We have a food thread, so why not? Coffee, beer, wine, spirits, what else we got?
I’m a big coffee nerd but recently I’ve been learning to better appreciate wines and craft beers. I’ve also dabbled in whisky for years but really struggle to develop a taste for it as quickly as I could coffee, beer, or wine. It’s mainly the burn on the tongue for me. Like I get partially there on understanding the flavors, but the tongue burn always interrupts the process. The one time I remember a really good Scotch I enjoyed, it was Craigellachie 13 on the rocks at a bar, and had probably oxidized quite a bit considering how much was left in the bottle.
Trying out an Arran 10 tonight as it comes highly recommended. Nose is harsh; smells like generic Scotch and ethanol. Straight gave a lot of honey, which I like. Immediately followed by burning ethanol and pennies. After the burn went away, lingering taste of dried fruits. With a teaspoon of water the burn got better but the flavors got really muted.
I can’t, I’m one of that tiny percentage that spit out alcohol the instant it gets in my mouth because it tastes just AWFUL. Like worse than rancid prune juice awful.
However, I can drink a wide variety of regular and diet sodas that my wife finds repugnant, like Code Red Mt Dew or some of those other less mainstream flavors, so…I guess it’s literally a matter of taste!
Very mild/smooth. My wife could never understand my like of a good single malt, every time I could convince her to take a sip she would screw her face up and act like I was trying to poison her.
Until my brother bought me a bottle for my birthday one year. I talked her into taking a sip and she actually went back for a second. It is a single grain (made from corn not barley mash) quite sweet for a whisky with very strong honey notes.
I always have a bottle in my liquour cabinet these days.
I also don’t mind Stella. And although I tend to prefer an ale over lager, most of the craft ales these days (especially an IPA) are way over hopped for me.
Lately, I have been buying a very nice Czech lager. I can generally get it for not much more than Fosters (which we don’t actually drink here).
I remember Budvar, Stella, Urquell, and a dark beer I don’t recall the name of when I was studying abroad in Plzn. There was one more “standard” beer that they drank a lot over there but I can’t remember it either…I just remember the name sounded more Gaelic than it did Czech.
I actually don’t drink a whole lot, 2~3 glasses of something per week at most. Usually just a social/date night drinker.
Adding some variety with non-alcoholic drinks: my coffee beans for the next few weeks:
What a lot of people don’t realise about Australians is that we are total coffee snobs.
On the plus side. For tourists, you can get a coffee as good as anything you will get in Rome, Paris or Vienna just about anywhere… Even in the middle of the Outback and it is quite often even better.
I wouldn’t touch instant these days if my life depended on it. I will drink tea or water instead.
And sorry, not sorry to my US friends. What you serve as coffee in your diners… it aint coffee. There is also a reason why Starbucks never took off in this country.
I fresh grind every time (make sure you use a burl grinder like @Clutch)
And buy my beans, believe it or not, at Aldi!
My wife doesn’t drink coffee. So I use a (Bialetti) 1 cup perculator… Or a French Press if we have guests.
Man you say that like you don’t appreciate being able to buy a caffeinated milkshake in 90% worlds countries. I don’t go to Starbucks for coffee, I go there for dessert.
I knew I was going to drink whiskey even before I got to the legal age. I mean I didnt try it before that
I just knew that its the spirit for me. Once I got to the age and tasted whiskey for the first time I knew that it is it. drinking it since, not continuously oc
surly my taste developed geographically during the time. I started with american, then irish and ended up with scotch and local. nothing fancy, just the regular stuff.
the last exotic one I tasted, which was really fine, was swedish
Anyone remember those? The Aldi-Bier (Germany) of the 80ies and 90ies … I think it was 50 Pfennig a can or so, 25 Euro-Cent roughly. Slime even made a song about the beer, he he. Punk’s not dead
