Adult Beverage Thread (Mostly Booze)

[goldenvalley]

Jan 6, 2022 21:53:30 GMT andydp said:

Jan 6, 2022 21:48:11 GMT goldenvalley said:

Oh yeah I can't find it now but somewhere in the last week I read about '90's drinks making a comeback...Long Island Ice Tea, Blue Lagoons, Tequila Sunrise.  

I remember "Harvey Wallbangers" as being effective in getting your date "tipsy".  Later, I found that Grand Marnier and Hot Cocoa was pretty good at that too.

Baileys plus hot cocoa is the way to go.  

[LFC]

This seems kinda' wrong. I wonder if it's any good.

[LFC]

Jan 6, 2022 22:33:23 GMT goldenvalley said:

Baileys plus hot cocoa is the way to go.  

One of my wife's favorites, especially with Caramel Bailey's. She also loves it in eggnog.

[Bact PhD]

Jan 6, 2022 23:09:01 GMT LFC said:

Jan 6, 2022 22:33:23 GMT goldenvalley said:

Baileys plus hot cocoa is the way to go.  

One of my wife's favorites, especially with Caramel Bailey's. She also loves it in eggnog.

Ooooohhh re the caramel Bailey’s/hot cocoa combo; I’ll have to try that some time.

[Bact PhD]

Jan 6, 2022 23:08:21 GMT LFC said:

This seems kinda' wrong. I wonder if it's any good.

Yeah, I kinda get a “Why bother?” sense. I have that same sentiment about non-alcoholic beers, too.

[andydp]

Jan 6, 2022 22:33:23 GMT goldenvalley said:

Jan 6, 2022 21:53:30 GMT andydp said:

Baileys plus hot cocoa is the way to go.  

At this point, I would like to do a plug for a couple of coffee/hot cocoa "enhancers" I've had good luck with:

In lieu of Bailey's we've been purchasing "Saint Brendan's Irish Cream Liqueur".  Not to be outdone, it comes in varied flavors like the more expensive Bailey's.  

We fortuitously "discovered" a product called "Sheelin Irish Cream".  Its a wine product (13.9%) with natural flavors and caramel color added.  I use for Irish Coffee since it has a pleasant taste.  Almost more like a non dairy creamer.

[andydp]

I have a dilemma I hope the membership can help me with:

I recently purchased a bottle of "Tillen Farms Old Fashioned Syrup".  The syrup is designed to eliminate the work of prepping the ingredients for an Old Fashioned and just mixing the appropriate amount of syrup with an equally appropriate amount of alcoholic beverage.  Unfortunately, the bottle does not provide a recommended amount of syrup to use.

I don't want to be in a situation where the drink is too sweet.  I always remember Jim Backus' statement in its a Mad (5) World:

"What can go wrong with an Old Fashioned ?"

I will accept any and all suggestions.  Meantime, the old scientific "trial and error" method will be in use.

[goldenvalley]

Jan 13, 2022 17:56:12 GMT andydp said:

I have a dilemma I hope the membership can help me with:

I recently purchased a bottle of "Tillen Farms Old Fashioned Syrup".  The syrup is designed to eliminate the work of prepping the ingredients for an Old Fashioned and just mixing the appropriate amount of syrup with an equally appropriate amount of alcoholic beverage.  Unfortunately, the bottle does not provide a recommended amount of syrup to use.

I don't want to be in a situation where the drink is too sweet.  I always remember Jim Backus' statement in its a Mad (5) World:

"What can go wrong with an Old Fashioned ?"

I will accept any and all suggestions.  Meantime, the old scientific "trial and error" method will be in use.

Trial and error can use up a whole bottle of a good alcoholic beverage.  I know because in college I used up a bottle of Amaretto trying to make Amaretto Sours.  Never did get it right.  

[andydp]

Jan 13, 2022 17:58:37 GMT goldenvalley said:

Jan 13, 2022 17:56:12 GMT andydp said:

I have a dilemma I hope the membership can help me with:

I recently purchased a bottle of "Tillen Farms Old Fashioned Syrup".  The syrup is designed to eliminate the work of prepping the ingredients for an Old Fashioned and just mixing the appropriate amount of syrup with an equally appropriate amount of alcoholic beverage.  Unfortunately, the bottle does not provide a recommended amount of syrup to use.

I don't want to be in a situation where the drink is too sweet.  I always remember Jim Backus' statement in its a Mad (5) World:

"What can go wrong with an Old Fashioned ?"

I will accept any and all suggestions.  Meantime, the old scientific "trial and error" method will be in use.

Trial and error can use up a whole bottle of a good alcoholic beverage.  I know because in college I used up a bottle of Amaretto trying to make Amaretto Sours.  Never did get it right.  

Scientific progress demands sacrifice.  Even Thomas Edison had his "problems":

I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure 

[Bact PhD]

Jan 13, 2022 17:56:12 GMT andydp said:

I have a dilemma I hope the membership can help me with:

I recently purchased a bottle of "Tillen Farms Old Fashioned Syrup".  The syrup is designed to eliminate the work of prepping the ingredients for an Old Fashioned and just mixing the appropriate amount of syrup with an equally appropriate amount of alcoholic beverage.  Unfortunately, the bottle does not provide a recommended amount of syrup to use.

I don't want to be in a situation where the drink is too sweet.  I always remember Jim Backus' statement in its a Mad (5) World:

"What can go wrong with an Old Fashioned ?"

I will accept any and all suggestions.  Meantime, the old scientific "trial and error" method will be in use.

If I were starting without looking anything else up, I’d start equal parts syrup-to-spirit (1:1). However, I came across a YouTube video using a different brand of syrup that had actual directions that said 1/4 oz. syrup and 2 oz. spirit, a 1:8 ratio.

These syrups are pretty concentrated, I take it? If a quickie sampling of the syrup suggest it’s really concentrated, I’d start out with the lower proportion of syrup and work up if need be. You don’t want to have to trash good booze because the cocktail is utterly undrinkable.

[LFC]

Here's a recipe for a Maple Old Fashioned using the Tillens Farm syrup from the web:

www.stonewallkitchen.com/maple-old-fashioned-R667.html

[LFC]

Now THAT's a cocktail!

Lacing the beer served at their feasts with hallucinogens may have helped an ancient Peruvian people known as the Wari forge political alliances and expand their empire, according to a new paper published in the journal Antiquity. Recent excavations at a remote Wari outpost called Quilcapampa unearthed seeds from the vilca tree that can be used to produce a potent hallucinogenic drug. The authors think the Wari held one big final blowout before the site was abandoned.

“This is, to my knowledge, the first finding of vilca at a Wari site where we can get a glimpse of its use,” co-author Matthew Biwer, an archaeobotanist at Dickinson College, told Gizmodo. “Vilca seeds or residue has been found in burial tombs before, but we could only assume how it was used. These findings point to a more nuanced understanding of Wari feasting and politics and how vilca was implicated in these practices.”

There is also evidence from historical accounts that a juice or tea derived from vilca seeds was sometimes added to chicha, a fermented beverage made from maize or the fruits of the molle tree native to Peru. This is one way to take vilca orally while still getting a weaker, sustained psychedelic effect, since the beta-carbolines produced during the fermentation of chicha suppress the stomach enzymes that counter the high by deactivating the active compounds. "Collective consumption of vilca-infused beverages is also documented ethnographically, with the more sustained experiences recounted contrasting with the overwhelming hallucinogenic rush produced when consumed in other manners," the authors wrote.

For instance, people of the neighboring state of Tiwanaku were known to mix such hallucinogens with alcohol, specifically maize beer. There are monoliths depicting figures holding a drinking cup in one hand and a snuff tray in another, and smoking or inhaling vilca was part of a long-standing ritual tradition to foster personal spiritual journeys.

[andydp]

Jan 13, 2022 20:05:20 GMT LFC said:

Here's a recipe for a Maple Old Fashioned using the Tillens Farm syrup from the web:

www.stonewallkitchen.com/maple-old-fashioned-R667.html

Followed your advice and tried the recipe without the maple syrup. Worked well with the bourbon. I’m trying it tomorrow night with the Leopold Bros American Whiskey.

Experimentation and testing is a demanding effort.

[andydp]

Jan 14, 2022 2:21:07 GMT andydp said:

Jan 13, 2022 20:05:20 GMT LFC said:

Here's a recipe for a Maple Old Fashioned using the Tillens Farm syrup from the web:

www.stonewallkitchen.com/maple-old-fashioned-R667.html

Followed your advice and tried the recipe without the maple syrup. Worked well with the bourbon. I’m trying it tomorrow night with the Lombard Bros American Whiskey.

Experimentation and testing is a demanding effort.

Lab test observation:  Made the Old Fashioned using Leopold Brothers Whiskey.  I omitted the Maple Syrup and made half the recipe.  I can attest its not too sweet because you don't want an Old Fashioned that is too sweet.  As a comment: if I want maple syrup I'll have some pancakes.  Happy weekend all !!

[LFC]

Jan 14, 2022 21:13:37 GMT andydp said:

As a comment: if I want maple syrup I'll have some pancakes.

Generally agreed but one of my wife's favorite fish recipes I've come up with consists of making a glaze out of maple syrup, a dash of Worcestshire, ultra-fine diced sauteed onion, and toasted pecans. It's killer on white fish like Black Sea Bass, Tautog, or Tilefish. I don't think it would work well with Bluefish or Yellowfin but it might work with Longfin Albacore.

[andydp]

A local purveyor of medicinal healing waters had a sale yesterday for single barrel Buffalo Trace Bourbon one bottle per customer.  The store opened at 0900.  At 0900 the line stretched halfway around the building. I think they were sold out by 1000.  Needless to say, some people came late and got none. 

You can see the FB page with photos of the event.


www.facebook.com/Exit9Wine/photos/pcb.10159595122196832/10159595118816832/

[pnwguy]

Feb 13, 2022 14:50:32 GMT andydp said:

A local purveyor of medicinal healing waters had a sale yesterday for single barrel Buffalo Trace Bourbon one bottle per customer.  The store opened at 0900.  At 0900 the line stretched halfway around the building. I think they were sold out by 1000.  Needless to say, some people came late and got none. 

Of course, there's the famous story of Southwest Airlines and their daring CEO, Herb Kelleher.

Shortly after Southwest launched, Braniff thought that by launching a fare class at half of what Southwest was offering, it could undercut the airline and put it out of business. Other airline executives and the consumer press promptly wrote Southwest’s obituary.

But not Kelleher. He understood that to persevere through this crisis, the airline had to think differently. Examining revenue streams, he discovered that most passengers were business travelers on expense accounts who cared little for cost savings and more for time and convenience. So, he made a unique proposition: Pay the full fare and get a free bottle of Wild Turkey bourbon!


This promotion was so successful that over the course of just over six months, Southwest became the largest liquor distributor in Texas.

[andydp]

Many of you know I'm retired from the Army.  One of my assignments was in the 42nd Infantry (Rainbow) Division of the NY National Guard.  One of the Division's units was the 69th.  Its now a Battalion size unit and fiercely proud of their heritage.  (Besides having a Movie with Jimmy Cagney and Pat O'Brien) It is the MOST decorated unit in the Army active or reserve.  They have battle streamers from Gettysburg to Iraq.

I was overjoyed when I saw this bottle in the local medicinal elixir store.  Needless to say, I have purchased a bottle in anticipation of St Patrick's Day and my 300+ viewing of The Quiet Man.  But Andy, aren't you Italian ?  I married an Irish redhead. 



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[AnBr]

Feb 17, 2022 20:15:10 GMT andydp said:

I was overjoyed when I saw this bottle in the local medicinal elixir store.  Needless to say, I have purchased a bottle in anticipation of St Patrick's Day and my 300+ viewing of The Quiet Man.  But Andy, aren't you Italian ?  I married an Irish redhead. 

As was Maureen O'Hara.

[andydp]

Feb 18, 2022 12:51:14 GMT AnBr said:

Feb 17, 2022 20:15:10 GMT andydp said:

I was overjoyed when I saw this bottle in the local medicinal elixir store.  Needless to say, I have purchased a bottle in anticipation of St Patrick's Day and my 300+ viewing of The Quiet Man.  But Andy, aren't you Italian ?  I married an Irish redhead. 

As was Maureen O'Hara.

Miss O’Hara is the reason I married an Irish redhead.

[LFC]

My mother was quite the movie buff and told me that John Wayne loved doing physical comedy with Maureen O'Hara. With her size and strength he wasn't afraid of hurting her.

[andydp]

I'm following the advice of Pres Pierce:

In 1856, after he lost his bid for the Democratic nomination for President, and it was after this that a reporter is said to have asked him what he would do after leaving office. Pierce is quoted as saying "There's nothing left but to get drunk!"

[LFC]

Feb 24, 2022 13:51:11 GMT andydp said:

I'm following the advice of Pres Pierce:

I'll go with Senator Blutarski. After all, he's pre-med.

[andydp]

Feb 24, 2022 13:56:49 GMT LFC said:

Feb 24, 2022 13:51:11 GMT andydp said:

I'm following the advice of Pres Pierce:

I'll go with Senator Blutarski. After all, he's pre-med.

I thought he was Pre Law. 

[andydp]

Despite its name and advertising, Stolichnaya Vodka is actually made in Riga, Latvia. Latvia is a country that doesn’t have a high opinion of Russia to begin with