So I thought there was some thread where we talked about booze... and I thought that somebody had recommended "Rogue Dead Guy Ale"... and so I went out and bought it, and YES this is excellent beer. Come to think of it, this may have been mentioned on dumbrella and not here. Dunno. Anyway, whoever said that, thanks for the tip. I remembered it all this time and finally saw it in the store.
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Ah, booze. Booze ba booze ba booze ba booze.
I'm gonna consume some fine canadian beer tomorrow night as I watch the canucks and leafs battle it out for hockey supremacy.
Continue on with the random praise of all things boozy. I will mention though that brandy and me...don't mix. I tried... I really tried.
Fireball however... yum.
Ah, booze. Booze ba booze ba booze ba booze.
I'm gonna consume some fine canadian beer tomorrow night as I watch the canucks and leafs battle it out for hockey supremacy.
Continue on with the random praise of all things boozy. I will mention though that brandy and me...don't mix. I tried... I really tried.
Fireball however... yum.
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My current lovely is Trader Joe's 2005 'Vintage Ale'. Very thick and complex like Rogue and Stone products. Buy a bunch drink one now and let the rest keep for a couple years and you will have a lovely drink. I know Stone ales keep well but haven't tried the Rogues with this (yet).
If you're in the mood for a more expensive but novel treat try a lambic. Specifically I really really recommend the Lindemans Framboise Raspberry Lambic. Traditionally brewed with wild yeast, they therefore have a more 'sour' taste, but the sweetness of the raspberries make it very nice in 1/4 to 1/2 pint quantities.
If you're into sweet drinks, go to a good small Asian market and ask for a good plum wine. This is also good by the small glass - any more risks diabetic shock.
A slightly less puckering affair rests in ciders. My first alcoholic drink ever was in London (well Kingston anyway) and it was a Scrumpy Jack cider. I love it still but can't find it here. Cider can be cleaned filtered or as thick as apple sauce depending on preference. Considered to be a 'girly' drink by some, it has on average twice or three times the alcohol content of American crap beers and bests most good ales on that metric. Scrumpy Jack > Strongbow >Blackthorne IMO. In America Trader Joe's sells a gorgeous Pear Cider but I don't remember who makes it (ACE?).
Mead - it's not just for Beowulf anymore. Fermented honey and can taste a little like champagne if done correctly IMAO (because then it's brewed with champagne yeast so that you can get higher alcohol content and ferment most of the sugars making it less ridiculously sweet). At 10-18% alcohol, be careful with this one, it's like driving a high performance airplane - so sleek and wonderful that you don't realize you're headed for the ground at mach 3. We keep a homebrewed stock of mead in the lab's cold room for late nights and one night a Czech postdoc found it and thought it was just beer and had a whole bottle and was drunk all day the next day.
If you want to avoid carbs, then try a good old Tom Collins or gin and tonic with Tanqueray or Sapphire gin. Best of the common gins to my taste.
If you want something light and subtle but still complex then try a really nice sake. Sake's can have tastes ranging from 'pure' to 'floral' to 'sweet' and they have a range of initial, middle, and after tastes that vary widely. Served warm or cold actually changes the character. Some sakes I only like heated (~ body temperature), some cold, some both, some none at all. Because it's so subjective you'll have to do trial and error. Lucky you.
If you want to try something exotic then go the the store and buy 10 pounds of sugar and some limes and then go to a specialty liquor store and buy cachaça (kuh shaw sah) from Brazil. Rum's uglier and more brutal cousin. Crush and spoon out the lime pulp and juice, and sugar and cachaça to taste and there you have a traditional Brazilian drink - the caipirinha. Now you are a savvy world traveller. Or at least a drunk person whose world is spinning.
Thank you for your attention
btw: Yeah, Bill I distinctly remember a very nice beer thread because I made a very blatant attempt to pimp Arrogant Bastard (and anything else from Stone). There's a 20% chance I was opining over the virtues of Rogue then too but I think I was leaning Arrogant Bastard and Double Bastard back then.
If you're in the mood for a more expensive but novel treat try a lambic. Specifically I really really recommend the Lindemans Framboise Raspberry Lambic. Traditionally brewed with wild yeast, they therefore have a more 'sour' taste, but the sweetness of the raspberries make it very nice in 1/4 to 1/2 pint quantities.
If you're into sweet drinks, go to a good small Asian market and ask for a good plum wine. This is also good by the small glass - any more risks diabetic shock.
A slightly less puckering affair rests in ciders. My first alcoholic drink ever was in London (well Kingston anyway) and it was a Scrumpy Jack cider. I love it still but can't find it here. Cider can be cleaned filtered or as thick as apple sauce depending on preference. Considered to be a 'girly' drink by some, it has on average twice or three times the alcohol content of American crap beers and bests most good ales on that metric. Scrumpy Jack > Strongbow >Blackthorne IMO. In America Trader Joe's sells a gorgeous Pear Cider but I don't remember who makes it (ACE?).
Mead - it's not just for Beowulf anymore. Fermented honey and can taste a little like champagne if done correctly IMAO (because then it's brewed with champagne yeast so that you can get higher alcohol content and ferment most of the sugars making it less ridiculously sweet). At 10-18% alcohol, be careful with this one, it's like driving a high performance airplane - so sleek and wonderful that you don't realize you're headed for the ground at mach 3. We keep a homebrewed stock of mead in the lab's cold room for late nights and one night a Czech postdoc found it and thought it was just beer and had a whole bottle and was drunk all day the next day.
If you want to avoid carbs, then try a good old Tom Collins or gin and tonic with Tanqueray or Sapphire gin. Best of the common gins to my taste.
If you want something light and subtle but still complex then try a really nice sake. Sake's can have tastes ranging from 'pure' to 'floral' to 'sweet' and they have a range of initial, middle, and after tastes that vary widely. Served warm or cold actually changes the character. Some sakes I only like heated (~ body temperature), some cold, some both, some none at all. Because it's so subjective you'll have to do trial and error. Lucky you.
If you want to try something exotic then go the the store and buy 10 pounds of sugar and some limes and then go to a specialty liquor store and buy cachaça (kuh shaw sah) from Brazil. Rum's uglier and more brutal cousin. Crush and spoon out the lime pulp and juice, and sugar and cachaça to taste and there you have a traditional Brazilian drink - the caipirinha. Now you are a savvy world traveller. Or at least a drunk person whose world is spinning.
Thank you for your attention
btw: Yeah, Bill I distinctly remember a very nice beer thread because I made a very blatant attempt to pimp Arrogant Bastard (and anything else from Stone). There's a 20% chance I was opining over the virtues of Rogue then too but I think I was leaning Arrogant Bastard and Double Bastard back then.