What are you drinking right now?

[Texasmade]

Talk me up...

I'm in route.

What did you letter in when you were in high school? Also did you win a district 16-5A or 13-4A championship?

 

[Fueco]

She’s French. She wouldn’t know wtf a letter jacket is. It’s like asking her where can I get a quarter pounder with cheese.

Oh, she knows you have a Quarter Pound with cheese in your pants…

 

[Texasmade]

Oh, she knows you have a Quarter Pound with cheese in your pants…

Someone’s been on the other side of the gl0ry h0le at Waffle House,

 

[stephenaf2003]

 

[Alocin]

Finished two bottles of natural wine and have no idea why I stopped.

 

[Huntsman]

Xxplosive!

My alcoholic friend huntsman he on it!

Xxplosive!

On esoteric booze he can posit!

Xxplosive!

The bottles at the back of the bar he attracted to!

Xxplosive!

Now all the winos at the bar say his **** explosive and thank you!

When i metcha last night laaaydayyy!

Beforrrrrrre! You blew up my tab (blew blew blew up my tab)!

Now I'm sober checking my bank statement and kinda mad....

Here lady hit the bong!

We partied way too long!

Now I'm sober and wantya gone!

That's Huntsman on West Coast Shiiiiit!

That made me chuckle, thanks! Back in the 70's and 80's there were competing trends in HiFi -- West Coast and East Coast sound, with JBL and Altec before them being the champions of West Coast sound, known for a very warm midrange, and some other things the audiophiles get very nerdy about and which I don't understand. But that West Coast Sound is what always sounds the best to my ears and I use old JBL speakers exclusively (18Ti's and L112s).

Agreed, although I have a few cocktails and tiki drinks I use it in which makes it more than just a spring drink to me. I really want to get a bottle of the VEP to try that out.

I'm going to France in a couple weeks and am definitely planning on hunting it down at least at a bar. It's absurdly expensive here in the US, not like Chartreuse isn't already expensive.

Yeah, I need to replace my VEP and it is on the other side of $150 now, which is depressing. I think mine, just pre-Covid, was $110. I once had a sample of Chartreuse Elixir Vegetal at a little French restaurant where I spotted it and got very excited; a tiny bottle in a little wooden box, at an absurdly high proof, like 140 or something, and that was crazy. It isn't sweet or syrupy or viscous at all, and I remember it virtually vaporizing off my tongue but leaving behind all of its aromatics and herbal notes. Really cool. Would love to use it in cocktails.

Yellow is definitely not as essential as Green. Sasha Petraske's Regarding Cocktails (best cocktail book for the money, imo) has a recipe for a great drink called The Stark that requires Yellow. That's pretty much what I use it for. Would take Yellow over almost all other modifiers, however.

I know that I go against conventional wisdom, but the Yellow is better with dark spirits (rye, bourbon, cognac), than is the original. It just is. I actually do more with Yellow than with the Green, probably because I find the dark spirits' more assertive profiles stand up better to the Yellow's slightly more mellow tone than does gin with the Green. Don't get me wrong, I love them and require both on my bar at all times. But, try the Monte Cassino - a quad with equal parts Yellow, rye, Benedictine, and lemon and tell me it is less essential than Green!! Even the Champs Elysses comes alive with Yellow. Or, Franck Andoux's amazing cocktail, aptly called The Yellow, another quad with equal parts Yellow, Suze, Gin, and Lemon. Incredible. And yes of course The Widow's Kiss.

~ H

 

[tdes81]

I have to say, suze on the rocks has become one of my favorite things. Amaros are fun but suze has just got the right kick and flavor to it.

 

[tdes81]

White Negroni. I may just say this is an improvement on the original. Doing equal parts gin (Hendricks lunar), lillet and suze.

 

[tdes81]

And a passion fruit clairin (rocher) daiquiri for the wife.

 

[venividivicibj]

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And a passion fruit clairin (rocher) daiquiri for the wife.

Rocher is ridiculous in mixed drinks.

 

[tdes81]

Rocher is ridiculous in mixed drinks.

This times 100. It's damn fine.

 

[tdes81]

The wife: “make me something sweet and fruity but I don’t want rum”

me:

1.25 oz vodka
0.75 oz Malibu (sigh, I know)
0.5 oz giffard white creme de cacao
1.25 oz passionfruit juice
1.25 oz pineapple juice
1 oz lime juice
0.5 oz fassionola

the wife: “wow this has a nice taste of real coconut, how’d you do that?”

me: “that’s the Malibu…”

 

[tdes81]

As an aside, i find vodka completely uninteresting, but the wife likes it in place of gin/rum because i guess she doesn't like flavors. Any suggestions? I've a bottle of rain and haku, which I guess are cheap but good, but don't know if I'm missing anything. Honestly it just seems like the place of vodka is to add alcohol content without adding any flavor.

 

[Gibonius]

As an aside, i find vodka completely uninteresting, but the wife likes it in place of gin/rum because i guess she doesn't like flavors. Any suggestions? I've a bottle of rain and haku, which I guess are cheap but good, but don't know if I'm missing anything. Honestly it just seems like the place of vodka is to add alcohol content without adding any flavor.

Reyka is pretty good. Nice flavor profile, good mouthfeel. They use water from Iceland to dilute the grain neutral spirit. Also whole thing is made with geothermal energy, if you're into that sort of thing.

I also don't like vodka in general, but we usually keep a bottle on hand.

 

[tdes81]

That's an awesome suggestion becaus we love Iceland. Have had so many good times there.

Me smiling ****** off at all the beauty, but a few years younger. Also yes, the two of us were jumping on a trampoline at like 4am with the sun still out (don't ask me how it happened).