Five People British India Would Like To Have A Drink With

Answered by Declan Melia

If I were able to have a beer with anyone from history, I would choose people who infamously enjoyed a tipple. It would be a waste to pick someone along the lines of Tom Cruise who would politely sip away on a low carb IPA, before making his excuses and vanishing into the dead of the night.

Andre the Giant

I would be a fool to think I could come close to being able to keep up with his legendary ability to put one away. The former wrestling legend was once known to put away 119 beers in 6 hours. Just to see this monolithic legend slurping away on bottles of plum wine would have been a thing of beauty.

Hank Williams Sr

Choosing Hank Williams has a lot do with the romantic idea of the setting in which we could shared a cold one. Travelling around small town America in the back of a Cadillac passing a bottle of moonshine back and forward with the country legend. Fingers crossed the night wouldn't end the same way as it did for poor old Hank on New Year's Day, 1953.

Vincent Van Gogh

Picture drinking absinthe with a man who drank so much of it there is now a brand of it named after him. And this isn't the watered down, “Green Fairy” you get from liquor stores these days. This was stuff that would make you see deep beyond the human condition, and turn a boring landscape into a thing of beauty.

Frank Sinatra

Who could turn sinking piss with the rat pack? I don't think there could be any more vibe than drinking fine scotch on ice whilst watching the chairman of the board and Dean Martin going toe to toe.

The last on this dyspeptically bloated liver of a list is the most drunken duke of them all.

Charles Bukowski

We would start the night drinking cheap gut rot wine, and end the night hurling empty beer bottles against the wall of his squatty apartment cursing the insolence of the world outside.