Beer/wine/liquor

i am a big fan of seagrams 7. didn't know they made a dark honey whiskey but that sounds pretty good.

looks like a nice spread, acuarela. i still have to find myself a bottle of that pumpking. they gotta have it at beers of the world, right pressed ratt? obvously i haven'y looked for it THAT hard

 

Wegmans sells Pumking, too.

 

well i have looked there, with no luck

 

BotW will definitely have it then. They should, anyway.

 

Some pretty good KY bourbon.

 

lol. i like how you speak with confidence.

might drink a little white wine from the finger lakes region tonight - Arctic Fox

 

Well, a month ago it (Pumking) was everywhere. It might be harder to find now that the season is winding down. Every Wegmans I have been to has had it. In my experience, it is a pretty readily available beer. It shouldn't be something you have to look too hard to find. It's hard to believe the East Ave. Wegmans wouldn't have it.

 

first up was the dos locos premade mixed shot, it comes in a lil shot glass that is split in two, tequila on one side and juice on the other. i poured it into my own shot glass. very smooth and tasted good but it tasted like it was made from cheap tequila. i think i have become a tequila snob if i can tell the good stuff even when its mixed. for the price $5. for 4 shots hell it was worth that just for the cool shot glasses that they came in.
next was the seagrams 7 dark honey, real smooth just like my friend said it would be. but i didnt think it would be that sweet i mean it just might be sweeter than amaretto. which i think is a good thing because i wont want to drink to much at one time.
finally it was the moonshine cherries. its hard to pour a shot out of a mason jar but i tried, i got half a shot and then i could see the stream dying so i figured that was enough for a taste. and man did that shot taste good. a nice cherry flavor and couldnt taste any alcohol at all. really was the best half a shot of a drink i ever had. so rather than try to pour more i decided to just pick cherries out of it. so at the moment thats what im doing. the cherries are your typical maraschino. you couldnt tell the difference except for the fact that these cherries burn when you chew them....thats right i can feel the alcohol more in the cherries than in the shot of juice, what the hell do cherries soak up alcohol? fyi the label says they mixed neutral spirits bottled at 50% abv with an equal weight of cherries so the final abv is 25% but i guess some shots will be more or less depending on how much the cherries soaked up. 4 good purchases today and no surprise i guess the best (the cherries) cost the most at $20. and the worst (but still good) was the cheapest (the tequila shots) actually if i only bought one 12 pack of the beer that would be cheaper and it was definitely better

 

i waited too long
it hasn't been at either of the wegman's i checked (one in ithaca, and the huge one in pittsford)
and tonight i rushed home from work so i could drive all the way to beers of the world before they closed just to find out they don't fucking have it anymore! dude said they are sold out and doesn't think they are making any more. so i might have to wait until next season.

ratt, if you find any more save me a bottle and i'll trade you some nug or something

but i ended up getting some other delicious beers:


i think the toasted lager is just an all around tasty, easy to drink beer. the raging bitch is a pretty great belgian style IPA (as the label indicates), and the saison dupont i have wanted to try for years. they usually only sell it in 750 mL bottles for like $11, but this half-size one was about $5.40 so i went for it. it's a belgian farmhouse ale. it sounded amazing in this beer calendar i had a few years ago, and got like a 9.9 from the beer advisor or something


starting off with a toasted lager, since the others weren't cold.

 

I was just at the Latta Road Wegmans in Greece yesterday and they still had about 10 bottles left. Not sure how much longer they will be there.

Raging Bitch and Saison Dupont are good ones.

It's been a few months since I've been out to BotW. I need to make a trip out there one of these days.

 

Next time I am at the store I will pick you up a bottle or two if it's still there, and can swing it by your place after work one morning.

 

had an Ommegang Scythe and Sickle at dinner tonight. it's beer of the month at the distillery, $3.50 pints all the time. i thought it was absolutely tasty as fuck
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then i opened up my Saison Dupont when i got home. pretty good, but not as good as i had hoped.

and bong rips. mmm mmm

 

There are freshness issues with the Saison Dupont, because of the fact that the green bottle causes light damage to the beer, on top of the fact that the beer is shipped long distances, so it is not always as fresh as it could be. In the US, if you want a good saison, you can't go wrong with Hennepin, which always has a fresh, crisp flavor.

 

drinkin a 40 of Colt 45

 

On the east side of Flathead lake, a little over 100 miles from where I live is one of the largest concentrations of cherry orchards in the United States.



Tonight I sampled a glass of 10 year old homemade Flathead Cherry wine, made by a friend of a friend...I've tried many very good homemade wines made from these world famous cherrys through-out the years but this one was the very best yet.




Strong, almost brandy-like with a smooth but not too dark cherry flavor that finished in an instant, the gullet-warming potency the only thing halting outright guzzling!

If you get a chance to try a good Flathead Cherry wine don't miss it!

 

we have friends coming to visit this weekend, so we stocked up:

 

Damn, egg, room for one more?

 

Might be a bit of a drive

 

You don't have to dodge it, egg; its because I am an American, isn't it?

 

It's true, we try to hide the fact that ontario wine is so good, because we want to keep it for ourselves.