What are you drinking now?

[Dark Lightning]

Grapes, actually.

[Randy]

Tootsie Roll hot cocoa. We ran out of coffee but a supply is coming in later today.

[Tank]

Tea

[Icarus]

Drinking less than I was a few weeks ago.  I have never really abused the John Barleycorn elixer but I had been using more than necessary.  I never ever drink if I am going out in the evening. With the virus threat I do not go out at all except in the rarest of events.  There is the booze component of entertainment as a result....or excuse. 

Embarrassing confession: It all started one night when I was at the computer. I was not at all impaired but I was sleepy. Drowsiness almost surely caused by the alcohol.  Evidently I fell asleep at the keyboard. Then I fell off the damned chair and skinned up one of my arms pretty badly. Blood!  That was a "what the hell happened" moment.  So, now I have been imbibing far more moderately.  An aside benefit of doing so is that I will spend less frequently at the liquor store.

Fatherly advice for my esteemed HAF friends.....enjoy but do not over do it. 

[Dark Lightning]

Drinking less than I was a few weeks ago.  I have never really abused the John Barleycorn elixer but I had been using more than necessary.  I never ever drink if I am going out in the evening. With the virus threat I do not go out at all except in the rarest of events.  There is the booze component of entertainment as a result....or excuse. 

Embarrassing confession: It all started one night when I was at the computer. I was not at all impaired but I was sleepy. Drowsiness almost surely caused by the alcohol.  Evidently I fell asleep at the keyboard. Then I fell off the damned chair and skinned up one of my arms pretty badly. Blood!  That was a "what the hell happened" moment.  So, now I have been imbibing far more moderately.  An aside benefit of doing so is that I will spend less frequently at the liquor store.

Fatherly advice for my esteemed HAF friends.....enjoy but do not over do it.

I've "over-served"  myself in the past, on a few occasions. These days all it takes is being tired, which I feel a lot. I started taking B-12 in some megadose thinking that it would help with my energy, but it ended up causing insomnia. I stopped taking it a few days ago, and caught up with my "sleep deprivation" by nodding off in front of my laptop. Luckily, I didn't fall over. I cut the gummies in quarters to see if I could get the benefit at a lower dosage.

BoT, I'm sipping on a Budweiser atm.

[billy rubin]

guinness and mezcal

shame they don't have agaves in ireland. they might have cooked up something really special

[Ecurb Noselrub]

guinness and mezcal

shame they don't have agaves in ireland. they might have cooked up something really special

Mixed together or separately?

[billy rubin]

i drnk the guinness first and the n pour the mezcal into the samecup

so a little of both i guess

neither goes very well withbuttermilk

[hermes2015]

Don't tell any Italians, but it is late afternoon and I am having a cappuccino from my machine.

[Ecurb Noselrub]

i drnk the guinness first and the n pour the mezcal into the samecup

so a little of both i guess

neither goes very well withbuttermilk

Mezcal tastes like burned jet fuel to me.  I never got it.  It was like an agave plant applied to Tequila University and flunked out in the first semester.  However, once in a moment of revelatory brilliance I did mix a little with some Scotch and it wasn't half bad.  Both are smoky - reminded me of the Candelilla wax burning pits in the deserts of northern Mexico that I visited many years ago.  Don't ask me why I was there.

[hermes2015]

i drnk the guinness first and the n pour the mezcal into the samecup

so a little of both i guess

neither goes very well withbuttermilk

Mezcal tastes like burned jet fuel to me.  I never got it.  It was like an agave plant applied to Tequila University and flunked out in the first semester.  However, once in a moment of revelatory brilliance I did mix a little with some Scotch and it wasn't half bad.  Both are smoky - reminded me of the Candelária wax burning pits in the deserts of northern Mexico that I visited many years ago.  Don't ask me why I was there.

Why were you there?

[billy rubin]

Mezcal tastes like burned jet fuel to me.  I never got it. 

could be genetic.

i used to sell blue gum eucalyptus honey at a farmer's market. to me it tasted like ordinary amber to dark amber honey, distinctive but not very different.

but to some people-- maybe one in twenty, the stuff tasted so bad thatthey would spit it out or walk around in circles waving their arms. i would ask what it tested like, and they would usually say

burnt, bitter, awful!! or something like that

i was fascinated to see who would and would not have the reaction, and i would warn people in advance

once i had a mother and her daughter walking in circles gagging while the husband just looked at them and laughed. he had no reaction at all.

[xSilverPhinx]

i drnk the guinness first and the n pour the mezcal into the samecup

so a little of both i guess

neither goes very well withbuttermilk

Mezcal tastes like burned jet fuel to me.  I never got it.  It was like an agave plant applied to Tequila University and flunked out in the first semester.  However, once in a moment of revelatory brilliance I did mix a little with some Scotch and it wasn't half bad.  Both are smoky - reminded me of the Candelária wax burning pits in the deserts of northern Mexico that I visited many years ago.  Don't ask me why I was there.

Why were you there?

Beat me to it.

[Ecurb Noselrub]

Supporting illegal wax smuggling by helping an impoverished village.  Not the sexiest thing, but that was pre-9/11 when the Texas-Mexico border was, in places, pretty wild. No Country for Old Men.

[billy rubin]

is wax smuggling a thing?