Beverages

[LunarMist]

Blasphemy! Nothing is better than red wine, be it a classic Bordeaux or California Cabernet.

 

[ddrueding]

A friend from Romania will be visiting again in July, and will be bringing some bottles of Macallan Ruby. Good stuff.

 

[LunarMist]

Somebody odered an Orange wine when we were in the city last week. Just horrible. Where is that puke-r icon? :lol:

 

[Newtun]

OTOH, this Orange Muscat is a fine dessert wine, IMHO.

 

[LunarMist]

That looks ok, but the one we tried was from one of those former soviet bloc states.

 

[Chewy509]

Picked up a 6pack of Scape Goat Pear Cider a few days ago, (normally buy Koppaberg Hard Pear Cider) to try out...

The Pros: No preservatives. (I have mild intolerance to common preservatives (E220) used in wines/ciders). Decent but not overly sweet taste.
The Cons: Very wine like in texture... A quite soft texture, especially compared to either the Koppaberg Hard or Mercury ciders.

 

[LunarMist]

I had no idea that a clear liquid has a texture. Do you mean there are suspended particles?

 

[Chewy509]

@LM, how the liquid feels on the tongue/mouth. Does it gone down smooth (water like), or rough (like some moonshine).

 

[LunarMist]

That's way beyond my pay grade. Many years ago I was peripherally involved in a project with an artificial tongue. I think it had 6-8 dimensions, though I don't know if that included the "texture."

 

[Chewy509]

Picked up a 4 pack of Bee Mead the other day... Quite a tasty, yet sweet mead... Went well with the baked fish and mash potatoes.

 

[Newtun]

Bubbly ? Cool!

 

[LunarMist]

Never heard of bees making anything. Is this new or in ancient civilization?

 

[Chewy509]

IIRC, humans have been adding honey to booze for several thousand years now. (Pottery from Europe dated back to ~2500BC have traces of Mead w/honey used as the sugar have been found. Samples from China date from over 7000BC - IIRC this was a rice wine with honey).

 

[LunarMist]

Thanks. I was not familiar with the relationship between the honey and the mead. I thought that meads were popular in ancient times and basically died out after distilled spirits became popular in the late middle ages, but I may have been thinking of something else.

 

[Newtun]

I had thought that mead was fermented honey, not honey added to booze: Wikipedia.

 

[Newtun]

As it happens, a few weeks ago, we had a very nice visit to Haley's Honey Meadery.

 

[LunarMist]

Why does one need to be over 21 to visit the website? The alcohol is not flowing through the coax cable to the visitor.