Dan, you are on a long Malbec kick. Nice!

Brown Estates Brown Recluse. I didn't want to post a picture of the lable because the only one I could find was ginormous and I don't think anyone would appreciate a full monitor view of what I am quafing.

Not bad BTW, a little hot on the alcohol but nice and chaulky with a long finish; should go great with takeout Italian.

Colin, that meal looks awesome! Another Mendoza Malbec-er, you guys live quite well.

So Ken, did you buy that Gypsy Boots? How was it?

Edited April 4, 201115 yr by Augsburger

the wife likes em, so I drinks em.

drinking Black Tuesday...

following it up w/a little Duck-Duck-Gooze...

went over to the brewery side...

Black Bretty (bam-a-lam) was great...forget what else i had...

they weren't offering growlers of most of their limited supply beers, but I was able to get Brad the brewer's permission to take home one of Fire & Ice...I brought up that it wasn't on for most of the morning because of a label mistake...& he was highly amused at me leaving my empty Westvleteren 12 bottle resting on the rim of the trash can in the bathroom:)...great beer by the way...glad I brought/opened it...

so that's what I'm drinking now...their Iced Smoked Stout...Fire & Ice...

Edited April 4, 201115 yr by emelius

Tea (Faux-rizona, to be specific). All day. Peeing a lot. A lot.

sazerac 18 blood orange perfect manhattan on the rocks

Little Sunday afternoon beverage (chilled but not cold)

Old Rasputin. It's a little too textbook for an RIS.

that's because it is the text book for a RIS.

Aye. I prefer the more robust varieties.

perfect manhattan on the rocks, regular bitters this time

--> Macallan 12yo (about 120ml...)

Perfect Manhhattan

Straight up, ungarnished, unvarnished and untarnished.

Tiny dram of Van Winkle 12 Yr....just need a small bit to put me to bed

Some grain goodness:

Carsebridge 30yo :

Finally finished that box of Maipe malbec -- I really don't have the patience to let the wine warm up to optimal temperature.

And no, Jacob, I only just finished my first malbec, it'll be a while before I get to that one.

Ya-hooo! Mountain Dew Throwback. Its been a busy Monday already, I did get a little sleep luckily.

Stillwater Artisanal/Mikkeller Our Side

OMFG WTF OAK OAK OAK OAK Stout. It's either getting better or it's starting to grow on me. I think maybe the heavy oak flavor was sitting on the bottom and working it's way out.

Oak is growing on you?

Oak is growing on you?

Yes but I am hoping the 1% Clotrimazole will take care of it.

I brewed an oak stout. It was the best and last batch I brewed. I finally had a Heresy, since we are talking oak and stout and thought it was very good. Now, one of theses:

Cuban Cocktail #2 using Al's recipe above

Cuban was tasty but wanting some Bourbon I went with a Seelbach

1 oz Bourbon

1/2 oz Cointreau

7 dashes Angostura Bitters

7 dashes Peychaud's Bitters

Champagne (Blanc de Blanc)

Pour first four ingedients into a Champagne flute and stir. Top with Champagne and garnish with an orange twist.

Nice twice, Jim.

Improved Gin Cocktail

New Albanian Elsa Von Horizon Imperial Pilsner...