Happy Friday. We made it to the weekend once again. This week’s tasty beverage comes from our own Maestro. He was kind enough to send me up a small bottle of Peanut Butter Old Fashioned from Deep Roots Distillery in Prince Edward Island. Now, I’m not one to usually grab a pre made cocktail. I like the flexibility I have of using my own proportions as I see fit and/or tweaking ingredients based on my own preferences. However, this one comes highly recommended from Mrs. Maestro. So of course I had to give it a go:
Peanut Butter Old Fashioned
Pour 2 oz. of Peanut Butter Old Fashioned over ice.
There is a very dessert like sweet aroma on this one. It’s stronger than I would have anticipated. The peanut butter infusion really takes over, which is to be expected given it’s the main focus here.
This is very good. It also isn’t as sweet like I was somewhat expecting. The vodka base as a spirit is essentially undetectable. However the infusion of peanut butter is VERY prevalent. It hits you up front and lasts the entire sip. The simple syrup they add in there adds the underlying sweetness that really cements this as a good after dinner/dessert drink. I don’t really get any of the orange bitters they say they add on the label. A little citrus centric bitters might add a nice counter, or a bit more brightness to the simple syrup that is underneath the peanut butter flavors.
The finish is heavy on the peanut butter, and it does linger for a little bit on the palate after. Not terribly long, but longer than I would have preferred.
I like this. I’m not one for sweet drinks, but this one I can get behind. Mrs. Sharkbait said it would be good mixed with some vanilla ice cream to make it a “real” dessert. While it wont be the first thing I reach for, I have a feeling I’ll be going through this little bottle sooner than I thought. Also Maestro, keep an eye on the mail. A thank you will be incoming.
(Banner image courtesy Matthew Tetrault Photography)
Today is a day after vacation day off. So laundry, unpack, store the suitcases kind of day.
But when you look at the clock it’s 9 PM Ireland time and I’m ready for a pint.
No work till Monday!
You should go to a local pub and tell everyone you just got back.
Teach all those drinks how you gulp.
Maybe tomorrow. First food order after getting home?
Birria and al pastor street tacos. I’ve got to reground myself.
Do they not have kickass Mexican food in Ireland?
They!
Do not.
Last meal there was a Full Irish breakfast which is sensational by the way but I don’t recommend it as a daily endeavor.
Welcome back!
“a” pint?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9hSFiwuYdo
I would be willing to sample a peanut butter old fashioned for science reasons but it sounds like a “One drink and you’re ‘Thanksgiving dinner’ full.”
You are not wrong
This made RTD log off last night.
https://x.com/TheWapplehouse/status/1837121702846750850/photo/1
“Log off” is that what the west coast youths call it these days?
The Dr. Mrs. is out at the moment, but if you wait until three minutes after she gets back I can put it to the test.
We’ll need Ms. Nuzzi to confirm, of course.
The reporter who fell in love with Martin Shkreli is defending Olivia Nuzzi.
https://x.com/thetomzone/status/1837157325787795903
I will never log off.
I’m off.
I think everyone should get off. It would literally kill that which we all hate — twitter.
Yup. It’s Xitter now.
Bluesky’s fun. Buncha freaks. I fit right in.
Apparently Matt Gaetz took a 17-year-old to a sex and cocaine party and the story is starting to leak out.
Gotta say, the last couple of days on Twitter have been an absolute blast.
Another fine representative of the “family values” party.
So glad you enjoyed this!!! Happy to help feed the #content monster as much as possible.
Stolen from some genius on Bluesky:
OLIVIA NUZZI: I know people will find this relationship wrong, but I can’t help it, Robert, this is what my heart wants!
RFK JR: [burps up entire raccoon skeleton]
The continued existence of RFK Jr. proves that being an incel is literally just a skill issue.
I would imagine being the scion of a family of wealth and power might help in the dating department.
god that hurts
My knee became swollen last night to about cantaloupe size, no idea why, which made me think of Pak Protectors and Larry Niven and I want to know where my Gil Hamilton of Arm movies or Louis Wu series are? Absolutely fucking fantastic stories which really interesting and would look incredible on the screen if done correctly.
Footfall would make an incredible movie as well as Lucifer’s Hammer.
It should have made you think about what may have caused your knee to swell to the size of a melon.
Excessive Exposure to Morgan Moses injury last night… or really any part of that game.
Dude as I get older I am having to deal with unexplainable shit occurring to my body at least once a month.
Lucifer’s Hammer has black people in the book as literal cannibals. Didn’t notice it being a tad bit problematic back when I read it 40-some years ago, but it kind of sticks out now. I remembered the cannibals but had forgotten about the Boy Scout scoutmaster hooking up with an actual Girl Scout, and the hippy environmentalists and feminists being shown How Wrong They Were. The sad thing is, I read that book five or six times, at least. Being 16 years old and not black, an environmentalist, or a Girl Scout, I didn’t notice subcontextual stuff like that.
Footfall seems to have much less of that sort of thing, although it might be in there. That’s another book that I read a bunch of times. Fun Fact: Lucifer’s Hammer started out as the parts of Footfall that described the alien’s asteroid strike. Niven and Pournelle decided they had a whole novel for that on it’s own, so they just took the aliens (Fsth’ppt?) out and ran with it.
Oath of Fealty broke me of Niven/Pournelle. “This democracy thing kind of sucks, those Middle Ages folks had the right idea after all.” Pure unalloyed bullshit.
I bet Niven is a big Scott Adams fan and his twitter feed is full of catturd retweets.
(I enjoyed Niven’s stuff in the way way back long long ago, and don’t plan to sully those memories by revisiting it)
“Sounds great! Where can I find there books?”
-Definitely not Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson
They might be a little advanced for him. Perhaps he could start with Farnham’s Freehold?
I’ve read a lot of Heinlein, but have never read Farnham’s Freehold. It has such a bad rep that I have been able to stay away.
American libertarian fights evil Chinese Empire stand in – sounds like Rand Paul wet dream of a book,
I forgot about those two things. Just make the cannibals all cops, be a fitting subtext. Scoutmaster, have the girl scout show him how she got her StabbyMcStabby badge.
Oath of Fealty – Evolution in Action, right.
One of the good parts of that book. I actually still say that from time to time when someone buys it in a particularly dumb way. c.f. Florida Man.
Hmm. Never read those three. Just the Known Space / Kzin Wars / Ringworld stuff, and this, of course: https://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html
Looks like I stopped reading his stuff at the right time.
THIS. How they haven’t made Protector into a film and Niven’s Known Space chronicles into a franchise is beyond me. Especially given how good CGI has gotten lately.
Such great stuff.
Probably tied up in some sort of legal BS, I would imagine.
I have something similar, and it’s better than expected
https://www.lcbo.com/en/skrewball-peanut-butter-whiskey-33545
Been wanting to try that. Do you mix it with anything?
Ice
have heard is good in hot chocolate, but haven’t tried it as I’m too lazy to make hot chocolate.
oldest wanted to try some with me, but didn’t want to mix it with anything, so had it neat.
Took like 3 sips and was somehow drunk and needed to lie down.
/yes i finished mine and theirs
Sweet drinks bring on the drunk #science
Oh that does sound good. Next time it’s below 50 here I’ll try that (approx Feb 2027)
Raspberry liqueur for something like a pbj
This stuff, uh, does not suck:
https://www.whidbeydistillery.com/spirits
It’s not bad. Like you said, mix it with ice.
ADD IT TO A BANANA DAIQUIRI
Sorry for yelling, but my inner diabetic just got a boner
Couple Friday night footie games on. I hope she’s covering. And wearing something Friday night nice.
I love Italian TV
Always nice to start your Friday at the State’s maximum security prison complex and walk in behind a guard toting an AR-15 while listening to multiple doors lock behind you.
Fucking clients.
“They’re not clients, they’re sources.” – Olivia Nuzzi
A bit different than your normal chasing of ambulances, isn’t it?
My consistent experience:
Guard: You have an hour [sits down]
Me: Can I talk to my client [peers over glasses] pri vate lee?
Guard: 🤨 You have 30 minutes [leaves]
The client pays well? And in cigarettes?
And tossed salads.
https://youtu.be/WOWvT5dPGJE?si=oo921_vsmdIqZ1k4
Looking forward to next week’s review of Olde English 800 in a paper bag
Premium Malort – aged in a fire charred dumpster for 72 hours.
I had Malort in a bar here a few months ago. Of all the liquors in the world, it was certainly one of them.
There really needs to be a malt liquor comparison post….
45% of the time, it works every time
Official beverage of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Ha ha, just kidding.
Vitamin I.
Vitamin R
for rust
Not the worst beer I’ve had. I had some when I visited my friend in March
They must have changed the recipe then.
Used to drink that in high school. Guaranteed to get a cut finger fucking with that pull tap.
There was a crazy old guy who used to come in to the post office I worked in and cause trouble. Sometimes wearing a tin foil hat! He got mad at the postmaster for kicking him out when he was raving about something. The next morning I opened the office at 6am to find a giant puddle of Colt 45 pee in front of his mailbox. He pissed through the mailbox. Yeah. That was fun.
That doesn’t sound fun at all.
[points finger]
I ACCUSE YOU OF WITCHCRAFT!
Oh, wait. I meant “sarcasm”. I accuse you of sarcasm.