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by jdaw1
00:31 Tue 03 Jul 2007
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Early Warning!!! OffLine at Conkys Quinta.
Replies: 26
Views: 25146

Saturday 1st September 2007

OK, Her Indoors has spoken, and if it’s the weekend of Saturday 1st September, plans could be fitted. Gentlemen: don’t suffer major life rearrangement just for me, but if it’s all the same to you, it wouldn’t be for me. †  This is making various assumptions about flights, not yet tested. And having ...
by jdaw1
23:35 Mon 02 Jul 2007
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Early Warning!!! OffLine at Conkys Quinta.
Replies: 26
Views: 25146

Placemat request

jdaw1 - we need placemats sometime soon - wines t.b.c. Derek ...and get looking for cheap flights to blighty 88) Hmmm. If the date is exactly right in early September, I might be in the UK anyway. Whatever, when things are decided I will of course oblige in my usual manner. In the list of people in...
by jdaw1
16:22 Mon 02 Jul 2007
Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
Topic: When beer has filled you up...
Replies: 13
Views: 11123

We both failed (to be polite).

We both failed.
by jdaw1
05:30 Sun 01 Jul 2007
Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
Topic: When beer has filled you up...
Replies: 13
Views: 11123

Glayva: I was trying to be polite

jdaw1 wrote:I usually assume that these things are a teenager’s version of a real drink.
Derek T. wrote:Glayva (and Drambuie) is only consumed by women and tourists, mainly Americans with tartan (plaid) trousers on
I was trying to be polite, but really, I wasn’t disagreeing with Derek T.’s more forthright version.
by jdaw1
02:20 Sun 01 Jul 2007
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Software that makes placemats
Replies: 1268
Views: 1205021

Seven stars

Thank you.
by jdaw1
14:32 Sat 30 Jun 2007
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: Give us a graphic
Replies: 45
Views: 28582

Graphic

Although the classic view may be the way to go, something about what Jdaw1 said appealed to my sense of style. I'll throw this one in as a small picture that would take the place of the @ on the top banner. I think the colours complement, and then I'd leave it alone as a modern,stylish banner for o...
by jdaw1
13:16 Sat 30 Jun 2007
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: Low-level nuclear waste
Replies: 11
Views: 8585

But you haven’t explained the ‟low-level nuclear waste”

Jay P wrote:Your ! decanter, which you have white port in, leaching out the metals?
Progress. But you haven’t explained the ‟low-level nuclear waste”.
by jdaw1
19:47 Fri 29 Jun 2007
Forum: Port Tasting Notes
Topic: 1950 Taylor Special Quinta
Replies: 5
Views: 9694

TSQ50: case for sale

Apparently here one can buy a entire case of TSQ50.
by jdaw1
16:32 Fri 29 Jun 2007
Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
Topic: Timothy Taylor Landlord
Replies: 27
Views: 21786

In Brighton I would have gone for Harvey Sussex

In Brighton I would have gone for Harvey Sussex.
by jdaw1
16:30 Fri 29 Jun 2007
Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
Topic: When beer has filled you up...
Replies: 13
Views: 11123

Whisky should always be cut down to 30%.

Whisky should always be cut down to 30%. Cask-strength (60%) straight sterilises the tongue; bottle-strenght (40%) almost does so. Add water to take to 30%, or even 25%.

Dark Star Brewing Company’s 3.8% Hophead? Brewed about two miles from my father’s house.
by jdaw1
13:31 Fri 29 Jun 2007
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Optimum decanting time for Warre's 1985 VP
Replies: 26
Views: 15688

W85

This tasting started about 4 hours after decanting.
by jdaw1
13:29 Fri 29 Jun 2007
Forum: Beer, Spirits, Cigars, and Pork Pies
Topic: When beer has filled you up...
Replies: 13
Views: 11123

a teenage version of a real drink

I usually assume that these things are a teenager’s version of a real drink. Is that just prejudice, or is it actually a better quality drink than, say, a Bowmore, which is a great post-beer refreshment.

More about Glayva.
by jdaw1
12:22 Fri 29 Jun 2007
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Best Bargain???
Replies: 23
Views: 12248

OBV80

uncle tom wrote:I have - this week! - bought a case of Offley '80.
If two of them could be set free, I’d be most grateful. Lolly?
by jdaw1
06:01 Fri 29 Jun 2007
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Best Bargain???
Replies: 23
Views: 12248

Offley Boa Vista is offley good value

uncle tom wrote:Offley Boa Vista is offley good value
OBV VP has never passed my lips. Do you have any with which you would be willing to part, for love or money? Well, for ‘good value’ amounts of money? Especially 1963?
by jdaw1
02:16 Fri 29 Jun 2007
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Software that makes placemats
Replies: 1268
Views: 1205021

Such is progress.

Well, my attempt to family-friendly this BB by asking DT to edit, did indeed cause him to edit. The “o†s became “*†s. Such is progress.
by jdaw1
02:12 Fri 29 Jun 2007
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Hotel or Restaurant Price List of the Week
Replies: 169
Views: 139834

I stayed at The Rubens…

I stayed at The Rubens in London on the night of the Linden Wilkie Nacional Tasting (rather than The Rubens in Blackpool).

Good thread idea, which might slightly extend to bars.
by jdaw1
02:07 Fri 29 Jun 2007
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: Low-level nuclear waste
Replies: 11
Views: 8585

Err, no.

Err, no.
by jdaw1
00:56 Fri 29 Jun 2007
Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
Topic: Software that makes placemats
Replies: 1268
Views: 1205021

Does this mean that you have operated the PostScript┞¢?

AHB wrote:… when I … open 5 or 6 bottles of port I do find that Julian's tasting mats are
Does this mean that you have operated the PostScript yourself?
by jdaw1
00:46 Fri 29 Jun 2007
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: Name 3 fish starting and ending with the letter K.
Replies: 18
Views: 24544

kilmarnock

Conky wrote:kilmarnock
Is that a fish? Well I never.
by jdaw1
00:33 Fri 29 Jun 2007
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Best Bargain???
Replies: 23
Views: 12248

1980

1980
by jdaw1
23:48 Thu 28 Jun 2007
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: Low-level nuclear waste
Replies: 11
Views: 8585

Low-level nuclear waste

Quiz. What piece of low-level nuclear waste, that is also drinking apparatus, am I using Churchill’s White Porto to attempt to make safer? And how?
by jdaw1
02:18 Thu 28 Jun 2007
Forum: Meaningless Drivel
Topic: Are you affected by the flooding? Is your cellar safe?
Replies: 20
Views: 13538

WOW :shock: - can't believe you've still got any left :? I'm in need of some advice from a wise old friend. It's 23:55 and I have to get up at 06:00 to drive to Doncaster to catch a train to London for an extremely important meeting, accompanied by my boss. Should I: 1. Go to bed 2. Open a bottle o...
by jdaw1
16:45 Wed 27 Jun 2007
Forum: Site Stuff
Topic: Taking Pictures of Port
Replies: 26
Views: 21230

Post above corrected to say Canon SD500.

Post above corrected to say Canon SD500.
by jdaw1
07:09 Wed 27 Jun 2007
Forum: Port Conversations
Topic: Peculier Port phrases Thread.
Replies: 21
Views: 13060

Not to be too picky…

Not to be too picky Mr ', Not to be too picky Mr’, Not to be too picky Mr., (I don’t control the BB’s automatic “wrote†, rather than “written†.) Further, being merciful, this wasn’t used as your induction into that which passes as the TPF Hall of Shame . should the "sesqui" really be se...