Off topic ; booze

dynamicmoves said:
Pbr is cool? I always thought it was redneck beer.
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Me too. Somewhere along the line the trendy little hipsters "discovered" it and began drinking it "ironically"... in much the same way they wear "vintage" work shirts with someone else's nametag on them... despite never having worked a day in a factory in their lives. :rolleyes:

Anyway, the good thing about it is, you can find it pretty much anywhere again. :)
 
james terrio said:
Me too. Somewhere along the line the trendy little hipsters "discovered" it and began drinking it "ironically"... in much the same way they wear "vintage" work shirts with someone else's nametag on them... despite never having worked a day in a factory in their lives. :rolleyes:

Anyway, the good thing about it is, you can find it pretty much anywhere again. :)
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Huh. Pbr is one of the beers I go for when there's nothing good in the bar. Yuengling is my other one.
 
I like Yuengling too... so that kinda tells you something about my palate. ;)

Don't get me wrong, I like many imports and craft beers as well. But I'm just not always in the mood to spend $10 on a six-pack.
 
Being cheap isn't such a bad thing. Bud lite in a bar for 50 cents per 12 oz is something I can never pass up.
Course, I also spent $15 on a pint at a different bar...
 
Hard cider. Discovered it during my stint on the Paleo diet. Angry Orchard and sometimes Hornsby's or Strongbow. Light and refreshing.
 
Hard cider is actually ridiculously easy to make at home, and it tastes lovely. All you really need is apples (or apple juice), sugar if you want it stronger, and patience. The right yeast helps but it's not absolutely necessary. If you want, I'll dig up my wife's recipe.
 
I like all types of beer, even the yellow fizzy variety.
As for booze I like Bushmills Black Bush, but then again I am easy. :)
 
james terrio said:
I was drinking PBR long before hipsters decided they should drink it because it wasn't "cool", and I still drink it even though it's "cool" now. :confused:
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The main cities of SC (columbia, greenville, charleston) are starting to be overrun by this hipster thing. I had no idea until recently that pbr was a hipster beer, I always just thought it was a working mans beer.
 
dynamicmoves said:
(even though mead is a honey wine.....)
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I prefer Angry Orchard Hard Apple Cider, home-made Mustang Grape wine and home-made mead.

I'm looking for recipes for different types of meads. Some recipes are harder to find than others, and you need to let them age at least a year or two, so it's a slow process. :D

For your mead educational moment----

Some mead definitions::

Melomel: Melomel is made from honey and any fruit. Depending on the fruit base used, certain melomels may also be known by more specific names (see cyser, pyment, and morat for examples).

Metheglin: Metheglin is traditional mead with herbs and/or spices added. Some of the most common metheglins are ginger, tea, orange peel, nutmeg, coriander, cinnamon, cloves or vanilla. Its name indicates that many metheglins were originally employed as folk medicines. The Welsh word for mead is medd, and the word "metheglin" derives from meddyglyn, a compound of meddyg, "healing" + llyn, "liquor".

Sack mead: This refers to mead that is made with more honey than is typically used. The finished product contains a higher-than-average ethanol concentration (meads at or above 14% ABV are generally considered to be of sack strength) and often retains a high specific gravity and elevated levels of sweetness, although dry sack meads (which have no residual sweetness) can be produced.

Short mead: Intended to drunk "new" or with little aging. Similar to ciders in characteristics.

Great mead: Any mead that is intended to be aged several years.


Variations:
Acerglyn: A mead made with honey and maple syrup.
Black mead: A name sometimes given to the blend of honey and black currants.
Bochet: A mead where the honey is caramelized or burned separately before adding the water. Yields toffee, caramel, chocolate and toasted marshmallow flavors.
Bochetomel: A Bochet style mead that also contains fruit such as elderberries, black raspberries and blackberries.
Braggot: Also called bracket or brackett. Originally brewed with honey and hops, later with honey and malt—with or without hops added. Welsh origin (bragawd).
Capsicumel: A mead flavored with chile peppers, the peppers may be hot or mild.
Morat: Morat blends honey and mulberries.
Pyment: Pyment blends honey and red or white grapes. Pyment made with white grape juice is sometimes called "white mead".
Rhodomel: Rhodomel is made from honey, rose hips, rose petals or rose attar, and water.
Viking blood: Mead made of honey and cherry juice.
 
Zzyzzogeton, what would you consider mead that was fermented in plastic one gallon spring water jugs with a balloon on top with a hole as an airlock? Used 2 or 3 lbs of honey and raisins.

...I have since gotten more sophisticated in my methods.
 
You've seen "The most interesting man in the world" beer commercials......well here's a spin off from that.....

"I don't normally drink and drive..........but when I do...........I get shitfaced."

If you've seen the commercial, you will get it. That was a joke btw....anyway.....cheap Vodka for me. Popov blue label. 100 proof. It's all I drink.

 
dynamicmoves said:
Zzyzzogeton, what would you consider mead that was fermented in plastic one gallon spring water jugs with a balloon on top with a hole as an airlock? Used 2 or 3 lbs of honey and raisins.

...I have since gotten more sophisticated in my methods.
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I'll have to research it a bit to see if that combination has it's own designation, but off the top of my head, I would call it a "pyment" since raisins are just dried grapes.

JWL said:
Nice post, zzyzzogeton. I have all of my mead recipes and techniques up on my website, www.bardicbrews.net. Check 'em out if you wish.....
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Thanks, JWL. I'll wander over there and take a look.
 
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