Drink check thread

antillese

It’s been a long week and I’m in a mood for my favorite Canadian beer… Sapporo.

Also have this pint a buddy brought over from a local brewery. Greater-Portland light industrial neighborhoods are lousy with them, and some are really really bad (looking at you Ancestry Brewing - I can’t tell any of your beers apart) but this one is pretty decent.

VCZ shown for good measure.

antillese

antillese Update: Vanguard Brewing Co’s “Puky Pale Pale Ale” is alright. It’s fine.

fetus8

Just doing a case swap on my ITX PC and having some water out of a comically large Nalgene bottle.

connrrr

water by the fire out of a piss green nalgene!! after finishing off some kind of wine out of a brandy snifter.

Video Game King

You know, a part of me wishes I’d saved the Spirit Bomb and Bob Ross energy drinks I bought off FYE for this thread. But alas, I already drank both of them to ring in 2022. They’re the exact same drink.

tapevulture

DaveedNoo

hellomrkearns nice! I dig this design

tomjonjon

Got this as a holiday gift. More like a fruit purée than a beer. This is the last of 4. I enjoyed them all.

KennyL

Negroni

sabertoothalex

this stuff is so good!!! I first had it at a Szechuan restaurant and it went so perfectly with the spice

thebryanjzx90

Hooray finally done with work and ready to start the weekend with a different drink to check.

Fishie

thebryanjzx90 Old Belgium says hi

◉◉maru

I just realized this is a good place to share wine recommendations.

I am starting with pretty expensive stuff so just memo these names for your next Barmitzvah, but this is what I had today during a pretty highbrow saturday meal. (Hands not mine.)

Auguste Clape Cornas 2017
https://www.vivino.com/US/en/auguste-clape-cornas/w/92366?year=2017
Classic Rhône red, perfect with savory meat and soups or celery mash. This wine is life.

Armand Pommard 1er Cru 2015
https://www.vivino.com/US/en/comte-armand-pommard-1er-cru-clos-des-epeneaux-monopole/w/1129143?year=2015
A well rounded Pinot, well suited for Duck and such meats, or blue cheese.

But these are pretty bonkers prices I see for import so let me add three reasonable California classics I am always happy to see on a menu. (Hands not mine, again.)

Slam Dunk
https://www.vivino.com/US-CA/en/slam-dunk-red/w/8980339?year=2020&price_id=27106708
Fantastic value for money, this is just as good as many posh French red wines priced with an extra 0 on the menu. It’s also a very versatile wine that you can slot in the rotation at any point in the menu. Also it has the same name as a great manga so what more can you ask?

Conundrum
https://www.vivino.com/US/en/conundrum-wines-red-blend-california/w/4218931
Another awesome Zinfandel. Much stronger so better if not the only wine on the roster that night, and highly recommended as the last wine of the night, because you’ll still taste Conundrum on the next bottle otherwise. I swear this wine has an aphrodisiac power, as well.

Bread and Butter
https://www.vivino.com/JP/en/bread-and-butter-chardonnay/w/1755251
One of the best and most well known Chardonnay wines on the market nowadays. Not necessarily my style (I am more the Alsace pinot gris type for whites) but super welcoming wine for newcomers, with those distinctive buttery notes and super aromatic aftertaste. You won’t win any cool points with this choice but it’s the safest pick for the smoothest lick.

hellomrkearns

◉◉maru really appreciate this and hope others share their recommendations! I know very little about wine and am usually overwhelmed when it comes to picking a bottle.

yeso

can we set some ground rules no making fun of what people (me) for what they have to consume due to social or relationship circumstances

◉◉maru

yeso I can’t promise anything if the Bulls pick terrible champagne for their victory parade in June.

antillese

yeso Thought that went without saying in general on this whole forum. If one scrolls through this thread, lotta people posting water, lotta people posting beer, lotta people posting energy drinks, lotta people posting non-caffeinated teas. 👍

yeso

◉◉maru what would you recommend? I’ll email customer service with your picks

this is the executive suite menu: https://www.unitedcenter.com/assets/1/7/UC_Suite_Menu_2021-22.pdf

tapevulture

antillese what if i post myself drinking an Iced Beer

◉◉maru

yeso Champagne recommendations for future World Champion Mac McClung

Blanc de Blancs is worth the hype. It’s Champagne which has been made with white grapes, usually 100% Chardonnay. (It might be unintuitive given the color but conventional Champagne is typically made with blends of Chardonnay and young Pinot).

Blanc de Blancs gives the wine a much smoother and lighter taste, is usually less headache-inducing AND it’s way easier to wash away once DeMar and Lonzo douse your executive jacket with it.

I think some high quality Blanc de Blancs which should be relatively easy to find in the US unless your country invades Iraq again are Ruinart and Perrier-Jouet. Ruinart is a pretty sexy bottle to boot.

Technically I am on topic because I had one of these bottles a few days ago.

yeso this is the executive suite menu: https://www.unitedcenter.com/assets/⅐/UC_Suite_Menu_2021-22.pdf

From their selection, the only one I know is Taittinger which is pretty old school French but does the job. Like any French player involved in the NBA, I am not convinced it’s worth the price they’re asking for. Checking their other wines, they have a pretty strong US Cabernet selection. Orin Swift and Seqoia Grove are excellent wines.

exodus (it’s probably not my kind of wine at all but I keep making jokes about it so I bought it)

Wait, Souplesse is the part that makes you laugh? You should know Île de Conas said out loud literally means « Bitch Island » haha.

yeso

no drinking today but “brunch” flavored legal edibles (close to $40 after tax). This is the coolest way to take drugs

tapevulture Iced Beer

vietnamese food in the summer w iced beer is pretty nice

antillese

tapevulture

If you put ice in your beer, hey I’ve seen people advocating for weirder stuff in this forum.

If you are advocating for Milwaukee’s Best Ice I will tell you the story about my famously cheap Grandpa. He discovered Milwaukee’s best Ice just in time to be excited about it at his 75th birthday. My brother who was a college freshman at the time teased my grandpa mercilessly for drinking the same beer the frat kids were drinking.

thebryanjzx90

Fishie your beers are better than the ones these new upstarts are making.

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