OT: What are you drinking/snow stopped!
Stone Vertical 08 down the hatch as a reward for 5 hours of shoveling.
Now, Maker's Mark Cask strength. Thank God it stopped snowing....
Opened my bottle of Balcones Texas Single Malt. Tastes like a decent Scotch single malt...but a really funky nose. Best description would be...tequilla? WTF?
January 23rd, 2016 at 9:55 PM ^
Bookers. & painting some doors
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January 23rd, 2016 at 10:45 PM ^
Nice! My men's league team bought a barrel of buffalo trace so our own personal barrel. Is what I'm sipping on
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January 23rd, 2016 at 10:47 PM ^
On a side note I highly dislike makers.
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January 23rd, 2016 at 10:56 PM ^
Really? Why? Not meaning to be snarky. Genuinely curious, as I've always enjoyed it.
January 23rd, 2016 at 11:09 PM ^
Guess it what you enjoy, but I really dig higher proof, heavy oaked bourbons. Makers tastes like a young bourbon (and thus, the No Age Statement)..has a bit of the sweetness that you typically associate with a wheated bourbon.
January 24th, 2016 at 2:09 AM ^
Makers has gotten cheap you can tell in the last idk say 5-10 years to keep up with demand I think they have ruined their product. Makers 10 years ago was a completely different profile. For the price range of Masker's CS you can buy something a hell of a lot better IMO.
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:58 PM ^
Problem is there aren't very many cask-strength wheated bourbons out there that are reasonably priced.
Will stipulate that Maker's isn't an oak bomb like Elijah Craig BP (and my current fave), and am really hopeful that Maker's 46 CS will be an improvement.
January 23rd, 2016 at 9:56 PM ^
5 hours - do you have a half-mile ling driveway?
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January 23rd, 2016 at 9:56 PM ^
long
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January 23rd, 2016 at 10:03 PM ^
200 feet. Shoveling by hand with 4 foot snowdrifts sucks.
My wife put her foot down and we are buying a snowblower at the end of winter.
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:07 PM ^
I am impressed - you burned enough calories to drink for the next three days
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January 23rd, 2016 at 11:22 PM ^
Makes perfect sense to buy a snowblower after the snow is gone.
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January 24th, 2016 at 1:15 AM ^
It just might as they will be on sale at the end of the season.
January 24th, 2016 at 6:52 AM ^
makes clean up a snap. added bonus, i pile some of the snow up at the top of my kids' favorite sledding hill so it gives them a pretty shear drop-in for the first 8-10'.
one of the Christmas gifts exchanged this year at our house was two of the boys made ski's (crude, but workable) for some of the younger siblings. they haven't asked me to make a jump/ramp yet, but i'm guessing that'll come right after they master the ski thing.
January 24th, 2016 at 11:19 AM ^
At this point you may as well just wait for the end of season sales.
January 23rd, 2016 at 9:56 PM ^
Waiting for my lamb curry.
January 23rd, 2016 at 9:58 PM ^
Prairie BOMB!
Wishing I could enjoy some of this blizzard, but alas, I live in texas...
January 23rd, 2016 at 9:58 PM ^
Went out for Mexican tonight.
January 23rd, 2016 at 9:59 PM ^
Nothing. Too exhausted to drink.
Snow is done here. Probably around 30 inches over about 30 hours. 7 different shoveling sessions. Sore.
But, I'll have the next few nights to drink. Probably not going back to work until at least Wednesday, if then.
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:05 PM ^
Honest question, why shovel your driveway when the roads are impassable?
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January 23rd, 2016 at 10:09 PM ^
You have to do it eventually, and sooner is often better than later. If you wait the snow might harden or freeze over (depending on conditions). Plus if you clear the driveway then the sun/warmth can melt what little is left behind. If you drive on it without clearing it you get sections that are packed down and hard to fully clear.
January 23rd, 2016 at 11:14 PM ^
This is one of the highest up voted comments. Proof Michigan fans feel strongly about their snow shoveling/blowing.
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:10 PM ^
Half has to do with my neurosis about that type of thing.
Half has to do with wanting to show-up my asshole neighbors.
Yet another half: I will have to shovel it out sometime. Temps over the next few days won't lend to big melting... just hardening and compacting, making it ridiculously difficult.
And one more half: Gets me out of the house. Basically the only thing to do outside the walls of my house... some physical activity.
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:12 PM ^
MoCo? Or NoVa? Frederick sounds like the big winner/loser in Maryland with NWS recordings of 35".
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:13 PM ^
NoVa
We got the added treat of about 2 hours worth of ice pellets in the middle of the night last night.
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:18 PM ^
Ouch that sucks.
I had this awesome bottom layer of slush on my driveway. Two shovelfulls to clear the top layers, and this heavy motherfucking slush/snow mix at the bottom.
There is 4 feet of snow in the road at the end of my driveway. Don't think my poor Kia Sorento (let alone the wife's Audi or our 3rd car Maserati Ghibli) is getting out anytime soon.
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:21 PM ^
My Maserait does 185....It snowed a fuck ton, now I don't drive.
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:39 PM ^
You need a chauffeur
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January 24th, 2016 at 1:21 AM ^
I have a limo, ride in the back. I lock the doors in case I'm attacked.
January 23rd, 2016 at 9:59 PM ^
What I am drinking is paywalled. Must not divulge.
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:22 PM ^
But if your friend texts me what you're drinking I have freewill to post the news.
January 24th, 2016 at 5:11 AM ^
But even Bezos took down the paywall for all of mankind to enjoy CWG updates this weekend.
January 23rd, 2016 at 9:59 PM ^
Jack Fire
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:56 PM ^
Oh God. I just tasted the vomit a night of drinking g that caused me. Never again, damn it, never again.
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:02 PM ^
Yeah, but I have a friend who is a sucker who pays for a subscription, and he texted me to tell me what you are drinking. I'll be posting it to Buzzfeed in a minute. . . .
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:03 PM ^
Just had a new-to-me IPA Ironfire Mr. Hopagiorgio. Really well balanced, citrusy flavor. Not super strong, but very tasty.
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January 23rd, 2016 at 10:03 PM ^
Leinie Big Eddy Cherry Doppelschwarz. Pretty decent, one of the less "fake cherry" tasting cherry beers that I've had.
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:04 PM ^
Bourbon County Stout
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:05 PM ^
I live in upper New England, and this seems to be happening a lot lately--the mid-Atlantic gets nailed (and maybe Philly and NY), and we don't get anything. I'm not complaining!!! No shoveling tonight, so I did some work and now I am settling down with a Two-Hearted.
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:05 PM ^
day here in West Michigan - nice to actually get a break from the lake effect. Had a great dinner, chilling by the fire with a hearty Bulleit bourbon.
January 24th, 2016 at 6:53 AM ^
any steelhead invited to the party yesterday....?
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:11 PM ^
Hopslam. Of course.
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:14 PM ^
:( Will probably get none in Maryland.
Have you noticed a difference in this year's cans v, bottles?
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:30 PM ^
You don't have any friends left in Michigan who can mail you some?
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:52 PM ^
But it costs a lot to ship.
I typically have my brother 'cellar' a case of Hopslam, and I will swap him a case of Dogfish 90 Minute IPA when we do our annual beach rental during the summertime.
You tend to lose the 'hoppiness' IMHO.
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:12 PM ^
Yeungling and some Gerst Amber
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January 23rd, 2016 at 10:14 PM ^
Had a great snowball fight with my kids, built a snowman, rearranged shelves in my bathroom, moved a large bookshelf into a closet, bought groceries and finished the day with Boston Milkshakes for the kids along with a family movie night (Pan). Attacking my Saturday with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind
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January 23rd, 2016 at 10:26 PM ^
This is far superior to shoveling snow that will eventually melt anyway...
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January 23rd, 2016 at 10:15 PM ^
Anything in sight
January 23rd, 2016 at 10:20 PM ^
Shoveling.
The reason I bought a plow for my truck. It is worth it even if i use it for 5 minutes twice a week.
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