Iron Heart/Aero Leather joint party - 11th July 2010

[LandoCal126 0]

And I hope no one coming is an ICP fan…

[Beatle]

I guess we can be almost sure about that ****

[Seul]

Depends on whether Giles will or will not be serving:

[LandoCal126 0]

HAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

[Beatle]

I sure hope Giles will be serving this

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Mojito is still my favorite drink - so please pile up on fresh peppermint, water, white Rum and raw sugar…

1 teaspoon powdered sugar
Juice from 1 lime (2 ounces)
4 mint leaves

1 spring of mint
Havana Club white Rum (2 ounces)
2 ounces club soda

[Giles]

Sorry Beats, won't be serving Corona, we'll have some beer here instead 

[Beatle]

lol….

[Beatle]

..how about Mojito..I will free willingly work the bar

[Giles]

This for instance:

[Beatle]

i know a lot of guys love ale beer…gonna give it another try....

[hectic]

I am almost fully converted from lager. Really good ale is the Iron Heart of booze.

[Tripleterror]

Beatle
You'll give up drinking that lager stuff when you try Hole Hearted, or any other of the Oakleaf beers come to that!
I speak from experience. 
Simon

[hectic]

G, do Oakleaf do some bottle conditioned stuff also?

[Giles]

Yep.  All the bottled beers are bottle conditioned.  Hole Hearted in bottles won the SIBA Best bottled beer of Britain last year…G

[hectic]

Just had a look at their site, I now immediately want a drink.

[Beatle]

we´ll see if I´m a new born believer in ale after July 11

[Giles]

You will be, especially with the Hole Hearted.  It really is a brilliant beer…G

[Beatle]

looking forward to it****5 bottles and I will be convinced

[Simon]

The Oakleaf brews are some of the best beers England has, and as we make the best beer in the world that makes them pretty much the best beers in the world!

My favorite is the Blakes Ale; its a very dark beer, apparently (according to the brewery tap) brewed to a Victorian recipe found in the Gosport archives from a local brewery by the name of Blakes that was closed many years ago. This stuff is full old world strength - 5 bottles and your going home in a wheel barrow!

Gosport has a tradition of brewing great beer; All the Navy's beer for nearly 200 years was brewed in a building on the other side of the square from Giles's house and within sight of the current Oakleaf brewery. The ration was 8 pints a day +1/2 pint or rum, Nelson won the battle of trafalgar on this stuff!

Here endeth the history lesson.

[Giles]

And just to complete the history lesson.  The well that was built in 1788 to provide the water to make the beer for the Royal Navy is in our back garden:

This was taken from a ledge about 15 feet down the well (it is actually 50 feet deep), the day I discovered the well was there:

One of my madder friends offered to dive the well, he found this well bucket at the bottom, we reckon it's about 220 years old.  He did have the grace to admit after the dive, that it was the scariest thing that he had ever done: