Renault on 2/1/2018 at 15:55
Quote Posted by nickie
Does anyone here make their own alcohol?
I homebrewed beer 3-4 years ago with mixed results. Was thinking about starting it up again, since I have already bought all the equipment necessary.
I think it really needs to be something that is a labor of love - it's a lot of work, when you can just go out to the liquor store and get a great six pack for 10 bucks.
demagogue on 2/1/2018 at 16:02
I like syrupy chick cocktails. I'm the one, when everybody goes to a bar here and gets draft beers and yaktori, I'll get a strawberry Manhattan with a little pink umbrella. So sue me. Or more like, I like drinks that go good with jazz clubs, Cosmopolitans and Martinis and Manhattans, on the sweet and 1950s swag end.
I mentioned in another thread recently, the only alcohol I keep at my apartment these days is plum wine (umeshu), in particular the "black umeshu" version that tastes like it's been infused with brown sugar.
Vasquez on 2/1/2018 at 16:19
Yes, cocktails, the fruity and sweet kind. Pina Colada or strawberry Margarita made with real fresh ingredients, aah :) Nice thing about cocktails, nowadays in many bars you can get a delicious mocktail, if you can't or don't want to drink alcohol.
Sweetness, that reminds me I have a bottle of Amaretto... One of these days I'll try a bit of that with coffee and cream. Bailey's is good, too.
demagogue on 2/1/2018 at 17:21
On the topic of cocktails BTW:
[video=youtube;RQI6UDP1kOQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQI6UDP1kOQ[/video]
Trance on 2/1/2018 at 19:04
I get the same vibe watching that video as I get watching the pitch videos of Kickstarter scams.
Aja on 3/1/2018 at 21:12
Quote Posted by demagogue
I mentioned in another thread recently, the only alcohol I keep at my apartment these days is plum wine (umeshu), in particular the "black umeshu" version that tastes like it's been infused with brown sugar.
Yes, we had this when we were in Japan and loved it. Thankfully it's actually not too hard to find here in Edmonton.
caffeinatedzombeh on 3/1/2018 at 23:48
Quote Posted by nickie
Does anyone here make their own alcohol?
I make beer occasionally, have made wine in the past and absolutely certainly have never distilled my own kirsch because doing that without a licence (which is to all intents and purposes impossible to obtain unless you're running a decent sized commercial distillery) is very naughty indeed.
Mostly at the moment I drink rum, Black Seal is the current favourite.
nickie on 4/1/2018 at 16:06
Quote Posted by Brethren
I think it really needs to be something that is a labor of love - it's a lot of work, when you can just go out to the liquor store and get a great six pack for 10 bucks.
My calculations are that I could save 25p a pint on current prices here, more or less £1 a day which would save £365 a year which would pay 6 months electricity bill. This is good. We could all give up alcohol but I like it and my back needs liquid refreshment after a long day toiling in the fields! And we'll also need to do something with the apples so cider will be on the menu later in the year.
Tony_Tarantula on 4/1/2018 at 16:35
Quote Posted by nickie
Does anyone here make their own alcohol? Looks like I'll have to start brewing in the Spring and where we're going has loads of 'hedgerow' fruit for wine and sloes for gin. I haven't brewed for about 30 years so I'll be interested to see what I've remembered.
Used to. Now that I'm finally not living on a shoestring grad student budget I'm going to get back into it at some point.
For other drinks I'm usually more of a spirits person. I tend to prefer more stereotypically masculine mixed drinks like a rum and coke, old fashioneds, black Russians, etc. One of the drinks I like to have the most in practice is the gin n' tonic: it's a bitter drink so they're great for social occasions where you want to look like you're enjoying a drink without actually getting drunk.
Harvester on 4/1/2018 at 17:17
I like Belgian beers, like those brewed in Trappist monasteries. Regular beer (Pilsener) from the Netherlands or Germany is also fine, although I prefer some brands over others.
My preferences in wine are simple: I don't like it much.
I'm also so-so on mixed drinks. I prefer to drink whisky pure instead of putting it in coke. A drink I do like is Bacardi Oakheart Spiced Rum & coke, but one or two is enough, I can't drink such a thing for a whole evening like I can with beer. I guess vodka/rum/gin + coke are decent to drink one or two of. I don't like anything mixed with orange juice or anything like that.
I do enjoy a good cocktail in the summer like Mojito, Pina Colada, Sex on the Beach or Long Island Iced Tea.
My favorite stiff drink is a neat single malt Scotch whisky. I'm always open to try new whiskies I haven't had yet. A decent blended whisky like Johnny Walker Black Label is fine too. Red Label is only good for mixing with coke. I really can't afford very expensive whiskies regularly, but I'm not that much of an elitist. Mid-price whiskies like Laphroaig, Glenlivet, Oban and JW Black are perfectly fine with me.
I also like sweet liquors like Cointreau, Grand Marnier and Liquor 43, although the last one is almost too sweet. Jägermeister is fine too, but no to mixing it with Red Bull.