Official RC Snobby Beer Purchases Thread

LOL @ you guys and your alcohol expenditures
Anyway, I bought some mead today. How do I go about drinking this stuff? It says over ice. Does that mean I refrigerate it?
 
No thanks to you fags, I drank my mead over ice like it says on the bottle. My overall impression is: mead tastes like SHIT. I can't understand how people were able to consume this beverage for so many centuries. The only redeeming quality is that it's pretty high in alcoholic content (similar to wine) and so towards the second half of the bottle, I no longer realized it tasted so bad.


At the wine store, I found a $700 bottle of irish whiskey. I'm getting that next.
 
I used to always refrigerate mine, but then I was told it needed to be drank room temp. SHRUGS

haven't bought any since then to find out how it might taste.
 
No thanks to you fags, I drank my mead over ice like it says on the bottle. My overall impression is: mead tastes like SHIT.

I remember thinking this at first, much the same as the first time I tried beer, wine, whiskey, etc. Then I put the bottle back on the shelf for a while, and next time I got it out I loved it!
 
haha, absolutely. I'll be there Sept 30th for their annual beer tasting. You should go..it's incredible. Then we are all gonna hit up a good craft beer bar.

you know, I would if I could, but I actually have a guest coming in from out of town that weekend, and am hosting my very own beer bash "end of summer, hello fall" BBQ at my place

next time mayhaps
 
I'm currently drinking a 2006 bottling of Smuttynose Wheat Wine (Big Beer series). It needs to warm more, but it's got potential. Still quite "hot" though, I'm thinking another year on the shelf would do it good.