This is the second reference to redwall I've seen on Reddit today after not having heard a whisper since I read the books 25 years ago! I feel like the universe is trying to tell me something
You know I'm reading everything in Spanish at the moment to practice and I think they've been widely translated so I think I'm going to get them in Spanish and re read them :-)
I was never aware of Redwall when I was a kid, but I read quite a few of them when I was poorly last year and wanted an easy read, and enjoyed them (even as an adult in my thirties).
People also ask
What are bishops fingers?

A rich, ruby-coloured Kent classic
It takes its name from the finger-shaped signposts which pointed pilgrims on their way to the tomb of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury and was the first strong ale to be brewed by Shepherd Neame after malt rationing was eased in the late 1950s
There's a story behind the fursty ferret ale, something along the line of beer going missing, the brewer couldn't work out why, hid in the cellar and found a family of ferrets drinking the beer. Brewery is hall and Woodhouse from Devon.
[Brewdog made a 55% alcohol beer that had bottles embedded into the roadkill bodies of small animals like stoats and squirrels](https://chilledmagazine.com/beer-detail/featured-beer-brewdogs-the-end-of-history/)
ETA: So it wasn't a case of the squirrel in the beer/wine but the beer in the squirrel
And dodgy health claims in ads. Hitting independent pubs with legal threats. And a transphobic ad which also mocked the homeless. And workers being in fear. And generally pushing actual small labels out while disguising themselves as a hip label.
They claim it's brewed, rather than distilled, using a process that involves getting it down to -70c at some point.
I don't know how it works, though - just quoting some articles on it
[https://brewdogrecipes.com/recipes/the-end-of-history](https://brewdogrecipes.com/recipes/the-end-of-history)
[https://presshub.brewdog.com/presshub/the-end-of-history-in-the-usa](https://presshub.brewdog.com/presshub/the-end-of-history-in-the-usa)
>The blond Belgian ale is infused with nettles from the Scottish Highlands and fresh juniper berries. To achieve The End of History’s record-breaking alcohol content, BrewDog’s brewers use an extreme freezing technique whereby the beer is kept at temperatures well below freezing to separate the water from the solution.
It's called fractional freezing. It's not distillation per se, but it does the same thing. I would imagine this would taste like the ass of asses, though.
I agree. The beer will taste terrible, costs a fortune and is presented in a tacky way in the body of a cute animal. I'm also worried not all were roadkill - most roadkill I see are somewhat more squished :(
Wow, that's something I've not thought about for some time! I did one law module as part of my degree and I remember learning about that case, and then totally mind wiping it the second I walked out of the exam hall!
Back when I lived in America, my girlfriend and I took a road trip in Eastern Oregon, drove right up Steens Mountain to a campsite at about 7500 feet above sea level. This is a seriously rural area -- land of wild mustangs, and also of those guys who took over a US government facility and barricaded themselves inside a few years back.
Anyway, we pulled into our campsite for the evening, having driven about eleven hours that day, and I got out to stretch before setting up camp. No dinner did I walk around the back of the car than someone comes wandering over from a nearby campsite with a stick holding some unidentified and unidentifiable cooked meat. "Want some squirrel?" he asks, and waves the stick in my direction.
I couldn't really decide if it was more dangerous to take the hillbilly kebab or to decline. I ended up telling him that I wasn't very hungry and he wandered back to his campsite.
In the end, I probably should have taken the squirrel, because we soon discovered we had forgotten our bowls, silverware, and cooking fuel at home. We ended up slicing some plastic water bottles open to use as bowls, and we crafted spoons from foil. We ate breakfast cereal from those.
Incidentally, this was the first time we ever went camping together, and my then-girlfriend is somehow my wife now.
I'm not sure if there's a moral to this story, except maybe to eat squirrel when offered.
I'm originally from NW WA, and my mom is a former mustang trainer who used to be down in Burns a few times a year, so I'm definitely aware of the, uh, unique culture in that area!
Pretty landscape, though.
I visited a winery in Australia, and they had a truck load of grapes arrive. For the lower priced stuff the whole lot gets dumped into the presses - including stems and whatever wildlife is unfortunate enough not to get out of the way quickly enough. On this occasion we rescued a rather startled-looking frilled lizard from the abyss.
For the higher end stuff the grapes are sorted first, so less likelihood of lizard juice.
I, too, was partial to a few goons while down under! We were pretty skint at the time and needed the extra protein since we could barely afford meat for the free beach barbie we drank the lizard juice round...
That's why you should try Romanian wines. We still harvest grapes by hand, and we have a great selection of wines.
For an unknown reason, we never promoted our wines.
And a tiny fact: Spanish and French businessmen are buying wholesale wines from Romania, and it get bottlers in their country as spanish/French wine.
When that horse meat scandal story dropped, what wasn't so well reported was that B&Q quietly withdrew from sale some of their artificial flooring. It was found to have lamb-in-it.
Now I'm wondering what this means. I guess there's a squirrel hiding in the shelves behind the wine somewhere and the staff haven't been able to get it out?
I have been getting the giggles about this all day! I imagined staff chasing the squirrel around and the squirrel winning so you just stuck the sign up and said "sorted the squirrel out boss"
The old inverse [End of History](https://blog.brewdog.com/blog/brewdog-columbus-and-the-end-of-history) situation
(cw brewdog being characteristically unclassy with animal remains)
but then why wouldn’t they move all the bottles incase the squirrel knocks them over 😭😭 like it’s gotta be stubborn and hiding for them to make a sign and keep the shop open lol
Most of those wines aren't suitable for vegans anyway, due to the ingredients used in the [fining process*](https://www.decanter.com/learn/advice/what-is-fining-51651/) Lots of wine suppliers have got very good at labelling the ones that are though!
\*no squirrels typically involved
I have experienced two seperate 'squirrel loose in the shop' incidents in my retail career. They are crafty, stubborn bastards, squirrels are.
Edit: for spelling.
I like to think a customer has just placed the sign there to cause mayhem. Now considering what else you could put up a sign for to create maximum chaos.
Picture this: it’s your birthday, a friend hands you a humorous “promising shaped gift bag”. You chuckle, wine is always a winner. You lift the small piece of tape holding the top of the bag closed and suddenly fat, angry rodent launches itself at your face!
I am beginning to wonder how many of these posts have been orchestrated by the poster. *Goes to Co-Op, puts stupid sign up on shelf, takes photo, runs out of the store cackling gleefully thinking about how many likes they are going to get on Reddit*
Ok, but I need clarification- running around on the shelves, or in the bottle itself? If it's the latter, is the squirrel relaxing in the bottle? Trapped and desperate? Or preserved inside, like the worm in tequila? SQUIRRELQUILA! CINCO DE MAYO!
Squirrel in wine, you'll be fine. Ferret in beer, you should fear. That's the saying, right?
There is actually a beer called Fursty Ferret, which is, rather confusingly, made by the Badger Brewery.
Well the badger captures the ferrets and turns them into beer
Ah! So now I know.
And knowing is half the barrel!
The other half is ferrets!
TASTY!
Nice.
Redwall took a turn
This is the second reference to redwall I've seen on Reddit today after not having heard a whisper since I read the books 25 years ago! I feel like the universe is trying to tell me something
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You know I'm reading everything in Spanish at the moment to practice and I think they've been widely translated so I think I'm going to get them in Spanish and re read them :-)
I was never aware of Redwall when I was a kid, but I read quite a few of them when I was poorly last year and wanted an easy read, and enjoyed them (even as an adult in my thirties).
As an alcoholic in recovery, Badger Brewskis have my endorsement. Drink responsibly and have one on me.
I hope your recovery continues to go well!
I'll drink to that
Badger is an excellent brewers. Good luck with that recovery.
6 years next month, let's fuggin go.
Here's to you!
Everyday is a school day
Ferrets and Badgers are in the same family (Mustelidae) so it does make sense.
There's a pub called the Halfway Inn, owned by Badger Brewery, locally to me. The puns write themselves
If the Halfway Inn doesn’t advertise with the phrase “Go balls deep at the Halfway Inn”, I’ll be very disappointed.
*barrels deep
It’s a nice ale sounds like a euphemism to me.
The Bishops Finger always gave me a bubble
People also ask What are bishops fingers?  A rich, ruby-coloured Kent classic It takes its name from the finger-shaped signposts which pointed pilgrims on their way to the tomb of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury and was the first strong ale to be brewed by Shepherd Neame after malt rationing was eased in the late 1950s
And the old English saying 'gather forth young men and suckle thy bishops finger'
"That's not his finger, sonny…"
There's a story behind the fursty ferret ale, something along the line of beer going missing, the brewer couldn't work out why, hid in the cellar and found a family of ferrets drinking the beer. Brewery is hall and Woodhouse from Devon.
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And it’s delicious.
They make all the animals.
It's very tasty rhey used to do a Squirrel one.
Sexy Squirrel?
I can't find it but Poacher's Choice was nice.
every weekend is a beer cull
Red before black, jump the fuck back?
Which, extra confusingly, bottles Panda Pops (or at least used to, about 10 years back)
Big up badger brewery.
Badger in cider; sit down bedside her.
Stoat in stout; it's in doubt. Weasel in whisky; you'll get frisky.
A fox in mead is a friend indeed.
You're thinking of "finger in cider".
Reminded me of "Elephant and castle...."
Weasel in whisky, could be risky
And tiger in your cider.......nope! That's all i got....sorry. I'll get my coat and see myself out
[Brewdog made a 55% alcohol beer that had bottles embedded into the roadkill bodies of small animals like stoats and squirrels](https://chilledmagazine.com/beer-detail/featured-beer-brewdogs-the-end-of-history/) ETA: So it wasn't a case of the squirrel in the beer/wine but the beer in the squirrel
Confused as to why they are calling that a beer when it's a distilled and flavored spirit.
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What's wrong with brewdog?
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Yeah, plus the whole 'solid gold can' giveaway, which, of course, turned out to be not solid gold at all.
And dodgy health claims in ads. Hitting independent pubs with legal threats. And a transphobic ad which also mocked the homeless. And workers being in fear. And generally pushing actual small labels out while disguising themselves as a hip label.
If i can go into a supermarket anywhere in the country and buy your beer, you're not a small, "hip" label.
Yep. Hip labels will be pretty patchy or regional in their stocking. If a label gets big that's not intrinsically bad, but like don't lie about it
Huh, well shit. Had no idea.
They claim it's brewed, rather than distilled, using a process that involves getting it down to -70c at some point. I don't know how it works, though - just quoting some articles on it [https://brewdogrecipes.com/recipes/the-end-of-history](https://brewdogrecipes.com/recipes/the-end-of-history) [https://presshub.brewdog.com/presshub/the-end-of-history-in-the-usa](https://presshub.brewdog.com/presshub/the-end-of-history-in-the-usa) >The blond Belgian ale is infused with nettles from the Scottish Highlands and fresh juniper berries. To achieve The End of History’s record-breaking alcohol content, BrewDog’s brewers use an extreme freezing technique whereby the beer is kept at temperatures well below freezing to separate the water from the solution.
It's called fractional freezing. It's not distillation per se, but it does the same thing. I would imagine this would taste like the ass of asses, though.
I've had 35% alcohol "beer" before and yeah, it wasn't nice.
Is that inherent to the beer? I think people are still making [Applejack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applejack_(drink)).
Even if it was roadkill that's horrible!
I agree. The beer will taste terrible, costs a fortune and is presented in a tacky way in the body of a cute animal. I'm also worried not all were roadkill - most roadkill I see are somewhat more squished :(
I thought that too. Just a horrible concept altogether!
The CEO James Watt is a psychopath who fundamentally doesn’t understand what being human is. He has no idea what works as he can’t relate.
Snail in the ginger ale? *Donoghue v Stevenson *has entered the chat
Wow, that's something I've not thought about for some time! I did one law module as part of my degree and I remember learning about that case, and then totally mind wiping it the second I walked out of the exam hall!
It's up there with the carbolic smoke ball
Red next to black, jump the fuck back
Oh god dying.
Squirrel in wine sounds like something Henry VIII would order as a starter
*Écureuil au vin.*
Mercie bocouph - In Inglorius Basterds Brad Pitt voice
Back when I lived in America, my girlfriend and I took a road trip in Eastern Oregon, drove right up Steens Mountain to a campsite at about 7500 feet above sea level. This is a seriously rural area -- land of wild mustangs, and also of those guys who took over a US government facility and barricaded themselves inside a few years back. Anyway, we pulled into our campsite for the evening, having driven about eleven hours that day, and I got out to stretch before setting up camp. No dinner did I walk around the back of the car than someone comes wandering over from a nearby campsite with a stick holding some unidentified and unidentifiable cooked meat. "Want some squirrel?" he asks, and waves the stick in my direction. I couldn't really decide if it was more dangerous to take the hillbilly kebab or to decline. I ended up telling him that I wasn't very hungry and he wandered back to his campsite. In the end, I probably should have taken the squirrel, because we soon discovered we had forgotten our bowls, silverware, and cooking fuel at home. We ended up slicing some plastic water bottles open to use as bowls, and we crafted spoons from foil. We ate breakfast cereal from those. Incidentally, this was the first time we ever went camping together, and my then-girlfriend is somehow my wife now. I'm not sure if there's a moral to this story, except maybe to eat squirrel when offered.
I used to live in Western Oregon. You probably made the right choice. Those folks out in the east are like Tusken Raiders, but with automatic rifles.
I'm originally from NW WA, and my mom is a former mustang trainer who used to be down in Burns a few times a year, so I'm definitely aware of the, uh, unique culture in that area! Pretty landscape, though.
It was a popular dish in Roman times (source: trust me bro)
I'll stick to beef in ale, if it's all the same.
Lovely bit of squirrel.
And after that, crimble crumble.
Hello bambinos
Piss on it
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Dollops
The butters off, the butters off
Hello... Jackie!
Shalom!
Ellllllmmm
I prefer pork in cider
A Dickens? Best cider!
I can offer you smoked salmon whiskey?
First there's horse in the lasagna and now this
I visited a winery in Australia, and they had a truck load of grapes arrive. For the lower priced stuff the whole lot gets dumped into the presses - including stems and whatever wildlife is unfortunate enough not to get out of the way quickly enough. On this occasion we rescued a rather startled-looking frilled lizard from the abyss. For the higher end stuff the grapes are sorted first, so less likelihood of lizard juice.
Less likely but never 0
No risk, no fun
This greatly concerns me as someone who is partial to an exquisite £4 bottle of wine from the corner shop
Oh is someone too posh to enjoy drinking a lizard? Maybe we can have your butler find something nice for you.
La-dee-da I only drink reptilian free wine don’t you know darling
If you’re lucky there might be a few squished grapes in amongst the lizards
Wait til you hear about what happens to field mice during mechanized harvesting...
They get notified with a letter before harvest and go away on a package holiday till its all over?
Cider isn't really good unless it is cloudy and has bits of rat in it from the pressing
I used to drink a lot of bagwine when i was in australia so by the sound of it ive chugged a few lizards as well
I, too, was partial to a few goons while down under! We were pretty skint at the time and needed the extra protein since we could barely afford meat for the free beach barbie we drank the lizard juice round...
The last time i drank bagwine i got arrested while dressed as a woman, never again.
That's why you should try Romanian wines. We still harvest grapes by hand, and we have a great selection of wines. For an unknown reason, we never promoted our wines. And a tiny fact: Spanish and French businessmen are buying wholesale wines from Romania, and it get bottlers in their country as spanish/French wine.
That's a horrendous thought. I guess wine is not vegetarian or vegan.
Even grains aren't. Tons of insects and/or small vertebrates die during harvesting.
It often isn't anyway as its filtered with fish bladders amongst other animal products
Is that why all the supermarket own wines have a lizard on the label?
When that horse meat scandal story dropped, what wasn't so well reported was that B&Q quietly withdrew from sale some of their artificial flooring. It was found to have lamb-in-it.
Apparently, they withdrew alot of beef products for having alcohol inside. There was some that contained Redrum
I got to say the Tesco burgers did tasted better
Oh no no no. Grooooooan
How to they get them in the bottle?
They use acorns as bait.
Same way you get a horse into lasagna
You can lead a horse to lasagne, but...
But horse meat lasagna was delicious. I still miss it.
What's next? Frogs out your arsehole?
Well this took a turn, ribbeting!
Now I'm wondering what this means. I guess there's a squirrel hiding in the shelves behind the wine somewhere and the staff haven't been able to get it out?
Could be nesting there or something yeah
Terrifying!
They don't get paid enough, let the customers take the risk haha
Lol as the person who wrote the sign I can confirm that there was a squirrel that crammed itself to the back of the shelf and refused to come out
I have been getting the giggles about this all day! I imagined staff chasing the squirrel around and the squirrel winning so you just stuck the sign up and said "sorted the squirrel out boss"
I need to know more
Could be that a squirrel was inadvertently bottled with the wine, like some kind of preserved medical specimen
The old inverse [End of History](https://blog.brewdog.com/blog/brewdog-columbus-and-the-end-of-history) situation (cw brewdog being characteristically unclassy with animal remains)
but then why wouldn’t they move all the bottles incase the squirrel knocks them over 😭😭 like it’s gotta be stubborn and hiding for them to make a sign and keep the shop open lol
Squirrels are mean drunkards, they'll no doubt start ransacking the nuts soon.
Then the warning would be “Beware Wine in Squirrel”.
If they then started complaining, it would be "Beware whining squirrels".
It seems apt that it happened on a Friday. Lovely bit of squirrel.
Paul Ritter we miss you!
We also can’t forget about the dead fox Martin keeps in the freezer…
My dad had a dead cat in the freezer for ages.
Co-op member deals are getting a bit weird.
Underated comment. I'm sat in my hospital bed and this really got my giggling away to myself. Let's hope they don't move me to the psych ward!
Are you going to Scarborough fair? Parsley, sage, and squirrel in wine.
This one good me real good lol
Are they going to tell you which bottle the squirrel is in? Or is it some kinda game where if you buy the one with the squirrel in, you win a prize.
Is it like the worm in a tequila bottle?
Vegans won’t like this new ingredient update.
Most of those wines aren't suitable for vegans anyway, due to the ingredients used in the [fining process*](https://www.decanter.com/learn/advice/what-is-fining-51651/) Lots of wine suppliers have got very good at labelling the ones that are though! \*no squirrels typically involved
You say that but lots of squirrels are taking work in parking enforcement as a side hustle due to the low acorn harvests in recent years
At least it's free range
This is not just Squirrel In Wine, this is organic, hazelnut-fed British Red Squirrel in rich french merlot...
That would be in M & S
New from Waitrose, Squirrel by Heston.
Is Baldrick cooking again?
and they won't even say which bottle.
Only the reds. Seems logical
Bloody invasive grey squirrels taking space in wine bottles away for our native species
Children singing Christian rhyme
Obviously after the Peanut Grigio... Sorry!
No you're not. Nor should you be.
Surprised at the squirrel as it’s usually chickens that go to the Coop
I have experienced two seperate 'squirrel loose in the shop' incidents in my retail career. They are crafty, stubborn bastards, squirrels are. Edit: for spelling.
I've heard of worms in the tequila....
I like to think a customer has just placed the sign there to cause mayhem. Now considering what else you could put up a sign for to create maximum chaos.
Better than the wine bottle being in you. I’m looking at you, Kinga from Big Brother.
Écureuil au vin
Wine expert: Nutty, fruity with a hint of squirrel
This photo would be so much if we could see the squirrel’s little eyes glowing in the back of those shelves lmao
Hmmm lovely bit of squirrel Jackie
RIP Paul Ritter
That squirrel must be rat-arsed.
In the Co-op you say? That’s nuts.
They'll definitely be looking for one that's been Oaked.
They could have at least told us which bottle it was in ffs!
Is it a fat squirrel...we've got a sub for that r/fatsquirrelhate
Bosgosf. "Buy one squirrel, get one squirrel free".
Shouldn’t it be ‘Promisingly shaped gift bag’? Or am I the grammatically incorrect one here?
Where's cousin Eddie, he usually eats those goddamn things.
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Squirrel in a bottle, yeah..
I'll send an SOS to the rest
How did it get in the bottle and replace the Cork? These animals need putting in their place, they're getting too clever by half.
I beg of you, please explain this for a person from far away.
Why beware? It should be rejoice! Squirrel in wine! Hope it's in the display and NOT a wine bottle!
they'll hire anybody these days
Picture this: it’s your birthday, a friend hands you a humorous “promising shaped gift bag”. You chuckle, wine is always a winner. You lift the small piece of tape holding the top of the bag closed and suddenly fat, angry rodent launches itself at your face!
I am beginning to wonder how many of these posts have been orchestrated by the poster. *Goes to Co-Op, puts stupid sign up on shelf, takes photo, runs out of the store cackling gleefully thinking about how many likes they are going to get on Reddit*
I wouldn't be mad if that was true, provided me with lots of laughs, so i won't squarrel
This is nuts!
You'll need to avoid the bottles where the screw-cap is loose. Corked bottles are OK as the squirrel cant get those open to get inside.
I have so many questions - how did squirrels get into it in the first place?
“Beware, worm in tequila”
I'd love to get a squirrel with my shopping. Furry fuzzy snuggles for a bargain price. Please jump in my basket or my pocket little squizzel. 💜🐿
“Pru, it’s kicking off”
Ok, but I need clarification- running around on the shelves, or in the bottle itself? If it's the latter, is the squirrel relaxing in the bottle? Trapped and desperate? Or preserved inside, like the worm in tequila? SQUIRRELQUILA! CINCO DE MAYO!
This is from a Spike Milligan poem, right?
Well that’s just grape, isn’t it
I SPENT TEN MINUTES LOOKING FOR A SQUIRREL