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The MUNCHIES Easter Weekend Drinking Guide

Taking you through the four-day bender, from beers on the train home to boozy Sunday lunch with family and the obligatory drinks with old school friends. Cheers, Jesus.

You've dragged a suitcase into the office (well, may as well take some washing back to Mum), got your excuse ready for leaving at 3 PM to catch the early train, queued five episodes of S-Town for the journey, and are practically vibrating with excitement at the prospect of four whole days of Out of Office-sanctioned laziness. It's the Easter Bank Holiday weekend!!!!

Despite the promise of home cooked Sunday roasts and Mini Egg binges, the Easter holidays also throw up some challenges: delayed trains, bumping into sixth form ex-boyfriends in the pub, chocolate comas, aging relatives bringing up Brexit …

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But there's nothing a stiff drink can't solve. To save you from hitting the Pinot Grigio hard all weekend, we enlisted the help of Stu Bale, drinks consultant, bartender at Bad Sports in East London, and Glaswegian inventor of that Buckfast negroni. Calling upon his extensive knowledge of getting pleasantly pissed, he has found a drink to overcome any Easter obstacle.

Here's how to drink your way through the Easter weekend and rise again on the Monday.

Good Friday

The situation: You're on a packed, delayed train to your backwater hometown. How do you make it through this journey while mentally preparing yourself for a weekend with family members and school friends you haven't seen since Christmas? The drink: It's a guilty pleasure but I'm a massive fan of a turbo shandy. What's good about getting a train is that you can always get plastic cups at a train station and you probably won't be on the train by yourself. It's Smirnoff Ice, the cheapest beer you can find, the cheapest cider you can find, and how ever many plastic cups you need.

It's equal parts of each thing and it's delicious.

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