It’s for sale with a free shipping promo on the Adriatico website!

I’ve made fruit kvass before, but never with bread. Will be watching with interest.

Today? It was so good!

2 oz bourbon

3/4 oz lemon juice

3/4 oz Amaro (I used Amaro Toscano)

3/4 oz roasted pineapple syrup

Shaken.

Look up the Golden Crown by Katherine Bouchel for the syrup recipe and another whiskey/pineapple drink.

I realized I didn’t answer which whiskey - honestly I think the best with canned pineapple juice is Irish whiskey, when we are out, like at a festival , pineapple juice and Jameson is one of the most reliable things you can order.

Bourbon with fresh pineapple juice.

Scotch in pineapple tepache is amazing, and I bet the roasted pineapple syrup would also be a good match.

So, all sorts of whiskey I think probably have some pineapple match.

I actually flip the proportions and it still tastes mostly like amaretto!

I won’t be buying the Adriatico until it is available closer, the two online places I found had $30-$40 shipping cost and none of the other items I can’t get locally. Oh well.

Oh I want those bitters!

My husband has an odd reaction to Sichuan pepper, he’s usually a little less spice tolerant than the rest of us, but not by much. But when I make mapo tofu, he almost can’t eat it, finds it so, so, so hot and he thinks we are trolling him, but none of us find it super spicy at all. We perceive it as pleasantly picante but he is on fire. I’m sure it’s that one pepper, because I don’t use it in much else.

Love Barolo with pizza or spaghetti, yum.

Have been charging the phones on the electric bike battery, but oof not drinking again untill the weekend or until we have electricity. Just water, and again very happy they have secured that.

Thank you, yes thankfully this was not deadly like Helene.

Thanks! City was not flattened or flooded, but no power today, along with half a million others.

Made one with half the rum, it was better. Though still muddy looking even without the dark rum, nothing like the pictures online. Plan for if I ever have the occasion to enjoy one again though, half the rum, passionfruit liqueur not puree, still lemon not lime, pomegranate juice not grenadine. Certainly not tonight though. Has anyone a recipe they actually enjoyed?

Yes, certainly not a looker. It is very good though. I think if made with white rum and claro tequila it would be pretty but not as tasty.

Where was the cheese? Served with the cocktail or in it somehow? It all sounds reasonable until they get to smoked gouda!

No but I got tibicos on Amazon from a company called Gut Punch and they perked right up and worked great. They were not expensive. I see some in the $12 range now (mine were about $8) and remember you only need a teaspoon or so, they multiply like tribbles.

Yeah with orange liqueur and orgeat I can’t imagine it needing more sweeter. Looks lovely!

[https://imbibemagazine.com/recipe/negroni-paradiso-a-negroni-flip/]

Just came over my news feed and seemed very related in flavor; this one might work for the no-bourbon crowd.

Pineapple juice & whiskey is the gateway cocktail. Make some fresh pineapple juice and just taste it mixed with even a float of Scotch OMG, so delicious! Bourbon on vanilla ice cream is so good too.

Bourbon is so good in tepache too. Any whiskey has such an affinity for pineapple.

I do mine in a weak, sweet cinnamon/black pepper lemonade basically, my recipe is in the non-alcoholic thread on lemmy-world c/cocktails and has been foolproof so far, years and years.

Neal Asher’s space operas are some of my favorite books. The Prador, the AI, Spatterjay, he even has a short story with terrifying carnivorous sheep in it!

In general - if I want a good time I go out for a drink, if I want a good drink I make one at home. Getting a great drink at a bar is an unusual and very happy occasion, but not required for a good experience - I know y’all are busy.

Ha! Need a reminder to buy this. Our staples are:

Evan Williams Bottled-in-Bond - this goes the fastest because husband likes it on ice. But is cheap so a good staple.

Tequila Ocho claro, Gonzalez Reposado

ABK6 Cognac

Everything else just get whenever - that handful of stuff we buy when it runs out. The tequila usually not till both are gone though.

My lunch yesterday was a kimchi grilled cheese on homemade sourdough bread! So delicious.