Zak Avery
@zakavery.bsky.social
Beer for your home: www.beerritz.co.uk Beer for your business: www.beerparadise.co.uk Available for the production of words and sentences, both spoken and written. Commoners Choir
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"Hello. My name is Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor. You killed my mother. Prepare to die."
December 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Hello. My name is Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor. You killed my mother. Prepare to die."
Advent Day 11: Few Spirits Bourbon 46.5% dear god I needed a couple of days off. A slightly odd volatile note (nail polish) blows off to reveal a perfectly decent, clean, polished and smooth Bourbon. I bet it would make a bitching Manhattan. Good.
December 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Advent Day 11: Few Spirits Bourbon 46.5% dear god I needed a couple of days off. A slightly odd volatile note (nail polish) blows off to reveal a perfectly decent, clean, polished and smooth Bourbon. I bet it would make a bitching Manhattan. Good.
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Does this make my white label from 20 odd years ago more or less valuable?
December 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Does this make my white label from 20 odd years ago more or less valuable?
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Instead of visiting the £75M Guinness brewery where they don't make Guinness why not visit the £0.25M Donnies brewery where they make Donnies.
December 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Instead of visiting the £75M Guinness brewery where they don't make Guinness why not visit the £0.25M Donnies brewery where they make Donnies.
Advent Day 7 (actually Day 1) St George's Spirits Breaking & Entering. Straight down the line whiskey, bright and clean and fresh, really clean and classy. Honey and nuts? Oh, go on then.
December 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Advent Day 7 (actually Day 1) St George's Spirits Breaking & Entering. Straight down the line whiskey, bright and clean and fresh, really clean and classy. Honey and nuts? Oh, go on then.
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You get both the bourbon and the rye … cheers!
December 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
You get both the bourbon and the rye … cheers!
Advent Day 6: hang on, didn't I see you a couple of days ago?! Lens-cleaning inadvertent selfie included for lols.
December 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Advent Day 6: hang on, didn't I see you a couple of days ago?! Lens-cleaning inadvertent selfie included for lols.
Maker's Mark Cask Strength, 55%abv, on ice and a dash. Copper gold colour, huge spirit aroma. Some may think it's a hiding to nothing trying to write notes on 24 American whiskies - they're all the same, right? But as John Peel memorably said about The Fall - always the same, but always different
December 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Maker's Mark Cask Strength, 55%abv, on ice and a dash. Copper gold colour, huge spirit aroma. Some may think it's a hiding to nothing trying to write notes on 24 American whiskies - they're all the same, right? But as John Peel memorably said about The Fall - always the same, but always different
Advent Day 4: I've realised this evening that in my pious frenzy to commence Advent, I've drunk day 7 on day 1. The font is quite spindly. Anyone might have made the same mistake. To correct matters, I was momentarily swayed towards drinking day 1 today, but then what would become of day 4?
December 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Advent Day 4: I've realised this evening that in my pious frenzy to commence Advent, I've drunk day 7 on day 1. The font is quite spindly. Anyone might have made the same mistake. To correct matters, I was momentarily swayed towards drinking day 1 today, but then what would become of day 4?
Yeah like actually I'm like really into like new wave boom bap folktronica actually
December 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Yeah like actually I'm like really into like new wave boom bap folktronica actually
Advent Day 3: Westward Single Malt. 45%, on ice. I'm not saying that this is becoming a high point of my day, but I ripped the door off in my eagerness to get this one out. Slightly darker burnished gold colour, much more assertive aroma, oak, tropical fruit?
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Advent Day 3: Westward Single Malt. 45%, on ice. I'm not saying that this is becoming a high point of my day, but I ripped the door off in my eagerness to get this one out. Slightly darker burnished gold colour, much more assertive aroma, oak, tropical fruit?
Advent Day 2: Daddy Rack Tennessee Straight Whiskey. 40%abv, on ice. Straightforward whiskey, vanilla oak. Parma violets? Cheeky, slightly raucous. Nice.
December 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Advent Day 2: Daddy Rack Tennessee Straight Whiskey. 40%abv, on ice. Straightforward whiskey, vanilla oak. Parma violets? Cheeky, slightly raucous. Nice.
Advent Day 1: 50%abv, with ice. Smooth oak and vanilla, pear and almond, marzipan? Pretty fiery, but good.
December 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Advent Day 1: 50%abv, with ice. Smooth oak and vanilla, pear and almond, marzipan? Pretty fiery, but good.
@theswanyork.bsky.social good to see you on the news tonight Paul, albeit for less than positive reasons
November 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
@theswanyork.bsky.social good to see you on the news tonight Paul, albeit for less than positive reasons
The family that welds together... [complete as appropriate]
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The family that welds together... [complete as appropriate]
Crikey @paulspencer1973.bsky.social this is even lovelier than I'd hoped! Thank you so much!
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Crikey @paulspencer1973.bsky.social this is even lovelier than I'd hoped! Thank you so much!
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My 2 fave pics from our trip to Manresa.
Commoners on la Torre de Caterina.
(Ta @alisontomlin.bsky.social )
#Catalunya
Commoners on la Torre de Caterina.
(Ta @alisontomlin.bsky.social )
#Catalunya
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
My 2 fave pics from our trip to Manresa.
Commoners on la Torre de Caterina.
(Ta @alisontomlin.bsky.social )
#Catalunya
Commoners on la Torre de Caterina.
(Ta @alisontomlin.bsky.social )
#Catalunya
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Manifest #0817 from Topaz 3 (EXPERIMENTAL)
1. Mausoleum of Possums
2. Unmanned Hallelujah Covers
1. Mausoleum of Possums
2. Unmanned Hallelujah Covers
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Manifest #0817 from Topaz 3 (EXPERIMENTAL)
1. Mausoleum of Possums
2. Unmanned Hallelujah Covers
1. Mausoleum of Possums
2. Unmanned Hallelujah Covers
As @commonerschoir.bsky.social head off to Catalonia for a gig with Incordis to mark the 50th anniversary of Franco's death, it's interesting to read articles like this.
I grew up in Spain amid a collective amnesia about Franco. It is time we faced up to our dark past | María Ramírez
I grew up in Spain amid a collective amnesia about Franco. It is time we faced up to our dark past | María Ramírez
This week marks 50 years of Spanish democracy, but the failure to talk more about the crimes of the dictatorship leaves us vulnerable, says the journalist María Ramírez
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 AM
As @commonerschoir.bsky.social head off to Catalonia for a gig with Incordis to mark the 50th anniversary of Franco's death, it's interesting to read articles like this.
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
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Milton Glaser’s 10 Rules for Life & Work: The Celebrated Designer Dispenses Wisdom Gained Over His Long Life & Career
Milton Glaser’s 10 Rules for Life & Work: The Celebrated Designer Dispenses Wisdom Gained Over His Long Life & Career
Milton Glaser muses less than a minute into the above video.
The 86-year-old Glaser’s many contributions to pop culture---the I ❤ NY logo, the psychedelic portrait of a rainbow-haired Bob Dylan, DC ...
www.openculture.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Milton Glaser’s 10 Rules for Life & Work: The Celebrated Designer Dispenses Wisdom Gained Over His Long Life & Career
Finally! Although now I realise that we badly need to decorate....
November 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Finally! Although now I realise that we badly need to decorate....