Rape is yeller
and it stinks.

Pretty when it blooms
in big, bright rectangles
of landscape.

Contrast of red
corn poppies
on the sidelines.

Some think
cilantro stinks.

What do you
think?

Cilantro seeds rule.

beers, beers beers,
Does that help?

How's come the person who started the thread, who has total unruly powers, didn't move it to the top. And is such person OK as he hasn't posted in a bit.

Anyway, cervezas rojo followed by absintos lucidos. Damn I love red beer. Have found a bit of tomato juice helps the lucid as well.

Luciderpiss.

I started to use rape-seed oil as part of my naturalization in Netherrhinania (Schweineschmalz was out of the question) until my place started to smell so sickeningly sweet that I had to give up that experiment. Fortunately there's also plenty of excellent butter and olive oil available here.

Cilantro can be fine as long as the dosage stays below the soap threshold.

Indeed!™

Żywiec beer-served in the proper 500ml, Akron brandy as a chaser (too much vanilla fer our palates, and too less alcohol, to call it a spirit, sumthin' like a cheap, stronger (30%) wine), and Irish Whiskey, served the traditional way-neat, 1/3 of their glass.

Today our uncle wuz celebratin' his namesday and it wauz sum sort of home warmin' party of his and my cousin's as well.

Love the new title, boss.

I've been very busy, stressed and anti-social the past few weeks or so.
All over now, except the busy, but that's almost done.

Here's the one light, and a dim one at that.
I'm now able to drink Kubler, at my hoodie pub.

There's something kinda nice, after all these years, about drinking absinthe in public. Legally, I mean.

On the downside, all my Coors-light-drinking-blue-collar-older-than-Jesus-friends now think I'm a pretentious twat.

Two years of drinking beer with the guys in the wife-beaters.
One night with a proper glass of absinthe and I'm "uppity."

I for one know that it's gonna take WAY more than one glass of absinthe in a blue-collar bar before they think of you as pretentious.

Shoot, a year's worth of cosmos and manhattans might be a long-shot.

Good to have you back, though. By the way, if they do kick you out for being too uppity, did find Kubler at the Rain bar in Luxor for $12 a glass. Drink there everynight and we might call you uppity and pretentious, however.

...and besides, Coors is a bit uppity anyways, haven't they been told Coors makes a better/cheaper beer called Keystone? Better taste profile with a $12 30-pack.

I was a Keystone Light gal in my tweens.

But get this, they haven't figured out how much to charge me yet, so they're charging me for anisette at $4 per glass. Like I can complain...

At a 300% mark-up, typical for bars, they should charge me $12.50 per glass for the Kubler.
Like I'm gonna argue.

Took me and a friend and some serious calculator time to get that, by the way.

Christ, at $4/glass, might be cheaper to drink at the bar than to buy a bottle and drink at home. And a shit bar serving anisette? Funny. Blue collar bars here have a bottle of bourbon, jack, vodka, and cheap rum on the shelf. They do tend to have a bit of beer, as well, however.

My bar is not blue collar. It just attracts blue collar.
Something which makes me happy.
White collar here, too. Boring.

Also gold collar, as my bar attracts a lot of pimps with really bad legal advice.

Gold collar is sweet. Hoping someday to be able to go into an exam room carrying a lotta bling and, if they say they can't afford what I want them to pursue, I can offer them a few options...

Those options would be legitmite options involving a few financial advisors I know.

or prostitution...

Yes, dear.

Can you tell I've been in a relationship for a while?

Ya gotta think of those you are in the haul with, and if they aren't supposed to be there, consider them gone. If you can see them there in 6 months. 6 years, and 60 years, and they gotta large dong, keep them. If not, why bother.

Wha?

Obviously not my motto, especially with the end statement.

Wowser, I say what the fuck?

Only a few minutes ago -- I need another drink like the moon needs another crater.

So I am back with another drink. Still no clue, other than don't over-think your relationship.

and peace, and good tidings.

and I might have hit on your sister.

I'd rather just play Monopoly with Jesus and some pennies.

And I mean OUR Jesus.

But ya fuck one goat...

Some rough sex would be nice.

Vintage Martini Rosso.

Are you serious?

You bring the Monopoly board and I'll bring the pennies.

Yup, I am serious.

Send me some.

We have just killed the last bottle, butt when I get sum more (hopefully that shall happen soon), I wood definitely save sumthin' fer ya.

Moonshine from somewhere near Strzyżów, has a typical odour, but is very smooth. Wine-based but not burnt™. Little sweetness in the initial palate. When it is analyzed, we will know more, looks like it has low methanol content, but the rest might be higher. I got it yesterday from one of my former students.

"near Strzyżów"

Isn't that in northwest Arkansas?

Not really. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strzy%C5%BC%C3%B3w

However, the place it is made in is that village Żarnowa.

ShitWow is by the
nipple of Poland!

Ah, xit, Boggy...

A beautiful spring day after a week of chilly rain and drizzle! Some Commune de Paris and now a lillte Hellbitch.


Unemployment is good (except for the lack of dough). A few odd jobs help.





Fuck slavery.

Last I checked unless you were Latino, slavery was pretty-much abolished in the US. And don't even get me started on union labor...

So I started with the Duplais Balance with 2 small sugar cubes. WAY TOO SWEET. Nice "balance" other than the sweetness. This is obviously one I will try next time without sugar. Overall not bad, could be a bit thicker with some flavor, but no obvious concerns with it. Would place it in the top-5 of CO. Need to try it with less sugar to decide if I want to order it again.

Followed with Brevens. Might I say that this absinthe has the best neat odor profile of most any absinthe I have smelled, and if I could squish it into my Glade plug-ins I would. That being said, the smell once watered down 1:3 with one cube had an off-smell to it, which was easily distinguishable in its flavor. A small amount of the bathwater taste that I have found in absinthes that have been cooked a bit too hot. Don't know if it is tails following over or if it is a burnt taste, but it is off none-the-less. Still a strong bite with a spicey profile that, without the off-taste, would be in my top 3 of CO absinthes. Spicey goodness, that's what I like. It does have a VERY strong resemblance to an HG I have tried in the past, but the more I try to link it, the more my head hurts. Unlikely to order again unless the off-taste is resolved, however if is resolved would likely be ordered again and again.

Lastly drinking a glass of Hellbitch. I will admit this is the nicest colored and louched CO verte that I have seen. Beautiful! Taste is well balanced with a bit of the citrus notes that were previously described, however I don't think that those notes were as overwhelming as I expected. Overall feel the absinthe flavors are in-check and feel this is a good traditional offering. That being said, once again I am picking up the off-flavor that I noted in the Brevens, but quite a bit more powerful. The amount of off-taste I am picking up is reminiscent of several good HG's that others have praised, but didn't bid well with me. Curious if the coloring is the culprit of both the Brevens and the Hellbitch. Were they heated with herbs floating free in the batch and then strained, or a different approach taken? Anyways, feel that Hellbitch has a bit of work but is off to a great start, wish I had more personal pointers to offer to him but I, unfortunately, do not:( Am very curious how his blanche compares to the verte and if the same bit of taste is carried into that.

Could be I am sensitive to that taste, as others have not mentioned it in absinthes that I have noted a significant amount present. However it is not the "iodine" taste others note occasionally, it truly is a bit of diluted bathwater taste. Might be an herb not agreeing with my palate but, if so, still haven't picked out that herb.

Now onto the bottle of Versinthe...;)

Actually went back to the bottle of Duplais with one sugar cube, was a good combo and glad I got a full liter of it.

Overall happy with the total purchace of Duplais, Hellbitch, and Brevens, not to mention that I even bought a bottle of Jade NO (which had been my personal favorite "ordered" since Moonman, although I haven't tried his last two repros) which, personally, will not even be broken out til I am either VERY bored or out of the hooch.

And with Versinthe Blanche waiting in the cabinet, doubt that boredom will come into play

And I do want to mention the secondaries are amazing when compared to Lucid. Wish I could compare them to Kubler but not drank more than one americanized version. I like feeling and knowing I am drunk but yet not seeing it...

Way too many words.
I'll go back when I'm sober.

I was waiting for the punchline...

Funny, ya mix Hellbitch with Brevens and what have ya got? Hevens, or maybe it's Bretch. Needless to say you mix Duplais with Hellbitch you get Hellais/DupBitch, both of which were possible Oldsmobile models that were discontinued before they were created (as most of them should have been).

Found out today that, due to unpopular demand and trying to double-book ourselves on the slowest day of the week, I get tomorrow off with no pay. Am trying to catch-up with some much needed drinking so I can enjoy the day off! Hellbitch followed with Duplais. Sounds like a broken record.

HG cherry brandy, sumthin' like 55% or so, goes th throat like a waer™. Need to louch sumthin'-water in th freezer already.

God likes Trinity.

But usually doubled:

All yer posts belong to me! ARP-ya are so weak.

What are you shits tippin' tonight?

Believe it or not, I'm drinkin' Fou Verte. I know, crappy old swill, but it is what I have. It has been in the downstairs fridge forever, and it might as well be saying, "Drink me, asshole, so you can get on to the good stuff". Dutifully, I am. Over and over tongiht. It tastes a lot better after the first... 3. I couldn't bring myself to break into the good stuff tongith. xit T O N I G H T. Betterer/ There.

You xits?

Chutehead On the Way to Getting XitFaced

After it all hits te bloodstream, it doesn't seem quite so shittty. Specially after more of them. But shitty enough to leave my white ass sitting here posting by myself, you lame non-drinkin nonpostin asses. Damned lounge.

Teatotallying bastards!

Perhaps we're now just far too inebriated to post... Not that it ever stopped us.

After years and years of posting my tipping activites, I just decided everyone assumes I am drunk, there's no use recounting the same ole same ole.

But for you...
2 glasses of Parducci Pinot Noir at work, after work (nothing special, but it was free).
3 quick Sierra Nevada pale ales at the local watering hole.

A bomber of 10% "Vermonster" barley wine from Rock Art brewery.

...and now? I dunno.