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What are you drinking tonight/this weekend?
Just curious. I myself am polishing off a nice pour of Buffalo Trace, neat, which I got at a great price at the grocery store.
Just curious. I myself am polishing off a nice pour of Buffalo Trace, neat, which I got at a great price at the grocery store.
I have been stopping in to a couple of craft beer shops in my neighborhood recently. I wouldn't call myself a connoisseur, but I have been enjoying trying different craft beers, including many of our local breweries. When the pandemic started I was only doing one beer on Friday nights, but now I'm also allowing myself one on Tuesdays and sometimes one or two other days during the week.
My beers from the last week:
The porters were excellent, and I really liked Beer For Tacos. Didn't much care for the Sawyer Kill though. I used to enjoy IPAs but at some point I lost my taste for them.
I played Jackbox with friends yesterday and we made a drinking game out of it. I made the (poor) decision to go with dark rum; Appleton, to be precise. After about seven shots in the span of twenty minutes I had to stop and swap out for some Gin & Tonic, because honestly I was drinking through a lot of money without getting to enjoy it, and G&T is a lot easier on the liver. I like a local Austrian kettle-pot distilled gin very much, it has a really nice fruity aftertaste when the bitter goes away.
During the pandemic, I have gotten in the habit of mixing myself cocktails and so my alcohol cabinet grew rather substantially. I am a fan of the classic Negroni for example, but in times like these I prefer more upbeat cocktails like the Cosmopolitan, the Jungle Bird or the Piña colada. Hot tip when it comes to the Piña colada: Don't use coconut cream, use unsweetened coconut milk and sweeten with sirup to taste. It will be cheaper because cream of coconut is fucking expensive, and also it will lessen the already sweet taste of your Piña colada.
However, when lazy, I do find myself returning to Gin Tonic, it's just so nicely balanced out.
Just out of curiosity where's the source for gin being easier than rum on the liver as I'm suffering from a drinking and games night on rum currently.
40ml of gin to like ~300ml of tonic. It tastes nice without being too alcoholic.
Water - I'm not much of a drinker
That being said I do have some cans of cider...
Water too here! I mostly just drink water anyway except coffee and beer once in a while.
Also water, but I've been occasionally doing it with chia seeds - I take 4 pint jars, slice a lemon in half and juice half, save the other half, divide the juice evenly, add a tablespoon chia seeds to each, then tap water, then shake and refrigerate at least 20m, up to a few days.
Shake before drinking to break up clumps. It's a real fun treat to realize you have. (And cheap (thx Costco) and healthy, although some may find the texture off-putting.)
Not all at once, but here's been my Feb/March drinks:
Quick and dirty hot toddy, a winter favorite: Heat apple cider to near-boiling (I microwave in a coffee cup), add some ground cinnamon and cloves. Add liqour, I prefer whiskey.
Honey whiskey on the rocks, Wild Turkey's is my favorite because it has the best balance of sweet and whiskey. Other brands leaned too hard one way or the other. They had a spicy variant for awhile that was nice, so occassionally I'll add a splach of Fireball. Rim with good honey on the inside of glass for an extra kick.
7 and 7, most traditionally with 7up and Seagrams 7.
Dirty Shirley: a 7 and 7 with grenadine.
Pineapple and orange juices, grenadine, tequilla. Yea, it's more of a summer drink, but it helps keep the seasonal depression at bay.
Orange soda, half and half, and white rum. A nice orange julius. Should work with lemonade as well. Again, wouldn't reccomend for winter, but I had the ingredients and I was curious.
Edit: For you folks having hangovvers, a B6 vitamin and sipping a glass or two of water before bed will mitigate the worst of it, if not fully prevent. Don't chug water after a night of medium-heavy drinking, especially if it was beer. Good way to overfill the already queasy stomach and vomit, even if your BAC is low.
We had the last bottle of sweet sparkling wine Beringer White Zinfandel yesterday. We bought three cases a couple of years ago because of how rare it is to find sweet sparkling wine at LCBO. Sadly, they don't carry it anymore.
I am just about to brew a pot of Moroccan mint tea, which is Egyptian mint leaves with Chinese green tea. I'm not sure if that's particularly traditional for Morocco but it's a very pleasant brew either way. It's an early evening drink nearly every day in our house.
Current drink is a Honey Whiskey Sour. Nothing too complicated as a whiskey sour is already just simple syrup, lemon juice, and whiskey. Just substituted the simple syrup with a syrup made of honey by combining two parts honey to one part water by weight, adds a nice depth to it that simple syrup doesn't bring and I'm a big fan of honey.
Grocery store lemonade makes a nice shortcut for that...only time the excessive sweetness works well.
Whiskey and lemonade is my standard non-fussy-I-don't-want-beer-but-I-do-want-a-buzz drink, takes some edge off the sweetness of the lemonade.
I dreamt about fresh coffee, so fresh coffee. Punk IPA later.
I’m mid-Fog Cutter currently, using a recipe from Jeff Beachbum Berry’s totally tiki app to work around my lack of Cream Sherry. Almond extract, rum, gin, cognac, lime & orange is a winner in my book
Currently drinking a can of Daquiri Island, a "Frozen daquiri inspired sour ale with banana, lime and lactose" from Alvarado Street Brewing Company. It's weird... but pretty good! They're my favorite brewery thanks to their variety and how wild they'll go with each beer. Almost everything they make is small-batch and has short runs, so you need to check in often to see what crazy beer they've released each week. The craziest thing they ever released was a peanut butter and jelly inspired sour ale. I'd hesitate to call it good - at best you could call it surprisingly drinkable. I wouldn't hesitate to buy it again though. It's an experience.
If I ever move out of California losing access to Alvarado's beers will be difficult to get over.
Sour beer is my favorite beer. I'm glad that it's seeing more uptake...the IPA rush is getting a bit much.
Also wanna see more reds and malt-heavy beers.
If you want to plan a post-pandemic vacation, Strange Brewfest is the last weekend in January every year in Port Townsend, WA.
The lineup changes every year but in general it gives local breweries a chance to brew bizarre one-off beers like that and have people sample & enjoy them.
Found a couple examples of some of the previous years' entries from here:
I will definitely go if I remember next year
A bottle of a local Pinot Grigio/Chardonnay blend, about a quarter used for steaming a big pot of mussels. A reduction of the pot liquids, plus garlic, shallots, parsley, and lots of butter went with the mussels, a crusty sourdough baguette, and the remaining wine. Perfect easy Sunday dinner with the spouse!
yeah, we're food and wine nerds.
This sounds great! I need to cook seafood other than fish more.
Late to this party, but let's see if I can re-cap this weekend...
Hmm... I think that about does it.