jonattonyeah Lol, good to hear the US has upped their game big time!
Worst place I’ve ever drank beer is Aus, they serve pish in Schooners which are essentially half pint glasses with a different name
booze update
nice to see Ian has finally gone full Jackanory mode again, the mad old bastard.
jonattonyeah might aswell start serving pints of wine
As opposed to a cheese dodging Thalidomide 
Given our liquor pours, might as well. But, fuck it. Liquor distributors in California are essentially cartels. There are two who control everything and you have to order from them. It’s cheaper to go to grocery store and buy a handle of booze and refill bottles than it is to buy from Southern and the other group I cannot remember the name of. They fix prices. But you have no choice. And if you go monkey business and fill bottles with off-licensed booze, they’ll date bottles and will report to Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) when things seem awry. Buying booze from an unapproved vendor is very illegal.
But you make it work. Cartel dickhead wants you to stock a new bourbon they’re over-leveraged on, cool gimme 10 kegs of not bad but not great Pinot Noir below cost. I’ll pour a pint of that wine for a JC brother without a second thought.
Jonathan still blabbing on about the intricacies of running a bar in the Bay Area when he’s literally the only one interested.
Gotta fill the time while working, Dave. If one person finds it interesting, good in my book. Do you have anything to share? Any yellow whores to recommend? Needs pics.
bosstrabs for my sins, I enjoy them.
I made lemon and watermelon gin cocktails yesterday and got absolutely rat arsed. Off to Sasha tomorrow night and then down to the Summer house on Saturday. Bliss.
jonattonyeah I suppose it’s like the boozers here, majority owned by the big companies so sell all the same booze. It’s only the independents you get some real variety and interesting stuff
Can’t beat an ice cold pint of Carling Rich.
I’ve made Vodka filtered through a coconut and it tasted better than anything you’d spend a 100 quid on. You realise the level of marketing and how easy it is to dupe people with it. When I think of these places that do bottle service with roped off tables filled with idiots spending literally hundreds it just makes me laugh. “I only drink Grey Goose”. Thats fine but allow me to think of you as a complete idiot.
It was either Aldi or Lidl who did a blind tasting exercise in Dublin around 2013 for some magazine. They used all the top brands of vodka and their own “house” brands with names like Blawovski and Red Eagle. They used some socialites and a few experts for the tasting. One of the house brands came first. I’m sure all the fancy tasters were mortified. The cost of a bottle was under 20 euro at the time. It just goes to show the power of branding and I’m sure you can apply that to most spirits, beers and ales are obviously more complex.
Did someone say branding?!
Your whole campaign is a psy-op, Ed
I’d like to smack Ed in the neck with a red hot branding iron.