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Recent Posts Tagged With 'beer'
Nuts 4 Beer
I didn't blog yesterday because I was at the Great British Beer Festival.Talking of which, you'd have to be desperate for a pint to take up this offer: ...
A pint of numbers
Down the pub this evening, one of my colleagues referred to the beer Kronenbourg as 'numbers' - presumably because its full name is 'Kronenbourg 1664'. That's a new one on me.Photo from FlickrAnd Googling 'Kronenbourg' and 'pint of numbers' threw up ...
Timothy Taylor steak and ale pie
This afternoon I found myself in one of my favourite London pubs, the Black Friar in Blackfriars.On the menu was 'Timothy Taylor steak and ale pie'. Very tasty, no doubt, but as Timothy Taylor referred to the ale (Timothy Taylor Landlord) rather than...
You know you've been subbing too hard...
...when you start hallucinating a giant glass of beer whenever you walk past a pub.I saw this one lunchtime in the street near my office. I was with one of my colleagues at the time, and he told the beer: "I've drunk your babies."Journalists can be s...
Photo special: this week special large beer
I spotted this sign outside a cafe in Funchal, Madeira last year. Down by the harbour, as I recall.(If you can't see the photo, the sign reads: "THIS WEEK SPECIAL LARGE BEER".)It makes me wonder. Is the large beer special because it is being offer...
A pint and a half, or a pint in a half
I was in a busy pub in central London last night and went up to the bar to buy a couple of drinks."A pint and a half of Coors*, please," I said to the barman.He went off to start pouring the drinks and then came back to ask me: "Was that a pint and a...
