"I'm not drunk! I always walk this way"
Cocktail Recipe – Long Island Iced Tea
Dec 16th
Ive had many a long iced tea in my day and i cannot recommend them enough. Rarely do you get such a bang for your buck! I cant remember the last time I had one, and that is saying alot since it was only a few days ago! Was snooping around youtube for a vid [...]
Meet the Drunks
Nov 13th
The Sensible Drunk
At first when you meet the sensible drunk he seems to be sober, he is a few pints in and a little looser than usual but only a slight wobble when leaving go of his hold on the bar while heading to the gents gives him away.
The Fun Drunk
The Fun Drunk is the [...]
Waggle Dance Review
Nov 12th
Tried a bit of Waggle Dance recently. I was Drawn in by the promise of a honey flavour. It looked tha part anyway with the honey color. At 5.0% its pretty much run of the mill in terms of alcohol level which was immediately disappointing, I would normally look for more of a punch from [...]
Best Beer: Mac’s Gold: All Malt Lager
Nov 12th
This week I gave Marc’s Gold a run. It looked promising from the start, all malt no less! I said I would give it a go despite not being the full bang at only 4.0% and wasent exactly cheap at €2.20 for the bottle. The Bottle was funky, looked like Mac had made it in [...]
Top 5 Drinks to Warm your Cockles!
Nov 5th
So The winter is really setting in, its been below 10 degrees for over a week now. Its coming to the time of year where you sit in by the fire and drink to forget the weather. Here are 5 Drinks which will help you forget the pain and warm you from the inside out!
5. [...]
Savannah Dry Cider Review (featuring the “Chill Pack”)
Nov 2nd
Picked up a Savannah Dry Cider over the weekend. Im not really a big cider fan normally. Mostly because I overdosed on it far too much between the ages of 15 and 18, now its hard to drink a cider without having memories of talking to god on the big white telephone far too many [...]
Mixing magic – Captain Morgan and Cola in a Can Review
Oct 29th
The first time I saw a mixed drink in a can i thought: “My God, how could someone do that???? It’s Genius!”
…….However, after trying a few of these can mixes, including Jack Daniels and Cola aswell as Jim Beam and Cola I soon realised how utterly awful they could be.
I think the thing that often [...]
Best Beer? – Budvar: the Original Budweiser
Oct 27th
Here on The “Best Beer?” Column I will be trying out all the Beers I can find and reporting back my findings.
So Budvar, The original Budweiser was first brewed in 1785 in what is now called the Czech republic. After many court cases between the American Budweiser and the Czech Budweiser all is now calm. [...]
Jazz Weekend Review: Stick ‘em up punk!
Oct 26th
Firstly, what a weekend! Only in Cork for the Guinness Jazz Festival is there a drunken mob covering all demographics out filling the bar stools with asses in every pub. And there was a bit of jazz too, not that most people remember, or even care about jazz in the first place!
I found my jazz [...]
Kopparberg Mixed Fruit Review
Oct 25th
Kopparberg has become more and more popular in in the past few years. The takeoff of their pear cider in recent years had seen the kopparberg name widsely recognised.
This Mixed Fruit Cider can be seen as the Daddy of the Kobbarberg family, with a distinctly manly label promoting its alcohol content front and centre, proper [...]