It's Friday...what are you drinking while you game?

[GDS_Starfury]

My preference for green tea is Japanese Gyokuro. I'm sure you're well aware that bagged tea is crap. Get some decent quality green tea from Japan.

And you don't steep the tea - just flash brew it. Water about 90 - 95 celcius, pour it into the pot and then pour the pot into your tea cup. The character of the tea will change over four or five cups. If you don't want the caffeine just toss out the first pour.

do you know how I know youre gay?

First of all, who pllays N64 anymore?  And who in the history of console gaming ever held the controller by the middle appendage?  That in itself just screams gayness.

you dont see a lot of movies do you?

[Toonces]

I'm drinking beer tonight.

I did a full week of P90X and put in a 3 hours surf session today.  And I fell on almost every wave since I've been out of the water for about two weeks, so I paddled the equivalent of a 6 hour session.

I earned it.  Where's the beer drinking smiley?   ::)

[Staggerwing]

 There is beer, and there is Dogfish Head:




Just a hunch, but I think that The Einherjar would approve.

[Toonces]

Sweeeet!  I have an Irish beer sampler pack.  I like the Guiness, everything else is meh.

[LongBlade]

Zinfandel.

Followed by a sip of moonshine.

[Staggerwing]

A sip? Really? It comes in single dose ampules now?

Gone are the days of the mason jar with the screechy lid it would seem.

[Arctic Blast]

Oh hai, Talisker! Yes I will have another...and another...and...

[LongBlade]

A sip? Really? It comes in single dose ampules now?

Gone are the days of the mason jar with the screechy lid it would seem.

Ah, no. It's in a mason jar. But after a couple glasses of wine a sip (or two) is all I dare.

[Toonces]

I ended up drinking Capt. Morgan's instead of beer.

I feel a lot better after a night of drinking rum, and I do of drinking beer.  And WAY better than after drinking red wine.  I don't know what it is about red wine (I like the Yellowtail shiraz variants), but it just crushes me the next day.

[Staggerwing]

I ended up drinking Capt. Morgan's instead of beer.

I feel a lot better after a night of drinking rum, and I do of drinking beer.  And WAY better than after drinking red wine.  I don't know what it is about red wine (I like the Yellowtail shiraz variants), but it just crushes me the next day.

Sulfites. It could also be the tannins and histamines that are found in red wine.

[Toonces]

So this morning on the radio the local talk show guys were sipping and expounding on the joys of single malt scotch.  Over the last year or so I've been trying to develop a taste for whiskey and scotch, but I'm definitely a complete novice still.

At any rate, there's a fine liquors store right next to the place where we get take out pizza and tonight I decided to do some shopping.  I just cracked open a bottle of a single malt scotch called Speyburn.  The two reasons I picked it are 1) it's a single malt which I wanted to try and 2) it's bottled in Moray which is the province I play almost every time I start a game of CK2.  So it was win-win!

<takes a sip>

It's good.  I can tell I need to acquire a taste for it, though. 

I also got a bottle of locally made pineapple flavored Maui rum (80 proof).  Haven't tried it yet, but it had a little lei around the neck of the bottle so I'm sure it's awesome!

[Toonces]

Speyburn is one of the great values in single malt scotch whisky  and is an amazingly high quality spirit given its price point. Fans of Speyside whiskies will be particularly impressed with this elegant dram and if you've never tried single malt scotch whisky before, Speyburn is a great place to start. Light, fruity and relatively complex with notes of gingerbread, apricot and orange marmalade, Speyburn will make a great addition to anyone's home bar.

[bayonetbrant]

I had a Boucanier red ale here at lunch yesterday.  Very good...

http://www.coquetteraleigh.com/wine-beer-and-cocktails

[Bison]

Nothing has changed.  Coffee, black in a dirty mug. 

[GDS_Starfury]

Im just getting to my coffee now because someone, who shall remain nameless, threw a big red target in front of me first thing today.   >:(