As per the gin elders' advice: Hendrick's / Fever-Tree G&T with cucumber. It's certainly different than what I'm used to, not bad at all.

Lots of drinking tonight. Since I couldn't decide between Al's awesome Mountain Man, Shelly's stupendous Cobble Hill or Mike's magnificent Sazerac, I decided to have a double Liberal.

And since it was mentioned earlier, a Hendricks pink gin. Yum!

Excellent work Shelly, HDen, Dinny, Jim and Mike!

I was lazy and had another Mountain Man.

I was lazy and had another G&T. Just to finish off the Fever-Tree I opened, of course.

That's not lazy, that's practical.

I like the way you think.

And I had one more pink gin. Because why the fuck not?

Another wine centric dinner that was full of awesomeness. The theme for the dinner was a double blind wine tasting where we brown bagged our respective wines and attempted to guess the year, AVA and varietal. I brought a 2006 Mollydooker Velvet Glove and my friend brought a 2009 Malibu Cielo red. For added fun we had the bartender, a Anna Chapman doppleganger hang with us and share her martini recipes. Appetizers were a duck shu mai, wagu and sweet potato confiteish dish and a few others. Dinner did in fact not suck.............

And I had one more pink gin. Because why the fuck not?

And I'll have one too. Because I fucking can.

Sadly, I am in bed and not drunk or drinking. Nice evening Greg! Cheers all!

In bed now too. Work calls in 6 hours. Night all.

Sadly, I am in bed and not drunk or drinking. Nice evening Greg! Cheers all!

There's always next time.

And whoa, a Hendrick's pink gin is definitely interesting.

DeDolle Mad Bitch at the newly expanded City Beer Store

Oaken Barrel Superfly...a top tier IPA from Indiana often overlooked...

& I got a growler of FFF Gumballhead...

DeDolle Mad Bitch at the newly expanded City Beer Store

oh snap..what up beeotch?

been away from my American friends (bottles) too long... time for some bourbons and ryes...

Opener

--> Angel's Envy bourbon 43.3%

Just about time to kill it

ed - killed it... while having lamb shank for dinner

Edited October 28, 201114 yr by mikeymad

Another kill shot - big pour

--> High West - Rendezvous Rye 46%

Edited October 28, 201114 yr by mikeymad

Mikey's a killer! Nice pours of nice beverages.

Had a little Samuel Smiths Cider with pork chops, grilled veg and apples, plus haricots vert with garlic. Pretty darn tasty.

Post dinner cocktail under consideration.

making me hungry again Al...

... or at least thirsty..

Time to kill some more bottles then, methinks.

Time to kill some more bottles then, methinks.

good call -- I know that I need the room on the shelves...

good call -- I know that I need the room on the shelves...

What a terrible problem to have.

Wow, those are some big pours Mikey!

Had a G&T (St George Botanivore + Fever Tree) with dinner. Then I promptly fell asleep.