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Nice beer on a warm Sunday

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sbettoni

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Just enjoying a lovely pint of fine ale from the Robinson's brewery in Stockport. Just interested to know what other people's drinking habits are as diabetics?
 
Hi Steve I allow myself a glass of rose wine most evenings before tea I seem to get away with it and thank goodness for that! Cheers!
 
I know its not good for us in gallons but you cant beat it. I have a mate who was out a lot, then T2, stopped & walks the legs off his dog now off meds. I walk back from the pub 😱 & it puts my head right :D Most Drs are keen on it :D
 
ha ha glad to hear it! I once thought I wouldn't be allowed to have a beer again but if you look after your diet I know its fine now...I don't know much about wine's affect on Diabetics though Lindarose how does affect you?

I can have 6 pints of beer and feel no ill affects as long as I keep my diet correct!!
 
I certainly haven't had any noticeable spikes after a wine but my evening meal is usually meat and veg so virtually carb free and I try to walk late afternoons as well I don't know that I'd get away with it earlier in the day but that suits me anyway Think I'd get the sack! After 6 pints can you even remember how to check you bg!!!! -)
 
Ha ha I cant drink in the day anymore I'd get the sack also! "virtually carb free" is the reason you can enjoy a drink and I haven't taken my bloods now for a few years and know that even after 6 pints of real ale I will be fine...I go to the gym Monday, Wednesday and Friday and play football Saturday and Sunday which at 48 is more of a challenge to my hips and knees rather than my bg lol!
 
Yes im with you there I'm a 'few' years older than you and the joint probs definitely starting to make things harder. I do the race for life every year and like to jog round the course Trouble is I dare not train much so I can 'save' my knees for the day! You can guess how I suffer for it after!
 
oh I know how those legs can ache but you have to keep exercising...I went too many years not exercising and that was why I ended up T2! Since changing my diet to no carbs I can now do so much more!
 
sbettoni said:
Just enjoying a lovely pint of fine ale from the Robinson's brewery in Stockport. Just interested to know what other people's drinking habits are as diabetics?
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For Robinsons of Stockport, I will do whatever exercise is necessary,
Otherwise it is dry red wine, or when very hot, small lite lager
 
I'm a cider drinker - the proper stuff too, none of this flavoured or fizzy nonsense that all the pubs seems to do now. 'Proper' cider has to have the appearance, and possibly taste, that puts you in mind of a urine sample from a circus animal.

THE best place, hands-down, to get proper cider, is from this bloke, Roger Wilkins:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i1uWTmdRPdM

The barn in this video where he pours it out (and makes it) also doubles up as an informal bar - pop along and the weekend and you'll find plenty of people all sitting round the barrels on hay bales. 'Proper' cider definitely has to come from west of the Severn and east of the St. George's Channel - anything from Somerset, Devon and Hereford is fine (and even some of the Welsh stuff is alright), but never order anything from Hampshire or Suffolk - I've done this a few times now and every time I've been disappointed.
 
I'm not a cider drinker but don't mind the odd glass on a warm summers day. That video did make me chuckle though when he asks him where to pay for the cider!
 
DeusXM said:
I'm a cider drinker - the proper stuff too, none of this flavoured or fizzy nonsense that all the pubs seems to do now. 'Proper' cider has to have the appearance, and possibly taste, that puts you in mind of a urine sample from a circus animal.
THE best place, hands-down, to get proper cider, is from this bloke, Roger Wilkins:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i1uWTmdRPdM
The barn in this video where he pours it out (and makes it) also doubles up as an informal bar - pop along and the weekend and you'll find plenty of people all sitting round the barrels on hay bales. 'Proper' cider definitely has to come from west of the Severn and east of the St. George's Channel - anything from Somerset, Devon and Hereford is fine (and even some of the Welsh stuff is alright), but never order anything from Hampshire or Suffolk - I've done this a few times now and every time I've been disappointed.
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That sounds like the proper stuff.
I have a young cider apple tree growing in Stratford London. Nearly enough to try making cider this year. Hopes high for next year. Veryvery sour so might be OK. Supplied by Victoriana Nursery Challock.

Anyone tried making cider with Quince? I turn all my tree's produce to sparkling white wine, which I use for enticing friends and relatives to visit.
 
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I'm not a big drinker, but I do like a proper cider. Recently over the summer I had a lovely glass of Moss Cider, made from apples grown in Moss side (Manchester), it's a really interesting community project that's really taken off. Moss side has high levels of deprivation, but quite a lot of Apple trees. People donate their apples and then get their share of cider or apple juice in return, the rest of the harvest is available through selected stockists. I was quite sceptical (expected fizzy muck you'd get in a pub)but it was delicious. I also quite like a real ale, and a glass of red, but the red wine lost it allure because it makes me hypo, and jelly babies and a nice red don't really mix 🙂

My favourite Christmas tradition is hot cider and proper cheese, preferably a whiskey and ginger cheese...yum.
 
Asturias is major cider country. A lot of people still have a proper wooden cider press, etc in their barns. It has to be aerated when poured. The 'escanciador' holds the bottle up on high and the glass down low, then looks away, and gets the cider in the glass by pure magic! Oh, and loads on the floor too! S/he has to pour a specific amount (approx 1-2") which is called a 'culín'. You don't drink it all tho. You leave some in the glass, swill it around dead quick and chuck it. Then the escanciador pours another culín (same glass) for the next person. It's a really sociable ritual - shame I hate the stuff!
 
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