What are YOU drinking right now?

[tubeast]

I´m having a nice cup of espresso made on my Italian coffee machine Bezzera "Giulia".
Probably among the better investments I made last year, when I treated myself to one of these.

[Dan Schultz]

Cheap-assed Dollar Store 'breakfast blend'. My Dixieland guys are here for rehearsal on Saturday mornings and they think it's the greatest!

[Nick Lukefahr]

Good ol' Cherry Dr. Pepper. Wait.. it's not that old...

[MaryAnn]

Silk brand coconut milk. Yum good!

MA

[Chuck Jackson]

A Gin and Tonic made with Victoria Gin. Gin made in Victoria, BC and, as far as I know, you have to know a secret handshake or something to get it. Nice Festivus gift. Tasty. BTW, has any one ever tried the gin that is made out of cucumbers, I want to say Hendricks or Herricks or something like that. Inquiring minds want to know.

Chuck"warm and happy FINALLY"Jackson

[Odins dog]

New Glarus brewery Snowshoe Ale. I highly recommend.

[Ken Herrick]

Sticking with my ice cold VB. It' over the 100° mark so might have at least a couple. Just cooled Oakey, the dacshund down by pouring a bottle of water at same temp over him. He's happy now and I didn't have to give him a beer even. Sounds of distant thunder - maybe a storm coming to cool things off. Hoping for rain, not just lightning and thunder starting more fires.

[ken k]

had some Mikeller's Koppei IPA... a coffee IPA...it was stellar!

[Chuck Jackson]

I'm a good Upstate NY boy (Rome to be exact). Imagine my surprise when I walked into LV's largest liquor store and found that they now sell 12 Packs of Genesee Beer, not Soylent Creme, but the honest-to-god stuff in the short barrel bottles. It's cold, I'm happy. I told them if they ever started stocking Utica Club I was pitching a tent in the beer section and never leaving.

Chuck"amazed"Jackson

[bearphonium]

Gin and tonic, Bombay Sapphire. Fresh lime.

Chuck, it is Hendricks Gin. It is a little weird. OK with a thinly sliced cuke in it, though.

[THE TUBA]

Founders Breakfast Stout. Mmmmmm.

[bort]

New Glarus brewery Snowshoe Ale. I highly recommend.

My wife and I made a detour to the New Glarus brewery over the holidays. Great beer..
I'm not sure why it is so good, and its not amazingly unique, just very well executed. Too bad you can't get it outside of the Wisconsin area!

[Chuck Jackson]

Chuck, it is Hendricks Gin. It is a little weird. OK with a thinly sliced cuke in it, though

That's the stuff. Saw it today at the same place I got the beer. As I have Gin already, and am a dyed-in-the-wool Tangueray (LOVE the Rampour!!! with a splash of bitters and tonic) guy, I think I'll pass until I see it at a party. Cheers!!!

Chuck

[Donn]

Many single malt scotches are...well...humorous, as the word, "scotch" simply means "a whiskey that was made in Scotland".

Indeed it must be made in Scotland, and

• Produced at a distillery in Scotland from water and malted barley (to which only whole grains of other cereals may be added) all of which have been:
  • Processed at that distillery into a mash
  • Converted at that distillery to a fermentable substrate only by endogenous enzyme systems
  • Fermented at that distillery only by adding yeast
  • Distilled at an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 94.8% (190 US proof)
• Wholly matured in an excise warehouse in Scotland in oak casks of a capacity not exceeding 700 litres (185 US gal; 154 imp gal) for at least three years
• Retaining the colour, aroma, and taste of the raw materials used in, and the method of, its production and maturation
• Containing no added substances, other than water and plain (E150A) caramel colouring
• Comprising a minimum alcoholic strength by volume of 40% (80 US proof)

I gather that the "whole grains of other cereals" clause doesn't apply to "malt" whisky, which must be made from malted barley only. My Scotch research project is still before me (and more remote than ever now that the multinational big box groceries bought out our communistic state liquor stores with a voter initiative, resulting in much more expensive booze), but I understand that while they are indeed characteristic, single malt Scotches may vary quite a bit from one region or distillery to another, so maybe the wine varietals would be vaguely analogous to regions like Islay ... so, as you could make white wine with Riesling grapes with varying results, so could the Bowmore in my cabinet be quite different from (more expensive) Laphroaig but still have something in common with it, compared to Glenfiddich from the Speyside subregion. But those regional characters aren't obligatory. Anyway, lots to know there, but it seems that those who become sufficiently acquainted tend to find something to like in the stuff.

[Tubajug]

Dr. Pepper

[Thomas Maurice Booth]

Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA

[Nick Lukefahr]

Yoohoo... in a can.

[PMeuph]

Hot Chocolate with Creme de Menthe. ... it's -44˚C outside with the wind chill (-47˚F)

[Ken Herrick]

Yes, I realise 11AM is maybe a bit early for a VB but, I've been pushing the mower for a couple hours.

I'm curious as to how you got the picture of my landlord's mate. Ir was a visit by him that started the dispute with the land lord. I should have kept quiet and let the snake bite him then given said asp a carton of beer as payment for a job well done!!!

[bearphonium]

Fireball!