Hard Drinkers, Lets Drink Hard (Spirits, Liquors and Cocktails)
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If you like agave spirits, I recommend tracking down some raicilla. It’s kind of a fruiter mezcal without the smoke. Goes awesome with spicy mexi foods or sipped solo.
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Raicilla is just mezcal produced in Jalisco and maybe some neighboring states. As such, it can have any characteristics a mezcal can have. Unlike tequila, a tightly controlled term, raicillas have more species of agave and production techniques available to them.
This producer steams the piñas, but a raicilla could use a horno or a wood fired oven to cook the piñas and you’d have smoke in the flavor profile.
Conversely, even though most people associate mezcal with smoke, many regions like San Luis Potosí more often use ovens or autoclaves on their piñas, resulting in some expressions with zero smokiness.
Just making sure no one buys a raicilla with expectations it will necessarily be like this one.
La Venenosa has some crazy raicillas. Sierra del Tigre literally tastes like blue cheese. It’s a single distilled product and very primitively produced. One of the wildest tasting spirits you’ll ever love, hate, or be confused by.
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@Mizmazzle is that a Bloody Prime or a Mega Mary? Looks great eitherway
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Not sure if you’re in Long Beach, if so, check out The Attic just east of Redondo on Broadway next for some crazy bloody marys. Enjoy your trip!
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@sophisto000 nailed it! In Long Beach. Thanks for the rec. We’re keeping it ultra local on this one. We have a spot a block off 2nd street and 3 blocks from the beach.
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Let me know if you want anymore recs, but you’ve got plenty of spots on 2nd St.
Here’s an unsolicited one that walkable for you, although I haven’t been here myself, I hear it’s pretty awesome:
Metal themed burger joint located at the famously named “Horny Corner” section of the bay… -
@sophisto000 said in Hard Drinkers, Lets Drink Hard (Spirits, Liquors and Cocktails):
Metal themed burger joint located at the famously named “Horny Corner” section of the bay…
These kind of horns?
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According to legend, no.
More like this kind of horny:
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it's a bit commercialized i guess these days, but i always enjoyed getting a beer and sitting outside at ballast point there in long beach.
also sad that beachwood bbq in seal beach closed a long time ago. was a favorite on business trips for all the crazy beers they had on tap.
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Slayer font on a Metallica theme hehe. I’m more of a Griddle ‘Em All guy tho
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@sophisto000 said in Hard Drinkers, Lets Drink Hard (Spirits, Liquors and Cocktails):
According to legend, no.
More like this kind of horny: Apparently a less interesting kind of Hornay.
https://www.presstelegram.com/2021/08/02/long-beach-artist-celebrates-horny-corner/
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@mclaincausey said in Hard Drinkers, Lets Drink Hard (Spirits, Liquors and Cocktails):
Slayer font on a Metallica theme hehe. I’m more of a Griddle ‘Em All guy tho
I have only seen a couple of Slayer songs live (left their stage to watch Tool). Slayer are now playing a show in London the day after the Sabbath gig and the date clashes with Silverstone. Decisions decisions.
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@sophisto000 walked past this spot this morning on the way to breakfast! Thanks brother man. I’ll keep this one in mind.
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@Bridger everyone should see Slayer at least once in their lives. A metal heads Beatles.
In the easy chair with my boots on, melted whiskey in my hand. Could'na been asleep for more than three hours...time to go to work again...
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@Mizmazzle said in Hard Drinkers, Lets Drink Hard (Spirits, Liquors and Cocktails):
@Bridger everyone should see Slayer at least once in their lives. A metal heads Beatles.
True. However, I would prefer to see them with Ringo Lombardo
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Yeah didn’t they do Dave dirty? That leaves a bad taste in my mouth
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Band politics eh!
