What are you drinking?

pedrocelli cabernet tonight....

I found some Arrogant Bastard today, just in time for my birthday. Too bad none of my friends are aound to share it with.

Labatt 50

Boxed Merlot tonight

I've been drinking the boxed merlot, too. That Black Box stuff ain't too bad for box wine.

I just had a can of Schlitz and 2 Newcastle Brownies but I'd mug someone's nana for some Ballantine.

*x-mas day I found out sauvignon blanc mixes great with fresh oj for breakfast - the fru-fru brassmonkey?

impulsive wrote: I just had a can of Schlitz and 2 Newcastle Brownies but I'd mug someone's nana for some Ballantine. *x-mas day I found out sauvignon blanc mixes great with fresh oj for breakfast - the fru-fru brassmonkey?

How is the Ballantine XXX? Gave some to a relative for Christmas and curious to try it myself. The cheap price sounds enticing also..

Harpoon and Sam Adams Heffeweissen

Hendrick's (gin) and tonic

just finished a kona brewing pipeline porter. porter + hawaiin coffee ='s yum!

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but plumb wine has some fans at GRM. It's like $6.99 a bottle at World Market.

Bought some Midnight Oil coffee (roasted by Sweetwater Coffee here in Gainesville) earlier; French pressing it right now. Will be drinking it in approximately 2 minutes.

bluej wrote: just finished a kona brewing pipeline porter. porter + hawaiin coffee ='s yum!

Hmm, sounds yummy. Right now I am drinking a Peak Organic Espresso Amber Ale, brewed right here in Portland, ME, with locally roasted coffee. And I have also been enjoying a 6 pack of Smuttynose's excellent Robust Porter over the past several days. A combination of the two would be very intriguing.

Harpoon UFO

Milk. it goes well with my Peanut Butter sandwich.

I just cracked open a Zywiec Porter. $2.49 for a 500 mL bottle, not too bad. A dark Polish beer with a competent 9.5% ABV content. It has a pretty strong iron aftertaste, though. Maybe it's the water they use?

New Amsterdam gin (not bad, really) with ice cubes made of tonic water in the shape of icebergs and the Titanic. It's a gin and titonic!

Subaru Kool-aid...

Details tomorrow.

In reply to Osterizer:

That's one of my favorite flavors!

more milk....but my sandwich has jelly this time.

Josh wrote:

bluej wrote: just finished a kona brewing pipeline porter. porter + hawaiin coffee ='s yum!

Hmm, sounds yummy. Right now I am drinking a Peak Organic Espresso Amber Ale, brewed right here in Portland, ME, with locally roasted coffee. And I have also been enjoying a 6 pack of Smuttynose's excellent Robust Porter over the past several days. A combination of the two would be very intriguing.

having a second one now

from having worked a summer in portsmouth, nh I am familiar with the awesomsauce that is Smuttynose. perhaps we can set up an exchange program.

we got some Martini & Rossi Asti to pop for New Years... I love Asti.

bluej wrote: having a second one now from having worked a summer in portsmouth, nh I am familiar with the awesomsauce that is Smuttynose. perhaps we can set up an exchange program.

I'd probably be up for it. But I'd say considering our local beer scene you'd be getting the better end of that deal :). I just did the tour at Allagash Brewing today, and I'm drinking a glass of their Tripel right now. They are probably my favorite brewery in the world, and they are right up the road. They are doing some crazy stuff right now, they built a room off to the side of their brewery to house a vessel called a koelschip that is open to outside air to create spontaneous fermentation, with just the wild yeasts carried in by the wind, like traditional Belgian Lambics. A while back, one their batches ended up with a "off" flavor due to a native yeast contamination that they decided they liked, and they had the yeast strain isolated in a lab to use in future beers. Then they decided to build this room and actually try to ferment a beer totally spontaneously. From what I understand, this sort of fermentation hasn't been done outside of a small area in Belgium where it was developed hundreds of years ago. It's really interesting to see someone right here in Maine working with these sort of techniques. I'm excited to see where all this ends up, because all of their beers that I have tasted so far have been excellent. Should only be another year or so before we find out :).

Any particular Smuttynose beers you miss? I haven't tried their Baltic Porter, that's next on my list for them.

This morning...

It was a pot of VERY BLACK, VERY STRONG Sumatra Mendheling from W.J. Upson. Thanks to my buddies in Kalamazoo, MI for the care package!

RL Buller & Sons Muscat, some freshly ground coffee and some Blue Castello

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