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This is a link post Stählemühle -- Aqua Vitae
Nice short film about very good quality brandy being made.

I wish my homebrew was anywhere near this good.
Also i'm not allowed a still and have to rely on fermentation only:(
(I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 15:50, Reply)
This is a normal post I love the smell of Brandy
but my throat and stomach canna take it.

Any tips?

Edit: Interestingly Irish Whiskey is also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uisce_beatha

About the only good legacy of the Monks
 (I helped save b3ta! The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:07, Reply)
This is a normal post I ruined my stomach for Brandy by drinking way too much cheap shit like 3 barrels.
A few cubes of cheese are good for lining the stomach though.
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:15, Reply)
This is a normal post I usually have a bottle of that nearby
for cooking.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:16, Reply)
This is a normal post Wine is the only spirit
fit for cooking with.
 (I helped save b3ta! The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:37, Reply)
This is a normal post One step might be to try a different brandy.
Sadly, that might also mean paying quite a bit more.

I used to be a whisky rather than a brandy person, but two things helped me get my head around brandy - both as a result of doing one of those tourist tours of the Remy Martin distillery and getting a couple of free samples at the end. First: expensive brandy. Their XO is magnificent. Second, they served some of it from the freezer. There were people on the tour who normally wouldn't like brandy, but said that the ice-cold version was much more easier on the mouth. That might be your way in.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:15, Reply)
This is a normal post I was in Poland years ago.
After spending a day walking round Auschwitz I had a head full of grim.

Determined get the thought of Nazis out of my head I decided to
find the most Jewish drink I could find.

A bottle of passover sliwowica 70% plum brandy did the job nicely.
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:27, Reply)
This is a normal post Mossad here
I was in Poland years ago.

You are Schutzstaffel officer Amon Göth,
 (I helped save b3ta! The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:35, Reply)
This is a normal post It may have been
the cheap armagnac I did in Paris that gutted my lining
 (I helped save b3ta! The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:29, Reply)
This is a normal post sniff brandy and drink whisky. :D
vodka means little water.
 (I helped save b3ta! tickle I was away, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:19, Reply)
This is a normal post vodka
you become Russian and do mad things
 (I helped save b3ta! The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:31, Reply)
This is a normal post Me baby sis goes to Moscow a fair bit for work
I get her to pick me up decent vodka, best so far is Beluga Noble Vodka. Smooth as a top quality sake, and sweeter than you'd expect. I think it tastes of strawberries but nobody agrees with me.

Very nice indeed
 (I helped save b3ta! simbosan is too tired, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:37, Reply)
This is a normal post They have wifi at the clinic now?
joke, what's the Grey Goose like?

The one that the Canadians make?
 (I helped save b3ta! The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:39, Reply)
This is a normal post or polski... :D
b3ta user sik taught me how to drink neat vodka when we lived together. you just drink it. wince. repeat.

zubrowka is good. :D

i'm going to lift some embarrassingly small weights now so i can get on the daiquiris... chairman's reserve spiced just now as an experiemnt but back to the kraken next time. i love rum. so much. too much.
 (I helped save b3ta! tickle I was away, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:40, Reply)
This is a normal post rum and coke?

(I helped save b3ta! The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:49, Reply)
This is a normal post oh yes.
i discovered that a rum and coke, ice and lime without the coke but with a wee bit of sugar is a daiquiri. i nebver knew before. delicious but dangerous. :D
 (I helped save b3ta! tickle I was away, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:55, Reply)
This is a normal post I know it's naff (but not as naff as rum n coke) but rum n ginger is lush.
Actually, whiskey n ginger (wine) is also lush.
 (I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 17:06, Reply)
This is a normal post what's naff about rum and coke?
kraken is cracking. i like barrs cola too. but yes a dark and stormy (rum and ginger) is pretty decent and a whisky mac is good until you've had 4 then it's too much.
 (I helped save b3ta! tickle I was away, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 17:29, Reply)
This is a normal post Two whiskey macs is about enough for me (before I move onto something else, obv)
Though honestly, darling; you haven't lived until you've had a few mojitos served in the old quarter of Havana.
I know, WHAT a wanker.
(I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 17:56, Reply)
This is a normal post i like daiquiris
not the mint so much.
 (I helped save b3ta! tickle I was away, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 18:03, Reply)
This is a normal post Unlike building a tolerance to spicy food
I don't think there's anything for you. I drink all my liquor straight because I believe that's how the Lord intended us to drink them, and I have never had a stomach issue. I do find that you can cut red wine nicely with brandy, however, for a little more kick that doesn't much alter the flavors...
 (DeSade - is grannyfappin, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:35, Reply)
This is a normal post I find most whiskies are better with a tiny touch of spring water

(I helped save b3ta! Sheriff John Bunnell https://twitter.com/thewonderfulgam, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:37, Reply)
This is a normal post yup agreed

(I helped save b3ta! The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:47, Reply)
This is a normal post i like to have a few sips of a dram before adding water to see the difference. :D
except for cask strngth stuff, that needs diluting.
 (I helped save b3ta! tickle I was away, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:59, Reply)
This is a normal post With you on both counts
I always try a single malt neat before I add water, but i nearly always decide it needs it.

Anything above 40% is pretty much guranteed to need watering down.
 (I helped save b3ta! Sheriff John Bunnell https://twitter.com/thewonderfulgam, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 17:18, Reply)
This is a normal post Mix it with
some Benedictine liqueur, about 60/40 or to taste. It sweetens and smooths, and still takes the top of your head off.
 (I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:50, Reply)
This is a normal post That was rather lovely

(I helped save b3ta! Sheriff John Bunnell https://twitter.com/thewonderfulgam, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:14, Reply)