What are we drinking?

[FaultyMario]

I was wise-assing my way into billi's ramblings using the last supper as the vehicle... but i got to say... dipping bread in wine is a great way to get drunk.

Thanks Jesus!

Spoiler:

Though I'm sure Blerps will barge in shouting that it was Sicilians and not the Levantines who invented it.

[Tom Servo]

Tried a new California-made Aquavit. Wasn't bad, but too much carraway. One might say they got carried away with the carraway.

Had a bottle of Justin Vineyards Isosceles which is always a good cabernet and tried some Trocken Riesling, which was nice.

Picked up the three allotments of fancy beer from Alesmith that I hadn't made it down to San Diego for, so we've got all sorts of barrel aged goodness waiting to be cracked open, then Michele and I shared a Fremont Dark Star.

[SportWagon]

My wife had a habit of choosing bottles of beer to buy, and then never getting around to feel like drinking them.

So I recently finished up a few of them.

The most interesting was Zywiec from Poland. Now if you read about beer, the consensus it is safe to drink after it has gone bad.

So I opened the bottle and poured it into a glass. It was somewhat lifeless, and surprisingly more of a copper-colour than a lager gold. In taste it was somewhat like some British bitters too.

I later bought a brand-new can and a bottle, and they were both the golden European lager you would expect.

Someone else from my Zoom pub, dating back to pandemic days, who is British like I am, mused about what this all says about British beers.

[SportWagon]

Just some names for now...

- Innis & Gunn Caribbean Rum Cask Aged Ruby Ale
- Innis & Gunn Original Whisky Cask Aged Golden Ale
- Sleeping Giant Skull Rock Stout
- Sleeping Giant Krampus Christmas Ale (allegedly)
- Midtown Brewing Company Dry Irish Stout (called a Guinness clone by my Guinness-drinking friend)
-- Midtown is in Wellington Ontario, near Belleville, not Wellington County near where I am
- McAuslan St-Ambroise Oatmeal Stout
- Clifford Dark Streets of London ESB extra special bitter
- Old Dog Brewing Company Scottie ("Single Malt Scottish Ale")
- Spearhead Brewing Company Queen of the Night Dark Wheat Beer
- Block 3 Franken Stout
- Block 3 Blocktoberfest Marzen Lager
- Perth Brewery Mocha Stout
- Clifford Porter
- Son of Kent Motel California West Coast Pilsner
- Great Lakes Brewery Pompous Ass English Style Ale
-- aka Pompous English Ass Ale
- Four Fathers Brewing Shevchenko 9
- Lakehead Beer Company Porter (draught only; comes along with my brother doing open mike)

- Bowmore 12 occasionally
- Tullamore D.E.W. recently bought, occasionally

- Friexenet Cordon Negro Brut Cava on New Year's Eve
-- Champagne on a (craft) beer budget

[FaultyMario]

I dunno... I want an Irish car bomb for Saint Paddy's.

[FaultyMario]

I dunno... I want an Irish car bomb for Saint Paddy's.

Local retailers did not have any Guinness and I've always found Baileys to be stupidly expensive for what it is. So ICB will have to wait.

I did try to do a half and half, but used a bock instead of a stout. It kinda mixed instead of staying separated.

It wasn't bad and I will try it again.

[SportWagon]

Were they out of Smithwick's too? And Harp? I haven't seen Murphy's in years.

[FaultyMario]

Never seen them here. There's a couple of highly rated "local" stouts, notably Foca Parlante, and some so-so, like Tempus, but they were out of those, too.

I recommend the Colima Ticus (porter), if you ever see it. I wish Colima brewed a stout.

[dodint]

I was walking through the grocery store yesterday and saw non-alcoholic Guinness. So that kind of ruined my afternoon.

[SportWagon]

I accidentally picked up a four pack of that, realized I'd done it, so put it back, then decided to buy it to try in addition to normal Guinness and perhaps other stuff.

Took it over to my girlfriend's. It must not come back again...

They've done a reasonable job of creating what they wanted, though.

Also...

- Walkerville Brewery Easy Stout, Craft Milk Stout

That mustn't come back either. Tastes really good, but it turns out the milk upsets her little tummy. (Not generally lactose-intolerant, though).