Bout to have me busch heavy gold top after a 14.5 hour work day 

10 hours ago, Eric 26 said:

Hello old faithful friend 😉

I dont usually drink beer but when I do and have a choice its been Banquet. Really came to enjoy it the last 2 years or so. 

3 hours ago, herder said:

I dont drink a hell of a lot but when I do I want to enjoy it and usually go for scotch. Holidays and vacations usually see beer though lol. 

Attn: @Jar11591. Here’s where Narragansett beer got its fame 😂 

 

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@TnRiver46 well it’s definitely a chug-worthy beer! I think I have Cap’n Quint beat in the sunburn department 😂 so I’m gonna need more beer 

A couple tonight, girls had some Espresso Martinis, Maine Peeper was a father's day gift

 

 

I decided to back off the IPA’s this weekend, especially after a 12 pack of these guys last weekend 😜

So I had a few Kona Big Waves yesterday...they are pretty tasty. Not normally much of a beer guy anymore but it was like 197 here yesterday so whiskey sounded awful.

No drinking tonight but I did hear that 1792 just released a cognac finished bourbon and the MSRP is only $40 so ill be on the lookout for that.

Well after I posted last night I ran to my favorite little liquor shop....well its actually just a gas station but the owners are huge bourbon heads so over the years I've got all kinds of cool stuff of there..Michters Barrel strength rye, Stagg and Knob creek 12 just to name a few. Didn't find new 1792 cognac finish but I did snag a Bardstown origin series rye. Its 96 proof aged 6 years and it spends 6 months in a toasted oak and cherry wood zebra barrel. I've heard very good things and I'm excited to try it tomorrow after work.

Kona big waves are indeed awesome 

It always blows my mind that some of you guys can get beer and liquor in gas stations 

21 minutes ago, herder said:

It always blows my mind that some of you guys can get beer and liquor in gas stations 

The little hole in the wall C store where I get boat gas has 4 isles, 1 for snacks and 3 for booze as well a coolers at the end of the isles and a wall of cold alcholic drinks.  The whole wall behind the cash register is devoted to tobacco.  Right smack dab in red neck country.

2 hours ago, herder said:

It always blows my mind that some of you guys can get beer and liquor in gas stations 

You must be from PA? Haha

 

we don’t have liquor at gas stations but they sure do in the Midwest 

PA has/had some of the strangest liquor laws, I reside in the Garden State (NJ)

I tried out a new to me beer on Thursday night. @MN Fisher I’m not sure if this is available in your neck of the woods but I believe you’re into stouts and if I’m correct you would probably like this one even though it’s a porter lager blend. Back when I was younger I’d frequent a really good Irish tavern in Tinley Park or a fun little place in Midlothian that knew how to make a proper black & tan with Guinness Stout & Guinness Harp lager.

I will most definitely be having margaritas tonight. 

Long story but I ran through a freshly tarred road with my iridescent white truck in the dead of night and spent the day with turpentine cleaning it up.  End of story…..a 32oz Jack & Coke. 😆

I gave up jack and coke in high school when I got sick on it. Same for rum. I can't even smell bacardi today! And how about some Boone's Farm? Sangria? Mogen David wine? It only took once for me on some of these way back when. Have not touched them since.

 

Above someone posted hazicus maximus. Never heard of it, but I'd like to try some. There are some good choices above!

 

Today I am becoming a sake snob. You get the regular restaurant grade sake at all the restaurants, and then when in the Asian stores you see all kinds of other sake varying from clear to like milk. There are some really good high end sake out there made in Japan the right way.

 

So I drink a little sake with my preventative medicine food and that's about it. The raw fish sushi keeps my arteries unclogged. I'm now 61 years old with no heart disease, no clogging, still don't take any regular meds, cholesterol is fine. My father grew up on fried foods. By 55 he had open heart surgery, clogging, artificial heart valve, on blood thinners and more.

 

So I said you know what, I do not want to end up like dad! I'm going in a different direction. Like the eskimos. A fish diet along with raw nuts, raw fruits, raw veggies and top it all off with some good sake!

 

My sushi intake is my preventative heart medicine. Working so far.

 

Any sake drinkers out there?

 

18 minutes ago, FloridaFishinFool said:

I gave up jack and coke in high school when I got sick on it. Same for rum. I can't even smell bacardi today! And how about some Boone's Farm? Sangria? Mogen David wine? It only took once for me on some of these way back when. Have not touched them since.

 

Above someone posted hazicus maximus. Never heard of it, but I'd like to try some. There are some good choices above!

 

Today I am becoming a sake snob. You get the regular restaurant grade sake at all the restaurants, and then when in the Asian stores you see all kinds of other sake varying from clear to like milk. There are some really good high end sake out there made in Japan the right way.

 

So I drink a little sake with my preventative medicine food and that's about it. The raw fish sushi keeps my arteries unclogged. I'm now 61 years old with no heart disease, no clogging, still don't take any regular meds, cholesterol is fine. My father grew up on fried foods. By 55 he had open heart surgery, clogging, artificial heart valve, on blood thinners and more.

 

So I said you know what, I do not want to end up like dad! I'm going in a different direction. Like the eskimos. A fish diet along with raw nuts, raw fruits, raw veggies and top it all off with some good sake!

 

My sushi intake is my preventative heart medicine. Working so far.

 

Any sake drinkers out there?

 

I've had it at sushi restaurants a few times didn't love it didn't hate it. I'd like to try it again but have no idea what's good and what isnt.

Restaurants won't offer it. You gotta ask for the good stuff. They will have bottles of the good stuff on display for you to ask for it. But if you order sake off the menu they will serve you the rot gut bottom of the barrel cheapest sake made for restaurants. Guaranteed it will be clear sake. The higher grades of sake are made in Japan and look like milk. Unfiltered. The clear is highly filtered and may not even be real sake.

 

If you watch documentaries on history of sake and how its made you will be able to find the really good stuff. Made from Omachi polished rice fermented using very specific spring water to develop historic flavors not known in modern world of mass produced sake drinks. Made by hand in Japan in small breweries is what to look for. The mom and pop producers in backwoods of Japan.

 

When you visit the Asian stores, generally the more expensive the sake, the closer to original traditional made sake it will be. Also try the unfiltered. Its the best! Look on bottles for made in Japan.

 

Another important factor to the enjoyment of sake is for you to develop your temperature preference. Some like their sake cold. Some like it hot. Depends on the sake. Depends on the person. So experiment. Restaurants are prepared to serve it both ways.

 

In the following documentary, the traditional brewer of sake in Japan says about us foreign sake drinkers that we are "the light of hope" for traditional sake brewers because demand in Japan dropped so low they could not remain open and producing sake. So it is the foreign demand like here in USA that is keeping traditional sake brewers in business back in Japan. I'm happy to help keep them going!

 

 

 

5 hours ago, FloridaFishinFool said:

I gave up jack and coke in high school when I got sick on it. Same for rum. I can't even smell bacardi today! And how about some Boone's Farm? Sangria? Mogen David wine? It only took once for me on some of these way back when. Have not touched them since.

 

I can’t even think of mentioning Jack as a high school drunk fest. 😆 Go look at the price of the better Jack varieties and get back to me. 😉 It is our drink of choice fishing in Michigan.  We have Gentleman Jack, Single Barrel, Sinatra and once we even had a bottle of Sinatra Century.  I tried to get some of the McLaren F1 Jack this year but ran out of time.  Some we sip and some is mixer. It’s not the stuff of cheap drunks.  I’m not being argumentative just letting you know there’s a whole other level of Jack out there.  No different than your bottom line sake compared to top shelf.  

And just to add, my stomach turns over every time I smell Slo Gin.  😂 

16 minutes ago, TOXIC said:

I can’t even think of mentioning Jack as a high school drunk fest. 😆 Go look at the price of the better Jack varieties and get back to me. 😉 It is our drink of choice fishing in Michigan.  We have Gentleman Jack, Single Barrel, Sinatra and once we even had a bottle of Sinatra Century.  I tried to get some of the McLaren F1 Jack this year but ran out of time.  Some we sip and some is mixer. It’s not the stuff of cheap drunks.  I’m not being argumentative just letting you know there’s a whole other level of Jack out there.  No different than your bottom line sake compared to top shelf.  

I agree that Jack Daniels is more than just black label old no.7. I wrote it off for years but tried some of their better offerings and was surprised with how good it is. I've got a single barrel select and a single barrel select rye both store picks and both are very good....like 7 or 7.5 out of 10. I also have a single barrel barrel proof rye that's around 130 proof and its fantastic. Like it as much as my Michters barrel strength rye and it was half the price. Never tried gentleman jack but I've heard its good for what it is....have a buddy that hates no7 that said the gentleman is actually kinda good.

 

5 hours ago, FloridaFishinFool said:

Restaurants won't offer it. You gotta ask for the good stuff. They will have bottles of the good stuff on display for you to ask for it. But if you order sake off the menu they will serve you the rot gut bottom of the barrel cheapest sake made for restaurants. Guaranteed it will be clear sake. The higher grades of sake are made in Japan and look like milk. Unfiltered. The clear is highly filtered and may not even be real sake.

 

If you watch documentaries on history of sake and how its made you will be able to find the really good stuff. Made from Omachi polished rice fermented using very specific spring water to develop historic flavors not known in modern world of mass produced sake drinks. Made by hand in Japan in small breweries is what to look for. The mom and pop producers in backwoods of Japan.

 

When you visit the Asian stores, generally the more expensive the sake, the closer to original traditional made sake it will be. Also try the unfiltered. Its the best! Look on bottles for made in Japan.

 

Another important factor to the enjoyment of sake is for you to develop your temperature preference. Some like their sake cold. Some like it hot. Depends on the sake. Depends on the person. So experiment. Restaurants are prepared to serve it both ways.

 

In the following documentary, the traditional brewer of sake in Japan says about us foreign sake drinkers that we are "the light of hope" for traditional sake brewers because demand in Japan dropped so low they could not remain open and producing sake. So it is the foreign demand like here in USA that is keeping traditional sake brewers in business back in Japan. I'm happy to help keep them going!

 

 

 

thanks for the info, I've always been interested in sake but have never really looked into it

@FloridaFishinFool I’m the one who posted the Lagunitas Hazicus Maximus and it’s definitely worth trying if available in your neck of the woods. Also much like yourself with rum and Jack Daniel’s and @TOXIC with slo gin I can’t smell Southern Comfort to this day due to what is probably an embarrassment to admit but I will anyway as a cautionary tale. When I was 16 I got so drunk on it I don’t remember being dropped/helped off the back of one of my older neighbor/friends motorcycles and then proceeded to say hello to both my father who was in the garage at the time with a neighbor and scared the 💩out of said friend before saying hello to my mother and 10 of the neighborhood ladies as it was Friday night club for them before passing out only to be woken up early the next morning by my rather calm mother who made me eat a big pancake breakfast before going to my sophomore high school football game in which my coach was my former Catechism class teacher and very good church family friend of my parents and my sister to this day who then proceeded to make me play both sides of the ball game until I wound up losing my breakfast right there in the huddle. Although it was many years ago I still remember it and darn near lost my dinner one night while out with my then girlfriend and now wife along with her parents when my FIL ordered a Southern Comfort Manhattan🤢