Tag: alcohol

My partner and her husband (my metamour) have a tradition that every 5th wedding anniversary they get the "next size up" of champagne bottle.

This meant that on yesterday, when we celebrated their 15th, we needed to get through a Methuselah: a massive 6 litre bottle equivalent to nine standard bottles of champagne (rightmost in the attached picture).

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A half bottle, standard bottle, magnum, Jeroboam, and Methuselah of Bollinger champagne lined up on a window ledge, with a banana for scale.

It's times like these you're glad of friends you can call on to help you drink such a monster!

Sometimes the kids need to leave your pub dinner before you finish your drink, and you need to take a "to-go" pint.

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Dan, grinning, holding a quarter pint of beer in few rear passenger seat of a moving car.

TFW a recipe calls for a glass of wine but you can't get the cork back in the bottle so you just have to drink the rest of it.

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Dan, in a kitchen with some kind of tomato sauce on a hob behind him, holds a glass of red wine and shrugs at the camera.

Ah well, what's a chef to do? 🤷🍷

It's been a long day of driving around Ireland, scrambling through forests, navigating to a hashpoint, exploring a medieval castle, dodging the rain, finding a series of geocaches, getting lost up a hill in the dark, and generally having a kickass time with one of my very favourite people on this earth: my mum.

And now it's time for a long soak in a hot bath with a pint of the black stuff and my RSS reader for company. A perfect finish.

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A pint of Guinness alongside a can, on a tiled bathroom shelf.

Made it through a day and a half of theme park fun with the kids. Time for a much-needed beer, then as long a sleep as circumstance will allow.

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Three glasses of beer held by adult hands clink together against a glass of water and a bottle of Fanta held 6 by cold hands.

This evening, I'm reduced to re-alcoholising my alcohol-free beer. Unfortunately the cleanest-tasting vodka I have is "only" 40% ABV, so by adding enough of it to bring the beer back to its correct ABV... I'm technically watering-down the beer.

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Pint glass having been filled with a carefully measured mixture of 0%ABV Guinness and vodka, with measuring spoons alongside.

This might be the strangest cocktail I've ever made.