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When people say all these pandemic cancellations are sobering events, they don't mean it literally!
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I picked up some beer while I was in Denver that I'm excited for: 
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Oct 23, 2020 04:12
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That thing on the right? That's not beer, that officially qualifies as candy.
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Oct 23, 2020 04:20
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I'll spare you goons the long, sentimental version of the where and the who, but I'm out in East Texas on an old pig farm turned hunting camp with my dad and a bunch of his old band mates. Guys I've known my entire life. No hunting as it's pre-season, but an excuse to get together, bullshit, and be away. They've all turned in, and im having a simple bourbon rocks next to the campfire before I call it a night. I highly recommend it. Cheers guys
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Oct 23, 2020 04:42
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Hayden posted:I'll spare you goons the long, sentimental version of the where and the who, but I'm out in East Texas on an old pig farm turned hunting camp with my dad and a bunch of his old band mates. Guys I've known my entire life. No hunting as it's pre-season, but an excuse to get together, bullshit, and be away. Late night camp drinking is the best.
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Oct 23, 2020 12:35
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Nipponophile posted:That thing on the right? That's not beer, that officially qualifies as candy. Whatever it is, it's delicious and it has booze in it. They're one of my favorite breweries just cause they do whacky-rear end stuff like that, and also some really good stouts in the winter.
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Oct 23, 2020 12:42
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At a restaurant tonight. Calorie counter is off. My wife orders a PBR, but not me, because this place has loving Old Style. My dad wasn't around when I was young, so my Uncle T was in many ways a surrogate dad. He died in a motorcycle accident when I was in grade school, so this beer is a tribute to him, because I can hardly ever find it down here, and he drank the poo poo out of Old Style. It was my very first sip of beer. It is the OKest beer ever.
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Oct 24, 2020 01:15
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Hayden posted:I'll spare you goons the long, sentimental version of the where and the who, but I'm out in East Texas on an old pig farm turned hunting camp with my dad and a bunch of his old band mates. Guys I've known my entire life. No hunting as it's pre-season, but an excuse to get together, bullshit, and be away.
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Oct 24, 2020 07:32
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Old Style - It is the OKest beer ever. Uncle T knew what was up. Proper Kerni ng posted:Dove season, man! Did anyone at least bring a shotgun? It is bow season, so we sat in a stand, drank Buffalo Trace and watched the deer gambol just out of bow range
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Oct 25, 2020 21:17
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GEEKABALL posted:watched the deer gambol I'm picturing a deer-themed take on one of those "Dogs Playing Poker" paintings.
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Oct 25, 2020 21:52
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Elections are over! What should I get in celebration (as well as consolation for my mom's significant other) for it?
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Nov 7, 2020 18:05
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jwang posted:Elections are over! What should I get in celebration (as well as consolation for my mom's significant other) for it? I'm trying to figure out a commonly available beer from Penn. that is not Yuengling. Today, we drink Guinness. Two days ago, we drank Guinness. It's just so much sweeter today, plus there's more of it. e: Got WaWa? Get a cheesesteak witchya booze.
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Nov 7, 2020 18:09
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madeintaipei posted:I'm trying to figure out a commonly available beer from Penn. that is not Yuengling. Rolling Rock? But that's worse than yuengling.
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Nov 7, 2020 18:22
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jwang posted:Elections are over! What should I get in celebration (as well as consolation for my mom's significant other) for it? https://justbeerapp.com/article/trump-inspired-beers
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Nov 7, 2020 18:24
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Tyro posted:Rolling Rock? But that's worse than yuengling. Ugh. I like Rolling Rock as a weekend, hanging out, running a stall at the flea market beer. $1 tall boys there, pre-covid. Now they're all out of business.
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Nov 7, 2020 18:50
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After a long morning of yard work, I'm enjoying a Coca-Cola with Coconut Cartel rum.
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Nov 7, 2020 19:49
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Wife wants champagne, so I'm headed to the store. I've got some absinthe, so I'll probably make a Death in the Afternoon for myself. Can't get too crazy since I'm flying solo with my son this evening, but I'll definitely put a few down once he's in bed. Tyro posted:Rolling Rock? But that's worse than yuengling. No thank you.
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Nov 7, 2020 20:05
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For me right now it's a local wheat beer with grapefruit. It's ok but not outstanding. Yesterday we made a fun refreshing cocktail. I think it was 1/4oz demarara syrup, 3/4oz pineapple shrub, 2oz mezcal, stir, fill glass with ice, add 4oz of ginger beer. And garnish with a thin slice of dried pineapple.
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Nov 7, 2020 20:52
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St. Bernardus Abt 12. Great beer for a great day.
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Nov 7, 2020 22:27
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I found that a local brewery started doing a Schwarzbier, which is my favorite underappreciated style. I've struggled to find one I really like ever since another local brewery stopped doing theirs. Shiner Black isn't terrible, but it isn't great either. New Belgium 1554 is okay, but I prefer a slightly more chocolate taste rather than the black bread taste 1554 has. So I'm pretty happy with that.
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Nov 7, 2020 23:15
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madeintaipei posted:I'm trying to figure out a commonly available beer from Penn. that is not Yuengling. Victory, Troegs, maybe Weyerbacher, maybe Yards? There's always Philadelphia Bluecoat gin!
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Nov 7, 2020 23:21
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I found that a local brewery started doing a Schwarzbier, which is my favorite underappreciated style. I've struggled to find one I really like ever since another local brewery stopped doing theirs. Shiner Black isn't terrible, but it isn't great either. New Belgium 1554 is okay, but I prefer a slightly more chocolate taste rather than the black bread taste 1554 has. Shiner Black makes the best goddamned beer bread. Alarbus posted:Victory, Troegs, maybe Weyerbacher, maybe Yards? Yards Brawler is a drat fine ESB, and drat near the only beer I drank when I was in Philly in 2016.
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Nov 8, 2020 01:17
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I just had a Unity Vibration bourbon peach kombucha beer. It was decent, but not one of my favorites. Tasted kind of like a cidery mead.
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Nov 8, 2020 01:47
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I used ketel one botanticals, two shots, and half a can of grapefruit spin drift with one ice cube. was pretty freaking good but at the end was rough due to float down
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Nov 11, 2020 19:31
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I went to the cheapest liquor store in (technically just outside of) town looking for the Midnight Strikes black lager I had a week or two ago and it was gone, so I ended up getting a six-pack of this. Really good beer although I wouldn't call it sessionable, it's very rich and thick and sweet. My roommate also got a six-pack of this, which is the first gluten-free dark beer that she found in the five years since she stopped doing gluten (not celiac, but vomits blood when she eats too much gluten so she has a good reason to avoid it). She really likes it, seems pretty good to me.
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Nov 14, 2020 00:40
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Guinness Foreign Extra Stout. Extra for extra hops. It's confusing. Good, but confusing. Like a summer version of Guinness Extra Stout. Heresy, I know, but I feel it would be great with just a splash of Cointreau.
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Nov 18, 2020 22:07
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Went to a Texas Roadhouse and had one of their Southern Whiskey L.I.T.s. It was tasty.
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Nov 18, 2020 23:06
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infrared35 posted:Went to a Texas Roadhouse and had one of their Southern Whiskey L.I.T.s. It was tasty. You're too far north to drink something so redneck.
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Nov 19, 2020 00:14
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That's not redneck. That's teenaged. My boss randomly decided he wants us to try making craft tonic water to sell in the tapproom, because you can do that when you own the company. So we sat down and tasted a bunch of different tonic waters and picked two that we liked. He then gave me the "assignment" of drinking these two tonic waters with several different gins to really try and zero in on a flavor profile we want to try and create. Which is a lot of words to say I'm having a few G & Ts. *edit* mischief posted:...and we'd float Everclear in the straw to make it strong enough. Haha, I bartended in a cajun restaurant years ago, and our hurricanes got sent back several times a day for not tasting strong enough. We had a well version of Bacardi 151 that usually did the trick Hayden fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Nov 19, 2020 |
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Nov 19, 2020 00:24
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Captain Log posted:You're too far north to drink something so redneck. Don't put that evil on me. It's a Long Island Ice Tea. I'm not saying I never made one for white trash but it was rare. It usually came back and we'd float Everclear in the straw to make it strong enough.
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Nov 19, 2020 00:30
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LITs at my restaurant (which was pretty upscale) were an instant indicator that I'd be throwing someone out the front door in the next ninety minutes.
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Nov 19, 2020 00:34
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My best indicator was always Jaeger bombs. That poo poo is drunk muscle.
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Nov 19, 2020 00:36
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Captain Log posted:LITs at my restaurant (which was pretty upscale) were an instant indicator that I'd be throwing someone out the front door in the next ninety minutes.  I'm a happy drunk. And it did pair well with the chopped steak.
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Nov 19, 2020 00:37
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I used to like Lawn Guyland Iced Tea. And while I still like the taste of a good one, most of the time since my 20s that I've tried one, I feel silly for trying to be in my 20s again. It's not an old man's drink. I'll have a bourbon something. Kentucky Mule? Sure. Old fasioned? Perhaps. A glass full of iced whiskey? That works, too.
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Nov 19, 2020 00:39
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It's hard to beat a legit Old Fashioned. I'm out of the bar game and trying to stay at least remotely sober but I splurge on an anniversary old fashion every year. A local hotel/restaurant/bar did our wedding and it has been an annual tradition to go try their specials on that weekend, anyway.
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Nov 19, 2020 00:49
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My go-to get hammered drink was a French 75 because it's both champagne and gin*, but I'd get a wide variety of drinks. One of my favorite that I could never make at home because the ingredients were too esoteric was an Aviation. 1-1/2 ounces gin 3/4 ounce maraschino liqueur 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice 1/4 ounce creme de violette Maraschino liqueur is made with the pits of cherries so it's a nuttier taste rather than the sickly-sweet maraschino cherries, but when the gently caress am I going to use creme de violette? Manhattans, negronis, and G&Ts were good go-tos for a less fancy bar though. Negronis are fun because they look like a pink girly drink but actually they're gin, a bitter aperitif, and bitters. *I drank most of a pitcher of French 75s on election night 2016.
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Nov 19, 2020 05:31
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Hayden posted:That's not redneck. That's teenaged. I prefer drinking diet tonic water to regular, but I haven't ever bought and drank fancy brands. If you have any recommendations (or want to ship me your own  ) to share that'd be cool.
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Nov 19, 2020 06:51
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tangy yet delightful posted:I prefer drinking diet tonic water to regular, but I haven't ever bought and drank fancy brands. If you have any recommendations (or want to ship me your own 2 that are relatively available in the US are Fever Tree and Q (no relation to the conspiracy theory). I don't know offhand if either of them offer a diet version, but you should be able to find them at any decently stocked liquor store. Source: I ran cocktail bars for awhile a long time ago.
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Nov 19, 2020 11:24
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Shooting Blanks posted:2 that are relatively available in the US are Fever Tree and Q (no relation to the conspiracy theory). I don't know offhand if either of them offer a diet version, but you should be able to find them at any decently stocked liquor store. Fever Tree was/is one of my go toos after living in London. I've recently started to enjoy wholefoods tonic too. Bottled tonic in the middle of Africa is usually pretty good too although the profile will be a touch more intense due to no ice.
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Nov 19, 2020 13:27
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Q is probably a good starting point of you usually drink diet. It's sweetened with agave nectar, so it's less sweet than the others and also had the lowest sugar content per serving of any of the other brands we tried. I honestly think the brand was launched as sort of a diet tonic alternative, although I may be misremembering that. That being said, the two brands we liked the best were Fevertree Premium Indian Tonic Water and White Rock. Fevertree is nice, and very complex, but I personally prefer the White Rock. It's very well balanced, clean, and classic. I feel like it let's the actual gin shine through a bit better, as well.
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Nov 19, 2020 15:08
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