Oh, we'll drink, we'll drink, we'll drink
Oct. 19th, 2005 12:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maradyddMany yummy beverages in the last few days, enough to merit a post of their own.
First off, for several months now I have enjoyed, and have recently brought others into the knowledge and love of, Lindemans Framboise Lambic. This is a raspberry beer from Belgium which is so red that I've seen people mistake it for wine. They carry it at the pub-with-wifi where I periodically go to get work done, and over the weekend I discovered that I can buy it at the grocery store. (I also discovered, upon finding it at the store, that the pub isn't marking it up all that much. At $11 for a 750ml bottle, I've had reasonably good wines that were cheaper. Yeep.) If you like fruit but think you don't like beer, try this beer; it has brought at least one avowed non-beer-drinker of my acquaintance to agree that beer is indeed living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Following the raspberry trend, at lunch today I picked up a bottle of Reed's Ginger Brew. I like ginger ale a lot, and I like really gingery ginger ale even better, and raspberry provides a lovely counterpoint to the spiciness. (17 grams of fresh ginger to the bottle.) It went down so well with the tandoori chicken I had that I went back to the store and picked up a four-pack. At over a buck a bottle it isn't really economical for frequent consumption, but perhaps it can be acquired more cheaply elsewhere on teh intarweb. (But probably not here.)
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yoctohedron asked and because I suspect others might want to know -- my brewer friend who isn't madandrew informs me that yes, there is such a thing as alcoholic ginger beer. It is called Carib Shandy, and is in fact why he got interested in brewing in the first place. (He also informs me that soon he will be brewing up a new batch of mead, which brings back memories of being fourteen and trying to brew mead in Coke bottles. They exploded. This should surprise approximately no one. But, mmm, mead is good.)
First off, for several months now I have enjoyed, and have recently brought others into the knowledge and love of, Lindemans Framboise Lambic. This is a raspberry beer from Belgium which is so red that I've seen people mistake it for wine. They carry it at the pub-with-wifi where I periodically go to get work done, and over the weekend I discovered that I can buy it at the grocery store. (I also discovered, upon finding it at the store, that the pub isn't marking it up all that much. At $11 for a 750ml bottle, I've had reasonably good wines that were cheaper. Yeep.) If you like fruit but think you don't like beer, try this beer; it has brought at least one avowed non-beer-drinker of my acquaintance to agree that beer is indeed living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Following the raspberry trend, at lunch today I picked up a bottle of Reed's Ginger Brew. I like ginger ale a lot, and I like really gingery ginger ale even better, and raspberry provides a lovely counterpoint to the spiciness. (17 grams of fresh ginger to the bottle.) It went down so well with the tandoori chicken I had that I went back to the store and picked up a four-pack. At over a buck a bottle it isn't really economical for frequent consumption, but perhaps it can be acquired more cheaply elsewhere on teh intarweb. (But probably not here.)
Also, since
yoctohedron asked and because I suspect others might want to know -- my brewer friend who isn't madandrew informs me that yes, there is such a thing as alcoholic ginger beer. It is called Carib Shandy, and is in fact why he got interested in brewing in the first place. (He also informs me that soon he will be brewing up a new batch of mead, which brings back memories of being fourteen and trying to brew mead in Coke bottles. They exploded. This should surprise approximately no one. But, mmm, mead is good.)