Friday drinking thread, what's your pleasure? Wilderness Trail Rye for me, hand selected barrel
New Holland Tangerine Space Machine. I found it to be a nice upgrade from Oberon for a summer IPA.
Nothing yet. It's still a bit early there but this does have me wondering ... should I go to a "cafe" to finish up work and order multiple rounds of "coffee?"
Bells 2 hearted. Yummy. Will TRY to have only 3, but they are just so damn tasty. Oh and just watched osu game again today on DVR. If anyone doesn’t recall, umich won 42-27
Also watched the highlights of the game today after work. I can't help doing it every few weeks. Just so perfect.
Question for anyone in this thread.
Not a big beer drinker, but having a grad party for my daughter this weekend and wondering if anyone has recommendations for a couple.of beer options I can supply for guests?
Thanks in advance for any advice!!
I will assume you will have a mix of people and ages. I would recommend getting 3 kinds of beer, an American light beer, an IPA, and a lager type beer.
just a guess something like Miller Lite, Sierra Nevada (not technically an ipa, but will satisfy ipa drinkers and others) and anchor steam or heineken.
these arent my favorites by any stretch but if you get three like that, there should be something that everyone will like.
hope that helps
I would say something pretty similar but no light beer. A decent lager like Stella/Heiny plus a summer beer like Oberon and then a pale ale like you said. Should satisfy the masses. Lights beer drinkers will have a regular lager.
Anchor Steam has a very unique flavor for an acquired taste. Don’t recommend for a large group.
I'd also hold back a couple sixes of really good stuff, in case you find someone who really appreciates and/or deserves them.
This is also very good advice
Fat Tire is a good in between beer, technically an amber ale, that is high quality and most will like. You could also grab some Sierra Nevadas and if you expect some easy drinking types, Coors/Bud Lights.
I could see a whole selection from any one of the Michigan breweries. I'm more familiar with Bell's, so I'd mix Two Hearted, Oberon, Lager of the Lakes, and if you wanted a lite beer Light Hearted. I'm sure there are great alternatives from other breweries.
If you wanted something more mass market, I'm a big fan of the Mexican brews like Bohemia, Modelo Negra, Dos Equis, Tres Equis...I guess they don't make that anymore, or they call it Dos Equis Amber nowadays.
Started with an All Day IPA. Will sip some Bulleit Rye soon.
Celebrating the installation of our tankless water heater with a Jefferson's Ocean Aged.
Woke up yesterday morning to a lack of hot water. After only nine years, our 75-gallon hot water heater had died.
Will celebrate later with the first shower since Wednesday morning.
My wife picked a good time to be out of town.
I've thought a lot about getting a tankless hot water heater. How are you and the family liking it? Anything you wish you knew before getting it?
Was just installed so not sure yet. The installation was done by my client who is a plumbing contractor with about 15 trucks. He is very honest and strongly recommended the tankless at this point.
The only downside - from what I’ve been told - is that you can’t really have three or four water sources operating at one time.
Got one when we renovated a few years ago. We're happy with it. Need to have someone descale it yearly or so. Water here is pretty soft naturally so might need to do it more in a place with hard water I don't really know. Also on mine there is a port where it drips water (from condensation I assume) so I have a bucket I need to drain under it occasionally.
I just finished building a bar in my house today and am having a few friends over and cracking open a new bottle of 18 year Jameson.
Coors Light as usual.
Coors Banquet here, as it's already a light enough beer for me.
Bought a 12-pack of it in bottles recently, "rediscovering" it for the first time in quite a few years. It's actually a nice enjoyable summertime sip, one I had forgotten about with all the IPAs and various other craft beers I normally drink.
And now I'm on to a Society & Solitude #4 from HF.
My son brought this home the other day. Not sure what I think yet. I have to sneak some again tonight.
Alternating cans of Founders Solid Gold and LaCroix. We got the most recent PET scan results for my wife today, with some okay news and not so great information, so not in a super celebratory mood, yet not quite so bad as to entirely ruin a summer Friday evening.
Man, I don’t remember at this point.
It was 12 years old and rye, because everything else triggers a migraine.
And a Heineken and maybe a Coors banquet beer because my Thor-sized son likes utility beer.
Good god it’s wonderful to be alive.
First time back in A2 from the great white north in 3 years. gonna take advantage with a tour of bars and Michigan IPAs.
two hearted, gulo gulo, huma lupa licious, hopslam, centennial... open to more suggestions
Ukiyo lager. Not bad. Prefer whiskey but this place has a weak selection at the bar.
plain ol' Cactus Cooler
Some nice Floodland beer.
Little bit of this, little bit of that.
1792 Full proof followed by a pour of Wild Turkey Master's Keep One.
Love 1792 FP, especially the store picks 🥃. Enjoy 👍
I see the Peerless Straight Rye Whiskey trying to muscle its way into the picture on the left side.
Inspired me to enjoy some Peerless Single Barrel, Double Oak. Excellent selection.
I'll take 3 fingers of that blanton's :O
Started off classy with a red bull bomb, shifted to boilermaker style Woodford reserve and goose island golden ale.
What can I say, been a long week!
Interesting article, strictly from an MGoPerspective.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/15/millennials-are-to-blame-for-sky-high-inflation-strategist-says.html
Smead explained that in the U.S. there are an estimated 92 million millennials, primarily in the 27- to 42-year-old age bracket. “The last time we saw what we call ‘wolverine inflation’ — which is inflation that is hard for policymakers to stop — was when 75 million baby boomers had replaced 44 million silent generation people in the 1970s.”
Jefferson’s ocean aged at sea.
in a never-before scenario, mrs. XM is making margaritas on the rocks, with lime and salt on the rim. she is killing it. and the kids are playing hoops in the driveway in the twilight. doesn't get much better for a regular old friday night. and it's her birthday. her 26th, even though our 26th anniversary was wednesday. i am never going to disabuse her of being 26. she's wonderful.
EDIT: and now rampant dancing has broken out, the entire family:
Uh, whut?
;-)
👍
Wish your prettier half a Happy 26th Birthday for me!
Excellent and Happy Birthday to the Mrs. You should have been making her a drink, no?
In between my temporary role as ...I could list about 100 things, all of which came down to adding to the handful of chores I normally do everything my wife normally does - maybe that's more like 1,000 things...while she recovers from arthroscopic knee surgery, I've indulged in a couple of Vesper martinis. Not quite the Casino Royale recipe: 3 parts Bombay Sapphire, 1 part Reyka Vodka, 1/2 part Noilly Pratt dry vermouth, several dashes of Fee Bros Gin Barrel Orange Bitters, and quelle horreur, a couple olives.
Another week and a half until she can ditch the crutches. I'm gonna need more gin.
Homemade black currant melomel. Hadn’t popped a bottle in a very long time, and it is not disappointing.
Kids are asleep, so Jameson.
Yellow Tail Shiraz, largely because it was on sale at the LCBO.
Started with Elijah Craig and moved to Basil Hayden.
Mic Ultra and a blue acid cigar for a relaxing evening.
Labatt Blue Light in the Ice Cube parking lot. Though someone snuck in a hard apple cider so I drank that too
Broke out a good bottle of barleywine from Reubens for my 28 year old son's birthday. Followed it with Tsunami Stout from Pelican which is no big deal.
"Three Ryes Men - Reubens Brews" https://reubensbrews.com/beer/3-ryes-men/
Got into some Weller last night. Feel a whole lots better than I thought I would.
Question for the west side of the state: how available is Buffalo Trace in stores? Had a friend say he was going to make a run and pick up bottles for anyone wanting 1.
Pretty scarce. Most places have a limit of one bottle per customer. All BT products are scarce here. Usually you have to ask as they don't even put them out.☹️
Whenever I start wondering if I drink too much all I have to do is visit the weekly MgoBlog what are you drinking thread and then I realize I’m basically a pathetic little teetotaler compared to everybody here.