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Sam06
Here in NC the state controls the sale of Alcohol/Strong Sprits for some reason. You can get Beer and wine in the grocery store but Whisky is controlled.


Well anyway I was getting a bottle Scotch and I saw they had Even Williams Egg Nog! I got 2 bottles, the big ones 8-)

Just had a small glass......................Very good. I am not too much of a Bourbon drinker but I don't turn my nose up to it as long as you are buying but this stuff is good.

Anyone else here drink it?
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  • mogley98
    Not a fan of the Nogg but wifey loves it
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  • hillbille
    I love the eggnog but not the whiskey, gin and tonic is as close as I come........
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  • yoshmyster
    ABC store... Haven't been to one since the last time I was in Washington State. 2007? Those places were depressing from what I remember. I imagine they're like methadone clinics? Say what is the cut off percent of the booze from being sold in a grocery store? I remember the boozed nog is what 25%?

    I have yet to find the pre-mixed boozed nog I like but I do like the convenience of them living in the pantry.
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  • Brookwood
    The way I like my egg nogg is with Brandy.

    Seems the older I get the holiday mix gets richer and creates digestive problems similar to what I get from KFC or Taco Bell. So, when I do drink brandy and nogg, I only do so close to my home facilities!
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  • spasmcreek
    i like eggnog STRAIGHT
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  • Rocky Raab
    You have to wonder what they use in that bottled stuff to keep it from spoiling. Can't be real cream or real eggs - so what the heck are you ingesting?
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  • Sam06
    Rocky Raab wrote:
    You have to wonder what they use in that bottled stuff to keep it from spoiling. Can't be real cream or real eggs - so what the heck are you ingesting?

    I was thinking the same thing. It must be super pasteurized like shelf stable milk.

    Whatever it is its damn good. :D
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  • Brookwood
    Sam06 wrote:
    Rocky Raab wrote:
    You have to wonder what they use in that bottled stuff to keep it from spoiling. Can't be real cream or real eggs - so what the heck are you ingesting?

    I was thinking the same thing. It must be super pasteurized like shelf stable milk.

    Whatever it is its damn good. :D

    Sam, you may want to check your labels list of what's in it. Embalming fluid is not supposed to be needed until..... :lol::lol:
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  • Sam06
    Brookwood wrote:
    Sam06 wrote:
    Rocky Raab wrote:
    You have to wonder what they use in that bottled stuff to keep it from spoiling. Can't be real cream or real eggs - so what the heck are you ingesting?

    I was thinking the same thing. It must be super pasteurized like shelf stable milk.

    Whatever it is its damn good. :D

    Sam, you may want to check your labels list of what's in it. Embalming fluid is not supposed to be needed until..... :lol::lol:

    I have drank Soju so I think I am ok ;)
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  • ruger41
    yoshmyster wrote:
    ABC store... Haven't been to one since the last time I was in Washington State. 2007? Those places were depressing from what I remember. I imagine they're like methadone clinics? Say what is the cut off percent of the booze from being sold in a grocery store? I remember the boozed nog is what 25%?

    I have yet to find the pre-mixed boozed nog I like but I do like the convenience of them living in the pantry.


    The voters ended State run liquor stores here in Washington almost a decade ago. BUT it was an unmitigated disaster because in doing so they instituted an additional 20.5% tax on top of the sales taxes. It was supposed to go away at some point but never did. Hence why I will sometimes buy liquor when I visit other States.
    I generally dislike Government run anything but the prices when the State ran it were not bad at all. People need to really read the bills before voting on them.
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  • Sam06
    ruger41 wrote:
    yoshmyster wrote:
    ABC store... Haven't been to one since the last time I was in Washington State. 2007? Those places were depressing from what I remember. I imagine they're like methadone clinics? Say what is the cut off percent of the booze from being sold in a grocery store? I remember the boozed nog is what 25%?

    I have yet to find the pre-mixed boozed nog I like but I do like the convenience of them living in the pantry.


    The voters ended State run liquor stores here in Washington almost a decade ago. BUT it was an unmitigated disaster because in doing so they instituted an additional 20.5% tax on top of the sales taxes. It was supposed to go away at some point but never did. Hence why I will sometimes buy liquor when I visit other States.
    I generally dislike Government run anything but the prices when the State ran it were not bad at all. People need to really read the bills before voting on them.

    I remeber them when Iwas stationed at Ft Lewis.

    IIRC you could get whisky on the Indian Land along with fireworks.
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  • mrmike08075
    ;) bah meh bat (spelled wrong I am certain) beer from Vietnam was found to contain embalming fluid and lead to shelf stabilize it and preserve taste...

    Um um good.

    Mike
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  • diver-rig
    Here in Iowa, you can stop at a gas station, fill up with gas, get a roller dog, and a 1 ltr or 1.75 ltr bottle of their finest swill.


    I remember package stores in Iowa, just don?t remember when they went away. Back in the 80?s, I think.
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  • buschmaster
    I tried it once. very good for what it is. I think booze ruins the taste of eggnog, even back when I was drinking. rather drink either one straight and enjoy the flavor.
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  • Rocky Raab
    Bah Me Bah, Mike. Bah is "three" and Bah Me is "thirty" The beer featured a large "33" on the label. And if you had too much of it, you were well and truly pickled. It can be found in the states now, but they had to get rid of the formaldehyde to import it.

    Thai "Tiger" whiskey was similarly infused with formaldehyde to the extent that you could smell it when you opened the bottle. Notorious for monumental hangovers as a result. Mixed drinks at the Special Forces hootch bar at Ban Me Thuot airfield set us back a whopping bah me lam - 35 cents. You could get seriously plowed for three bucks. If you still ran short of funds, beer was $2.40 a case. (Coke was $2.75!)
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  • yoshmyster
    ruger41 - Did away with it huh? So now you got regular liquor stores or buy booze in Safeway? That reminds me Safeway had a great deal on Meyers's jugs for $19.00 a bottle and buy 6 bottles another 10% off. I ended up buying 4 of those and two of the new to me Crown Royal "something mash" that was $15.00 a bottle?

    mrmike08075 - Like Jimmy Wah's beer from "Good Morning Vietnam". That reminds me of I wanna say San Miguel out or Flipanese.

    Anyone else remember eggnog coming in heavy duty cans? I wanna say quart size? About as tall as two stacked cans of Chunky soup. Wish I remember who made those.
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  • mrmike08075
    Yes good old "33" from Vietnam

    I once was the craft and microbrew beer manager for a large and somewhat storied liquor store...

    Hundreds of obscure brews from around the world - I collected them and sampled them and it was quite a passion for awhile - went to trade shows and bought the books - joined forums - visited brewers...

    Asian beer was hard to obtain.

    We had the standard fare - the Sapporo and asahi and tsingtao and 33 and kirin ichiban and the like - the whole lineup from each brewery..

    But obtaining others - especially small batch local microbrewery items from the region of southeast Asia was tough...

    Several beers from the Philippines and Singapore and Hong Kong and Taiwan and Micronesia and Easter Island and Christmas Island and the Maldives or Burma and Madagascar and other exotic locals were actually quite good - some quite bad...

    South Korea has some appalling wicked bad horrible Kim chi rotting fermented cabbage beers and a dandelion and rice brew that would make a Billy goat or pig vomit.

    Thanks guys for correcting my attempt to spell and reference 33.

    Good thread and good OP.

    Mike
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  • Rocky Raab
    Numbers were about the only Vietnamese I picked up. It is such a tonal language that if you mispronounce a vowel even slightly, the word may change from neutral to highly insulting. Those diacritical marks in the written language are vital. But since our "little guy" translator riders only spoke in numbers, I eventually learned those. The code changed every mission, but the ground teams would report in whispers: "17...6...45...23" and my little guy would reply: "3...58". (If the ground team came up screaming, I didn't need to know numbers - they were in deep schit.)
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  • Sam06
    When you get your whisky they put it in a paper sack. Written on the sack is the amount of money the sale of liquor has produced for the county.

    I just went and looked at the bag and in my County(WAKE) the ABC stores have contributed $7.3 Million :o

    That is a lot of money. I know the mark up is a lot because whisky is cheaper in GA where there are citizen run liquor stores.

    I don't really like the state running the liquor sales. I like how they have it in Louisiana, you can get liquor anywhere. Every Gas station had beer and whiskey, boudain balls or fried turkey legs and chicken gizzards. I miss living there but my wife hated it and didn't stop bitchin for 3 years.



    Talking about Foreign beer; African beer is good. In Kenya I like White Cap but Tusker isn't too bad.
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  • Rocky Raab
    Utah also has state liquor stores. Until recently, supermarkets could sell beer, but only 3.2 grade. To get full strength, you had to go to the state stores. That just changed. The Church influences (I won't say dictates) a lot of laws, and while they know they cannot prohibit drinking, they do their best to make it difficult - and expensive. Utah has a 46% "sin tax" markup over wholesale prices, making liquor store booze prices heart attack worthy. You have to really want the top shelf stuff or be a gazillionaire.
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  • bustedknee
    I wanted a small bottle of pure-grain to "strengthen" a batch of my apple brandy so I stopped at the state store in Christianburg, Virginia.
    You can buy any hard liquor your heart desires there EXCEPT PURE-GRAIN!

    The reason?
    They are located within a certain distance of a school.

    Who comes up with this stupid BS?

    Turn the liquor sales over to private industry and get busy governing the state!

    This country is doomed to fail. We are going to stoopid ourselves to death.
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  • Sam06
    I don't think they sell it here in NC either.
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  • hillbille
    used to make something called purple jesus, with grape juice and pure grain, you would wake up with a hangover and that feeling of maybe not wanting to know what you did last night.......
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  • Sam06
    hillbille wrote:
    used to make something called purple jesus, with grape juice and pure grain, you would wake up with a hangover and that feeling of maybe not wanting to know what you did last night.......


    Been there and done that only we cut it with Cherry Jello. Just dumped about 1/2 a pack in a quart bottle them pour in the Grain.

    It messed you up like quaaludes and the hangover lasted all day.
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  • Sam06
    Drinking a glass of the egg nogg right now ;)

    It has a little kick to it.

    It is 1445 but the sun is over the yardarm.............somewhere :lol:
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  • yoshmyster
    Ah the Korean rice beer. Had it at one of the Korean BBQ Joints near me. I wanna say Hite? Almost spat that mess out. Really would've if there was a potted plant. I wasn't expecting that odd flavor.
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  • ruger41
    yoshmyster wrote:
    ruger41 - Did away with it huh? So now you got regular liquor stores or buy booze in Safeway? That reminds me Safeway had a great deal on Meyers's jugs for $19.00 a bottle and buy 6 bottles another 10% off. I ended up buying 4 of those and two of the new to me Crown Royal "something mash" that was $15.00 a bottle?

    We have both liquor stores and it?s sold in grocery stores too.
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  • yoshmyster
    ruger41 wrote:
    yoshmyster wrote:
    ruger41 - Did away with it huh? So now you got regular liquor stores or buy booze in Safeway? That reminds me Safeway had a great deal on Meyers's jugs for $19.00 a bottle and buy 6 bottles another 10% off. I ended up buying 4 of those and two of the new to me Crown Royal "something mash" that was $15.00 a bottle?

    We have both liquor stores and it?s sold in grocery stores too.

    So these liquor stores are like liquor stores from everywhere else? Or ABC stores put up malt liquor posters on the windows :D?
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  • mrmike08075
    Yosh,

    You tipping a forty out on a street corner in the hood as a tribute to a dead homie killed in a drive by - black on black crime???

    Saint ides malt liquor to make your Jimmy thicker - colt 45 so you can Max and relax - perhaps a grape flavored option...

    Drinking your gin and juice...

    Got a rollie on your arm and your poorin Chandon...

    Mountain Dew red zone and VSOP...

    Thunderbird and night train...

    Philly blunts or Dutch master grape...

    Hit me back player - don't front.

    Mike
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  • ruger41
    yoshmyster wrote:
    ruger41 wrote:
    yoshmyster wrote:
    ruger41 - Did away with it huh? So now you got regular liquor stores or buy booze in Safeway? That reminds me Safeway had a great deal on Meyers's jugs for $19.00 a bottle and buy 6 bottles another 10% off. I ended up buying 4 of those and two of the new to me Crown Royal "something mash" that was $15.00 a bottle?

    We have both liquor stores and it?s sold in grocery stores too.

    So these liquor stores are like liquor stores from everywhere else? Or ABC stores put up malt liquor posters on the windows :D?

    Regular liquor stores that carry everything from beer, wine, and spirits. There?s one I really like going to that?s like going into a warehouse with tons of different Bourbon, Scotch etc.
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