Zigbeenuthouse Beer, Wine, Liquor thread

[somenole]

My wife uses a wine app called vino or something. The wine was named Claux. It was bottled by Chateauneuf du Pape. We paid $66 for the 750ml bottle with a 2017 vintage, at the restaurant IX, a funky well rated, nine table establishment in a neighborhood in Quebec City. Away from the old town tourist area.  The wine app said it was a $28 bottle, in retail. It was a red blend that the owner/waiter recommended. 

If Iâ€d known there was going to be a test, I would have studied.

[zigbee]

My wife uses a wine app called vino or something. The wine was named Claux. It was bottled by Chateauneuf du Pape. We paid $66 for the 750ml bottle with a 2017 vintage, at the restaurant IX, a funky well rated, nine table establishment in a neighborhood in Quebec City. Away from the old town tourist area.  The wine app said it was a $28 bottle, in retail. It was a red blend that the owner/waiter recommended. 

If Iâ€d known there was going to be a test, I would have studied.

Actually pretty good description AND sounds to me like a nice trip.  Our Guidance director and her husband motored to Newfoundland and onto Quebec either last month or this month and I'm eager to hear about her travels.   Safe and continue good travel and adventure to you!

[Erhino]

Because good beer is so regional, this means nothing. Hosting 4th and in addition to all day ipa I have Delirium Tremmens, Pulp, Planet Lovetron, random 16.9s from Wicked Weed Funkatorium. Best collection of beer than I have had in a while.

[stxbuck]

Chateauneuf du Pape can be red or white, but Gigondas is all red.  Neither is inexpensive.

How can a wine be either white or red-or is du Pape just the label?

[cincydawg]

The French name wines not by varietal but by region. A region can have both white wines as well as red, and rose. Burgundy if the most famous example of this. There are famous white Bordeauxs even though we think of them as being all red. They aren't.

Most white burgundies are based on chardonnay and most reds are based on pinot noir. You find the same thing in Russian River in Sonoma because the microclimate there has cool nights and morning fog.

Chateauneuf du Pape is a small region on the Rhone River in southern France rather famous for red wines, but they do make whites. It means "House of the New Pope" because the Popes got it all started back when they were in Avignon instead of Rome. They unusually can use some white grape juice in making their red wines, but most is made from red skinned grapes.

[zigbee]

Having some Ballast Point Sculpin tonight and Columbus Brewery Bodhi.

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Ready for the Weekend and GUESS WHAT is out???????????????????  Great Lakes Oktoberfest!!!!



Add to that some Moscow Buckin Mule, Eliot Ness, Bodhi from Columbus Brewery and you'll have a GREAT weekend and beyond....probably a week or so.

[Jacketbuckeye]

Had a Samichlaus Helles... always a great winter sipper.

Mmm Samichlaus.

I brewed this past weekend for the first time since January. I blame a toddler, school, and the rest of life. A friend is getting married in November, and I'm brewing a wedding beer for them. It's near a kitschy town called Helen that models after a German alpine village, so since it's early November I figured a good dark German lager would be a good choice. I got high praise for a dunkel I brewed last winter at a homebrew competition, so I offered to brew that. Turns out it's one of the bride and groom's favorite styles! So this past weekend was a calibration batch.

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Welcome back Jacket!!!

[Jacketbuckeye]

Welcome back Jacket!!!

Thanks, glad to be back! I appreciate the invitation. Right now I'm enjoying a DIPA from my old favorite brewery around the corner.

[Syncro]

EH Taylor Barrel Proof was released this week (at least out here in Oregon)

Well worth picking up a bottle if you can find it!

This year's release is 129.3 proof, down from 129.7 last year.

[cincydawg]

On someone's recco, I got a bottle of Evan Williams Single Barrel. It's pretty good. I prefer Woodford, but it's more expensive.

The wife likes the EWSB as well.

[maize]

This year's release is 129.3 proof, down from 129.7 last year.

Can you even tell a difference? 

[Syncro]

Can you even tell a difference? 

Yes, but not because of the proof

[lrrps21]

53 years old and I never tried alcohol. I'm guessing if I did drink, I'd be into cognac.