Good choice, that.

For something not completely different, try Jura. (12yo I think) Next island up, and the one distillery on the island. Islands style and savor, just about no peat.

Ice water.

'S in m'veins...

One dram and one more dram from my infinity bottle. My solera bottle. I've developed my bottle over the course of the last year and I love it. I'm not as persnickety as some but as Ralfy says I see I should initiate another bottle of Peat & Smoke.

The bit of iron on the wall: Isle of Man?? Aisle of Man?? I love Man??

I'll off man?



I think the candle on the top of the cabinet is fake.

What are you drinking right now?
 

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Pour the packet in bottle of water, give it a shake. Not bad.

Schweppe's Ginger Ale w/a splash of Ocean Spray Cranberry-Blackberry

:yum:

last night:


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So complex and warm.... but it's got a kick, so I have to go easy. I never go easy. V8 and 6 cups of coffee this morning

I wonder how it would compare to the original, which was produced in Maryland? This one is made in good ol' Kentucky.

My dad grew up in Balto. His family always started parties with a 'snoot' of Pikes. He was pleased to see that we can get it up here. He can't get it in NC. He always makes a B Line for my cabinet when he comes up. I usually send him home with a bottle. I guess it measures up.

What are you drinking right now?
 

!00% fat-free skim milk.

So, water.

Chocolate milk :) (Organic whole)

Coffee, Wegman's Breakfast.

Me too. Colombian though

Seagram's Ginger Ale

The absolute cheapest bourbon I have ever bought. Almost worth it.

:lol2:

What brand is it?

piss-weak beer. as usual.

FOUR FREEDOMS

Yes, in all caps. As you can see, my current penury has dampened the quality, if not the quantity of my whistle-wetting.

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Ah, my friend, I'll crack open one of these for you with dinner.

Not piss-weak, 8.6% ABV. And outright delicious.

I bought an 18 pack last week, it's too big to live in the fridge, so it lives on the deck. Fitting. Ya Sure Ya Betcha!

Penury - I've asked you people to stop making me learn stuff...

go for it. I like to drink lots of beer but I do not like to feel drunk so....

I stopped drinking anything stronger than beer/wine when I met beest because the smell made him puke after an 18th birthday "top row" incident. He's been dead two years now, but I have yet to feel any urge to reinvestigate that avenue.

Coffee.

Related: Drink Coffee, Not Tea, To Ward Off Liver Cirrhosis

Tea drinking boozers, you gonna die. I'm so sorry. :sniff:

Did they control for the amount of alcohol consumption, though? I'm just saying, someone drinking 4 cups of coffee per day is going to have a lot less bladder real estate.

Despite evidence to the contrary, I'm convinced that 'Penury' is a village in Cornwall, along with...

Penare, Penbeagle, Penberth, Penberth Cove, Pencarrow, Pencoys, Pencuke, Pendeen, Pendoggett, Pendrift, Penelewey, Pengegon, Pengelly, Pengersick, Pengold, Pengover Green, Penhale, Penhale Jakes, Penhallam, Penhallick, Penhallow, Penhallym, Penhalurick, Penhalvean, Penmarth, Penmayne, Pennance, Pennytinney, Penpethy, Penpillick, Penpol, Penpoll, Penponds, Penpont, Penrose, Penrose Hill, Penryn, Pensilva, Penstraze, Pentewan, Pentire, Penwartha, Penwartha Coombe, Penweathers, Penwithick and Penzance,

There's probably more.

"Penwithick and Penzance,"

Like the "Pirates of Penzance"?

That's the one!

Penzance...

Chocolate Milk :) (Organic whole)

Looks expensive.

coffee, tequila

It's not what they charge that gets ya, it's what the pirates take. :haha:

Nothing.

And there's not nearly enough alcohol in it.

I'm jumping off this wagon like it's on fire.

Feeling better are you?

My cup is empty.

We're all drinking the kool-aid, it seems

Only if they're all noblemen who have gone wrong.

Trivia: stress its last syllable, pen-ZANTS.

Your trouble is you live in Gilbert and Sullivan and thinks it's the real world.

I've said the hell with it and started drinking the wine I stashed away over the years.
The last two nights we enjoyed a 1980 McDowell Valley Vineyards Estate Bottled 1980 Syrah. California, Mendocino County, about 25 miles south.
40 years old, good cork and just a little sediment.
It has a great, mature nose and is what you hope for in a soft palate.
A bonus is that the winery's winemaker at the time, George Bursick, was a friend of mine and his name is on the label.

I should have started this with our two-weeks-ago 1996 "Knotty Vine" Zinfandel from Rodney Strong and a 1980 Parducci Petite Sirah before that.
Both had difficult corks and needed straining, but were otherwise very nice.

More reports to come.

Almost normal. Almost.

The three of us have driven each other crazy about 42 times. Cabin fever is a bitch.

Diaphone James, as soon as this quarantine is done I will be right over to help you with this project

A++ No time like the present.

this morning:

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this minute:

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Water, on the rocks

A St. Pat's tale from my Cellar.
To enhance a tasty (if I do say so myself) corned beef, potatoes and cabbage meal yesterday I opened a 1977 Sanford and Benedict Santa Inez Valley (Santa Barbara County) Cabernet Sauvignon.
My girlfriend and I bought several bottles of this and other wines at the winery in 1980.
We had a nice afternoon there with the facility almost to ourselves and shared our picnic with the eponymous owners and winemakers.
The place has grown tremendously and is now Sanford Winery even though Benedict is still around.
The wine was my fourth good one in a row. with a sound cork, good color, almost no oxidation, still lots of fruit in the nose and nice soft tannins.
The insulated but not cooled cabinet I built long ago seems to work well, keeping daily temperature fluctuation to a minimum.
I know I'll get a bottle of vinegar eventually, but so far so good.

keep these reports coming jim

That is a fine thing, 43 years old! nicely done!

The drive-thru at the liquor is still open.

That may get me through this, this...thing.

FedGov is testing cloraquin on this virus. Don't skimp on Gin and tonic.

Ah, Chloroquine-Primaquine. the weekly anti-malaria pill in Vietnam, guaranteed to give you the shits.

The daily one, mefloquine, was worse and may still be causing problems to vets, 50 years on.

I seemed to have a skin reaction to it years ago but looking back it may have been dehydration.

Or maybe the daily one was dapsone.

You guys were quite the lab experiment. Stress, agent orange, bullets, malaria, drug cocktails... thanks Uncle Sam!

The Chinese were testing chloroquine. We're going with hydroxychloroquine, a derivative of chloroquine with fewer side effects than chloroquine or primaquine.

While there isn't an adverse drug interaction with hydroxychloroquine and alcohol, it is metabolized by the liver and excessive alcohol consumption can change how it works.

morning cup, really late

Thanks for the info!

Yep.

side note:

You're missing a comma.

"What, are you drinking right now?"

Canada Dry Bold Ginger Ale

It's not bad, but the extra ginger is doing something to the back of my throat I'm not too wild about.

Have to call this one a miss. YMMV

I wonder if it's like Verner's ginger ale? Love it can't get it here.

Bottles from the crypt, part 5.
This was actually last week's wine that took a while to fully appreciate.
It was a 1981 V. Sattui Cabernet Sauvignon from their Preston Vineyard in the Napa valley.
The exposed top of the cork was nasty with mold and perhaps other stuff. It came out in pieces and the smell of vinegar and worse filled the kitchen.
This was the dreaded volatile acidity (acetic acid) one fears with old wines.
And it tasted bad, too.
I opened an alternate recent purchase and left the old bottle on the sink with the cork out, expecting to pour it out in the morning.
When it came time for its demise, I poured a little for a final sniff and found the fault to have disappeared!
It was too early in the day to sip it, but by dinner time it still smelled good and tasted soft and mellow, if not award winning.
In my experience and reading, this is not supposed to happen, but it remained drinkable for a day or two.
So I learned a few things that didn't even come close to killing me.
# 6 tomorrow.

:thumb:

Wow, the Sattui came back from the dead! Tales from the crypt.
I'm confused by your statement, "It was too early in the day to sip it," what is that in English?

While I have never been shy about enjoying almost every kind of alcoholic beverage, they don't taste as good before breakfast or even lunch.

I worked around wine tasting rooms for years and grew suspicious as visitors made claims about how fresh and discerning their palates were in the morning and please could they have just a little more of that pinot noir.

Perhaps also contributory, when I was in college, there was a football season activity called "suds at sunrise," when kegs were killed by the dozens. I felt like shit all day afterwards and never knew who won the game.
So I usually keep my yard arm time around five.

I forgot to mention that my Sattui was number 15761 out of 29285 bottled.
I also just thought to look and I found a 1982 currently for sale for $100, and an '85 for $70.