Good shout on this. Just what I was looking for.
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Ripcord is a staple around here. They used to do $2 pints of those on Tuesdays… Dangerous. Glad you enjoyed.
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You can throw a rock and hit the Indy 500 track from Daredevil. I was going to go for the first time this year, but… you know.
I had it with brandy growing up
Juice Bomb Northeastern IPA by Sloop Brewing Company
I find this to be delicious. Instead of the super hoppy flavor of a lot of IPAs there’s an orange citrus flavor which really mellows it out.
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Should have bought the limit imo.
It looks like they have 2 cases of each. I might come back tomorrow and get more. I should have stashed a 4 pack behind some shitty beers haha
When was it canned? Recommend drinking it ASAP. I sat on some for ~5 weeks during a stint of lol sobriety and when I finally cracked it open it was straight up not good.
Eta Focal > Heady imo
Canned beer should remain in great condition for much longer than bottled. I would guess something happened to yours somehow.
I considered that, like maybe I skunked it? It was in my trunk for a few hours on the drive home, then in the fridge for 5 weeks. The flavor was super bitter and nothing like what I remember.
I know it’s very 2008 of me but I emptied the clip on a pile of bourbon county this year. Missed out on the oatmeal though :(
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impossible to skunk it (that happens only from exposure to light) but you might have cooked it. Normally when you cook a beer or wine, it becomes kind of lifeless. In a wine especially, the fruit will basically disappear. If that happened in a beer, it could leave just the bitterness unbalanced by any “fruity” sugars. It could also have gotten screwed before it got to you. Although Kimmich is extremely careful about his distribution as far as I know.
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So the Balvenie was my least favorite of these three initially. After a number of additional glasses adding various amounts of water, I like it a lot more. Clover and honey after about a teaspoon and a half. Very nice.
I’ve also tried adding a splash of the Lagavulin into the others. My favorite is a full pour of Balvenie, a couple of teaspoons of water, and a half finger of Lagavulin.
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Heady is 12/8 and focal banger is 12/10
I don’t have any other beer so I’ll be drinking 1 every night until they’re gone. Ya I’ll probably head back tomorrow and buy more and give it to friends if I don’t drink it immediately.
I also got a 4 pack of some north park ddh dipa that looked super good and was fresh. My beer store was loaded tonight. I spent $57 on beer which has got to be a record.
Before it flooded in Hurricane Irene and went out of business I had the pleasure of drinking an American sour cherry and a saison called “Farmers Daughter” at his old brewpub in Waterbury. Two of the best beers I’ve ever had. Went there a couple of times after skiing.
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I don’t know how I missed this thread before, but since getting this book over the summer I’ve been doing a deep dive into rum. Well, not as deep as it was before, now that I’ve settled on a couple favorites. My usual go-to, assuming I can find everything I need for it (which I have now, thankfully), is the Ti’ Punch with La Favorite rhum agricole blanc. If you’re looking for something more suited to the winter I also like a good Bombo with El Dorado 8 year rum (skip that nonsense about adding water though).
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When I was still writing about liquor the Dalmore folks sent me a collection that I still have. Bottle each of the 12, 18, and the King Alexander III, which is put together from aging the single malt among six different types of wine barrels before marrying it back together.
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I probably wouldn’t for a cocktail-- the distinguishing factor in rhum agricole is that it’s distilled from fresh sugarcane juice rather than fermented, and even getting something like clairin from Haiti I find doesn’t have the same flavor profile as rhum agricole-- but you can always experiment. I’ve had some good cachaca; the Avua is probably my favorite-- I have a bottle of the silver that’s great, and I’ve gotten to try the amburana, which is fantastic-- but I’ve had good results with Novo Fogo too.
I, uh, bought a lot of the rums from the book when trying to cover everything we might want to make from it without getting too expensive. I’m quite pleased with the El Dorados-- I like the 8 more than the 12 for a bombo, interestingly enough; I think the 12 is woodier than I’d want for the cocktail to be well-balanced. The 12 is a fine sipper, though, and the 15 is a great one.
When I was really deep in the weeds there I tried sipping on some of the overproofs I got (Plantation OFTD dark and Wray & Nephew white) just to compare the difference with the regular ones. I, uh, wouldn’t really recommend that. Or at least, not getting to the point I was at where I thought that would be a good idea.
I was really into tequila for a couple years there before moving on to rum; one thing I really appreciate about them is that you can have unaged or lightly aged products that are very good, and even the longer-aged spirits are still at a much better price point to a comparable whiskey. (Speaking of tequila, I finally cracked this Herradura Ultra Anejo bottle I’d been sitting on for a few years earlier this year. It’s a cristalino, aged at anejo length and then filtered to remove the color (and some of the barrel flavors). Really fascinating; very fruity profile but very different than the more vegetal flavors you’ll get from a good blanco. Very good, would recommend.
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I’ve had a mix of Side Project, Narrow Gauge, and Perennial stuck in USPS purgatory for over a week now… Thanks Obama…