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Mr. Wiggles posted:I often wonder how to use these flavored whiskeys that are popular. I keep getting gifted them, and generally I don't like them. But I also don't like to waste. Right now I'm trying to figure out what to do with salted caramel Crown Royal, and I'm fairly stumped still. Dump a shot of it into some dry hard cider, or mix a malty brown ale with some hard cider.
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Human Tornada posted:Dump a shot of it into some dry hard cider, or mix a malty brown ale with some hard cider. Ok that's a good idea. I shall try. Thanks!
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Feb 15, 2023 04:15
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Mr. Wiggles posted:I often wonder how to use these flavored whiskeys that are popular. I keep getting gifted them, and generally I don't like them. But I also don't like to waste. Right now I'm trying to figure out what to do with salted caramel Crown Royal, and I'm fairly stumped still. Yep, that bottle sat in the back of my bar for 5+ years before I made that drink tonight. I opened it when I first got gifted it, and then put it away. It tastes like a melted green apple blow pop.
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Feb 15, 2023 05:41
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My wife insisted on buying a bottle of BirdDog blackberry whiskey which tastes strongly like cough medicine. I found a nice .75 oz of lemon juice turns it into a really nice glass, but that's the best I can do with it.
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Feb 15, 2023 06:05
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The worst I ever had was a bottle of muscat grape flavored absolut that my girlfriend at the time insisted on getting because it was on clearance for $4
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Feb 15, 2023 17:16
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I like E&J brandy for cheap but palatable stuff. But E&J apple I just had to pour out it wasn't working. Was ruining my fall apple whiskey/brandy cocktail. Like green jolly rancher but I would actually eat that candy unlike this.
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Feb 15, 2023 17:54
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The only time I've seen a liquor store throw away dozens of bottles of undamaged goods is when literally no one was buying Captain Morgan Orange Vanilla and they just dumped the entire stock.
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Feb 15, 2023 17:57
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Someone gifted me the most godawful bottle of blueberry flavoured…vodka I think? About 10 years ago. I ended up tipping it down the sink, it was completely unusable.
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Feb 15, 2023 18:07
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My sister in law left a bottle of whipped cream Smirnoff at my place and it actually makes a really nice Pornstar. Not enough to actually buy it for that purpose, but plenty serviceable to finish off the bottle.
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Feb 15, 2023 19:38
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I wonder how many freezers are the final tombs of 80% full bottles of those horrible flavored Smirnoffs A grocery store I used to go to had a whole aisle of them. Root beer. Gummy worms. Pecan pie. Cotton candy. Just endlessly stretching to the horizon
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Feb 15, 2023 19:41
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Crown Royal Apple is the perfect thing to mix with coke. Idk who buys all those hosed up vodkas though. Not even college students want that stuff usually.
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Feb 15, 2023 19:46
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Data Graham posted:I wonder how many freezers are the final tombs of 80% full bottles of those horrible flavored Smirnoffs Not many - you forget about high school and college students.
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Feb 16, 2023 00:51
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Made an Ethan Allen. 1 oz spiced rum 12 oz dry cider 2 dashes Ango Delicious. Would storm Fort Ticonderoga with a couple of these under my belt.
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Feb 16, 2023 00:53
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Recently Greg from HTD did an episode with AI generated recipes. One seemed interesting, but I didn't have a good bourbon so I decided to just go heavy on rum and riff a little. Rum, rum, rum, and rum 1/2 oz overproof (lemonhart) 3/4 oz light (probitas) 3/4 oz moderate (plantation 5 yr) 3/4 oz funky (Appleton 12 yr) 1/2 oz maple syrup (mines bourbon barrel aged) 1 dash ea. tiki, bokers, and orange bitters. Rinse double rocks glass with absinthe, keep in freezer while mixing drink Finish with orange twist. I sub some different rums (except lemonhart) and it's always great.
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Feb 16, 2023 02:53
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my kinda ape posted:Crown Royal Apple is the perfect thing to mix with coke. Idk who buys all those hosed up vodkas though. Not even college students want that stuff usually. They are targeted almost exclusively at under-aged kids. Bacardi's internal term for the demographic is "21-24 year olds", but it is an open secret within the company that 21-24 is code word for the 16-21 year old bracket.
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Feb 16, 2023 03:21
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my favorite thing about flavored liquor is the whole Fireball vs Fireball Whiskey thing one of these does not contain any alcohol
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Feb 16, 2023 03:39
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 They contain alcohol, just half the amount and no actual whisky.
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Feb 16, 2023 03:47
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I stand corrected! That's still hilarious though
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Feb 16, 2023 04:02
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Fart Car '97 posted:They are targeted almost exclusively at under-aged kids. Bacardi's internal term for the demographic is "21-24 year olds", but it is an open secret within the company that 21-24 is code word for the 16-21 year old bracket. I mean most of the developed world has a drinking age of 18 and most of Europe at least is basically fine with 16-18 year olds drinking, at least with parental permission so it makes sense to chase those markets. Although at least here in Aus teens seem to mostly go for vodka cruisers and similar premixed stuff.
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Feb 16, 2023 04:50
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The fireball thing just boggles. They're already making the stuff at volume for the big bottles. Yet they're going through the effort of making a completely different product for the small bottles. The only thing I can think of is that it allows them into non-liquor gas stations and the like. But is that a big enough market for a product fork? Anyway, don't drink either, they're both poo poo.
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Feb 16, 2023 12:47
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They actually got sued for the non whiskey product. I think the current packaging they made it more obvious. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2023/01/26/fireball-cinnamon-whiskey-lawsuit/11125793002/
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Feb 16, 2023 12:50
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AlexDeGruven posted:The fireball thing just boggles. Lol do you have any idea how many grocery stores, convenience stores, and gas stations there are in this country? Getting your product into even 1/100 of those and trading on its well-recognized brand is absolutely worth the effort and probably even worth courting the lawsuit.
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Feb 16, 2023 13:03
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That's fair. Around here, at least, most grocery stores and larger gas-attached stores have full package liquor licenses.
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Feb 16, 2023 13:48
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Also fireball and those small fireball shots are one of the top choices among alcoholics. Getting those into as many places as possible is a good thing for them.
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Feb 16, 2023 16:27
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LionYeti posted:Also fireball and those small fireball shots are one of the top choices among alcoholics. Getting those into as many places as possible is a good thing for them. Yup, when I worked at a liquor store for a few years 50ml and 100ml fireball shots were by far our best selling item. No idea if they were our most profitable but we sold a huge amount of them.
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Feb 16, 2023 17:23
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Also I doubt it’s making a whole separate product. It’s probably just watered down.
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Feb 16, 2023 18:58
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The Maestro posted:Also I doubt it’s making a whole separate product. It’s probably just watered down. For legal reasons it can't be its technically a malt liquor not a whiskey so it can be sold in places spirits can't be.
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Feb 16, 2023 19:06
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I've seen mention of Leopold Bros Blackberry Liqueur. Seems to be hard to find. Is it good and worth adding?
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Feb 16, 2023 19:21
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I found some ~6 month old lemon super juice in my freezer and decided to do a comparison with fresh juice in a basic gin sour. I was fully expecting the old super juice to be passable but inferior to the fresh juice, but I think I actually like it better! It’s more lemony, like a cocktail that’s had a peel expressed over it, vs one that hadn’t.
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Feb 16, 2023 22:04
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Also, I see a lot of recipes call for Tawny Port. What is this? Is it like vermouth where I open it and it is only good for a short time or can I open a bottle and leave it on my shelf for the next time?
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Waltzing Along posted:Also, I see a lot of recipes call for Tawny Port. What is this? Is it like vermouth where I open it and it is only good for a short time or can I open a bottle and leave it on my shelf for the next time? It’s a fortified wine. It won’t last for ages like a spirit but it will last longer than a bottle of wine, especially if you keep it in the fridge after opening. Certainly it would last a month or so.
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Feb 17, 2023 07:36
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Keep it in your fridge, it'll last for quite a while in terms of being good for mixing. That's also true of vermouth, incidentally.
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Feb 17, 2023 07:37
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Also it's winter so you can just drink it and it's a lovely thing.
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Feb 17, 2023 07:45
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The fishing hole near my house is always littered with fireball shots. Dude just get blasted there as they fish all night.
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Feb 17, 2023 15:51
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Everybody should have a bottle or two of Wine Preservation Spray for Vermouths/Sherrys/Port/Aromatized wines. Anybody making anything fun for Fat Tuesday? A friend is having us over for dinner, and I think we'll be making Hurricanes and Pimms Cups. I see a lot of variation on Pimms Cups - what does everybody prefer - ginger ale? limonata? Corb3t fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Feb 17, 2023 |
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my kinda ape posted:Crown Royal Apple is the perfect thing to mix with coke. Idk who buys all those hosed up vodkas though. Not even college students want that stuff usually. So the weird flavor line extensions are their own beast, operating in almost their own consumer space. While they’re designed to be sweet/floral/not taste like liquor, they’re not primarily marketed to the LDA-24 crowd, both because DISCUS prohibits marketing that has a reasonable chance of being exposed to an audience of majority under 25’s, and because there is a massive segment of the spirits-buying populace that aren’t really spirits drinkers in the classic sense. They are buying flavored rum and tequila for punches that come in plastic buckets served on a beach, or tailgating, or any number of situations where the objective is to be drunk, not the act of drinking. A fine example of this is a winery and distillery I went to in Indiana last year on V-day. We were out in the country, saw the place and stopped in. Their #1 seller was a pink (not rose) Catawba wine, sweet and sparkling. It’s the kind of wine for people who like the idea of wine. Their absinthe was *superb*, but they felt the need to make a whisky that was designed to be eaten with peanut butter. The customer is always right, after all, and these things get made because they sell. Dragonfruit white rum? Looks pretty on the bottle, and wouldn’t you know, it got an end cap at the liquor store next to the limes. Now, 99 bananas, that poo poo is powerful evil and I cannot smell a bottle without thinking of that one night in Providence.
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Corb3t posted:Everybody should have a bottle or two of Wine Preservation Spray for Vermouths/Sherrys/Port/Aromatized wines. https://www.seriouseats.com/best-way-to-store-vermouth-for-cocktails-fridge-vs-winesaver-rebottling This article was ages ago but nobody in their tests was able to reliably differentiate between tvermouths stored with and without inert gas
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Feb 17, 2023 18:43
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Here's an Elk's Own I just made. Forgot the syrup at first, and thought to myself "wow that's tart, even for a sour".  
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Feb 18, 2023 02:18
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That lemon pith, drat she thicc.
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I was at Universal Orlando tonight and badly needed a drink after supporting a theater festival recital backstage and eating a whole pizza with nothing to wash it down. Someone I was with misinterpreted my need and we found ourselves in here: https://www.universalorlando.com/web/en/us/things-to-do/dining/confisco-grille/drink_menu.html I got a Mornings in Bali on a complete hail-mary wanting something crisp and cold and tart and refreshing, and boy howdy was it exactly what I was after. Now I have to go shopping I guess
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