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[Seli]

Orange, banana and pear smoothie

[Ironborn Ironman]

Absolute vodka on the rocks.

[Minaku]

Green smoothie made with coconut milk, spinach, a banana, and a handful of blueberries.

[deedles]

Rhubarb cocktail with rhubarb from my garden. Its yummy.

[Ser Robin Hill]

For serious drinking, a Bombay Sapphire Martini.
For fun,  a Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum Piña Colada

[Guinevere Seaworth]

Right now a chai latte with whole goat's milk (allergic to cow's milk).  Tonight I'll crack open a nice bottle of sake.  I love that stuff!

[the maid of woodlynne]

Yards Poor Richard's Tavern Spruce Ale.

It's, well, sprucey. A little too sprucey, if you ask me. Not terrible, but it has this Christmas tree aftertaste that I'm not really digging.

I'll switch to Blue Moon Abbey Ale shortly.

[Arrogant Bastard]

The Bruery Chocasaurus Rye. It's a bit early for such a powerful dark beer, but it's really damn good. It's like drinking a banana split.

[Mr. X]

Currently drinking some tasty homebrew I call the Calypso Pale Ale because it's a pale ale brewed entirely with Calypso hops.

Imaginative name, I know.

[Spoony]

Momo Kawa sake - creamy nigori style.

[MercenaryChef]

glenfiddich 15 year

it is a wonderful scotch. it smells of milk chocolate and has a creamy slight spicy taste with a warm ginger and oak finish. i find this beverage to be feminine and sexy. yes, i said feminine and sexy.

[Balefont]

Sam Adams Alpine Spring

Delicious, light on the tongue with a bread-y finish.

[Triskele]

A Sapporo which is on the dry side like many of the Japanese beers.

[mcbigski]

Knob Creek.

[Yagathai]

Heh heh heh.  Knob.

I just downloaded a social beer tracker app for Android called Untapped.  It also exists for the iWhatever.  Seems pretty cool so far.

And tonight was a couple shots of Elijah Craig, a Russian River Consecration ($20 a bottle, and cheap at twice the price), a De Dolle Oerbier and a measure of Lagavulin 16 as a nightcap.  I was going to shoehorn a 25oz bottle of Cigar City's Good Gourd in there, but it is a school night and that might not have been responsible.

Edited by Yagathai, 01 March 2012 - 11:52 PM.

[Yagathai]

the maid of woodlynne, on 25 February 2012 - 06:32 PM, said:

Yards Poor Richard's Tavern Spruce Ale.

It's, well, sprucey. A little too sprucey, if you ask me. Not terrible, but it has this Christmas tree aftertaste that I'm not really digging.

I'll switch to Blue Moon Abbey Ale shortly.

Hah!  I dislike the current Spruce Ale because a couple of years back they toned down the recipe significantly, made it half as sprucey and twice as sweet.  You would have haaaated the original, more-authentic version.  Yard's is a quality brewery, though.  They don't do anything too exciting, but their revolutionary war-era collection is interesting and their basic beers are solid, economical and good-tasting.

[Yagathai]

TheLoneliestMonk, on 13 February 2012 - 09:30 PM, said:

I think Campari has been replaced by Fernet-Branca for me.  Anyone know any other bitter booze I should try?

If you like Campari, you should try Cynar.  Same people make it, but it's much less citrusy and much more... artichokey.  China (aka chinotto), Luxardo and Averna are also in that same class.

Of course, there are many things in the bitter aperitif / digestif family you can try if you haven't already.  Pernod is a classic which I personally very much enjoy.  Becherovka is beloved of most of my paternal family, though I can't stand it.  I know Xray is partial to Riga Black Balsam.  There's Jagermeister, of course, which despite having a strange popularity among the brodude crowd is actually pretty damn tasty if you go for that kind of thing, especially when at freezer temperature.

You don't get the variety of bitter here in the States that you do on the Continent, but pretty much anything with "Amaro" in the name is an italian bitter of some kind or another.

[Triskele]

Yags is drankin'!

[Yagathai]

A drink before dinner, couple beers with dinner and a nightcap.  I'd hardly call that drankin'.

[Greywolf2375]

Water.  This "sympathy not drinking because my wife can't" sucks.

But there is hope soon that there a Sam Adams on the horizon.