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Sun 2005-02-27 15:33
Mmmm, lazy weekend

I wanted a lazy weekend last week, but ended up slaving over PuTTY for most of it. This week I tried again and definitely succeeded.

On Friday evening I bought some gluten-free beer from Sainsbury's. At lunchtime on Saturday I decided to drink one and see what it was like, on the basis that that way it'd have long since worn off if anything happened in the evening that I wanted to drive to. Barely had I finished it than I got a phone call from [livejournal.com profile] lnr, who was sitting in the Carlton and calling to let me know that they had just got in three different kinds of gluten-free beer. So I went and sat in the pub for the rest of the afternoon and sampled them all. Then [livejournal.com profile] ewx declared a party, so I took some more of the Sainsbury's stuff along to that and drank it there. Net result: about ten hours spent almost continuously (though reasonably slowly) drinking beer. If that's not a good way to do nothing on a Saturday, I don't know what is.

Today I have cunningly avoided having a hangover, kicked copious alien posterior in my gradual replaying of Starcraft, and come close to my personal best for the longest bath ever. Even when I'm deliberately doing nothing I still achieve :-)

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[identity profile] hoiho.livejournal.comSun 2005-02-27 17:04
The Lone Wolf went out drinking...
Then [livejournal.com profile] ewx declared a party

Ah, that might explain why there was no one I knew in the Calrton in the evening! Still, it meant I managed to make the R&B gig down at The Loco.
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[identity profile] pne.livejournal.comSun 2005-02-27 17:13
see what it was like [...] sampled them

and cunningly avoided telling us whether any of them were any good.

(Not that it'd do me personally any good; I don't drink beer, gluten-free or not. But it struck me as curious.)
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[personal profile] simontMon 2005-02-28 09:17
They're not world-class, but they all taste basically like beer.

Oddly, they're all quite strong: most are 6%, and the remaining one (a lager) is 5%. There's more than one manufacturer involved, which makes me wonder if there's something fundamental about gluten-free brewing that requires the beer to come out stronger than average...
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