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2018-12-15 at 1:03 PM UTC in When you're at the store buying liquor and walk into the 'mixer' aisle
Originally posted by Rizzo in a box Of course you drink to get drunk. But how many times have you been drunk? After a certain point you want it to be more enjoyable than just the bare minimum. Anyway, let's talk about the fun stuff!
there are a lot of things to consider when you're thinking, "is this going to be something delicious(and alcoholic)" or not. understanding the process of growing grapes and the various stages of being in casks, aging, etc helps you get an understanding of what sort of costs are involved in what level of investment. Basically, everything over $20 (some would argue $10 but I am being generous) is nothing but hype and nonsense. There is only so much money someone can put into a vineyard, only so many things they can do. Investing in all that high tech shit doesn't even always work out, it is funny to see the hippie brands full of meditating moon children beat out bigger brands. So assuming you're dealing with a brand that is trying to recoup losses from all the investments in high tech bullshit you're still looking at most, a $15 price baked in. everything after that is bullshit.
you go to the store, you drink a $20 bottle that's maybe three years old, maybe a malbec from Italy, something nice. it's still nothing special. so the next time you're out with your girl you decide to order the $200, 2 year old pinot noir. no one likes it. you think wine is shitty and the whole thing is a scam.
meanwhile I am constantly finding amazing 10-15 year old bottles of wine in the $10-$15 range. drinking a real wine will turn your whole shit around. you'll be like, wow, people are capable of creating something like that? properly aged red wine is just nothing but the most delicate notes of honeys and flowers and everything beautiful and perfect in this world.
Ok, I'll tell you what, you say you live (somewhere) in California, right? Wine country?
If I'm ever down there (it's geographically "down" for me, because I live around Vancouver, BC), we will hit up some wineries or whatever.
Heck, we'll take Lanny with us, cus he lives in San Francisco.
It'll be a whole thing.
Then you can properly educate us (or at least me, I have no idea what Lanny knows about wine) on the finer subtle nuances of red wines. -
2018-12-15 at 12:56 PM UTC in Some O.G. Totseans - Chime up if you know what they up to or if you happen to be them with a new username2008 collage...
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2018-12-15 at 12:49 PM UTC in Some O.G. Totseans - Chime up if you know what they up to or if you happen to be them with a new usernameThis used to be my bedroom...
Swear though, I'm not gay.
It was my sisters room before that.
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2018-12-15 at 12:47 PM UTC in Some O.G. Totseans - Chime up if you know what they up to or if you happen to be them with a new usernameApparently people don't like Norm...
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2018-12-15 at 12:44 PM UTC in Some O.G. Totseans - Chime up if you know what they up to or if you happen to be them with a new username
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2018-12-15 at 12:40 PM UTC in Some O.G. Totseans - Chime up if you know what they up to or if you happen to be them with a new usernameI don't even know WTF this was about, but here's some HandOfZek:
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2018-12-15 at 12:36 PM UTC in Some O.G. Totseans - Chime up if you know what they up to or if you happen to be them with a new username
Originally posted by Narc Rust has an account here, he posted a few times a few months ago but I don't think he's posted since. This community clearly proved too hardcore for him, fucking faggot.
I know people here don't like him, for one reason or another, but...
RUST, I like you. Regardless of what anyone else says.
For crying out loud, you're part of the reason I went back to school in my 20's.
You're part of the reason I dedicated myself to learn how to program while working minimum wage jobs.
Rust was just a very knowledgeable individual, and it just resonated with me.
I grew up on Totse, so Rust was one of my role models. -
2018-12-15 at 12:33 PM UTC in Some O.G. Totseans - Chime up if you know what they up to or if you happen to be them with a new username
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2018-12-15 at 12:31 PM UTC in When you're at the store buying liquor and walk into the 'mixer' aisle
Originally posted by Rizzo in a box All cognac is brandy, but not all brandy is cognac. Cognac is a specific region in Frace, much like Champagne only comes from the Champagne region - even though there are bubbly white wines from all over the world.
That is a good analogy.
Originally posted by Rizzo in a box Sherry certainly isn't THE most efficient way to get drunk, vodka will always have that throne.
Ok, there is one other conditional / qualifying factor... If you have $6, you can actually walk into a liquor store and by a bottle of the cheapest sherry.
But you need more money in your pocket for the vodka.
So, bang-for-your-buck-wise, vodka MIGHT be cheaper.
But if you're panhandling or just a few days from welfare day and you need yourself something to drink, then Sherry (the cheap stuff) makes the most sense.
Originally posted by Rizzo in a box a lot of whisky uses sherry oak casks, and all sherry is basically fresh as fuck fortified red wine. stick a little girl into a barrel for a year and - amborsia. Well its not so fucking easy, but good Sherry is the apex of the alcohol making process refined into a very small period. you don't age sherry. sherry is fresh and fun, there is no point in aging it. unlike wine, which tastes like grapes and sugar until five years where it develops a body, and then another five years where you can actually call it a wine and not just alcoholic grape juice. sherry is the fucking greatest but I doubt I can convince many people of that.
You do make a strong case for Sherry. And because I'm such an open-minded person, always looking to try new things, I will be out there looking for a decent brand of Sherry, and you'll be the first I think of before I take that first sip.
Originally posted by Rizzo in a box cognac though, proper, delicious french cognac (but I repeat myself) should bring any whisky lover to his knees.
i could talk forever about this
one of the reasons I do love living in California even though its basically a totalitarian communist state, the fucking wine is amazing and cheap. California has some of the best wine - and sherry!- in the world. and its so cheap here jesus christ just drowning in delicious fucking wine made by people that sit naked out in the wine fields, smoking DMT and channeling ancient gods. you know the french aren't doing that.
I've got an empty bottle of a 15 year old bottle of wine, been keeping it around so I remember to get more, one of the most delicious things I've ever tasted. Hidden away in the liquor store, $10 a bottle. Absolute fucking steal, but barely anyone will notice it because people think spending tons of money on a 2 year old bottle because of the brand name is a good idea. bro, some people invest in wine, based on all sorts of shit, that wine might be a killer in ten years but what are we having for dinner?
really saddens me to see people drink nothing but syrupy white wine trash (girls) or over hyped expensive bullshit in wine reviews (fags). these people have probably never tasted a properly matured wine, or if they did they paid hundreds of dollars and felt compelled to declare it amazing. first time my tongue hit a fourteen year old I was in fucking heaven, no joke a religious experience, honey and flowers, so subtle and delicious, not like the grape-juice flavored cough syrup that passes for most wine. just delicious shit. ten dollars! ten fucking dollars. don't spend $200 on a 2 year old bottle of mondavishekelstein unless you plan on letting it sit around for 15 years. buy good wine, learn your grapes, don't be a fag.
You do pique my interests in sherry, cognac, red white, and so forth. I will admit.
But there are flavor zealouts when it comes to ANY kind of liquor. This thread in particular even delves into that a little bit.
Like, I really do enjoy an aged single malt Whiskey, but do I consider it worth paying an extra $X.XX for it over, say, a blended whiskey? Or even beer or malt liquor?
At the end of the day, I drink to get drunk. If it happens to taste good, that's just a bonus in my books.
But you have intrigued me regarding the ways of the wine. -
2018-12-15 at 12:20 PM UTC in Some O.G. Totseans - Chime up if you know what they up to or if you happen to be them with a new usernameA LOT of Totse chicks posted nudes back in the day, WTF... I guess being a teenager at the time, seeing boobs on the internet was no biggie... But... WTF...
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2018-12-15 at 12:18 PM UTC in Some O.G. Totseans - Chime up if you know what they up to or if you happen to be them with a new usernameOk, it's morally wrong to post pictures of people without their consent, even if they posted them publicly at one point, right???
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2018-12-15 at 12:15 PM UTC in Some O.G. Totseans - Chime up if you know what they up to or if you happen to be them with a new usernameOh, and of course...
We can't stop here, this is...
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2018-12-15 at 12:14 PM UTC in Some O.G. Totseans - Chime up if you know what they up to or if you happen to be them with a new usernameHoly fuck, nostalgia overload...
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2018-12-15 at 12:13 PM UTC in Some O.G. Totseans - Chime up if you know what they up to or if you happen to be them with a new usernameWARWEED...
Anyone remember THIS moderator (I think it was Backyard Ballistics).
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2018-12-15 at 12:07 PM UTC in Some O.G. Totseans - Chime up if you know what they up to or if you happen to be them with a new usernameAnother classic:
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2018-12-15 at 12:06 PM UTC in Some O.G. Totseans - Chime up if you know what they up to or if you happen to be them with a new usernameSTEEL MELTER...
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