OAP

How much east are you talking about? Tusker being Kenya's main brew, did you mean Tiger for the Far East?

Thirty years or so ago I had a long conversation with a man who had worked at the Tsingtao brewery. I've never drunk a Tsingtao since.

After a forced diet of Tiger and tops for some months I fell on a pint of Watney's Red Barrel in the mess at Muharraq. What a mistaka to maka. It was like black syrup: definitely didn't travel.

Or Whitbread Tankard that notorious winter 62/63 when the beer lorry could not get up box hill and the beer stocks were super frozen. The beer rivalled Bud that I only sampled years later, pale yellow and best poured straight into the toilet.

Roland, Quite so Sir, I think I might of blanked Tiger after one of those Freak Drinking Accidents!:eek:

OAP

23 Sqn. Black velvet; hours hog of the month bought the black stuff.
226 OCU. Gin mine; Sqn fund bought the carboy, US exchange officers kept it full.
Emergency air drop message for jungle survival course; send 24T+CO2

Chindet, FI houbi (sp?) snapps, evil times.

Chocolate spiders, more evil times.

2nd law of thermodynamics meant that you could never quite unravel what had been mixed together and so the recipes remain (thankfully) a mystery.

Nikolaschka anyone?

Tiger beer for Singapore. The best mosquito deterrent ever made. Further East is Tsingtao, lagered in the German way as a result of the German occupation.

from Wiki Further north in Tianjin there are the remnants of the German Concession prior to WW II. A Tivoli theatre and a Brauhause. When I was there they still used the original equipment and foaming litres of black or white beer could be enjoyed on the original long tables.

I think we have now confirmed that the official drink of the Royal Air Force is anything you can get hold of, anywhere and any time. Hic!

TIGER!

lsh
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2 obvious stalwarts spring to mind:

Mooses Milk.

Spitfire.

No...
 

But there should be :ok:

Some years ago there was a thread regarding the drinking culture in the RAF. I certainly had experienced such a culture as had quite a few others. There were some though who denied emphatically that it ever existed. It seems they may have been wrong!
Time for a TIger!
Mines a Pils
Kool Keo
Onceapilot Excellent post

Goudie, they probably couldn't remember.

I suppose the difference is that the Navy carries its own duty free but the RAF ranges world wide and buys locally.

Molsons anyone?

Cisk, Hopleaf anyone?

A half and a half. Invariably Grouse in the latter but after a Knockers round, who really cares.
preferably in the Crown, The Beastie, The Abbey or the Two Red Shoes....................

Onceapilot - I have heard that said before, but is there really any truth to the assertion that the amount of quinine in Indian Tonic Water really has anti-malarial properties when visiting the tropics ?

Of course. Indeed a point well made at AvMed training. The efficacy is modest though and consumption needs to be encouraged to get the desired effect.;)

OAP

So one could survive a bout of malaria but become an alcoholic in the process!

Nope, alcoholics do not get malaria, not that they would notice.