After almost 10,000 posts on Boing Boing BBS Happy Mutants food and drink topic (Part 2) - general topics - Boing Boing BBS
I will try to migrate to this new venue.
The interaction with other Happy Mutants has been a daily joy.
We all eat and drink.
Cheers!
My Halloween Birthday pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting.
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Imagine my surprise when I logged into BB for the first time since mid October to find that the community had shuttered. So glad I stumbled upon this bbs!
Tonight neither the spouse nor I felt like cooking so it was leftover kale and sweet potato salad and I made a riff on a sidecar that substituted green chartreuse for the orange liqueur. Adulting at its finest!
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I suppose the other thread i would consider the food thread, but we don’t have something for drinks. Kind of, @Kentkb does call out drinks here sooo… fuck it i’m posting my drink impressions here (could this be retitled to be drink themed and leave foods for the other one?)
But I had kind of a hard, stressful week, and today was just as stressful. I dislike relying on alcohol to manage a difficult day but today felt like a “fuck it” day and i finally broke open one of my Emergency Beers™. It is a (2017) Wootstout brewed by Stone Brewery, i really love their stouts and the Wootstout is quite nice. It’s made with pecan, wheat, rye and partially aged in bourbon barrels, the taste is nutty so the pecan makes sense, that leads into notes of vanilla dark caramel, then bitter chocolatey with coffee notes. Really lovely, so glad i’ve fridged this since i bought it and kept it aside for a hard day.
Its pretty boozy at 13% alcohol so it’s hittin’ the spot for me, but besides the buzz the taste does bring me joy. I don’t indulge in beer often as i’m trying to lose my weight, but this is a treat that i’m delighting in (alongside a sourdough PB&J).
Would like to replace this one with one of the newer Woot Stouts, but i don’t think they’re doing this particular brew in the pint size bottle any more. I’m only seeing it offered as a 12oz six pack these days. That said i do have two very fancy imperial stouts in my fridge also as Emergency Beers™.
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My BFF came over w/her BF one night, and she drank two bottles of wine. She’d been thru hell over the previous coupla months, and since we’d heard nothing about it, she hipped us that night.
When I told mom the next day that she’d drunk two bottles of wine, mom said, “Good for her! but I’m very sorry she needed to drink two bottles.”
So I say to you, Dear Heart, I’m really glad you have such a magnificent beer and that you’re enjoying it so much! but I’m very sorry you needed a beer.
I had a hazelnut beer back in the early 2000s that was thoroughly delightful. Mom disliked most beers, but she liked it a lot. It was a Yankistani craft beer, and I’m ashamed I can’t remember who made it.
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I will take your comforting words and gracefully accept them 
hazelnut beer sounds great, here in Austin i can get a pecan porter and it’s real good without being too heavy or intensely dark/flavored, so i can imagine a hazelnut brew being right up my alley.
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That sounds yummious, too!
ETA:
Porters have become mighty thin on the ground 'round these parts.
A friend would occ’ly cross the Detroit River to Canada, and get various beers in Windsor, long before the proliferation of Yankistani craft ones. She bought Molson Porter for a party, and I adored it. I have never seen it on this side of The River.
Found this sign on ebay t’other day:
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