What are you drinking?

[SurgicalBrute]

These dudes are local, which is always nice

[RelentlessOblivion]

Coffee number two for the day, on he last of my Peruvian beans now.

[Thatguy]

1 hour ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Coffee number two for the day

OK. it must be coffee o'clock here too.

[Dead1]

I've had 4 coffees and it's noon.  However they're all decaf.  😵

 

Woke up still drunk from night before.  Bizarrely decaf coffee still gives me placebo affect I get from normal coffee!  😂

[SurgicalBrute]

Curmudgeon's Better Half

Curmudgeon is an old ale brewed with molasses and aged on oak; it becomes Better Half after aging—for 254 days—in bourbon barrels that have more recently been aging Michigan maple syrup

Good beer for a cold night...hope they bring this one back again sometime soon. I'm down to my last bottle

 

[RelentlessOblivion]

Coffee, and far from the best one I’ve ever made.

[thrashinbiker]

I'm drinking San Mig and listening to Slayer.  Pretty much my average Sunday evening, though as I am only one pint in, the farts haven't started yet.  Guarantee this room will stink like a bag of dry roasted peanuts and rotten cabbage by 22:30.

[AlSymerz]

If only we had high speed sniff-a-net you could share with everyone!

 

[thrashinbiker]

15 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

If only we had high speed sniff-a-net you could share with everyone!

 

Not sure I could handle all those deaths on my conscience, but hey, I would secure my place in MF history... even if there isn't anyone left to appreciate it  

[FatherAlabaster]

My son is 11, likes junk food, and has farts that can destroy a room like nobody's business, so I'm good.

[thrashinbiker]

12 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

My son is 11, likes junk food, and has farts that can destroy a room like nobody's business, so I'm good.

If I were to have had kids, that sort of thing would make me immensely proud.  

I remember I had some horrendously bad smelling farts when I was that age, too.  It sticks in my mind because I had just started high school.  Sadly the wooden chairs we were forced to sit on were not conducive to doing subtle/silent farts so I was often sent out of classes due to - as one teacher put it to my parents - "constantly noxious smells that distract the entire class".

Nowadays I think it's mostly due to beer consumption, medication and acid reflux.  Also, they linger.  And I do mean LINGER.  As in 30 minutes can pass, you can walk into a room that I've previously tooted in and still smell the remnants quite strongly.  

[AlSymerz]

A fart should be celebrated. The farter should be proud of their vapour. The surrounding group should congratulate the farter on a job well done, possibly even rank it....unless there is a follow through, then it's every man for themselves clearing the room.

 

The Christmas dinner table is where my family discusses farts. Without fail, every year, and it annoys the hell out of my mother. Sometimes such discussion happens at other times of the year but the Christmas dinner fart conversation goes for longer and has much better detail.

 

[thrashinbiker]

23 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

A fart should be celebrated. The farter should be proud of their vapour. The surrounding group should congratulate the farter on a job well done, possibly even rank it....unless there is a follow through, then it's every man for themselves clearing the room.

Never has a statement on the internet resonated so much.  Though to be fair, if you have attended as many biker rallies as I have, you will have learned not to even be scared of the follow-through, merely to give a mark out of 10 for stain length, width and accompanying aroma.  

25 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

The Christmas dinner table is where my family discusses farts. Without fail, every year, and it annoys the hell out of my mother. Sometimes such discussion happens at other times of the year but the Christmas dinner fart conversation goes for longer and has much better detail.

 

This is perfect.  Beyond perfect, even.  If you would like to enhance your familial discussion with practical demonstrations I am available, and the fee will be a modest few pigs in blankets and a few drinks.  

[AlSymerz]

6 minutes ago, thrashinbiker said:

Never has a statement on the internet resonated so much.  Though to be fair, if you have attended as many biker rallies as I have, you will have learned not to even be scared of the follow-through, merely to give a mark out of 10 for stain length, width and accompanying aroma.  

 

Back in the late 80's and 90's we did the Hells Angles and Comancheros yearly bashes. One was held in Nov/Dec the other in Feb. Four days of music, food, booze, entertainment and never ask any questions. They'd drink anywhere, they'd eat anywhere, they'd fuck anywhere, and they'd shit anywhere. You didn't want to fear the follow through but by geez you fucking did your best not to be close to one or be the one delivering.

 

12 minutes ago, thrashinbiker said:

This is perfect.  Beyond perfect, even.  If you would like to enhance your familial discussion with practical demonstrations I am available, and the fee will be a modest few pigs in blankets and a few drinks.  

It's even better these days because we go out for Christmas lunch. The only places around here that are open for Christmas lunch charge a fortune and therefore tend to get quite a few of the upper echelon snobs. We don't make a public scene about farts, and we don't talk loudly, but it's amazing how many people can hear a conversation about farts at a table in a room full of people. It's like they are deliberately eaves dropping on what others are talking about and not the people at their own table.

 

[thrashinbiker]

1 hour ago, AlSymerz said:

Back in the late 80's and 90's we did the Hells Angles and Comancheros yearly bashes. One was held in Nov/Dec the other in Feb. Four days of music, food, booze, entertainment and never ask any questions. They'd drink anywhere, they'd eat anywhere, they'd fuck anywhere, and they'd shit anywhere. You didn't want to fear the follow through but by geez you fucking did your best not to be close to one or be the one delivering.

I love the Hells Angles.  If you can get past their obtuse and often right way of looking at things you have friends for life.  

1 hour ago, AlSymerz said:

It's even better these days because we go out for Christmas lunch. The only places around here that are open for Christmas lunch charge a fortune and therefore tend to get quite a few of the upper echelon snobs. We don't make a public scene about farts, and we don't talk loudly, but it's amazing how many people can hear a conversation about farts at a table in a room full of people. It's like they are deliberately eaves dropping on what others are talking about and not the people at their own table.

 

The universal language of breaking wind transcends even the most polished, affected and elite forms of snobbery.  Silk, satin, denim or leather, there is nothing that shows total and utter complete uniformity than finding the subject of farts anything less than highly engaging and amusing.  If I haven't felt relaxed enough to fart in either an establishment or private residence, you can be sure there is no such thing as a second visit.  If I cannot feel satisfied in providing an anal symphony to a sympathetic (and amused) ear, then I will not be frequenting that joint ever again. 

[AlSymerz]

3 minutes ago, thrashinbiker said:

I love the Hells Angles.  If you can get past their obtuse and often right way of looking at things you have friends for life.  

 

We never had any major issues with either gang. Know your ground, know your business and keep the fuck out of their business and we always got paid, feed and watered for the weekend.

4 minutes ago, thrashinbiker said:

The universal language of breaking wind transcends even the most polished, affected and elite forms of snobbery.  Silk, satin, denim or leather, there is nothing that shows total and utter complete uniformity than finding the subject of farts anything less than highly engaging and amusing.  If I haven't felt relaxed enough to fart in either an establishment or private residence, you can be sure there is no such thing as a second visit.  If I cannot feel satisfied in providing an anal symphony to a sympathetic (and amused) ear, then I will not be frequenting that joint ever again. 

The problem is that the upper echelon don't get the enjoyment of a fart as the rest of us do.

[thrashinbiker]

13 minutes ago, AlSymerz said:

The problem is that the upper echelon don't get the enjoyment of a fart as the rest of us do.

Yeah that is definitely true for the most part, but you do get the occasional rebel who will totally get the whole fart thing, they just don't want to be seen within their circle to laugh at a good buttock wobbling toot.  

Its all about perception.  People see me for what I am (a 6' 7" biker (2 metres if you prefer the metric)) and act shocked when I tell them that only a culinary dilettante would put spinach rather than watercress on the classic breakfast offering that is Eggs Benedict, but here we are.  

You will appreciate that it is little wonder that the human race is frequently a source of disappointment.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Ah yes but we can’t really expect better can we? In all likelihood the hollandaise for that eggs Benedict came in the form of a jar or powder. Very few places would endeavour to make the sauce from scratch given how easy it is to screw up. As for what I’m drinking well I dare not attempt to spell it but a variety of Japanese green tea.

[FatherAlabaster]

Bulleit bourbon and soda. I liked their rye, never really loved their bourbon, but with a bit of soda water it goes down fine. 

[thrashinbiker]

7 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Bulleit bourbon and soda. I liked their rye, never really loved their bourbon, but with a bit of soda water it goes down fine. 

Bourbon is a good thing my man!  I am on the beer (now finished) and the raspberry vodka.  Fuck man, I am rather drunk, I admit.

[FatherAlabaster]

Just now, thrashinbiker said:

Bourbon is a good thing my man!  I am on the beer (now finished) and the raspberry vodka.  Fuck man, I am rather drunk, I admit.

I love good beer so much. Been a few weeks. My stomach doesn't agree with my positive take on beer anymore, and some parts of my brain are voting with my stomach to discontinue. It hurts, but I'm giving them a chance to make their point. I figure a glass of whiskey every week or so might be enough to keep all parties at a detente.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

On 12/16/2023 at 7:26 PM, FatherAlabaster said:

Bulleit bourbon and soda. I liked their rye, never really loved their bourbon, but with a bit of soda water it goes down fine. 

Agreed their rye is surprisingly good, which suits me fine because I'm a rye drinker. Their bourbon was below average I thought. Probably fine for mixing, I'm just not a mixer I'm a sipper who drinks it neat.

 

On 12/12/2023 at 10:50 PM, RelentlessOblivion said:

Ah yes but we can’t really expect better can we? In all likelihood the hollandaise for that eggs Benedict came in the form of a jar or powder. Very few places would endeavour to make the sauce from scratch given how easy it is to screw up. As for what I’m drinking well I dare not attempt to spell it but a variety of Japanese green tea.

I've never attempted making Holladaise, seemed too complicated. That's why I make my Eggs Bennie Tex/Mex style, I use chorizo and chipotle crema (from a jar) instead of Canadian bacon and Hollandaise. And lots of cayenne pepper. My Kiwi wife liked a more traditional Eggs Bennie so it's a good thing she's not here to see how I've bastardized her favorite breakfast.

 

Just drinking my usual cheap local beer today because what am I, made of money or something?

[AlSymerz]

I opened a bottle of Russell's Reserve 13 Year Old on the weekend. First bottle of anything stronger than ginger beer that I've opened in about 8 months.

[RelentlessOblivion]

1 hour ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Agreed their rye is surprisingly good, which suits me fine because I'm a rye drinker. Their bourbon was below average I thought. Probably fine for mixing, I'm just not a mixer I'm a sipper who drinks it neat.

 

I've never attempted making Holladaise, seemed too complicated. That's why I make my Eggs Bennie Tex/Mex style, I use chorizo and chipotle crema (from a jar) instead of Canadian bacon and Hollandaise. And lots of cayenne pepper. My Kiwi wife liked a more traditional Eggs Bennie so it's a good thing she's not here to see how I've bastardized her favorite breakfast.

 

Just drinking my usual cheap local beeer today because what am I, made of money or something?

Y’all are making me want to try a rye, any suggestions? It’s the one kind of whiskey I really don’t know much about. Also, yes, hollandaise is a massive pain considering it only has three ingredients. The list of ways you can screw it up, defies logic.

[SurgicalBrute]

 

Wasn't sure what a caramel barelywine would taste like...but it tastes like caramel and booze