The Booze and Waffle Thread, Long Live The Wild Wild West (Read 401 times)

It wasn't until college that I learned the phrase wasn't "for all intensive purposes," because that's how my mom worded it.

It wasn't until 11 Aug 2020 that I learned it. 

 

Oh no, bwahahahaha!!

As this is my wild wild west thread, let me just say as a POC that today is the first truly happy day I've had in quite some time. Kamala.

Hot damn.

Same exact reason: that's how my mom pronounced it! You didn't happen to grow up in the Tri-State (KY-OH-IND) area, did you?

WI...I wonder if it's a Midwest oddity. I've seen it typed on regional message boards, too.

Same exact reason: that's how my mom pronounced it! You didn't happen to grow up in the Tri-State (KY-OH-IND) area, did you?

Ha, my brother just shared this on FB!!

• An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.
• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
• A question mark walks into a bar?
• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."
• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
• A synonym strolls into a tavern.
• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
• A dyslexic walks into a bra.
• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony

- Jill Thomas Doyle

I love those, zoom-zoom!

For a moment I thought you were stoked about the BCS variants announcement.

Anything worth while?  Not that I plan on waiting in any lines for it but I’m curious.

 

Anything worth while?  Not that I plan on waiting in any lines for it but I’m curious.

I live in Michigan but have spent the last couple Thanksgivings in the Sarasota area. It has been easy to pick-up all the variants there. The first year I arrived at the store (Total Wine) 30 minutes before opening and waited in line. The next year I showed up 30 minutes after they opened and still got everything (although they only had a few of the variants left). In the Detroit area, it's almost impossible to get everything no matter what you do.

Bourbon County Brand Stout
The original, aged for a year in a mix of barrels from distilleries that include Buffalo Trace, Heaven Hill, and Wild Turkey.

Bourbon County Kentucky Fog Stout
This is Goose Island's first "tea-inspired variant." It's a take on London Fog using Earl Grey and Black Tea from Kilogram Tea, as well as clover honey.

Bourbon County Special #4 Stout
This variant is an oatmeal stout aged in bourbon barrels. The beer gets a hit of Intelligentsia Coffee after the aging has completed, as well as some bourbon barrel-aged maple syrup.

Bourbon County Caramella Ale
Caramella Ale is a wheatwine aged in Larceny Wheated Bourbon barrels with apple, cinnamon, and caramel flavor. Caramella is Italian for candy, and the name seems appropriate since there's a serious caramel apple vibe to the recipe. "The aroma leans heavily into sweet caramel and cinnamon spice, while the taste comes in to show off the bourbon-soaked Larceny casks and red apple notes, reminiscent of a bold apple brandy," says Goose Island Lab Tech Joey Tidei, who developed Caramella Ale.

Proprietor's Bourbon County Stout
Goose Island says this year's Proprietor's Stout was "inspired by third-generation Italian American brewer Emily Kosmal's love of spumoni." The beer is blended with pistachios, cacao nibs, vanilla flavors, and candied Amarena cherries. This release gives Kosmal a unique distinction as the first Goose Island brewer to have two Proprietor's recipes selected for release.

Birthday Bourbon County Stout
They're calling this a "truly unique variation," though it has little to do with cake if you're reading too deep into the "Birthday" part of the title. This stout is the result of a partnership with Old Forester. It was aged in Old Forester Birthday Bourbon barrels, mixing with the sought-after bourbon. Old Forester's tasting notes on the bourbon: "Rich oak spice and black currant coupled with light maple, caramel cake, and white floral notes."

Anniversary Bourbon County Stout
This last variant was aged two years in Weller 12-Year barrels as a celebration of Goose Island's "10-year tradition of releasing Bourbon County Stout on Black Friday." Expect this one to have strong barrel flavors between the 12-year Weller and sitting for an extra year before bottling.