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The Finer Things In Life


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Bruges, Belgium:

 

Beer wall, all 700ish Belgian beers-

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De Garre, a microbrew that is only available at their pub located on the smallest street in Bruges (it's an alley). 12% but damn good-

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De Halve Man Brewery-

Fave beer is the Quad, just absolutely delicious

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THe tour-

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The old parts of the brewery-

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From on top of the brewery-

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Donated glass set to the brewery-

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And the drink afterwards (their original), it is quite good and Binny's carries it (along with the Bruge Zot Tripel and the Staffe Hendrix Tripel)

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Limerick and Cork, Ireland:

 

Munster Rugby (of course while enjoying a Carlsberg which is quite good out there)

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Jameson Factory (not the original, that was in Dublin, but this was the main factory until 1975. THe original was in Dubline for only a shortwhile)

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So Im looking at the cheap vodkas on sale at Binny's and was wondering if there was truly any difference between these brands:

 

Gordons

Smirnoff

Karkov

Sobieski

Svedka

 

I prefer Sobieski out of that group, with Svedka and Smirnoff following, but I have never had Gordons or Karkov. They are like $5 cheaper and as long as they aren't as bad as Skol (worst vodka ever) then I would buy it since its all going to be mixed anyways.

 

(and I know this isn't really the finer things in life :P )

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 01:49 PM)
Gordons is "I'm 20 years old, I can't legally drink, I have no money, and some dude is making a liquor store run" terrible.

Aka Skol, I will stay far away then!!

 

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 01:53 PM)
Vodka is a necessary evil in the cocktail world, but not one you need to spend a fortune on. For the money, award-winning Sobieski is a winner. I haven't shelled out for Stoli since I discovered Sobieski.

Yea, as a college student for parties vodka is pretty popular, and I would much rather do shots of vodka than rum, so finding one like Sobieski where its $2 more per handle than Smirnoff is fine with me.

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QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 09:35 PM)
I am now going to go cry for not being there right now.

 

What gorgeous copper stills at Jameson. My wife and I went when we went on our drunken Irish pilgrimage when we first started dating 20 years ago.

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QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Jun 10, 2011 -> 07:56 AM)
What gorgeous copper stills at Jameson. My wife and I went when we went on our drunken Irish pilgrimage when we first started dating 20 years ago.

They really were, and huge! Jeez, a small family could live in those things comfortably!

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Yesterday was Thursday Drink Night online at Mixoloseum. The summery theme of the evenings was "tall drinks". My submission, which I think might replace JWray and Ting as my go-to JWray drink, was the Tervis Tumbler:

 

• 1.5 oz JWray

• 1 oz Canton ginger liqueur

• 0.5 oz lime juice

• 0.25 oz pomegranate grenadine

• 4 oz ginger beer

 

Build in ice-filled Tervis tumbler, top with ginger beer and stir 1x.

 

Surprisingly, all that ginger still stays pretty subdued by the overproof rum. The splash of grenadine gives a bit of summer drink color and the lime juice balances out the sweetness well. If you have a fondness for the funkiness of JWray you will really like this one.

 

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