Real ale trooper
My father-in-law, star that he is, agreed to put up some shelves in SD towers tonight, saving me a job and saving the house from another drunken DIY disaster.
To thank him, I cooked bangers and mash and bought a couple of bottles of bottle-conditioned ale, which he always enjoys, from Portland Wine cellars.
Imagine my embarrasment when both exploded on opening, spraying yeasty maltness all over the kitchen.
Real ale trooper that he is, he drank the dregs rather than the Carlsberg (30 cans for £12) I had lurking in the fridge or the bottle of “cheap but brilliant” Manzanilla sherry I allowed the Portland owner’s wife to sell me.
Lovely, he said, through gritted teeth.
I was like him once, a real-ale or nothing man. Now I drink cheap sherry and scour the supermarkets for bargain booze.
How many more Camra men are going to the dogs?
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Portland Wine is one of the best shops in Southport and can do with all the support it can get rather than your petty whinges about a random act that would have happened wherever you get it from. I am have now removed your RSS feed from my reader
Andrew - December 1, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Nobhead. I wasn’t complaining about Portland Wine Cellars, whom I have always praised to the skies.
Forget the RSS, you are banned from my website.
southportdrinker - December 1, 2008 at 11:49 pm
That’s that sorted then! (-;
Tandleman - December 2, 2008 at 11:22 am
Calsberg? Never! Life’s just too short.
Dubbel - December 3, 2008 at 10:18 am
theres nothing more focusing then having to scour the supermarket for bargain booze! It brings the kind of rewards a suppose a footballer feels upon scoring a goal.
Who said us drinkers were a bunch of cheap layabouts?
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mrbarbar - December 3, 2008 at 4:33 pm
[...] Landlord Geoffrey Miller has a generous promotion that knocks 50p off a different pint each night. Savings are worth making in the Hightown as there is no doubles bar, meaning a round gets pretty expensive when you’re with spirits-drinking pals. As bad luck would have it, Carlsberg was the cheap beer on offer and I’m sick of the stuff. [...]
The Hightown « The Southport Drinker - December 3, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Mr Barbar, no one knows better than we two.
southportdrinker - December 3, 2008 at 8:43 pm