Try it!! It's great!!

Once again i'm slumming with
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On call again?

Long Island Ice Tea's and Bud Ice

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I'm loving this right now.

Lite night

Malibu and Pineapple juice while building my new PC.

I'm having D.W. Dundee's Honey Wheat Lager tonight. Very tasty and I'm looking forward to trying to duplicate the effort via homebrew.

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Has anyone tried the 250 Anniversary Stout? I have a cold sixer waiting for me. I generally don't like Guinness out of the bottle, but I'll try it anyway since I love Guinness.

IT"S SO GOD DAMNED HOT!

Gin fizz by the pitcher.

Just a few Miller Lite's should do.

Gatorade Tiger -- Cool Fusion (Lemon-Lime)

Oh, and maybe my bottle of Southern Tier Mokah (Imperial Stout). Yeah, I drink impy stouts in the summer. I'm a hardass.

A nice, tall beer in a frosted mug would go well today.

I've been meaning to try some Russian imperial stouts ... any suggestions?

My buddy bought a handle of Jim Beam.

Gonna St. Joe it up tonite son.

Heading to a bonfire to in Joetown tonight down Lake Contrary way. Bringing some Red Stripe and some "Off". Damn skeeters at that lake are HUGE!

Don't fall into the water.

Lake Contrary can dissolve an entire human body in about 12 seconds.

Heh, I can stay sober enough not to fall in. I'm worried about losing a couple of pints of blood while I'm there.

I draw misquotes like shit draws flies. They love me... bastards! :cuss:

Old Rasputin is widely available, under 10 bucks for a 4-pack, and really delicious. Start there, for sure.

Review: Crown Royal Reserve Canadian Whisky

Crown Royal is no Johnny Come Lately in the whisky world — though I’ve had a vague grudge against the brand since my family was mistakenly and bizarrely charged for 11 glasses of said whisky at Tony’s in Houston, Texas. But who doesn’t love that little purple bag?

Crown Royal Reserve is, obviously, the reserve version of the classic Canadian blend. Re-released this month with a new design (and a fancy little gold bag). Formerly known as “Special Reserve,” the blend also gets a slightly new, less “Special” name. The recipe, however, is the same, a selection of less than 1 percent of the stock available to the company, notably including some spicy rye whisky.

Crown Royal Reserve is a very pleasant whisky, surprisingly easy to drink even without water. The heat is minimal, allowing you to focus on the spicy notes here: cinnamon and incense, and a surprisingly light touch of vanilla from the oak barrels. Finish is short but nicely sweet. Nothing too complex, but really quite compelling… and I keep going back to it.

Now I know how those mysterious guys ordered 11 of these things.

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That sounds like some smooth whusk. I'll point my cousin at it, he's a Crown man. I always doctor up a bottle of regular Crown with a shot or so of Old Overholt or Wild Turkey rye. Spices it up nicely.

Last night it was Blvd dry stout. So far today it's been a very nice bloody mary (Caraway akvavit + zing zang) and now that the akvavit had a few hours to get thru my liver I'm gonna go mow the megalawn. After that it will be Blvd Pilsner. I hereby declare Blvd Pilsner the real reason God made lawns in the first place.

I wrote to Boulevard asking why they didn't have their new Pilsner up on their website. One of their Customer Service guys answered today that they did a 'soft' rollout, only have enough beer for the KC metro area right now, and won't put the beer on the website until they catch up with demand. They did include it on their webpage beerfinder, and they're keeping up their Facebook/Myspace info if you're really interested. Anyhoo, get some if you can.

Founders' Double Trouble Imperial IPA

Founders' Curmudgeon Old Ale

Ice water.

I've cut back the alkeehol for weeknights.

I'm a better man for it.

I'll see you Friday night. :D

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Maybe it's because I'm in a stout mood, but this is excellent. I have been pleased with everything Breckenridge has produced so far.

Last night it was a Boulevard Dry Stout (with grilled cheese on rye). Delish!

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Nice hops.

Let's see, what all did I have last night.... white russian with vanilla vodka, a coors original, two shots of jager, a surfer on acid, a shot of turkey and a shot of my own creation called spank my monkey.

I need to quit doing shit like that.

And what spanks your monkey?

How did that make your head feel this morning?

As far as the shot goes, it's malibu, 99 bananas, frangelico, dark creme de cacao and cream (or milk, whichever is available).

After the shot last night, well that is not for public consumption.

Surprisingly not bad. Of course I quit drinking around 4, had breakfast around 6 and then went to bed....

This is very good beer.

Yeah, it is. I don't drink a lot of IPAs but this is a good one.

Coors Light.

Rum Fizz or something.

1st round was a Chimay Ale, now I'm on a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.

Tonight's as good a night as any to knock off some of my singles.

Jim Beam introducing black cherry whiskey
Distiller hopes Red Stag brings in new customers

By Mike Hughlett
June 03, 2009

Cocktail drinkers have become used to flavored vodkas, from grapefruit to mango to pepper. But will they go for a flavored whiskey? Cherry whiskey, to be specific?

Jim Beam is about to find out as it launches Red Stag, one of the first flavored whiskeys rolled out on a national scale. Red Stag, available this week, infuses black cherry flavors into 4-year-old Jim Beam bourbon.

Beam is the biggest brand in the spirits business of Deerfield-based Fortune Brands Inc., a mini-conglomerate that also makes Titleist golf balls and Moen fixtures.

With Red Stag, Beam is trying to bring more drinkers into the whiskey fold, particularly women and younger consumers of legal age, said Rory Finlay, Beam Global Spirits’ chief marketing officer.

“We found this appeals to quite a lot of women,” he said. Indeed, flavored vodkas have succeeded partly because they have broadened vodka sales to women, analysts say.

As for the youth angle, Beam has brought in Kid Rock as Red Stag’s primary pitchman. The new whiskey will sponsor Kid Rock’s 25-city summer tour.

“He will be the real voice of the brand,” Finlay said.

But can a flavored whiskey succeed like a flavored vodka? After all, vodka has no innate flavor, but whiskey certainly does, and a lot of drinkers like it just the way it is.

Derek Leckow, an analyst at Barrington Research, said he thinks Red Stag has a good chance of boosting Beam’s sales.

Right now, there’s not a lot of innovation in the spirits business, “and innovation leads to positive sales trends,” he said.

John Hansell, editor and publisher of Malt Advocate, a publication for whiskey fanciers, said he thinks Red Stag will draw consumers who normally don’t drink the stuff.

“How it fits with whiskey purists is something still to be determined,” he said. “I had a sample and I enjoyed it.”

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Bought a bottle of this in the Rota NEXmart today. Not too bad as a change of pace; interesting qualities and I'm not usually a Beam fan. I think this will--as the article implies--appeal mostly to younger drinkers who are typically afraid of Bourbons & Whusks in general...

PUSSY

yuck

Bell's Two Hearted, motherbitches.

well since im workin tonight its orange juice...but now saturday night...haha boy was it great!...got a lil' tipsy

Bought a sixer of Boulevard Pale Ale today...didn't like it back in November, figured I'd give it another shot tonight.

They raised the Boulevard prices $8.50 to $11.00 at the local liquor store.

Jesus christ! There is NO sixpack of Boulevard product that is worth $11.00. $11 is Bell's or Rogue territory, and their sixpack offerings are a lot better than Boulevard's.

why the hell is landshark so high. i like it but damn.

Yeah, no kidding.

Wal Mart has it for $7.50 at 3.2%...6 point at the liquor store. Welcome to small town america.

Wal Mart carries Wheat and the Brown Ale brand of Boulevard. What's Boulevard Brown Ale?

Its like a dollar more expensive than Corona despite being a carbon copy of it.

yeah and we all know corona is piss water but burning all of my tastebuds out from night of the living sauce and wild turkey for years I can't really taste bad beer

Boulevard doesnt' have a brown ale. Well, Lunar is kind of in between a brown ale and a dunklewiezen.

$7.50 for 3.2? Ugh. Boulevard six packs should be $7.50 everywhere for normal product.

Holy Jesus.

You can get a 12-pack of Boulevard in STL for $11.99 regularly.

Let me look it up and see what Boulevard it was. It said Unfiltered Ale or something...not pale ale though.

They had a dry stout boulevard. Any good?

Lunar Ale it was.

Style is Unfiltered Brown Ale according to their website.

Uh, not surprising.

This towns two liquor stores rip people off. Small, college town...most of these college people aren't smart enough to know.

The lady said she hadn't raised prices on them in 15 months. a 2.50 price jump made zero sense.

Dry stout is solid. Its a better Guinness.

I'm afraid to try different beers in this shit town due to overpricing. I wish I could mix and match some.

Boulevard website says the Wheat is 3.5% by weight 4.4% by volume. So, does that mean the bar here isn't serving 6 point like they say they are?

I'd be afraid to also at the prices you have to suffer through.

I don't know a damn thing about the archaic and tyrannical rules of 3.2 beer. All I know is that I'm very glad to live where I don't have to worry about it.

The bar here charges 3 bucks for a bottle of it. It took me two months to get the owner to get some in. I'm the only one that drinks it.

Move.

I would love too. I've got four semesters of school left...until I graduate I'm stuck.

I can get a 16 oz Boulevard in OKC for the same price.

I'd rather pay the extra buck for Boulevard than drink shit Bud Light.

Was over at the Uptown Theater for a big local metal festival. The only bands worth seeing were Vanlade and Ascension, so before they went on I walked over to Gomer's Midtown. Picked up some bombers:
Southern Tier Iniquity (Imperial Black IPA) -- it's a double IPA that's made with dark malt

Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye -- an IPA with a significant amount of rye in the grain bill.

Great Divide Fifteenth Anniversary Ale -- this one is an Imperial IPA that has been aged, curiously enough for a double IPA, in oak barrels.

I bought two bottles of wine. Not opening them tonight, seeing as I'm on call. Both are Barefoot ($5.99/bottle). One Riesling and one Shiraz.

I prefer you as Audrey Hepburn.

This Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye is really, really good. HOP BOMB.

I like beer.

I enjoyed the Shiner Hefeweizen last night.

The Honey Weiss from Lulenpiugal (sp) was average IMO.

Keep posting.

Everything from LeininkugalfgakjfnajgAL is average at-best, typically below average, imo.

I still like beer (quit it)

ha

It was 7.50 for a sixer so I went for it.

What about Hoegarden (sp)? A sixer is 12.50 here.

Hoegaarden is the granddaddy of witbiers. Its the very definition of "solid" for the style. I think that you would like it a lot. I would never pay that price for it myself, but you seem to be in between a rock and a hard place with respect to beer prices.

Yeah, I am and it sucks. I am on a major kick right now on trying different brews, especially wheat varietys. I really want to try this Hoegaarden now, the bottles look pretty cool too.

I didn't buy the sixer, wanted to ask CP first.

I'm going to a liquor store in a bigger town Monday, they let you create your own six packs. So, I'll probably pick up a couple sixers of varieties.

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It's either this, or Great Divide Samurai rice ale, which I'm not exactly sure about ....

The Bushwacker!

Native Florida drink.


In a blender, mix:

2 oz Bacardi Special
2 oz Creme de cacao
8 oz cream of coconut
8 oz half and half
4 oz Kaluha
4 cups of ice

Voila!

She'll be back. I'm just sooo ready for football season. BRING IT ON!!!!

I've decided that, the next time I go to the liquor store, I'm just going to get an ale or wheat beer with the funkiest foreign name I can find.

I don't like either one.

Sounds coco-nutty!