/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.15446267]

wha at are you drinking right now /ck/?

[Anonymous No.15446318]

>>15446267
This shit, it's disgusting but with some juices it goes down nonetheless.

[Anonymous No.15446334]

Negroni yo

[Anonymous No.15446349]

>>15446267
contemplating whether I should start sipping on the eggnog i made this afternoon
or let it properly age for a week and drink something else?
Maybe a royal gin fizz to get at least some of that eggy goodness?

[Anonymous No.15446350]

>>15446318
>>15446334
nice fellas

[Anonymous No.15446361]

>>15446349

[Anonymous No.15446384]

>>15446267
Uncarbonated home brewed beer...
I switched from ale to lager yeast, and fermenting at a lower temperature takes a lot longer, so my whole beer production line got backed up.

[Anonymous No.15446438]

>>15446267
Jaeger

[Anonymous No.15446467]

Nemiroff from Ukraine, 40%

[Anonymous No.15446471]

>>15446384
>home brewed beer
what's the trick to making it not taste like shit?
we made it in school once, the teacher even invited some old retired brew master to help us out
and it still turned out like shit, tasted like malt beer with alcohol and hops, very strange
every home brew beer I've tasted since then had some of this weird taste

[Anonymous No.15446676]

Is 1:36pm too early to start drinking? Thinking of making some gunfire tea (basically tea + rum).

[Anonymous No.15446689]

>>15446471
You probably just don't like ale beers with is what most homebrewers make. The stuff you buy in the store are mostly lager type beers which have a cleaner and milder taste

[Anonymous No.15446699]

>>15446676
why does the time mater? seriously, why does the time matter? op here and im drunk, why does the time matter? try and answer that if you can, i dont think it matters

[Anonymous No.15446711]

>>15446267
ew every single day
send help

[Anonymous No.15446714]

water dude

[Anonymous No.15446732]

>>15446267
>>15446318
>>15446467
based vodkabros, my bottle of sobieski just ran dry and I'm too poor to buy another bottle until payday next week so for now, the only sobieski I'll be having until then is soberieski. When payday does arrive, I'm thinking of a nicer bottle this time, I've been eyeballing Haku because I've never tasted a rice based vodka

[Anonymous No.15446733]

I'll be drinking later once the sun goes down, cheap, bottom shelf, $15 for 1.5L of cheap vodka mixed with seltzer.

[Anonymous No.15446742]

>>15446732
you're a sobieski tier alcoholic degenerate living paycheck to paycheck, there's no need to splurge at this point.

[Anonymous No.15446754]

>>15446267
Raspberry & Vanilla flavour gin mixed with pepsi max in a pint glass.
Sort of scraping the back of the booze cupboard.

[Anonymous No.15446817]

>>15446689
no in school we made an export with bottom fermenting yeast (is that how you say it in english?)
we let it partially ferment in the bottle to get good carbonation, maybe that was a problem?
And i have nothing against ales in fact they are probably my favorite type of "foreign" beers besides belgian whites
I don't know how to fully describe what i don't like in homebrew beer the worst part was definitely the weird malt taste, it really stood out
and then it tasted like the different flavors (malt, hops, yeast) didn't really blend together but were really separate it's strange
but i have found something similar every time a friend/colleague gave me a bottle of their homemade stuff, they were all different types of beers
and none of them super bad you could definitely always tell what type of beer it was but there was always this penetrant malt and a lack of smooth/roundness
so considering how cheap even good beer is I've never really got the appeal of going through all that trouble to make your own if it doesn't even taste as good
but maybe i was just unlucky to only taste bad ones and there's a way to make extremely tasty beer at home

[Anonymous No.15446954]

>>15446471
>what's the trick to making it not taste like shit?
Hygine if it tastes funny. Other than sterilizing your equipment, it's really simple to make good beer. Here's what I do for a 20 liter batch:
>1.25 kg amber dry malt extract
>1.5-1.75 kg sugar
>1-2 oz of hops, boiled
>add boiling water to disolve the sugar and DME
>top off with cold water
>add a cup of the dregs from the last batch for the yeast
>if starting from a pouch of dry yeast, make a starter at least the day before so you have a good amount of yeast to dump in, otherwise the time it takes for the yeast to get established in the wort can give bacteria or other undesirable things a chance to grow
>ferment in pail at appropriate temperature for the yeast you're using (I do lagers during the winter, ales during the summer)
>when the fermenting has settled down, transfer to a carboy or another container to separate the beer from the thick layer of yeast at the bottom of your primary fermentation pail, leaving it there can affect the flavour
>give it time for the yeast to settle out of suspension so you have nice clear beer. This can be sped up by placing it in a cold environment, near freezing, or by adding 1 tsp of gelatin disolved in a cup of water.
>when its ready, I transfer it to a pail with a spiggot for mixing the priming sugar and bottling
>fill growlers, wait a week, enjoy.
Make sure once you bottle it, you let the priming sugar fully ferment. I like to keep it somewhere a bit warmer to speed this process up, seeing as there isn't much yeast in the beer at this point. Sugary, semi-flat beer is worse than just flat beer, which is why I'm drinking it flat right now.

Good luck, and don't fall for the alcohol tax jew.

[Anonymous No.15446996]

>>15446817
regarding malitness, you have to find a good balance of malt extract and sugar. I used to use a higher portion of dry malt extract, because DME is supposed to be better than sugar, but I didn't much care for the taste or the heavier mouth feel. I use a higher portion of sugar now, as I like a drier beer, but still want a high enough alcohol content. There's also crystal, amber, and dark dry malt extracts. Amber is the most versatile, so that's what I get when I buy a 50lb bag. I have some dark DME on hand I can add if I want a darker beer.

[Anonymous No.15447011]

Glenfiddich 12

[Anonymous No.15447037]

>>15446954
>>15446996
>malt extract
>sugar
what the fuck is wrong with you
at that point you are neither brewing nor producing beer in the end
if that's what it takes to make "tasty" beer at home i'd rather stick to 30cent a bottle homeless piss

[Anonymous No.15447043]

>>15446267
Nothing, I'd love to have a beer or two but I can't be fucked to go to the corner shop. Planning to buy some gin tomorrow

[Anonymous No.15447049]

>>15446267
Nothing, this is my last weekend off in my new year break.
Looking forward to this time next week.

[Anonymous No.15447063]

>>15447037
Homless piss is $10 for a 6 pack here. I've brewed beer the traditional way, grinding the malted barley, boiling the wort for hours, etc, buddy had a whole setup with a walk in fridge and everything. That's way too much fucking work though. I'm perfectly satisfied with how the malt extract + sugar method turns out, and it costs <$1 per liter to make, requires minimal equipment, and take about as much effort as walking to the beer store.

[Anonymous No.15447074]

Beer from the brewery I work at.

[Anonymous No.15447093]

>>15447074
What brewery do you work at?

[Anonymous No.15447120]

kirschwasser

[Anonymous No.15447124]

>>15447093
Small Norwegian brewery, its gone international but you probably haven't seen any of it. Its not that big.

[Anonymous No.15447128]

>>15447063
well yeah if you live under shariah law with alcohol taxed to the moon go ahead and do what you have to to get a buzz
but for me great beer is like 16€ for a 10l case so considering all the equipment and time required for home brewing saving money will never be a relevant factor

[Anonymous No.15447168]

>>15447128
If I could get quality beer for that price, I'd never have bothered brewing. Here in Canada, the absolute shittiest cheepest beer, the stuff labeled "strong malt liquor" that comes in plastic 2 L soda bottles, the stuff that homless guys who piss their pants drink, is at least $10 leafbux (6-7 euro) for 2 L.
Generic beer that passes as drinkable is around $15 for a 6 pack (roughly 2 L).
Quality beer and imports is even more expensive.

[Anonymous No.15447177]

>>15447168
the weirdest part about canada is that the difference in price between bottom shelf and the good stuff is so small it's hardly worth it to get the shitty stuff.

[Anonymous No.15447191]

>>15446471
Unpopular opinion; extract home brew is far inferior to all-grain brewed beer. Extract beer always had an aftertaste to me.

[Anonymous No.15447192]

>>15447177
Yeah, that's probably why so many homless indian's are huffing gasoline and glue.

[Anonymous No.15447206]

>>15446732
Sobieski, my nigga. For a cheap as it is it is a spectacular rye vodka.

[Anonymous No.15447220]

>>15447124
That's too bad. I was hoping you'd be in the US so I could buy a pack or two. :)

Oh well... what are you drinking anyways?

[Anonymous No.15447224]

>>15446267
Its fucking 1 pm why are you guys already drinking

[Anonymous No.15447228]

What is the price of a 0.5L(a pint) can of cheap shitter beer in your country?

[Anonymous No.15447229]

>>15447191
That's not an unpopular opinoin, it's more like an axiom. It's just that brewing from grain requires orders of magnitude more effort, and it's harder to get consistent results, even if they have the potential to be better.
My friend I was helping brew did everything to a T, he's an autistic aerospace engineer and would plot graphs of the wort temperature throughout the process for each brew, use the finest imported ingredients and stuff, and still there were batches here and there that didn't turn out quite right.

My half assed malt extract method is at least simple and consistent.

[Anonymous No.15447252]

>>15447220
Right now, its a session IPA. Earlier I had a double dry-hopped pale ale, an american pale and a sour ale. All pretty good, what about you, fren?

[Anonymous No.15447257]

smoky af but 8% v nice

[Anonymous No.15447259]

>>15447192
natives can buy alcohol with some tax exemption on reserves tho

[Impressive No.15447260]

What a life!

[Anonymous No.15447261]

>>15447252
Finishing off this. I'm a sucker for a good juicy IPA.

[Anonymous No.15447272]

>>15447259
Tobacco, yes (indians selling ziplock bags of tax free cigarettes are a common thing). I've never heard of any alcohol discount for indians though. Most reserves are dry, and the stretches of highway between dry reserves and the nearest bar are lined with memorials, cause they crash and die driving home drunk all the time.

[Anonymous No.15447291]

>>15447272
not what my guy says.
hmm, I'm beginning to think the alcohol I purchase is even more illegal than I suspected. I can't find anything that backs up his shit on the internet. well I'm not blind yet, so there's a bonus.

[Anonymous No.15447299]

>>15447261
Hard agree, a juicy IPA can really brighten up an evening. Looks really good, lovely label.

[Anonymous No.15447303]

>>15447228
Oettinger is under 30 euro cent and if you are lucky enough to get a decent batch (it actually varies quite a bit) it is surprisingly drinkable
you can probably find something cheaper at the discount stores but are you really that desperate to save maybe another three cents?

[Anonymous No.15447313]

>>15447299
It's a 9% so I feel like I get 2 for 1.

[Anonymous No.15447321]

>>15447228
Shittest beer available in Norway. 2 Euro a can.

[Anonymous No.15447325]

>>15447291
I'd be weary of hard liquor of unknown provenance. I was talking about brewing moonshine with a buddy, and he was mentioning that a lot of people have gone blind in NW Ontario from poorly made hooch.

[Anonymous No.15447340]

>>15447291

[Anonymous No.15447355]

>>15447340
Watch it again. Look at the pump with the missing hose. What does it say?

This is in Brazil where they use sugar cane, instead of corn, to make loads of ethanol.

[Anonymous No.15447360]

>>15447340
I cannot understand this webm. I've seen it a trillion times and I still don't get how this guy just drinks a cup of what I think is diesel fuel.

[Anonymous No.15447361]

>>15447313
Now thats a deal, whats the "average" percentage for beer in the US?

[Anonymous No.15447367]

>>15447355
And here I thought this guy was a true bad ass, drinking 87 octane midgrade petrol.

[Anonymous No.15447369]

>>15447361
4.5-5.x%

Light beers are more like 4.2%

[Anonymous No.15447372]

>>15447355
What do you mean by that? It contains actual alcohol or something?

[Anonymous No.15447381]

>>15447372
What do you think ethanol is?

[Anonymous No.15447389]

>>15447369
Interesting, the average over here is 4.7%, however light beer is considered to be around 2.5%. Beer that is higher percentage than 4.7% isn't allowed to be sold in regular stores.

[Anonymous No.15447406]

>>15447389
Light beer has nothing to do with alcohol percentage but calories.

Alcohol sales, and their corresponding laws, vary widely from state to state. Some states(Oklahoma comes to mind, but I know it's no longer the case) required beer to be no higher than 3.2% if it were to be sold in regular stores instead of liquor stores.

[Anonymous No.15447407]

>>15447372
It's a pure alcohol used a a biofuel for cars. Like hand sanitiser drinking it will still fuck you up and cause you to go blind but it's not as bas as drinking petrol

[Anonymous No.15447408]

2 beers.

[Anonymous No.15447419]

>>15447407
You go blind from methanol, dummy. As long as it's not in there you're fine.

[Anonymous No.15447428]

>>15447419
I'm sure it's got some other impurities in it or is otherwise bad for you

[Anonymous No.15447434]

>>15447419
Don't they denature it with methanol or other adulturants specifically so people don't drink it up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eauxlp1wN8Q

[Anonymous No.15447443]

>>15446267
Łomża beer
used to be great years ago, now is another shitty eurolager+ (ain't that bad as, say heineken, but still)

[Anonymous No.15447450]

>>15447406
Oh, light in that sense. Thought you meant low percentage beer.
We have liquor stores in a way. Its all state owned, its called "the wine monopoly". Literally any form of alcohol that is over 4.7% has to be sold at the monopoly.

[Anonymous No.15447462]

>>15447434
In the US, yes. I'm not sure what they do in Brazil.
>>15447450
Some states are like that. I live in Louisiana where liquor can be sold literally anywhere and drive-thru sales of frozen cocktails are pretty common.

[Anonymous No.15447487]

>>15447462
Man, I wish alcohol had more freedom over here. The drinking culture in Norway is based around getting shitfaced whenever you drink since its so expensive. Drinking alone is the only time you could develop some sort of taste, unless you plan some sort of taste testing with friends, but that oftens ends in getting shitfaced.

[Anonymous No.15447511]

>>15447487
>The drinking culture in Norway is based around getting shitfaced whenever you drink since its so expensive.
Yeah I think the same has happened in Australia, admittedly we've always had issues with alcohol so it's hard to tell but I think it's been exacerbated by ridiculously expensive booze with kids drinking mixed spirits or putrid sugary wine instead of normal stuff

[Anonymous No.15447531]

>>15447511
The thing is, I can't tell whether its a good thing or not. On one side, having a high tolerance for alcohol is good in the sense that you won't get raped or stabbed just cus you had a few. On the other side, people don't enjoy the different types of alcohol on the level that they should. Its sort of the practical solution vs the technical solution.

[Anonymous No.15447563]

>>15447531
>The thing is, I can't tell whether its a good thing or not.
You sound insecure as fuck

[Anonymous No.15447571]

>>15447563
How so?

[Anonymous No.15447585]

love how threads like this get bumped and are allowed to stay up but the second I post something the thread gets shit up by people making fun of me for being trans...i just want to live my life without judgement

[Anonymous No.15447597]

>>15447531
Yeah I can actually see the logic behind it because like I said Australia does have a problem with booze and drugs. We also have an insanely high tax on cigarettes and that seems to have stopped a lot of people smoking. But I think the thing with alcohol taxes is it doesn't really temper peoples' drinking that much, it just induces them to buy cheaper and shittier alcohol which I believe is actually worse for you because they're overly sugary to mask the taste, while the normal stuff sates your appetite earlier. I think I would support minimum alcohol pricing, but instead we have a tax across all alcohol, I think largely just for tax revenue

[Anonymous No.15447603]

>>15447563
Just the passive-aggressive way you responded to a simple and clear message tells me all I need to know about you. Go on a hike with your dad and reflect upon the things you say and how you convey your thoughts.

[Anonymous No.15447632]

>>15447597
Don't go for minimum alcohol price, just heavier taxation. From my experience, it produces less drunk homeless and people think more about their purchases. Then again, I've never had "freedom of alcohol" in the sense that I could just drink all day all night for week, so I don't know.

[Anonymous No.15447646]

>>15447585
On the off hand chance you're not shitposting; you will always be judged. In this life and the next.

[Anonymous No.15447649]

>>15446267
One of these, Japanese zero-calorie "beer". They're shit tier beers, but god tier diet soda.

My wife wanted me to stop drinking them because she was afraid I'd become an alcoholic. When I pointed out that they don't contain alcohol, she said "yes but you'll become addicted to the flavor of beer" lmao.

[Anonymous No.15447657]

>>15447649
so it's beer flavored soda?

[Anonymous No.15447659]

>>15447632
>From my experience, it produces less drunk homeless and people think more about their purchases.
Yeah idk, I'm not so sure it does. Personally I still drink the same amount I would regardless of price. Actually one issue of the higher price is that you're basically forced to buy 24 bottle cartons of beer to save on money, which only encourages you to drink huge amounts at a time rather than just buying a 6 pack and stopping once you run out.
Another issue is salaries are just generally so high here so the higher price doesn't really make people starve, it's just a massive drain on their finances

[Anonymous No.15447672]

>>15447657
It's carbonated water, hops, artificial flavor, caramel coloring, and artificial sweeteners. I'd definitely call it a beer flavored diet soda.

[Anonymous No.15447674]

>>15447659
>Another issue is salaries are just generally so high here so the higher price doesn't really make people starve, it's just a massive drain on their finances
Same over here, I'm not sure theres even a solution to this. Its just kinda how it is...

[Anonymous No.15447693]

>>15447674
True, although I think it's important to think critically amount the higher tax of alcohol and whether it helps or further harms alcoholics. Generally I think the drain on finances of people buying a lot and forcing them to drink cheaper or harder stuff to save on money probably makes it worse. If you have good booze for cheaper prices than maybe people will be encouraged to drink less
I feel like the tax on alcohol has more to do with tax revenue than the supposed health benefits. There might be other things you can do, for example Aboriginal people here are hopeless addicts so they sometimes stop alcohol being sold in certain areas

[Anonymous No.15447697]

>>15447487
Norwegian living in California here.

The biggest culture shock of my life was my first Friday in California when the company offered free beer, wine, and snacks. I grabbed a beer, mingled and talked to some coworkers, turned around 20 minutes later, and everyone was gone.

Turns out that when Californians say they'll "have a beer", they mean "have a single beer and then drive home 30 minutes later".

I can get a $10 bottle of vodka at the 24/7 grocery store, or a wide selection at Total Wine that puts Vinmonopolet to shame, but I'd trade it all for a good ol' Norwegian fredagspils :(

[Anonymous No.15447713]

>>15447697
>Turns out that when Californians say they'll "have a beer", they mean "have a single beer and then drive home 30 minutes later".
What? How boring could you be? Fredagspils would never betray you like that.

[Anonymous No.15447718]

>>15446267
Claude Chatelier VS, I'm recovering from covid and being cheap since smell was still weird a couple days ago.
Any cogna/ck/ here?

[Anonymous No.15447723]

>>15446267
Balvenie double cask. Taking a break from Islay stuff.

[Anonymous No.15447732]

>>15447713
>Fredagspils would never betray you like that.
Skål ;_;

[Anonymous No.15447750]

>>15447732
Skål, kompis, hvis du trenge noen å snakke med, gi meg en lyd.

[Anonymous No.15447779]

>>15447713
>>15447732
>>15447750
did vikings actually come from norway? do you guys have historical viking artifacts leftover in Norway? I am playing Assassins Creed Valhalla right now and i think its interesting

[Anonymous No.15447801]

>>15447779
Vikings were most likely African/moors actually. One race, human race and so on.

[Anonymous No.15447803]

>did vikings actually come from norway?

[Anonymous No.15447804]

>>15447597
>>15447632
>>15447659
>>15447693
In leafland, high alcohol prices literally just drive the homeless to huff solvents, gasoline, glue and spraypaint, etc. If they could get cheap booze, they'd probably just drink that instead, but they can't. They get the same healthcare as everyone else though.

[Anonymous No.15447805]

>>15447779
>do you guys have historical viking artifacts leftover in Norway?
Yes and yes. We have recovered weapons, armor, settlements, and even a few intact viking ships from some bigshots that were buried with their boats.

[Anonymous No.15447819]

>>15447779
Vikings were generally from Norway, Sweden and Denmark. We've dug up a bunch artifacts in Norway. In Stavanger we've found a lot of remnants of viking ships. Also helmets and such.

[Anonymous No.15447820]

>>15447804
Also I reckon it encourages a split in society between heavy drinkers and non-drinkers. Heavy drinkers are forced to hang out with other heavy drinkers to drink which means they both get pissed more than they would have among more normal drinkers, while non-drinkers stay away from them
I think moderate drinking is good for a society but it's hard to exist when it's so expensive

[Anonymous No.15447824]

>>15447804
>Cops gave indians "starlight tours."
Gotta' love Canada.

[Anonymous No.15447825]

>>15447820
shut the fuck up retard, we are talking about vikings now...stay on topic