What are you drinking?

[kishnevi]

My favorite drink for social occasions is vodka (Stoli in my first encounters with it) topped off with pepper, but nothing else mixed in.

The genius of it is this: you can't help but imbibe it at a slow pace because of the pepper, so you don't get drunk.

[Ken B]

Good to hear you liked it. I have the gin and dry vermouth, so maybe I'll try it sometime....

one drink that I'll be ordering at restaurants/bars many more times in the future is the Long Island Iced Tea. That one is so delicious.

But what's funny is that I thought there was tea in it at first. (I only ordered it because of a friend's recommendation). I come home and look up the ingredients. 5 types of strong alcohol and hardly anything else, in a tall glass. I never would have guessed, didn't even feel anything from it.

Martinis are good. Try a "dirty" one -- that has some of the olive juice added.

[stingo]

Southern Tier's Cold Press Coffee Pumking - more drinkable than regular Pumking (I think) because the roastiness of the coffee cuts through the pumpkin. Good times. Slainte!

[Ken B]

Southern Tier's Cold Press Coffee Pumking - more drinkable than regular Pumking (I think) because the roastiness of the coffee cuts through the pumpkin. Good times. Slainte!

What's a pumpking?

[stingo]

What's a pumpking?

It's an imperial pumpkin ale made by Southern Tier Brewing for the fall and winter seasons. The original tastes like pumpkin pie. This (CPCP) variant adds light roasted coffee into the mix. 

[Ken B]

It's an imperial pumpkin ale made by Southern Tier Brewing for the fall and winter seasons. The original tastes like pumpkin pie. This (CPCP) variant adds light roasted coffee into the mix.

Ahhh. The brewery up the road makes Pumpkin Pie Ale, but without pumpkin! They use spices, and it does seem pumpkin pie-ish.

[The new erato]

Talisker 10 year and Caol Ila 12 year. + Wine.

[stingo]

Ahhh. The brewery up the road makes Pumpkin Pie Ale, but without pumpkin! They use spices, and it does seem pumpkin pie-ish.

Indeed. I've found that with pumpkin ales, regardless of how good they are, a little goes a long way.

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Holiday booze on tap for the coming weeks:

Bonny Doon Cigare Volant
Hearst Ranch Meritage
Hearst Ranch Tempranillo

(both are California Central Coast wines. We visit and taste at these wineries a few times a year)

Tattinger Champagne
Harvey's Bristol Cream sherry

Non-booze

Stash Chai Green Tea!!

[Sergeant Rock]

Life is too short to drink cheap, so...I'm having a dram, or two, of Highland Park 18 (utilizing the Riedel single malt glass Mrs. Rock gave me many moons ago).




Sarge

[NikF]

Good stuff, Sarge. I take it that it went down well? 

[North Star]

I had a bottle of the 12 yo stuff 6 years ago... does that count as 18 yo? And yeah, it's good stuff.

[Sergeant Rock]

Good stuff, Sarge. I take it that it went down well? 

Smooth as a (insert your preferred simile here) 

I had a bottle of the 12 yo stuff 6 years ago... does that count as 18 yo? And yeah, it's good stuff.

If you'd waited until today to drink it, then it would count 

Sarge

[North Star]

If you'd waited until today to drink it, then it would count 

Sarge

I blew it when I drank it back then.    

[NikF]

Smooth as a (insert your preferred simile here) 

Sarge

Aye, I can well imagine. 

I blew it when I drank it back then.    

Ach, nevermind. Buy another bottle of the 12 and put it away for six years - and when you open it we can bump the thread. 

[Ken B]

Aye, I can well imagine. 

Ach, nevermind. Buy another bottle of the 12 and put it away for six years - and when you open it we can bump the thread. 

Actually not -- its the time in the barrel that matters. Shelving is just delaying! If not not now, when?

[NikF]

Actually not -- its the time in the barrel that matters. Shelving is just delaying! If not not now, when?

Oh, I know. I was just indulging myself in teasing oor North Star.

e: I'm not sure he's old enough to be drinking anyway, so the whisky is probably already aged more than him.

[Karl Henning]

If you'd waited until today to drink it, then it would count 

Sarge

Wait, would it not need to have spent those years in a cask, instead?

I enjoyed your scotch vicariously, sir  0:)

[Karl Henning]

(I see now that Ken got there first.)

[Sergeant Rock]

Wait, would it not need to have spent those years in a cask, instead?

Of course. Nik and I were just joking about waiting six years for a 12yo to age into an 18.

Sarge