What are you Drinking?

[mongers]

Another fun fact:  I was working on one of my maternal lines recently and I found that I appear to be a direct descendant of Sir Francis Windebank (12th great grandfather), who was Charles I's Secretary of State.

What about the other 16,383?   

[Eddie Teach]

I did my genealogy and found I'm descended from Adam & Eve.

[Capetan Mihali]

I did my genealogy and found I'm descended from Adam & Eve.

I did mine, and found out my paternal grandfather would polish off a fifth of gin over the course of a night, alone, listening to classical music, when he was stressed out.

[Caliga]

Hey Cal, current Atlantic has a moderately lengthy article on the barrel revolution in bourbon making.  Might be worth your while to check it out.

I think you might have mentioned it before, but I didn't know before reading the article that the law requires that all bourbon be aged in *new* oak barrels.  Use them once, then ship them off to scotch makers.

Well, sort of.  The barrels are newly-manufactured, but then they char them prior to actually putting the white dog into them.  So technically they are new, but burned.

[derspiess]

Also the used barrels could go for multiple secondary uses depending on the market for them.  Sometimes they go to Scotland, sometimes they go to breweries (which themselves can only use a used bourbon barrel once IIRC).  And if the market is shitty enough, sometimes they get sliced in half and sold to Home Depot as planters.

[Caliga]

Jim Beam sells barrels to the general public a couple of times a year.  Princesca's aunt (who lives on the knob above the distillery) does in fact use spent bourbon barrels as planters.

Beam also ships some of their spent barrels to Spain to be used in the aging of sherry.  Beam owns Havey's Bristol Cream so they may use their own barrels for that, but I'm not sure.

[Ideologue]

Quick double or triple of vanilla Stolichnaya and diet soda.  My jaw is killing me.  Or was.  Tough actin' Tenactin!

[Ideologue]

Might've been a triple.  Or just a tumbler half full of vodka.  Didn't exactly measure anything.

[fhdz]

Several beers. A number of Fireball-related shots. A number of gin & tonics after.

Lordy.

[Scipio]

Coffee.

Later, I will be drinking beer, and some of it very bad, all day.  It's the 4th Annual Outlaw Homebrew Competition.

[Caliga]

Old Fashioned with Basil Hayden.

[derspiess]

Had three different winter/Christmas beers from last year.  All three aged well.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Having some of the Sam Adams winter or Christmas wheat beer. I don't have the bottle here with me. Whatever it's called, I think I like it.

[derspiess]

I think it's just called Sam Adams Winter Lager.  It's a solid winter beer, if a bit light on the alcohol.  I generally prefer the ones you can keep or age for a while.

[MadBurgerMaker]

I had to go get another one just now, so I took the opportunity to actually look at what I'm drinking.   "White Christmas"  Limited release ale brewed with spices blahblahblah. 

Here it is:  http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/35/86393