I have tasted many Belgian beers. I wouldn't swap any one of them for a decent pint of bitter.

[Berni]

Indeed, I'd go so far as to say that I've never truly enjoyed any Belgian beer. It's horribly overrated.

[One Wilf Copping]

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

that extraordinary; some pleasant enough white beers, for example. Perfectly quaffable for a summer's evening.

The majority of it though, as far as I can acertain, is that sickly-sweet 8% stuff. It all tastes like Red Stripe to me. :shrug:

[Classic Jorge]

Beer had its place, and that was before we could reliably not get typhoid or dysentry from water.

I get it, fine, it gets you pissed, just not as well as spirits. Spirits also taste of ****, mind. They are just more efficient.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Rich]

[Classic Jorge]

I'm not tea total or anything, I just don't really like the taste of much drink. Maybe a nice vodka with a Snapple, but I'd rather just have the snapple.

Come to think of it, I've not had a drink this year.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

I do wonder if it's the fact that the locals always try and foist the ****ty, barley wine-esque filth made by monks driven mad by celibacy me, but you'd think I'd have found something half-decent.

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Jake]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Imagine not liking booze :-(

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

But the cherry coke makes you sound like a real homosexual.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

NOW we find the root of the problem.

[Classic Jorge]

Anyway, it's not like it's the only inebriant available, is it? You'd have to be a proper boring ******* to think that

[Berni]

Beer is surely designed to be drunk in vast, medically-inadvisable quantities. I'm not interested in sitting there sipping beer. I don't even sip wine, ffs! I guzzle.

[Classic Jorge]

Come to think of it, I'm bang against that 'sugar turns to alcohol' business. I need sugar, dammit!

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I simply can't cope with the volume. I remember in my footballing days, partaking of 10+ pints of Guinness in a session, and marvel now that such a thing was possible.

[Classic Jorge]

[Rich]

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

head just before he had his first drink of the day'?

Without that to drive one on, how can one manage to get through a working day? :shrug:

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Had it recently, wasn't impressed.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

Time to move on to wine or spirits at that stage.

[Rich]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Never to approach Lorenzo with the line, 'Give me a drink here to wash away the taste of respectability.'

:-(

[Jake]

Mind you they get absolutely hammered now and again, they are young, though.

[Berni]

Most people will acknowledge that I am quite a good-natured and happy drunk.

It's when I'm sober that there's an issue.

[Ashberto]

[Classic Jorge]

Never got on with beer though, prefer a nice bourbon or a vodka.

Efficient delivery, see

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

partake of the gak very often :-(

[Classic Jorge]

You will attest that I can hold my own on the beer though, like morrissey with sex i just choose not to.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Sitting outside a bar on a lovely little square, on a soft, warm evening, I thought to myself, I thought, 'Ash would puke if he smelt this.' :hehe:

[Berni]

to have when I get in. I even tease myself by delaying it with a shower, getting dressed, starting to cook dinner - but I know it's coming. The anticipation is delicious.

That's healthy, isn't it?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Sometimes after work if I can't be bothered to go for a run I remind myself that doing so will mean that I start drinking an hour later and will therefore not be pissed until 8, instead of 7. This seems to the healthy choice.

[Berni]

[Berni]

and three quarters of a bottle. Pretty abstemious of me, really.

[Ashberto]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

['Neg]

IAHYK :rolleyes:

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