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Harry,

Orangeboom? when I was working in the Emirates, I was registered in Sharjah and as a non Muslim I was able to apply at the local cop shop for an alcohol license to buy alcohol at the local (government run) off-license.

It was worked out at the equivalent of a bottle of whiskey per day! Anyway when they ran short the last bl**dy beer left was Orangebloom, had to chill it to just this side of frozen to force it down............but we managed to.

Artist keep up the good work of not mentioning Brandy Sours, first time in Cyprus couldn't understand why I kept falling off my stool after 3 or 4. Much to Mrs. Chunky's amusement. Then twigged there was best part of half a pint of firewater in each !

Harry, when we did the Belgian Para Course and got 'winded off' they use to load us on a bus and take to the Star brewery to stop us getting bored. Ten minute jog around the brewery and then to the guest room and the singing contests. some lads from D Sqdn in Dundee started the rot with 'Wir Fahren Gegen Engeland' to which the Germans riposted with the 'Horst Wesel' nearly got thrown out until the French gave us the 'Marsellies', which B Sqdn topped with every verse of 'On Ilkeley Moor Bahrt 'at' and won by sheer apathy.

Steve, are the Maltese beers still brewed with salt in the water. As I remember, most water was brought in by Tanker from Tripoli, and was always tainted by salt. My first cup of tea in St Andrews tasted bloody aweful, and it took time to get used to, but it gave the booze a taste that grew on you after the first gallon.


Aye Owdun.

Orangeboom

nice lager, cheap and strong, just how I like it. I descovered it about 6 months ago and I have never looked back.

Also, has anyone been watching the news tonight about the British public being the biggest binge drinkers in Europe. According to the government binge drinking is defined by more the 4 pints in a 2 hour period. Its ridiculous but its something to be proud of.
You'd think the government would realise thats its there fault we drink some much in such little time.

I mixed coconut milk, rum and honey ale in the same glass a while ago, I feel sick. I knew a guy who used to put a jolly rancher and a pinch of bread in an orange, crush the orange a bit, wrap it in plastic and 10 days later queeze the juice into his mouth, he'd get drunk and sick from it. Alcoholics, I've always admired them.

Labatts beer is good, I like Red Stripe and Kalib too.

The best Beers, I mean Beer not Larger, were brewed by small independent Brewerys of which, sadly, there are few left. My Family owned one such firm named Burts Brewery, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Burts was run by my two uncles and produced some fine beers, one, a Top fermentation beer called V.P.A or Veeps as it was locally known.was excellent. I used to enjoy visitors ask for a proprietary brand of beer in one of the 9 public houses the brewery owned, only to be told the pub was tied and owned by the local Brewery, they would then begrudgingly say they would have half of whatever...... then watch'me stagger out after just a few pints!
Sadly the brewery was taken on by my cousin who literally pissed the whole lot up the all.
That’s another story
Aye

This thread will go on forever...... and ever and ever and ever as this country is a bunch of binge drinking piss heads....Have you seen the news lately, fairly funny....20 Billion a year on piss heads..

Whitey,
Did you mean Redstripe and Carib?
Both brewed?in Jamaica.Caribs all right ,but the only way I can stomach Redstripe is with a tot of Pusser's or Cavalier.
Wholley.

Frank

That is why the older and bolder are called "salty sea dogs" We drank anything!

Never forget "bulkhead bouncers" Weeeeee!

Artist

Wholley,
My God, I just looked at that last post, sorry, I was having one of those days. I drank a bottle of rum and meant Redstripe and Carib. I like them both.

Have you ever tried a liquoir called "Shine" ? It comes in a mason jar type bottle and is sold in the booze store? That stuff is good mixed in Molson. Do you like MGD? I think it is okay. I used to drink it alot because I was poor. Now I drink imports. BTW did you know that Rolling Rock is the only domestic acceptable to drink with mexican food?

Oh yeah, Blue Moon, that beer glows in the dark. I bet a few kidney stones have come from that.

Beer is okay, but sour mash is where it's at. Oh and Bombay gin, now that straight is a mans drink.

Worst fluid to pass my lips was a Peruvian drink called 'Pisco Sower.' Rumour has it that it is made of Battery Acid, Turps with a drop of Meths just to lighten it up a bit. It tasted like nothing I’d had before or after. Running shortly behind has to be 'Cape Brandy' concocted in South Africa, this gem was one of the few beverages that was refused entry into the UK in grounds that it was a health risk.... It was drinking this (ok after the mouth went numb) that I first met a Kai-Ty (spelling)
Having drunk a large mans share of the stuff, my Oppo and I climbed some stairs into a den of iniquity called 'Darralls Bar', to find most of the ships company there and having trapped......with the exception of two rather tall, ,essence young ladies who appeared to be on their own.
Being True Royal Gents we made ourselves known to them and bought them a drink or two. Later....Much later and with the Bottle of Cape Brandy on its last legs, and defiantly us too the ladies invited us UP-HOMERS.... We had trapped and in a big way....... the fact that both ladies were tall and fairly well built and that they had particularly deep voices seemed not to worry us in the least.
It was not until we had travelled some miles in a taxi, necking, groping breasts....yes real breasts! that my Oppo and I found the true nature...sorry Gender of our newly found friends..............the Taxi stopped abruptly and we... very much wiser alighted to fight another day

Sorry for hijacking the topic lads.
Aye

Mike
On return to the ship did thy pipe the side with a guard,
or was the Doc on hand for the rest of the ships company :rocol:

SMOKING

Mike,
happened to me too,in Costa Rica.
Funny how threads get bent innit!
From beer to transvestites in one post.
Gotta love this forum.
Wholley.

Anyone remeber 'BREAKER'... Malt Lager in the 70s?

Remember Brandy Sours in Cyprus, Keo beer ( really a lager and had traces of 13 known poisons in it), Keo Brandy, free Kokkinelli (evil red plonk they could not sell, made yer tongue go purple) with every scran. Brandy was 25p a bottle and cough mixture a quid so the economics meant if you caught a cold you got totally smashed for a week.

Mike, got wrecked on Pisco Sours in Chile once; Pisco is some kind of spirit made of cane sugar.