Disappointment of The Month: Sainsbury’s Christmas Ale

January 3, 2010 under Uncategorized

Well its a new year, and time for the first “Disappointment of The Month”. I opened up this promising looking tube on New Years Day, a present from the Mrs, it looked like a nice gift… on the outside. When you open it up, there are two disappointments. To start with – the bottle itself, is so small at 330ml its really quite sad. Secondly the free pint glass is non branded – its totally blank! Now I know a pint glass is a pint glass – but a bit of effort would have nice!

So this year… if you’re looking for a beer set for next Christmas. Skip the Sainsbury’s own box set – its not worth 4 quid…

The Daily Mail Hates Entertainment

December 30, 2009 under TV Shows

Well this has nothing to do with beer, drinking or anything else like that. But it has alot to do with what alot of beer drinkers like watching online. I’ve come across this on the Daily Mail website. Now why is the Daily Mail giving the Tories the time of day with this trash reporting? People obviously find David Tennant entertaining, or he wouldn’t be on. Besides who has really noticed?

Also Nigel Evans (the Tory MP with too much time on his hands), must have been watching a special edition of the Christmas Day Doctor Who for him to say;

‘It was an hour of Tennant getting chased around a scrap yard by June Whitfield.’

Really? The scene barely lasted a few minutes? If he gets that confused from an hours worth of drama, then should he really be helping to run the country?

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Half Price Guinness Box Set?

December 30, 2009 under Uncategorized

Well post Christmas sales must be the time to run and get cheesy beer box sets:

The Christmas Beer Roundup (part1)

December 29, 2009 under Uncategorized

Tis the season to be jolly! Tis also be the season to take advantage of the huge amount of Festive Ales that are out and about.

So here’s what could possibly be the first part of my round up of Christmas Beers I’ve come across:

Ugly Sisters

Marstons Ugly SistersGuys. Imagine having a conversation with a mate in the pub. You hear about these sisters, they sound great, but when you get to meet them – they’re kinda ugly. Ugly Sisters from Marstons is a bit like that. The first impression is nice and refreshing – then that tangy, citrus aftertaste hits your senses like a train. This is the sort of beer that then rests on your gut like a stone.

So – its nice… but be ready for that tangy aftertaste!

Snowy

Snowy Beer from CotleighFrom the Sisters – I moved onto the Owl. You can almost the white feathers! Well you cant, but me saying that is more interesting then the beer itself. Its good – just kinda boring….

Count your alcohol the gadget way…

December 3, 2009 under Uncategorized

The BBC have reported on a fancy new app for the iTunes / iPhone / iTouch family.

The NHS “Alcohol Tracker” designed to help you count your alcohol intake, but why would you want to use an application for this?

Surely if you did care.. you would simply try not to drink too much?

If you are interested, then you can find the tracker here.

BBC News

Do you fancy a Nuclear Penguin?

November 29, 2009 under Uncategorized

Now this is something interesting, Tactical Nuclear Penguin is the worlds strongest beer with a volume of 32%. Now this seems like a crazy strength, but for once BBC News has an almost balanced article about it all.

Managing director James Watt said a limited supply of Tactical Nuclear Penguin would be sold for £30 each. He said: “This beer is about pushing the boundaries, it is about taking innovation in beer to a whole new level.” Mr Watt added that a beer such as Tactical Nuclear Penguin should be drunk in “spirit sized measures”.

So Brewdog are saying, its crazy strong – like spirits can be – so drink it like vodka, whiskey and so on…

However Jack Law, of Alcohol Focus Scotland, described it was a “cynical marketing ploy” and said: “We want to know why a brewer would produce a beer almost as strong as whisky.”

Well Jack. Why not? Beer brewing can be an art form, no one is making anyone drink this stuff. In fact why isn’t anyone kicking about whiskey – because you could drink it in pint glasses if you wanted to.

Maybe Jack should drink some nanny state

Doctor Who. The End of Time Preview

November 25, 2009 under Uncategorized

According to Digital Spy, the BBC have released the following info about The End of Time:

“It’s the Tenth Doctor’s final journey – but his psychotic nemesis the Master has been reborn, on Christmas Eve. With both determined to cheat death, the battle ranges from the wastelands of London to the mysterious Immortality Gate, while the alien Ood warn of an even greater danger approaching, as a terrible shadow falls across the entire Universe.”

… and ‘The End Of Time, Part Two’: “The Doctor faces the end of his life as the Master’s plans hurtle out of control. With the sound of drums growing louder, and an ancient trap closing around the Earth, the Doctor and Wilf must fight alone. But sacrifices must be made, and the deadly prophecy warns: ‘He will knock four times.’”

Sounding good, but what will knock four times?

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Bit of a clean up?

November 20, 2009 under Uncategorized

Well I have a new theme… May actually stick with this for a while…

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Fancy a Beer?

November 19, 2009 under Uncategorized

Good news from the BBC News

Alcohol ‘protects men’s hearts’

Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third, a major study suggests.

The Spanish research involving more than 15,500 men and 26,000 women found large quantities of alcohol could be even more beneficial for men.

Female drinkers did not benefit to the same extent, the study in Heart found.

Experts are critical, warning heavy drinking can increase the risk of other diseases, with alcohol responsible for 1.8 million deaths globally per year.

The study was conducted in Spain, a country with relatively high rates of alcohol consumption and low rates of coronary heart disease.

The research involved men and women aged between 29 and 69, who were asked to document their lifetime drinking habits and followed for 10 years.

Crucially the research team claim to have eliminated the “sick abstainers” risk by differentiating between those who had never drunk and those whom ill-health had forced to quit. This has been used in the past to explain fewer heart-related deaths among drinkers on the basis that those who are unhealthy to start with are less likely to drink.

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