What are you drinking?

[Bruder Cuzzen]

 We had Ballintine's scotch , I'm glad it's all gone since I didn't like it very much...had to add lots of ice just so I could manage to sip it.

[goat starer]

a glass of M&S wine that cost my host £40 in the Albert Hall (i nicked it..... with permission of course!)  and probably costs £6 in M&S

[Swatopluk]

the 20th letter again

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Coffee.

a glass of M&S wine that cost my host £40 in the Albert Hall (i nicked it..... with permission of course!)  and probably costs £6 in M&S

Goat, while you were there, did you figure out how many holes it takes to fill it?   

[Aggie]

the 20th letter again

Heh, I think Swato and I should have a T-off one day.
I'm drinking less since the summer is here (should switch to iced) - probably only 4 or 5 cups a day (2 or 3 bags, since I refill once usually).  Also 1 or 2 cups of coffee.

[Swatopluk]

Brandenburger Mineralwasser, classic (about 2 ltr.)
Na⁺ --- 4.5 mg/l
K⁺ ---- 0.6 mg/l
Mg²⁺ --- 6.5 mg/l
Ca²⁺ --- 60.9 mg/l
Cl^- --- 5.6 mg/l
HCO₃^- -- 204.0 mg/l
F^- ---- 0.16 mg/l
Silicic Acid (meta) --- 23.1 mg/l

[Aggie]

There's reputedly one German brand of mineral water which blatantly lists concentrations of a certain ion in excess of CDN drinking water standards.

Can't remember the brand, and could only guess at the ion (most listed are not a concern).

[Swatopluk]

The usual suspects would be CN^-, NO₃^-, Ra²⁺ or As^3+/5+

[Aggie]

Among commonly listed ions, it's likely to be NO₃^- (NO₂^- is worse but unlikely to be on a  label) or SO₄^2-, not toxic but can act as a laxative.  Had some mineral water recently with notably high levels of SO₄^2-.

It may actually have been arsenic, fairly common for this to occur naturally in groundwater.  Found some Armenian sources with that issue:

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/03/fda_mineral_water.html

[Swatopluk]

First had to check that Armenian was not a misspelled US (given that one of Bush's first actions in the WH was cancelling Clinton's stricter As in drinking water regulations)

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Beer (stella artois) with my lunch
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Now I'm having a nice Australian Merlot 

[Swatopluk]

What else at this time than Tea?

[Pachyderm]

Tea. Twinings tea.

British, old boy.

Can I enter if there ever is a tea-off?

but I warn you, the prize will be mine.....

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

The last bit of the Australian merlot. I was a big bottle (1.5 lt) 

[Swatopluk]

What else at this time than Tea?

Nuff said