At last! After a whole 2 weeks, the home brew is ready for consumption.

Boydell’s Brain Bash is fruity, cheeky summer tipple with a slightly bitter caramel after taste reminiscent of PG Tips! I am reliably informed by the biggest alcoholic on he compound that even cut it has an ABV of 6%!!

A lot of people in the UK pooh-pooh Saudi Arabian homebrew wines and beer. This is a pity as many fine Ex-pat homebrews appeal not only to the Saudi palate but also to the cognoscenti of Great Britain.

Scaby Camel 2007 has been compared favourably to a Welsh claret, whilst the Saudi Ex-pat Wino Society thoroughly recommends a 2008 Jeddah Vintage Dark Porter, which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule: eight pints of this and you're really finished! At the opening of the Jeddah Brithish Embassy Club, they were fishing them out of the main sewers every half an hour!

Ranco IPA too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and its lingering after burn.

Black Stump Bordeaux is rightly praised as a peppermint flavoured Burgundy, whilst a good Sahara Syrup can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines.

Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Al Jouf Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is 'beware'. This is not a wine for drinking, this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

Another good fighting beer is Osama’s Old-and-Yellow, which is particularly heavy and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat.

Quite the reverse is true of Château Chunder, which is an appellation contrôlée, specially grown for those keen on regurgitation; a fine wine which really opens up the sluices at both ends.

Real emetic fans should also go for a Mustafah Muddy, and a prize winning Cuivre Reserve Château Bottled Nuit San Wogga Wogga, which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.

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