My must-have this Christmas

the least drinkable concoction I've tried was akvavit and green
chartreuse. In fact, it was actually undrinkable.

ho yuss. Me[1] and me dad made wine from *anything* vegetable or
fruit-based back in the late 70s/early 80s. I remember a particularly
vile gooseberry wine. Oh, and don't even start me on the "mint
chocolate vodka".

[1] my parents had an "enlightened" view about pre-teens drinking wine
with Sunday lunch, and if you'd helped make it, you got double
portions.

 

bad form an all that but it seems they're good at service too cos it
turned up today. now all I need to do is to remember its connected to
the lapdog and not fling the thing round the room when I go to get
coffee.

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That's so you'd doze on the sofa in a drunken supor while they went
off and shagged.

 

you're almost certainly correct. They did use to suffer from a "need
to have a lie down" on a Sunday afternoon.

 

Wasn't that what "Sunday School" was for?

 

Not when your grandparents were running it. <shudder>

 

*Flars*

 

Balls to yer all.

 

Or (probably as bad) - Eau-de-vie and Blue Bols. Mixed. And when you
puke it comes up as a lurid green mixture.

Phil

 

Indeed. She likes Morris Minors after all.

Phil

 

I still occasionally make some fruit wine from kits just for a change,
currently got some plum and elderflower fermenting hopefully in time for
xmas. You can very the sweetness to taste after the fermentation has
finished, so after a bit of trial and error you can make it as sweet or
dry as you like.
Elderflower champagne rocks, although my attempts at making have so far
been completely rubbish, both my mum and my gran can make cracking
champagne. It can get a bit fizzy though, I can remember waking up as a
kid hearing what sounded like bombs going off, I went downstairs and it
turned out that a 4 month old champagne bottle had separated at the next
due to the pressure (barr lemonade bottles), the resulting shock had
triggered the rest of the cupboard to go with it. There wasn't much left
of anything else in the cupboard....

 

That happened to a stash of beer I made, once....

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember
(The Older Gentleman) saying
something like:

Heh. Happened to a stash of ginger beer I made as a kid. Luckily the
kitchen was empty at the time. Bits of glass embedded in the walls, ffs.

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"Don't **** with a Ginger"

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Pip

It was that **** Blue Peter's fault.

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Heh.

That reminds me - that Peter Pervert - what a **** he was, eh?

 

Nothing wrong there - I've had several.

 

It's my Wife's birthday on Christmas Day. She ruins my whole day by
insisting that we treat her in some special way. FFS.

 

odd tastes.