You kids sure have strange ideas about drinking alcohol

[YojimboMonkey]

Health Benefits of Beer Infographic

[jess]

A lot of those claims are questionable (and at least one just wrong and a couple rather misleading as far as I know), but I still kind of want one of those.

[davy]

I'm going to have an Irish carbomb for the first time tonight!

Hail St. Patrick! One night early!

(We're both working tomorrow night.)

[elpollodiablo]

Mmm, Woodford Reserve Old Fashioned.

I really dig the Fee Bros bitters.

[Greg Nog]

So I made a rose liqueur that turned out really well; it reminds me a bit of creme de violette, and I'm now trying to figure out some good cocktail recipes for it.  If anyone's interested (and partly so I have a written record of how I put it together), the recipe is below:

- water
- 8 cups dried organic red rose petals
- 2 cups honey (I used raspberry honey)
- 750 ml of 192 proof alcohol

1.  In large jar, pour all alcohol over 4 cups dried roses.  Let steep for a month or two in a cool dark place.

2.  When ready to bottle, combine in tight-lidded saucepan four cups of dried roses, four cups of water, and two cups of honey.  Bring to boil and simmer, covered, for an hour.

3.  Strain the roses out of the water/honey/rose mixture, and top the fluid off with additional water to bring it up to 750 ml of non-alcoholic fluid.

4.  Strain petals out of alcoholic fluid (which, some being left behind in the rosepetals, will probably be roughly 700 ml).

5.  Mix the two fluids in a large jar or bowl.  Strain them through a coffee filter to remove small particles, and bottle.  Cork tightly.

[mountmccabe]

I really dig the Fee Bros bitters.

I couldn't stop myself from buying their rhubarb bitters the other day when I picked up some Rittenhouse Rye. It smells quite interesting though I can't say I noticed a big difference in my Manhattan.

[dieblucasdie]

I like that the world is small enough/my interests narrow enough that when I start drunkenly listening to Silkworm songs via youtube, Maaik shows up in the related videos bar.

[dieblucasdie]

Also, Internet (by which I mean Antero or coldforge), give me a good recipe for a Dark and Stormy.  I've got a bottle of good rum burning a hole in my esophagus pocket, and I'd like to make something nice with it.  Of course, I could buy a some good ginger beer, but I've got some club soda and fresh ginger and sugars both granulated and raw, so I'm tempted go all out, but I have no idea what proportions to hit. 

edit:  Limes are to be had, obviously.

[clare]

So I made a rose liqueur that turned out really well;

It sounds awesome! Is it really sweet? how would it be without the honey? Totally put it with champagne for a very girly kir-style thing i reckon. other than that, I've got nothing, but I'd drink it for you.

[Greg Nog]

The honey is just sweet enough (and, I think, somewhat necessary) to balance out the woody taste of the dried roses.  I guess if one's doing this traditionally, one uses fresh roses, and the petals only, but the bag of dried ones also included bits of other rose-detritus, which lend it a bit of a forest-floor bitterness.  Which actually works really well when balanced by the sweetness. 

[mixed cats]

Also, Internet (by which I mean Antero or coldforge), give me a good recipe for a Dark and Stormy.  I've got a bottle of good rum burning a hole in my esophagus pocket, and I'd like to make something nice with it.  Of course, I could buy a some good ginger beer, but I've got some club soda and fresh ginger and sugars both granulated and raw, so I'm tempted go all out, but I have no idea what proportions to hit. 

edit:  Limes are to be had, obviously.

I've been drinking cruddy versions of these for weeks. Kraken rum + ginger ale (haven't been to the store with the ginger beer) + Rose's sweetened lime juice. The tumblers I use have horizontal lines on them and that's what I use to "measure," so uhh I've been really drunk lately.

[Antero]

Also, Internet (by which I mean Antero or coldforge), give me a good recipe for a Dark and Stormy.  I've got a bottle of good rum burning a hole in my esophagus pocket, and I'd like to make something nice with it.  Of course, I could buy a some good ginger beer, but I've got some club soda and fresh ginger and sugars both granulated and raw, so I'm tempted go all out, but I have no idea what proportions to hit. 

edit:  Limes are to be had, obviously.

If you want to make a serious fucking dark & stormy, you can make ginger syrup.  Ginger juice is a good method for maximum spice, but barring that just grate up a bunch of ginger, simmer it in water for a while, add an amount of sugar equal to that of the water, simmer a little longer, get it all mixed up properly.

The way they do it at the Violet Hour is 3/4 oz lime juice, 3/4 oz ginger syrup, 1 1/2 oz aged rum, shaken for a short time, strained into an ice-filled Collins glass, add some soda water, stir, and top with Cruzan Black Strap or other extra-molasses-y rum.  They use ginger syrup that is made of 2 parts sugar to 1 part ginger juice.

[coldforge]

I don't drink a lot of dark and stormys, I fear. I have no input.

[elpollodiablo]

I've never had a dark & stormy that wasn't disgusting.

[Antero]

Get thee to the Violet Hour!

[DCDave]

Get thee to the Violet Hour!

I'm going there after every night of Pitchfork, IMO

[Ignatius]

Do you mean IMO as "if I have my way" or "if I can enforce my opinion?" I've never seen that before.

[DCDave]

I mean, in my opinion I'm going there every night. In reality, I will probably make it there once.  My opinion does not shape reality (yet).

[elpollodiablo]

These days I go to the bar and get a drink and almost invariably think "fuck I could do better than this"

[Maaik]

GOd, I got a;ll drunk last night and watched Newsies.  My twurt feed got downright stupid.

[auto-da-fey]

last night we passed out on a couch drinking thos thing I just typed on anoyhrter thread:
flying fish exit 9 hoppyng scarlet ale

M likes it because itms basec on NEW JERSEY turnpillke exits anf she s a jersey girl.

so then we woke up and continued drinkinfg it, stumbling atoumd reading terminal msarket at noomn drunk and ordering food and probably shameful; failures as adults, yesm, but having such a hell of a goofd time and not inflictingh any damage on ayone but the most humorless people cpossibly, that i mean who could hold it against us huh?

and then M went home and I thought it would be hilarious to xtect her and be all "hjaha i finished off all the beer." so i finished it off. rthis stuff is strong. i'm not as drunk as this typimng would suggest but FUCK are my fingers not obeying my mental orders. I dunno. I like thois weekend.

[fishjim]

I've got an LPTJ contact drunk.

[auto-da-fey]

yeah this was a dumb idea. ui;'m gonna  throw on a third-rate vbob pollard side projecty album abnd do my dishes.

[Greg Nog]

I've had a couple of the Flying Fish exit beers, and liked 'em, but I always forget which exit number is which style, which trips me up.

[Bernard]

Kraken Rum! Wow, I have to try that.