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Olthannon wrote: After a brief chat with Pyro, I had a fun idea that I wanted to swing past people on this thread after seeing everyone's replies.
Would anyone be interested in setting up a booze club?
My thought would be: you pick a drink you are particularly fond of from your local area and send it by post to those who are interested. It doesn't necessarily have to be alcohol but something that you are proud of from your region. And everyone in turn does the same thing, that way it's not a loss money wise.
I'm sure we could figure out a way to ship internationally so it isn't painfully expensive. Perhaps one person is designated as the recipient of everything from one nation and they send a box to someone international and then they distribute nationally?
Happy to workshop up a smarter way to do it, but anyone interested?
An alternative would be for a "drink of the week/month" that is put up and people try to get some and then comment on it.
Obviously, super-obscure beers from the struggling micro-brew down the street are going to be challenging, but even those who can't get ahold of it might enjoy the commentary.
Yes, but we should include non-alcoholic drinks as well. Maybe do one of each. There are a lot of varieties of coffee, tea, soft drinks, juices, etc. This could also include "kiddie cocktails" - mixed drinks without alcohol.
Maybe announce the selection with advanced notice (so people can obtain it) and then on the set day, everyone drinks and then writes what they think.
If there's something intensely local but feasible to ship, advanced notice would be required, so we could do a calendar and accept nominations for future dates between drinkings.
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Olthannon wrote: After a brief chat with Pyro, I had a fun idea that I wanted to swing past people on this thread after seeing everyone's replies.
Would anyone be interested in setting up a booze club?
My thought would be: you pick a drink you are particularly fond of from your local area and send it by post to those who are interested. It doesn't necessarily have to be alcohol but something that you are proud of from your region. And everyone in turn does the same thing, that way it's not a loss money wise.
I'm sure we could figure out a way to ship internationally so it isn't painfully expensive. Perhaps one person is designated as the recipient of everything from one nation and they send a box to someone international and then they distribute nationally?
Happy to workshop up a smarter way to do it, but anyone interested?
An alternative would be for a "drink of the week/month" that is put up and people try to get some and then comment on it.
Obviously, super-obscure beers from the struggling micro-brew down the street are going to be challenging, but even those who can't get ahold of it might enjoy the commentary.
Agreed on this. . . Because in my particular piece of the US it is highly illegal to ship beer (as an average joe customer person), and the local shop I enquired about getting a brew out of Colorado, they told me that the state is crazy restrictive even on them. Basically, the only way to get a "special order" of beer in this state is to get it picked up by their distribution company, and get a truckload shipped in. . . Its perfectly fine to special order *A* bottle of wine across state lines (as a store, not so much joe customer, again) because of the way the law is written (apparently), but beer gets the short end of the stick here.
As a genuine fan of beer, and trying whatever is on tap?
Im not sure a Dakka Beer Book Club would work, because even when not a super, one town, localised tipple? Few decent beers are available nationwide, let alone international.
Which is why I love my beer and ale. Unlike gassy, vile, pissy lager? There are genuinely different tastes and flavours of beer and ale. And yes I dare say for non-commercial-production-level lagers.
Example? Cider and Perry.
Actual proper small batch Cider and Perry (no, not pear flavoured Cider. Actual Perry) can be bloody lethal in the ABV.
Fun and tasty in half pints. But anymore than that and the Beer Monkey is going to sack it off and call in The Raging Cider Baboon. And when you’ve been the victim of the Raging Cider Baboon once? It’s a lesson learned.
For the Beer Monkey merely ruffles your hair, poops in your gob and riffles through your wallet? The Raging Cider Baboon will do all of that, but also slap you six ways from Sunday, drag you up a tree and leave you horribly mangled.
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Im not sure a Dakka Beer Book Club would work, because even when not a super, one town, localised tipple? Few decent beers are available nationwide, let alone international.
I think there is room for both highly local flavor discussions and general thoughts on more available beverages. For example, if the "international" beverage is a lager or one of those vile IPAs, others could chime in with local variations on the same.
There are also mixed drink combinations people can try with local ingredients/recipes. The cider and perry thing was hitherto unknown to me, so I'm intrigued.
I think there is room for both highly local flavor discussions and general thoughts on more available beverages. For example, if the "international" beverage is a lager or one of those vile IPAs, others could chime in with local variations on the same.
Just my .02 thoughts. . . if there were to be a dakka club, whoever is running it could run it more thematically, rather than "get X brand beer, try it." . . . For instance, they could do Jan 1-14, our beer is Porter, so find a porter and report in to us!. Following 2 weeks, it could be Hefeweizen, or maybe something like "go to your local dining establishment and order a cocktail that contains Bourbon". Or, do as my father does, and try to order the same drink, to see how different places make it (his fave is the Negroni).
this way, you'd still have a huge variety of drinks, and people would not be hampered by local availability.
Vodka, triple sec, orange juice, cranberry juice, or lemonade. I can handle an inordinate amount of this combination.
I literally can't handle beer at all anymore. Whiskey is tolerable.
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Just my .02 thoughts. . . if there were to be a dakka club, whoever is running it could run it more thematically, rather than "get X brand beer, try it." . . . For instance, they could do Jan 1-14, our beer is Porter, so find a porter and report in to us!. Following 2 weeks, it could be Hefeweizen, or maybe something like "go to your local dining establishment and order a cocktail that contains Bourbon". Or, do as my father does, and try to order the same drink, to see how different places make it (his fave is the Negroni).
this way, you'd still have a huge variety of drinks, and people would not be hampered by local availability.
Yes, that is a great way of expressing it. If people can find the same exact brand, great, but if not, they can post something similar.
My drink of choice remains just about any type of soda, occasionally lemonade if I'm in the right mood. Never got into drinking alcohol and given that a year ago today I lost a friend to liver failure from alcoholism I'm not about to start now.
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Commissar von Toussaint wrote: The Great Pie Fight reminded me of this. Michigan's weather is cooling off and it's a great time to savor brandy in a warmed snifter here.
Do folks alternate between seasonal drinks or is it the same thing all the time?
There are defiantly things I’ll only drink in the summer. G&Ts and Sours being the big ones that come to mind. And while I’ll tend to drink lighter beers over darker beers when it’s warm out, I’ll drink either any day. Generally gravitate towards the darker ones anyway. I am prone to try the seasonal stuff; if there is an Octoberfest on tap, that’s what I’m drinking.
I like to make mulled cider for the holidays. So that’s a seasonal thing.
Some drinks are determined by what I have in the house. If oranges are on sale, I’m drinking old fashioneds. Or if I need some zest for a recipe (like the cranberry pistachio cookies I make for the holidays) the rest of the peel goes into the drink.
So a mix of binary yes/no options and subtle trends.
Getting chilly now and we're lighting the wood burner in the evenings. What goes very nicely with that is a glass of port, swiftly followed by falling asleep on the sofa...
Crispy78 wrote: Getting chilly now and we're lighting the wood burner in the evenings. What goes very nicely with that is a glass of port, swiftly followed by falling asleep on the sofa...
The drink of choice for Evelyn Waugh. You're in good company!
It's getting cold and dreary, so it's whiskey season here at Chateau Lloyd, and an occasional brandy, especially when I get a fire going.
Falling asleep on the couch (or in the comfy chair) is indeed a danger this time of year because the cat has gone from stretching out to cool off to leeching warmth from whatever human is handy. She's on my legs even now, which is unfortunate, because my whiskey glass is empty. :(
Now that it's cooling off, I am returning to my tendency to make my drink "count" . . .
For beer, usually its some form of Belgian Trappist beer, usually in the region of 9-11% abv.
I have also been warned of my parents downsizing their liquor cabinet, and as such we're getting bankers boxes full of mixing stuff (ie, tequila, rum, gin, whiskey, whisky, etc). . . So, to make room, I've been enjoying more of my long held scotches. I think last night was a Glenfiddich 18 year.
Ensis Ferrae wrote: Now that it's cooling off, I am returning to my tendency to make my drink "count" . . .
For beer, usually its some form of Belgian Trappist beer, usually in the region of 9-11% abv.
I have also been warned of my parents downsizing their liquor cabinet, and as such we're getting bankers boxes full of mixing stuff (ie, tequila, rum, gin, whiskey, whisky, etc). . . So, to make room, I've been enjoying more of my long held scotches. I think last night was a Glenfiddich 18 year.
Commissar von Toussaint wrote: By "beer" I assume you mean some sort of peaty thing with bits of dirt in it that is served at room temperature?
Over the summer I was drinking a lot of Modelo intermingled with Asahi, but I'm probably going to get back to my German roots as the weather darkens.
I do like the Asahi, though.
I mean Beer, bunghole.
No fizzy pish.
No “extra cold” awfulness.
Honest to goodness beer. And ale.
Something genuinely quaffable, but not of such ABV you can apply the clutch before oblivion. Enough to give you a buzz, and should you wish to push it that way, wake up upside down, up a tree, 40 miles away, with no idea who you are or how you got there.
A session beer. Something one can easily cawcanny on. And unlike Stella, doesn’t send you radgey
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I'm going to cross the threads here and note yet again that the American cultural inheritance with regard to beer is - as with food - overwhelmingly German, and you see that in the brand names. We have more Belgian beers than English ones. Heck, we have more Chinese beers (though Tsingtao is German in origin). Some folks like Guinness, but it gives me a headache.
I guess the English element is reflected in cider, of which we are getting more all the time. Strongbow is a family favorite among the womenfolk of Chateau Lloyd, and considerably cheaper than Moet & Chandon, which my wife considers the only champagne suitable for human consumption (and even then, she will only have either the Rose or Nectar Imperial - Brut is right out).
I used to be a big stout man, the bitterer the better. But the family curse of celiac seems to be catching up to me, so I'm looking into brewing my own mead, since most of the gluten free beers I've tried have been mediocre at best.
I think something like a session mead bochet (with carmelised honey so it has a darker colour and some of the toasted flavours) with bitter hops might get close enough to the sort of beer I like to drink. Pain in the arse, but at least home brewing is fun!
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