stella.

 

[Epona]

I am taking my own recycling out now so the caretaker doesn't see that the bags are entirely stuffed with empty cans of Stella.

I would hope they are empty, if not you are doing it wrong

 

[mx wcfc]

I would hope they are empty, if not you are doing it wrong

TBH, I'm not sure that drinking Stella in the first place is exactly doing it right in the first place.

(Does anyone else remember when draft Stella was a "premium" lager with a distinctive taste?)

 

[ska invita]

(Does anyone else remember when draft Stella was a "premium" lager with a distinctive taste?)

Wasn't it imported at first?
As soon as foreign beers get popular and start being brewed up in Bedford or wherever it is they all start tasting the same i reckon

 

[moomoo]

As does my local brewery

As does ours. By that I mean I bring a crate of Budweiser home from work for the boys. I’m an essential beer delivery person on top of my many other talents.

 

[Supine]

Very good friend of mine has tested positive. She is a nurse in a covid ward. She had full PPE but still got infected within three weeks of working the front line. Symptoms are not too bad atm but obviously off work for a while.

I've got so much respect for NHS workers

 

[Epona]

TBH, I'm not sure that drinking Stella in the first place is exactly doing it right in the first place.

(Does anyone else remember when draft Stella was a "premium" lager with a distinctive taste?)

Part of this whole "Pandemic Personal Consequences" thing is that due to reduced income and work related uncertainty, whole swathes of us are clutching 3 litre bottles of cheap cider and eyeing up bottles of WKD and Thunderbird with a newly found ability to mentally calculate value based on a £/abv analysis. Criticising someone for drinking Stella sounds fairly petty to some of us right now.

 

[mx wcfc]

Wasn't it imported at first?
As soon as foreign beers get popular and start being brewed up in Bedford or wherever it is they all start tasting the same i reckon

Yes it was proper imported Belgian Beer, till international, big money breweries bought it out and turned it into a standard bog awful lager. It used to have a really distinctive sulphuric taste and a price tag that mostly put it outside my price range as an uneducated lager drinking student
from wiki....

Stella Artois (/ˌstɛlə ɑːrˈtwɑː/ STEL-ə ar-TWAH) is a Belgian pilsner of between 4.8 and 5.2 percent ABV which was first brewed by Brouwerij Artois (the Artois Brewery) in Leuven, Belgium, in 1926. Since 2008, a 4.8 percent ABV version has also been sold in Britain, Ireland and Canada.

 

[ska invita]

Yes it was proper imported Belgian Beer, till international, big money breweries bought it out and turned it into a standard bog awful lager. It used to have a really distinctive sulphuric taste and a price tag that mostly put it outside my price range as an uneducated lager drinking student
from wiki....

Stella Artois (/ˌstɛlə ɑːrˈtwɑː/ STEL-ə ar-TWAH) is a Belgian pilsner of between 4.8 and 5.2 percent ABV which was first brewed by Brouwerij Artois (the Artois Brewery) in Leuven, Belgium, in 1926. Since 2008, a 4.8 percent ABV version has also been sold in Britain, Ireland and Canada.

Ive got a vague memory of Red Stripe tasting like something, but its been at least 20/25 years since that was imported i reckon
Best selling larger in the UK is Carling supposedly, which says a lot

 

[mx wcfc]

Ive got a vague memory of Red Stripe tasting like something, but its been at least 20/25 years since that was imported i reckon
Best selling larger in the UK is Carling supposedly, which says a lot

Oh. yes, Red Stripe was good. Lefty's lager of choice in my student days.

 

[Ceej]

A dear friend lost his dad to cv last night - he was elderly and frail but went from having a cough to being dead in 24 hours.

 

[existentialist]

I am taking my own recycling out now so the caretaker doesn't see that the bags are entirely stuffed with empty cans of Stella.

You can minimise the shame by crushing them flat. You can get a lot of cans into a surprisingly small space doing that. And it doesn't even count against your government exercise quota.

ETA: it's also quite cathartic.

 

[klang]

Yeah, there was some stuff about people claiming they're drinking less under lockdown.

I'm def in that camp. I even ended up making a sauce with wine for today's fish lunch as I was worried the wine would go off. Been opened in the fridge since 4 weeks...
Me and her share a beer every few days. Before lock down I'd have 5 or 6 on my own most nights.

 

[klang]

Wasn't it imported at first?
As soon as foreign beers get popular and start being brewed up in Bedford or wherever it is they all start tasting the same i reckon

once they start being brewed over here they are likely to have added glucose / sugar