What are you drinking right now?

[Bhowie]

That's a clever trick! Thanks for sharing.

What's the craziest thing that happened while you were working?

 

[PParker ESQ]



That's a clever trick! Thanks for sharing.

What's the craziest thing that happened while you were working?

Where do I start!? When you work with alcohol there's always the chance of something mad happening but the thing that sticks out in my mind didn't even involve a person inside. I was opening up and prepping the bar when a car crashed through the window, apparently they over steered and kerbed up and through. One of the most surreal moments of my life.

 

[noob in 89]

Something called Redd's Wicked Apple Cider. Just showed up in my fridge somehow -- 8% abv and pretty tasty, I guess...

 

[MacJack]

black tea with lemon and mint

 

[Lancaster]

Warmed milk with a coffee, tbsp of good coca powder, Cinnamon, vanilla extract, black eagle bourbon and a dash of di sarino amaretto, pinch of salt. Good morning world.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Finally the thermometer gets past 30C time for a Tanq 10 with Capi tonic lots of ice and a slice of lime.

 

[Kid Nickels]

Some random Chianti … not bad, considering it's a wine I don't usually prefer. Thinking about cracking this Balvenie DoubleWood 12.

 

[Piobaire]

I've really come to enjoy the Sangiovese grape. Usually a great food wine, and in its better incarnations, really a nice wine to drink by itself.

 

[fairlynerdy]



I've really come to enjoy the Sangiovese grape. Usually a great food wine, and in its better incarnations, really a nice wine to drink by itself.

I've always found Sangiovese wines to be high acidity, which is OK with food but tastes "thin", for lack of a better word, without. Thoughts or suggestions on vintages that avoid that "thinness"?

 

[Gibonius]

I had some friends over for a pre-Thanksgiving meal, and made Fish House Punch for the occasion. Fit the low 70s weather perfectly.

I don't think I've ever made a drink that hid the alcohol so well. Something about the lemon peel extraction into the sugar, the tea, and the ice really made it sneaky. It's pretty much half rum, but goes down like iced tea. Good times

 

[Piobaire]

High acidity is a feature of that grape. I've never heard a Brunello di Montalcino called "thin" before so maybe try a good one of those?

 

[Piobaire]

Another Vespers/Martini riff:

.5 oz Lillet
.5 oz NP
1 oz Hanson's vodka (made in Sonoma, distilled from grapes)
1 oz Citadelle gin
2.5 oz Reyka vodka

Of course, stirred, not shaken. Really quite nice.

 

[DeSense]

This would have been even better this last hot Summer.

 

[PParker ESQ]



Another Vespers/Martini riff:

.5 oz Lillet
.5 oz NP
1 oz Hanson's vodka (made in Sonoma, distilled from grapes)
1 oz Citadelle gin
2.5 oz Reyka vodka

Of course, stirred, not shaken. Really quite nice.

How many times do you stir your martinis out of interest?

 

[Piobaire]



How many times do you stir your martinis out of interest?

If I ever count how many times I stir a martini please take me out and shoot me in the head.