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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Welcome To The Radio 2 Ok Pub

Hang on there we have a Bar for those who like a Pint or two, or even a glass of wine or your favourite spirit. This bar will never run dry, and is open 24 hours a day. We do supply a lot of real ales. Let us know your tastes!!

ColinB · Guest

Do you do home delivery? If so, can I have a slice of cake with my coffee, please?

Toggy · Joined: 18 Aug 2008 Posts: 1239

If you are buying I'll have a red wine please, if I'm buying I'll have tap water Laughing

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19334 Location: Cheshire

We always drank far more wine than coffee in the coffee bar you know!

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MadeinSurrey · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:22 am Post subject:

It's a bit early for me, but if everyone else is having one " It's 5 o'clock somewhere"! (Don't suppose we'll get to hear that track again now that Sarah and Tel have gone Crying or Very sad

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littlepieces · Joined: 10 Jan 2010 Posts: 1098 Location: Lowestoft

Sadie Su · Joined: 14 Sep 2010 Posts: 146

I think that champagne is in order, put some on ice please.

SantaFefan · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 9:31 am Post subject:

FLYBYNIGHT · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 381 Location: At Home

Those who know me will tell you that I can smell a new Bar a mile off.

May I have a hot, sweet Colombian, please?
O.K. Maybe with a drop of cognac added.
Cheers Very Happy

Have to go out soon, but I'll be back when the champagne has cooled a little.

Soulsister · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 11:36 am Post subject:

I've got a raging hangover this morning so it's just a sparkling mineral water with ice and a slice for me please. And can someone turn that flamin' jukebox down!

SantaFefan · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 11:38 am Post subject:

Sorry Soulie... not while the Stray Cats are on.. Laughing

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FLYBYNIGHT · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 381 Location: At Home

Oh dear, sorry SS.
I'll stop singing!

Sparkling water coming up. Sure about no "hair of the dog?)

Soulsister · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 12:17 pm Post subject:

I got half a bottle of red wine leftover from last night sat on the desk beside me, and I'm thinking 'shall I....?' but I just can't bring meself to. Just the thought of it makes me feel iller than I already feel Does that hair of the dog stuff work then or is it just a myth?

(don't worry I'm self employed, work from home - not that much work is getting done at the minute)

Its yonks since I had a hangover. I'd forgotten how crap they make you feel. Any remedies anyone? Embarassed

Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3415 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

Looks as though I'd better start brewing some 'Old Wossname' & 'Old Brass Monkey'!!
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Soulsister · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 1:38 pm Post subject:

I just had two bits of cheese on toast, a glass of milk, a chocolate muffin and a paracetamol and I still feel like shite Embarassed

Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3415 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

If I've had one of those nights before. I usually have a nice fry-up the following morning and plenty to drink. That usually helps along with a couple of paracetamols. I'm usually feeling better by around dinner time.
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FLYBYNIGHT · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 381 Location: At Home

Aw Soulsister, I sympathise. It's ages since I had a hangover, but to be serious, I don't think I could even try the "hair of the dog".
For me, lots of water is the answer. And you think: "Never again, don't you?"
I never drink too much when I'm on my own, but when you're having a good time it all goes down without noticing, I find.

By this evening you'll probably be feeling in the mood to tackle that half empty bottle. Shame to let it go to waste, isn't it? I'll help you out.

ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

I think you can probably guess folks what I want to drink
Yes a pint of Ruddles County sadly no longer brewed at its original home in Oakham Rutland but still a good pint brewed in Bury St Edmunds
As they say in Rutland

Multum Im Parvo which translates from Latin as Much in Little

Yes I did study Latin
It was not of much practical use but very interesting

John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

I visited the Ruddles brewery with a Camra coach trip around 1980. It was quite a rare pint in Warwickshire in those days and had a legendary reputation for flavour.

It occasionally appears today as guest ale in free houses and in the odd Greene King pub that we have around these parts.
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ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

Ruddles Bitter is even harder to come by but I have recently discovered that the sell it in Wetherspoons pubs for only £1 65 a pint all over the country and it's a very well kept pint
I recommend you try some

John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

Yes, Ruddles Bitter is a regular at the Weatherspoons in Broad Street, Brum, The Figure of Eight.

I often meet for a curry there on a Thursday night but I've gone off their curries lately, half way though you begin to wonder what actually are you eating Shocked

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ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

John I go to their place in Wrexham every Thursday and the curries are fantastic there
In fact they gave me a free one last week!
They have just opened literally about half a mile from here and I know the manager from Wrexham so I'm looking forward to a few good Autumn evenings!
Within walking distance even better!

ColinB · Guest

Ruddles County - along with lots of other decent beers - is a regular beer at my local just down the road.

I had some Black Sheep last night, and a few weeks ago we saw the return of "Piddle In The Wind". Now that was good!

Minx · Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 12:01 pm Post subject:

We've never got a decent beer in France, so we've brought several bottles of Old Peculiar and Speckled Hen with us. They're depleting fast! Crying or Very sad

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John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

French beer?

Mrs W and I recently drank/ate at Le 3 Brasseurs in BRUAY LA BUISSIERE near Bethune, they have a 'micro-brewery' on the premises, not sure if their range of beers meets the British definition of 'real ale' but the beers were excellent!

http://www.les3brasseurs.com/
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SantaFefan · Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 5:22 pm Post subject:

Well I don't drink.. at all.. but if I did, I'd be in the corner with three fingers of Red Eye.. in a dirty glass.

Mrs Santa Fe is over in Germany for the week and I've had the worst few days in our business in 14 years!
Yesterday was one of those days I could have cried and walked into the sea like Reggie!
Long story but it involved a blocked drain run, about 35 feet long - inside the building at first floor serving two bedrooms and a shower room.
The normal methods wouldn't clear it so I took the end bog off and rodded.. that didn't work either. Just as I was thinking this is a major hassle, a member of staff rushed up the stairs to tell me the bedroom below was flooded with "water" Confused

cascading through the suspended ceiling.
She was right, wrecked. ( the furious plunging had pushed out a basin waste connection and allowed some of the trapped water out )
So now I have the floor up in the shower room, a floor up in one bedroom, a wrecked bedroom to refit and... the pipe is still blocked.
I'll have another... Crying or Very sad

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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

ColinB · Guest

Trouble with a lot of pubs (and branded retail chains like Wetherspoons) is that they tell you they sell "real ales" when in fact they're not due to the way they're distributed, stored and dispensed.

My local has proper cask-conditioned and physically drawn Spitfire at the moment. Now that's very nice - and a timely offer, too, given the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain!

John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

Definitely agree John
In fact I'll drink to that!!

Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3415 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

I wonder if John Smiths still do their bitter as a cask conditioned ale. It seems many years since I last saw it on handpump in any pubs near me.
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ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

Elpuss I don't think they have done for quite a while
You can still get Sam Smiths on handpump in Chester city centre for less than £2 a pint and in my view this has always been far superior
I'm really encouraged how many microbreweries we now have around Chester North East Wales and Shropshire all producing excellent local brews and I really do try to support them whenever I can
Nobody in my view will ever create a beer to surpass the original Ruddles brewed in Oakham in the 60s and 70s and probably before my time

alzima · Joined: 17 Sep 2010 Posts: 12

We are poor little lambs that have lost our way.......can't remember what comes after that.....Oh yes I remember now..........Baa! Baa! Baa!......

Evenin' all!

Al

John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

And good morning to you alzima!
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becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6814

FLYBYNIGHT · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 381 Location: At Home

Good morning!

He'll do very nicely, Becky.

Can you save him for me till later on, please? Going out to lunch, but there's always room for a hot, sweet Colombian.

ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

Personally in order to avoid you being regarded as sexist I think we should have a picture of Shakira here as well
We red blooded males also need a taste of things Columbian now and again!

becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6814

ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

Fair enough Becky I'll let you off then!!

FLYBYNIGHT · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 381 Location: At Home

Of course, I was talking about coffee Wink