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Ed - what's geuze?

Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Type of Belgian beer, its a lambic so its got a lot of lactic sourness although it matured much like champagne (stuff last night was 2002 vintage). It actually has a very champagne like not to the taste. The geuze Boon we were drinking last night was quite mild and very fruity. My favourite, Drie Fonteinen, is really quite sour but is so good on a hot summers day. Geuze is the basis for most belgian fruit beers.

Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes I have been to the Bull and Gate twice in my life, Dr. C, and both times I saw one of yr bands!

Do you like Quadrupel (sp?) Ed? They sell it at the aptly named Classic Wine on Cowley Road. It's the Trappissed monks' way of leading you to alkyhell!

MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Bleurgh, post lunch slump and I ate too many chocoaltes so I'm feeling *very* funny. Where is something monotonous I can work on while the sugar slump wears off?

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I have not tried Quadrupel, but I'd like to

Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.bottledbeer.co.uk/photos/latrappe4.jpg

Cor, 10%, monks really know how to get to alkyhell, what with all the beer, buckfast and benedictine (do monk make a drink not beginning with 'b')

Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Capuccino.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

My flu got worse (i felt all fluuey and floaty, like I was heavy and light at the same time) and I got a mjor headache, so I went home. Am now posting from bed, with a plentiful supply of water and a hot water bottle.

I hope I'm better by tomorrow. I've got code to write for year-end :(...

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost, that's name after monks rather than by monks.

Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

It was made by monks originally. They used to get hyped up on coffee to bring themselves closer to god.

Anyway, FRANGELICO!!!

JB, that is just too indulgent, internet in bed.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

What else would I use my laptop for? Blogging in the garden? Downloading p0rn in the loo?

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

x-post JB Sod the code, drink medicinal whiskey.

xx-post Ah, I see Ed. Someone sent me a case of mixed Belgian beer a couple of years ago - La Trappe was one of them. Lots of various frooty beers. I still have some of the bottles - will check for geuze type things.

Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes! Hot toddies all round. If you're going to be ill, you might as well go to alkyhell.

(I wonder how my mum would feel if she knew she'd contributed to our lingo so wonderfully.)

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

How do I make hot toddies again? (I know it's upthread somewhere, but please indulge a dying man.)

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Get whisky. Drink. Fuck a hot toddy.

ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck a hot toddy

more accidents happen at Christmas time than any other time of year. Some involve scalding.

MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Cuddle the whisky bottle under the covers and your feverish body will hot the toddy.

Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Shot of whiskey. Teaspoon of honey. Squirt of lemon juice. Some cloves. And top it up with boiling water.

You will still be sick. You just won't care.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

(xxxpost to Dr.C)

CAMRA type de-lurking for a bit. If you try the geuze do not be put off by your first swig. It's an acquired taste, but well worth the effort, as I sure Ed will testify.

Peronally, I'd plump for the Cantillion, which is so sour as to make your lips do the lemony thing, but so, so, good.

Boksen - The jury is out (Guilty Boksen), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Two shots of pepper vodka will, in fact, cure your cold, although it probably won't be anywhere near as pleasant as a toddy, Johnny.

substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, that will make me sick, and I will care.

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I shall search out the Cantillion. I'm in Belgium again in January.

Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Organic too, I like the sound of this even more

http://d.akinori.org/images/20040801_7.jpg

Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I should try me some of that. Sounds interesting.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

See instead of a hot toddy, you should go for mulled wine or mulled brandy or somesuch, so you can be festive and happy instead of drinking mank that you know you are only drinking to stop feeling poorly.

*skips through to kitchen*

ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Hot toddy is hardly mank! I'd drink it every day in winter if I didn't think it would lead me to alkyhell.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

It still kind of smacks of medicine (albeit in a booze-related way), whereas mulled wine is NICE and still contains fruit and spices and convinces as a hot soothing good-for-you sort of drink and has LOTS OF BOOZE, especially booze in the form of red wine, num.

ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, you think there is *more* booze in red wine than in whisky?

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, I suppose it depends on whether you actually like the taste of whisky, lemon, honey, etc. I made one with laphroaigh and although that would make my gran spin in her grave, it was lovely, like drinking a smokey peat barbeque. But nicer, if you know what I mean. (I do not drink liquid smoke.)

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Bottles of pre-prepared mulled wine hurt me in my heart - I saw some in the supermarket this morning. Half the fun of it is putting all the *special stuff* in it and brewing it up.

Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

you should go for mulled wine or mulled brandy or somesuch

Boos Glogg

Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, aldo took a bottle of that to ATP and it sat mocking me before going back into his car untouched at the end of the weekend.

Wait, you think there is *more* booze in red wine than in whisky?

Of course not. But you do not have to dilute it down with hot water, and you end up drinking more of it because you make it by the great big pan-load and not just by the mugful. Hot toddies, with their ginger and lemon and stuff are merely boiled cough mixture with booze in it.

ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

You are a crazy person.

I'm having so much trouble with this report, I just can't seem to crack the aging on it - too many things going on, too many parameters. I hate the insurance side of the business, the maths is so freaking complex because of all the relationships involved and the reports can't really handle it.

Speaking of crazy people, that troll thread is a minefield, but it is quite interesting trying to get some perspective on why people behave in these ways. From the horses' mouths, what they actually think they are doing. It's a real freakshow, but I can't help rubbernecking.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

It may have been untouched at ATP but I knocked the arse out of it last night. Hic.

xpost about Swedish mulled brandy alkyness.

much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going to get some to take up north for Christmas, I think.

ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

hot toddy is ok but it lacks the essential element of camomile. everybody knows that when ill one has to be drinking camomile with whiskey and honey.

ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm opening a christmas orphans centre at mine at xmas to make and drink mulled wine. this centre will have me in it.

ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate everything right now.

Work is shit. Everyone is giving me things to do that need to be done instantly, and they do not seem to understand that said things would take quite a while even if I didn't already have a huge pile of other "instant" jobs to do.

The goth seems to have lost interest after the weekend we had together.

The friend I was going to visit next week has cancelled. So now I am just going to be stuck at home with my mum all week, getting more and more pissed off with her.

Aaaargh, I need to get out of here somehow.

where "here" = this town, this family, this job, everything

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I went and looked at a pointed nose for a while and then felt a bit better. I still don't know how to deal with this report, though.

http://www.fadingwaysmusic.com/images/bandImages/jimClements/profile.jpg

Don't you ever, like, injure yourself or anything, with that nose? God, it's simply amazing. (I try to stop myself from acting like this, but it's just too enjoyable. Aaaaahhh.)

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

God, it's like an addiction or something. I mustn't.... no, I mustn't... no, no, I REALLY mustn't. OH BUT I MUST, I REALLY MUST!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

::big happy rush::

Followed by crippling shame again a few minutes later.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm out of here soon and will not be on the web much over christmas. I haf now to drive 150 miles thru fog to collect the in-laws for the holidays.

Everyone - keep safe and well and have a splendid time with loved ones over the holidays. Much love xx

Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy Winter Consumerfest, Dr. C!

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy Christmas!

ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

And to you! Eat, drink, be merry etc etc xx I am having one last coffee before I brave the fog.

Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

(please go and kiss Beryl under the mistletoe and report back)

ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

"What does it mean when all of my trait scores, bar two are above 30, and all of jels are 20 or below. Have I got more personality as well as having a different one?

I took a 50 question test. I seemed to select the middle button mainly, I couldn't decide. You may well have more personality than me ed.

jel -- (jel), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I couldn't be bother taking the tests. What does that make me?

pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Kate/Ned check emails, something in it that will just make your day.

pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 22 December 2006 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, it is going to be a drag next week when you guys aren't around.

substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Friday, 22 December 2006 08:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Or maybe today, even.

substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Friday, 22 December 2006 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link


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