Xela Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 3 hours ago, KHV said: Depends where you are North brum and what your drinking. Will be interested to see what the new micro brewery place in Sutton will be like Looks like its nearly ready when I drove past the other day. What decent pubs do you think are in Erdington and Sutton?. I'll be honest I tend to drink more in the city and occasionally Moseley so haven't been out for a while where I live. I just don't remember the places being that good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 3 hours ago, AVFCDAN said: You can get this in Bacchus if you didn't know already. Yep, had a few pints of it in Bacchus after work the other day. Also on draft at The Shakespeare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 2 hours ago, mjmooney said: Jeez, the Station in KH. What's that like these days? Last time I was in there must have been about 1972, when it was old West Indian guys playing darts or dominoes in the bar, and a very stuffy carpet-and-flock-wallpaper lounge full of old dears drinking sherry. But it was cheap, and just round the corner from my mate's house. Quite a 'trendy' place now. Fairly young crowd and live music on quite regularly in the back room. Nice little beer garden as well http://independent-birmingham.co.uk/the-sun-at-the-station/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHV Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 (edited) 42 minutes ago, Xela said: Looks like its nearly ready when I drove past the other day. What decent pubs do you think are in Erdington and Sutton?. I'll be honest I tend to drink more in the city and occasionally Moseley so haven't been out for a while where I live. I just don't remember the places being that good My local is the Yenton where I have been drinking for 12 years, it's not got a great reputation but I'm used to it. Other than that I use Wetherspoons in boldmere, the horse and jockey, the three tuns. a bit further away i use the hardwick arms, the cock inn, the butlers arms, the green house. I also like the dog and doublet in the summer over by bodymoor heath. I spend 6 years living in moseley and kings heath and occasionally pop back over now and again too Edited December 4, 2015 by KHV 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 (edited) The Yenton has just had a make over hasn't it? Horse and Jockey is decent as it the Tuns. Haven't been to the Hardwick in a while. The Green House is my local but can be a bit pretentious, as can the Cock Inn. I forgot about the Crown in Four Oaks, which is nice. They do have different vibes to the ones in Moseley/Harborne/Kings Heath though. More of an older crowd and less 'studenty', which depsite my age, is what I tend to prefer! Edited December 4, 2015 by Xela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHV Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 10 minutes ago, Xela said: The Yenton has just had a make over hasn't it? Horse and Jockey is decent as it the Tuns. Haven't been to the Hardwick in a while. The Green House is my local but can be a bit pretentious, as can the Cock Inn. I forgot about the Crown in Four Oaks, which is nice. They do have different vibes to the ones in Moseley/Harborne/Kings Heath though. More of an older crowd and less 'studenty', which depsite my age, is what I tend to prefer! Yeah a big makeover, it's actually very nice and they have added some different beers too which is always nice. I used to go to the crown but haven't been for about 5 years! I know what you mean about the crowd especially at the green house and cock inn. I prefer Moseley/Kings Heath but it's a mission if you don't drive there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 4, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted December 4, 2015 2 hours ago, mjmooney said: Jeez, the Station in KH. What's that like these days? Last time I was in there must have been about 1972, when it was old West Indian guys playing darts or dominoes in the bar, and a very stuffy carpet-and-flock-wallpaper lounge full of old dears drinking sherry. But it was cheap, and just round the corner from my mate's house. Quite a 'trendy' place now. Fairly young crowd and live music on quite regularly in the back room. Nice little beer garden as well http://independent-birmingham.co.uk/the-sun-at-the-station/ **** ing hell, that's changed a bit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 not one for drinking at home but saw this earlier and thought why not. Couldn't remember if I'd had it before or not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Mike, it's taken over a full rehaul. It's a trendy place now. When my mum used to drink there it was how you remember it, but now it's anything but.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PongRiddims Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 I've been trying the ales a lot recently, don't think lager is too good for me any more. Just had a bottle of TT Landlord, opened a Bathams Best (nod to D1), got a bottle of Golden Glow, Enville and something called Chocolate Marble left. Tried Ubu and Mad Goose the other night, Ubu was a very nice drop. Of the ones mentioned above, which would everyone pick as their favourite? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 I like Mad Goose. TT Landlord is also lovely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Tonight - Blue Moon beer, Hendricks gin and an unnamed proseco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 10 minutes ago, Xela said: I like Mad Goose. TT Landlord is also lovely Another vote for the Landlord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted December 18, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted December 18, 2015 1 hour ago, PongRiddims said: I've been trying the ales a lot recently, don't think lager is too good for me any more. Just had a bottle of TT Landlord, opened a Bathams Best (nod to D1), got a bottle of Golden Glow, Enville and something called Chocolate Marble left. Tried Ubu and Mad Goose the other night, Ubu was a very nice drop. Of the ones mentioned above, which would everyone pick as their favourite? Bathams, Glow and Enville? Are you finally growing some taste buds there mate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PongRiddims Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 I've been trying the ales a lot recently, don't think lager is too good for me any more. Just had a bottle of TT Landlord, opened a Bathams Best (nod to D1), got a bottle of Golden Glow, Enville and something called Chocolate Marble left. Tried Ubu and Mad Goose the other night, Ubu was a very nice drop. Of the ones mentioned above, which would everyone pick as their favourite? Bathams, Glow and Enville? Are you finally growing some taste buds there mate? [emoji3] Haha actually it was a close call, the offie had crates of Red Stripe on offer, they nearly won! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PongRiddims Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Enville, Landlord, Ubu winning the taste so far, Bathams was close second, not keen on Glow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted December 19, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted December 19, 2015 Margarita. Real one. Fresh squeezed lime juice, Cointreau, Cazadores reposado. Nothing else. Shaken over ice. No sugary slushy confection. F*** that sh**. Refreshing, and you see God if you have enough... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Tequila by Alvaro Mutis translated from the Spanish by Forrest Gander —for María and Juan Palomar Tequila is a clean flame that clambers up the walls and shoots over tiled roofs, relief to despair. Tequila isn’t for sailors because it blurs the navigational instruments and dismisses the wind’s tacit orders. But tequila, on the other hand, enraptures those returning by train and those driving the train, because it stays faithful and blind in its loyalty to the rails’ parallel delirium and to hurried greetings in the stations where the train pauses to testify to its inscrutable destination, errant, subject to the inevitable laws. There are trees under whose shadow it is wonderful to drink it with the parsimony of those who preach in wind and other trees where tequila can’t stand the shade that dims its powers and in whose branches it stirs up a flower blue as the warnings on bottles of poison. When tequila waves its fringed, serrated flag, the battle halts and armies return the order they intended to impose. Often two squires accompany it: salt and lime. But it is always ready to start the conversation without any more help than its lustrous clarity. From the start, tequila doesn’t recognize borders. But there are propitious climates just as certain hours suggest it, knowing full well: to fix the time when night arrives at its stores, in the splendor of an afternoon without obligations, in the highest pitch of doubt and hesitation. It is then when tequila offers us its consoling lesson, its infallible joy, its unreserved indulgence. Also, there are foods that call for its presence: those springing from the ground from which it, too, was born. Inconceivable if they didn’t bond with millenary certainty. To break that pact would be a grave breach with dogma prescribed to allay the rough job of living. If “gin smiles like a dead girl,” tequila spies on us with the green eyes of a prudent sentry. Tequila has no history, no anecdote confirming its birth. It is so from the beginning because it is the gift of the gods and, usually, when they promise something they aren’t telling tales. That is the office of mortals, children of panic and habit. Such is tequila and so it will be keeping us company all the way to the silence from which no one returns. Praise be, then, until the end of our days and praise the daily effort toward denying that end. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 WWWWWWWWWWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 A few of these with tonics last night. Gin is fast becoming my favourite spirit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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