Mon, 12:52 : Kenilworth, Edinburgh. No @caskmarque certificate on display due to awaiting one with new manager's name on. Beer not bad at all. Mon, 12:55 : Acceptable English Pale Ale. Needs more hops. — Drinking a Three Mills Pale Ale @ The Kenilworth — http://t.co/gFt36H3P Mon, 14:38 : The original cask lager. The weather's about to break, but this is perfect. — Drinking a Schiehallion @ Regent Bar — http://t.co/EPWbVTZz
Sat, 13:51 : Warming up for #eurovision by watching Sir Terry's 50 year retrospective. Sat, 13:57 : At home enjoying first Eurovision beer. Excellent start — Drinking a Chocolate Marble by @marblebrewers — http://t.co/t39km9Z9 Sat, 14:00 : Da da dada da da daaaaaa da da.... #eurovision Sat, 14:05 : Enjoyable intro. Great wire work. #eurovision Sat, 14:05 : RT @foxxmetamatic : #eurovision Atleast if we do win, we shuold have a big empty stadium to host it in next year Sat, 14:10 : No Graham, they arrested all those people so you *wouldn't* see any trouble! #eurovision Sat, 14:15 : United Kingdom: the sort of ballad I mock when it's in Foreign. #thehump is in his element though. #eurovision Sat, 14:18 : Hungary: scrub 'em up and you'll have a boy band. #eurovision Sat, 14:19 : Hungary: singer clearly wants to be Robbie Wiiliams. #eurovision Sat, 14:22 : Albania: Bj�rk's Albanian half-sister sings about the pain of constipation. #eurovision ( Read more... )
Fri, 13:53 : Gorgeous, hoppy session ale. Cracking. — Drinking a Zymic by @StewartBrewing at @kil_der_kin — http://t.co/Je4SXe85 Fri, 16:00 : Not a Strong Mild, but a stronger than usual mild. Phew! Lovely complex malty flavour. (Gunpowder Strong Mild) http://t.co/L1S9iDZJ Fri, 18:54 : Pale ale with Cascade hops providing more citrus than the lemon it allegedly contains. Be excellent... (Lemon Dream) http://t.co/5PR9lEPk Fri, 19:52 : @on_lothianbuses , your new leaflets and website say the N25 goes from Waverley Steps when they actually go from George Street? Fri, 19:53 : @on_lothianbuses - I've just had to field a phone call from a confused tourist friend because of this! Sat, 04:00 : @UltravoxUK @midgeure1 @CCrossky It arrived :-) This is what the excessively flashy amp+speakers connected to the Mac has been waiting for! Sat, 05:06 : "I'm here to grow your little monument"?! #Ultravox Sat, 05:44 : It is a cat sized sunbeam and it is mine, all mine! http://t.co/yrzwFw2a Sat, 05:48 : RT @leannich : RT @chiller : Can we stop calling feminists who are transphobic "radical feminists" and use the correct term "transphobic f ...
Thu, 14:00 : Okay, #eurovision semi 2 time! Thu, 14:06 : Serbia: nice intro. Hopes dashed as soon as the vocal started. #eurovision Thu, 14:08 : Serbia: has it finished yet? #eurovision Thu, 14:10 : FYR Macedonia: the winner of the Macedonian Popstar to Opera Star? #eurovision Thu, 14:11 : Bored now. #eurovision Thu, 14:14 : Netherlands: No, this sort of music demands a *cowboy* hat! #eurovision Thu, 14:18 : Malta: You know what they say about male trolley dollies? Yes, that. High chance of being heard in the clubs post-Pride #eurovision Thu, 14:22 : Belarus: ooh, nice chain mail and a cracking gay anthem. #eurovision Thu, 14:27 : Portugal: so when does 007 show up? #eurovision Thu, 14:31 : Ukraine: this song will be illegal in the Ukraine soon. #eurovision ( Read more... )
Wed, 15:26 : Cask version - blasphemy! — Drinking a White Shield by William Worthington @ The Ferry Tap — http://t.co/2MozW2tu Wed, 15:56 : Has the Belhaven seaweed nose, but lacks flavour. — Drinking an IPA by Belhaven Brewery @ The Ferry Tap — http://t.co/V0zVTJOz Wed, 15:58 : @caskmarque - in the Ferry Tap, N. Queensferry. Bar staff say no new certificate has arrived, so I can't scan it :-( Wed, 16:49 : Best 80/- ever! — Drinking a Stewart 80/- by @StewartBrewing @ The Ferry Tap — http://t.co/f9BQ8Mhd Wed, 18:11 : Most pleasant. — Drinking a Hop Pocket by Vale Brewery Co. at @jdwtweet — http://t.co/OBzY5LTB Wed, 18:29 : Not as I remember it, the hop note being much more fruity. — Drinking a Stag by Exmoor at @jdwtweet — http://t.co/N3CPSHsa
Tue, 14:07 : Montenegro. Good start, but now Gerard Depardieu is rapping #esc2012 Tue, 14:12 : Iceland: another intro appropriate for World Goth Day. Has degenerated into Evanescence though. #esc2012 Tue, 14:15 : Greece: legs not as good as Dana International. Standard Eurovision fare with added balalaika. #esc2012 Tue, 14:16 : Where's @Spirit_of_1976 ? #esc2012 Tue, 14:20 : Latvia: I've managed to hear this before somewhere. Self-referential, not that interesting. #esc2012 Tue, 14:21 : Latvia: But kudos for tall, not convent illy feminine, female singer towering over her backing singers. #esc2012 Tue, 14:23 : Okay, autocorrect, how did you get convent lily out of conventially? Tue, 14:24 : Albania: when unravelled, that dread stretches to the moon, and took her 3000 years to grow. Song is loud ballad of screech. #esc2012 Tue, 14:25 : And the autocorrect still doesn't get "conventionally"! Tue, 14:29 : Romania: moonwalking bagpiping Elvis! #esc2012 #eurovision ( Read more... )
Wed, 17:05 : I just earned the 'American Craft Beer Week (2012)' badge on @untappd ! http://t.co/pniNDZnd #acbw Wed, 17:05 : At home. A more than adequate accompaniment to sophisticated Japanese cuisine. — Drinking a Traditional Scrumpy — http://t.co/ZYCqTCCw Thu, 08:40 : Trying to order my staples, but alas, @JapanCentre doesn't have the big bottles of ooi ocha right now, nor plain konnyaku. Thu, 08:58 : Oooh - several more export versions of Japanese curry brands have gone vegetarian. Time to try something different!
Wed, 03:22 : Going to see #Ultravox in Bristol, Nottingham, Birmingham and Glasgow. The time in-between the last two will be spent at a Dutch beerfest. Wed, 03:29 : @cstross had better appreciate the front row seats I got us to see #Ultravox at the armadillo in Glasgow.
Tue, 03:44 : Decisions, decisions #Ultravox Tue, 06:25 : “@7u771e : @feorag H-Bahn verunglückt : 22 Menschen verletzt http://t.co/95l7Qdb1 ” (Accident on Dortmund H-bahn monorail) Tue, 06:38 : 22 injured in monorail accident - 22 people have been injured, some seriously, in a accident on the H-Bahn,... http://t.co/pKgZmgAv Tue, 06:47 : Direct link to my Tumblr account of the monorail accident: http://t.co/1meFERXL Tue, 07:05 : Photo: A very similar accident to today’s one in Dortmund happened in Wuppertal on 5 August 2008. A crane... http://t.co/lmkltttm Tue, 07:15 : Photo: The H-Bahn car involved in today’s accident, photographed by me on 5 May 2010. http://t.co/OBBLYwuR
Sat, 12:23 : W00t! White asparagus from Edinburgh farmers' market! Locally grown, organic white asparagus :-) Not from Germany. http://t.co/QF2NkpOJ Sat, 16:46 : Odd flavour, sharp and sour but malty. A bit like the brown ale based Flemish fruit beers. (Cullin Gorm) http://t.co/Ot49HteF Sat, 17:23 : Slightly dryer version of a traditional Scottish ale. — Drinking a Wee Beastie @ The Dagda Bar — http://t.co/si1vTiKx Sat, 17:55 : Japanese type pr0n “@iamtef : letterpress :D http://t.co/sUf4XvQQ ” Sat, 17:56 : Excellent. — Drinking a Game Bird by Scottish Borders Brewery @ The Dagda Bar — http://t.co/Sx6V22Of Sat, 18:53 : Surprised I haven't had this since joining Untappd! A favourite. — Drinking a Raj IPA by Tryst @ The Dagda Bar — http://t.co/blYrOJbz Sat, 19:58 : Stunning. In the Royal Oak. — Drinking a Five Sisters by Alechemy Brewing Ltd — http://t.co/MKa8K8Ox Sun, 10:43 : @MCFC demonstrating the art of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Sun, 10:57 : W00000000000000t!!!!!11!!!!! Sun, 10:58 : Blue moon……!
Fri, 16:26 : Hints of dandelion. — Drinking a Game On by @jwleesbrewery — http://t.co/AEdN0EKD Fri, 16:34 : Managed to scan Ale Trail code without having to ask @caskmarque to add it for me. Did have to ask to go behind bar - cert screwed to wall! Fri, 16:47 : In the Cambridge Bar for the first time in a decade or so. Fri, 16:53 : Odd aroma, but tastes fine. — Drinking a Grainger Ale by Hadrian Border Brewery @ The Cambridge Bar — http://t.co/rH37s9W2 Fri, 16:56 : RT @LordWoolamaloo : @Feorag I think they should flood the gutter between Oxford & Cambridge bars & have small remote controlled ... Fri, 17:36 : Another dandeliony one - must be the hop of the moment. — Drinking a May Bee @ The Oxford Bar — http://t.co/kOP2rTQH Fri, 18:20 : Grr... Oxford Bar would be lovely and quiet were it not for obnoxious, loud, American woman being obnoxious and loud :-( Fri, 19:01 : Bloody hell. Good job we don't do guns in this nation as loud, obnoxious American woman continues to be loud and obnoxious. Fri, 19:03 : She is using pissed in the British sense of the word and has been introduced to "steamin'" and "guttered". Fri, 19:06 : Turns out she's from Chicago. Should I get my own back in August?