BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Alec
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 03:24 PM

Peaked a little early as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Alec
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 03:26 PM

Doncha hate cross-postings? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 03:30 PM

And slimy keyboards.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Alec
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 03:33 PM

Right.Calamares it is then.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: GUEST,Sick Squid
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 03:52 AM

I just happened to pass Mingulay's boat while taking a short cut up the canal and thought I'd go pay a visit. Fine welcome indeed!! Anyone would think that seeing a sqid suddenly appear was unusual in this day and age.

Mingulay, if you wouldn't mind old chap, I seem to have misplaced a tentacle somewhere, probably in your bilge. Wondered if you could have a little look for me?

Alec, not funny mate, right? There are laws against squidism you know.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Alec
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 03:56 AM

Just a joke sicky.That Captain Nemo was looking for you earlier.
I told him you were wintering off Lanzarote.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 04:56 AM

I FINALLY got my glass of Pinot de Charantes... and it were bloody lovely - all snuggled up in my fluffy dressing gown - all I lacked was the hairy chested stud and the chocolate sauce.

Off to clean the cat litter tray now.. my life is one long round of hedonistic pleasures!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Scrump
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 08:29 AM

Don't bother LTS, get the Cat Litter Cleaner you just happen to have employed, to empty the litter tray for you. Then you can relax and enjoy your drink.

Talking of drink... I think I'll have a pint of original Eldridge Pope (Dorchester), 1976 recipe, draught Royal Oak, please.

Glad to see you serve it straight from the cask by gravity dispense.

Lovely stuff... cheers! Good idea to stock all these legendary ales, no longer obtainable anywhere else.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 10:44 AM

Oh Scrump, you bugger, you've discovered my secret stash!

Although, in 1976, I was 12 and had reached only the heady delights of Babycham, it would only be a mere 6 years before I was introduced to the chestnut brew of my own home town.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 11:14 AM

Scrump.

I think we should start up a virtual beer off selling only ales from the past. Wonder if Paypal would accept proper £sd on their system.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: MMario
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:46 AM

anyone know if "our" giant swuid is an Architeuthis or a Mesonychoteuthis?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Scrump
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:53 AM

Sorry for delay, only just got back here.

I was introduced to the chestnut brew of my own home town.

hey that's interesting LTS - I never saw a beer made from chestnuts before.

...I'll get me coat. After I reply to this:

I think we should start up a virtual beer off selling only ales from the past. Wonder if Paypal would accept proper £sd on their system.

Good idea Mingulay at work (or may I call you Maw for short?). But I think we might as well charge modern prices for these vintage ales, not give them away at silly 1970s prices (Aagh! I remember when beer went up to 30p a pint in one pub and I thought it was a ripoff!). In fact, we should charge more. Vintage wines go up in value every year, so why not ale?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 11:22 AM

I hope they don't find traces of green jello on their record-breaker. Now that would be sad!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 11:56 AM

Scrump, just call me Ming. I can remember beer at 1/6d a pint, good stuff too. That was at the time the fizzy stuff started to appear but we didn't drink it, not at 1/9d!!

Shall we start at £5/pint for a vintage cooking bitter?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 05:09 AM

See that squid is making waves again... can't he keep his relatives under control?!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern Spring Clean
From: Scrump
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 07:25 AM

Scrump, just call me Ming. I can remember beer at 1/6d a pint, good stuff too. That was at the time the fizzy stuff started to appear but we didn't drink it, not at 1/9d!!

Shall we start at £5/pint for a vintage cooking bitter?

OK Ming, but as long as we don't have to pay those prices here ourselves. I thought the ale was free in this boozer?

1/6 is the cheapest I remember too, but at the time that was cheaper than average. 2 bob was more typical. This was the late 1960s.

And in them days, I sometimes used to drink shandy because it was cheaper than beer. I was shocked when I went to London and found in some pubs they charged more for shandy, because of the time it took to pour out. I never drink shandy these days though, it's too sweet for me.

Hmmm, Friday lunchtime... time for a pint I think. All this typing makes me thirsty. I'll start with summat light I think. What about a pint of 1970s Young's 'Ordinary' Bitter, brewed in Wandsworth as the Good Lord intended, to the 1970s recipe, long before the Young's accountants decreed that it should be dumbed down to give it broader appeal? [I've heard some pretty uncomplimentary comments about the new Bedford version of it too :-( ]

...Cheers!