Monthly Archives: April 2011

Sweet Bearded Baby, They’ve Done It! – Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey

Posted on 04/27/2011 by | 2 Comments

Woke up this morning. Checked my email/Twitter/Texts, stumbled into the office to check Facebook and what is there to greet me? A Facebook Pay-Per-Click add from the producers of my Ambrosia, Jack Daniel’s, advertising their new brand of Tennessee Honey!

Now, I’ve sampled the other Honey spirits out there, Seagram’s Dark Honey, Wild Turkey’s Honey Bourbon, and I like ‘em! They’re not the strongest brands, they’re tough to drink more than 1 or 2 because they’re so sweet, but, DAMMIT! They’re delicious!

I can’t WAIT to get some of the Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey in me! I mean, just look at it, doesn’t it just make you smile…?

There’s already a recipe page for cocktails using their new drunken bee love-child, of which I will have to make each, and you better be DAMNED sure we’re going to try these out on the Podcast! (That is, if I can ever get Hoover back in here to record one or I stop getting sick all the time…)

I will have a follow-up post to this once I get my grubby hands on a bottle and try it out. Might even have to do a compare/contrast with the other Honey Boozes out there, I’ll be sure to let you know. But in the mean time, bask in the glory that be… Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey!

- Brad

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And A Beard We Egg

Posted on 04/24/2011 by | Leave a comment

The old lady and I colored up some eggs the other day.  This is a video of it.
Keep an eye out, there’s an Easter Egg in the Easter Eggs…

- Brad

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Home Distillation – Preface

Posted on 04/20/2011 by | Leave a comment

For months now, I’ve been really wanting to learn how to distill spirits or learn to brew beer.  They’re both such an art and one that I can actually do since I can’t paint or draw for shit.

So I’ve been browsing YouTube videos under the search of “Home Distillation How To”, I’ve run across a few that are pretty good, some are really elaborate and some are kinda sketchy…

So I found a distillery that’s pretty close, St. James Spirit in Irwindale, CA.  I want to give them a call, see if they do tours, maybe I can chat with a distiller.  If not, I will go back to the instructional video drawing board.

So I think the best option will be doing a sort of single pot still, I’m kinda scared though, after talking to Hoover about this, he’s making me think that if I mess anything up, just slightly, that I might go blind!

But if things go well, I’ll have whats known as White Dog whiskey.  This is the clear, pure spirit before it’s aged in a charred white oak barrel.

So I want to do both for my first batch.  I found a cool website that sells pre-charred white oak barrels in a couple of different sizes.  The site is MileHiDistilling.com.  I’m going to order a “5Lt (1.32 Gallon) Oak Barrel Oak Keg Medium Charred”, they’re out of stock on the 2Lt barrels right now.


5Lt (1.32 Gallon) Oak Barrel Oak Keg Medium Charred
www.milehidistilling.com

What I’d like to do is try a controlled version too, one that I know the whiskey is good and the barrel is prepped.  Just the other day I saw this from LaughingSquid.com, it’s a “Age Your Own Whiskey Kit” from WoodinvilleWhiskeyCo.com.  They have a kit with a bottle of White Dog, 2 glasses and a barrel.  You pour it in, wait 3-5 grueling months for it to age and enjoy!  HOW GREAT IS THAT!?  Such a cool idea!

So, I want to document my journey on this quest for self-imposed inebriation, and for those of you who might want to try this for yourself, you can learn from my successes or mistakes.  And if you’re already doing this yourself, PLEASE, hit me up, let me cheat off your test, don’t let me make the same mistakes you did!

I do hope that this experience inspires others to do this, if only 1 other person makes their own whiskey, the world will have 2 new flavors of whiskeys!  EXPERIMENT!

Wish me luck!

- Brad

 

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Beard Revue

Posted on 04/17/2011 by | Leave a comment

Another awesome Beard-centric site that I’ve run across in my travels.

The site is called “Beard Revue”

This one’s cool, Tumblr followers can submit Beard or Mustache based artwork; comics, GIFs, paintings, photos & so-on, and they’ll post ‘em!

Some really cool, artsy shit on here, for the facial hair enthusiast, like this one:

Check it out!

- Brad

 

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National Beard Registry

Posted on 04/16/2011 by | Leave a comment

This is great, I ran across this website a while ago, I have NO IDEA where or why, but as soon as I saw the title, I said “I MUST BE A PART OF THIS!” and “I MUST TYPE RUN-ON SENTENCES WITH ALL-CAPS!”

The website is called “National Beard Registry“.  I know, right!  Don’t you want to go to it too?!

The concept is simple, register your Beard like a GOD DAMNED PIECE OF SOFTWARE!  You can search by city/state and find registered Beards around you, maybe this site will evolve and if your Beard ever runs away, they can use a BeardGPS and ping your lost facial hair and return it to you in the morning…  Oh, shit!  Let’s all cross our fingers, we’ll never have naked faces again!

Oh yeah…!  Guess who is the SOLE Beard Registry representative for Mission Viejo, CA…?  BOOYA!

It’s fun, check it out.  They’re nice guys, donate a couple a’ bucks, send them a pic and they’ll drop you on the site.  Done!

Check out my page while you’re at it!

- Brad

 

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F**k Yeah Beards – Tumblr

Posted on 04/15/2011 by | Leave a comment

One day, I was flipping through a few Tumblr pages and I came across one that struck home a little bit: Fuck Yeah Beards.

Simple concept, submit a photo of you and your beard, they post it.  Done and Done.

I have one on there from several months ago, if you have the time, go hunt it down.  But I had an upload frenzy yesterday and they already posted one of mine, it was a picture of the Podcast button none-the-less!  Cool thing about that, 4 people must have liked it because they’re now friends of the Facebook page!  Hooray for cross-promotion!

Here’s the newest submission:

Check ‘em out!

fuckyeahbeards.tumblr.com

- Brad

 

 

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House Bourbon – Albertson’s “Origine”

Posted on 04/14/2011 by | Leave a comment

The other day, I took a chance, spent $15 and picked up the house brand bourbon at Albertson’s super market called “Origine”.  They also carry a “Origine” for every type of liquor and I have to say, they all do look very intriguing…  From the gentleman who is in charge of ordering at the market, we got a bit of info to our question, “Is this any good?”  He explained to us, that this brand is their high-shelf brand, as opposed to “Heritage” which is pretty low-shelf in most regards.  But as our new buddy told us, brands such as Jim Beam or Jameson or so on, will have a certain amount of booze left over once they’ve finished bottling their own label, maybe a batch that isn’t up to their high standards or just a certain percentage that they make in excess to their own for distribution to these store brands that are just re-labeld and sold separately.

I tried it out, first neat, then with 2 ice cubes, then with a bit of ginger-ale.  At first taste it just tasted like a mid-shelf bourbon, like Jim Beam actually.  Now, I’m not a Beam fan by any means but that won’t stop me from drinking it…  I didn’t really enjoy it neat, so I tried it with ice, once it opened up it was actually not bad!  And of course, once you pour shit in it, such as ginger-ale, it doesn’t matter what it tastes like, it’s all the same.

Gorgeous bottle/label, so it always intrigues me, but I guess if Jack Daniels were cheaper than this on the day I purchased it, I would have gone with that.  NOT a bad deal at $15, buy a bottle and try it out.  I am actually looking forward to trying some of their other liquors in the future.

 

- Brad

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