What is everyone drinking?

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I've been sipping through a batch of Corn & Oats sour mash, aged 3 years on charred oak staves. Wow it's really coming together! It's been off the oak for a while now, and the flavors are mellowing into something nice.
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Some newish brandy. My son made wine and it had a fly in it and he didn't want to drink it LOL.
So I cleaned it up. Pretty darn good.
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I'm enjoying the last of my 2014 peach brandy make.
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Sampling triple distilled Gold Kiwifruit Brandy that was fast aged three years ago and has been on the same oak ever since. Yummy. It's the first successful product that I've managed to make out of gold kiwifruit. Some of these new gold varieties make very poor wine and liquor compared to the varieties available 60 years ago.
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Have been sipping on some Black Collar golden rum. Pot stilled, small batch, made in the Bay of Islands here in NZ.
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Me too, but the gold rum is my own and I mixed it with good old Schweppes ginger ale and a big squeeze of lime. Cheers!
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Yesterday i tried my rum. I made the spirit run two years ago but forgot to make cuts and all (newborn child). Two month ago i did the cuts and started the oak aging. Guess i will give it some more time. The second glas was with coke and this was already very good. Can't wait to do another run. A small wash is fermenting to have a dunder start point for the bigger one next week hopefully.
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Tonight I'm celebrating packaging my "Confidently Masculine Cream Ale" with a bit of corn mashed with 5% smoked malt. It's only been aging about 4 months, but it's a tasty drop!
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Copperhead road wrote: Sat Jan 11, 2025 7:52 pm Distilled in 2018
Nice Copper .
I remember that label style .
You had only been into it for a year and you sent me a bottle of your Pot stilled Whiskey . For a beginner , I was totally blown away . It was the nicest Home distilled Whiskey I had ever tasted . :thumbup:
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Still hand write all labels yummy.
Glad you gave my whiskey a good appraisal
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I thought you'd been to busy to do much distilling Copper, appears I was wrong.
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150ml Whisky Carafe of 100% pure straight solera honey shine nectar of the goddess pouring neat. Very floral rich and great mouthfeel - lightly oaked.

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A dram or two of Jonny’s Rat Bastard Rumski :)

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I've been sick this past week so I'm drinking my home made cold and flu remedy, hot tea with honey and apple brandy...it may not cure you but you don't care :lol:
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Well...been sampling (read drinking) sweet feed "whiskey " that has been sitting in a new barrel for 2 years. Not bad at all if I say so myself.lol.
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cranky wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 7:37 pm I've been sick this past week so I'm drinking my home made cold and flu remedy, hot tea with honey and apple brandy...it may not cure you but you don't care :lol:
I was always taught that the treatment for the flu was to take the juice of a half bottle of bourbon and bed rest. :lol:
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A nice cup of tea, 3 sugars white :oops:
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Copperhead road wrote: Sat Feb 08, 2025 10:44 pm A nice cup of tea, 3 sugars white :oops:
Back at work again Copper ?
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Yummyrum wrote: Sat Feb 08, 2025 10:48 pm
Copperhead road wrote: Sat Feb 08, 2025 10:44 pm A nice cup of tea, 3 sugars white :oops:
Back at work again Copper ?
Not at moment yummy, sitting at the hospital lol

Ironically, I’ve just read the post before me and they mentioned a cup of tea as well
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Bundaburg Solera .
It’s the top of the range from Bundy . Not cheap .
A Thank-you treat from the inlaws for looking after things while they were away .

Mrs Yummy really likes it . I think it tastes like sweet sickly boring nothing . I’d said I’d prefer a bottle of Bundaberg OP any day . ( and its 1/4 the price ) LOL , she said “fine , I’ll buy you one and I’ll drink this one . “

Looks like we both win :ebiggrin:
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Yummyrum wrote: Sat Feb 08, 2025 11:16 pm Bundaburg Solera .
It’s the top of the range from Bundy . Not cheap .
A Thank-you treat from the inlaws for looking after things while they were away .

Mrs Yummy really likes it . I think it tastes like sweet sickly boring nothing . I’d said I’d prefer a bottle of Bundaberg OP any day . ( and its 1/4 the price ) LOL , she said “fine , I’ll buy you one and I’ll drink this one . “

Looks like we both win :ebiggrin:

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In the meantime , I’m drinking my Rum
Yummy I bought my Dad a bottle of that and he loved it . Top notch mate ENJOY
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Naah , the price means nothing copper , its sweet tasteless shit

Glad you and you’re dad liked it though
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Yummyrum wrote: Sat Feb 08, 2025 11:25 pm Naah , the price means nothing copper , its sweet tasteless shit

Glad you and you’re dad liked it though
I've tried it Yummy, it's smooth and that's about it. If I'm buying a 50 buck bottle I want it to be smooth.

If I'm forking out 200 plus, it's got to have flavour and different notes.

I reckon you can cut tight and age long and end up with a product that you can drink neat and that's great, it's just a bit meah..... :thumbup:
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A lovely Tasmanian Rye
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