Summer Wines Make Me Feel Fine by OMWC
As the days get longer, the green shoots peep through the layer of accumulated dogshit left when the snow melts, and my grill beckons for rust removal, my fancy turns from big, heavy red wines to wines which are a bit lighter, more agile, more suited for warm breezes and sunshine. Riven recommended a rhubarb wine she gets locally. Don’t be like Riven. Let’s consider a few nice bottles that might not be on your radar screen. There’s many, many more possibilities, but these are what’s for dinner chez OMWC/SP.
First and foremost, SP and I have an unnatural love for Bugey Cerdon, the greatest summer wine in existence. Bugey Cerdon is lightly carbonated, pink, slightly sweet, and more than slightly earthy. It’s made from Gamay (the grape used for Beaujolais) and Ploussard (you never heard of it) grapes grown in the Ain region of France, which is tucked between Lyon and Geneva, and within a radioactive whiff of the Large Hadron Collider. The alcohol levels tend to be low (8% is typical), and there’s a crispness and snap which elevates it above most other off-dry pink wines. The method used is an old one – the wine is partially fermented, then bottled to finish fermentation. Unlike Champagne, there’s no added sugar, so the bubbliness is more subtle and muted. This is my safest recommendation – EVERYONE loves this shit, and it goes great with food or can be a warm-up before doing serious drinking. Our favorites are Renardat-Fache and (easier to find) Bottex “La Cueille.”
Next up, Beaujolais. Yeah, yeah, you think you know about that one. You don’t. The market is dominated by Georges duBoeuf, and his industrial product defines “mediocre.” And they tend to smell like bananas because of the particular cultured yeast strain used. Fuck that, take a walk on the wild side. What you want is a single-producer wine, one made by a guy with big, rough, hands and who doesn’t own a suit. There are a bunch of these (Michel Tete, Alain Coudert, Jean Foillard, Louis Desvignes, to name some that we love), but the primus inter pares is Jean-Paul Brun’s fabulous Terres Dorees. The reds are, as required, made exclusively from Gamay grapes, wild yeasts, and minimal processing. It’s the opposite of an industrial product. If we see any of the l’Ancien or Cote de Brouilly, we max out our credit cards. But you can’t go wrong with any of the names I mentioned. Keep your eyes open for the rarely seen but eminently wonderful Beaujolais Blanc from one of the farmers – this is what Chardonnay would be like if only it were more interesting. Racy acidity, stony minerality, none of that heavy, oaky crap that California spews.
And lest I run on too long, I’ll tout what reputedly is the best seafood raw bar wine on the planet: Muscadet. And of all Muscadet, Domaine de la Pépière is what I’d want to be drinking tonight, at least if I were out of Luneau-Papin. Domaine de la Pépière makes an array of them at prices ranging from friendly to oh my, but you can’t go wrong here. Stony, steely, a hint of almost saltiness, and an acidity that just begs you to put some deep fried food into your whore mouth. This is serious wine, but so delightfully refreshing as the sun gets low in the sky and the food on the grill crackles and crusts.
Too long, so I won’t mention Gruener Veltliner Federspiel except to mention it. You know what to do.
Derpetologist’s Spot the Not: Maine Governor Paul LePage
1. What I think we ought to do is bring the guillotine back. We could have public executions.
2. The traffickers … these are guys by the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty. These type of guys that come from Connecticut, New York. They come up here, they sell their heroin, then they go back home.
3. They never admit it, but most women like it when a strong man takes control and slaps them when they get out of line.
4. Sen. Jackson claims to be for the people, but he’s the first one to give it to the people without providing Vaseline.
5. If you take a plastic bottle and put it in the microwave and you heat it up, it gives off a chemical similar to estrogen. And so the worst case is some women might have little beards.
6. Everybody looks at the negative effects of global warming, but with the ice melting, the Northern Passage has opened up.
Bonus: Bill O’Reilly
1. It’s discipline that begets love.
2. You don’t have free will when you have lung cancer.
3. Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.
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190 responses to “Belly Up To The Bar”
38 5-star reviews can’t be wrong!
They left out the elderberry?
That’s just stupid.
That shit will give you face cancer.
6; 3
OT – yummy Planned Parenthood tears
Sure. and Ronald Reagan was gonna kill us all circa 1980. What part of “wolf” do these people not understand? When do civil liberties ever step back unless it’s something invisible?
Here’s some more lovely pantshitting over Gorsuch.
OMG, SCOTUS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!
Wow, these guys are silly. Let’s see here.
We have Gorsuch, Thomas, and Alito who can probably be counted on to vote in a more Constitution as the founders intended way. Although we don’t even know that about Gorsuch yet.
Then we have the old bat Ginsburg, wise Latina Sotomayor, Kagan, and Breyer as the leftist 4.
Then we have Kennedy and Roberts as the swing vote.
Can somebody explain to me why so much pantshitting from these lefty loons? They still clearly have the advantage. All we’ve done is replaced Scalia with someone who MIGHT be as good as him.
Because Hillary was meant to be coronated and the left was promised a progressive Reich, yea unto a thousand generations. That’s literally all it is, they seizeddefeat from the jaws of victory and now are watching the promise of gun confiscation and single payer snatched away while religious liberty is vouchsafed for at least another couple years.
This.
They lost a chance to redefine the constitution for decades and now it’s merely going to be the status quo.
Exactly. The only way that changes is if Trump gets two more picks and he really nails picking Orginalists or libertarians and can get them confirmed. If Democrats keep losing elections, they are probably fucked as far as ever getting a true majority lefty court. But for now, meh, nothing has changed.
I’ve been trolling my lefty Derpbook friends with the suggestion that when RBG shuffles off this mortal coil, we get Associate Justice Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz.
I bet they had to order a new shipment of depends after that.
I’m not a big fan of Cruz. But he’s better than most in Congress.
Yeah. They’re not even pretending about the USSC anymore: they’re treating it like a teeny tiny House of Lords, and they want to control it.
Like honestly, call me a paranoid nutter tinfoil hat conspiracy junkie, but if She had won, does anyone think Thomas would have survived her term?
The court wouldn’t have survived. It would be a leftist majority for the next generation. We dodged a HUGE fucking bullet on that one.
Chief Justice Michelle Obama.
They lost their chance and now they are basically acting like a toddler that dropped her ice cream. Now that the “nuclear option” has been triggered they conveniently forget that it was Sen Harry Reid (D Nevada) that started this whole game of Ker-Plunk.
I am not sure she heard what Gorsuch said about that matter. Or she did, and she is just on a dishonest fund raising rant.
Slightly off topic, at the Alton Brown show last night, they pulled a volunteer up on stage. They then used 3 random wheel spins to make this poor girl a cocktail. The wheels were: Base alcohol, accent, and wash. The wheels gave this poor girl Alton’s Choice, Fernet Branca, and Siracha. At this point Alton picked Tequila as the base alcohol. Apparently it was palatable after being exposed to an aluminum frame that had been chilled with liquid nitrogen and then scraped into a glass. In it’s raw form, even Alton almost lost it.
So, today is National Beer Day I hear. *pops open another Heineken.. mmm…*
I’m drinkin’ local. Not because it’s great, not for any higher purpose other than it fits the bill and is remarkably cheap. I can buy a case of name brand and get soaked for thirty bucks or I could hold my nose and purchase two of Cariboo.
There’s a local taphouse withing walking distance. On Weekends they have a happy hour from 12 to 5 where they have a weekly beer special on tap for $1 a glass. I don’t really like any of their beers, I mean some of them are ok. But mostly it’s just IPAs or so called lagers that taste like IPAs. But sometimes I walk down there, drink my fill and walk home. It’s all good.
I’ve got a brewpub which is literally four minutes’ walk from my front door. I have to exercise Iron Will to keep from walking there every lunchtime for a barley sandwich or twelve.
Mine’s a 15 minute walk, but what’s the difference really? When I go to work in the city, I walk 15 minutes from the parking garage to my office. I love the happy hour, especially since they also have $1 oysters on the half shell and they’re always wonderful. Damnit, I’m getting an urge to walk down tomorrow, but already promised to do something with wife. Maybe Sunday…
Four minutes’ walk is ten minutes’ crawl. Fifteen minutes’ walk is unnavigable on a crawl. 😉
That looks pretty good, and see you guys have a few pils. Murika cannot make pils/lagers, they all taste like IPA. Our taphouse has 32 local beers DC/Balt on tap and they keep changing them. Problem is most of them are so so at best.
I intend to finish a bottle of Exorcism at Sunset. I’m half-way through.
That’s some very high ABV stuff there, mister.
Yep. Good for doing taxes and working late at night.
Ugh. Wine gives me a headache. Maybe it’s because when we were teens we used to drink stuff like “Slinger’s Grape Wine” by the gallon. Drunken little winos, frolicking creek-side.
It honestly doesn’t do anything to me. Nothing. It’s like drinking grape juice. I can drink 2 bottles of it or 3. Nothing, no effect at all. I get a buzz off 3 beers.
Just drink grape kool-aid or grape crush with 190 and call it wine.
May as well. But I think I’ll just stick to beer, vodka, or gin.
Opposite, since about 20 or so. The wife likes the local fruit wine company’s product but I can’t stomach it.
Five days sober, baby. Okay, four days, what with Monday night. Plus some shots on Wednesday, but I went to bed sober. And a couple beers on Thursday. And a couple beers earlier today. And beers later tonight. But besides that, it’s been the cleanest week in months.
That’s actually good for you. And I swear you won’t die, I’ve done it many times.
Some people do.
Well, ok, it could kill you if you’ve been drinking 2 litres of vodka a day starting at waking up, for the last 10 years. In that case, I would suggest tapering off.
I quit drinking at least once a week. Keeps my head clear for the next bit of infamy.
I have enjoyed cutting back. But for birthdays tonight and tomorrow I’d be keeping dry through the weekend. Thankfully it’s a good excuse to cut out early.
Pussy
Not even going to deny it.
Yeah, I completely get it. I generally feel better if I don’t drink for several evenings in a row, especially abstaining for a week or more. Sometimes I go months, but not often because I really enjoy it. But our bodies need time off from the alcohol.
Drank half as a much as usual last night. Couldn’t get to sleep. Couldn’t figure out if sleep deprivation or the usual hangover was preferable the next morning.
If I’ve been drinking every night for like a week and then don’t drink anything the next night, it definitely has that effect on me. So what I typically do is just have less the next night for sleepy time and then the next day start take some days off.
We are pathetic.
Zounds like Quincy’s loved ones are gonna have a sit-down. Give them the hitler salute or the devil’s horns, dude.
Yowzah, where did that come from?
Reread Festus’ comment. I thought he called me Pagan Nazi. He just called me a drunk. All is forgiven.
Twas merely a jest, good sirrah.
Upitty (((bastard))) thinks he’s better than us because he drinks quality wines while the rest of us drink shiraz out of mylar bags like reasonable Americans.
*spits*
If wine weren’t meant to come in a box they wouldn’t sell it in boxes, would they? Quod erat drunkandstranded, bitch.
I drink my MD 20/20 out of the bottle like a proper gentleman.
Peasant! *takes big swig of Boones Farm Strawberry Hill*
Thunderbird is for the discerning gutter-sleeper.
What’s the reason? It’s belly pleasin’!
Anyone else ever just drank some ice cold beer really fast and get that freezy feel in your belly? I love that, lol!
Bones Farm is what my hos drink.
You’re not giving that stuff to your orphans are you?
Stealing that. Stealing that.
That assumes that Shiraz is a drinkable varietal of wine. It’s one of the few styles of wine that I have yet to find one I like.
Wait, I thought the Glibertarian way is to drink everything out of jelly glasses? I’m confused.
Only if you’re too poor to save out a few mason jars from the canning.
But I have the ones with the Flintstones on it I got when I was a kid. Those are collectable!
Jelly glasses are for comp’ny!
(Back-hands squalling Brat) Tell me again about this electrolux, sir! (Lifts shirt and applies random babe).
Look who’s too good for the mason jar.
Shiraz? I drink my Cab Sav out of a bag. I haven’t moved up to Shiraz yet.
Doesn’t anybody truly appreciate how much thought and engineering went into the design of the aluminum can?
I always wonder (because I am an Old) how many people actually choked to death on those pull tabs. When I was a kid they went straight to the bottom of the lake.
Keeping all the aluminum of the can together for recycling collection was probably the canner’s main concern.
Is he a canner or a canter?
Do you mean {{{cantor}}}?
wine out of an aluminum can was an… interesting experience. Not one I’ll repeat, but probably easier to pack in a cooler
You folks have shiraz in bags? Man, us Canucks are totally getting screwed by our provincial liquor boards.
We’ve got all sorts of things in bags. Just no milk.
us Canucks are totally getting screwed by our provincial liquor boards.
Yes, yes you are. Crazy laws up there.
Welcome to what happens when shitbag WASPs decide that they need to control the ‘Catholic drinking problem’.
It’s profoundly stupid (at least in Ontario).
Puritan BC has everyone licked. No smoking in bars and two beer limit .05 on the road. Ten pub shut downs in my small city. That’s how you create jobs.
Technically so does almost everyone in the world.
This guy gets it.
When we were kids we used to use those gala keg bags as personal flotation devices and amble down-river.
4,2
Riven recommended a rhubarb wine she gets locally.
Mountain folk huh? You can’t trust them. My only question, are any of the recommended bottles under ten clams?
The nots: (guessing)
3 and 1
A little known fact is that the Montana culture invented fermentation before they invented agriculture…it may explain a few things.
How does a canuck know that? Early trading partners?
I learned that as a result of my fancy faggot university learnin’.
Northern Ontarians don’t ‘trade’ so much as ‘survive off the scraps from the more civilized locations’.
A bit far to be trading with the Montanaites I guess. Seems you learned useful knowledge in your learnins. Was there a Regina to the East booze run?
Regina? You mean Pile O’ Bones? The Prairies are to your ‘flyover states’ as far as the Canadian government is concerned. Sudbury and Thunder Bay were civilized lands, and all the bounties of the civilized world came from within it.
Total Canadian privilege.
I’ve been to Regina, it smells like it sounds.
More like $15 and up. Depending. Our fave under-$10 wines are from Bully Hill. And they’re very distinctive.
Thanks, I appreciate the recommendations. Ex Mrs westernsloper #2 swore you could get decent wine for no more than 10 to 15 bucks a bottle. (she is much classier than I am) Granted that was in the late 90’s, but I don’t do inflation. Just like the US government.
Late ’90s, there was an amazing number of great wines in that range. They’re about double that now. I blame the Chinese (and that’s actually not a joke).
Friday Night Party Music
That’s nearly as bad as the celtic music that I downloaded a few weeks ago. “”The Gael” is pretty solid.
How ’bout this?
All jokes aside, I like celtic music, just not the stuff that my Mom would like. Pirating is hard.
Have you ever heard Double’s “Captain of Her Heart” on the ukulele?
Elephant Memory(?) is pretty cool.
Memory of an Elephant?
No but I once heard “Daniel” by Elton John played on an accordian in a dive bar in West Texas.
Reminds me of Hayseed Dixie.
Like! I’ve heard that before.
I’ll take #5 on la page. too sciencey
and #2 on Bill O. sounds odd.
I’m allergic to something in red wine. still don’t know what it is, but it makes my face turn red and my neck swell up and i get dizzy and nauseous. not in a good way. so i stick to dry whites, usually. and that’s only when i’m eating seafood or shmoozing at some business-function where whiskey makes you look a little too-happy that its open-bar.
Oh, the joys of being female.
Ordering a neat whiskey at a business function and my almost entirely male coworkers are like, “Nice.”
Panty-remover, full-stop.
See, this is why (baring your hatred of Rush) you’re too good to be true.
I recognize that Pert is a god among drummers, but I just can’t get over the singer’s voice. Cannot do it.
It’s a band. Poor Alex is the limited one. Neil and Geddy are the real talent.
I uphold that poor Geddy’s voice has some primitive reference to an ancient call that tells the females to ‘stay away’. Because that is the number one complaint I’ve heard about Rush amongst the women.
And that’s “Okay”
I was out with my little brother, who’s a fan of extremely hoppy IPAs, and my GF discovered he fucking loves them.
I told her I will keep a bottle of PineSol on the bar from now on so she can dose the beers I keep to her tastes.
*she goddamnit. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Huuuuuu… Ipas, man. I’ve had a couple that were really good. And I’ve had quite a few that i’m pretty sure started out as being lagers….then the brewers realized it wouldn’t make it as a lager, so they just dump a bunch of hops in near the end and figure it’ll be their new IPA.
Odds are they weren’t lagers. Lagers use a different yeast, and require a lot of cold aging (AKA lagering). But if you’re brewing beers with flaws, one of the easiest ways to hide the flaws is to over hop it.
Thank You!! Almost every micro brew now days is an over hopped glass of carbonated hoppy dirty tennis shoe water. They taste like ass and feet.
Now to be fair, I love my overhopped, out of balance, IIPA’s. But I understand those who don’t like the bitterness. And I’m willing to call out the breweries who make crap beer and just try to hide the flaws, but I’m also willing to enjoy those who can make a well balanced out of balance (I)IPA.
That reminds me of when my sister was getting married, about 15 years back. She asked me if there was any booze I would like at the wedding, and I mentioned Irish Whiskey.
A couple days later, my dad started commenting about how no one drinks Irish Whiskey anymore, and he doesn’t understand why my sister would ask for it at her wedding. I looked at him and pointed out that me and all of my friends drank Irish Whiskey whenever we could. At the wedding, the tap beer was Genesee Cream Ale, and the whiskey was Jack Daniels.
My sister apologized profusely for this.
GROSS. Jack Daniels is an affront to nature. It’s worse than Crown Royal, which I also dislike immensely. They both just taste like charcoal to me. Not that I sit around eating lumps of charcoal, of course.
I actually like that sour mash flavor. Not a whiskey drinker, but I can occasionally enjoy it.
I spent the wedding drinking gin and tonics and gimlets. If you ever are at a location that has nothing but well booze, and mixers, and like lime, the gimlet can save you. Equal parts gin and Rose’s lime juice, shaken, and poured over ice.
Jack Daniels annoys me more for their attempts at “old school” charm, while they’ve changed their recipe at least three times in my lifetime.
Jack is pretty bad stuff. Way too sweet. I would take most well whiskys over it any day of the week.
Gawd, I love gin and tonic.
G&T has led to some bad nights back in my past. They go down too easy.
Plus it is a health drink. The vitamin C from the line protects you from scurvy and the quinine in the tonic water protects from malaria. Legend is the G&T was invented to ease the consumption of quinine in tropical areas.
The key, for me, is the quality of the tonic. There are many acceptable gins but a good tonic is a great find. I am partial to Fever Tree.
dbleagle: The Fever Tree tonic is amazing. I’ve fallen in love with the lemon tonic and the elderflower tonic.
Did you halt the proceedings and demand that god not recognize their union until this issue was rectified?
I did not. My dad is the reason that I know that there exists something called Pabst Blue Ribbon Lite. As he’s gotten older, he’s gotten into craft beer, which is entertaining to me. A couple years back he was trying to describe a beer to me, and was shocked when I figured it out and went, “That? Yeah, I’ve got the past five vintages in my cellar.”
LOL! That stuff is horrible. Was talking to a friend of mine a while back and he was telling me he’d been drinking a lot of it. One day I was in a local liquor store and I saw it. Had never drank it before, seen it, or even heard of it. But decided I needed to try it because of my friends fondness for it. It’s fucking awful. Anyone remember Little Kings Cream Ale?
Remember Little Kings? In my neck of the woods, there’s still bars that have that as a special.
Wow, I have not seen it in maybe 20 years. I used to drink with an old hillbilly friend who drank that stuff like water. He asked me one day ‘You ever tried them little kangs?’. Seriously, he talked like that. So he bought a few cases and we were drinking them, him, another guy he knew, and I. I think they’re only like 7 oz? So we just burned through them.
The next morning I got up and this other guy is sitting on the old guy’s sofa and I said something to him and he’s like ‘oh my god, I don’t feel good’. He was all hung over badly.
Then my friend comes out there with a Little Kings in hand, lol, and says ‘Hey buddy, you don’t look too good, I’ll get you one these Little Kangs, that’ll fix you, I love these Little Kang’s, they’s creamy!’.
I was laughing my ass off. Next thing I know, the other guy’s in the bathroom wretching. Ah, the good old days.
When I was young and visiting my grandfather in Wisconsin he had “Red White & Blue” which is the beer that Pabst believed did not feel met PBR’s high standards. Almost a half century later the memory of tasting that swill causes a shudder.
This is from a college drinker who consumed “German Beer” called Old Heidelberg and “European beer” called Dutch Treat. Plus Arizona’s own “Colt .45”
Genessee Cream Ale was the beer on tap at a local bar where i went to high school.
that bar had a happy hour on thurdays that was basically designed for underage-drinkers $.25 beers and shots.
it was all the kegs from the previous week (or month) that had maybe a gallon or two left in the bottom. festering, skunked, sitting in the alley behind the bar, should-have-been-poured-down-into-the-sewer-beer. Fed to 16yr old kids in exchange for coins they’d stolen out of the family utility-drawer before sneaking out. It was shameless. and there was never a shortage of demand for it.
*correction = “nearwhere i went to high school” i was not educated in a bar. technically.
” Fed to 16yr old kids in exchange for coins they’d stolen out of the family utility-drawer before sneaking out. It was shameless. and there was never a shortage of demand for it.”
Sounds like freedom.
IT TASTED OF FREEDOM. STICKY, SKUNKED, GUT-CHURNING FREEDOM
Ha! You mentioned you enjoy Tullamore and that is indeed a wonderful inexpensive drinking whisky. I love Irish whisky and think it really doesn’t get enough respect. Redbreast 12 is a thing of enormous beauty.
The Tullamore is my go to at the entry price point (~$20 a bottle). If you step up, I’ll admit to liking the Jameson Caskmates more, and loving the Midleton Very Rare.
There was an Irish bar I used to frequent that could make a good Irish coffee, they hired a new bartender. Me and a friend ordered ours with Tully, and the bartender tried to claim that no one could tell the difference. We both challenged him. He pours three Irish coffees for each of us, if we name the whiskeys used correctly, they’re free. Otherwise we pay double for them. We both called out the whiskey used in each of the Irish coffees, and drank cheap that night.
Nice! I don’t think I could do that. A nicely made Irish coffee is just tremendous. It has to be with fresh heavy cream. I also love the Jameson Caskmate. Just picked some up at the grocery store tonite actually. At 28 bucks a bottle it is serious value.
There is now only one bar in my neck of the woods that I’ll order an Irish coffee at. I’m a purist when it comes to this drink. Many years ago, when Bennigan’s first landed in the area, a group wanted to go there. At the end of the meal, I told the waitress that I would risk their Irish coffee. While she walked away, I told the rest of the table the signs of a bad Irish coffee:
1) Whipped cream instead of Heavy whipping cream
2) Bailey’s. At all.
3) Creme de Menthe. At no point should mint be used in an Irish coffee
It was not until that night that I had to add a fourth bad sign to my list. A Maraschino Cherry was on top of the drink that Bennigan’s served. In what twisted imagination does coffee and whiskey call for a cherry? On top of that, it hit all three of the other bad signs.
Oh man, they based theirs off the root beer float. Terrible idea.
I recently served some real ones to some friends and they were amazed. They had never had a real Irish coffee. It isn’t that hard. Decent Irish whisky with some sugar, a warmed glass, some good coffee and real heavy cream whipped until it is slightly viscous.
*technically its only “some” red wines. but my interest in experimenting to find out ‘which’ has always been limited.
Was it limited to one type of red? Merlots, cab sauvs…?
From what i could tell, it was mostly dark, full-body reds. Merlots, bordeaux, spanish wines. I honestly never paid attention until it actually got really bad all of a sudden (*at a wedding = embarrassing) and I just started avoiding them entirely.
someone suggested it was tannins; someone else suggested something else entirely. I’ve never been terribly concerned about it because its not something i miss. There’s plenty of whiskey in the world to keep me happy.
*interestingly – the one i know for certain never causes troubles (or usually not) is shiraz.
which i think is why the second someone i mentioned had suggested it was something to do with the ageing and not the grape-skins; also, how i happened to know that all Shiraz tends to be shipped in giant plastic bags
Congeners.
I love reds, but I can’t overdo ’em, otherwise I get EPIC, multi-day, oh-my-God-I’m-afraid-I’m-NOT-gonna-die hangovers.
no, its not that. its something to do grape skin. Perhaps LTP proteins. or (as the second person suggested) something in the barrel-ageing process with certain wines.
mild wine-allergies are actually very very common. Severe reactions are not, and the dudes i talked to were sommeliers and actually knew enough about the issue to speculate intelligently. Of course, at the time, i was probably getting hammered so much of the wisdom they shared has been mildly distorted. My take-away was = drink less of that, more of other stuff.
Gilmore, it’s histamines. Take an antihistamine 20 or 30 minutes ahead of time, then drink one of the ones that bother you. You’ll find that suddenly you’re not reacting.
Could be sulfites. Some outfits load ’em in as preservatives. My Mrs. has that problem with some wines, especially reds.
Reds have lower sulfite levels than whites. And much lower than raisins.
Given the amount of lads here who are binging on Paradox Interactive games as of late, we’ve got to get some kind of multiplayer going. It’ll be both a absolute shitshow and fantastic. If only CK2 multiplayer was moderately stable.
I just loaded up on sale DLC, but I’m currently working my way through Dark Souls. The lack of a pause feature is really bringing me down, but it does give some added motivation to make it to the next safe area before my martini runs dry.
The lack of a pause feature throughout the series is fairly odd, but the game is at least mechanically designed to give you circumstances where it’s easy to pause.
http://americangg.net/dead-criminals-family-complains/
There was no need for your idiot grandson to break into a man’s house. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I got so mad when I read what this old whiskey tango bastard said I nearly spiked my phone. Let’s talk fair, chief. It’s not fair that a stranger has to compensate for the shitty job your kid did parenting. It’s not fair to expect a person minding their own business in their own home to give three armed intruders the benefit of the doubt. It’s not fair for someone to allow themselves to be beaten or killed on the off chance that it gives your piece of shit grandson time to learn important lessons about, you know, not robbing people.
Sorry, grandpa, but anyone who invades someone’s home with brass knuckles or any other weapons with mal intent, deserves exactly what they got. Fuck them, good shoot.
Exactly. Thankfully we’re not the UK.
but anyone who invades someone’s home
with brass knuckles or any other weapons with mal intent, deserves exactly what they gotWhy all the caveats? What’s a “weapon”, Whats ‘mal intent’? In my house without my consent = Death penalty , no justification needed.
I’m with you. But it really pisses me off that anyone could defend someone invading someone’s home with obvious intent to do harm. For me, that makes it even more indefensible.
According to the Reddit thread, gramps has a rap sheet of his own.
I heard about that. Sorry gramps. If your son is the sort who thinks it is ok to break into homes and steal other peoples property, then the world is better off without him. Fuck off.
If your son is the sort who thinks it is ok to
break into homes andsteal other peoples property, then the world is better off without himAgain with the caveats.
Good point.
Where the Redfearn Goes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D8gsKNYy2U
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Spot the Not: 3 and 2
I’m working on taxes tonight. The bastards in the NH government decided to add an extra page, a payment voucher, to the NH income tax. Bastards.
RE: Wine
I don’t think I’ll ever drink enough (of wine) to really figure wines out. With beer, at least every year it comes out about the same.
Maine Governor Paul LePage has definitely said 1 and 2. Lets go with 6 for him, and 2 for O’Reilly.
One of the more interesting smack downs I’ve ever seen was at a mixed beer and wine tasting. I enjoy both, but tend towards beer. I was at a table that had both, and was discussing the beer with the rep who was pouring when a lady walked up. She then asked what was available, and as the rep started talking about the beers, the lady then proclaimed that beer all tasted the same, and wine offered more variety. The rep then looked at her, and said “Miss, actually wine only has at most three ingredients: grapes, yeast, and oak. Beer has at least four ingredients: malt, hops, yeast, and water. There’s a much greater variety available in malts then in grapes. Beer is by nature, a more complex drink then wine can ever be.”
Sounds pretty fruity.
Beer is by nature, a more complex drink then wine can ever be.
Ask him to post here so I can cat butt him.
I haven’t seen the man since. But if you want, I’ll make the argument that beer is more complex and accept the cat butt.
Excellent post. Good to get some decent wine recommendations of this sort. I only drink wine with food but love the minerally stuff, especially with seafood. A good vinho verde is a thing of beauty with food. Presently just finished a pisco sour and working on a Sierra IPA.
The not has to be 3.
now that i can drink. with gusto. I guzzled a half-dozen bottles a day when in portugal. Planalto was the go-to stuff. i think it went for like $1 at the time.
It also has the advantage of being extremely reasonably priced.
Kansas just introduced a bill to allow grocers to sell liquor and liquor stores to sell groceries. We are catching up with the modern world!!!
You are ahead of us in CO
omg, next they’ll allow chocolate and peanut butter to be together! it’s a slippery slope.
Since this is a cultured belly up to the bar with vino. I would like to address a fine Oscar Mayer product I found this week. Jalapeno Bologna. It could be spicier for my taste, but not bad for the money. For pairing I would recommend Tequila shots if you are serving it as an appetizer.
We need some proper Commonwealth murder tunes here.
I taught that song, along with some others, to my Scout troop when I vounteered. I was not invited back.
When we were working with the Italian Alpini they wanted us to teach them some American military tunes and would not accept that the US did not have many. We gave in and taught them “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” , “Lawyers Guns and Money” and of course SSG Barry Sadler’s hit.
Did you ever make your way to Afghanistan?
Disregard. I should not have asked that.
Afghanistan was pretty close to before my time. When I joined in 2012 it was pretty much rolled over to begin with. Not that I would have be unwilling to assist, but a land with a name like the ‘graveyard of empires’ doesn’t help your morale, does it?
Yep. That’s the ticket! I downloaded Celtic and wound up with an aural lobotomy. I like Celtic, not something that my Grandma liked on PBS.
Vimy Monday, John.
And to you. We may have fought in a bloody, nationalistic and pointless conflict that caused more damage than it was worth, but at least we were good at it,
And to stick with the wine theme, tomorrow I bottle a batch of Pinot Grigio I fermented, in 2 weeks I bottle an Iced Tea mead I made, and in a month, I bottle the Lemon wine I made (traditional and strawberry).
Wow, look at you never goes to the cold beer store.