Returning to the 3 Piers Brewery Ferry Series, here is Mona's Isle.
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Returning to the 3 Piers Brewery Ferry Series, here is Mona's Isle.
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A monkey's fist or monkey paw is a type of knot, so named because it looks somewhat like a small bunched fist/paw. It is tied at the end of a rope to serve as a weight, making it easier to throw, and also as an ornamental knot. This type of weighted rope can be used as a hand-to-hand weapon, called a slungshot by sailors.
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Another Ferry beer is Tynwald. The High Court of Tynwald is the Parliament of the Isle of Man.
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The next Ferry beer is called Manxman.
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From Evil Twin Brewing in Brooklyn, New York, USA comes The Porthole, a saison.
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Evil Twin Brewing was founded in Denmark. Another of its products is a pale ale called Bikini Beer, named after the Pacific atoll where atomic bomb tests were carried out.
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Admiral Vernon's Old J Spiced Rum
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The manufacturers wrote,"
It all started in 1740, when Admiral Edward Vernon enforced a reduction in the strength of the British Navy’s rum ration. When his men complained, Vernon suggested the addition of limes and sugar to make the drink more enjoyable.
Old J has been created in honour of this unlikely mixologist who was known as Old Grog. However, Old J brings Vernon´s concept into the 21st Century by using the finest Caribbean Rum combined with our secret blend of spices, sugar, vanilla and Persian lime.
It took over sixty trials before the perfect harmony of ingredients was found, and Old J’s smooth and spicy flavour profile was born.
Old J is now available in five, unique varieties, with the same blended base spirit used throughout—except for in Old J Gold, which uses a British Virgin Isles rum from a pot still."
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There are several versions of Admiral Vernon's Old J rum. This one is flavoured with marasca cherry.
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HMS Grey Goose.
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With regard to our sailing navy the relevance of a grey goose came with the definition of dawn. When you can see a grey goose at a mile, it is time to send two lookouts aloft, one to the foremasthead and the other to the mainmast, and watch the horizon. ... the routine by which one of the King's ships greeted a new day at sea in wartime.
The CO of HMS Grey Goose was the naturalist Sir Peter Scott who founded the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust here in Gloucestershire (about 2 miles from where I am now).
A third member of the Old J range is Old J Silver, a less spicy white rum.
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The Grey Goose was the lead ship of a flotilla of steam gunboats, all named after wildlife with names beginning with Grey. One wonders whether the flotilla commander (Lt Cmdr later Sir Peter Scott) had anything to do with that. Apparently, the Grey Goose still exists. Sold in 1984, the hulk was converted to a houseboat and renamed Anserava. She is currently moored on the River Medway near Hoo St Werburgh in Kent, England.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Gun_Boat
Anserava
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Old J Gold spiced rum.
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May not be a Grey Goose but it is a seabird!
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One specially for Wentworth. here you go Bill.
Admiral's Old J Dark Spiced Rum.
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The last of Admiral's Old J rums, Tiki Fire Spiced Rum. This is 151 proof and 75.5% ABV.
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Abel Tasman ale.
The Glenfarclas Distillery is one of Speyside's independent whisky producers. In 2013 they issued the Alexander Selkirk edition of their Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky, which was distilled in 1990.
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Alexander Selkirk (1676 – 13 December 1721) was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent four years and four months as a castaway (1704–1709) after being marooned by his captain on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean. He is considered to have been an inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel 'The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe' published in 1719.
Selkirk has been memorialised in his Scottish birthplace. Lord Aberdeen delivered a speech on 11 December 1885, after which his wife, Lady Aberdeen, unveiled a bronze statue and plaque in memory of Selkirk outside a house on the site of his original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo. David Gillies of Cardy House, Lower Largo, a descendant of the Selkirks, donated the statue created by Thomas Stuart Burnett.
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Plaque for Selkirk in Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland, which reads: "In memory of Alexander Selkirk, mariner, the original of Robinson Crusoe who lived on the island of Juan Fernández in complete solitude for four years and four months. He died 1723 [sic], lieutenant of HMS Weymouth, aged 47 years [sic]. This statue is erected by David Gillies, net manufacturer, on the site of the cottage in which Selkirk was born."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Selkirk
One for this month.
The Greenbar Distillery of Los Angeles, California, USA manufacture Crusoe Spiced Rum, named after Robinson Crusoe.
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Another Tasman. The portrait is rather interesting when compared to the picture on the label!?
The Greenbar Distillery also manufacture Crusoe Silver Rum.
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The Greenbar Distillery also produce as a canned cocktail Coastal Rum + Cola.
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There is yet another drink named Crusoe Spiced Rum. This one is manufactured by Lundin Distilling of Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.
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