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I finished off my Virginia Lightning corn whiskey. That is some damn fine sippin whiskey. I’ll need to pick something up on the way home. Thinking of bourbon this time…
Sparkling Wyndham Estate Bin 555 Red Shiraz for tonight to celebrate the purchase of my first house.
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I’m on my second Steel Reserve and sittin in chat alone.
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Mead, mead, and more mead! (for the holiday) Wassail!
I’m going to raise a glass of Jamaican white rum to the memory of my dad tonight.
What holiday, slobandtom? I have some Bunratty Mead in the cellar. I need to break it out soon.
@Xander: Midsummer! Oh, btw–Bunratty, not real mead. If you look closely, in the same colour as the pattern on the front of the bottle, cleverly hidden, are the words “white wine flavoured with honey” or something to that effect. Proper mead is just fermented honey, not wine flavoured with honey. What always got me is that they usually charge more for a bottle of Bunratty than they charge for a bottle of decent mead!
Yes, I knew it was wine. I had proper mead a one or twice, but its kind of syrupy for me. Bunratty is syrupy enough. Mead is also kind of hard to find. I guess you just have to teach yourself to sip it slowly. I am a big honey lover, I suppose I could make my own if I had a mind to. Why call it midsummer? Summer just began, surely it cannot be halfway through already? I call it the summer solstice. I suppose mead is the appropriate drink for this event, though. Surely Lughnasa is the midsummer festival, August 1st being the approximate mid point between the summer solstice and the autumnal equinox? Well I hope you enjoyed it anyway!
You want syrupy try the Sam Adams Triple Bock that is brewed with maple syrup. Its a warm sipping beer you drink from a snifter. Its pretty good.
I had that stuff at Sam Adams pub in Boston. It was served from a wooden cask behind the bar. Wow! It was challenging to drink. They only brew it in very small quantities. I think it was 17% alcohol. They served it in a tiny glass. Something like a snifter, I think. This was about 15 years ago now though, the memory fogs…
I tried brewing real mead once and its a very slow and boring process and the fermentation can get stuck at times and then POW! 6 months wasted and time to start over, and thats just the brewing process. Mead can either be a dry mead, usually made with champagne yeast or sweet. I personally dont care for it but its good for what it is. I much prefer a good homebrewed beer. Now sam adams holds the record, last I checked, for a beer that was 27% alcohol. Its not carbonated and is thick. I personally dont like any of their special super high gravity beers because i was always tought beer was suppose to be carbonated, lol, so it holds no place for me. But I do love good beers such as an IPA or Double Pale Ale or Double IPA. mmmmmm, beer
@xander LOL, the 21st as the beginning of summer is a modern idea, as is the division into four equal-length seasons. It used to be that “Spring” was done once things were done springing, and summer was reckoned to have begun much earlier than we reckon it nowadays. Glad you didn’t get snowed by the Bubratty label, I’ve had a couple friends buy it who thought they were getting mead. Speaking of high-alcohol, syrupy brews, any other fans of Samichlaus here?
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more like brandy, I thought
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Natural Ice, lol, yuck , chased it down with some evan williams 10 yr ( Barrelled in 99 ) single barrell. The nhad some Abita IPA
Coors Light and some Guiness. The guiness stole the night of course… eh, im probably just gonna get drunk tonight.