Britain dwelling fans of alcohol! Lend me your livers...

Hendrik · Post by **Hendrik** » Fri May 26, 2006 5:11 pm

So peeps, the latest on the schnapps situation:

1 litre (not the standard UK 0.7 L) of schnapps costs 10 euros, or 12 euros for the pine cone stuff.

Postage for 12 bottles will be about 20 Euros

Sub-total cost per bottle (not pine cone) about 12 Euros.

This works out at about 9 pounds stirling including postage to UK.

Forseeable problems:
Packaging might cost a little bit if not included, but shouldn't be much in any case.
The postage service I would use is for wine. Now even the Austrian post shouldn't be so fussy that they will refuse any thing other thanwine, but the packaging they use may be designed for standard 0.7/0.75 L wine bottles which are slightly thinner and lighter than the schnapps ones will be.
Postage from my house in the UK to wherever you live will cost whatever it costs. On the other hand, if you want twelve bottles 'for yourself' then it could just be posted to your address.
They also do a 3 bottles for 12 Euros service but this obviously adds a lot to the cost of each bottle.

I have been thinking of making kitsch labels for the bottles with a Ch-y kind of pic and some slogan like "Love the brotherhood" etc etc. So those of you with a creative/Photoshop flair, now's your chance to post up your stuff!

Please let me know your thoughts

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Fri May 26, 2006 5:25 pm

Hmmm, sounds good to me!

What does the pine schnapps taste like?

I will revert after my stag do tomorrow... (in Brussels sampling the beer *hic*)

Tim_MaA_MidB · Post by **Tim_MaA_MidB** » Fri May 26, 2006 7:14 pm

(Hijack)

I went to Brussels for a stag do a few years back... splendid place. We tried to put the groom on a train to Russia.

cj · Post by cj » Fri May 26, 2006 7:36 pm

Lend me your livers...

You sound like Hannibal Lechter, Hendrik.
"I ate his liver with a nice schnapps, ffffffffff (ie. revolting sucky noise that I can't transliterate)!! I guess we'd recognise you at a forum get-together as you'd have a noticeable white mask covering half your face?

I'm not participating in the 'Booze for Britain' effort though. Giving the stuff up for the foreseeable future - after drinking everything in the house tonight, obviously. And, no, I'm not pregnant/planning to conceive.

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Fri May 26, 2006 8:27 pm

Great Plum wrote:Hmmm, sounds good to me!

What does the pine schnapps taste like?

I will revert after my stag do tomorrow... (in Brussels sampling the beer *hic*)

... tends to give me the needle !!

marty · Post by **marty** » Fri May 26, 2006 11:35 pm

J.R. wrote:
Great Plum wrote:Hmmm, sounds good to me!

What does the pine schnapps taste like?

I will revert after my stag do tomorrow... (in Brussels sampling the beer *hic*)
... tends to give me the needle !!

that the trouble with pine schnapps - here today, cone tommorrow....

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Sat May 27, 2006 5:10 pm

marty wrote:
J.R. wrote:
Great Plum wrote:Hmmm, sounds good to me!

What does the pine schnapps taste like?

I will revert after my stag do tomorrow... (in Brussels sampling the beer *hic*)
... tends to give me the needle !!
that the trouble with pine schnapps - here today, cone tommorrow....

When one has finished ones drink, does one just SCHNAPP ones fingers to attract the barmans attention to get another one ?

Hendrik · Post by **Hendrik** » Sat May 27, 2006 5:47 pm

the pine cone one is really quite hard to compare. it is very nice indeed, has been used medicinally for centuries.
pine cones have varying smells, from the mellow and full-bodied sort (sounds pretentious but you know what i mean), to the absolute sharp toilet-cleaner smell.

Zirben are very much the mellow full-bodied kind (any of you been to an alpine forest?)

J.R. this is a serious thread, for goodness sake schnapp out of it...
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Hendrik · Post by **Hendrik** » Mon May 29, 2006 12:53 pm

I have just prepared a bottle of hemp schnapps. All I have to do is wait three weeks for it all to infuse, and enjoy! I'll let you know how it was, if I still have the use of my limbs afterwards...

Tim_MaA_MidB · Post by **Tim_MaA_MidB** » Tue May 30, 2006 10:21 am

hemp huh?.... sounds a bit ropey!

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Tue May 30, 2006 10:45 am

... and a terrible waste of good grass...

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Tue May 30, 2006 11:37 am

....... how do you light it ???

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Tue May 30, 2006 11:39 am

light the blue taper and retire smartly, I should think !

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Tue May 30, 2006 11:44 am

Euterpe13 wrote:light the blue taper and retire smartly, I should think !

Isn't that a kind of ant-eater with a very long snout ??

Bet he won't be very happy about it !!!!

Tim_MaA_MidB · Post by **Tim_MaA_MidB** » Tue May 30, 2006 1:16 pm

A tapir is not a ant-eater.