To go with the meat pies and cheesy goo from another post, here is our recipe for mead, the honey wine that is all through history and fantasy. Here's your warning: MAKE THIS EXACTLY BEFORE YOU TRY TO SCREW AROUND WITH IT. We've had far too many people rave about our mead, then whine when … Continue reading From the Back Room – Mead
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From the Bar – Las Parcelas Carmenere
No picture of the bottle since last night the garbage had to go out and I forgot to rescue the bottle. This is one more in a long line of reds, since that's what I prefer and I really am getting into these South American ones. This Las Parcelas Carmenere is new to the PLCB … Continue reading From the Bar – Las Parcelas Carmenere
From the Bar – Ta Henket, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Having a thing for cats pretty much guarantees at some point you'll become fascinated with Ancient Egypt. And thus started my interest in history and religious myths. When I read in the Smithsonian Magazine that some brewers were making ancient alcoholic beverages, I set out to find some of them. Our local Wegmans suprised me … Continue reading From the Bar – Ta Henket, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
From the Bar – Root 1 Camenere
From the Bar – Root 1 Carmenere A Chilean wine, this is one of those from what is claimed to be a rediscovered “lost grape ofBordeaux”. The bottle is quite nice, thinner than usual with a painted label. The price at the PLCB was $10.99 US. The vintage was 2009. At the “root” of it, … Continue reading From the Bar – Root 1 Camenere
From the Back Room – Brewer’s Best Holiday Ale
Husband and I dabble in home brewing. We’ve made about 6 Brewers Best beer kits now, American Cream Ale, English Bitter, Summer Ale, Dunkleweisen, Weizenbier and I’m damned if I can remember the other one. To start off 2012 right we started the Holiday Ale. Evidently the yeasties were all excited about this, because the … Continue reading From the Back Room – Brewer’s Best Holiday Ale
From the Bar – Cream Ales
I was a bit late to the party when it comes to drinking alcohol. When my peers in high school were drinking on strip jobs rocking out to Lynyrd Skynyrd, I was home reading and listening to movie soundtracks. Yes, I still am much that nerd. I finally got a taste for alcohol in college … Continue reading From the Bar – Cream Ales
From the Bar – Bully Hill Vineyards
Being from the hinterlands of the East Coast, local wines tend to be sweet. Some gawdawful cloyingly sweet and some basically off-dry (I don’t think I’ve had a truly dry wine from around here). But they all have taste and body, sniffed at by “experts” as “unsophisticated” country wines. My predilection for these makes many … Continue reading From the Bar – Bully Hill Vineyards
Club Schadenfreude 