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Topic Started: Jul 25 2011, 06:29 AM (2,224 Views)
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My Belgrade Hotel is in a dubious part of town, near a fly over. Went to an odd little bar where they didn't really want any customers, three youngsters having a chat. Reluctantly got us some beers and didn't give me any change from 400 dinars (it was 330 for the beers).

Anyway, the beer wasn't bad, 0.5 litre bottles of Efes, which I had never seen before.
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Anyway, the beer wasn't bad, 0.5 litre bottles of Efes, which I had never seen before.

My Sainsbury's sells Efes, if I remember correctly. Turkish beer, is it not?
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The first date I had with my wife was a Turkish Restaurant called Efes, so I am assuming a Turkish connection. The mini bar has Pivo Domace at 270 or Pivo Heiniken at 410. Guess which one I'm going to have :)
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Well, just opened the minibar to find that 'Domace' isn't a brand, it probably means 'local' and the beer is the rather unappealing sounding 'Lav'
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Just been out for a meal. had some Jelen, I guess local beer.
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I would need my husband to discuss beers, but I can talk about places where they are so busy with their own affairs that you feel unwelcome - and it's not necessarily in rundown places or where the staff is young. We thought we would go out for a pub meal in very attractive Much Wenlock in Shropshire. The first pub was run by a older woman. There was no one else there except her friend and a dog. We did get a drink, but were made to feel invisible so didn't eat there. Second pub - very busy, must be okay. Ordered second beer for husband. "No, sorry, no meal. Pub quiz night, don't do meals that night." Third pub: looked all right, husband wary by now, so doesn't order third beer (anyway he was driving - stupidity of insurance companies not allowing second driver of rental car without paying an extra 10 pounds a day another story). Fortunately, as they were full (not noticeably, but you can't argue about these matters). Fourth pub - success!! and a very nice meal.

Can recommend Emersons beer if any of you get to NZ. (Small Dunedin brewery.)

Cheers, Caro.
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'Domace' isn't a brand, it probably means 'local' and the beer is the rather unappealing sounding 'Lav'

'Domace' is probably the Slavic word for 'Domestos'; and 'Lav' is possibly where it ought to be poured...

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Well, had some Amstell draught at lunchtime. I noticed, too late, that they had Efes (which was a lot cheaper too). I'm gong to the Lav in a minute, I fancy a beer.

My colleague claimed to have found a restaurant near the hotel. We walked around the block, went in and checked out the menu. We noticed the back of our hotel was visible from the restaurant's outside patio thing. So, we walked through to see if we could access the hotel directly and, guess what? Yes, it was actually the hotel's restaurant (which we haven't used, so we aren't quite that stupid doh1 )
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Jimi Hendrix was left-handed RUMBABA , played his right-handed Strat upside-down. Whoops, wrong discussion. Must be the beers!
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Jul 26 2011, 05:06 PM
Jimi Hendrix was left-handed RUMBABA , played his right-handed Strat upside-down. Whoops, wrong discussion. Must be the beers!
Also, riduculously, Fender used to have in their catalogue (maybe still do) a Jimi Hendrix signature Strat, which was a left handed guitar, set up as right handed (there is a lot more than just swapping the strings, believe me) i.e. upside down. As far as I'm aware, there was no left handed version available. How mad is that?
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Had more Jelen and now I'm having the final Lav from the mini bar. The question is, do I start on the expensive spirits..................probably. What else is in here? The obligatory, frozen toblerone to lacerate the roof of your mouth with (those pointy bits of chocolate), Twix, Snickers, Kikiriki (no idea, can't see one), little bottles of wine, 'Viski'......., dunno :-/
Edited by rumbaba, Jul 27 2011, 01:44 PM.
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Actually, it isn't the hotel's restaurant. There is a sort of 'square' (rectangle really) in the middle of this block and they all have the same furniture, although they are different entities. A job lot of dark brown, basketweave chairs.

Had rucola soup, not made from cough sweets but rocket. it was rather nice, as was the chicken risotto. My Italian colleague (who doesn't eat meat) had the fish soup, with mussels, prawns and smoked salmon, followed by 'Fish leaf' on a bed of saffron puree. It turned out to be fillet of some kind of seafish. He enjoyed it.

The area is not good though and I will stay in the city when I come back in September. The bank, where we are working, is in an estate called 'Airport City'. Very upsetting to see the little makeshift shacks next to the road on the way to the office, I guess Roma people. No water, sanitation or power: little kids running around, it makes you weep.
Edited by rumbaba, Jul 26 2011, 06:50 PM.
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Drinking the final Lav and settled for a Sokolva Raiyka - sort of brandy - chaser
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Drinking Jelen in this weird busness lounge in Belgrade where you are allowed only one sandwich and one beer. At least they have free WiFi. I propose to drink Sekt on the two Lufhansa flights (Belgrade to Munich - Munich to Heathrow). I wonder what I'll get for eating on the flights? I had a tuna sandwich here, which was a big ciabatta thingy.
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Lufthansa Belgrade/Munich/Heathrow.

I had a weird sandwich on the first leg, 'mozzerella, pesto and tomato' but a funny paste / spread thing. some pink sekt. I got two salads on the secong leg (I dropped the plastic fork that was in the lid of the container and the hostess ran over it with the trolley and broke it, so she gave me another salad). There was some lettuce, a bit of boiled egg, some grated cheese, some strips of ham, a carton of dressing and a couple of breadsticks. I had a glass of white wine. Was going to have a beer for the good of the thread but didn't. Not bad, you get nothing on Iberia.

Had a Rothaus wheat beer on the way home from work tonight (they put a slice of lemon in without me asking now :) )
Edited by rumbaba, Jul 29 2011, 11:35 AM.
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I am working from home today due to train trouble on the Charing X / Hastings line. I am drinking Ruddles. There are some bottles of Erdinger but they need to be chilled, so Ruddles (from a can) it is.
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rumbaba
Jul 29 2011, 11:34 AM
I am working from home today due to train trouble on the Charing X / Hastings line. I am drinking Ruddles. There are some bottles of Erdinger but they need to be chilled, so Ruddles (from a can) it is.
Ruddles used to be a really good beer; I can't say that now.

Between G.Met and Greene King they've managed to 'cock it up'.

I note Greene King's "Abbott" has gone the same way...they've also 'diluted' Old Spec.

My favourite, for what it's worth, was Rooster's "Rooster" but I haven't seen it for ages...Their '"Yankee"' was also good but see the brewery has been sold...I'll see if it's as good next time in the UK...
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I used to love the Greenwich Beer and Jazz Festival, a great range of beers and decent music but it's not happening this year. :(
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Had some Erdinger today (bottle). I always have a slice of lemon in 'wheat beer', like they serve it in Munich. However, in this country, they regard it as ridiculous as putting ice cubes in cider <laugh>
Edited by rumbaba, Sep 7 2011, 01:42 PM.
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Had some Rothaus on the way home in 'All Bar One' opposite Cannon Street Station. £4.20 for a pint, which is steepish IMO. I asked for a slice of lemon in it (being wheat beer) and he nearly squirted some lemonade in but I stopped him in time.
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Beers are nice :)
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"Beers are nice" !!! Are you underage to be drinking beer? <whistles>
Edited by Mobson, Sep 7 2011, 11:09 AM.
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Beers are nice

<beer> >thumbsdown2>
<beer> <ok>

Not the sweeping stement that I would agree with. Some beers are nice. Others, unpalateable.
Tennants lager is the one that interests me, although I must add very smartly, I would not drink the stuff, I would not even insult my toilet by pouring it there-down. But I had heard it to be the best-selling beer in the country, yet is never advertised. Presumably it is actually marketed for alcoholics and drug-takers who have eroded their taste-buds down to the bone. Is this the one that should be taxed out of existance?
By the way, Ruddles (yum) in bottles [I never drink beer from a tin] at £1 each, at Morrisons, 'though the deal might be finished by now. <cheers!>
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I am drinking Efes in the crap business lounge in Belgrade. It'll be ages before I get home tonight. Got to change planes in Vienna (crappy Jet lounge) and wait ages there. Boo hoo :(
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Oh poor you Rum....i've been in that lounge! Cheer up, I'm drinking Perroni's Nastro Azzurro lager; for those who don't know, it's a 5.1% alcohol by volume pale lager, and the Peroni Brewery's premium lager brewed in Italy to the original recipe conceived in 1963. The name means 'Blue Ribbon' in honour of the 'Blue Riband' won by italian ocean liner SS Rex in 1933.

I do not usually drink lager at lunchtimes, but after tidying out the booze drawers last night, I saw a six-pack was nearing it's sell by date (end Nov)...so after having a houseful of blokes in this morning, maintaining and testing things, served it up with bowls of penne regate con pancetta, courgettes, and red chilli's, the last two ingredients from my ma's greenhouse! Boy,I know how to win brownie points with workmen...Delish!....the pasta of course! Phew better take another sip! <laugh>
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Perroni's Nastro Azzurro lager

A finer lager than many, in my 'umble opinion.

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bowls of penne regate con pancetta, courgettes, and red chilli's,

I'm impressed in the class of workman you hire; I'm not sure the threesome converting my new attic would appreciate that as much as a greasy-spoon fry-up.
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Hugh Mosby-Joaquin
Sep 7 2011, 05:18 PM
I'm impressed in the class of workman you hire; I'm not sure the threesome converting my new attic would appreciate that as much as a greasy-spoon fry-up.
So does that infer what we eat defines our class?.. :)
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Well HMJ, you know of where I live! <whistles> ...it's just that once the gas hobs had passed service, I felt compelled to knock something up and Ma's courgettes and red chillis were to hand....like to see workmen break a sweat. Oooops...anyway a greasy spoon fry up is great, I'm a big fan. I'm always reminded of Nigella Lawson once saying she could never be more than a few feet away from a bacon sarnie...(keeps individual rashers in the freezer) and so do I! <flyingpig>
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So does that infer what we eat defines our class?..

I hope not. I like nothing more than iconoclasm; or indeed, iconoclassem...I'm impressed when anybody breaks through those class barriers, which is what I have spent my life doing. Mobson's work-persons merely impressed me, and sort-of sounded continental, as opposed to quintessentially English. Actually, my plumber exists on Chinese take-aways...
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Sep 7 2011, 02:11 PM
Oh poor you Rum....i've been in that lounge! Cheer up, I'm drinking Perroni's Nastro Azzurro lager; for those who don't know, it's a 5.1% alcohol by volume pale lager, and the Peroni Brewery's premium lager brewed in Italy to the original recipe conceived in 1963. The name means 'Blue Ribbon' in honour of the 'Blue Riband' won by italian ocean liner SS Rex in 1933.

I do not usually drink lager at lunchtimes, but after tidying out the booze drawers last night, I saw a six-pack was nearing it's sell by date (end Nov)...so after having a houseful of blokes in this morning, maintaining and testing things, served it up with bowls of penne regate con pancetta, courgettes, and red chilli's, the last two ingredients from my ma's greenhouse! Boy,I know how to win brownie points with workmen...Delish!....the pasta of course! Phew better take another sip! <laugh>
I found a different lounge in Vienna which was small but not so bad. Had some soup and a bit of salad, a couple of glasses of white wine but no time for coffee and a brandy before the flight was called. Had something interesting on the flight to London. It was BMI and they served a 'Hot Posh Wrap' in a cardboard box thing. It was sweet potato salsa and was actually quite nice. What was a bit scary was the sell by date on the box - August 2012. How can a wrap last that long?
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"Mobson's work-persons merely impressed me, and sort-of sounded continental, as opposed to quintessentially English. Actually, my plumber exists on Chinese take-aways..."

Actually they were English Whites (sounds like I'm describing a potato!). Yesterday's inspection of gas and electricity is required (& paid for) by the Crown Estate and as I followed the man who wanted inspect 'everything gas' around, he pulled out his i-phone and took a picture of the flue inside the chimney of my gas fire! Putting details of my gas hob and 2 gas fires into his tiny laptop, he printed out a copy for me and was gone!....the Electricians still preferred the 'old way' and diligently went from my communications cupboard to each room and back again checking, ticking off as they progressed, eventually writing down everything by hand on a printed form on a clipboard and gave me an unintelligible carbon copy! They got the benefit of lunch!

We are having a complete overhaul of our building's common parts and a spanking new entrance hall (which is costing us all, not the CE, around £400k). The workforce are mostly polish; with the exception of the foreman, who is Irish, and controls them with a rod of iron and runs the contract from his i-phone. They have been given an area in our basement where they congregate to change their clothes, make tea and presumably eat their food...I am curious to know what they eat too, since there are no smells coming from down below! The Irish foreman came to me this morning and used his i-phone to photograph and document some minor damage to my hall whilst his men were fitting new skirtings earlier in the week. To be doubly sure, he took out his camera and photographed all the cracks and nicks via zoom! This is the modern way of working, I'm sure if they could find a phone to do the work they would! He's arranged for the decorators to come next week..I will definitely not be feeding them; the odd cup of tea perhaps!
Edited by Mobson, Sep 8 2011, 02:31 PM.
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I'm off to the hairdressers for a evening of fun, fantasy (hope not the haircuts) and discounts on hairdressing and products! I hope drink is involved although not Beer!
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Not even a beer shampoo?...leaves a lovely sheen I believe.... :D
Edited by becky sharp, Sep 8 2011, 06:49 PM.
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My mother used a beer shampoo for her dark brunette hair and it did make it shiny I think - a dark brown thick creamy satin shampoo that smelt like guinness, sold in a small cream plastic beer barrel shaped container! No beer tonight just the proverbial red and white or pomegranate juice with soda! Nice hair! <whistles>
Edited by Mobson, Sep 9 2011, 08:48 AM.
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