Well, fart. Turns out if you cook bone broth too long it can go bitter. Gonna have to make another batch. Luckily there's plenty of time.
I don't know about where y'all are, but around here Eagle Rare bourbon has been damn near impossible to find. Well, now it's back! Big ol' displays. Huzzah and cheers.
I'm not a fan of it, but Buffalo Trace happened to have Blanton's in stock the day we visited the distillery last month. 1 bottle per customer limit with a 30 day wait before you could buy another
It’s my understanding that Makers is going to be difficult to get as well due to production issues. Fortunately there are plenty of other good bourbons to choose from here.
I have never been a fan of Maker's Mark. It always tastes like somebody dissolved part of an old chocolate bar in it. And, I'm not a bourbon snob. I drink bourbon every night. Usually just Evan Williams or Jim Beam. If I upgrade, it's usually Larceny or Four Roses. But, I know some people that won't drink anything but Makers. Maybe whatever they use is like how some people think cilantro tastes like soap, and it just doesn't jibe with my palate.
Splurge the extra $4 and get Beam Black. Palates are interesting. My wife and I were wine tasting with a group of 10-12 people and the tasting lady had us try a spoonful of marinara sauce and then try the wine. Everyone was having mouthgasms except for me and one other lady. It tasted like acid to us. Another time we were having a blind taste test wine party and bottle that everyone gave a 9-10 on, I gave a 2. Tasted like gas station wine. It was a $75 bottle. Maybe I just have a shitty palate.
I understand that. Everyone likes something different. I don’t care for Jim Beam at all. On the other hand I like the butterscotch notes in Knob Creek bourbon and lot’s of folks I know don’t like it. Regarding rye, I can’t recommend Whistle Pig enough. I hated rye until I started drinking Pig, and it’s fantastic. The 12 and 15 year are amazing, not to mention the Boss Hog, but a bit pricey. Farm stock, Roadstock and the 10 year are very good and reasonably priced.
That's probably because Whistle Pig is one of the only American producers that isn't just aging the exact same MGP rye whiskey base and slapping their label on it.
Never liked Eagle Rare. Jim Beam tastes like someone dumped a teaspoon of vanilla into every glass, which isn't offensive to me but I don't love it. I'm a big fan of the Willet rye. I've got a bottle of Kentucky Owl rye batch #1 that I'm saving for a special occasion, because it's one of my favorites. I really like the Woodford Double Oak as a widely available, everyday bourbon. Also Elijah Craig small batch is pretty drinkable.
When I can find it, 1792 Small Batch is my favorite bourbon. The only place I can routinely find it is a small market in St. Michaels, MD (otherwise it's just through blind luck), but every time I see it, I pick up a bottle.
Note to self: tsa pre check is the way to go. I have never, ever seen lines like this. Fucking insane.
So is staying the hell home. More and more I'm less inclined to go anywhere we'd have to fly to. To pay all that money and then have to go through all the bullshit involved in flying now.... it's insane. Of course we're fortunate to have our family mostly living within an hour's drive or less, and I realize not everyone does. But damn.
If you fly even maybe twice per year, pre check is completely worth it. Instead of trudging through the lines with the rest of the animals, taking your shoes off, getting patted down, I just breeze through a metal detector and be on my way.
I know it’s kind of a hackey bit, but why don’t the airports just do that for everyone? Like they used to? Everyone gets regular pre-check treatment, and if you you pay special. They drive you to the plane in a bangbus and you get to fuck the chick provided on the ride into the runway. That way you’re relaxed for your flight.
There’s a background check and some people might not pass. It’s not expensive but it is something like $100 for 5 years? Maybe less. It’s not the most convenient process but once you have it, it’s totally worth it. If you fly international, upon return, you just breeze right through customs.
They need to de-regulate what they did with the airlines forty years ago, make them all charge the same price so they’re forced to compete with how great their service is, rather than how cheap, cramped and unsafe a plane can possibly become. Then they have to take the TSA and either replace them with something better or clean house. Nowadays if you don’t fly for a few years, when you walk through an airport or get on a plane it’s like seeing an old friend who since then has discovered meth/heroin— it’s awful and sad, the transformation. NOBODY is trying, yet they are all making money. TSA employees make an average over $22 an hour, and THAT is who they hire. It’s pathetic.
We’ve had it for a while but kept forgetting to enter the code or whatever. This time the lines were just a disaster and thank god we did it. In related news, every local I’ve talked to here thinks Hawaii is headed for a lockdown with the number of cases. And they also are acting like complete cunts to tourists, which is not at all the Maui I know and love. love the $100 fine for no mask indoors though
I hope Hawaii being dicks to tourists isn’t a long term strategy. It’s pretty much all they have. But if people are going there and being unsafe dipshits, I don’t blame them. I’d like to go there at some point.
They are being overly cautious because they know that, much like New Zealand, or another small country with built-in isolation, if they keep the fucktard mainlanders away and/or ensure that they are safe, then they stand a better chance of keeping the COVID cases low. From what I've read, they don't have the medical capacity to handle a major outbreak, and any help is a long, long way away. Can't really blame them.