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ghce
·Cheap and cheerful and drinking like a .....
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STANDY
··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorMade 50 celebration at midnight. 😉
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Watch my Whisky
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The reigning king of Japanese whisky.
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ghce
·Your guess is as good as mine.
But at least I got the obligatory watch shot in.
PS it is almost 20 year old Elderberry wine
But at least I got the obligatory watch shot in.
PS it is almost 20 year old Elderberry wine
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Foo2rama
··Keeps his worms in a ball instead of a can.
We did 5 samples.
Yama 12, and 18…
but the other 3 are the interesting ones.
cask strength 12 year old oak cask, sherry cask, and minzenuro cask.
12 is approx 80% white oak and 10% of the others plus about 5 others in small percentages for balance.
the 18 is 80 % sherry and 10/10 etc.
So it was great tasting the primary components of the 12 and 18 at cask strength. When will you ever get a Japanese whisky at cask strength?
plus a pure sherry Japanese whisky? Last time Yama did that it won whisky of the year 3 years in a row and those bottles are 8k each now? Man at cask strength it’s heavenly.
interesting note about the sherry. They send thier coopers to Spain to pick the trees. They cut them down and age the wood for three years outside the bodega. Then 3 years at the bodega with sherry in it. Then break it down, ship to Japan and then the whisky spends 12 years plus in those first full barrels.
if you know whisky…. Damn….
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Omegafanman
·Another 14-day nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa was announced last night. 🙁 Busted out this local red blend (cinsault, shiraz, mourvedre) from microproducer De Klein Wijn Koop to drown our sorrows…
From my Munich days the label looks like a Wolpertinger :0)
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Passover
·day nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa was announced last night.
This a reaction to COVID crisis, right?
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·This a reaction to COVID crisis, right?
Yes, it's an effort to free up hospital beds to handle COVID cases, which are currently surging in South Africa. This is the fourth time the SA government has completely banned alcohol sales since the beginning of the pandemic.
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerYes, it's an effort to free up hospital beds to handle COVID cases, which are currently surging in South Africa. This is the fourth time the SA government has completely banned alcohol sales since the beginning of the pandemic.
Interesting - alcohol and pot sales here were deemed essential services.
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kaapstadflaneur
·Interesting - alcohol and pot sales here were deemed essential services.
Unfortunately, a significant percentage of hospitalizations in South Africa are alcohol-related (alcohol poisoning, vehicle accidents from drunk driving, alcohol-fueled domestic violence, etc), particularly those cases that end up in the emergency room. So, the alcohol sales ban is a logical, though extreme, policy to reduce hospital caseload during the current COVID surge.
Of course, as soon as the SA government announced the sales ban, the bootleggers went to work...
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·Unfortunately, a significant percentage of hospitalizations in South Africa are alcohol-related (alcohol poisoning, vehicle accidents from drunk driving, alcohol-fueled domestic violence, etc), particularly those cases that end up in the emergency room. So, the alcohol sales ban is a logical, though extreme, policy to reduce hospital caseload during the current COVID surge.
Of course, as soon as the SA government announced the sales ban, the bootleggers went to work...
Every action tends to have an unplanned reaction made worse as all governments play to the crowd and the back pocket. Necessity is the mother of invention. I recall reading about Torpedo juice cocktails from WW2 .. no doubt a few people sadly getting blind drunk or dead from them. Mixed in World War II, made from pineapple juice and the 180-proofgrain alcohol fuel used in USA Navy torpedo motors. Various poisonous additives were mixed into the fuel alcohol by Navy authorities to render the alcohol undrinkable, and various methods were employed by the U.S. sailors to separate the alcohol from the poison. Aside from the expected alcohol intoxication and subsequent hangover, the effects of drinking torpedo juice sometimes included mild or severe reactions to the poison. I also recall reading during prohibition in the USA the Government added toxins to industrial alcohols to prevent misuse, which actually killed and disabled thousands of it citizens....who still drank it.
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Two dinner parties planned for this weekend. Thought I’d open this up. Mars tends to bottle at higher ABV so most of what they produce is not chill filtered and has a deeper range of flavour (and burn!).
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·First time drinking and wearing both 😀
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