Let me push that stool in for you: the off-topic thread

the beer revolu · 23-02-2024 5:06pm

Wanted a can of cheap lager for cooking with. It's really hard to find a single can of lager in the supermarket, these days. Tesco had none.

BeerNut · 23-02-2024 5:10pm

Convenience stores are the way to go for this, particularly independent ones. They serve a specific market of connoisseurs who like to buy their Coors one can at a time.

L1011 · 23-02-2024 5:13pm

Can buy a single can of any of the big macro lagers, a huge variety of Polish/Baltic lagers, and a bundle of Irish options also (Farringtons and 8 Degrees definitely) in my local Centra.

irish_goat · 23-02-2024 5:30pm

Lidl Excelsior tends to be what I buy if I need a single can of cooking lager.

L1011 · 23-02-2024 8:44pm

Still undergoing the renovation from hell in my house; and a habit for both of us (me less so, but anyway) to get distracted and start a side-project while something else is effectively on fire.

But the outcome of the most recent side project is quite beneficial. 3x IKEA Besta 60x20x64 frames mounted on the kitchen wall, glass shelves, smoked glass doors, all installed to take my spirits and glassware.

Each unit can take ~20kg on each shelf officially but you'd be hard pressed to get 20kg of bottles in - 14 700ml ones of perfect shape and size would fit in each. Some 1L, some weird shapes and also things like bitters bottles reduce the total to probably 30 'big' bottles plus a handful of bitters bottles; but that should be enough for anyone. Or at least, it currently leaves me space for about three more....

Glass shelves will take anywhere from four champagne coupes / martini glasses to an absolute pile of Glencairns and branded glassware each.

I have the lighting kit to install but haven't done it yet, cause its not a project in this house unless it remains somehow unfinished. I'll get to it, before the heat death of the universe, I promise.