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I Wouldn’t Exactly Call It a Harbinger of Doom…
… but I’ll be damned if I know what else to call it. Supply chain shortages just hit me where I live.
I just bought a brand of bourbon other than my usual, because I’m out of my usual and my liquor store is out of glass bottles of the stuff I drink. They have it in plastic bottles. What man drinks his bourbon out of a plastic bottle?
OK, I don’t drink it out of the bottle. But you get the point.
No, it’s not a catastrophe, but you can see catastrophe from here.
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Aesthetics should not be so easily dismissed. If I want plastic, I’ll have a Coke.
“Say Pepsi, please!” (I am boycotting Coke, forgot why.)
That’s okay, Suspira. I wouldn’t expect a woman to understand.
The bottle doesn’t clink when it touches the glass.
Sworn off plastic cups?
No, no. It needs a handle you can put your pinkie through to steady it as you raise it with the crook of your arm to take a slash.
You people are barbarians.
No offense.
I know this is mostly about bourbon, but one doesn’t have to be a barbarian to recognize the ridiculous attempts to sell vodka by inserting it in fancy glass bottles. The incredible number of vodkas in “distinctive” containers is a grand triumph of marketing.
I’m sorry, but marketing is the only difference between most vodkas. So at least to me distinctive containers for vodka makes sense. They all taste the same and there is no reason to prefer one brand over another.
That was essentially my point, although there are very modest differences in taste in some instances when drunk straight.
Which disappear when you’re straight drunk.
Quoting a neighbor, “I was pretty high but I wasn’t drunk, okay?”
I’m sorry all that bourbon etc has ruined your sense of taste. Or more accurately, your sense of smell, since a lot of what we call “taste” is actually smell.
Ok, I swung by the liquor store. All stocked in every category of fine fluids and none in plastic bottles. I even decided to pick up Jim Beam since a number of people here mentioned it. Actually it was on sale. ;). I normally get Jack.
Well, I don’t know if this is a fact or my impression, but over time I believe plastic alters the taste of the contents. The shelf life of soda is not long enough to effect the taste of the soda but for a beverage that may hang out in a liquor cabinet for quite a while, I think it will change it. Plus plastic has such a cheap connotation that you don’t want to buy something expensive in plastic.
“That’s when I saw the bear.”
I can personally endorse Tito’s Vodka, make in Texas for dog lovers.
What kind of vodka do cat lovers buy?
“He was a Kodiak-lookin’ fella about nineteen foot tall …”
I don’t understand this comment in the context of bourbon.
What does “over time” mean? Are there circumstances in which bourbon remains in the bottle for a prolonged period?
Put differently: are there bottles of prodigious size, of which I’m unaware?
My limited survey indicates Tanqueray Silver.
Gin isn’t vodka.
They’ve been in business since at least the mid 2000s (before we met them). They nearly lost everything in the crash in ’08, but managed to salvage part of the business and start anew.
They have customers willing to place orders; just not willing to place an order and not know when they would receive the furniture.
My husband’s business may well suffer the same fate; they are reliant upon shipping parts in and product out. The shipping prices are exorbitant and the shipping not that reliable.
As an example, there’s a 100 lb saw that I have sold hundreds of in the past 20 years. For the first 15 years, I was able to ship for free. About five years ago we started to charge; cost was about $75 coast to coast. I just got an invoice for a saw shipped CA to NJ; the cost was $265.
The left is doing everything it can to increase fuel prices, and hence shipping prices.
:-) I don’t drink it every night. Mine my stay in the cabinet a year or so.
I actually like screw tops on wine. Better seal, and corks sometimes give a bad flavor to wine. Screw tops on wine are less romantic, but better for the wine. Since my wife doesn’t like wine, I don’t worry about the romance.
Price, & ability to impress chicks. If you are single, go for the vodka that impresses the chicks the most. Worth the money. If you are married, and your wife doesn’t care about alcohol, buy cheap. We hosted a party once at our house, and I bought expensive gin and vodka to impress the guests. The expensive gin actually tasted better , and more like gin.
Does it matter that much, if you’re making mixed drinks?
Thanks for that tidbit. Tanqueray makes a vodka. I’ll be gracious enough to omit anything further.
When I looked for Tanqueray Silver, all I found was gin. Maybe the vodka is called something else?
Indeed, it appears the Tanqueray vodka is called Sterling, not Silver. So, easy mistake, but your mistake, not mine.
Looking at your avatar – I hope not!