what are you drinking right now?

[Larry Kart]

Delicious, potent morning coffee. I use a Scandinavian method, taught to me by a woman who lived for some years in Finland. Simple to make, it leaves you ready to ride a reindeer. I'll pass it along if anyone wishes.

I'm in!

You need a fine mesh strainer (fine enough to not let coffee grounds through), a metal one-cup measure, and a good-sized mug. Put the amount of ground coffee you think you might like into the cup measure (I go for two scoops), cover with water (not too much) and bring the coffee-water mixture almost to a boil on a burner; it should be bubbling but of course not over-flowing. Pour the coffee-near boiling water mixture through the strainer (you might want to stir the mixture as it's about to boil), which you've placed over the mug. Then pour cold milk through the grounds that remain in the strainer and into the mug, filling it. Then put the mug into the microwave and heat it; in my microwave about 1:40 does the trick. The result is rocket fuel. BTW, it helps to prevent spills and dribbles if you pour both the coffee-near boiling water mixture and the cold milk into the mug from a certain height above the rim of the mug, a few inches maybe, so that the stream of liquid is narrow. If this sounds complicated, the whole process takes just a few minutes once you get used to it. I do it each morning before I've had my coffee of course, and about the only other thing I can do then without coffee is stand upright.

You could heat the milk before pouring it into the mug through the grounds that are in the strainer, but I decided that's too much work for me, and it doesn't yield different results, I felt, than if you run things through the microwave. Of course, if you don't like a coffee-milk mixture, no matter how potent the results are, this whole method is beside the point.

[Jerry_L]

Tried my first Barking Squirrel last night. It's a smooth amber lager, more nutty malt than hop presence. it has more bark than bite.

Edited June 12, 2013 by Jerry_L

[erwbol]

Leffe Radieuse and Leffe 9°

[Jerry_L]

Ingredients: 100% Arabica Coffee

[erwbol]

Hertog Jan

[Soulstation1]

It's 108 degrees outside

Drinking water....

[alocispepraluger102]

don't let the glass fool ya.' this is mich ultra like swill. i call it virtual nothing.

[steve(thelil)]

Lagunitas Maximus 8.2 ABV IPA from a bottle. Had a draft Long Trail IPA at dinner. I've really liked Long Trail IPA on draft and was terribly disappointed the one time I bought a six pack. It seemed much less flavorful.

Edited June 13, 2013 by steve(thelil)

[Jerry_L]

Diet Pepsi Wild Cherry

Lagunitas Maximus 8.2 ABV IPA from a bottle. Had a draft Long Trail IPA at dinner. I've really liked Long Trail IPA on draft and was terribly disappointed the one time I bought a six pack. It seemed much less flavorful.

I recently tried Long Trail's Belgian White, from a bottle.

My review is: Feh!

Edited June 13, 2013 by Jerry_L

[erwbol]

Leffe Triple

[king ubu]

I love Leffe! But tonight I've just got some of my "default" beer around ...

[erwbol]

I had a few of those recently. If Urquell wasn't so expensive around here, I'd drink it more often. Thumbs up.

[steve(thelil)]

Diet Pepsi Wild Cherry

Lagunitas Maximus 8.2 ABV IPA from a bottle. Had a draft Long Trail IPA at dinner. I've really liked Long Trail IPA on draft and was terribly disappointed the one time I bought a six pack. It seemed much less flavorful.

I recently tried Long Trail's Belgian White, from a bottle.

My review is: Feh!

And this coming from a guy who in the same post admits to drinking Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi!!!!!

Edited June 14, 2013 by steve(thelil)

[king ubu]

I had a few of those recently. If Urquell wasn't so expensive around here, I'd drink it more often. Thumbs up.

It's by far the favourite of the ones I can get in many supermarkets (I can get Leffe blonde and sometimes brune - but hardly ever triple - there, too, but three 33cl bottles cost about as much as four 50cl cans of Pilsner ... which is still around twice as expensive as the cheapest lager they have on offer).

[erwbol]

Urquell is marketed as a specialty beer above €1,60 (33cl)in one giant supermarket chain around here. Leffe can be had more cheaply, especially blonde, all variants available. It's just that most Dutch pils sucks ass. Hertog Jan is OK, though. I mostly drink Belgian beer.

[Tim McG]

Lately, my wife has been making these tasty fruit smoothies. I guess they are supposed to give you all the nutrients and other good stuff without the sugars and corn starch-like fillers.

I just put away a blueberry and banana [with spinach, raw nuts and pineapple] smoothie that was just fabulous.

[erwbol]

You should see what a Budweiser would cost you in the lowlands.

Edited June 14, 2013 by erwbol

[king ubu]

Urquell is marketed as a specialty beer above €1,60 (33cl)in one giant supermarket chain around here. Leffe can be had more cheaply, especially blonde, all variants available. It's just that most Dutch pils sucks ass. Hertog Jan is OK, though. I mostly drink Belgian beer.

That's about the price I pay for a 50cl can ... but that's rather cheap in Switzerland. A 33cl bottle of Leffe (blonde or brun, same price) in the supermarket is about one and half times that, in specialised beer shops, it's at least twice that, the triple is at probably more than 4€ a bottle, so you see why I rather get these (or Duvel or whatever I can find - I love Belgian beer!) on special occasions.

But I do own four Leffe glasses ... got them as a gift (with something fitting to fill into them). Guess I'll need Duvel tulips as well, some day.

[erwbol]

That shows how artificially inflated prices for foreign beer can be. I pay about €6.70 for a six pack Triple. A six pack Brune would cost about €0.30 less.

(A six pack Blonde is €4.95 at the local liquor store. A 50cl can €1.29.)

Edited June 15, 2013 by erwbol

[Jerry_L]

Diet Pepsi Wild Cherry

Lagunitas Maximus 8.2 ABV IPA from a bottle. Had a draft Long Trail IPA at dinner. I've really liked Long Trail IPA on draft and was terribly disappointed the one time I bought a six pack. It seemed much less flavorful.

I recently tried Long Trail's Belgian White, from a bottle.

My review is: Feh!

And this coming from a guy who in the same post admits to drinking Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi!!!!!

Try the Long Trail Belgian White and get back to me with your impression. Witbier is not my preferred style, but i much prefer Flying Dog's Woody Creek White to the Long Trail in that style. I'm sure LT makes other styles I would enjoy more.

And it's Diet Pepsi Wild Cherry, not Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi. Sheesh!

Edited June 16, 2013 by Jerry_L

[Jerry_L]

A friend of mine loves the Leffe blonde, it's his default beer. It's just o.k. by me, not my favorite flavor. FWIW, the Beer Advocate Bros. gave it a low rating of 66 (poor). It's probably not the premium example of the style. In contrast, BA bros. gave Orval Trappist a world-class 100, but I have yet to try that.

I would like to try the Leffe Brune, though. I would probably like it better.

Edited June 16, 2013 by Jerry_L

[erwbol]

Not the best example, but it can be had more cheaply and every supermarket around here has it.

The new Leffe Royale Blonde Superieure is a lot more complex and has plenty of character.

[alocispepraluger102]

x 2

Edited June 16, 2013 by alocispepraluger102

[Jerry_L]

Old Dominion Cherry Blossom Lager

Edited June 16, 2013 by Jerry_L

[jlhoots]

Hendricks Gin on the rocks with a slice of cucumber & a lemon twist