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Postby K chameleon » Tue May 12, 2009 9:09 pm

If you've a bottle of Champagne, you just can't finish (this doesn't apply to you Katy :wink: ),
pop a teaspoon in the top of it, and put it in the fridge.
Keeps the Fizz.
(It works with Sidra too 8) )

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Re: Tips

Postby Kamila » Tue May 12, 2009 9:46 pm

Yes, it works, I have been doing this for years. with Cava, not champagne though.

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Postby El Cid » Tue May 12, 2009 10:04 pm

Check it out - it's another myth.

Champagne keeps surprisingly well in the fridge with no cork.

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Re: Tips

Postby frog » Wed May 13, 2009 2:39 am

whats sidra,is that drinkable
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Re: Tips

Postby spanish_lad » Wed May 13, 2009 4:26 am

CIDER FROG, CIDER :D
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Re: Tips

Postby Kamila » Wed May 13, 2009 8:23 am

Yes Sid, I've heard that but I have been using the spoon in the bottle for years and it is difficult to brake the habit.

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Postby frank » Wed May 13, 2009 8:50 am

spanish_lad wrote:CIDER FROG, CIDER :D
Yes, but not as we know it! It's a lifeless, flat version compared with Frog's Devon or Somerzet cider. :) Basically, you have to "escanciar" it, which is pouring it from a great height to get air in it, and they pour a small amount in a wide bottomed glass, and you drink it quickly before the bubbles disappear. I speak with a local guy from Asturias, and this is one of his favourite tipples.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5run-VlXYok
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Re: Tips

Postby K chameleon » Wed May 13, 2009 6:58 pm

I said Sidra, because that's what it's called in Lidls. It comes in corked bottles, and last night I took the teaspoon out and poured myself a very fizzy glass :D

Cider, on the other hand, "there can be only one" - Strongbow!!!!

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Re: Tips

Postby spanish_lad » Wed May 27, 2009 4:40 am

mmmmmmm scrumpy out of a hand pump... mmmmmmmmmmm
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Re: Tips

Postby ken2 » Wed May 27, 2009 10:09 am

Cor blimey, i didn't know it was scrumpy that come out of a hand pump? :lol: :lol:

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Postby spanish_lad » Fri Jun 05, 2009 12:54 pm

hey, id take anything out of a hand pump compared to the uncleaned lines and cr*p that comes out of many pubs in spain ;)
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Re: Tips

Postby pigs-might-fly » Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:07 pm

Recipe for getting legless very quickly!

A pint of rough draught scrumpy (with bits floating in it preferably)
1 large glass of Port.
Drink the first two inches of scrumpy, pour the port into the cider: drink & enjoy!

I was introduced to this tipple on a T.A. camp in Norfolk, many years ago.
Two of these was enough. :D
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Re: Tips

Postby murbisa » Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:12 pm

I love scrumpy :D
When I was in the navy many moons ago we used to go on ten bob scrumpy runs at Yeovilton. Those were the days!!!

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Re: Tips

Postby pigs-might-fly » Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:45 pm

Even further back - I was in the Royal Marines (1954/56) and trained initially at ITCRM, Lympstone.
Scrumpy and a tiddy oggie was about sixpence!
Even better, doing sea time, on HMS Theseus, a horses neck was about 2d for the brandy and 6d for the ginger ale! Mind you I was paid around £17 per month and mess bills were about a tenner, so not much left over for high living!
I remember a run ashore to La Linea (La Lash), from Gibraltar, when it was only a tiny, one or two street village (and a trip on an MFV to Tangier: the less said about that the better, perhaps!)
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Re: Tips

Postby spanish_lad » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:11 pm

pigs-might-fly wrote:Recipe for getting legless very quickly!

A pint of rough draught scrumpy (with bits floating in it preferably)
1 large glass of Port.
Drink the first two inches of scrumpy, pour the port into the cider: drink & enjoy!

I was introduced to this tipple on a T.A. camp in Norfolk, many years ago.
Two of these was enough. :D


mmmmmmmmmm half cider half lager with a little black current ;)
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Re: Tips

Postby princess peach » Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:17 am

mmmmmmmmmm half cider half lager with a little black current
Isnt that called snakebite Spanish? :?

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Re: Tips

Postby peteroldracer » Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:28 pm

spanish_lad wrote: with a little black current ;)
Is that an illegal connection to single-phase? :D
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Re: Tips

Postby concorde » Fri Nov 06, 2009 6:47 pm

Years ago, there were some Glaswegian girls/ladies working in a local hotel as live-in staff.

They used to drink pints of Guinness with a double gin in it :shock: :shock:

Believe me, if they said it was Saturday, it was Saturday!!!!!!!

At least when they had fights, it was usually amongst themselves.

Very scary. The local copper was nowhere to be found when these ladies got in a fighting mood.

Anyway, a quick way of getting merry in my day used to be a Cherry B and cider mixture.

Blimey I feel ill thinking about it now :!:
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Re: Tips

Postby Retro P » Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:42 pm

The best "get plssed quick" scheme I know of is five or six Snakebites chased down with Koskenkorva, you'd want to be close to a wc though :lol:
Ah! the full english!!

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Re: Tips

Postby JAWG » Sat Dec 12, 2009 12:24 am

Retro

For the benefit of those of us in (from) North America -
What is a Snakebite?
What is a Koskenkorva?
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