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Drinking on the job, again.
634 Loombreaker

SDA shirt/jacket
Kamakura shirt
IH-803-IND
White's Swing Last

The sun came out…

IHT510 from from wayback in 2010…

Watching the sky - the light is changing so much in just 10mins…

Garden work...

had to re-fence and extend the wife's outdoor gardening patch.

Making hay while the sun shine - i.e. it’s not raining for a change…

Brought out of hibernation...

the result often looks like this...

that kind of Sunday it was!

Today…

something young & peaty yesterday night...

@Jett129 said in Hard Drinkers, Lets Drink Hard (Spirits, Liquors and Cocktails):

@goosehd I’m going to try and come up with a coffee/Mezcal Negroni. Been drinking Mezcal Negronis as of late using Campari, Vermouth and Mezcal. I like my cocktails spirit forward so I use a 1-1-2 ratio. Figured I’d start out by adding a half ounce of the coffee liqueur and adjust from there.

don't dismiss St. George - if they still make it, though...

Mr. Black did a Rum Cask and a Mezcal Casked aged version a while back!
If you want to spice it up I'll recommend Ancho Reyes in the mix.

Also fun in a negroni:

Ultimately, you can go the vintage route and try sourcing Campari from the 50's, 60's or 70's - allegedly, the formulation got changed over the decades...

here are some detail shots...

Take 5 top button

labels and pocket bags

patches & arcs

Apparently, I got the thread name wrong - it's IHT510

@Fadez probably going to do this - they only had the initial soak and hemming in 2010, early 2011.
No proper wash as of yet.

current rotation of open Laphroaig bottles.

making a latte at the Foxhole looks more often like this...

@ChrisC said in What's your favourite wine?:

@foxy01 Accidentally aged wine is such a serendipitous joy - I got given a couple of bottles of cheap red blend that my gran had never got round to drinking since 2004, and drinking them in 2026 was amazing, really rich almost sherry like flavours from what would have probably been a very mediocre wine back in 2004.

Seems like you had a good time though! What was in the slow cooker?

Apologies - still have to sort out my login!

Had very mixed results with cheaper wines & vineyards. there is something to the processing that won't always allow significant improvements...
Had a fun experience when I had to convince my American wife that +10Y for a good Riesling is nothing.

turned out to be a revelation that one at the time - Clemens Busch drunk in 2018.

This one turned to sherry vinegar by 2023...

definitely works better with reds - whites and natural wines/orange wines are tricky, to say the least.

got a friend here on the island who is into Chateau Musar, so I brought my stash over - looking forward to cracking open that 1999 white sometime later this year with friends.