Beer and Society

[dean2k]

.... Whatever it is you enjoy, keep enjoying it and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

End of rant.

[redoubt]

.... Whatever it is you enjoy, keep enjoying it and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

End of rant.

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[GAM]

I don't take that as a rant at all.

I hope we all have tried "things" out of our norm and liked or atleast enjoyed them.

Gin and tonic was not on my radar 5 years ago but on a hot summer day its great.

Sandy

[RossBee]

I don't take that as a rant at all.

I hope we all have tried "things" out of our norm and liked or atleast enjoyed them.

Gin and tonic was not on my radar 5 years ago but on a hot summer day its great.

Sandy

yuk, yuk, for me on that one. Now Gin at room temperature with a slice of lime and olive, hello. Or Gin with a 'rita' mix as a slushy, that's an all day thing. I like the way you think.

[mumblecrunch]

They've got a super gingery premium ginger beer at Sobeys that takes a shot of gin and a big squeeze of lime just fine.

For me though the king of gin-based cocktails is a negroni: gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth. Not for everyone (too bitter for most people) but a brilliant pre-dinner drink , Campari being a trie digestive bitters.

And a good G&T is right and proper on a hot summer day.

[RossBee]

They've got a super gingery premium ginger beer at Sobeys that takes a shot of gin and a big squeeze of lime just fine.

For me though the king of gin-based cocktails is a negroni: gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth. Not for everyone (too bitter for most people) but a brilliant pre-dinner drink , Campari being a trie digestive bitters.

And a good G&T is right and proper on a hot summer day.

Sounds like a mouthful, just added this to the "bucket list"! By the way, does it have to be warm weather or just weather for this?

[mumblecrunch]

Sounds like a mouthful, just added this to the "bucket list"! By the way, does it have to be warm weather or just weather for this?

For me it's an any time at all drink but especially as a pre-dinner cocktail before a rich meal. Also easy enough to make at home if you've got the stuff: 1 part gin, 1 part campari, 1 part sweet vermouth, stirred with lots of ice, served neat (or with a floater cube or two) in a rocks glass and garnished with an orange slice. Some folks will add a shot of angostura or even orange bitters. Some people play with the proportions a little. But that's the classic recipe. If you're ordering it, speak clearly (or with a comical italian accent ) or you might get a funny look. Just don't let them serve you anything with club soda in it.

[GuingesRock]

For non-beer drinks I like martinis, Campari and soda, scotch or Irish, and wine. I used to like gin and tonic back in the UK but haven’t had one for donkey’s years.

It also depends where you are. In Greece I would drink lots of Ouzo, Greek wine and Mataxa brandy, but those drinks just don't taste the same anywhere else. Same with Tequila and Mexico. In the South of France I’d just want wine and le Pastis 51. In England it’s just beer at the pub. Ireland same, beer at the pub, Guinness and nothing else there though.

It isn’t necessarily the country, it can be the place or the weather. G&T just wouldn’t taste right at Stillwells, nor would a Campari and soda. It’s the wrong setting.

I think it has a lot to do with the setting ...where are you? who are you drinking with? what season is it? are you at a restaurant? is it Christmas Eve by the fire? That has a lot to do with what you feel like drinking. Society is the biggest setting to sit down in and have a drink.

Brewnosers is a society. What will you feel like drinking when you are out with a group of Brewnosers? there's a prize for the right answer.

[RossBee]

Well said Mark.

[GuingesRock]

^ Your post (the "rant") was pretty good also.

My mother tells a funny story about the Queen Mother, and some of my mother's stories are true. LOL.

Anyway, the palace has a lot of older gay men working down in the kitchens, and she used to call down and say "would one of you old queens down there bring this old queen a Gin & It." "Gin & It" is short for Gin and Italian Vermouth, which is apparently what she liked to drink.

Then there's the US president, drinking home brew made with extract in his Whitehouse. I wonder what the first lady drinks?

[Josh]

Little late to the topic, but that anecdote was my favourite bit from the Acadia workshop.

"She'll never say, 'Give me your most tasteless, insipid wine.'"
--Peter Egelston, on requesting light beer

Read this piece recently RE the rise of craft beer in Japan. Roughly half of the craft-drinking demographic is women. http://ignition.co/90" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[McGruff]

I have a buddy who lives with his cousin and she drinks beer from a coffee mug and tosses in the microwave for 30 seconds or so. I guess she has never heard of "Who wants a cold one"?

[GuingesRock]

People think I'm very odd, because I mix my red and white wine with quite a bit of ice water at restaurants when the weather is hot, (at least I suspect they think I'm odd for that reason only ). It's very refreshing and I delight in knowing that I spent many summers I the south of France (Provence), when I was at university, working in the scorching hot fields, picking melons and tomatoes, and that's what the French do when they go home for lunch and a siesta. It's done in French society, but not the proper thing at all in Canadian society, and of course we know more about wine here than the French actually do.

ps. I also grind black pepper onto my bread and butter, and always have. No excuse for that one. Apart from that, I conform relatively well at restaurants, and follow expected codes.

[GAM]

Thats not why they think your odd, Mark! I do the same in very hot weather. Keeps you sober and hydrated. As to the pepper, as long as you keep your cloths on (and not just you) its and open field to enjoy your food as you see fit. The thing I like in a meal mate is calm (not screaming) conversing and openness to the odd ways we pick up in our lives.

Sandy