Things you just don't get

[L'Incandescent]



Do you like yours sweet or sour?

Morgenthaler had a great article on this http://www.jeffreymorgenthaler.com/2012/brandy-old-fashioned/

I made one with some pierre ferrand cognac although I hear korbel is the brandy of choice. I don't think the cognac stands up well to the fruit, bitters, and sugar. It's already fruity and sweet and it's too light to require chill and more dilution. I think if you made with a high proof brandy like a cask strength or something it could be much better.

Everyone I knew growing up drank it sweet, and so that's what I always did. To be honest, I've never even made it sour. In fact, when I was a kid I didn't understand why people would say "brandy old fashioned sweet" because I assumed all brand old fashioneds were sweet.

I think there are probably lots of people in Wisconsin who don't think of Korbel as anything but a brandy. I know that's how I thought of it growing up.

 

[patrickBOOTH]



I had a blind tasting with Hendricks, Plymouth, Tanqueray 10, Bombay sapphire, and brokers. Brokers is my go to value bourbon cuz the juniper is very nice and prominent but everything is balanced and it has a great price.

Are you feeling ok, tonight???

 

[L'Incandescent]

You know what I haven't had in a very long time a brandy alexander (dessert drink). Also, why the hell does it happen that when I order a grasshopper I don't get an ice cream drink that is bullshit (grasshopper is an ice cream drink).

 

[indesertum]



Are you feeling ok, tonight???

Lol that wasn't tonight. Tonight was bourbon night. One of the things I tried was the four roses limited edition small batch from this year. Was sooo good

You know what I haven't had in a very long time a brandy alexander (dessert drink). Also, why the hell does it happen that when I order a grasshopper I don't get an ice cream drink that is bullshit (grasshopper is an ice cream drink).

Brandy Alexanders are so good. Especially with a little nutmeg on top. Also i thought grasshoppers were a cream drink not necessarily an ice cream drink


I think I'm slowly turning into piobaire. Good thing I'm Asian and can't drink too much

 

[L'Incandescent]

Looks like I am reliving my time of youth in "Things you don't get," but when I was a youngster I enjoyed lots of Brandy Alexanders and Grasshoppers at the supper club. (Also Pink Panthers when I was too young for the alcohol-based ice cream drinks.)

 

[Piobaire]



Old fashioneds are gross. Who are you, early seasons Don Draper? Mint julep's also suck and taste like Band-Aids.

I always suspected, but this confirms, you are a cretin.

A real Old Fashioned is exceedingly enjoyable and really let's one appreciate the bourbon. It's also one of the very original cocktails. Here's a true version:

2 oz favorite bourbon
.5 oz rich simply syrup
3 dashes bitters (the standard is Angostura but I use my own homemade ones)
nice strip of orange rind

Put the orange rind, bitters, and simple in a rocks glass. Muddle. Put in some ice, pour the bourbon over it, stir and enjoy.

 

[Bhowie]



Have you been to booker and dax? If so, thoughts?

I havent been down to NY in like 4 months. I need to go.

I plan on going to Tales this year. Bacardi is taking my buddy this year. I'm going to crash in his room and get my own ticket.

 

[HRoi]

Hey, you guys have much better taste in alcohol than you do in music!!

 

[Piobaire]



Hey, you guys have much better taste in alcohol than you do in music!!

My taste in music is impeccable.

 

[ethanm]

I always suspected, but this confirms, you are a cretin.

Drinks old fashioneds and uses the word cretin. brohonestly.

 

[otc]

T10 is a great gin although some of the newer products may have outdone it.

I have a bottle of barrel aged gin from Few which is really cool but I have not find much use for.

 

[Piobaire]



Drinks old fashioneds and uses the word cretin. brohonestly.

That's how I roll.

 

[Douglas]



oh, i've not been there yet. judging from how you described it, it isn't any good?

I don't know how to judge a Miami restaurant. Everything down there is so showy and overpriced. The food was alright, I suppose, but it's not like it was particularly inventive, unique, or extra specially well prepared given the prices. The menu reads about like your average steak house, with flashy dishes like Lobster Thermidor, which I don't think I've ever actually had, but the MARKET PRICE next to the item in a place like that scared me off. We had a wedge salad that was pretty embarrassingly bad, but my steak was fine and the apps and sides were fine.

But I just can't imagine ever spending that kind of money on food like that ever again. I mean, it was comparable to a decent experience at a place like Ruth's Chris, which is overpriced to begin with, and this was half again or double the money of even that.

 

[oxfordamerican]

I see that everyone is having a grand time discussing the fine arts of mixology and imbibing, and I don't mean to derail the thread, but I really don't get women's taste in men at all. If you were to ask fifty different men what each one thinks of a certain type/look of female, you would surely receive varied replies, but there would at least be some level of consistency, whereas women are just all over the ******* place. Is there some sort of evo psych explanation for this?

 

[Douglas]



I see that everyone is having a grand time discussing the fine arts of mixology and imbibing, and I don't mean to derail the thread, but I really don't get women's taste in men at all. If you were to ask fifty different men what each one thinks of a certain type/look of female, you would surely receive varied replies, but there would at least be some level of consistency, whereas women are just all over the ******* place. Is there some sort of evo psych explanation for this?

Yes. Women are crazy.