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A bottle of Côtes du Rhône to go with the steak and chips. Nice easy drinking red, and excellent for the price.

Just tapped a keg of Bitter (GW Archer Bitter) I’ve made this about a half dozen times and it makes for a nice solid dependable pint.

A glass of Talisker.

First time I’ve being able to use the outside oven in about a month, Ooni pizza ovens may be basically overpriced metal boxes but they do make a good pizza.

A nice bottle of Bordeaux mostly Merlot with a bit of Cabernet Franc (or so the wine shop claims) but regardless an excellent easy drinking red and should go perfectly with the pizza once the ovens up to temperature.

Greene King Hopping Spring Surprisingly good for Greene King not an exceptional beer but a very solid light easy to drink cask ale (helps that the pub in question seems to know what they are doing).

A Triple, carbonation is decent although head retention is poor, it’s had about 200 days in the bottle now and is really starting to come good, if the weather is good this week end I will likely make another batch.

A very nice South African Chardonnay, to go with roast chicken.

The only downside I find with Talisker is that I find it dangerously easy to drink far more of than I probably should.

A glass of Mild

Perfectly acceptable (although not exceptional) Pinot Noir.

I’ve being drinking far too much wine as of late so time for a pint of Mild.

A rather nice Hungarian White wine while the water for the pasta and pesto boils.

While tempted to go for a Stout given the date, ultimately decided Red Wine would be better with Lasagna, so a very reasonably priced bottle of Bordeaux from M&S rich, fruity and fairly smooth honestly I’ve paid a lot more for a lot worse.

A Highland Park (also to confirm no Bitters where added it just happened to be on the sideboard). Also it’s scary how much Single Malt has gone up in price I’m sure I can remember Twelve Year Old Whisky being in the £25-£30 a bottle range not £35-£50 range not that long ago.