Re: Cocktails

2001-09-10 Thread Struan Donald
* at 10/09 07:18 -0700 Randal L. Schwartz said: > > "Simon" == Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Simon> "I went back home to Hastings and ordered a lager top and the > Simon> bar man looked at me and said 'you know we don't serve > Simon> cocktails in here Brian'" > > Simon> Sound

Re: Cocktails

2001-09-10 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Struan Donald wrote: > * at 10/09 07:18 -0700 Randal L. Schwartz said: > > > > I don't get it. What's a "lager top"? > > it's an odd thing consisting of a pint[1] of lager that's topped up with > lemonade. i guess it's kind of like half way between lager and shandy > and as

Re: Cocktails

2001-09-10 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On 10 Sep 2001, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Struan" == Struan Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Struan> it's an odd thing consisting of a pint[1] of lager that's topped up with > Struan> lemonade. i guess it's kind of like half way between lager and shandy > Struan> and as such the re

RE: Cocktails

2001-09-10 Thread Robert Price
Lucy McWilliam Wrote: >On 10 Sep 2001, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> Although I drink berry-flavored ales, so I guess I can't disburse the >> blame much. :) At least they don't have small umbrellas in them. > >Berry-flavoured ales in the CAMRA sense? *struggles to think of alternatives* Lager and

RE: Cocktails

2001-09-10 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Robert Price wrote: > Lucy McWilliam Wrote: > >On 10 Sep 2001, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >> Although I drink berry-flavored ales, so I guess I can't disburse the > >> blame much. :) At least they don't have small umbrellas in them. > > > >Berry-flavoured ales in the CAMRA

Re: Cocktails

2001-09-10 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On 10 Sep 2001, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Lucy" == Lucy McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lucy> Berry-flavoured ales in the CAMRA sense? *struggles to think of > Lucy> alternatives* > > The very first pint I drank from top-to-bottom was a freshly-brewed > Raspberry Ale called "Ru

Re: Cocktails

2001-09-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:19:32PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: > When I were a lad we used to drink rum and blacks ..which were guinness with a > shot of rum in it. Guinness and port is rather nice. I think I mentioned this on Thursday, but no doubt whoever I told was too drunk to remember. --

Re: Cocktails

2001-09-10 Thread Chris Heathcote
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:50:07 +0100, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Guinness and port is rather nice. I think I mentioned this on Thursday, >but no doubt whoever I told was too drunk to remember. This is probably deja-l.pm, but I find draught Guinness (and especially draught guiness

Re: Cocktails

2001-09-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Lucy" == Lucy McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Although I drink berry-flavored ales, so I guess I can't disburse the >> blame much. :) At least they don't have small umbrellas in them. Lucy> Berry-flavoured ales in the CAMRA sense? *struggles to think of Lucy> alternatives* I do

Re: Cocktails

2001-09-10 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On 10 Sep 2001, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Struan" == Struan Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Struan> it's an odd thing consisting of a pint[1] of lager that's topped up with > Struan> lemonade. i guess it's kind of like half way between lager and shandy > Struan> and as such the re

RE: Cocktails

2001-09-10 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Robert Price wrote: > Lucy McWilliam Wrote: > >On 10 Sep 2001, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >> Although I drink berry-flavored ales, so I guess I can't disburse the > >> blame much. :) At least they don't have small umbrellas in them. > > > >Berry-flavoured ales in the CAMRA s

Re: Cocktails

2001-09-10 Thread Simon Wistow
> Or worse Guinness and Black :( A good throwing drink though in both senses > of the phrase - most spectacular ;-} When I were a lad we used to drink rum and blacks ..which were guinness with a shot of rum in it. I was blisfulyl unaware that other people used te word black to mean a shot of blac

Re: Cocktails

2001-09-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Struan" == Struan Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Struan> it's an odd thing consisting of a pint[1] of lager that's topped up with Struan> lemonade. i guess it's kind of like half way between lager and shandy Struan> and as such the reasons for it's inventions are beyond me. Ooof. Yes