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Thanks, John, looks like she will have a splint type of bandage on the go for a wee while. Sometimes I think, when we were young and taught how not to get cut using a slipjoint, was a ++ for safe handling of a knife.
Never had to take my wife to the emergency room, thank God, but she's taken me a few times. Only twice for cutting myself--not with knives! Once on a can lid when I was compacting trash, and once with a box cutter. She was really mad because I burned the beans she left me in charge of, but calmed down when she saw my bleeding leg.
Tin cans can give one nasty cut
Sure lucky for you that you were bleeding, otherwise, it might have been a domestic assault case. 
Nice crystal clear photoI found a couple of bottles of this on the "singles" shelf at a local store, so I brought them home for my wife and me to try. It's pretty good and not quite as heavy as Guinness, which is just a bit "stouter" than I care for. It's posed with my trusty Case tribal lock in yellow Delrin, which is pretty stout in its own right.
"Sweet and Roasty"
I remember going in there with a mate in the 80's, and everyone stopped talking, tumbleweeds blew across the floor...
I don't have any beer inSo I'm spending the evening woith a Barossa Valley Shiraz
. This has of course passed into the realm of Sheffield lore but if you drank, I think 3 glasses of it, you got a certificate. It got me thinking about this so I dug out my old Good Beer Guide for 1994.
but I seem to recall another one between Reckless and Conqueror called 'Courageous' but I can't find a mention of it. You started the night on Reckless, then Courageous, Conqueror ending on Rodger and Out. And if you'd lost count of what you'd drank when then it really could be Rodger and Out They just don't do pubs like that anymore...
Yr Carnitas in the slow cooker. Started in the morning and it'll go all day. 3/4 can of Coke makes it just right. This was dinner last night. Sheaths on the counter above are drying.
So a few posts ago I posted some pics of our cantina in the house and realized they were pretty dated. So I took a few new ones. Funny thing was somebody kept dropping knives around about as I did so.
The left side of the bar. More or less Nichole's side and it houses her shot glass collection as well. That Pacifico poster on old barn wood was hanging in the bar of one of our local Mexican restaurants. We can be persuasive.
Top shelf:
Right side, more or less my side:
We have one son in the Army and we had a going away party for him when he headed to South Korea some time ago. Our daughter has gorgeous writing and so we just left the the drink menu on the chalkboard. The wine rack too. We're not big wine drinkers but keep a few bottles in.
Far wall behind the table are some Karen Timmel pencil drawings:
Look what I found on the table.
Couple of knives and a set of eight of our horseshoe coasters. These are a custom set with the brand tooled on each one.
Over in the corner are three hat racks:
Up on the bar one of my Cowboy knives in elk. The bottle on the right is Murrieta Chili beer. Simply the worst beer ever. Tyler the neighbor brought it over and we each had one. It was our manly duty to finish it no matter how lousy. He and his wife Cara make cool candles out of bottles and they had bought this beer just for the bottle. Great candle now, terrible beer then.
Look at whats at the other end of the bar, a far better elixir for sure. The bottle opener on the left is how Jack and I started first communicating. I was buying the openers (just the steel part) from a guy that lives next to Loch Ness and then putting handles on them. They were made in Sheffield. He couldn't get them anymore and I hadn't made any for a while. Sourcing here on this side of the pond I could find cheesey peasy cheap ass chrome plated cast metal junk but no decent ones like this out of solid stainless steel. So I contacted Jack knowing of his Sheffield connections and through his Herculean efforts these are now readily available again. Must of lit a candle somewhere. We've been email friends every since. A Poco model with stabilized Arizona Manzanita for the handle.
At the far end of the table and up above is a caribou rack. Not a lot of caribou in these parts, but a young cowboy that is a pretty well travelled hunter needed a knife and while I really didn't need a caribou rack, here we are. The black and white mane hair rope hanging there is kinda special to us. In our style of horsemanship the reins are never taken down over the horses neck once the horse is bridled. NEVER. So if you need to get down and lead your horse you use a..... wait for it...."get down rope" to do so. Thats what this is. They are about 16 ft long and can be made from several different things but this one is twisted from the mane hair of two special old retired horses of ours. We roached their manes and sent the hair to an old buckaroo up in OR. He made us two of these get down ropes out of their mane hair. First time I met him years ago, he tried to trade me out of Nichole.
Out in the hall someone droped a Stainless Gordo in bone next to another candle. This might be my favorite Single Malt these days. That coaster has our brand on it. Reverse D N connected over a quarter circle.
Hope you enjoyed the little tour of our cantina.
Looks like you have a great home and some very talented and gifted family and friends. I’ve been away most of the past week and am catching up now. Thanksdonn and
Horsewright for the fantastic in-depth posts.
Tonight I’m enjoying the last of the bottles of Pliny the Elder that I picked up from the brewery last month with a couple of recent acquisitions that I’ve purchased from makers I’ve discovered through Instagram:
The cup, made from beech wood with hand tools, is from Michigan Sloyd. The sloyd knife is the RS2 model from Runes Land Knives and features a hand forged 52100 steel blade and a scorched osage orange handle. I’m very happy to be able to experience both.
And now for something completely different....
Jack thanks for the fantastic memories! I've heard it was called the Prince of Wales before. Wasn't there another pub round there called the...Foresters??
What beers did the Exchange Brewery brew? I've never heard of that one.
So Rodger would be the Rodger Norwill or Narwill (something like that?) who brewed the ales at the Frog and Parrot? I met him a couple of times when we popped in during the day. I remember it for the ale they brewed, especially that concoction 'Rodger and Out' which when I drank it was the world's strongest beer at 16.9%. They served it in third pint glasses and to me it tasted of a cross between treacle and vegetable soup
I remember their other ales were actually really nice
I can't recall the parrot, but I was told a couple of years ago it's still alive and well and living a cushty retirement with Rodger still.
Oh and something else to. Do you remember the chalk sign above the door with a legend that read...
"Has the bottom fallen out of your world? Then drink real ale and let the world fall out your bottom"
I think he was referring to the veg soup in third pint glasses
Tonight's little snifter.
Hope everyone has a great Saturday night planned
-David.
Yes, that's Rodger, he was drunk most of the time! Old Croak and Reckless were the original ales the pubs served, which Munro brewed. I thought Rodgers beers were badly brewed, and my recollection of Rodger & Out is like your own! 
I went in a fair bit when it first opened, but only intermittently after that, maybe every few months. Cool to see those beers in your book (that looks like a very, very small selection of brew pubs compared to today) 
I do remember the sign Do you remember the glass panel, which allowed you to see into the brewery downstairs? Glad to hear the parrot survived the place! Sadly Ernest, died 25 years ago, he was still young, but got the Big C. He'd previously worked at Tinsley Wire (TWIL), where my granddad was one of the first wire-weaver ('Number 6 Hammer') When I was in Glasgow we went to the necropolis. I think this is the founding Tennant. He sure looks like a brewer.The Forester's Arms was just across the road, on the corner, an excellent pub. There's some sort of watering-hole still there I think, but very different. The Exchange Brewery was on Bridge Street next to Lady's Bridge, and overlooking the Don. It was a really interesting labyrinthine building. Part of it is still there, but it's yuppie flats now. A great place to 'work'! Whitbread took it over from Tenant's. We made Gold Label and Trophy mainly, when I worked there in 1979, some Castle Eden, and also Queen's, an old pre-Whitbread brew, which they hoped would get them some CAMRA credibility - I helped make the first brew, a lot of messing about for a beer which tasted little different to Trophy!
It’s up the hill behind the Cathedral. Very interesting, I wish I’d had more time there.
When I was in Glasgow we went to the necropolis. I think this is the founding Tennant. He sure looks like a brewer.
Edit: not the brewer! He was a chemist who invented a bleach powder (also a social reformer). Sorry.
The Forester's Arms was just across the road, on the corner, an excellent pub. There's some sort of watering-hole still there I think, but very different. The Exchange Brewery was on Bridge Street next to Lady's Bridge, and overlooking the Don. It was a really interesting labyrinthine building. Part of it is still there, but it's yuppie flats now. A great place to 'work'! Whitbread took it over from Tenant's. We made Gold Label and Trophy mainly, when I worked there in 1979, some Castle Eden, and also Queen's, an old pre-Whitbread brew, which they hoped would get them some CAMRA credibility - I helped make the first brew, a lot of messing about for a beer which tasted little different to Trophy!
Yes I think I do remember the viewing window to the brewery, I don't recall ever meeting Ernest though. The 1994 GBG isn't particularly complimentary towards Whitbreads, I'll take a photo of the entry and post it in a min. It also lists just 4 breweries for the whole of South Yorkshire; Kelham Island, Stocks, Wards and Wortley. I think there's over 30 just in Sheffield alone nowadays but it's criminal just how big business was allowed to destroy the old established breweries like they did. 
A lot of the pubs entries haven't actually changed so it's good to see what worked then still works now. When I was in Glasgow we went to the necropolis. I think this is the founding Tennant. He sure looks like a brewer.
Edit: not the brewer! He was a chemist who invented a bleach powder (also a social reformer). Sorry.
That has to be a uniquely Scottish dish!
