I’m not going to lie, I’m not keen on this stuff at all. A shot of grappa I’m partial to but not Limoncello Italian liqueur. Anyway, the bottles of the yellow, lemony stuff you see here are on the shelves in DaPaolo’s deli on Commercial Road in Swindon town centre. But I’m sure you’d get it in any of the many Italian eateries dotted around Swindon.
A recent visit to Moshan Island Grill on Swindon’s Devizes Road, provided the perfect opportunity to enjoy a cheeky Jamaican Rum Punch. And then to do a cheeky Swindon in 50 Drinks blog about it.
And so dear readers here we are with Nepalese Gurkha Beer, No 19 in my Swindon in 50 Drinks series.
It’s inevitable that beer looms large in this Swindon in 50 Drinks series – and I’ve not even got to Arkell’s yet. But this post features a beer with a difference. Not because there’s something weird and wacky about the flavour – nothing like that. Rather that every time you drink this beer you support charity. And if that’s not an incentive to get one over the eight I don’t what is! 😉
Ichnusa Non-Filtrata
I bought this beer in Da Paolo’s Italian deli on Commercial Road in the town centre. But you can also get it from online beer shops such as the Bella Vita.
A visit to Da Vinci Italian restaurant on Fleet Street is always agreeable. And a recent visit with chums, one of whom rounded off his meal with an Amaretto liqueur coffee gave a fab opportunity to do this Swindon in 50 drinks post about Amaretto Italian liqueur.
Mythos Hellenic Beer at the Greek Olive in Swindon
Over the years I’ve sunk a fair few bottles of Hellenic Mythos beer on sunny holidays on the Greek island of Samos. Oh and Corfu too.
Recent weeks have seen me make two visits to Do Syta (AKA the Bear Restaurant) in the Polish Club in Park South. Thus arises an opportunity for a Swindon in 50 Drinks post! This time we raise a glass to żywiec Polish pilsner beer.
Recently, meandering round town with a Federation of Small Businesses colleague, Ruth Lambert, we chanced upon The Drink Valley – sounds good right? Well it is. There’s a good selection of beers some of which I doubt you’d find in the supermarket.
Known often in literature as la fée verte (the green fairy), this most potent of libations is so often associated with the French post impressionist artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. And The Tuppenny in Swindon’s Old Town it seems.
Peroni Red Label BeerI guess this one is a bit of a cheat in that I've already done a generic Italian beer post in this Swindon in 50 drinks blog series. But here I'm taking the top off Peroni Red Label beer,In that post I covered the ubiquitous Peroni Nastro Azzuro...
Well listeners. This Swindon in 50 Drinks post No 10: Arkell’s Ales, is something of a milestone. Not because it’s the 10th post in the series. Oh no. Rather because today is the day after our current Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, put the country into a condition that is lockdown in all but name. The reason for that being the pandemic Covid-19 – also known as the coronavirus.
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