Friday, 26 December 2014

Christmas failure

As it's the season of excess consumption I had plenty of beers in stock for Christmas day. Yet despite starting before lunch and going on till gone ten my tally for the day has fallen short of a gallon, which as we all know is the mark of a man.

I make my score eight 500ml bottles and one 330ml bottle, a grand total of 4330ml. This sadly fails to make a gallon, which is 4544ml. I did ask the committee if two glasses of mulled wine could be taken into consideration, but consumption of inferior fruit based beverages was dismissed out of hand.

I am a lightweight and a wuss and a disgrace to beer blogging. I hope that one day I can be forgiven this temporary lapse. In mitigation I did at least keep a bit of string and an egg to hand throughout the day.






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10 comments:

  1. Anonymous26 December 2014 at 16:04

    Quite respectable nevertheless. I find that further into the 40's I go more I get all kinds of heartburn problems, stodgy food makes me too full to drink past the second bottle, etc etc. I wake up 2am and think I am having a cardiac arrest but after 2 rennies I'm ok again. I've become a nanny boy when it comes to copious amounts of beer.

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    1. Ed27 December 2014 at 09:02

      I fear I've now passed a landmark in the decline of my drinking capacity.

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  2. Paul Bailey26 December 2014 at 17:10

    You did much better than me, Ed, although I do have “man flu” as my excuse!

    BTW, what’s the significance of the egg and length of string?

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    1. Ed27 December 2014 at 09:03

      The string and egg come from Ron Pattinson. He once mentioned them as things you'll need for the "drinkalongathon" but never explained why so I've no idea what they're for.

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    2. Ron Pattinson28 December 2014 at 16:08

      Didn't I mention their purpose?

      Could be my contempt for amateur drinkers, but I seem to have drunk less over Christmas than during a normal week.

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  3. Ed27 December 2014 at 14:44

    I've now heard it's from a Terry Pratchett book.

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  4. Anonymous27 December 2014 at 16:54

    I, too, let the side down. My Christmas Day beer consumption was limited to a couple of bottles of Snecklifter. The excuse? - a bottle of Jennings Port. (Now almost empty!)

    Phil

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  5. Rob29 December 2014 at 21:05

    Ed. My Christmas day intake has declined quite a bit since the marathon session days of old. It's now around 6-8 select bottles and a dram of Scotch. The upside being not passing out late afternoon on the sofa.

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    1. Ed29 December 2014 at 21:10

      No longer heading down George Best's road, eh?

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