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markjchambers wrote: ↑
September 21st, 2019, 10:39 am
I have 4 mags and I have no idea what to do with them. My oldest is from 2012.

Open them with friends?

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I am seeing a lot of “hazy” pale ales these days for sure. They can be hit or miss just like their big siblings. Personally I avoid the maltier ambered pale ales which seemed to dominate the market for years and go for the cleaner, fresher lighter styles of pale ale- for lack of a better description...

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commercial post: I import Pegau to most of the U.S. I like the 2003 better than Scott does. IMO, it is still a little primary (from memory from a bottle early this year), but should improve for 5 years. Dan Kravitz Pegau came in second in this batch if it is any consolation... :) I didnt dislike it...

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I bought sparingly in 2003 based on concerns for the vintage- but I did buy some- at the time I think part out of FOMO if the Bob was right, and in part wanting to keep verticals or some silly thing like that. Some of the Seattle crowd did a couple of fun tastings at Le Pichet to taste them young, b...

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Why would you do this to yourself?

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Drinking it makes you smarter.

https://mackmyra.co.uk/products/intelligens

For futurama fans I wonder if this will be like when Bender learned to cook?

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I have seen this some. More common for me is buying underripe peaches or nectarines and seeing them turn directly from rocks to rot

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Well if lightstrike is the culprit seems an after market tint/uv screen on the cooler door is an easy fix

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The pinenuts thing is going to affect all taste though, not just specific cooler stored wines. Red Herring

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A (somewhat) controlled experiment would be to buy two bottles from same source. Store one in the cooler, one on the counter, allow them both to come up to same temp, then taste and compare. I have noticed wines stored in the regular fridge too long can become off, but that takes longer than a month...

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Polaner is recalling to then resell at higher margins

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As I understand white eggs became the standard in the market due to there are easier to candle and identify imperfections in the embryo. Brown eggs are more prone to have imperfections (e.g. blood spots) on the embryo which do nothing to the taste/quality of the egg, but consumers found off putting

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Bluestar open burners and separate electric oven stack would be my first choice. Though i would consider induction as well.

No opinion on spice drawer. I have a spice cabinet right next to the range hood and that works great for me

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Protection against fraud Any business that accepts credit cards or PayPal knows the problem of payments that are later reversed. Chargeback frauds result in limited market reach and increased prices, which in turn penalizes customers. Bitcoin payments are irreversible and secure, meaning that the c...

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How much work is it to implement? Seems a definite edge case for now at least, but if it is fairly quick and easy to implement and maintain... but guessing there are far better ways to spend developer time right now.

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I will likely go to Popeyes sometime this week for a sandwich. But if you're in Seattle and need a good fried chicken sandwich, try Sodo Chicken located at the corner of 4th Ave S and Michigan in Sodo next to Katsu Burger. I had it today (all the talk of chicken caused a craving), and while the bun...

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I wish there was a popeyes closer to me, we have a couple instances of that other gay-bashing chicken place that I wont give a penny to.

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I loved evineyard.com until the wine.com transition screwed it up. Prices immediately jacked up and they started charging sales tax.

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As I understood wine.com... they structure things is state to state, each state having a separate inventory (and presumably warehouse facility) enabling them to comply with rules for each state... Who the hell fronted them the money necessary to build/buy/rent warehouses in 50 different states? Tha...

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well, my point is that because it is legal to ship here, the "store" can comply with the rules while shipping wine from CA to me. You are correct, but that is outside of their model, hence the resistance. I would guess they have a very firm company policy against making exceptions, regardless of ac...

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As I understood wine.com (take that as a significant caveat) the way they structure things is state to state, each state having a separate inventory (and presumably warehouse facility) enabling them to comply with rules for each state. So if you say shipping to CA you will get a very different inven...

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This is a bit anecdotal, but in several higher end grocery stores, which used to have a reasonable selection of good quality rose options, now seem to have almost all gimmicky or crap domestic rose. “Mr. Pink” and the like, and only one or two of the type of rose that I would buy. Granted this is an...

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Older silver oaks I have had are like drinking from. Pickle barrel... no thanks. Of I had to choose lesser of two evils or a form of over oaked, will take vanilla over pickle any day of the week.

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The ruhlman cure is a winner IMO.

Now I have another reason to dislike Arbys

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I would say I am jealous of this tasting but that is forbidden.

Nice notes, heckuva tasting!

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Of the lists you mention, Alban is the only one who is a hostage mailer. In a sense you can call SQN eba release a hostage as it is essentially a six bottle bundle, and if you don’t buy you won’t get offered the next year. Cayuse similar but in 3 packs. You might contact HDH or similar retailers th...

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Robert Grenley wrote: ↑
August 5th, 2019, 1:47 am

I am late to this thread, but there is no greater red varietal than Pinot Noir, and there is no greater white varietal than Chardonnay, and that is that. Mike down.

What did Mike do to you? Seems uncalled for.

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You are allowed to post on ultra expensive wines and tastings permitted you ship me one representative bottle per occurrence. Thank you.

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Oh yeah! Forgot about Lancers

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I think foil is the way to go. Just one consumers vote.

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I walked through the total wine Rose section not long back- An entire aisle devoted to pink stuff- There was maybe 1 or 2 that I would be willing to buy and I love good rose.

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Mateus made rose before it was cool. That is true. Though this bottle style is new.

Sweet nasty rose, but nonetheless

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https://www.startrek.com/news/picard-wi ... eaux-sirah

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https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/07 ... 564578341/

Binge drinking is increasing among seniors, study finds

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Many of these biggest offenders big ass bottles are on wines that never hit (or rarely hit or dont rely on) retail. SQN? Turley (sure the juveniles maybe).

Marketing at retail is a

argument for a large percentage of these offenders

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The major red flag here that no-one seems to have caught is they are saying the reconditioning process involved decanting the wine? That's not how you recondition wine. My immediate thought as well. Seems very different than the typical re-corking process and with much more impact to the wine itsel...

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Comes in black... with a beard.

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All I truly know about Texas BBQ is Killen’s but what I know is gooooooood.

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YLee wrote: ↑
July 26th, 2019, 9:33 am

Scott G r u n e r wrote: ↑
July 26th, 2019, 8:39 am

Markus S wrote: ↑
July 26th, 2019, 8:10 am
Yeah, that's not bad at all.
Disagree. It is a good $30 too much, but understand you are speaking relative to actual pricing in the market...
Where can we get it for $55?

You can't. Hence I no longer buy it.

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I simply do not understand the fairly common desire to have board trolls. The board is a better place when people are respecting each other instead of insulting one another. This is a persistent theme here, and I have never understood it. You can find assholes by the bushel-full everywhere you turn...

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Markus S wrote: ↑
July 26th, 2019, 8:10 am
Yeah, that's not bad at all.

Disagree. It is a good $30 too much, but understand you are speaking relative to actual pricing in the market...

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I initially assumed that this thread was resurrected as an Alan Eden tribute... Somewhat classic for him. re: cloudiness- I had a 2017 Beaujolais that was reasonably cloudy the other day- it was a "natural" wine and unfiltered and un-fined so assume that had something to do with it. Have also had so...

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The one region every publication now misses though is under $25, they are all trying to out trophy taste eachother to some extent and highest score wins with retailers and general consumers. This is a great call out- easy to find reviews on the big names, well established names, and ultra expensive...

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Have had a ton of bad, insipid, or sugary sweet industrial plonk at weddimgs or events primarily. Too many to remember and many were dumped and forgotten. The worst wines that I expected to be good were the clos st jean cdp from the mid 2000’s- just awful raisiny hot wines to my taste. And the 98 Ca...

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How many of your parents had a bowl of bacon grease or other grease that sat on the stove for easy access? Was there a huge can of Crisco in the pantry? I still keep the bacon grease. Though I filter it eith a coffee filter. Use it for bruss sprouts, roast potatoes, fried eggs.... i keep in coffee ...

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I keep a lot of traditionals in the mix that I ate and learned to cook as a kid.

Classic (to me) Beef Stew
Betty Crocker Pork Fried Rice
My mom’s lasagna
American “Italian” Spaghetti- made with ground beef and mccormick spaghetti with mushrooms seasoning packet.
Meatloaf

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After reading this and the faethm thread I think I am finally cured of FOMO as I felt nothing. I suppose Cambie’s name involved helped somewhat too. Add Rolland for the trifecta.

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I’m 90% convinced that a fair number of “winery direct” wines are essentially private label wines that have no business existing- think two buck chuck. Stick with known producers.

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Was at a restaurant recently that focuses on “natural” wines and discussing why and what they look for and why. Boiled down to balance, interesting complexity, freshness, pairing well with food, etc. My comment was that they were really looking for good wine, not necessarily natural wine.

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Just got some genever from amsterdam. Curious how it is in drinks

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