Alcohol Infused Goodness

[asandir]

ditto, though I have been known to imbibe after a hard days work, or when partying

[vulnevia]

I only drink champagne at New year's Eve and birthdays, but never more than 1 or maybe 2 glasses. I think I read somewhere that the champagne is running out of stock (the REAL champagne, from Champagne) since all celebrity is taking baths in the stuff, and that we have so many new millionarie world wide that drink champagne.

[asandir]

what a waste of all that money .... use it on better stuff than that!

[vulnevia]

what a waste of all that money .... use it on better stuff than that!

Yes. They could spend it on beer instead. Would be much cheaper to take a beer-bath than a champagne-bath

Ooh, I have a large bottle of beer in the fridge, nice. I'll drink it later while watching a film with the man.

[asandir]

good stuff! beers don't last long in my fridge

[ThunderTitan]

boiled wine ftw...

[asandir]

ahhhh, what we call Mulled Wine .... not my cup of tea

[ThunderTitan]

yes, your tastes do live much to be desired...

[asandir]

I feel the same way about yours

[vulnevia]

Mulled wine/glögg is nice, but you shouldn't boil it!!! You're only boiling away the alcohol; ethanol has a boiling point of 78C Plus if you boil it you can't drink it right away, just heat it up until you can't stick a finger in it because of the heat.

[ThunderTitan]

I feel the same way about yours

Copycat...

@vulnevia

Do you put sugar and cinnamon in yours too?

[vulnevia]

No, no need for that, we buy our mulled wined prepeared with spices (cinnamon, cloves and cardamom) and all that, we just add some raisins and almonds, and it's already sweetened as well.

[Corribus]

There's an old saying about mulled wine: if it's boiled, it's spoiled. And boiling off the ethanol is the least of the problems - it just becomes bitter and nasty when you boil it.

Use a stainless steal pot, also. Wine is acidic and if you heat it in another type of metal you get metallic tasting mulled wine.

FYI.

[asandir]

blegh .... sounds .... ordinary all round

the only hot alcohol should be a flaming lamborghini!

[ThunderTitan]

ok, boiled is an overstatement... it's relatively hot... most certainly not lukewarm like vulnevia's.

No, no need for that, we buy our mulled wined prepeared with spices (cinnamon, cloves and cardamom) and all that, we just add some raisins and almonds, and it's already sweetened as well.

well that's cheating

[asandir]

well I had something different last night, some Millers Chill and some Pure Blonde, both excellent!

[Toejam]

well i am Belgian so i like my beers
we got plenty, i like some jupiler ,leffe,kasteel,hoegarden,maes
or some foreign beers like carlsberg or bud
no dutch beers tough

[Kalah]

Hoegarden is actually not too bad; up here they serve it at one of the local pubs that have lots of foreign beers, and they come in really really big mugs

[asandir]

no dutch beers though

thats only cause you don't wanna have all those belgian ones ruined for ever!

[ScarlettP]

I like a good mulled wine on a cold winter's eve. Hot hard cider with cinnamon liqueur is nice also.

I'm going to have to ask my friend Kevin what he does to make that 'Cinnamon stuff'. I know all he does is soak cinnamon sticks in some sort of alcohol for a month or so and it gets rather thick and sweet. It's SO strong that you can't drink it straight, but if you put just a shot of the stuff in a cup of hot cider it's WONDERFUL! Just like apple pie, with a kick!