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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy new Coronavirus coping tool: Ketel One and diet tonic. It's so relaxing. Cheers everyone!
Shermann
(7,423 posts)ret5hd
(20,501 posts)I bought two bottles of Thomas Handy Sazerac Rye whiskey for about $50 or $60 a bottle at Goody Goody liquor store. I used about a half bottle, moved on to something else, then just kinda drifted off of drinking.
The other day I was watching a video about whiskey, and it was mentioned as being very expensive. I looked up the price on the web...$100 MSRP, but almost impossible to find. $550 - $800+ on the secondary market.
I think I'll have a sip now.
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)The perfect quarantini, shaken, not stirred. And Death's Door is a real thing, and despite the forbidding name in today's context, a favorite:
This is one a the very few (read damn few) vodkas that is actually produced by a small distiller. Not bought in bulk (by the tank truck or railroad tank car) and relabeled like a lot of vodka these days or redistilled (rectified) then bottled by by someone trying to look like a small distiller. Produced entirely from organic certified hard red winter wheat from Washington Island, Wisconsin.
In an effort to produce a more eco-friendly sustainable product, Deaths Door sources all their organic wheat from their home island. Unlike most vodka producers, Deaths Door starts from scratch -process and mash the grain, ferment it, distill it in small batches using a Christian Carl hybrid pot and column still, and bottle it so that it ensures quality and consistency from the grain to the bottling. Most of the other vodkas (in Russia and America) buy bulk ethanol, tweak it, and add water. This is a much more labor intensive process.
https://spiritsreview.com/reviews/deaths-door-vodka/
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)lkinwi
(1,477 posts)It will get me through the clusterf*ck presser that will be on shortly.
Cheers
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)mcar
(42,337 posts)Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)Went to the neighborhood liquor store last week to stock up on a couple of things, and before we really even asked, the clerk pulled out a 1.75l bottle for us, LOL! We couldn't resist. I have to use 2 hands to get it out of the freezer and pour it. It should last us awhile, at least.
Cheers!
librechik
(30,674 posts)mainer
(12,022 posts)Since chloroquine is derived from quinine. A lot safer than aquarium cleaner.
Shermann
(7,423 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Probably a good thing since people have been bringing up the fact that quinine and its derivatives can be really harmful if you have too much.
It's not going to do anything to the Trump Lung virus.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)2 months ago I thought it might be a problem.
Now its coping!
Craft beer turned my too excessive beer consumption into a hobby.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)I've been making use of the Sternewirth Privilege...
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)Must be a reason Russia only has like 200 cases of Covid right? I dunno maybe because Vlad Putin's a lying lieful liar, but my theory is the vodka so I'm loading my diet until further notice.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Undoubtedly not enough to do anything to Captain Trumps.
But I remember that the gin & tonic was born in British-controlled India to fight malaria.