|
|
Post by Ronv69 on Jan 15, 2023 0:10:13 GMT -5
A glass of some white wine. I would like to drink the whole bottle, but I don't want to pay the price. Sigh.
|
|
Zach
Pro Member
If you can't send money, send tobacco.
Posts: 4,358
First Name: Zach
Favorite Pipe: Too many currently, bound to change
Favorite Tobacco: Haunted Bookshop, Big 'N' Burley, Pegasus, Habana Daydream, OJK, Rum Twist, FVF, Escudo, Orlik Golden Sliced, Kendal Flake, Ennerdale
Location:
|
Post by Zach on Jan 17, 2023 21:44:09 GMT -5
Guinness Foreign Extra
|
|
|
|
Post by Plainsman on Jan 19, 2023 20:00:48 GMT -5
A wee dram of Writer’s Tears.
|
|
Zach
Pro Member
If you can't send money, send tobacco.
Posts: 4,358
First Name: Zach
Favorite Pipe: Too many currently, bound to change
Favorite Tobacco: Haunted Bookshop, Big 'N' Burley, Pegasus, Habana Daydream, OJK, Rum Twist, FVF, Escudo, Orlik Golden Sliced, Kendal Flake, Ennerdale
Location:
|
Post by Zach on Jan 19, 2023 20:29:31 GMT -5
A Simpler Times Lager. They had these in individual cans for 67 cents a piece at Trader Joe's. 6.2%
|
|
|
|
Post by Silver on Jan 19, 2023 23:59:35 GMT -5
Decided to make a withdrawal from the Blanton's bottle tonight.
|
|
|
|
Post by dervis on Jan 20, 2023 1:00:50 GMT -5
Rare chance for me but enjoying Buffalo Trace neat.
|
|
Zach
Pro Member
If you can't send money, send tobacco.
Posts: 4,358
First Name: Zach
Favorite Pipe: Too many currently, bound to change
Favorite Tobacco: Haunted Bookshop, Big 'N' Burley, Pegasus, Habana Daydream, OJK, Rum Twist, FVF, Escudo, Orlik Golden Sliced, Kendal Flake, Ennerdale
Location:
|
Post by Zach on Jan 20, 2023 18:18:17 GMT -5
Dragon's Milk bourbon barrel aged stout. 11% ABV.
|
|
|
|
Post by Silver on Jan 21, 2023 1:30:38 GMT -5
Eagle Rare to pair with the last pipe of the day.
|
|
Zach
Pro Member
If you can't send money, send tobacco.
Posts: 4,358
First Name: Zach
Favorite Pipe: Too many currently, bound to change
Favorite Tobacco: Haunted Bookshop, Big 'N' Burley, Pegasus, Habana Daydream, OJK, Rum Twist, FVF, Escudo, Orlik Golden Sliced, Kendal Flake, Ennerdale
Location:
|
Post by Zach on Jan 21, 2023 22:19:56 GMT -5
Old Grand Dad's 100 proof whiskey sour with a little splash of Angostura orange bitters. A whiskey sour old fashioned.
|
|
|
|
Post by Yohanan on Jan 21, 2023 23:36:49 GMT -5
To much of Wild Tukey 101.
|
|
|
|
Post by trailboss on Jan 21, 2023 23:46:55 GMT -5
Iced tea… hope to sleep tonight, probably my favorite beverage, hoping sleep conquers the caffeine.
|
|
|
|
Post by don on Jan 22, 2023 0:18:08 GMT -5
Bruichladdich
|
|
|
|
Post by Ronv69 on Jan 22, 2023 0:49:53 GMT -5
Old Grand Dad's 100 proof whiskey sour with a little splash of Angostura orange bitters. A whiskey sour old fashioned. You are a man of great taste! |
|
|
|
Post by toshtego on Jan 22, 2023 19:22:58 GMT -5
There is likely a name in place for this cocktail.
2.5 ounces Wild Turkey 101,
A solution of honey in water, a simple syrup,
Peychaud Bitters,
A splash of water.
An Old Fashioned Cocktail would be my guess.
|
|
|
|
Post by urbino on Jan 22, 2023 19:28:39 GMT -5
There is likely a name in place for this cocktail. 2.5 ounces Wild Turkey 101, A solution of honey in water, a simple syrup, Peychaud Bitters, A splash of water. An Old Fashioned Cocktail would be my guess. An Old Fashioned has a fruit component. Usually orange. Your recipe likely does have a name, but it's probably not an Old Fashioned. Not a classic one, anyway. |
|
|
|
Post by don on Jan 22, 2023 22:22:57 GMT -5
So throw in an orange slice and a cherry….
|
|
|
|
Post by urbino on Jan 24, 2023 0:07:03 GMT -5
It's not in the glass. I don't know where my glasses are, just at the moment. But I'm drinking Old Forester 1920 straight from the bottle.
I feel like a character from Deadwood.
|
|
|
|
Post by trailboss on Jan 24, 2023 0:12:18 GMT -5
Coors banquet beer.
|
|
|
|
Post by Silver on Jan 24, 2023 0:13:47 GMT -5
It's not in the glass. I don't know where my glasses are, just at the moment. But I'm drinking Old Forester 1920 straight from the bottle. I feel like a character from Deadwood. Didja pull the cork out with your teeth?  |
|
|
|
Post by urbino on Jan 24, 2023 0:18:30 GMT -5
It's not in the glass. I don't know where my glasses are, just at the moment. But I'm drinking Old Forester 1920 straight from the bottle. I feel like a character from Deadwood. Didja pull the cork out with your teeth? Ha. I don't think my teeth could take it. |
|
|
|
Post by Silver on Jan 24, 2023 0:22:51 GMT -5
I.W. Harper 15 - in a glass.
|
|
|
|
Post by Ronv69 on Jan 24, 2023 9:23:06 GMT -5
It's not in the glass. I don't know where my glasses are, just at the moment. But I'm drinking Old Forester 1920 straight from the bottle. I feel like a character from Deadwood. I can't believe it's your first. I've passed around a lot of bottles with friends and killed quite a few that were near the bottom. I guess I'm just low-class. Probably took my first pull at 15. |
|
Zach
Pro Member
If you can't send money, send tobacco.
Posts: 4,358
First Name: Zach
Favorite Pipe: Too many currently, bound to change
Favorite Tobacco: Haunted Bookshop, Big 'N' Burley, Pegasus, Habana Daydream, OJK, Rum Twist, FVF, Escudo, Orlik Golden Sliced, Kendal Flake, Ennerdale
Location:
|
Post by Zach on Jan 24, 2023 20:53:37 GMT -5
A stiff Jack Daniel's Old Fashioned. Heavy on the Jack. Heavy on the Angostura orange bitters, extra heavy on the simple syrup.
|
|
Zach
Pro Member
If you can't send money, send tobacco.
Posts: 4,358
First Name: Zach
Favorite Pipe: Too many currently, bound to change
Favorite Tobacco: Haunted Bookshop, Big 'N' Burley, Pegasus, Habana Daydream, OJK, Rum Twist, FVF, Escudo, Orlik Golden Sliced, Kendal Flake, Ennerdale
Location:
|
Post by Zach on Jan 24, 2023 21:10:29 GMT -5
There is likely a name in place for this cocktail. 2.5 ounces Wild Turkey 101, A solution of honey in water, a simple syrup, Peychaud Bitters, A splash of water. An Old Fashioned Cocktail would be my guess. An Old Fashioned has a fruit component. Usually orange. Your recipe likely does have a name, but it's probably not an Old Fashioned. Not a classic one, anyway. Meh, it's still an old fashioned if it's whiskey, simple syrup, and bitters. Forget the orange and cherry. I've made them with orange slices but it really adds nothing to the drink when I'm splashing in Angostura orange bitters. I just consider the fruits an optional garnish. |
|
|
|
Post by urbino on Jan 24, 2023 21:15:16 GMT -5
An Old Fashioned has a fruit component. Usually orange. Your recipe likely does have a name, but it's probably not an Old Fashioned. Not a classic one, anyway. Meh, it's still an old fashioned if it's whiskey, simple syrup, and bitters. Forget the orange and cherry. I've made them with orange slices but it really adds nothing to the drink when I'm splashing in Angostura orange bitters. I just consider the fruits an optional garnish. A cherry is more common in a Manhattan, no? |
|
Zach
Pro Member
If you can't send money, send tobacco.
Posts: 4,358
First Name: Zach
Favorite Pipe: Too many currently, bound to change
Favorite Tobacco: Haunted Bookshop, Big 'N' Burley, Pegasus, Habana Daydream, OJK, Rum Twist, FVF, Escudo, Orlik Golden Sliced, Kendal Flake, Ennerdale
Location:
|
Post by Zach on Jan 24, 2023 21:21:18 GMT -5
According to original recipe and accounts, they never had cherry in them and that's a new occurrence depending on the bar and bartenders. The original printed recipe used lemon peel instead of orange. Some bars use an orange slice, some use a wedge, and some say the "official" way is to express just the orange peel around the glass and leave it in. The point being to offset the citrusy whiskey with orange, so I say, Angostura orange bitters is the same thing. I'm not cutting up an orange every time I want a drink, personally. Plus, now a good orange costs near $2.30 per orange. Nope.
As with anything this old, there are varying accounts but the original was meant to reference the "Old Fashioned" way of making a cocktail with only spirits, bitters, sugar, and water.
History of the Old Fashioned Cocktail
The art of mixing cocktails began in earnest in the United States in the early 1800s, where a cocktail was defined as a simple mixture: just spirits, bitters, sugar, and water. By the 1880s, however, mixologists were experimenting with all kinds of additional flavors, from curaçao to fruit juice. While plenty of drinkers enjoyed the new flavors, many others called for a return to the “old fashioned way” of mixing drinks—they wanted a simple drink made of spirits, bitters, sugar, and water. Pretty soon, bars and bartenders were making a variety of drinks they called “the old fashioned.”
Fruit. While the original recipe didn’t call for any fruit, orange slices and lemon peels became a common garnish in the early 1900s, which evolved into using a pinch of orange zest in the drink, substituting the Angostura bitters for orange bitters, or even muddling the sugar with a citrus peel.
To muddy waters further, all the way back to 1806 when it seems to have been first referenced or the rest is lost, any alcohol mixed with a sugar cube, water, and bitters was called an old fashioned.
|
|
|
|
Post by turbocat on Jan 24, 2023 21:37:36 GMT -5
Guinness Extra Stout
|
|
|
|
Post by Plainsman on Jan 24, 2023 21:43:52 GMT -5
My favorite mixed drink, and that of my visitors, is my ‘Clear Creek Toddy.’ The creek runs all thru my place, giving the place its name. It arises just two miles from my boundary and comes up pure from the aquifer. The water is wonderful. Folks visit my well to bottle it. The toddy couldn’t be simpler: half and half water and whiskey (I like Canadian or Irish, but Scotch and Bourbon can also serve), bitters, and sweetener— I use the non-sugar variety and no one has ever complained. Some say a ‘toddy’ should be hot. To them I say, if so then why are the hot ones called ‘hot toddies’? Seems a bit redundant, non? No fruit. It’s not a salad.
|
|
|
|
Post by urbino on Jan 24, 2023 21:51:06 GMT -5
My favorite mixed drink, and that of my visitors, is my ‘Clear Creek Toddy.’ The creek runs all thru my place, giving the place its name. It arises just two miles from my boundary and comes up pure from the aquifer. The water is wonderful. Folks visit my well to bottle it. The toddy couldn’t be simpler: half and half water and whiskey (I like Canadian or Irish, but Scotch and Bourbon can also serve), bitters, and sweetener— I use the non-sugar variety and no one has ever complained. Some say a ‘toddy’ should be hot. To them I say, if so then why are the hot ones called ‘hot toddies’? Seems a bit redundant, non? No fruit. It’s not a salad. When I drinks whiskey, I drinks whiskey. And when I drinks water, I drinks water. (Name that Irish actor!) Sounds like great water, though. |
|
|
|
Post by Plainsman on Jan 24, 2023 21:57:59 GMT -5
Homeric!
It IS great water. Even better when there’s a bit o’ uisce beatha mixed with it.
|
|
