Wine carriers

External Since: May 30, 2008 Posts: 17

On Dec 10, 6:55 am, Rosemary wrote:
> "Ratticus Rattus esq." wrote:
> > Rosemary wrote:
> >> "Ratticus Rattus esq." wrote:
>
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> >> I think I have a Hoegaarden glass somewhere :-) I've heard there's an
> >> American-made beer called (...wait while I ferret round the web...
> >> aha!) Celis White, that's made by a company started by the same guy
> >> who made Hoegaarden. Don't know what it's like, but it sounds a
> >> similar sort of thing.
>
> > Celis brewery makes some damn fine beer. 8^) They were down the road
> > from me (down the road in texas is 135mi). I miss Sam Samuels (?) use
> > a glass like that enough and it breaks eventually. 8^(,
>
> Yeah - maybe that's why I don't drink much Belgian beer; I don't have
> enough room to store all the glasses :-)
>
> <snip>
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> > Beer is life and scotch is a sacrament. ;^) Not that I feel
> > strongly mind you.
>
> It's a point of view... :-D I got horribly drunk on Scotch once, and
> have't been able to face it since, so I drink Bourbon or Irish whiskey if
> I feel the need. I take it you're not a gin or vodka drinker?

I respect and enjoy scotch too much to get horribly drunk on it.
Tequila otoh...ought to be consumed in quantaty imho. But, that
doesn't happen very much these days.

> Drifting back to rats for a minute, I remember going on a cycling trip
> with my dad and a load of his mates, and I took the rats with me (it was
> an overnighter). The lads decided to find out what kind of beer rats
> preferred (when I was out of the room). Luckily, they only gave eack rat
> a droplet each of lager and of bitter, so they weren't drunk, and didn't
> seem to suffer any ill effects. I was pretty annoyed, though.
>
> Turned out they preferred the bitter.

Sweet, never tried it on any of mine. Though I'll keep the bitters in
mind ;^).

> >> > Get Stella Arois also, when I lived in the Tacoma, Wa
> >> > area I could get some Lambec beers.
>
> >> Is it still "reassuringly expensive" by the time it gets to you? :-)
>
> > Oh yes! Roughly $11usd for a 6 pack...one of the few beers I've had at
> > that price point that I felt was worth that and maybe more.
>
> Sounds like a pretty reasonable price to me. Mind you, booze is a rip-off
> in this country.

Dang tax man! We've a wee tradition of moonshing in the states. Seems
some scots lads moved here and didn't like tax on whiskey. Mind you
moonshine is almost never aged except by accident and quit, um potent.
About 180 proof +.

> >> We do do the
> >> easy things like homemade bread and pasta, though. Well, easy for me
> >> - he does most of the hard work :-) We buy dried pasta for the rats'
> >> dried food mix, though - I've no idea how I'd go about trying to dry
> >> homemade pasta properly.
>
> > Make a "tree" out of wooden dowels. With all the branches horizontal.
>
> > Sort of like this...
>
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> > -----------------------------------------------|
> > -----------------------------------------------|
> > -----------------------------------------------|
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> > Note I am NO ASCII artist. But you get the jist of it. Make the centre
> > part like a St. Andrews cross and pick a height that allows for the
> > length of your pasta. I'm lazy I bought the wife one years ago.
>
> Would that really dry it out completely like the stuff you buy in
> packets, though? We dry on racks already, because you really have to in
> order to cut it properly in the machine, but not that much! :-)

No, after it's cut and depending on humidity it can dry in an hour.

--
Keith

External Since: Jan 12, 2007 Posts: 125

"Ratticus Rattus esq." wrote:
> Rosemary wrote:
>> "Ratticus Rattus esq." wrote:

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>> > Beer is life and scotch is a sacrament. ;^) Not that I feel
>> > strongly mind you.
>>
>> It's a point of view... :-D I got horribly drunk on Scotch once, and
>> have't been able to face it since, so I drink Bourbon or Irish
>> whiskey if I feel the need. I take it you're not a gin or vodka
>> drinker?
>
> I respect and enjoy scotch too much to get horribly drunk on it.

What can I say? I was 15, and the only other booze in the house that I
could get away with drinking was a bottle of mint chocolate liqueur! I
think it was only something nasty like Glenfiddich, though.

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Rosemary