Commentary: July 2022 Archives
Last Saturday night I went with Tony, Frank and Karen to Herbert's Christmas in July. Six courses, six beers. We won't mention the couple of drinks and snackages we had beforehand. Shh!
"One Drop" brewery filled up the taps with six different beers to pair with the six courses.
Course 1: Antipasto plate
Jamon serrano, white hungarian salami, ambrosia tilsiter, rice crackers, paired with Fire Drop Rice Lager
This was lovely - I mean it's hard to go wrong with meat and cheese. But I saw this huge chunk of cheese and immediately regretted our decision to have snackages beforehand! And I really liked the Rice Lager as well.
Course 2: First Entree
Roasted capsicum and tomato soup, paired with Hazy Pale
The soup was delicious and I really liked the beer.
Course 3: Second Entree
Turkey and cranberry balls, paired with Illusion Imperial Berliner Weisse
Delicious little turkey and cranberry balls, and yet another great beer
Course 4: Palate refresher
Cucumber Trio: smoked salmon / prawn & avacado / tuna salad, paired with Welcome to the Nectaron Experience
This was the best dish of the night I thought - up there with a fine dining experience, and I enjoyed the beer too
Course 5: Main
Pineapple glazed baked ham with seasonal veggies, paired with Oatmeal Stout
After all the entrees which were amazing, to be honest the mains were a little .. plain .. Nothing wrong with them, just not super exciting. In fact we declared defeat on all the food quite early and asked for containers to take it home in so I could enjoy it more later. I'm not a fan of stouts, but as stouts go this one wasn't too bad.
Course 6: Dessert
Raspberry cheesecake, paired with Choc Vanilla Porter.
The cheesecake was *delicious* although I was so full I was really struggling to get through it. But I did!! I'm also not a fan of porters but again, this one wasn't bad.
All in all a great fun night, although as mentioned, it got rather.. loud .. !!
3.6.22
After seeing The Queen and Me exhibition we went into Palace Electric to see Top Gun: Maverick.
It was quite a last minute decision, so I never had time to go back and watch Top Gun beforehand. Not that I really needed to. I've seen it enough times to remember the gist of it. And there's flashbacks as well to help.
Bottom line is, it's a remake.
But a great one!
The action is spectacular, using pretty much all real effects.
There's some great trivia on IMDB about how the actors basically had to be their own directors and camera operators because they were actually up in aircraft doing the stunts!
Amazing stuff.
And an F-14 Tomcat!! Wheee!!
So yeah, thoroughly enjoyed it.
Only gripes: I'm sure they never would have allowed someone who wears glasses to pilot a fighter jet. And the only people that would get into a programme like Top Gun would be A-type personalities. Anyone with lack of confidence would likely never have made it in. And he never would have survived that high speed ejection...
Of course we then watched Top Gun again the next weekend :)