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trapezius · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:08 pm Post subject:

3 options:

1) Make your own using fruit juice or near beer. (you can make bear, wine, and even hard liquor)

2) Buy someone else's homemade stuff.

3) Buy real stuff (Embassy staff, a prince's drivers/servants, normal Saudis who make a business out of selling Black Label, etc).

johnslat · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:18 pm Post subject:

Pick option 1 - the other two can be dangerous.

Regards,
John

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:35 pm Post subject:

Ooh, ooh! There always (secret) option #4...

Become an Engrish teacher with an undisclosed Asian Embassy official who likes hangin' out wif' da white folk and goes on monthly excursions to that "Magic Isle" once a month and offers to transport your suitcase full of "Bahraini Bebsi" back thru saudi customs in his trunk on his "official passport"!

My compatriot became quite concerned with my focus on saudi upon noticing all of the "real" liquor that I had in my China cabinet (at the time, the "real stuff" cost SAR 500 per bot'le...and he could see several months worth of it in the cabinet!).

Bottom line...by hook or crook...it can be had. Real or unreal. Sugar (Yuck!) or unsugar!

NCTBA

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

...............or learn to live without C2HO5H !!

trapezius · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:02 pm Post subject:

C2H5OH

philipjames · Joined: 07 Mar 2003 Posts: 37

Embassies around the world often have social events at the embassy where expat 'members' are welcome to attend. I occasionally go to the pub at the British Embassy here in Seoul. Do Western embassies in Riyadh offer the same opportunity?

Me would hope so.

Regards,
Jameson

sharter · Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 878 Location: All over the place

Scot,no wonder you took the pledge, you were making the wrong stuff. And hear me now; ain't nutten wrong wid sugar!

15yearsinQ8 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 462 Location: kuwait

if you can't live without it, you're addicted
if you can't live w/out it, don't come to dry countries

svatopluk · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 81

A friend used to brew his own wine in a huge bucket in his wardrobe. He called it white wine, while I called it brown wine. Either way it was filthy and produced the worst hangover I've ever known. Once on Christmas Day, which fell conveniently on a Wednesday, I went to his place and we got smashed. This was in Abqaiq at the start of the war in Iraq and so the Saudi cops were everywhere as al-Qaida had threatened to attack Aramco. I walked back to my place - a good mile - but remember absolutely nothing of it and the police must have seen me staggering down the streets, no doubt saying, "There goes another drunk white guy." Maybe his colleague replied, "Well, it is Christmas."

Sid seemed to be freely available if you really wanted it, as it was stolen/bootlegged from hospitals - it's 97% proof. But if you have any regard for your brain then steer well clear.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol

Trapezius is right and the aging, deluded scot47 has made ANOTHER typo !

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:07 pm Post subject:

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Kipling · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:41 pm Post subject: Cheers

Mead (honey beer) is a lovely drink

Mr S, wouldn't very hot water kill the yeast?
I used to brew in the UK hundreds of years ago(or seems like it)
and was always careful with the yeast that produced the amber nectar.

I use other yeasts for other kinds of things now, and those things are all legit in the KSA.

Sir

Mr K Very Happy

Cleopatra · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:50 pm Post subject:

Kipling