Cheap beer delivered!

[PlaneMan]

If you can get the site to work, you can get £10 off anything on the site, 6 beers for £2.99 delivered.

They acknowledge that they are getting hammered and have vowed to honour the offer, if that turns out to be the case is another thing. Valid until the 23rd.

Good luck. Code is TREAT10.

[PlaneMan]

Just completed my order, 6 good beers for £3. They were doing a website upgrade, much quicker now.

This is what I got.

[blacklion1725]

Think thats the quickest I ever clicked on a thread! Cheers – ordered! They have their Best on in my local, tried a few others, looking forward to this selection.

[PlaneMan]

My box just arrived, better late than never!

I’m looking forward to these.

[keith with the teef]

He, he, best pint of Broadside I ever had was in Sounthwold. 🙂

Infact I had to pints on the lunch and being a little tipsy I spend £70 on a shirt. Which i never wear ‘cos I look?

[Bob Williams]

My Bil and Sil holiday in Southwold a lot and he is always banging on about the beer, mostly because he knows I can’t drink it. I’ve seen him drunk and he is just as much of a miserable, moaning barsteward as he is sober, can’t help but wonder if the Adnams actually puts a smile on his face. My son & daughter say he is the worst of their 2 uncles.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[PlaneMan]

Had a couple of the beers so far and they are superb.

The Broadside was a bit of a surprise, reminded me of bonfires for some reason, very pleasant though.

Fair play to Adnams for honouring the offer.

[PlaneMan]

Another great deal, see the HUKD thread.

[blacklion1725]

Cheers PM – got mine last week and will make a dent in it today – familiar with most of them but a couple of new ones too.

[PlaneMan]

Had one of each now (the Flavourly ones) and while I like them I can’t see me buying them again. Just a bit much, like they are trying too hard.

I’d have the odd one if they were available locally but I won’t be buying a box again, unless it’s for someone else.

[blacklion1725]

I make you right PM – 3 of 4 OK for me (as per other thread) – the porter a write off though. I know what you mean about trying too hard. Goes for a lot of this craft beer I think – just because you can doesn’t mean you should!

I think the IPA is my preference of the 4, and all worth a try at that price. The citrus thing seems very common, and I don’t quite get it – not just this deal but a lot of these small craft breweries. Was in Colorado a couple of years ago and craft beer is absolutely huge there – around 300 breweries just round Denver and the outskirts. One I tried there came with a slice of orange in it – not for me! I think the smaller breweries making more traditional beer are more up my street, and luckily plenty of them in Essex and especially Kent.

[Bob Williams]

I toured BC in the early 80’s with a mate and settled in Vancouver for the final few days. In this link, scroll down to “Granville Island Brewing”: we sampled beer from there and it was gorgeus stuff. Lager-based, but I had got used to ‘Real’ lager after 8 years in Germany, including NATO exercises in Belgium, Holland and France. It seems from the website that it has been taken over by the massive Molson chain, but left alone to continue doing their own thing. Molson itself is not bad for Big Brewing stuff, but is like Carling* to Carlsberg in comparison: you can drink it if there is absolutely no alternative. Link;

Granville Island Brewing – http://tinyurl.com/yakt7885

* remember the old Carling ad? – “He must drink Carling Black Label!” – after some guy does something unbelievable. Someone once said that to me in a Para bar after a bad landing (twisted shroudlines) as I limped into the bar. “No,” I said “I drink Carlsberg. I pee Carling Black Label though!”

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Dave Rice]

If you are in Amsterdam you have to visit In de Wildeman Ironically it’s where I first tasted the Bristol wiper and true beers, but they now have their beers served in a lot more places locally.

Top of the list In de Wildeman this week is Fullers London Pride! Mind you they also have a Dutch Schwartz, a Belgian Quadrupel at 9.5% and an Ijsbock I’d like to try (I’m sure Bob knows all about Bocks). May be we’ll get there in October as we have done the last few years.

Back to Vienna in July which isn’t exciting beer wise, but as it’s all Southern German style I’m not complaining but they are nuts for cider. The Spar shop beneath the main train station was like being back home. Cans of Blackthorn everywhere.

Bristol is craft beer mad. Once the weather perks up I intend to get back to the rejuvenated docks area and the Wild Beer bar and brewery. 20 taps plus loads of bottles and cans from all around the world.

Off to London tomorrow for 4 days. I expect I’ll be having a pint or two of London Pride ? Might have to check out the Craft Beer Co pubs too.

[blacklion1725]

Can’t go wrong with London Pride – Dave not sure where you will be in London but if you find yourself East-ish of the City then The Grapes on Narrow Street (between Wapping and Canary Wharf) is worth a visit – it is ancient, tiny and does really nice beer (not that many buut all good). Best to go when its quieter if you can then you can have a drink looking at the river and not be surrounded by pinstripes.

 

[Ed P]

Back in my old student days, there were a few London pubs which had both atmosphere and beer.

In Stepney The Prospect of Whiby

In north London The Spaniards Inn

In Fleet Street The Cheshire Cheese

For atmosphere Dirty Dicks

I see that the latter has been Elf & Safetied since I last went there. When I was a student it made its reputation from the ‘fact’ it had not been cleaned or dusted for 200 years. Now just a sample has been hygienically moved to a glass case!

 

 

 

[Dave Rice]

I think I do remember the Cheshire Cheese from when I was working just over Blackfriars Bridge. We used to go into pubs around St. Brides quite a lot, but a quick look shows they’ve all been poshed up. St Brides Tavern now smart dress only! But that was at the time of the Bishopsgate bombing, so nearly 25 years ago. I used to walk down Bishopsgate on the way to Liverpool St as I was staying in Essex at the time. What a mess. I remember often calling into Dirty Dicks on the way.

We’re staying near Paddington, but the joy of London is it’s not hard to get around. We’re a 5 minute walk from 5 different tube lines. I did read up about the Grapes when I saw a bit on TV about Ian McKellern owning it and it looked good. The Cutty Sark / Greenwich via the hop on hop off river service is on the list. Could always hop off at Canary Wharf on the way back or get the DLR to Westferry.

Looks like it’s going to be wet this afternoon so will probably end up in Leadenhall Market for an hour or two then get something to eat and drink. Going 1st Class for the first time in my life as we got tickets for £20. Looks like it’s going to be one of the new GWR Hitachi “bullet” trains ?

[Bob Williams]

I remember the Prospect from much earlier: 1962/3 as a Junior Deckhand, calling in at West India Dock and sailing for the Ellerman Wilson Line from Hull. Stepney was a favourite watering hole, lovely ‘proper Cockney’ girls. but could hardly understand them at first and they struggled with my Nottinghamshire coalfield accent: “Eyup Miduck, a’ yer alreight?”

One time, I got lost away from my normal route, asked two girls where I was – “Mi’waw, mate!”   –   “Wheer’s that, duck?”   “Mi’waw, ennit! A’ Yer from ap Norff?”

I established that the very attractive young lady was saying “Millwall” and was asking if I was from the North of England. Eventually, over a coffee at her bedsit….

Happy days!???

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[PlaneMan]

If you’re a 3 contract customer and have a Majestic Wine nearby check the Wuntu app. You can get 4 Brewdog Punk IPA for £0.

It might work for some PAYG customers, didn’t for my mum though.

I’m currently thoroughly enjoying mine. ?

[D-Dan]

The cheapest beer I’ve had delivered was 3 weeks ago, when a box marked “Heavy” and “Glass” arrived at work unannounced, addressed to me, and with no note of who sent it.

Turns out a client who has emigrated to the Caribbean was happy enough with my service that he arranged an online delivery from Germany, initiated in the Caribbean of a case of beer (12 bottles real ale) as a thank you. I was very grateful, and it didn’t cost me a bean (well, except the time in detective work to figure out who’d sent it).

Arch Linux, on a Ryzen 7 1800X, 32 GB, 5 (yes -5) HDs inc 5 SSDs, 4 RPi 3Bs + 1 RPi 4B - one as an NFS server with two more drives, PiHole (shut yours), Plex server, cloud server, and other random Pi stuff. Nice CoolerMaster case, 2 x NV GTX 1070 8GB, and a whopping 32" AOC 1440P monitor.

[PlaneMan]

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