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Re: Off-topic but fun: What beverage enhances your RTW experience
Hmm... reading over my preceding post, the ouzo reminds me that I haven't had Pernod in a long time. I might have to pick up a bottle of Pernod and play a Gallic campaing. No, I'm sure the Roman-era Gauls probably didn't drink anything like Pernod, but at the same time, Pernod does have a kind of mystical druidy/foresty kind of character to it...
Funny to think about it, but I can't think of many other games where this conversation about food and drink would be appropriate or even make sense. It's either a testament to the Org community, a testament to this game, or both, that we can have a lively discussion about what food and drink enhances the gaming experience. ~:cheers:
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Mm, olives. I suppose they work with just about all the Meditteranean cultures. Maybe some humus for the further southeastern cultures.
Does retsina have that licorice taste uozo does? I guess it's the anis or something, but too syrupy/sweet for me.
Definately gonna try hoegaarden now. What is a bok beer? I know I'm partial to Stouts, but other than that I just buy Bud Light when I want to get hammered. Not that Guiness doesn't work for that, but it's just a little cheaper over here. Is a bok ale-like?
I'm off to fire up some bratwurst and get ready to take on ze Germans.
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Not to take away from the Org or the game, but let's give alcohol itself a little credit, no? ~;)
On the other hand, we could probably play a game of 'throw the cat at the log' and I (or some of you all, too) could ponitificate up an appropriate beverage with hors d'oeuvres.
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For the longest time I drank ouzo straight.... then I started dating a Greek girl. She poured a glass of ouzo, and so did I. As I took a sip, she looked at me funny, then poured some water into hers, turning it milky white. I had no idea. Ah, milk of the gods, I get it now!
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As the great philosopher Homer said - "Alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."
Guiness is always good, but you can't drink it ALL the time. I like continental beers, but it's usually hit or miss here in the States. Green bottles + trip across large pond = skunked beer. If I'm in the mood for lager, it's usually Moosehead. Sent down south by the Canadians in a valiant effort to calm us Yanks down, the Moose has a nice clean taste.
After a long night of invading/imbibing, it's sometimes amusing to load up TW the next day just for the "What the hell was I thinking????" effect. Maybe we are supposed to do this to give the AI a chance :idea2:
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I think we should have an expirement and have everyone of drinking age and inclination grab their beverage of choice and report on the success of their campaign when hammered and when sober! ~:cheers:
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Crack cocaine with a magic mushroom chaser. Ultimately I wind up being incapable of playing RTW and instead scream at the dog for three hours while she lectures me on the basics of quantum mechanics.
But uh, most of the time I just tank up on 4C Iced Tea. ~:cheers:
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Egils Öl I would say, an Icelandic beer named after the famous viking hero and berserker Egill SkallagrÃmsson. That goes well with my current Germania campaign where I am loving the berserkers ~:cheers:
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Depends on what faction I'm playing, Roman= a nice red wine, Greek,Macedonian,or Thracian= retsina or if I'm feeling adventurous (or...hrmm...don't have to work the next day) ouzo, Carthaginian,Numidian,Pontic or Seleucid= a nice date wine (from a little middle eastern grocery), Egyptian= a light lager (lawnmower beer) Germania= a big bock or doppelbock, Brittania=mead if I can get it or have any made, if not India Pale Ale, Hispania=aahhhhh Sangria
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yeah...I take my 'beverage selection' (a euphemism for alcoholism) seriously
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Does retsina have that licorice taste uozo does? I guess it's the anis or something, but too syrupy/sweet for me.
No, retsina is a dry, white wine that has a unique resiny/woody taste to it. It's one of those drinks you either love or hate, I think. It's unusual, and it's well suited to drinking by itself during, say, a long RTW campaign, or maybe with some olives and feta, some dry bread and olive oil, or some baclava. Yum.
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A simple case of Molson Canadian ~:cheers:
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Since I liked to be as close to my faction's generals as possible and one of my favorite factions in MTW was the danes and it's drunkard bloodline I usually played drunk. ~:cheers:
Good thing they didn't have too many perverts. ~D
Now it's soft drinks and water for me in RTW. Less fun you may say but ar leas I remember how to continue the campaing the next day.
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If at any point you despise the stupid AI then drink a couple of Grolsch Kannons before playing. 12% of joyness should bring everything into a different perspective :barrel:
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Is a bok ale-like?
*takes his beer encyclopedia*
Bokbeers are generally dark brown and sweet with alcohol percentages ranging from 6% to 7,5%. But there are also lighter versions such as the Spring Bokbeers.
It's not ale, but ale isn't commonly drunk in the Netherlands anyway. If you think that dark beers are "always" ale then you are missing a whole lot of fun and you definetly should visit a shop with a wider variety!
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Whatever happened to Hertog Jan?
They have excellent beers, but I've got to watch my spendings.
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No, retsina is a dry, white wine that has a unique resiny/woody taste to it.
In fact it can be red, white or rose. Traditionally it's the cheapest wine you can buy in a cafe - often made locally from whatever they can get they're hands on. It's resinated by treating with pine resin (hence the name) to give all different retsinas a relatively similar taste. However I've researched the issue in depth on mutilple field trips :-D and can't find very much in common between them. Retsina from Attica is held to be the 'true' retsina - made there for 3000 years.
Like all these things it tastes completely minging once the holiday is over.
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In fact it can be red, white or rose. Traditionally it's the cheapest wine you can buy in a cafe - often made locally from whatever they can get they're hands on. It's resinated by treating with pine resin (hence the name) to give all different retsinas a relatively similar taste. However I've researched the issue in depth on mutilple field trips :-D and can't find very much in common between them. Retsina from Attica is held to be the 'true' retsina - made there for 3000 years.
Like all these things it tastes completely minging once the holiday is over.
Interesting! I've never seen a red or blush retsina. I've tried three different ones, and all three might have come from Crete (I'm pretty sure at least two of them were Cretian). I've found them to be very inconsistent from bottle to bottle. Sometimes they are excellent and sometimes a bit off tasting.
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Thanks for the info, Duke. I'm definately going to keep my eyes pealed for a bok this weekend at the store.
One drink I'd recommend for anyone doing anyone serious sword swinging in Iberia is a drink I was put on to in Florida this summer called 'Sangrita' (little blood.) You need two small glasses (brandy glasses or those large shot glasses or something like that) and you fill one with nice sipping tequila (Patrone does nicely). In a seperate glass mix one part orange juice, one part tomato juice and some hot sauce, salt & pepper. Then you just take a small sip of the tequila followed by a small sip of the cocktail and so on.
It's a Mexican drink but, what the hell.
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It's a Mexican drink but, what the hell.
I'm not sure what that means, but the Mexicans make a great beer called Negra Modelo. If you've never tried it, do yourself a favor.
Anyway, lately one of my favorite drinks for RTW has been my latest homebrew which turned out pretty well. It's a weizenbock, very much in the style of Aventinus for anyone who's tried it. It came out a little higher in ABV than it should have though (It's over 9% and it should have been around 7%), but I'm not complaining! ~:cheers:
I also love Duvel, and a really good American India pale ale. I say American because when I went the UK, I tried every IPA I could get my hands on from London to Inverness, and while they really were great, we just make them WAY more hoppy here in the States. Anyone in the Arizona or southern California must try Stone IPA. That's a beer with a real hop kick.
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Hmm, that's odd. I'm new here, but it says I can't edit my post...
Nonetheless, I meant to write in the Arizona or southern California AREA.:dizzy2:
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Lots of folks in here drinking expensive brews! I prefer an ice cold can of Old Style (or 12) for my occasional Saturday Late night session. Ah, there is nothing like the feeling of continuing your campaign with absolutely no recollection of where you left off. Who's my faction leader? My capital is where? What the heck did I sent that army and my best general to the other side of the world for? Why is the entire Iberian pennisula completey pissed off at me and lighting the place on fire? It's like trying to recover from the reign of Caligula.
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I'm not sure what that means, but the Mexicans make a great beer called Negra Modelo. If you've never tried it, do yourself a favor.
Oh, just that Mexico isn't a R:tW found area. Well, at least not without some interesting modding.
Modelo is very nice, btw.
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well, i'm sorry, and i apologise to all greeks here, but retsina is the wine from the pits of hell as far as i'm concerned (maybe its pumped from the Styx?) - if they had a smiley for pulling face into contorted wracks of yuckness, i would put it here - and as for ouzo... (coughs...). Then again, its not just greek drinks - pernod and all alcoholic things aniseed are also nasty vile inventions, as is the fermented boot scrapings that Italians refer to as Grappa.
Hell, if I was any of the above factions and drinking those drinks, i'd be giving away my cities and grovelling on the floor just so i didn't have to drink the stuff anymore.... 'Yes, take the women into slavery, oh, and here, while you're at it, have my warehouse of Grappa' (nervous laugh) :bow:
Now give me a nice red, or a scotch, or an nice bitter or pilsner and i'll conquer the known world, just to spread the word....
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Oh, just that Mexico isn't a R:tW found area.
AH! I guess since everyone was talking about drinks from the RTW areas I probably should have picked up on that... Sorry, anyway.
Mabye someone from the UK can clear this one up for me. What's the difference between a bitter and a pale ale? Does anyone know? Here in the states, no one serves 'bitters' persay, but the pale ales here pretty much have the same malt to hop ratio from what I tasted in the UK. Even my brewing books don't go into this one.
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Not at all Caravan, if I hadn't been inebriated while posting I might've posted clearly.
Kyodai is exactly right. I would rather take a tackhammer to the genitals than drink anything with aniseed. I was really looking forward to my first glass of absinthe a few years ago. I could've saved myself a few years of anticipation if I had just mixed some LSD with melted down licorice with ground up nail clippings.
I'm surprised scotch hadn't been mentioned until now. A glass of black label is just the ticket.
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Not at all Caravan, if I hadn't been inebriated while posting I might've posted clearly.
Kyodai is exactly right. I would rather take a tackhammer to the genitals than drink anything with aniseed. I was really looking forward to my first glass of absinthe a few years ago. I could've saved myself a few years of anticipation if I had just mixed some LSD with melted down licorice with ground up nail clippings.
I'm surprised scotch hadn't been mentioned until now. A glass of black label is just the ticket.
Lagavulin is my hands-down favorite scotch, but I can seldom afford to drink it. If anyone knows a less-expensive scotch that's got that same Islay peaty/seaweedy flavor, do tell!
I dislike most anise drinks, but I must say I developed quite a taste for Pernod. I can't imagine what drinking it straight from the bottle would be like, but tip a shot of it into a lowball glass half-filled with ice water and it's a fantastic drink. Not at all syrupy or sickly sweet. It's meant to be drunk with ice and water, but I'm sure it's terrible unmixed. And it glows with such a lovely yellow color when properly mixed, too. Magical, really.
I had absinthe one time, which a friend had brought back from the UK. She apparently had to ask for it special, because it wasn't on pubilc display. It was an absinthe from one of those countries like Albania or something and it was godawful. Wasn't the least bit like Pernod or any other drink I imagined it would be like, and it didn't have any of the color that one would expect from the green fairy. Anyway, a book I later came across mentioned the wildly varying crop of drinks that are called absinthe, including some bizarre and mysterious drinks that come from the slavic countries. The article mentioned a similar experience to mine ( *cough*spit*gag* what the hell is this crap!?). So after that, I decided that I probably still have never tasted absinthe. I have no idea what was in that bottle, but I probably am better off not thinking about it. :dizzy2: :mad:
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Damn not a single bourbon drinker here? I find a nice glass of Wild Turkey on the rocks takes the edge off sending thousands to their doom, or easing the tension of facing a "Gold" appointed hoard of Egyptian chariots & axemen...
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Bourbon's fantastic. I prefer Maker's Mark on the rocks with a glass of ginger ale to settle the stomach.
(Sorry if this becomes a double post, having some techinical difficulties with the org here)
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Sweet Tea. Sweeeeet Tea. Being from the Southern US (redneck barbarian faction?), Sweet Tea enhances all things.
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Beer ~:cheers: , but not too much as I usually play late in the evening/night. Too much beer = fast sleep = little RTW progress :bow:
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Kalua... since i'm always playin late into e night in my air-conditioned room...kalua is best for keeping me awake with its coffee flavour and warm with its alcohol....so cheerz everyone!!!
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Hmmm...I'm gonna have to go with water. You can never have enough water!