Birthday Drinks
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Don't really give a xxxx for Fosters Mick
Happy Birthday Matthew, easy on the Henry Westermans, you know what it does to you!!!
My favourite would have to be champagne as I think you know, preferably with a strawberry or a raspberry dropped into it! Oh and I am very partial to a champagne cocktail if it's done properly - sugar in bottom of glass, two drops of angostura bitters, cointreau, brandy, top up with champagne and drop fruit into it.
But apart from the finer stuff, anything will do really!!!
My favourite would have to be champagne as I think you know, preferably with a strawberry or a raspberry dropped into it! Oh and I am very partial to a champagne cocktail if it's done properly - sugar in bottom of glass, two drops of angostura bitters, cointreau, brandy, top up with champagne and drop fruit into it.
But apart from the finer stuff, anything will do really!!!
Sleeman's Ale, Lancaster Bomber, Spitfire, Red Stripe, Tsing Tao, Tusker ... well, any beer but American beer ... Yank beer is like making love in a canoe
... Altho', come to think of it, Samuel Adams makes a few good beers. Crown Royal, Forty Creek ... ok, any Canadian rye apart from 5 Star. Oh ... any bourbon or Irish; don't much like Scotch, unless of course it's free. Any Rum ... but I like Pusser's and Baccardi 151. Gin too ... I'm having one right now with tonic; great for the hot weather we have been having. Don't drink much takillya; it makes me invisible. Rusty nails. Root Beer Schnapps. And a whole bunch of other stuff; alto' I don't get into the mouthwash until the real booze is gone. You might not be surprised to hear that, on my fiftieth birthday, my buddies took me home in a shopping cart. I also find that most drinks go well with weed ... B&B: booze and a bong
And it all started when I was fifteen when I had my first in-pub pint of Thwaites mild in the Prince of Wales. Or was I fourteen
Happy birthday, by the way. Eat, drink, and be merry etc.
... Altho', come to think of it, Samuel Adams makes a few good beers. Crown Royal, Forty Creek ... ok, any Canadian rye apart from 5 Star. Oh ... any bourbon or Irish; don't much like Scotch, unless of course it's free. Any Rum ... but I like Pusser's and Baccardi 151. Gin too ... I'm having one right now with tonic; great for the hot weather we have been having. Don't drink much takillya; it makes me invisible. Rusty nails. Root Beer Schnapps. And a whole bunch of other stuff; alto' I don't get into the mouthwash until the real booze is gone. You might not be surprised to hear that, on my fiftieth birthday, my buddies took me home in a shopping cart. I also find that most drinks go well with weed ... B&B: booze and a bong And it all started when I was fifteen when I had my first in-pub pint of Thwaites mild in the Prince of Wales. Or was I fourteen Happy birthday, by the way. Eat, drink, and be merry etc.
Beers, many & varied, I go somewhere Forn' I try the local brew. 
Single Scottish malts are my main spirit choice all though I'll drink some blends (mainly Irish), but Rum (dark) comes in a close second.
Single Scottish malts are my main spirit choice all though I'll drink some blends (mainly Irish), but Rum (dark) comes in a close second.
A glass of cool Lugana "I Frati" or their Rosé (Ca Dei Frati) preferably while sitting on the shore of Lake Garda- check out their website:
Cà dei Frati - Azienda Agricola dal 1939, Lugana di Sirmione, Lago di Garda. (this is only in Italian I think.) It's a fabulous place to visit -was originally a monastery and has the best underground cellars I 've ever seen -frescoed in the 17th century and beautifully constructed. They have accomodation and you can see more , in English this time, at : Càdeifrati dot com which is a different link!
Anne's champagne cocktail sounds like one to try -am partial to bubbles for a special occasion -takes me back to a particular evening in Epernay, supping a bottle in the square while being spoon-fed rasperries -happy days!
Cà dei Frati - Azienda Agricola dal 1939, Lugana di Sirmione, Lago di Garda. (this is only in Italian I think.) It's a fabulous place to visit -was originally a monastery and has the best underground cellars I 've ever seen -frescoed in the 17th century and beautifully constructed. They have accomodation and you can see more , in English this time, at : Càdeifrati dot com which is a different link!
Anne's champagne cocktail sounds like one to try -am partial to bubbles for a special occasion -takes me back to a particular evening in Epernay, supping a bottle in the square while being spoon-fed rasperries -happy days!
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Anne's champagne cocktail sounds like one to try -am partial to bubbles for a special occasion -takes me back to a particular evening in Epernay, supping a bottle in the square while being spoon-fed rasperries -happy days!
You mean your parents let you drink champagne while you were still a baby?
I wish I'd had parents like that.
Ha ha Dianne sounds like a lovely memory. Haven't done that in Epernay but visted there a couple of years ago and stayed on their beautiful municipal campsite - only because we'd driven all round Reims to find theirs only to find it was now under a building site so we had to journey on till we came to the next suitable place!Anne's champagne cocktail sounds like one to try -am partial to bubbles for a special occasion -takes me back to a particular evening in Epernay, supping a bottle in the square while being spoon-fed rasperries -happy days!
A nice pint or three of Old Speckled Hen followed by two or three good malt whiskeys
Anne's champagne cocktail sounds like one to try -am partial to bubbles for a special occasion -takes me back to a particular evening in Epernay, supping a bottle in the square while being spoon-fed rasperries -happy days![/QUOTE]
It's delicious, the elderly owner of a beautiful restaurant in Skala in Kefalonia told me the recipe, apparently he was a bit of a playboy in the 1960's and if I remember his story correctly I think he was given the recipe from the bar manager at the Ritz at that time. (Or so he said!)
[/QUOTE]It's delicious, the elderly owner of a beautiful restaurant in Skala in Kefalonia told me the recipe, apparently he was a bit of a playboy in the 1960's and if I remember his story correctly I think he was given the recipe from the bar manager at the Ritz at that time. (Or so he said!)
It would certainly explain a lot Gordon...but it was actually my other half who was plying my with the bubbles and soft fruits -about 18 years ago. He used to be such a charmer
It had been a very traumatic day Sue -but with a lovely end. We were on our way back from Disneyland Paris to Italy (40°C in the shade -nightmare stuff! I'd suffered a mini-meltdown 2 days before on a Bateaux Mouche on the Seine -not the place to go if you want to cool down!
). After an hour on the road I said to husband -we should think about getting some petrol soon -he saw me blanche and without saying anything turned the car round. I'd left my purse and all our money and credit cards in the bedside drawer at the hotel in Disneyland
(along with my brain too probably -I'm known for these hole in the brain moments!
)...luckily they still hadn't cleaned the room when we got back there! Went back by a different route stopping in Epernay -gorgeous place -was destiny that we should go there
a long time ago I walked into our local, to celebrate a birthday of a friend named Joy, on asking what she would like to drink she replied a brandy port & babycham Joy said on tasting the drink its wonderful , our party group had several of these and finished the night legless, from then on the drink became known to us as a Joy special,
(has anyone else been caught asking a friend what they would like to drink)
(has anyone else been caught asking a friend what they would like to drink)