ive never heard a grand slam called that before.i like it.

Sort of an Old Europe mixed with the height of popcorn engineering. Does Costco have their own brand of beer?

Glenlivet. Underage.

Evidently. I'm at his place now and there's a big box that says Kirkland Handcrafted Ales and Lagers. It's his backup beer. Goddamn some Kombucha tea mixed with Ketel1right now sounds good. That's my Summer concoction.

After I asked, I went through my memory bank and I do sort of remember remember seeing it.

I'm going out tomorrow in search of Pike Brewery's Pumpkin Ale.

I've had this craving for coffee for a while now. And I refuse to go to the store to buy decaf coffee. Although there's this strong euro stuff clearly not decaf. (I keep it for coffee loving guests)

Well, I made an iced coffee with it, as diluted as possible to still hit the flavor craving. Well it worked. But caffeine is not my friend. Every time I do this to myself I wonder why, Why, WHY!!! I hardly had about 4oz and I'm about two minutes away from scratching the crawling spiders out from under my skin.

The good news is this is not the worst case scenario. Pathetic. I would never make a good crack whore.

Everything Euro is better. Especially Max Hardcore videos.

Agreed.

Went to the opening of my friend's bar. Very impressed but I'd rather escape the Hollywood crowd and just do weekdays. My bf and his best friend needed to blow off steam, so he picked me up and there we all were. Destined at his regular haunt. Two absinthe/Jamesons for me. Now we're back at chez bf. his friend bewildered by our drinking proweress gave up. He's done. I'm on absinthe/jameson 3 (and 1meal all day dont tell him he hates when i dont indulge in food) with my man whom I lost track how many plus beer in between. We got Laibach playing and drinking is still going. No one has hit to do tmrw so kiss my ass if you think we're irresponsilr degenerates.

I'm having a cup of coffee.

I think you are . soooooo can I ? yours only

Power lunch with Ashley Blue and our boss from Hustler Mag. Glass of cabernet with my salad nicoise.

Hustler works on the Lord's Day?

I'm about makin' that paper everyday. I'll sleep when I'm dead.

I just has a raspberry kombucha.

Classic salad nicoise or some deconstructed/fusion take on the dish?

Classic but no dressing.

Reading about kombucha on wikipedia. Is there enough alcohol in it to give you a buzz, or is it more like "near beer"?

Salad nico-what? What the fuck you talkin' 'bout?

It's got a very small amount of alcohol in it. Not enough to buzz you.

But the dressing is the best part! Though I could see how the egg yolks and bacon could give you enough salt and fat to act as an adequate substitute.

I excluded the bacon. I'm probably the only person ever who doesn't like bacon.

salad nicoise looks like antipasta but more bourgeoisie.

Classic french cuisine. You can find references to it in Patricia Highsmith novels from the sixties, so it has been on American menus for at least 50 years. Lettuce, tuna, eggs, bacon, and dressing.

Haute bourgeoise actually, but people drinking kombucha shouldn't throw stones;)

On an empty stomach first thing in the morning I've had a warm fuzzy buzz from kombucha that lasts about 15 minutes. I've made it home-made a few times and well... yeah, heh heh good stuff.

Been drinking nothing but water & water with lemon since my return from Cabo. Except for the 4oz of coffee yesterday.

Interesting. I don't get a buzz from Kombucha first thing in the morning.

Warren Zevon reference, I could go Gomez Adams all over your forearm.

^^^ You know it, baby.

Samuel Adams and a fifth of Jack Daniels I’m going sit back and enjoy Detroit Oakland ballgame today.

detroit and oakland... that's badass. Dana should rotate the UFCs between those two cities just to keep it real.

Jameson on the rocks. Somewhere near Bukkake Studios. Twitter has the pic.

Might be a reflection from the salad or maybe the coaster, but your drink looks green & unappetizing.

Watch That Diet...

To offset the drinking, I don't eat. #boomselekta

Green reflection from the drink.

Packing for my flight to JFK and taking out the garbage from last night's drinking the bf and I plowed through. Pic on twitter.

Stinkin drinkin

That shit must of got you hammered. I'm guessing what, 6% - 8%?

Currently, ouzo is my booze-o.

I can tell by your decor in the Pet thread. Love ya. I'm just having a glass of Duvel with Ashley Blue now.

That's not my house, actually. The decor is nice for someone else, but I find it kind of gaudy and old fashioned. My shit is more modern.

Also, I return love.

Beer with MNF, need to buy another couple o' bottles of Cragganmore. One for me, one for a housewarming gift to a buddy who just bought his first.

I'm gonna start home-brewing beer here this fall, anyone have any experience with that?

I've homebrewed before. Hardest part is washing and sterilizing all the bottles. I didn't get too fancy with it, just used the 5 or 6 gallon buckets and a manual bottle capping gizmo. I made some damned fine beer though. Buy Papazian's Book or don't even bother with it.

I found much easier to sterilize with success using very large stainless steel pots that you can get from a restaurant supply store or order stainless steel barrels. Which is even better.

I use an oxy based sterlizer. Mix it by the gallon and it last forever. You don't have to rinse it off, but I do.

I learned most of what I do from a guy on YouTube.


He's Canadian, so he's a bit odd. But there's tons of good info on his channel. Good stuff to watch before you spend a lot money on equipment.

I probably should have shut this off sooner, but when he said a-d-j-u-n-c-t. . .

Went to a brewers class today, got some good know-how, picking up the home kits on Thursday.

It appears to be pretty easy, definitely will be starting with an extract recipe the first few times.

Now the question is which variety to brew, but there are tons of recipes online to choose from, so no problem there. I'll keep it updated.

^^check out White Labs aka yeastman

The Papazian Book is a necessity, Floof. Do not bother without. I think it's called "The Homebrewer's Bible" or "The Joy of Homebrew".

Anyway, he lists a lot of obscure commercial beers, and what you can to do replicate them. I think you'll have to start with the extracts or you'll get discouraged, but you'll soon be mixing your own malts and hops and whatever else you do beyond Papazian, avoid adding sugars if at all possible. Get them all from your ingredients.

Edit: and beyond the first time, when you wash out bottles you were given or bought from the local beer distributor, cleaning the bottles is not that bad. You can only use genuine longnecks or bottles made for the purpose. It's the first time when you don't know what bar they came back from or if they had cigs dropped in them that it's critical to get them clean, and it's time consuming. Once you've soaked labels off bottles in your tub overnight you will appreciate a clean bottle, and you will have your guests rinsing bottles as they finish enjoying your homebrew in no time.