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A little flat but it tasted fine.

Last drops of Rougette #3, gotta think of Rougette #4 to be created.

And lil' piołunówka to whet the appetite, and three nicely-louchin' fellas:

Saw a bottle of Kubler 53 at the local liquor store. Just poured a glass.... It has a strange aftertaste & louches like Arak (almost instantly). It's also very sweet. I don't think I'll be buying another bottle of it.

At least the trip wasn't a complete waste, I found a bottle of Thomas H. Handy Sazerac Rye, uncut & unfiltered. 67.4 degrees.

Kübler is funky. Unquestionably.

Just poured a glass of the Kübler 53 I bought about a year ago. Louche was much slower like I would expect & the weird aftertaste is at a minimum. I'm shocked how different the 2 versions are.

Energy at WS rated it 89 out of 100. Not even close.

bah.
All I have is vodka here.

Okay, that's a lie. I also have rum, goldschlager, 10 kinds of wine, whiskey, creme de menthe, etc. I just don't have any cola. I need cola. Need cola to go with the rum.

Otherwise I'll just be having more blue raspberry vodka. Vodka and I are barely speaking since that Sunday two weekends ago...

Slo night.

Worked on a small microprocessor based data logger project I'm doing for the Race bike for next year.

Had a couple glasses of Belgian Special and Night Terror. I'm craving munchies. I need to give th dog a bath tonight since I missed bathing him this week. The Rasberry Saison is pretty good for only 3%abv.

Maybe I'll have a glass of Bugger Absinthe next.

In my opinion, it was almost the same as Arak Razzouk.
I do like Razzouk, it is just not absinthe.

I don't know, I have a bottle of Razzouk & I think I like it better than the US Kubler.

I tried the US Kubler a couple weeks ago. I compared it to Razzouk, without having the Razzouk to taste with the Kubler sample.
My comment came from memory. I'm sure you are correct.
I haven't bought a bottle of Kubler. I tried a sample at a gathering.

Kouzobler is what it name suggests, a slightly enhanced version of cheap ouzo. Arak, on the other hand, is more complex, though 2-ingredient only.

And Arak contains aniseed, whereas Kouzobler is badianed to the core.

Aberlour 12yr Double Cask
Balvenie 15yr Single
Glenkinchie Distillers Edition 1991

I'm just getting started.

Glenrothes 1992. A short pour so it will last a bit longer.

1987 is next.

What, no Sheep Dip™?

They don't carry that at the State Store.

A short interruption.

I'm just finishing the 1987.

Glenmorangie Burgundy should be next.

Found a place here called Marche Bacchus.
Wine and cheese in the late afternoon.
Overlooking a lagoon.

Lovely!

Wish I'd found it earlier.

The cheese & lagoon sound good.

The ducks are cute, too.

This duck?

Some Dunkel Pils and Titan Ale (Hoppy brown ale)

Some aged sour beer, quite good.
Some sour homebrews.

May well have talked the owner of the brewery into
buying a bunch of used bourbon barrels.
Sweet...

John Bull Ale, Lech, Wyborowa, Seagram's and Metaxa 5-very nice meeting with folks from high school after so much time.

Cruising high schools again?

Call it an unofficial reunion of two F classes ('93-97'- my cousin's class and 94'-'98- mine). There shall be another one I bet mebbe that year.

That's generally what I remember about 'F' classes, genius...

You end up having to repeat them the next year.

Nope, buddy. F class was the name of ours, just as others were in E, or I, or even G. It is just the symbol. F stood for general profile with extended English.

Repetitio mater studiorum est.

Boggy Pastis, some HellBitch, some verte de tanacetum 2006-the batch is gone, and I am quite happy just because, 'out the reason.

Hatteras clam chowder on the stove and
Clamsinthe in the glass. The I have to go and read some poetry at an event around the corner.

I was interviewed for a jobby closer to home with the local "Art Alliance." Maybe I'll get it and have to really work.

RL is still kickin' my ass but altogether life is good.

I'm down to drinking Lucid again.
Why is it that I don't mind the flavor?


Kind of like sometimes I enjoy an ice cold High life (only from the bottle though).

I prefer the freshness
of a keg.

Aluminium is da bomb!

If you don't stop that, you'll go blind.

I am already, butt I can promise AL is my last studies.

Rat du Merde. Well aged and excellent.

That stuff gets much better with age, I haven't picked up any in over a year. I need to stock the cellar with more for future drinking.

I just drank about half a bottle
of Glenmorangie Madiera Wood
finish and it didn't get me drunk
at all...I took my sweet time drinking
it though. I guess this is what it means
to enjoy the drink. Not just getting
fucked up.

Xit is female is French. Like death.

A little absinthe suisse blanche #3 here, ooh wee.

Yeah, but I suspect the maker misspelled that on purpose. I'd be rolling in my grave if I were dead.

But I'm not (yet).

damn

Belle Amie again today, and I retract my previous "insight", Dinky...

It's already as good as, or better than L'Artianale, so fuck you, beertender!

Develop a real palate instead of hiding behind your alleged absinthe status, and then maybe we'll talk.

Ha!

Off the wagon and
on the rage.

HellBitch green here.

There was a little
too much to take
to my family when
I head back to Michigan
next week.

Didn't realize your family was from there, Liver.

At last I get the Head connection...Siamese twins separated at birth?

You forgot the "mpa", butt you friggin' betcha...I got dink(upN)y's "insight" right here.

I don't believe I've ever seen you like this.

Perhaps you're infectious, buddy.

Nah, Liver nailed it, too much consecutive sobriety really sobers a body up, and that suxxx.

The wagon's history.