Drink of Choice
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Cleaning the garage today looking for some drywall tape, decided to go through the homebrewing stuff. Found some 23 year old wine and mead along with some old store bought beer in the bottle cases. Had to try the mead and wine to see how they aged. They were surprisingly good, considering I had not label the bottles and had to guess what was in them. Had one bottle of Cherry Mead bottled in 1996, really good and high alcohol, high cherry notes. Multiple bottles of coffee mead, it wasn’t bad either, more caramel notes and light coffee, bottled in 1997 and the wine was a Gewürztraminer bottled in 1997. Still have a spiced mead bottled in 1997, it’s an orphan bottle as well. Found two bottles of Barley Wine I put away and forgot about in one of the cases two. Cleaning the garage was productive, finding the drywall type, not so good, oh well the liquor took care of that.
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Cleaning the garage today looking for some drywall tape, decided to go through the homebrewing stuff. Found some 23 year old wine and mead along with some old store bought beer in the bottle cases. Had to try the mead and wine to see how they aged. They were surprisingly good, considering I had not label the bottles and had to guess what was in them. Had one bottle of Cherry Mead bottled in 1996, really good and high alcohol, high cherry notes. Multiple bottles of coffee mead, it wasn’t bad either, more caramel notes and light coffee, bottled in 1997 and the wine was a Gewürztraminer bottled in 1997. Still have a spiced mead bottled in 1997, it’s an orphan bottle as well. Found two bottles of Barley Wine I put away and forgot about in one of the cases two. Cleaning the garage was productive, finding the drywall type, not so good, oh well the liquor took care of that.
johnsbrewhouse What great “finds”. Oh, what a tasting table. Hopefully you weren’t driving anywhere after all that tasting. Glad you had fun drudging up all that stuff. I can see you smiling while doing it. I would consider it a very good day.
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johnsbrewhouse What great “finds”. Oh, what a tasting table. Hopefully you weren’t driving anywhere after all that tasting. Glad you had fun drudging up all that stuff. I can see you smiling while doing it. I would consider it a very good day.
zbigjeff Hoping I would find a bottle of Marionberry Melomel I had stashed. I haven’t been able to find it since I moved into this house 19 years ago. I know I have one bottle left, I saved it since it placed 2nd Nationally in the American Homebrewers Competition in 1996. It could have been two bottles one split and one 22 oz. The split I thought was a Cherry mead could have been Marionberry with the age and changes. Got me thinking now.
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zbigjeff Hoping I would find a bottle of Marionberry Melomel I had stashed. I haven’t been able to find it since I moved into this house 19 years ago. I know I have one bottle left, I saved it since it placed 2nd Nationally in the American Homebrewers Competition in 1996. It could have been two bottles one split and one 22 oz. The split I thought was a Cherry mead could have been Marionberry with the age and changes. Got me thinking now.
johnsbrewhouse Ya know “thinking” may get you in deep doodooo. Hope you find your treasure. It’s all about having fun with it. Every so often I dig up some blast from the past and just have fun remembering that time in our lives.
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johnsbrewhouse Ya know “thinking” may get you in deep doodooo. Hope you find your treasure. It’s all about having fun with it. Every so often I dig up some blast from the past and just have fun remembering that time in our lives.
zbigjeff Was definitely Cherry mead, looked at the cork and it had a “c” on it, which would have made it the Cherry mead. So the mystery bottle still lingers somewhere to be found later.
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zbigjeff Was definitely Cherry mead, looked at the cork and it had a “c” on it, which would have made it the Cherry mead. So the mystery bottle still lingers somewhere to be found later.
johnsbrewhouse The mystery bottle is much better than “mystery meat”. Loved that you saw a “c” on the cork. hehehehehehehehe
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Just a thought for today on the first decent temp day in a looooonnnnnggg time.
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zbigjeff
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I finally scored a couple bottles of Weller Antique and special Reserve. Persistence pays off!
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Joe Hell Both are good pours of wheated bourbons. The Antique has a bit more punch. But, still very good. Yay for you.
A couple of Irish Coffees, dressed up with whipped cream and Hersheys Special Dark chocolate syrup. Just getting warmed up for the 17th.
“You never really die until you end up on the wall at a Cracker Barrel”
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My drink of choice is Bells Scotch whiskey with milk as a mix. The milk brings out that nice smooth lovely flavor. We don’t get that brand here in NZ though, so I basically stop drinking whiskey, however, the other day I really wanted a good shot of whiskey and then decided to try American bourbon. I looked at the different bourbon they had on the shelve, and ended up getting a bottle of Jim Beam and how super surprised I was with my choice! It really tasted smooth and good. I am not a regular user of alcohol, but the bottle of Jimmies just disappear in no time. I buy NZ brewed bear called Tui, I do not like the European beers at all. Here you can easily get your own brewer license and start brewing, we have two breweries just down the road and a bit further many more! But beer of these kind are very expensive. When I use to visit my daughter in Paarl where she is a wine maker, I would always buy a bottle of Amarula and bring it back here in NZ.
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A couple of Irish Coffees, dressed up with whipped cream and Hersheys Special Dark chocolate syrup. Just getting warmed up for the 17th.
GWG8541 I have never tried my Tullamore like that. It looks pretty impressive.
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My drink of choice is Bells Scotch whiskey with milk as a mix. The milk brings out that nice smooth lovely flavor. We don’t get that brand here in NZ though, so I basically stop drinking whiskey, however, the other day I really wanted a good shot of whiskey and then decided to try American bourbon. I looked at the different bourbon they had on the shelve, and ended up getting a bottle of Jim Beam and how super surprised I was with my choice! It really tasted smooth and good. I am not a regular user of alcohol, but the bottle of Jimmies just disappear in no time. I buy NZ brewed bear called Tui, I do not like the European beers at all. Here you can easily get your own brewer license and start brewing, we have two breweries just down the road and a bit further many more! But beer of these kind are very expensive. When I use to visit my daughter in Paarl where she is a wine maker, I would always buy a bottle of Amarula and bring it back here in NZ.
magician176 The Amarula liquor sounds interesting because I’ve never had the “amarula” fruit. But, always want to try new things. If you like “Scotch” with milk, there’s many types of bottles that are made with Bourbon and Cream. I tried one and then mixed it for myself out of the arsenal of bourbons on the shelf. Low and behold, it was just as good. It’s a nice change from always drinking Bourbon “neat” or with one ice cube. I do find the bottle disappears faster if I combine it with the cream. LOL. Glad to have another viewpoint on the other side of the world. Yay for US in the USA. You’ll find this group very knowledgeable with the meats. But, it’s what they do just as good is sip the “whiskey” while watching their BBQ pits do their thing. Welcome to this site.
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My drink of choice is Bells Scotch whiskey with milk as a mix. The milk brings out that nice smooth lovely flavor. We don’t get that brand here in NZ though, so I basically stop drinking whiskey, however, the other day I really wanted a good shot of whiskey and then decided to try American bourbon. I looked at the different bourbon they had on the shelve, and ended up getting a bottle of Jim Beam and how super surprised I was with my choice! It really tasted smooth and good. I am not a regular user of alcohol, but the bottle of Jimmies just disappear in no time. I buy NZ brewed bear called Tui, I do not like the European beers at all. Here you can easily get your own brewer license and start brewing, we have two breweries just down the road and a bit further many more! But beer of these kind are very expensive. When I use to visit my daughter in Paarl where she is a wine maker, I would always buy a bottle of Amarula and bring it back here in NZ.
magician176 That all sounds pretty amazing, especially your daughter being a wine maker. I am sure you are very proud of her.
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A couple of Irish Coffees, dressed up with whipped cream and Hersheys Special Dark chocolate syrup. Just getting warmed up for the 17th.
GWG8541 Way to get the week started correctly. Never did Irish Coffee with Dark Choc. Darn YOU. Another “thing” to try.
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magician176 That all sounds pretty amazing, especially your daughter being a wine maker. I am sure you are very proud of her.
calldoctoday Yeah, very proud of her. These days an old coot like me, I try to stay out of her way, I feel I might embarrass her because I am so darn old, she and her hubby is pretty young and so are all her friends mostly.
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magician176 That all sounds pretty amazing, especially your daughter being a wine maker. I am sure you are very proud of her.
calldoctoday
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calldoctoday Yeah, very proud of her. These days an old coot like me, I try to stay out of her way, I feel I might embarrass her because I am so darn old, she and her hubby is pretty young and so are all her friends mostly.
magician176 The pictures wont load correctly, don’t what I am doing wrong
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