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Picked this up at the LHBS.

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I picked up a 4 pk of these, because the empty bottles will be useful for mead entries. It doesn’t remind me of mimosas, but it’s not terrible either.

If you have any gin & tonic drinkers in your house the 200ml Fever Tree tonic bottles are excellent. I keep them for bottling hard cider. The labels are kind of a pain to get off, though.

And Fever Tree beats Schwepps, Canada Dry, etc., hands-down for G&Ts. Spendy but worth it.
 
If you have any gin & tonic drinkers in your house the 200ml Fever Tree tonic bottles are excellent. I keep them for bottling hard cider. The labels are kind of a pain to get off, though.

And Fever Tree beats Schwepps, Canada Dry, etc., hands-down for G&Ts. Spendy but worth it.
100% agree. Fever Tree Tonic for the win!!
 
Home roasted (not by me) Rowandan coffee from a French Press. I've never had coffee that tasted like this and I love it!! Interesting orange notes in there. And of course it of my daddy cup.

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I just got back into roasting and would highly recommend it. It's realtively cheap and easy with modern home coffee roasters. And the product is remarkably better than anything you can buy outside a local roaster.
 
Great news, I've found about 4 or 5 other Mexican beers, so the Cinco de Mayo Mexican beer celebration will continue until depletion! Today I'm drinking a huge 24 ounce stovepipe of Modelo Especial. Modelo is the major player in Mexico and just sells HUGE amounts of this in Southern California. This is another lower ABV beer - coming in at 4.4% ABV, definitely in session beer territory. Or shall I say "Session Cerveza Territory!"

This is another beer that claims to be "Pilsner-Style" on the can. I do find this one more drinkable than yesterday's brew, of course any beer coming in a can is going to do better than green glass. Why oh why, for the love of beer do breweries still package in green glass? Eck. Well, I'd say this is more along the lines of a Coors Banquet beer, however I poured this about as hard as I could and no head. No lacing either, two characteristics I look for in quality brewing process. Also the malt and hopping is different than any Pilsners I've had, and at 18 IBU it falls solidy in the Helles IBU range, not the higher Pilsner range. So we have here another BMC type beer similar to other North American adjunct Lagers.

I squeezed my lime wedges into the second half of this glass, really gets me in the mood for Tacos! I can remember one Saturday Fajita-fest we were having at La residencia Beermeister32, and I forgot the Corona. I squeezed all the limes into the Coors Light I had on hand and nobody knew the difference!

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Work til noon today, came home to work on wife's car. Clutch job almost done, had some snags that held me up, hopefully passed all that now. Today got both axles, lower control arms, and struts in, now time to tighten up the subframe and get the downpipe back on, then all the little odds and end hoses and wiring and whatnot, I better be driving this car by tomorrow at the latest. Beer break, actually my 3rd beer break but whatever, wife is out with oldest daughter barrel racing her horse. Just me, the garage, music, beer..
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