Author Topic: What's the bar serving tonight? (Read 368133 times)

mr.awesome · « **Reply #2200 on:** January 17, 2020, 03:54:59 PM »

Bells Hop Slam was recently released for this year. Picked up a couple six packs today. Will enjoy a can or two this weekend.

Andrew · « **Reply #2201 on:** January 17, 2020, 10:05:54 PM »

It's Friday,
Homemade shine and a short glass

stevent · « **Reply #2202 on:** January 21, 2020, 06:27:54 PM »

Well it would have been Alaskan Amber, but I drank it all..

garry · « **Reply #2203 on:** January 22, 2020, 04:09:35 PM »

Helltown (very local) Idle Hands double IPA. Helltown makes seriously good beer.

Black Hills · « **Reply #2204 on:** January 22, 2020, 04:17:22 PM »

meeting some of these guys www.dakotadualsportriders.com here https://www.dakotapointbrewing.com/ after work. the IPA is pretty good as well as the better half, so porbably one of each

Baxter · « **Reply #2205 on:** January 24, 2020, 07:34:22 PM »

Lagunitas Little Sumpin' ale.

With my wife out of town, I was able to go Southern for dinner tonight. Red beans and rice with sausage (couldn't find Andouille), I spiced up my own greens (Yankee grocery didn't have collard or mustard greens). I probably need to leave the suburbs and get into the city to find Southern staples. At least the black eyed peas were in with the beans where they belong--in North Dakota one grocery had them in with the green peas.

Andrew · « **Reply #2206 on:** January 25, 2020, 12:49:18 AM »

Quote from: Baxter on January 24, 2020, 07:34:22 PM

Lagunitas Little Sumpin' ale.

With my wife out of town, I was able to go Southern for dinner tonight. Red beans and rice with sausage (couldn't find Andouille), I spiced up my own greens (Yankee grocery didn't have collard or mustard greens). I probably need to leave the suburbs and get into the city to find Southern staples. At least the black eyed peas were in with the beans where they belong--in North Dakota one grocery had them in with the green peas.

Pourin a tall glass now

jadziadax8 · « **Reply #2207 on:** January 25, 2020, 07:35:49 AM »

Last night was a nice Manhattan to celebrate crushing my interview for promotion to full professor.

viffergyrl · « **Reply #2208 on:** January 25, 2020, 08:07:36 AM »

Quote from: jadziadax8 on January 25, 2020, 07:35:49 AM

Last night was a nice Manhattan to celebrate crushing my interview for promotion to full professor.

Congratulations!

Baxter · « **Reply #2209 on:** January 25, 2020, 08:21:44 AM »

Quote from: jadziadax8 on January 25, 2020, 07:35:49 AM

Last night was a nice Manhattan to celebrate crushing my interview for promotion to full professor.

Yea!

jadziadax8 · « **Reply #2210 on:** January 25, 2020, 06:41:10 PM »

Thanks!

I won’t officially find out if I got it until April, though. 💩

mr.awesome · « **Reply #2211 on:** January 25, 2020, 07:16:13 PM »

Quote from: jadziadax8 on January 25, 2020, 07:35:49 AM

Last night was a nice Manhattan to celebrate crushing my interview for promotion to full professor.

I'll drink to that!

Congratulations!

Andrew · « **Reply #2212 on:** January 25, 2020, 08:32:06 PM »

Quote from: jadziadax8 on January 25, 2020, 07:35:49 AM

Last night was a nice Manhattan to celebrate crushing my interview for promotion to full professor.

Classy drink, when Dad was in hospice I would go to the VA and make Manhattans for the two of us. TO this day every time I have one I feel like Dad is having one with me. Classy drink for sure, bitter and sweet .

CLAY · « **Reply #2213 on:** January 30, 2020, 09:30:34 PM »

John E. Fitzgerald Larceny Bourbon. Pretty good for a $26 bottle!

coho · « **Reply #2214 on:** January 30, 2020, 09:47:46 PM »

Yar! I be releasing the Kraken!

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R Doug · « **Reply #2215 on:** February 02, 2020, 08:21:39 AM »

Quote from: jadziadax8 on January 25, 2020, 07:35:49 AM

Last night was a nice Manhattan to celebrate crushing my interview for promotion to full professor.

Congrats!!!

mr.awesome · « **Reply #2216 on:** March 06, 2020, 10:13:05 PM »

From the fine people at Bells Brewery. Black hearted ale. A black IPA. Tasty stuff.

MrsCablebandit · « **Reply #2217 on:** April 02, 2020, 07:13:24 PM »

Tonight, it's a 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon from Canvas Wines out of Napa. Canvas is a Mondavi family vineyard. I chose this wine knowing that CB would be making pizza for dinner this evening. I had a Zoom happy hour scheduled with a friend for 5:30. We'd originally had plans for dinner at Cafe Laura, which is the student-run restaurant on campus. When the spring semester was scrapped (on-campus), we decided to go out to dinner instead. When that was no longer a possibility, we turned it into a Zoom get together. GD Zoom...those MFers are just sitting back laughing maniacally.

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ANYWAY, this wine is SPLENDID and I feel splendid as well as I appear to have consumed approximately 5/8 to 2/3 of the bottle this evening (PRIOR TO DINNER).

I am concerned about my ability to find additional bottles of this wine as I read on the back of the bottle, "Developed exclusively for Hyatt by Michael Mondavi and his son Rob, Canvas wines set a new standard of excellence in dining." Now I need to figure out when the eff I last stayed in a Hyatt last?!? And how did I get the bottle home?!?

That said, have a great night, y'all! I foresee an early bedtime for me, LOL!!!

Andrew · « **Reply #2218 on:** April 02, 2020, 08:14:39 PM »

Tonight, I got home whiskey in a jar.

Andrew · « **Reply #2219 on:** April 02, 2020, 10:33:13 PM »

must be workin

eating peanut butter and nutella with a spoon

hope ti doesn't hurt tomorrow

MrsCablebandit · « **Reply #2220 on:** April 03, 2020, 03:52:29 PM »

Tonight, it's grapefruit jalapeno vodka-ritas for me. TBD for CB...his call, I'll bartend.

garry · « **Reply #2221 on:** April 03, 2020, 04:32:44 PM »

First round was Jack and Pepsi with some lime. Still trying to kill off leftover wedding booze (son's wedding) from nearly three years ago.

I'm thinking a very adult sized 321 margarita may be called for. Or perhaps a big azz Kentucky Mule (Moscow Mule w/ bourbon).

Skee · « **Reply #2222 on:** April 03, 2020, 05:13:33 PM »

Is tarted with a bottle of 2013 Carvalhas Tinto (shared so I can’t take all the credit) followed by a small glass of Portuguese sour cherry liquir and a short glass of Liquor 43. I’m all out of Campari. I really don’t understand how Pennsylvania can keep ammo shops open while closing the liquor stores as non-essential business. Lack of judgement if you ask me. I guess I should be glad we didn’t shut everything. Close the Wawas if you got to close something. Drove by a wa2a today, the place was packed, no one practicing social distancing. No one wearing masks like the governor recommended. If Wawa don’t got to follow the guidelines, WHYY can’t they open the liquor stores? I was gonna make a Pisco Sour for Halppy Hour but I’m out of Lime juice. Helluv a mess here in Montgomerrry county.

viffergyrl · « **Reply #2223 on:** April 03, 2020, 05:28:01 PM »

Quote from: Skee on April 03, 2020, 05:13:33 PM

Is tarted with a bottle of 2013 Carvalhas Tinto (shared so I can’t take all the credit) followed by a small glass of Portuguese sour cherry liquir and a short glass of Liquor 43. I’m all out of Campari. I really don’t understand how Pennsylvania can keep ammo shops open while closing the liquor stores as non-essential business. Lack of judgement if you ask me. I guess I should be glad we didn’t shut everything. Close the Wawas if you got to close something. Drove by a wa2a today, the place was packed, no one practicing social distancing. No one wearing masks like the governor recommended. If Wawa don’t got to follow the guidelines, WHYY can’t they open the liquor stores? I was gonna make a Pisco Sour for Halppy Hour but I’m out of Lime juice. Helluv a mess here in Montgomerrry county.

Quoted because... well you know.

mr.awesome · « **Reply #2224 on:** April 03, 2020, 06:44:34 PM »

Quote from: viffergyrl on April 03, 2020, 05:28:01 PM

Quote from: Skee on April 03, 2020, 05:13:33 PM
Is tarted with a bottle of 2013 Carvalhas Tinto (shared so I can’t take all the credit) followed by a small glass of Portuguese sour cherry liquir and a short glass of Liquor 43. I’m all out of Campari. I really don’t understand how Pennsylvania can keep ammo shops open while closing the liquor stores as non-essential business. Lack of judgement if you ask me. I guess I should be glad we didn’t shut everything. Close the Wawas if you got to close something. Drove by a wa2a today, the place was packed, no one practicing social distancing. No one wearing masks like the governor recommended. If Wawa don’t got to follow the guidelines, WHYY can’t they open the liquor stores? I was gonna make a Pisco Sour for Halppy Hour but I’m out of Lime juice. Helluv a mess here in Montgomerrry county.

Quoted because... well you know.

LOL!

A few from the beer fridge selection.

Happy Friday everybody..... Oh wait....every day is Friday now.

smoker · « **Reply #2225 on:** April 03, 2020, 07:30:11 PM »

Enjoyed a really nice hazy IPA from a local brewery with a delicious dinner of baked salmon and sweet potatoes prepared by my beautiful wife.

chornbe · « **Reply #2226 on:** April 03, 2020, 08:16:29 PM »

Green tea with lemon.
There may or may not be margarita later; just depends on if I fall asleep before then.

garry · « **Reply #2227 on:** April 03, 2020, 08:29:31 PM »

Stone Delicious IPA followed by a couple fingers of Larceny bourbon that spent a week in my little oak barrel. I'll try two weeks next time. My first batch went two months and half of it evaporated. F that.

chornbe · « **Reply #2228 on:** April 03, 2020, 10:37:22 PM »

Quote from: garry on April 03, 2020, 08:29:31 PM

Stone Delicious IPA followed by a couple fingers of Larceny bourbon that spent a week in my little oak barrel. I'll try two weeks next time. My first batch went two months and half of it evaporated. F that.

Hah. I just filled mine with Bulleit Rye today...er... yesterday. The days run together. I figured I'd give it a couple weeks.

And Stone Delicious is good stuff.

That's one of the staples they stock in the general store in Brandywine, WV, of all places. That place, for a town of 200 people, has a surprisingly great selection of beer.

https://goo.gl/maps/PNhGBg7vApRJTWxa6

Baxter · « **Reply #2229 on:** May 22, 2020, 11:13:20 PM »

We made Jewel cocktails tonight.

1 1/2 oz each of gin, Green Chartreuse and sweet vermouth.
a dash of orange bitters

Shaken and served up in a cocktail glass

Garnish with a maraschino cherry.

The Jewel is slightly sweet with spice and herbal flavors. Now I just need to find a proper maraschino cherry instead of these neon fluorescent sugary things that are in all the stores.

Baxter · « **Reply #2230 on:** June 22, 2020, 05:04:49 PM »

Prosecco on the patio, in my parents' crystal champagne flutes. Doggo had a Greenie treat. Pleasant temps, no wind, just enough cloud cover to be comfortable. But storms expected by 9pm.

viffergyrl · « **Reply #2231 on:** June 22, 2020, 06:44:47 PM »

Aperol cocktail (Prosecco and Aperol)

Skee · « **Reply #2232 on:** June 22, 2020, 07:15:01 PM »

Quote from: viffergyrl on June 22, 2020, 06:44:47 PM

Aperol cocktail (Prosecco and Aperol)

We drank them yesterday with friends and killed a bottle of d'Luna Prosecco. It's that time of year.

Baxter · « **Reply #2233 on:** June 22, 2020, 08:28:39 PM »

Quote from: viffergyrl on June 22, 2020, 06:44:47 PM

Aperol cocktail (Prosecco and Aperol)

jadziadax8 · « **Reply #2234 on:** June 23, 2020, 01:04:22 PM »

Quote from: viffergyrl on June 22, 2020, 06:44:47 PM

Aperol cocktail (Prosecco and Aperol)

My drink of choice in Vienna last summer! I think I drank all the Aperol in the city.

viffergyrl · « **Reply #2235 on:** June 23, 2020, 01:53:18 PM »

Quote from: Skee on June 22, 2020, 07:15:01 PM

Quote from: viffergyrl on June 22, 2020, 06:44:47 PM
Aperol cocktail (Prosecco and Aperol)

We drank them yesterday with friends and killed a bottle of d'Luna Prosecco. It's that time of year.

Quote from: Baxter on June 22, 2020, 08:28:39 PM

Quote from: viffergyrl on June 22, 2020, 06:44:47 PM
Aperol cocktail (Prosecco and Aperol)

Quote from: jadziadax8 on June 23, 2020, 01:04:22 PM

Quote from: viffergyrl on June 22, 2020, 06:44:47 PM
Aperol cocktail (Prosecco and Aperol)

My drink of choice in Vienna last summer! I think I drank all the Aperol in the city.

Costco has Aperol for $19.99 a bottle.

jadziadax8 · « **Reply #2236 on:** June 23, 2020, 02:17:40 PM »

Quote from: viffergyrl on June 23, 2020, 01:53:18 PM

Costco has Aperol for $19.99 a bottle.

Finally, the incentive I needed to get a Costco membership!

viffergyrl · « **Reply #2237 on:** June 23, 2020, 02:18:37 PM »

Quote from: jadziadax8 on June 23, 2020, 02:17:40 PM

Quote from: viffergyrl on June 23, 2020, 01:53:18 PM
Costco has Aperol for $19.99 a bottle.

Finally, the incentive I needed to get a Costco membership!

jadziadax8 · « **Reply #2238 on:** June 23, 2020, 07:51:56 PM »

So, I was going to make an Aperol Spritz, but I spotted the rhubarb simple syrup I made a couple of weeks ago, and decided that this needed to take the place of the Aperol.

BTW, the little bottles of prosecco are quite dangerous. I always feel bad about opening a big bottle. You gotta finish it before the bubbles get let out, right? So, I forgo a big bottle unless it's a special occasion. With the little ones, 5 o'clock becomes a special occasion.

viffergyrl · « **Reply #2239 on:** June 23, 2020, 08:23:39 PM »

Quote from: jadziadax8 on June 23, 2020, 07:51:56 PM

So, I was going to make an Aperol Spritz, but I spotted the rhubarb simple syrup I made a couple of weeks ago, and decided that this needed to take the place of the Aperol.

BTW, the little bottles of prosecco are quite dangerous. I always feel bad about opening a big bottle. You gotta finish it before the bubbles get let out, right? So, I forgo a big bottle unless it's a special occasion. With the little ones, 5 o'clock becomes a special occasion.

I take the small bottles traveling. A good champagne stopper does a pretty good job of keeping the bubbles in. I also use flavored sparkling water, like blood orange or mango-passionfruit. The rhubarb simple syrup sounds fantastic!

stevent · « **Reply #2240 on:** June 24, 2020, 11:42:13 AM »

I'll probably have an Alaskan Amber to go with my Finnen Haddie, though a nice Washington state Cab is always an option.

Black Hills · « **Reply #2241 on:** June 24, 2020, 12:25:39 PM »

a local APA, from these guys: https://lostcabin.beer/taproom/ at my normal watering hole (with proper social distancing and all that

)

Andrew · « **Reply #2242 on:** June 24, 2020, 08:13:43 PM »

Cherry kool-aid, with ice

Maybe hop on the BMW and ride when the sun get lower

somehow this makes sense

?

jadziadax8 · « **Reply #2243 on:** June 26, 2020, 08:47:16 AM »

Quote from: viffergyrl on June 23, 2020, 08:23:39 PM

The rhubarb simple syrup sounds fantastic!

https://www.garlicandzest.com/rhubarb-ginger-simple-syrup/

My favorite part is eating all the rhubarb mush once you strain the syrup out.

slayman · « **Reply #2244 on:** July 04, 2020, 07:33:51 AM »

Attended my first bourbon tasting. My less than discerning rankings from least to most favorite.
5. Michters - don't like the flavor
4. Four Roses
3. Elijah Craig
2. Bookers (hooooo weeee 124 proof) Best aroma by far

And the winner is:
1. Woodford Reserve - easiest to drink

Baxter · « **Reply #2245 on:** August 23, 2020, 10:33:04 AM »

The temps last evening were warm but not unbearable, just enough that slight exertion ruins the effects of a shower. So, we had drinks in the sunroom. And the doggo hunted for treats I hid throughout the room.

Boulevardiers in particular. Equal parts Campari, Bourbon and sweet vermouth, shaken and served up with olives. They're also called Italian Stallions, probably because Campari is from Italy and Bourbon is from Kentucky horse country.

Then I grilled steaks while my wife roasted potatoes and veggies. We paired that with a Freakshow Cab from Michael David in Lodi, Cali. Check out their tasting room if you're in the area.

Skee · « **Reply #2246 on:** August 23, 2020, 11:53:51 AM »

Steaks on the grill (I scored inch thick prime ribeyes for $7.99/lb) with a 12-year old Reserva I broke out for the occasion.

stevent · « **Reply #2247 on:** August 25, 2020, 12:11:56 PM »

We had some snooty French wine we got as a house warming gift, quite tasty actually though we're total Washington State wine snobs. Went well with the Penne & shrimp with artichoke hearts and snow peas in garlic and lemon butter we picked up from Toscano's curbside pick-up menu in Puyallup.

mxvet57 · « **Reply #2248 on:** August 27, 2020, 03:00:17 PM »

Is Clay still the number one poster?

Skee · « **Reply #2249 on:** September 10, 2020, 03:03:57 PM »

Sat out with some (socially-distanced) friends last night drinking craft beers that I bought & some homebrews that he made.
Sweet Water Pale Ale 420
Troegs Jovial (looks like a Dubbel, drinks like a Trippel, taste reminiscent of Chimay & coffee)
Left Hand Milk Stout Nitro
Excelsior dry hopped homebrew
Bourbon-barrel porter homebrew
Dubbel style homebrew (Because he knows Rochefort 8 is one of my favorites We worked together in Belgium a few years ago, where we would spend our weekends bicycling to Achel or driving to another Trappist brewery.)

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Lovely setting in their backyard. The quote on the back of the beer glass they gave me says “There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says �?Good people drink good beer’. Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom, and you will quickly see �?Bad people drink bad beer’. Think about it. - Hunter S Thompson