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What Are You Drinking? V2. Frosty Jacks - For The Discerning Pisshead

lost weekend said:
Old jocks ,its like a mcewens export but twice as strong nearly 7 percent ,tesco although it costs like 3.50 a bottle.minimum pricing crap
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You know, I'm glad you mentioned that because I saw a news item were a student in Scotland got on the train to buy alcohol in England. It was summer (what journalists terem 'the silly season' because serious news items are thin on the ground) but I did a back-of-a-fag packet calculation and wonder if people are buying say white cider in bulk just south of the boarder and selling it on.

A few years ago just a couple of miles from my home 8 people were killed in an explosion. Investigators discovered they were making vodka in bulk. So clearly people still see UK pricing as an invitation to make money illegally.
 
4DQSAR said:
You know, I'm glad you mentioned that because I saw a news item were a student in Scotland got on the train to buy alcohol in England. It was summer (what journalists terem 'the silly season' because serious news items are thin on the ground) but I did a back-of-a-fag packet calculation and wonder if people are buying say white cider in bulk just south of the boarder and selling it on.

A few years ago just a couple of miles from my home 8 people were killed in an explosion. Investigators discovered they were making vodka in bulk. So clearly people still see UK pricing as an invitation to make money illegally.
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I work for a few customers who brew their own beer but not spirits as I was told its quite dangerous to distill high percentage alcohol in your garden shed lol 😆 .been down to alton towers and it's crazy buy one get one free [that was 3 years ago] but I'm sure they must still have deals on
 
Yeah - it was a group of Eastern Eropean guys. The investigation also found huge quantities of smuggled cigs and they found multiple butt-ends on the floor of the 'laboratory'. Ethanol vapour is explosive. Who knew?
 
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I dread to think what I spend on alcohol and you know what the sad thing is if it was cheaper I would just drink the same amount but have more change left in my pocket. Minimum pricing dosnt work .they can spout all the figures they want on sales reducing compaired to England but your average scot drinks more than their neighbour south of the border .i have no evidence to back this up only a hunch
 
lost weekend said:
I dread to think what I spend on alcohol and you know what the sad thing is if it was cheaper I would just drink the same amount but have more change left in my pocket. Minimum pricing dosnt work .they can spout all the figures they want on sales reducing compaired to England but your average scot drinks more than their neighbour south of the border .i have no evidence to back this up only a hunch
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Theirs different attitudes to drinking in Scotland I feel ,it can be a solitary thing compaired to England. One person and their bottle alone 😔
 
Well DDN (Drink and Drug News) suggests that the peoples of Scotland are drinking less. But I made the point that it's possible to brew beer and we KNOW people are making spirits... and they declined to comment.

But I have witnessed a couple of Scots who would arrive at a party with their bottle of spirits, sit down and drink the lot. I didn't know it was common.
 
Not too sure about the Scots, although they certainly have the history and the stereotype, and the Glaswegian drunk has long since become a stereotype thanks to Rab C Nesbit, and was the case long before that.

But it seems to me that the whole of the UK has a massive drinking culture, with the Welsh, and Irish being about the same as the English.

Although maybe the Welsh and Irish are perhaps slightly more hardcore with their drinking in general, although it's hard to say.

I haven't met many Scottish people, or spent enough time out and about up there to comment properly on that, really.

So I'm not sure if the drinking culture is actually any heavier up there than it is in Ireland, Wales, or England, and among all of the separate nation's diaspora or exiles.
 
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We all drink but from experience, it's us English who tend to get more fighty after a drink.

I rarely drink. I can't even recall the last time I had a pint but I do recall not touching a drop even over the Christmas period.
 
4DQSAR said:
Well DDN (Drink and Drug News) suggests that the peoples of Scotland are drinking less. But I made the point that it's possible to brew beer and we KNOW people are making spirits... and they declined to comment.

But I have witnessed a couple of Scots who would arrive at a party with their bottle of spirits, sit down and drink the lot. I didn't know it was common.
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its getting better with the younger generation who dare i say it are more educated to the pitfalls of drink ,it depends which part of Scotland i suppose but in my long running battle with the bottle i firmly believe Scots have a magnetic attraction to drinking not only in pubs but more worryingly at home by their selves .im sure its the same all over the uk .i havn't lived in England so cant say for sure .there was a long running culture in the building trade to get steaming at lunchtime ,return to work and tidy up your tools then disappear to the pub and spend your wages ,this was still going on when i served my time and im 43 and was accepted as the norm hence the 2.30 finish on a friday for most electrical firms .
 
4DQSAR said:
We all drink but from experience, it's us English who tend to get more fighty after a drink.

I rarely drink. I can't even recall the last time I had a pint but I do recall not touching a drop even over the Christmas period.
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Bleaney said:
Not too sure about the Scots, although they certainly have the history and the stereotype, and the Glaswegian drunk has long since become a stereotype thanks to Rab C Nesbit, and was the case long before that.

But it seems to me that the whole of the UK has a massive drinking culture, with the Welsh, and Irish being about the same as the English.

Although maybe the Welsh and Irish are perhaps slightly more hardcore with their drinking in general, although it's hard to say.

I haven't met many Scottish people, or spent enough time out and about up there to comment properly on that, really.

So I'm not sure if the drinking culture is actually any heavier up there than it is in Ireland, Wales, or England, and all of the separate nation's diaspora or exiles.
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yea im not sure i can only speak for myself and the people i know who def like a dram most nights but not necessarily to anywhere near excess.i always say my old man dosnt drink but he has 2 whiskys and coke every night then bed ,i dont see that as drinking as he waits till 8 pm never earlier never later
 
Did you know that in Russia, any alcoholic drink with less than 10% alcohol is considered a food.

For a while in the 90s a few smart brewers figured out there was money to be made. I think that might have changed but evidently enough people did the calculation and worked out 10% larger was cheaper than vodka in terms of cost per unit.
 
4DQSAR said:
We all drink but from experience, it's us English who tend to get more fighty after a drink.

I rarely drink. I can't even recall the last time I had a pint but I do recall not touching a drop even over the Christmas period.
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i think thats a football thing Britannia rules the waves etc .its getting better through time but the English certainly dont have a particularly good football supporter history to be proud of.possibly due to the expectation of their team and previous events in wars .unfortunately Scotland dosnt have that problem with expectation anyway although we all fought together during wars
 
4DQSAR said:
Did you know that in Russia, any alcoholic drink with less than 10% alcohol is considered a food.

For a while in the 90s a few smart brewers figured out there was money to be made. I think that might have changed but evidently enough people did the calculation and worked out 10% larger was cheaper than vodka in terms of cost per unit.
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without looking at dubious tables on wiki i know eastern bloc states have a huge problem with high percentage spirits,maybe a way to keep warm in the winter lol.i know some indigenous people in colder climates have strong spirits whether made from milk or something else
 
lost weekend said:
without looking at dubious tables on wiki i know eastern bloc states have a huge problem with high percentage spirits,maybe a way to keep warm in the winter lol.i know some indigenous people in colder climates have strong spirits whether made from milk or something else
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Well in Russia someone found a loophole i.e. alcohol is often used as the solvent in perfumes. So for a while they were selling 750ml bottles of 'perfume'.

Thing is, it was industrial alcohol and while most nations denature ethanol in a way to make it undrinkable due to the taste, in Russia they went down the easier route of adding methanol...
 
4DQSAR said:
Well in Russia someone found a loophole i.e. alcohol is often used as the solvent in perfumes. So for a while they were selling 750ml bottles of 'perfume'.

Thing is, it was industrial alcohol and while most nations denature ethanol in a way to make it undrinkable due to the taste, in Russia they went down the easier route of adding methanol...
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ive seen alcohol dens in Russia on tv that resemble hard drug gatherings with a steel fire drum to keep warm not a pretty sight
 
Shambles said:
Saw a 12% beer in Sainsbury’s t’other day. £6 for a 500ml can with minimum pricing, mind, so a bit steep… although I’m sure I’ll try it sooner or later =D
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What was it called? Searched Sainsbury's for it but drew a blank. I used to like living near a Sainsbury's. The selection is superior to every mainstream supermarket bar Waitrose.

Currently stocks this gem from the Rodenbach brewery. A few other >3% brews too.

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Drinking a lot of this right now as the original brewery is closing.

I'm not a Midlander, but this is a total shame. Whenever I was south of Crewe I'd look forward to a pint of Banks's mild. It's destroying history.

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