Update Update

[scottw]

Still waiting for you to put me out of my misery!

[windshieldbug]

Still waiting for you to put me out of my misery!

usquebaugh (‘water of life’)...usque...uskie...isky...whisky

in particular, usquebaugh from the celtic region (ie. scotch and Irish usquebaugh)

[Donn]

Typically - in the USA - megabrewies of American "piss beer" are the only entities with the resources and the motivation to underwrite Oktoberfests.

Our semi-local Oktoberfest appears to be sponsored by a handful of imports. Paulaner, Weihenstefan, HB, Ayinger, Zwick'l, Warsteiner, Spaten, Weinstein. Looks like they like us. I don't know if it's because we import a lot of their product, or because they know we would if we could only be enticed away from our west coast IPAs. (And lately "hazy" IPAs, probably a passing fad.)

[scottw]

Still waiting for you to put me out of my misery!

usquebaugh (‘water of life’)...usque...uskie...isky...whisky

in particular, usquebaugh from the celtic region (ie. scotch and Irish usquebaugh)

Learn something new each day!

[Donn]

occasional/rare small sips of Johnnie Walker, or almond milk instead, please)

I've been using Brazil nuts, 1:4 with water in a heavy duty blender. Mild flavor and also meets or exceeds your selenium daily requirement, which is good for older people who are outdoors a lot. Before that it was hemp seeds, but the flavor might be ill suited to drinking straight.

Out here far from corn country, in my experience distilled spirits and particularly whiskey have been seen as something other people drink, mainly drunks. That has changed a lot in the last decade, perhaps proportionately to the degree other regional traits have been erased but also with the rise of local distillers using local grain.

[Three Valves]

I’m onboard the Rye Train!!

[bort]

Today is my 10th wedding anniversary!

[scottw]

So why is it here among the silliness of Update, Update? Congratulations!

[Donn]

I’m onboard the Rye Train!!

I have the impression that you're closer to the home of the late lamented Pikesville Supreme. I saw it on the shelf a year or so ago here, and thinking it had come back I passed it up on that occasion, with the idea I'd return for it when I was low on rye. Alas. I guess gone forever. 10 or 15 years ago it used to show up here and was possibly my favorite.

[Donn]

Poor Newton! If better drugs had only been available, who knows how far he might have gone beyond inventing calculus and what we call "Newtonian" physics. Now there was a man who was ready for an experiment.

[The Brute Squad]

Today is my 10th wedding anniversary!

(Belated) Happy anniversary, Bort! My parents celebrated their 38th yesterday as well.

[Three Valves]

I’m onboard the Rye Train!!

I have the impression that you're closer to the home of the late lamented Pikesville Supreme. I saw it on the shelf a year or so ago here, and thinking it had come back I passed it up on that occasion, with the idea I'd return for it when I was low on rye. Alas. I guess gone forever. 10 or 15 years ago it used to show up here and was possibly my favorite.

Pikesville was also the official booze of my fraternity, Pi Kappa Alpha. (Pikes)

If you see it now, it is made in KY.

There is a modern Rye, Sagamore, named for the Maryland horse farm, that does a pretty good job these days.

Used to have Lord Calvert here too.

The old distilleries and Colt .45 brewery are now a Guinness Blonde plant.

The Natty Bo place turned condo when production moved to Hielman.

I’m nostalgic about all the shitty cheap beer, but the fact is, the $10/6 pack ales from Flying Dog and Clipper City really make today the good old days!!

[Donn]

I don't expect to see it - they were telling people they're no longer making it. I think what I was drinking 10-15 years ago was from KY too, but it's all the same from this distance. The article I read mentioned a 110 proof variant, for mixing, but I haven't seen it, may not have done very well.

[Three Valves]

Bulliet Rye is decent enough and readily available, nationally??

A friend from Vermont brought down some Whistle Pig.

Then I found out how expensive it was...

[Donn]

For economical, there's Old Overholt. We have a number of locally produced rye whiskeys, that's usually what I have on the shelf, but right now it's some Rittenhouse from a local store that was having kind of a fire sale in advance of the building being torn down. Typically a bottle of anything is $50, though there are plenty of cheaper options. I think 10 years ago Pikesville was more on the order of $20, but that was when we still had Spirits Communism - the State Liquor Stores. Now the efficiencies of private enterprise have just about doubled the cost, so people drive south to Oregon where they still have Spirits Communism.

[bort]

I’m onboard the Rye Train!!

I have the impression that you're closer to the home of the late lamented Pikesville Supreme. I saw it on the shelf a year or so ago here, and thinking it had come back I passed it up on that occasion, with the idea I'd return for it when I was low on rye. Alas. I guess gone forever. 10 or 15 years ago it used to show up here and was possibly my favorite.

Pikesville was also the official booze of my fraternity, Pi Kappa Alpha. (Pikes)

If you see it now, it is made in KY.

There is a modern Rye, Sagamore, named for the Maryland horse farm, that does a pretty good job these days.

Used to have Lord Calvert here too.

The old distilleries and Colt .45 brewery are now a Guinness Blonde plant.

The Natty Bo place turned condo when production moved to Hielman.

I’m nostalgic about all the shitty cheap beer, but the fact is, the $10/6 pack ales from Flying Dog and Clipper City really make today the good old days!!

When I was in high school, we could smell them brewing Colt 45. The old Cold 45 brewery was demolished, and a separate location from Guinness.

The Guinness plant (a few minutes from where I grew up!) used to be Calvert Whiskey. That's been gone for a long time though.

[Three Valves]

Greatest beer slogans;

“It works every time”

“From the Land of Pleasant Living”

“...when you’re having more than one”

[Ken Herrick]

Off to Anderson's, is it?

[Ken Herrick]

I think a lot of people would like to see some pics of the different stags of the whole plating process.

[bort]

Today is my birthday!