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« on: August 03, 2007, 09:02:59 pm » |
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You stride purposefully to the giant cog-like door of your favorite pub/saloon. Pressure on a plank in the boardwalk triggers a mechanism that rolls the door aside on its toothed track with a small hiss. The interior is lit by shaded gaslamps. You move though the welcoming dimness to the bar and order a...
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Mister Greyshade
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« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2007, 09:12:44 pm » |
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Whiskey cocktail, known today as an "old fashioned." Been around since the early 19th century.
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« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2007, 09:37:37 pm » |
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I go for a bourbon smash or a gin fizz! Or, Scotch neat, if they serve anything decent.
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S.Sprocket
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« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2007, 10:28:48 pm » |
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Absinthe, Belgian, Loucheing materials please.
Or perhaps a Huckle-Buff, Ned Malory drank them in the difference engine.
what's in the whiskey cocktail? is it like a Champange cocktail?
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« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2007, 10:43:09 pm » |
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I'll second the absinthe - the good stuff is really quite tasty...
For the campaign ready in you, a gin and tonic has a nice East India Colonial aspect to it.
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Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
(Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. But deserve a nice glass of absinthe. I have some Montemarte in the cabinet, if you wish.)
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« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2007, 10:55:21 pm » |
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absinthe, gin and tonic, old fashion - all are great.
I've been working on a drink to celebrate my heritage called a Gobshite Goblin. It's absinthe and Jamesons and maybe something else.... Right now it's in the experimental phase, and it keeps blowing up in my face and I wake up hours later wondering what the deuce happened.
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« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2007, 12:12:16 am » |
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That's what you were drinking??!!
Wait, Alexander had bitters?!
what the deuce?! (used without permission but it's a sweet expression)
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« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2007, 12:20:51 am » |
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Club soda is an acceptable alternative to water in an Old Fashioned (and has ever been my personal preference). It should be noted also that unlike other cocktails, the ice should be added last for a "proper" Old Fashioned.
To make a Champagne Cocktail, take a sugar cube, soak it with bitters, drop it into a champagne flute and fill with champagne. It's makes a very pretty and elegant drink.
And, as I just finished dinner, I'll take a bit of port, chocolate if you have any on hand. (I don't care if chocolate port is steamy or not, it's just so blasted good!)
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« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2007, 12:29:20 am » |
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A Sazerac, s'il vous plait! Down in N'Awlins, the drink was first invented by Antoine Amadie Peychaud, a Creole apothecary, in the early 1800s. French brandy, Peychaud's bitters, water and sugar. In 1853, Mr. Sewell Taylor declared that the drink would be made in his establishment, the Sazerac Coffeehouse, only with Sazerac-du-Forge et fils cognac instead of brandy. Coincidentally, Mr. Taylor was the sole importer of this particular cognac. Hmmm... In any case, it was during this period that his bartenders came up with the idea of coating the glass with absinthe. Voilà! The classic Sazerac. Thomas Handy changed it further in 1870 by switching from cognac to rye and eventually from absinthe to Herbsaint (preferred) or Pernod. The Sazerac |
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Mister Greyshade
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« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2007, 01:19:30 am » |
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 I bought a six pack of this brewery's Black Wattle Seed Ale just for the label. It turns out it was quite good. |
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« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2007, 01:32:39 am » |
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Scotch neat, Preferably Peaty and/or Spicy Talisker and Laphroaig are favorites of mine  Mentioned in a Robert Louis Stevenson poem written in 1880, 'The Scotsman's Return from Abroad' The king o' drinks, as I conceive it, Talisker, Islay or Glenlivit. |
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« Reply #12 on: August 04, 2007, 03:17:58 am » |
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forty winks in the lobby
make mine a G&T
then to my favourite hobby
searching for an enemy Courtesy Mr. KershawGin and Tonic. Bombay Sapphire if I'm feeling flush, what ever's in the well if I'm not. |
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« Reply #13 on: August 04, 2007, 03:29:54 am » |
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Guinness, when it's on tap and not icy-cold (yes, I understand that what is shipped to the Colonies isn't "real".) Yuengling (the oldest brewery in the States) Porter, Black and Tan, or even Lager, when it's not. A German Gewurtztraminer when I cook chili or other fiery dishes. A shot of Jameson's about once every 3 years.  |
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« Reply #14 on: August 04, 2007, 05:08:53 am » |
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Vodka! Mixed with something I suppose.
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« Reply #15 on: August 04, 2007, 05:17:02 am » |
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Peppermint tea! *looks around as all goes silent and everyone glares at her*
What?
Sincerely,
Era
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« Reply #16 on: August 04, 2007, 05:55:22 am » |
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After your peppermint tea confession, I dont feel as bad about my libation of choice. I drink Coors. There I said it. however, looking at the label I see its has been brewed since 1873.
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« Reply #17 on: August 04, 2007, 06:30:23 am » |
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http://www.edisondowntown.com/this seems like the place to gather for whatever you choose to drink.I now have a reason to drive to L.A.
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Prof. George of Chaos
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« Reply #18 on: August 04, 2007, 09:58:51 am » |
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Ahhhhh...What to drink this time? There's so much I haven't tried! I know Absinthe gives an interesting feeling, and I'm sure once I find the right blend Snakebite and Black will take to me...tonight though, as I've not tried it before, I think I'll go an Amethyst Martini.
Or a cranberry juice. Pip pip tinkers!
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« Reply #19 on: August 04, 2007, 10:38:59 am » |
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Peppermint tea! *looks around as all goes silent and everyone glares at her*
What?
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Era
I second that! |
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« Reply #20 on: August 04, 2007, 02:11:04 pm » |
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Vodka! Mixed with something I suppose.
Skip the mixer  Tonight I'm into the cheapish Czech absinth "Green Fairy", two-thirds through the bottle, and I can tell I'm approaching my limits as I have just tried pouring myself a nip with the cap on. |
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« Reply #21 on: August 04, 2007, 02:40:14 pm » |
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Tonight I'm into the cheapish Czech absinth "Green Fairy", two-thirds through the bottle, and I can tell I'm approaching my limits as I have just tried pouring myself a nip with the cap on.
Yikes - more than one reason to avoid the czech stuff then.  |
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« Reply #22 on: August 04, 2007, 05:11:30 pm » |
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Yikes - more than one reason to avoid the czech stuff then. Hey let's not tar everything with the same brush - Czech pilsener is well worth sampling! As for the absinth ... well ... it's doing the job. My keyboard skills are down 70% (ie to type I actually need to look at teh kbd!) and everything seems to be ... hovering ... |
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« Reply #23 on: August 04, 2007, 05:31:40 pm » |
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The few things I drink are more prohibition era than anything older.
JD with ice and 'something' is my main tipple, the something usually being coke, sometimes cherryade, sometimes blue-bubblegum, occasionally even soda.. anything with bubbles really.. I like bubbles.
Although I do enjoy a good Bloody-Mary with an obscene amount of Tabasco, Lee & Perrings and pepper, gives it a nice KICK.
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« Reply #24 on: August 04, 2007, 09:57:53 pm » |
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Cheap Brandy.
Or the beer selected at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to be "Americas Best."
Because no matter how bad of an oregonian it makes me, I don't have the money to afford microbrewed beer.
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