What are you Drinking ?

[Beta Cloud]

TRUE BELIEVER sparkling hard cider.
local New York brew.
fantastic sparkling cider with pear and pineapple aftertaste kinda' thingy happening here.
hearty apple flavor, heavy, with deep wine texture.
i love brit pub ciders and i gotta' say that strongbow and blackthorn seem weak compared to this guy.


and the grey in my beard is coming in nicely too.

[RacerX]

I just bought a case of on-sale Yellowtail Shiraz, so I'll be drinking off that for awhile...

[RAGER]

Cheap beer is one thing.  Cheap wine?  No bueno.

[RacerX]

I wasn't offering you any of my cheap wine, and I wouldn't even pour it over you if you were on fire, so don't worry your fat hipster head any further about it.

[black]

Can anyone really tell the difference between cheap wine and not cheap wine?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/cheap-wine-vs-expensive-wine_n_2457984.html
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/23/wine-tasting-junk-science-analysis
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-cortex/does-all-wine-taste-the-same
http://www.thesimpledollar.com/wine-blind-taste-tests-and-your-money/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-22/wine-blind-taste-testing/4835208

I think not.

[RAGER]

Funny, we just did this last week.  A guy my girl works with was singing the praises of Beringer table red he found at Costco that worked out to be a $3 a bottle if you bought the case.  I said fuck that I'm not so cheap I have to drink $3 wine.  She countered saying he and his wife know good wine so she was gonna get a bottle and we'd see.  She put 2 glasses in front of me.  One of the swill and the other was about a $15 bottle.  Wow guess what, I picked out the cheap shit and I don't really know that much about wine.  Maybe it's just the access to all the Willamette and Columbia Valley wines that have toned my palate.

Yellowtail?  Gross.  I would rather burn anyways.  Get some of that Barefoot too while you're at it.  They come in the big bottles too.

[RacerX]

Thanks for the recommendation—if you don't like it, there's a good chance that I will.

Oh, and: Burn, baby, burn!

[RAGER]

Witty comeback from Brokedickx?

FAIL

[RacerX]

Ah, but you have terrible taste in food, drink, music, and humor, so in the words of Charlie Sheen...

Winning!!

[black]

Funny, we just did this last week.  A guy my girl works with was singing the praises of Beringer table red he found at Costco that worked out to be a $3 a bottle if you bought the case.  I said fuck that I'm not so cheap I have to drink $3 wine.  She countered saying he and his wife know good wine so she was gonna get a bottle and we'd see.  She put 2 glasses in front of me.  One of the swill and the other was about a $15 bottle.  Wow guess what, I picked out the cheap shit and I don't really know that much about wine.  Maybe it's just the access to all the Willamette and Columbia Valley wines that have toned my palate.

Yellowtail?  Gross.  I would rather burn anyways.  Get some of that Barefoot too while you're at it.  They come in the big bottles too.

I don't doubt that some folks can tell the difference.
But it more often than not seems to be luck.

Although arguing over wine is pretty low on my list.
Mainly because I know nothing about it.  

[RacerX]

I refuse to argue; I just want to drink that shit—each sip is a direct insult to HIPSTER's hoitey-toitiness.

[RAGER]

No argument here. It is what it is.

[RacerX]

I'm presently drinking organically grown, artisanal water, built from hand-crafted Hydrogen and Oxygen molecules.

[RAGER]

Ok this is a bit much.  I do have some big cube and sphere ice molds but ain't no way I'm buying that shit.  And what foes into my shaker is regular old bags of ice.  I used to just buy bags and put them into my ice maker to dispense since I didn't have it hooked up to water.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/10/giant-ice-cubes-hipster-craft-cocktail

[MadJohnShaft]

I have a tray that makes 6 giant cubes. I'm a put some up and enjoy tomorrow. It's fun to have a rocker glass with a giant ice cube to whirl around.


As to wine - we only drink Malbec cause I like Argentina. The $10 bottles are great and the $25 excellent. If you want to give someone a gift a $45 is a rare treat. We got a lot of wine in the basement.



Any wine benefits by air. As a test, pour one glass then decant the rest back and forth between two containers a dozen times or more -  you will improve any wine remarkably.

[deleted account]

or, if you don't want to look like you were born in a barn, you can get one of these

[MadJohnShaft]

Yeah I've seen those - it seems difficult to run wine through that twice but it's remarkable how much a freshly poured glass of wine benefits with aeration - try it, it's a an interesting experiment I've done many times.

[Adam]

While I don't have Funkwerks available to me anymore now that I moved, I at least have Prairie. Love this beer, Prairie Standard.

[deleted account]

you moved to Tulsa?

[Adam]

No, Southern Kentucky. But Prairie is distributed here.

(as for Kentucky....one year deal for an internship. As soon as as my internship concludes, I am out)

[Volume]

Ooh yeah!

[RAGER]

Fuckin shit!  BIG imperial Belgian.  Very West Coast @ 93 IBU and 9.6%.  A tad too sweet but I bought 2 so we'll see how the other one is.

[RAGER]

Everything Alesmith does is top notch.  This one is no exception.

[RAGER]

Picked up a few the other day at Belmont Station.

The Worthy was just ok.  The Green Flash was pretty good.  Not sure what I'll have tonight.

[Lumpy]

Harpoon "the Long Thaw" - it's good. Weird, they carry some good beer at my little grocery store now. Bells, etc.