au contraire -- the Costco folks do a very good job of tasting and selecting.
fwiw, they used to carry Italian EVOO but abandoned it when they couldn't get the quality. they now have Greek EVOO
Tough crowd.
The label lists only 5 ingredients: real dairy cream, whisky, spiced rum, brandy and French vanilla. At 29.5 proof, it was a soothing mixture for a tense election night.
No. As far as I can tell, all of the eggnog products in liquor stores just use cream with flavorings rather than eggs. This stuff uses "French vanilla", whatever that is, to provide the egg/custard flavor. There are some FDA regulations that apply to egg content for products sold as eggnog. But the regulations apparently don't apply to eggnog liqueur (see Wikipedia article). The Wikipedia article also notes that the term "eggnog" also refers to a flavor, so that is probably the best answer: Starbucks eggnog lattes don't have egg, either.
It's really just another cream liqueur, with a nice combination of flavors. We've tried the Evan Williams eggnog and a couple of others, but this one is very good and the price is unbeatable ($9.95 for 1.75L).
Yes indeed, Barley Wine. It is more comparable to a really strong but flat beer than wine though... One of those things you just have to try.
Will have to look at my Mead today, see if it's good for bottling.
Will have to look at my Mead today, see if it's good for bottling.
Sipping on Captain Morgan Black Spiced... and I should have gone to sleep long ago.
my first time with it and from a gluten intolerant/celiac perspective considering many darker rums are often spiced and colored with burnt sugar (aka caramel, E150) which is some times made from gluten grains so it's a risky lottery picking a bottle, but this one went very well with me, thank God I can still enjoy some aqua vitae! 🙏
my first time with it and from a gluten intolerant/celiac perspective considering many darker rums are often spiced and colored with burnt sugar (aka caramel, E150) which is some times made from gluten grains so it's a risky lottery picking a bottle, but this one went very well with me, thank God I can still enjoy some aqua vitae! 🙏
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Wow! That takes me right back to when one of my cousins got a cheap little reel-to-reel recorder for Christmas about 50+ years ago. We all took turns telling jokes into it, one if which was, "What kind of milk do brown cows give?" 😛
That little thing didn't even have a capstan/pinch roller - I remember we could make ourselves sound silly just by using a different brand of takeup reel (with a larger hub) for playback, heh.
Thanks for the flashback.
I usually make a couple of gallons of cold-brew coffee at a time. I like how the flavor improves after a few days in the fridge. Mostly for convenience, I recently started adding a scaled-up amount of the little bit of sweetener that I was previously adding to each individual glass. This had no perceivable adverse effect on the flavor. But with this batch I tried the same thing with the half & half, doing the math and adding a bulk amount to the entire batch. At first it seemed fine, but after "aging" for a few days, the mix seems to have a more dull, anodyne flavor than what I've grown accustomed to. So I guess I'll go back to adding the dairy per-dose, heh.
Funny how this stuff works (or doesn't) sometimes.
Funny how this stuff works (or doesn't) sometimes.