Hopefully you were careful and didn’t have a big gathering. There were just five of us, but I got to hear some absolute bangers.
Hopefully you were careful and didn’t have a big gathering. There were just five of us, but I got to hear some absolute bangers.
I'm real lucky; my immediate family is generally pretty reasonable as far as knowing the more egregious lib shit won't fly with me. When they talk about being relieved I remind them that most of the most damaging policies are no closer to change, that basic, popular, and obviously morally imperative policies are no closer to passing or even being championed by the administration, that the material conditions that produced trump won't ever be challenged by the dems, etc. So we just talk about the funny shit like rudy's dye sweat or the trump lawsuits not knowing the difference between MI and MN. The whole "politics is sports for nerds" thing really sums up our interactions tbh.
I’m almost certain we shared the same house this evening.
I was the guy with the low cal beer on the couch and the cold hands
heh don't even get me started on the concept of "low cal beer"; the rant on that is just as long as the rant about DNC malfeasance in the primaries.
I had a “fuuuck this is pretty cool, a 3 cal 4% beer” when my partners dad showed me one. Not gonna lie, what attracted me the most was the feature to not get super shitty off 8% IPA. At the end of the night, the 4% session was awwright
lagunitas has this "hop seltzer" that's non-alcoholic and I love it, it's got all the fun of a good IPA but none of the bigass body. that being said I'm a big fan of 8% IPAs, happen to be drinking an 8% Nelson Sauvin single hop NEIPA right now.
I’ve had that! It’s a bit odd at first, not gonna lie I’m on the bubbly water kick, and that’s what it reminded me of, but I did sorta like it!
I do love my 8% too lol. I’m just at that point in my life* where I’m like ooook maybe not that much all at once
*im flirting with 40
yeah I'm really loving that it's becoming easier and easier to chill on the alcohol on a social level. I keep seeing various friends sharing mocktail recipes and posts about normalizing not drinking and stuff and it's great. alcohol isn't exactly great for us. (This also may be more of an age thing too; I'm roughly 30 so basically also an old at this point)
but like, I'm also a huuuuuuuuuge beer nerd so I just love opening something new to smell and drink and tell tasting notes to nobody about.
Yeah! I just wish the folks around me where into sharing things like mocktails. Any fun recipes i could share with my partner and company?
I mean the article that they shared was like basically a bunch of good alcoholic drinks that don't really need any alcohol in them to be good... like moscow mule (ginger beer and lime juice) mojitos (muddled mint, lime juice, sugar and soda water) daiquiris(lime juice and fruit and like maybe a shitload of ice in a blender honestly this drink is anything you want at this point...) and they mentioned things like martinellis apple cider instead of champagne.... but like so many of those do rely on quite a lot of sugar, but generally you can control the sugar amount and it'll stay pretty balanced. oh tepache! that's the cool thing to drink now, just fermented pineapple stuff, it's more kombucha-ish levels of alcohol and apparently it's really easy to make. I'm also a big fan of italian sodas from baladin (they're a beer brewery with some great stuff) their soft drinks are amazing, they have a Spuma that's like a negroni without any alcohol and pretty mild sugar. https://www.baladin.it/en/spuma-nera