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Originally posted by Corndog
That, and I'm guessing your "alcohol" is already heavily flavored.

Whiskey isn't just pure alcohol. Alcohol itself actually has a pretty subtle taste.

Almost no taste. See: Moonshine. People associate a physical burning sensation that's a completely different mechanism than taste with taste, then accuse others of not knowing what they're doing. It's quaint.

Originally posted by rams78110
See: Moonshine.

Yeah.

Grain, corn, sugar, whatever...if you filter it enough it all tastes the same. Started just using sugar because it's simpler.

Originally posted by Karate_Koala
It's generally used as a mix-in, not a stand alone. Use it in margaritas, especially in 'frozen' ones - make a swirl.

Originally posted by Karate_Koala
lol You sound like a friend of mine that likes to drink, but hates the taste of alcohol and has no idea what the fuck she's doing.

Not going to go into you calling out someone sampling different liquors as not knowing what they're doing, because that shows you have no idea what's happening in the convo already, when it's pretty clear I'm sampling different liquors.

I'd like to instead focus on the lack-of-logic that is you suggesting I know what to mix with Chambord without knowing what it tastes like first. Vanilla isn't typically eaten on it's own, but you kinda need to know what it tastes like on it's own before knowing what it might pair with, unless I'm just supposed to throw 2 things together without ever tasting them before.

Btdubs, I did use it as a mix-in. Like when I mixed Chambord and Steel Reserve.

On the topic of mixing, it's so hard to beat apple + vanilla + moonshine.

I've added various things to different batches, some with cinnamon, some with butterscotch, but I always end up coming back to that base. Tried and true, really.

Cinnamon peppermint shooters are still damn good, though.

Originally posted by Corndog
Yeah.

Grain, corn, sugar, whatever...if you filter it enough it all tastes the same. Started just using sugar because it's simpler.

Hey someone ITT actually knows their alcohol!

Even a ridiculously aromatic corn mash yields almost no smell and even less taste when the final product is ready, due to it being such a low molality of alcohol v everything else

Originally posted by Corndog
On the topic of mixing, it's so hard to beat apple + vanilla + moonshine.

I've added various things to different batches, some with cinnamon, some with butterscotch, but I always end up coming back to that base. Tried and true, really.

Cinnamon peppermint shooters are still damn good, though.

Never added vanilla to moonshine. Ever try vanilla alone or always with apple?

Never tried butterscotch either. Stuck with mainly fruit so far

Originally posted by rams78110
Never added vanilla to moonshine. Ever try vanilla alone or always with apple?

Never tried butterscotch either. Stuck with mainly fruit so far

Always with apple. The proof needs to be brought down somehow to be sippable. 130-140 proof is just too much to casually enjoy, and the amount of vanilla that would be required...I don't know.

Vanilla is really good at giving it that...I want to say musty...taste. Apple alone is too fruity, but with vanilla you kind of get the aroma of a good whiskey.

Another really important thing is leaving it sit for weeks in a bottle. Having time to mature makes miles and miles of difference. Freshly mixed all of the flavors are just on their own and all of them are overpowering. Leaving it sit in a sealed bottle for weeks or months really gives it time to mature and "grow into" it's flavor.

When I added butterscotch, I actually just bought a bag of hard butterscotch candies, put a bunch of them in my blender and turned them into a fine powder, then funneled them into it. Mostly because the process of turning hard candies into a powder makes me really happy, but it also simplified the process.

Blender I use btw:
http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Bullet-MBR-1701-17-Piece-Express/dp/B001WAKFDY

Would highly, highly recommend. Thing is amazing. Grinding up cinnamon sticks to powder, grinding up hard candies to powder, etc. Also really easy for making single drinks since the cup just attaches to the blade.

Originally posted by Corndog
That, and I'm guessing your "alcohol" is already heavily flavored.

Whiskey isn't just pure alcohol. Alcohol itself actually has a pretty subtle taste.

I should have put hates "the taste of alcohol" in quotes. Her words, not mine. Ya know, the stuff a noob says.

Originally posted by rams78110
Not going to go into you calling out someone sampling different liquors as not knowing what they're doing, because that shows you have no idea what's happening in the convo already

Fair enough. I did jump into the convo without doing much reading.

Put a fireball in your moonshine.

Originally posted by jdbolick
Put a fireball in your moonshine.

I do.

Well, it depends on what kind I'm making obviously, but yeah.

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