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[Emily]

If there was a liquor called Facepalm, it would be your spirit shooter.

 

Geez Emily, what the heck have you been learning at college if not how to store beer and liquor?!

 

I actually like warm beer sometimes lol (perhaps that's my German ancestry coming through) If I want it cold, I just stick it in the freezer for a little while. Besides, I feel like I would enjoy the tequila more if it was cold anyway.

Edited by Emily, 25 January 2014 - 04:55 PM.

[Sweeney]

ABSINTHE

MO'FUCKERS

The set-up:

 

After the louche:

 

Aww yeah.

 

The old-style Absente is only 110 proof compared to the 124 proof Lucid, but the colour and the flavour is far better in the Absente. The Lucid has a very strong aniseed flavour, which overpowers the herbals in tasting, even though they come through when smelling the liquor. The Absente has a milder flavour and tastes a lot more complex after swallowing - it also brings a curious warming flush to the face.

"Unfortunately", we still have about 4oz of the Lucid left to drink... so I guess I'll be "suffering" that until it's gone. Then I'm going to turn that sexy bottle into my simple syrup dispenser.

 

Also, we decided to drink these from the glasses we got to toast at the wedding - we had a hot chocolate bar, but in the EXCITEMENT we forgot to actually do our toast, so they languished unused. I think this was a good way to show them a good time

[Trichomes]

I'd always wanted to try absinthe, so Matt and I bought a bottle of Lucid when I turned 21. We still have it, and it's hardly been touched. Neither of us can bring ourselves to drink it because the anise/licorice flavor is so overpowering, but I don't want to throw it out either since it was like $60 (and the bottle is pretty awesome). I have seen Absente, and I'm kind of curious to try it now that you've mentioned it's got a milder flavor, but I don't want to spend another $40 and realize I just don't like the taste of absinthe.

[Sweeney]

I'd always wanted to try absinthe, so Matt and I bought a bottle of Lucid when I turned 21. We still have it, and it's hardly been touched. Neither of us can bring ourselves to drink it because the anise/licorice flavor is so overpowering, but I don't want to throw it out either since it was like $60 (and the bottle is pretty awesome). I have seen Absente, and I'm kind of curious to try it now that you've mentioned it's got a milder flavor, but I don't want to spend another $40 and realize I just don't like the taste of absinthe.

 

See if you can find a liquor store that does tastings. I think most of them do near us, defiinitely two of them. You might have to specially request them open an absinthe, but they proooooobably would. Maybe.

 

Worth a shot, anyway

[Pompeii]

Guys if you haven't tried Fireball with milk you're not allowed to hate until you try it. 

Goes well with Chirstmas.

[nfail]

I had aristocrat earlier, and it was absolutely terrible.

[Grimley]

I am sipping a glass of pinot grigio while I work on getting a new contest posted.

 

ABSINTHE

MO'FUCKERS

The set-up:

 

 

After the louche

 

Aww yeah.

 

The old-style Absente is only 110 proof compared to the 124 proof Lucid, but the colour and the flavour is far better in the Absente. The Lucid has a very strong aniseed flavour, which overpowers the herbals in tasting, even though they come through when smelling the liquor. The Absente has a milder flavour and tastes a lot more complex after swallowing - it also brings a curious warming flush to the face.

"Unfortunately", we still have about 4oz of the Lucid left to drink... so I guess I'll be "suffering" that until it's gone. Then I'm going to turn that sexy bottle into my simple syrup dispenser.

 

Also, we decided to drink these from the glasses we got to toast at the wedding - we had a hot chocolate bar, but in the EXCITEMENT we forgot to actually do our toast, so they languished unused. I think this was a good way to show them a good time

 

 

I enjoyed (or so I thought) Lucid the one and only time I ever had it one night about 5 years ago...but it turned out to be a very strange sort of inebriation, and I don't even remember having gone to bed that night. I was still foggy for the first 4 hours of the next morning and also discovered that apparently I'd decided to hop onto the Xbox the night before and battle/kill all of the citizens in four different cities in Fable (the first one), so my character had sprouted horns, was followed by a black cloud, and none of the NPCs wanted to talk to me anymore but rather cowered in fear.

[Drakonid]

I am sipping a glass of pinot grigio while I work on getting a new contest posted.

Didn't you feel like crap and were ultra sick a few hours ago? I'm no doctor, but alcohol and sickness is something you shouldn't mix.

[Grimley]

Didn't you feel like crap and were ultra sick a few hours ago? I'm no doctor, but alcohol and sickness is something you shouldn't mix.

 

I feel far better since this morning...it was just a cold fortunately rather than flu, and if you saw this glass and how it's filled, it's actually just about a shotglass-sized serving of wine. I do agree obviously with what you've said though, especially since such things kind of fall under what I have been professionally trained in. Yeah, I'm not behaving in that regard.

[Speedracer]

I had aristocrat earlier, and it was absolutely terrible.

99% of the time liquor that cheap will be awful, it is well worth the money to buy something that taste decent.

[Sweeney]

Plus if you buy expensive wine and store it, the value of it goes up over time

 

That's not exactly how it works, you know.

[Waser Lave]

Then please explain por favor how it works.

 

It also needs to be good wine.

[Sweeney]

Then please explain por favor how it works.

 

1) The fact that a wine is expensive does not necessarily mean that it is of high quality.

2) In order to avoid degradation, wines need to be stored properly - not just stuck in a closet and forgotten. A ruined wine is worthless (except in very unusual circumstances).

3) Wine prices are wholly dependent on market over age. There are countless examples of old wines that are not in demand, and therefore remain at a mid-tier price.

4) Different wines have different ages at which they are best - red, for example, even at the highest quality vintage, usually maxes out around 10-12 years. Ports store longer, whites shorter. Depending on original quality and, again, method of storage.

5) Limited production wines will typically gain significant value in their first one or two years, and then plateau.

6) Novice buyers are very susceptible to forgeries which a sommelier, or experienced amateur, wouldn't touch in a hundred years. Even if you stored it that long.

 

Kay?

[MeowMeowMaryJane]

Homemade raspberry wine!

[a5m]

Any Gin and Apple juice.

 

So sweet, so refreshing, wake up feeling better than if you hadn't done the Gin and Apple.

[Kat]

I had 1 too many margaritas just now at a mexican restaurant

[Sweeney]

I had 1 too many margaritas just now at a mexican restaurant

We all know that feel, bro.

[Mishelle]

My current favorite drink is Pinnacle Whipped Vodka with orange juice because it tastes like an orange dreamsicle.

[Sweeney]

I don't really like flavoured vodka on principle, I prefer to use "real" ingredients or proprietary liqueurs... But we have had a few flavoured Absoluts, and they have won me over somewhat.

[Mishelle]

Most flavored vodka sucks but I'm a huge fan of Pinnacle Whipped and UV Cake (goes well with root beer, it tastes like a root beer float) and Three Olives cherry vodka.

 

I'm such a girl.

Edited by Mishelle, 29 January 2014 - 08:48 PM.

[Emily]

Beer 'cause Superbowl. 

 

(it's also beer thirty)

Edited by Emily, 02 February 2014 - 02:33 PM.

[Sweeney]

Beer 'cause Superbowl. 
 
(it's also beer thirty)

Get out. OUT.

We had some soda today that was tamarind flavoured. We loved it, and will be picking up some more to use as mixers with liquor. I also got some Patron Citronge on Saturday... I have a feeling these two things may meet each other soon.

We'll see how that goes.

[Emily]

Get out. OUT.

We had some soda today that was tamarind flavoured. We loved it, and will be picking up some more to use as mixers with liquor. I also got some Patron Citronge on Saturday... I have a feeling these two things may meet each other soon.

We'll see how that goes.

 

Are you more appalled by the Superbowl or by beer thirty? If it's beer thirty then don't worry, it's beer o'clock now

 

That sounds interesting though. What would you mix the soda with?

[Mishelle]

I bought Jose Cuervo watermelon margaritas. It's the greatest of all time imo.

[Sweeney]

Are you more appalled by the Superbowl or by beer thirty? If it's beer thirty then don't worry, it's beer o'clock now
 
That sounds interesting though. What would you mix the soda with?

By the beer

I think the Citronge might work well, and we have an Apple and Ginger Absolut that I'd like to try with it. I made a tamarind, ginger and lime sorbet that was amazing, so I'll be trying those flavours first. Maybe an Amaretto Tamarind Sour?