What are you Drinking?

[Capetan Mihali]

Interesting.  I find their 0.5 liter bottles highly annoying, as they're too tall to fit on the fridge shelf.

Yeah, I need to rearrange our fridge shelving to better accommodate my odd-sized beer bottles.

Half-liter bottles are my favorite, aesthetically and for basic consumption needs.

[Capetan Mihali]

For a nightcap, I'm having a Famous Grouse (previously mentioned re: buying a half-gallon of it for $25 in N.H.) with ice and a splash of seltzer. 

[Barrister]

Interesting.  I find their 0.5 liter bottles highly annoying, as they're too tall to fit on the fridge shelf.

Yeah, I need to rearrange our fridge shelving to better accommodate my odd-sized beer bottles.

Half-liter bottles are my favorite, aesthetically and for basic consumption needs.

The trip to Brazil beer was always served in 500mL cans.  Now the Brazillians would share that can between 2-3 people (idea is so that it didn't go warm).  Of course us gluttonous Canadians would often drink a can to ourselves.   

I quite enjoyed the Brazillian cerveja while I was there, but I suspect if I tried it in Canada I'd find it very watery...

[derspiess]

The trip to Brazil beer was always served in 500mL cans.  Now the Brazillians would share that can between 2-3 people (idea is so that it didn't go warm).  Of course us gluttonous Canadians would often drink a can to ourselves.   

No, South Americans just have a fetish for sharing food and drink (and for drinking beer out of the tiniest glass possible).  I have to guard my damned plate whenever I eat with them.

Argies usually buy beer by the liter bottle, though the craft-type beers do usually come in 500ml bottles.

I quite enjoyed the Brazillian cerveja while I was there, but I suspect if I tried it in Canada I'd find it very watery...

Yeah.  In Argentina I used to pretend I liked Quilmes and their locally-brewed Heineken.  And it's still okay as a lawnmower-type beer, I suppose.  But of their megabrews about the only thing I drink nowadays is Stella, which is also contract-brewed down there.

[Barrister]

Well, I was explicitly told that "it was so the beer doesn't go warm".  Do remember the significant difference in latitude between Argentine (Buens Aires?) and Salvador.

Going out to a restaurant, or ordering beer at the beach, they'd bring out these 1L beers in insulated cups to share between everyone.

[derspiess]

Well, I was explicitly told that "it was so the beer doesn't go warm".

Fine, I won't dispute that, then.  I'm just saying all South Americans I know (including a few Brazilians) love sharing food and drink, and love it a bit too much IMO

Do remember the significant difference in latitude between Argentine (Buens Aires?) and Salvador.

BA gets really fucking hot.  They get a little bit of a break during their winter, but it's hot as hell most of the rest of the year.

[Jacob]

Fine, I won't dispute that, then.  I'm just saying all South Americans I know (including a few Brazilians) love sharing food and drink, and love it a bit too much IMO

Don't worry, we know you don't like sharing

[MadImmortalMan]

Firestone Pale 31.

[MadImmortalMan]

Going to celebrate national bourbon day with some Basil Hayden's.

[fhdz]

Coffee with a splash of vodka in it.

[garbon]

Several glasses of viognier. I finally stopped in at the Trader Joe's wine shop outside Union Square. I appreciate them so much more than the snooty Union Square Wines. Thank you, lowbrow!

[derspiess]

Finishing up up a bottle of this with at least a tiny bit of help from the wife.  One of two Trappist breweries outside Belgium, and the only one in the Netherlands.

[fhdz]

Several glasses of viognier. I finally stopped in at the Trader Joe's wine shop outside Union Square. I appreciate them so much more than the snooty Union Square Wines. Thank you, lowbrow!

I've had some really good viogniers, at really reasonable prices.

[derspiess]

Duvel.

[Caliga]

Duvel.