Well... darn!

I have mentioned the local beer store, 99 Bottles, a couple of times.
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Plus, a lot of the beer I've mentioned was purchased there. They introduced me to the concept of buying a growler and taking it home.

I started wondering if they could last when you started being able to buy craft and micro brews at the local Safeway.

Then we voted to get the state out of the booze business (sort of: that thumb is still on the scale, covertly), and booze super store opened on town, and the writing was on the wall.

So the latest "Weekly Brews" email newsletter announced that they are closing the doors forever on  December 10th, and they are selling everything.

Damn it.

Sangria!

White sangria this time.

• 1 750ml bottle of white moscato
• 1 can "Peach Citrus Pop" (Fresca)
• 1 cup of diced peaches in light syrup
• Handful Strawberries (Smallish ones, from our garden)

I poured the wine and the pop into one of the pitches I described in last summer's post "Mmm-mm, good!" I poured the peaches into the "fruit infuser" tube, letting the syrup run into the wine/pop mix.

Then I put a handful of strawberries in, and assembled the whole thing.

Let it sit in the fridge overnight.

It almost made it through dinner...

Last week I made a batch with a 10 year old bottle of syrah and a can or 7-Up. That one used some ginger and mint as well as strawberries and a sliced orange. It needed some simple syrup, just didn't work as well.

It's cold out there!

It's a good day to celebrate the Repeal of Prohibition with a Hot Buttered Rum:

Hot Buttered Rum Batter No. 1
1 lb Brown sugar
1/2 lb Butter, salted
1 tsp ground Nutmeg
1 tsp ground Cinnamon
1 tsp ground Cloves
1 tsp ground white Cardamom
1 tsp Vanilla
Blend all ingredients in a food processor or mixer and store in the fridge or freezer. To make a drink add a shot of good dark rum along with 1 or 2 tbl spoons of batter to a mug of very hot water. Serve in Irish coffee cup.

If you can find cardamom pods, the cardamom itself will keep almost indefinitely.  Not that we found some cardamom pods in the pantry that predated our marriage or anything...

 Note: I have no idea where I found this recipe. If it is copyright, I invite the owner to contact me and I will remove it.

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!

The horror... There's a global wine shortage - Oct. 29, 2013