Monday, September 2, 2024
Having A Pint of Smithwick's Irish Red Ale at Niall's on 52nd September 2, 2024
Saturday, August 17, 2024
What is Metheglin August 17, 2024
I did a little research and found that the making of metheglin predates the creation of wine by using grapes. I came across the article What is Metheglin from the Hidden Legend Winery website dated May 3, 2024. Here is how the article describes what Metheglin is:
Metheglin is a special kind of mead made by mixing honey, water, spices, and herbs. This combination adds unique flavors that traditional mead doesn’t have.
The article goes into the details on how to make both mead and metheglin. I recommend that you check it out if you are interested in making them. Let me know if you do. I'd be interested to hear how it comes out.
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Sunday, August 4, 2024
What Type of Beer is a Radler August 4, 2024
The Samuel Adams website listing for the Porch Rocker describes its offering as follows:
Sweet, tangy, and refreshing, the Radler style was inspired by German cyclists who mixed beer with lemonade to quench their thirst on hot summer days. Our take on this style starts with a golden Helles lager, then adds a unique blend of lemons to capture that fresh-squeezed lemon zest. Its crisp, light body and clean finish make Porch Rocker the ideal cold beer for hotter days.
Long before sports drinks and the notion of staying hydrated, there was radler, a word meaning "cyclist." The background: In 1922, Franz Xaver Kugler, the owner of a Bavarian Gasthaus was running low on beer. He had thirsty cyclists and hikers to serve, so he concocted a mixture of dunkle lager cut with lemon-lime soda, which he had in abundance. Voila! Proto-Gatorade. Now radlers are more often made with pale lagers, but bock and dunkel lagers are used occasionally as well.
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Olde English 800 🐯 Ads and Commercials July 30, 2024
- Ballantine Ale Ad from the New York Times December 23, 1937 January 7, 2019,
- What is Malt Liquor October 10, 2019,
- Country Club Malt Liquor October 17, 2019,
- Colt 45 Malt Liquor October 18, 2019
Today I'm going to show some of the ads and commercials of the brew that we used to call The Old Gold and Old E: Olde English 800.
Old E hit the market in 1964 and would become a mainstream brand when it was purchased by the Pabst Brewing Company in 1979. By the 1980's, Old E was its best selling beer and by the early 1990's, the 40oz glass bottle Old E (along with Colt 45, St. Ides, Private Stock and Ballantine Ale to name a few) could be found in every bodega in the hood. The advertising campaign squarely reflected the demographic that it was targeting. Here are a few images:
By the 2000's, Olde E was no longer the best selling beer that it once was. Miller purchased the brand and once again, Olde E is being sold along the East Coast. Here is a classic Olde E commercial from the late 1980's:
Here is one more, this one is a radio commercial from the sometime in the 1970s or 1980's.
Well, that all for today. I hope you enjoyed this small little walk down the Malt Liquor memory lane. See you soon.
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Thursday, July 25, 2024
Liquor Ads From the 07-25-1935 New York Times July 25, 2024
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. It's been a while since I've posted something to my trusty SiscoVanilla Serves and Drinks blogpage. Not working in the bar business and being swamped with work at the USPS, leaves me with little time to do some research. But I'm going to try and change that one post at a time. So to start that change, I went back to the past and dug through the proverbial crates that the New York Times archive TimesMachine provides.
For today, I'm posting liquor ads from the July 25, 1935, edition of the New York Times. Here are some of the ads that I found:
What I found interesting is that the types of liquor advertised were very limited. It goes to show how the popular liquor types at the time were Scotch, Whiskey and Gin. There are some familiar brands here: White Horse and Dewar's Scotches, Fleischmann and Booth's gin. The one brand I'm not familiar with is The Maryland Club Special Reserve Blended Whiskey.
As of yet I haven't found much about the Maryland Club Special Reserve Blended Whiskey. What I did find was that it was produced at the Baltimore distillery Cahn, Belt & Co. from 1870 and 1919. Not surprising, production ceased with the enforcement of the National Prohibition Act aka Prohibition in 1920. At the time of the ad in 1935, it claims that the company waited two years after the repeal of Prohibition that they waited to reintroduce the Maryland Club Special Reserve back into the market. When did they stop producing the Maryland Club Special Reserve? I haven't been able to find that out yet. What I didn't know that historically, American whiskey distilling has roots in Maryland and Pennsylvania. So, it's not surprising that Philadelphia based distiller New Liberty Distillery would capitalize on those roots.According to the article New Liberty Distillery: Commemorating Maryland’s Rich Distilling History by Stephen Patten from the Beverage Journal dated April 20, 2016, the Maryland Club brand was so influential, that it was even part of the liquor selection available to the guests on the H.M.S. Titanic.
For a much more in depth history of Maryland's whiskey history, I recommend you read Lydia Woolever's article AMERICA’S FIRST WHISKEY WAS BORN IN MARYLAND. CENTURIES LATER, IT STRIVES FOR A HISTORIC COMEBACK IN BALTIMORE from Baltmore Magazine dated December 2023. Also, for some information on the renaissance of Maryland whiskey, check out Maryland Rye Whiskey Has Finally Returned. But What Was It in the First Place? by Clay Risen from the New York Times dated February 14, 2019.
Well, that's all for now folks. I have some beer ads from the same July 25, 1935, edition of the New York Times for the next post. Keep your eyes peeled for it.
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Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Castle Hill Avenue on the 6 Train Part 1 May 16, 2023
For today's food and drink pairing, I ordered a delicious and solid steak sandwich with lettuce, tomatoes and caramelized onions with plantain chips and a bottle (or two 😉) of Puerto Rico's Medalla Light.
And with the weather hopefully getting warmer by the day, they have their piña colada machine up and running and the blenders whirring for their other frozen drinks.
For my next post on places to visit on Castle Hill Avenue near the 6 train, I'll briefly profile some of the other nearby bars and restaurants.
Any recommendations? Leave them in the comment box.
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Thursday, April 27, 2023
161st Street Yankee Stadium on the 4/B/D Trains Part 2 April 27, 2023
What's up peeps!!! Welcome back to the SiscoVanilla Rides and Dines blogpage. In my last post I visited the classic Yankee Tavern at the 4/B/D 161st Street Yankee Stadium train station.
For today's post I'm visiting one of the newer bars in the area of Yankee Stadium: The Bronx Drafthouse.
The Bronx Drafthouse (885 Gerard Avenue, Bronx NY 929-265-9759) boasts on their website of having 30-craft beers on draft along with 20-craft beers in cans along with a full food menu
I was there after jury duty and was celebrating my friend Myron's birthday. The bar has both indoor and outdoor seating. The Bronx Drafthouse has a very vibrant vibe that is a mix of locals and baseball fans. I would say that the bar has a younger demographic that leads to its upbeat vibe. I also noticed some children sitting in the outdoor seating area but none inside. On to the food and drink.
As per custom, I like to see if there are any beers that I haven't had. My eye focused on a fancy tap handle for the La Fin du Monde Belgian Tripel which is brewed by French Canadian brewery Unibroue.Unibroue has been brewing craft beers in Quebec since 1992 and their La Fin du Monde is a smooth beer that belies its potent 9% ABV. The Unibroue website describes their La Fin du Monde beer as follows:
"This rich and sophisticated golden tripel has earned several international titles thanks to its refined taste marked by notes of grains, fruit and spice, supported by a slight bitterness.It is a tribute to Quebec, the land encountered by 16th-century French explorers who thought they’d reached the end of the world.
NOSE
Floral bouquet, fresh baguette, with aromas of honey, spices, coriander, malt and alcohol.
FLAVOR
Mildly hoppy palate with notes of grains, fruit and spice, followed by a smooth, dry finish. A perfect balance of sugar, acidity, bitterness, spices and alcohol."
I didn't find it too be strong. It wasn't a heavy beer on the palate but after two pints it was certainly an asskicker.😁 Had I known that the beer was best paired with seafood or sausage I would have ordered something appropriate. But I was still on the buffalo wings kick and ordered myself a plate of wings.
I need to order something different for future posts. 😆 On a side note, keep in mind that the Bronx Drafthouse automatically adds an 18% gratuity to all orders regardless of the size of the group.
For now this my last post on places to visit near Yankee Stadium. I have tickets for later in the season, I'll find somewhere else to go during those games.
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