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What's that you're drinking?

#1 Post by llondel » Sat Aug 08, 2020 8:43 pm

From https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53706732
A Canadian brewery has apologised for unwittingly naming one of its beers after a Maori word that is commonly used to mean pubic hair.

Hell's Basement Brewery in Alberta said it released its Huruhuru pale ale two years ago, thinking it meant "feather".

But Maori TV personality Te Hamua Nikora pointed out the common interpretation of the word in a Facebook video.

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#2 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sat Aug 08, 2020 9:33 pm

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#3 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sat Aug 08, 2020 9:40 pm

But given the humidity...

Maybe some misbegotten Essex tipple...



I enjoyed Ian Dury before I had ever been to Britain or even lived in Essex... tis poetry folks...

I was always amused by Janet from Thanet who looked like a gannet. At least he wasn't a typical English chauvinist (like some here) and gave Kent its due too! :)) I had a girlfriend from Thanet but her name wasn't Janet but I knew her very well too... =))

I was a passing drinking mate with Gilad Atzmon, Israeli anti fascist and ex Blockhead band member... (accused, as always, as an anti-semite for pointing out the bleeding obvious... )... great jazz player. Kind of guy that makes one want to be a Jew...

https://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news ... -1-5825578

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#4 Post by Alisoncc » Sun Aug 09, 2020 12:56 am

Not now, it's morning, but last night well. Favourite Winter tipple before bed is a glass of 50/50 milk and Muscat. For those up there unfamiliar with Ozzie Muscat.
A Liqueur Muscat (or, to give it its correct name, Muscat) is a fortified wine made in Australia from the Muscat à Petits Grains Rouge (known locally as Brown Muscat). The wine is sweet, dark, highly alcoholic Australian wine that has some similarities to Madeira and Malaga. The grape is most commonly produced in Victoria in the wine regions of Rutherglen and Glenrowan.
Liqueur Muscat essentially starts out being a late harvest wine with the grapes allowed to stay on the vine till they are in a partially raisined state. The grapes are then pressed and go through partial fermentation where it is halted by the addition of grape spirits. The wine is then aged in oak in a system resembling the Sherry solera system.
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#5 Post by Woody » Sun Aug 09, 2020 7:13 pm

I bet Ribrash has had a few of these :ymdevil:
Yates Original Sweet White Liqueur Wine, 150 cl: Amazon.co.uk: Grocery
Aussie White' as the product is often known as is unique - it's a blend of Australian wines with grape brandy- it's particularly popular in the north of England and is drunk as a spirit. Great tasting,
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#6 Post by ian16th » Sun Aug 09, 2020 8:10 pm

Woody wrote:
Sun Aug 09, 2020 7:13 pm
I bet Ribrash has had a few of these :ymdevil:
Yates Original Sweet White Liqueur Wine, 150 cl: Amazon.co.uk: Grocery
Aussie White' as the product is often known as is unique - it's a blend of Australian wines with grape brandy- it's particularly popular in the north of England and is drunk as a spirit. Great tasting,
Isn't there a town in Lancashire, Burnley or Blackburn maybe, that drinks an inordinate proportion of the total Benedictine production?

Something to do with the local army regiment being the garrison of that part of France, during WWI.
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#7 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Aug 09, 2020 8:22 pm

Bloody Mary could be a bit iffy

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#9 Post by Woody » Sun Aug 09, 2020 8:55 pm

Which leads to :)) :)) :))

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#10 Post by EA01 » Tue Aug 11, 2020 6:10 am

Um...right now drinking a large dry Dry Cinzano with raspberry infused sparkling mineral water. It's surprisingly pleasant. ;)))

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