Does Amsterdam have any organic wine bars? I couldn't find any on Yelp. There were quite a few in Paris when I visited last year. I'm making an effort to eliminate processed foods, preservatives and sulfites from my diet. I'm feeling great (maybe it's all the exercise).
“No sir,” He says, “I’m from Minnesota”
“ What the hell do you do in Minnesota” the bartender asks.
“Im a taxidermist!” The man replies.
“What the hell is that!?” The bartender asks.
The guy says nervously “ I umm, mount dead animals”
The bartender smiles and shouts out to the whole bar “ it’s ok fellas, he’s one of us!”
Bar Agricole is opening tonight and I hope it's going to be very successful :). We serve artisan cocktails, amazing wines, and delicious food. If you're in SF please stop by and say hello :D.
If anyone has any questions about the place please ask away!
Title says it all. I have fallen in love with Kombucha, which can be quite expensive. But it’s funny that something I would consider good for me I cringe at the cost of, but I would regularly spend $20 every other night on alcohol. I am 29 days sober and I am so proud of myself. I will not drink with you wonderful people today!
I used to make a lot of hooch the good ol way, but after getting "proper" equipment I haven't done anything particularly interesting, just typical basic stuff. It seemed about time I returned to my roots.
I recently bought some organic banana milk at the store for fun. Much to my disappointment, it didn't taste like what I was hoping for. Not being a fan of it even in coffee or tea I figured, "Well, I paid for it so I won't waste it. Might as well make it into alcohol." and here we are now.
I rummaged around and found half a packet of EC-1118 that hadn't been refrigerated and got to work.
This stuff is incredibly thick, it has the consistency of a milkshake, but no sweetness at all, so 1Lb-ish of cane sugar, and one mug full of black tea later I had my "wine must". It has a noticeable bit of cinnamon in it, so it basically just tasted like horchata after the sugar went in. Dropped in the yeast, shook the soul out of it, tossed on a trusty old ziplock airlock on it, and let her ride.
About four hours later now and I've got proper yeast activity. It's so thick that you can't shine a light into it and you can't see any bubbles actively rising.
something something brown liquid joke
I can't wait to find out what this abomination tastes like in a couple weeks.
In case anyone is curious, the OG was 1.132. Hell would have to freeze over, melt, and freeze again for this thing to actually ferment to dryness, but if it did, we'd be looking at something like 18% to 19% ABV depending on where the FG landed in the "dry" range.
Update, Day 2: Something about the fermentation is messing with the emulsifier, and "stuff" is starting to separate out into a globby layer on top and the still-together-stuff on the bottom. I have to give it a good sloshing a couple times a day to mix it back up and make sure none of that still-together-stuff gets left out. A flashlight beam still doesn't travel through at all, but it's a lot less milkshake-y than it was when this started, and the bubbles are now visible as they travel up!
[now doesn't that look appetizing?](https://preview.redd.it/kgmt9urau6t71.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b433ac6fdae2ec536329340b53
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Joey's at Bentall one had this amazing wine bar in the back with at least 30 wines by the glass. This was about 4 or 5yrs ago, they have since taken it out. I would like to know if there is anything close. Not the cheesy wanna be wine bar that has yellowtail or an obnoxious amount of BC wine. I'm talking specs that you can't buy at the liquor store all the time. Interesting wines.
Any recommendations out there for kiwi organic sulfite-free dry red wines (bleh that's a mouthful), in stock at the supermarket or online? tia x
But Anthony does not lie, so it must all be a coincidence.
Last night I made it through an evening at a wine bar without drinking wine; something I never imagined would be possible, nor until very recently, do I think I would ever have wanted to do.
About the evening – some friends chose the venue to celebrate a recent birthday. I was a little anxious about going, as I haven’t been alcohol-free for that long (two weeks yesterday), and wine was definitely my drink of choice. I didn’t feel 100% confident that I wouldn’t drink, and was a bit worried about going. To prepare, I scanned the menu before leaving my house, and picked out a non-alcoholic option that looked good to me. I arrived a few minutes early, ordered a ginger beer, and waited at a table. My friends showed up a little while later, ordered wine, and asked me if I wanted one. I hadn’t planned any excuse; I ended up saying something about alcohol not agreeing with my stomach recently, and that was the end of the discussion. We moved on to talk about other things.
After the initial decision to order a non-alcoholic drink, it seems that everything else fell into place to just not drink. One thing that I savored was the absence of the preoccupation I would normally have with wine consumption. Usually, I would constantly monitor the level of wine in everyone else’s glasses to determine how soon I could order another. It would be harder and harder to concentrate on anything else as the wine level in my glass got lower and lower. Last night, I periodically glanced around at the wine levels in glasses, realizing it didn’t matter to me. It was a little surreal watching the evening unfold without that constant worry hanging over my head.
I was also pleasantly surprised by my friends commenting more than once on how ‘good’ I looked. These are wonderful, big-hearted friends who are always very generous with their support, however, it did seem that they noticed something really different about my appearance (I don’t know that I see much difference after only two weeks of not drinking, except perhaps that my face isn’t as puffy). It was very heartening.
Driving home I would normally stop at the convenience store and pick up a bottle of wine (or more), and maybe even a pack of cigarettes. I was feeling pretty proud of myself for not drinking at the wine bar, so not stopping at the store seemed really easy. I came home and drank a cup of peppermint tea under a blanket in my pajamas, instead of sitting outside in the cold drinking wine out of a plastic cup and sm
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I'm looking for a cozy place like Candlelight Cafe in the Live Oak area where one can enjoy a conversation without loud music, and maybe some wine/coffee and a cake/burger/whatever along with it.
Bonus points if they have the comfy couches too.
