Uggh. Was driving in like-no traffic at 60 mph and then some slow ass driver cuts in front of me and I had to slow down to 45 and because of that I just missed the light but HE got through. Ugggggggh. Got a soda from the fridge and a cup and wanted a straw as well, but I ran out of straws. UGggggGGgh. Ugggh. Can't find my favorite flavor of monster almost anywhere, anymore. My mattress is so comfortable that I don't want to get out of it in the morning. FML, amirite?
Brother, you have no idea. And part of my job is teaching others how to be prissy about alcohol, which is even more fun. Things like the difference between a gibson and a gimlet, straight up vs. neat, Brunello vs. Brunello di Montalcino... they look at me like I have three heads sometimes, but then it comes up at a table and they're saved embarrassment by attending to the fundamentals. Not that they're ever grateful... the shits. Haven't stocked or had anyone request Wild Turkey in probably 10 years. Japan might be the last place where it's popular. Just for shits and grins, let's do a US vs. Japan whiskey price check. According to the NH non-Medoc-stocking liquor store: Old Crow 750ml: $8 (never had it, but I'm getting hungover just thinking about it) Wild Turkey 750ml: $20 (essentially one degree above swill prices) Blanton's Single Barrel 750ml: $59 (good shit... love me some bourbon)
How much is my beloved Eagle Rare 10 year old in your parts, Homes? In L.A. I paid $35 at the cheapest place (BevMo) for 750 ML, so it would be $40-$45 at my neighborhood liquor store. Never had Blanton's. I fell...well, maybe "in love" is a little strong, but Eagle Rare was the one for me. (Lots of vanilla, candied almonds, & caramel, my favorite notes. ) PS The kids are missing out on some good info. I could geek out on this stuff all day. ETA: Forgot my whine among the booze: I only have four Cadbury Caramel eggs left in the fridge, and Easter is a whole year away. edited because I misspelled caramel, which should be a crime.
you get decent scotches in your liquor store ? Over here you are lucky if they stock glenfiddich - if you want highland park or ardbeg you have to buy it on line
Seems all they stock is Eagle Rare Single Barrel for $29, so not the same thing. 10yrs is noteworthy for bourbon. Wouldn't be anything for scotch, but bourbon is usually only aged for 5-8 years, I think. Yeah, it gets a full aisle. 40 bottles? 50? Not sure. Anything beyond a blend usually starts at $50 and gets into the $70+ range in a hurry. Looking at the website, I'm seeing at least ten different Highland Park varieties (including the 1968 for $4000), though you'd be unlikely to find all of them in any particular store. Arberg 10 is pretty cheap at $45. It's not terribly popular. Oban and Lagavulin and the McCallans tend to be the big ones you'll find in restaurants. I get $15 a glass and sell the shit out of it in the right market, which this is not.
most of the British (other than parts of Scotland and ulster) whisky market is blended shit like bells or teachers , unless you go to a specialist or buy straight from the distillery. I don't generally drink any more - But i do have the very occasional shot of single malt or of a decent bourbon - because it lasts a long time i can afford to buy a decent bottle - currently a tallisker 25 (which retails at 250 quid a bottle, but I got in part payment for some photo work I did for a specialist reseller)
Wild Turkey 101 in AZ is about 27$ with tax. I hate having to repress everything cause I have no one to unload on. Granted I don't want to have to go into to convoluted explanation of the finer points to some of it, before actually having said conversation. This is only the tip of the iceberg of shit I can't just talk to anyone about and it sucks royally.
I'll get back to you, but Wild Turkey 8 (8 year old) is ~$25 for a 750 ml, but at the right store you can get a liter for the same price. Wild Turkey 101 is...I wanna say about $20, but not sure. Old Crow is actually kinda hard to find, shouldn't have used it as an example, but Four Roses (base model) is $12 for a 750ml, Jack (not bourbon, I know) runs about $18-ish... I'll stop by the liquor store on the way home and get some solid pricing, this is definitely my sort of thing. Oooh, ooh, one that I like is Japan's "rarity" value drinks. Baseline Captain Morgan is about $12-15 a bottle. Captain Morgan Lime Bite? $35... Somewhere around what Wild Turkey Rare Breed costs.
Now you know how that wino yelling on the corner feels; it’s not like he has a host of ears to bend.
I only have one usbc charger in this room so I can't plug in my phone and Switch at the same time without getting out of bed ... Why is life so hard?
When it gets too cold so you close the window then it gets too hot so you open it up again and so on and so on.
When it's sunny but you don't have time to put on sunscreen so you wear a hoodie but the hoodie make you a bit hot.
Why is it that some supermarkets are so fond of the Farmer's Market Look, that they arrange their fruits and vegetables in a hodge podge 'stall' manner? So you think you've seen all the apples they have, choose some you're not particularly fond of, but any old port in a storm....then three aisles over, wheee, there are MORE apples, including the kind you want—so you have to trot back to the original place to replace the ones you didn't really want ...grrr. First world problem. Also bad layout design. If it was a real farmer's market, you'd cruise all the stalls and then return to the ones you want to buy from. Pushing a grocery cart through a clunkily-laid-out and crowded supermarket isn't quite the same thing.
We only get one kind of apples (oranges, grapes, whatever) per season here. I'd say "ooh, locovore, cool," but they import fruit from as far away as Israel...
Following the discussion of booze earlier, I was curious to look see what's available at some of the local liquor stores. I kind of wish I had the money to drop on a bottle of Bunnahabhain 46 Year Old Islay Single Malt, just to see what $10,000 scotch tastes like. (No different than $40 scotch, I'd wager.) Dang it! How come I don't have 10,000 in booze money?
Last time I tried picking up my favourite booze at the liquor store, I had to wait two weeks for them to order the Absinthe and Screech I usually drink (though not together) from Toronto.
It'll taste better but not $10k better. Whiskey is about status... kind of like cars. Does a half-million dollar custom Ferrari perform better than a nicely appointed $25k Toyota? Sure, but not by a factor of twenty. It still only fundamentally gets you from point A to point B.
There are too many new interesting shows on Netflix. I haven’t got the time to watch all of them. I can’t believe Netflix has done this to me.
I want to leave the house for a few days, but I'm afraid that my new automatic pet feeder might overfeed my pet.
Which is great, because if whiskey actually worked like that, the more expensive ones would be too tasty to comprehend, and of course irresistably addictive. It would most likely break the global economy clean in half, and distilleries would become Cyberpunk-style Megacorporations. Or something.
I did an estimate a few days for some painting work, and we agreed I would start on the job on Monday. This was gonna be my first solo job for a non family member. She was gonna text me to confirm and get me the deposit. I followed up this morning, and apparently in the last two days she sold the house and no longer needs a painter. :/
Do you have a stitch unpicker? That ought to do the trick. You know when you buy a bag of sweets and it's massive and it seems endless, but then you just keep eating them and suddenly you realise just how close to the bottom of the bag you are? Well, I'm almost out of Chamallows. I knew I should have bought a second bag, but I bought them on a trip and I was physically taken to the supermarket and allowed to buy what I want, but that almost never happens. Also, in case anyone was wondering, the loudest sound in the world is that of a Chamallows bag crinkling at half past two in the morning. And the scariest is a footstep when you're eating Chamallows. People Are Awake! Isn't my life just so hard?
Are you allowed to Amazon things or no? They're on Amazon in the US, so they probably are for you, too.
