Friday night drinking thread

[runkpanole]

What you going with? Currently a nice stout by the fire. The stout is Stargazing in the 8th State. Quality brew.

 

[mnole03]

Grocery store had Austin Cabernet on sale for $15. So I bought all of it.

 

[DFSNOLE]

Idyll Hounds Divide the Conch'r Imperial IPA.

 

[BrianNole777]

Water!

(Sorry to be a downer.) 😀

 

[F4Gary]

Stetson Bennett ought to be along shortly to join in.

 

[CC0492]

Had one of these for the first time last weekend. REALLY good and 11%ABV.

 

[goldmom]

Nothing.
But I did have a beer flavored water (AKA Mich Ultra) when I went to a Mexican Restaurant with my sister. Not much of a drinker.

 

[MagNoleA]

Nothing.
But I did have a beer flavored water (AKA Mich Ultra) when I went to a Mexican Restaurant with my sister. Not much of a drinker.

Captivating news. Some people are just downright lightweights and end up dancing on a bar counter after one too many Shirley Temples. The Hurricanes are coming to Tally this year. That's FANTASTIC!

 

[GeddyLee09]

Stetson Bennett ought to be along shortly to join in.

Funny that there isn't a lot of press about that. Imagine of that was an FSU player. There would be 20 stories on ESPN alone.

 

[runkpanole]

Tonight, it’s wine time.

Coudoulet de Beaucastel Côtes du Rhône

 

[DFSNOLE]

Tonight it was Elysian Space Dust IPA.

 

[DFSNOLE]

I still have a couple of hours of work, but after that I am having an Anchor California Lager, and after that a heavy pour of Laphroaig cask strength.

My cabinet is full of cask/barrel strength bourbon. What would you say is the average proof of a similar scotch.

 

[BrianNole777]

My cabinet is full of cask/barrel strength bourbon. What would you say is the average proof of a similar scotch.

How many drinks do you normally pummel?

 

[DFSNOLE]

How many drinks do you normally pummel?

Enough

 

[BrianNole777]

Enough

Over under 4?

 

[DFSNOLE]

Probably around 120, though the Islays in particular taste a lot less hot to me than a barrel strength bourbon like Booker's, which I attribute to the intensity of the peat and brine.

I have little experience with scotch but what I do have is that the taste profiles are wide and varied. I can't handle the overly peaty varieties. Many of the others taste like Canadian blends to me.

I've been drinking the high proof bourbons for so long that even most 85-90 proof bottles seem light. Bottles in my cabinet range from ~135-120.

 

[BrianNole777]

I have little experience with scotch but what I do have is that the taste profiles are wide and varied. I can't handle the overly peaty varieties. Many of the others taste like Canadian blends to me.

I've been drinking the high proof bourbons for so long that even most 85-90 proof bottles seem light. Bottles in my cabinet range from ~135-120.

What are the differences between scotch and bourbon?

 

[DFSNOLE]

What are the differences between scotch and bourbon?

The spelling of the words.

 

[SeaPA]

Missed this last night, but it went something like this...
* Get home from work, pour a couple of ounces of Tears of Llorona; sip that
* Go order takeout from the restaurant at the brewhouse, have a pint of one of their IPAs while I wait
* Bonfire after dinner, had two beers while sitting around it - a Sunshine City IPA (Green Bench Brewing, St Pete) and a Little Gem (Dade City Brewhouse) - a wheat ale infused with kumquat

 

[BrianNole777]

The spelling of the words.

I know Scotch is Scottish whiskey and bourbon isn't.

Do they taste different?