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Any Time Gentlemen, Please

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A brand-new drinks department has been added to the already burgeoning Chap Shop and is now fully open for business, 24 hours a day.

The range of fine alcoholic tipples has been hand selected by The Chap’s very own drinks correspondent, Mr. Neil Ridley, and constitutes the essential beverages that should be found in any bon vivant’s drinks cabinet. Adorning the menu are several traditional rums, an aged Armagnac and four of the most highly regarded single malt Scotch whiskies, including the heady and heavily-peated 16-year-old Lagavulin, which any connoisseur will agree is perfect for a wintry night by a roaring fire and a briar full of relaxing Latakia.

Those dreaded words “Time Gentlemen, Please” shall never be heard at this establishment either, provided you’re a Blighty-based Chap. Our team of trained despatch riders are on standby to deliver your orders the next day, on motorcycles with special reinforced panniers that maintain room temperature throughout the entire journey.

Furthermore, they charge a flat rate iof £6.95, whether delivering to Aberdeen or Archway.

To view the entire range, please visit Thechap.net/shop

The Chap Shop wishes you the best of health for the yuletide season!


11 Comments »

Comment by AntipodeanChap — December 22, 2009 @ 11:54 am

Splendid to see, such a shame I’m trapped in the blasted Antipodes. Is it too much to ask that a chap be born in Grear Britain? I think not. But alas, to be an Englishman born in Australia. Thank heavens for The Chap and cognac imports.


Comment by Lord Bassington-Bassington — January 3, 2010 @ 1:02 pm

This is great news! But will there not be a Chap calendar for 2010?


Comment by bunny nicholl — January 7, 2010 @ 5:54 pm

Got into a spot of bother last evening,a couple of young ankle snappers, might i suggest a chapter on gentleman’s pocket pistols!or a chapette’s guide to pistol whipping!


Comment by M.K. Palmer — January 12, 2010 @ 3:33 am

Do men actually enjoy Sailor Jerry’s? The stuff smells like the armpit of the kind of woman that actually drinks it. Utter crap.


Comment by D Beauchamp — January 13, 2010 @ 6:25 pm

Splendid news, but how about some Armenian brandy (sometimed incorrectly referred to as congac)? It is the nectar of the gods, far outstripping it’s better known French counterpart. I suggest “Anni” for a divine chest warming tipple.


Comment by Chief (honorary) Harry of the Congo, previously of Essex — January 20, 2010 @ 2:45 pm

Speaking as an exiled chap working in Armenia I’d like to second Mr Beauchamp’s (or “Beauchamp-Jan” in the local tongue) Armenian Brandy suggestion.

The local tipple is indeed the nectar of the gods, I believe the 10 year vintage Ararat known as Akhtamar was one of Sir Winston Jan’s favourites. He liked it so much he once managed to persuade that buffoon Stalin to release Armenia’s best brandy master from the Gulag! It was also the Soviets who couldn’t tell the difference between Brandy and Cognac, they cerainly have alot answer for.

Could I suggest you also stock pith helmets in your shop as well. The handsome Anglo-Boer War version can be very hard to find with my electric Telegram machine. Indeed, much to my chagrin I had to settle for the F****h design on a previous posting to Central Africa!

Keep up the good work with the magazine, each eagerly awaited issue takes me back to my days in a more sane and rational land.


Comment by The Brigadier Lord A — January 21, 2010 @ 7:54 pm

Damn me vitals if I ain’t chuffed to see a most splendid addition to your site namely ‘The Drinks Department.

As the Northern hemisphere is clamped in the vice of night and the short days, pale as shrouds, with a wan sun dribbling feebly behind winds that could scythe through the flanks of a walrus, I have to say that there is nothing that raises the spirits more than a fine Cognac.

Couple that with a fine cigar and you have the makings of a perfect evening.


Comment by Mr Leslie Rowe — January 25, 2010 @ 2:04 pm

A pleasure to see your small but beautifully selected range of gentlemans beverages. Though I am still a great exponent of the old mothers ruin, Tanqueray 10 by choice otherwise Hendricks or Bombay of course. My beloved wife is also developing a taste for a locally made Sloe variant. However, the evergreen winter warmer of the
moment is a mulled rum punch much favour by my paternal Grandmother. Might I suggest an addition page or two to describe and inform chaps as to the greater joys of these gentle paths to relaxation and personal Nirvana?


Comment by Andy K — January 26, 2010 @ 12:12 pm

What, no Martini? How on earth did that happen?


Comment by Aubrey "Gentleman" James Beech — January 28, 2010 @ 2:45 pm

Those complaining about the lack of Martini on the shelf will simple have to mix their own!


Comment by Jethro Boxgirder — February 14, 2010 @ 10:52 pm

But at what ratio?

The Montgomery?

The Churchill?


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