The BBQ, beer, wine, whisky, cigars, excellent weather and good company thread

[daigaku]

Hi to all hungy and thirsty,

@ Jack50: living only five km from the french border, I get them from a master butcher in Chalampe - and he makes them really spicy ;-))

@ Andres: no need for Champagne - living in the warmest wine region of germany, we´ve got a great wine maker here, and he produces a "Sekt" which can compete with any champagne I know ;-)))

@ Peasant Phill: Sorry, but no pork on my grill - don´t eat that stuff... but how about a Sundowner Special Camel Steak, and afterwards some spicy sausage?!? and no need to complain about the weather - we´ve got 28°C around here, sunny may weather as it should be ;-))))

hungry greetings (wife´s calling for food)

daigaku

[Jack50]

@Andres They were crushed beneath the magnificence that is Jack50! Or really it takes 50 of us little jacks to make one Jack50

[daigaku]

Hi,

@ Jack50: .....will all those 50 come to the BBQ event?!? .....we´ll need a bigger one ;-)))

daigaku

[daigaku]

Hi,

@ Jack50: .....will all those 50 come to the BBQ event?!? .....we´ll need a bigger one ;-)))

daigaku

sorry, doubled and don´t know how to delete....

[Andres]

sorry, doubled and don´t know how to delete....

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@daigaku , it's possible to "hashtag" people by putting "@" right in front of their name. This will give them a notification the next time they visit the place.

But you need to do it like this: @Jack50 , not @ Jack50.

Does your winemaker exports his products to Belgium? We went to the Champagne region last year and we visited quiet a few little, local Champagne makers. Most of them tasted as good or even better as the "big" names (like Peiper-Hidseck, Jacquart, Veuve Cliquot etc.). You don't find them in the local stores, but it was possible to have them deliver to Belgium.

[daigaku]

Hi Andres,

now I know how that thing works - had the wrong idea it to be something mail-connected; still not knowing all the features of the forum; also wondered, where this "notification"-thing came from I see next to my name when logging in.....;-))now everything´s clear...

Sorry about the wine/Sekt, but it´s only sold locally, maybe even not till Freiburg, which is only 30km away; on the other side, there come people who know him even from Northern Germany to buy. If there´s a chance for postal delivery I have to ask him next time going to look for the 2009 "Spätburgunder Rotwein" (something, I believe, like Pinot noir or so). Knowing mainly the german wines (and Sekt), I´m not too familiar with the french/international names....

So at the BBQ there will also be "Sekt" and white, rose and red wine?!? grows bigger and bigger ;-)))

thirsty greetings, daigaku

[Jack50]

You know we've made a mockery of the OP Well it all sounds like you have what your bringing, about the only thing I could add would be sweet corn from Iowa we can throw it on the grill also.

@daigaku Only 1 Jack50 now so just 1 of me but with all the good food and drink I may have to pretend I'm 3 people

[daigaku]

@Jack50:

You know we've made a mockery of the OP Well it all sounds like you have what your bringing, about the only thing I could add would be sweet corn from Iowa we can throw it on the grill also.

@daigaku Only 1 Jack50 now so just 1 of me but with all the good food and drink I may have to pretend I'm 3 people

Sweet Corn from the grill?!? Never ate that, only out of the pan, with loooaaads of butter ;-))) sounds interesting...

okay, and with three chairs only for you, another min. two for me, where will all the others sit around the grill?!? We´ll need either a really big one - or at least two!!!

looking forward greetings, daigaku

[Jack50]

Yep sweet corn off the grill doesn't need much butter but is better with some pepper or paprika on it salt if you like that stuff. I think we can make enough room for all of us to enjoy the heat of the grill mixed with the cool night breeze singing songs too
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[daigaku]

Hi,
@Jack50:

Yep sweet corn off the grill doesn't need much butter but is better with some pepper or paprika on it salt if you like that stuff. I think we can make enough room for all of us to enjoy the heat of the grill mixed with the cool night breeze singing songs too
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... sounds tasty - and I got an idea while mouth was watering: short time before the corn on the grill is finished, along with the pepper to put a thin slice of a handmade cheese on it so it´s just melting the moment you eat it - ever tried that?!?

jamjam-greetings daigaku

btw: got a guitar??

[Jack50]

not with cheese but.. it would be good may try that this summer. You don't want me near a guitar I can keep some rythme with concession instuments like morracas or a tamborine.

[Peasant Phill]

If we're giving out BBQ advise, try throwing in some garlic between the coals. Everything will have a slight garlicky taste.

[daigaku]

Hi @Peasant Phill

If we're giving out BBQ advise, try throwing in some garlic between the coals. Everything will have a slight garlicky taste.

nice you joined our yummy-theme ;-)) but it´s not only BBQ, it´s as well whisky, cigars/cigarillos and general good feeling!

I did rub some garlic onto some grilled bread aso, but never got the idea of putting it directly into the coals - must try these weeks, when summer really arrives here ( can take another 2-4 weeks), along with Jack50´s grilled corn ;-))

wish everybody fine weather for the weekend, so all BBQ-dreams can become reality...

greetings, daigaku

[Andres]

Well, it's not really BBQ weather, but it's dry and temperature is bearable. Visited friends in their new home yesterday. We decided to take the risk (it was a bit cloudy) and had a nice BBQ. Aperitive (sparkling wine, (Jacob's Creek, which was a pleasant surprise)), BBQ with red and white wine available, ice cream and fresh fruit as desert; pie afterwards. Children playing in the garden, dads playing soccer. Perfect

Back home, I enjoyed two cigarillo's while listening to music. No whisky though, had had enough alcohol for the day.

[daigaku]

Hi @Andres,

except today (was a bit cloudy, few drops), these days the weather here is great - ´bout 25°C, sunny, dry air - weekend will be the same - hope to talk my wife into a bicycle-tour and maybe a visit to a lake for a first swim ;-))

monday, when work awaits me again, there will be rain all day - no weather to work on the roof but below.....

sunny greetings, daigaku

[Andres]

@daigaku

Excellent weather now and it will last at least until Sunday they say, which is splendid news, since we planned a week-end trip to the Ardennes

Maybe I should rename this thread into something more appropriate, like "The BBQ, beer, wine, whisky, cigars, excellent weather and good company thread".

[Peasant Phill]

@daigaku

Excellent weather now and it will last at least until Sunday they say, which is splendid news, since we planned a week-end trip to the Ardennes

Maybe I should rename this thread into something more appropriate, like "The BBQ, beer, wine, whisky, cigars, excellent weather and good company thread".

I already had a great evening yetserday sitting in my garden, in the sun reading a comic together with my GF. Mojito in one hand and a strange but exellent tasting substance named fruitpap in the other.

[Andres]

Fruitpap is baby food. And you combined that with a Mojito?



I had a Straffe Hendrik yesterday evening No cigar this time; don't want to make it too much of a habit.

[Peasant Phill]

Fruitpap is baby food. And you combined that with a Mojito?

I'm in that stage of my life where I desperatly hold on to my fleeting youth (all of it).

[Andres]

Some Admin should abuse his powers and rename you Grandpa Phill...

[daigaku]

Hi, folks and friends,

@Andres: Great idea renaming this thread - may attract others with different tastes as well ;-)) My favourite drink at the moment is a local dry white wine called "Gutedel", at day/workingtime mixed with icecold water, evenings served pure and going with some fine bread, lamb salami and (not from me) handmade cheese - hmmmmmmmmyummy. btw, anybody smoking cigarillos called "Villiger Kiel"?!? love them after a good meal....

@Peasant Phill: "...that´s not midlife crisis, that´s post pubescent!" (unknown author) ....could that about fit for you?!? ;-)))

weather here will as well be GREAT for all weekend, but no chance for a breakout - too much work. Short bicycle tour, maybe short swimming, a beer in the afternoon, but Ardennes? -sniff- not even high Blackforest...

working (nevertheless happy) greetings daigaku

[Peasant Phill]

@Peasant Phill: "...that´s not midlife crisis, that´s post pubescent!" (unknown author) ....could that about fit for you?!? ;-)))

I've been in a post pubescent state ever since my 14th birthday. I'm 29 now, these are the last years I can do stupid things and not become that weird uncle.

[daigaku]

Hi @Peasant Phill,

I've been in a post pubescent state ever since my 14th birthday. I'm 29 now, these are the last years I can do stupid things and not become that weird uncle.

young man, I´m 54 now - and my wife does say this unknown-author thing at least twice in a month to me, shaking her head but grinning - so don´t worry, you´ve still got ages to stay in that state ;-))

....and weird uncles can be the only interesting ?relative? to young nieces and nephews ;-))

weird greetings daigaku

[Andres]

@daigaku , got a box with 50 Balmoral Shetland cigarillo's with Christmas and am currently smoking those. I like their taste and their not too heavy.

@Peasant Phill : as long as we're alive, we all can and will keep doing stupid things Like, for instance, quit smoking for 10 years and then pick up the habit of smoking cigars

[InsaneApache]

Went to the pub yesterday for lunch. Only the second time since the smoking ban. It was very hot in the beer garden but enjoyable. The only downside was the cost. A pint of bitter shandy, a pint of bitter and a pint of lager. Guess how much?

26p under a tenner. Cripes!

Still the food and company was excellent. I'll have to get a mortgage if I decide to do it regularly.

[daigaku]

Hi @InsaneApache,

....you see, the idea of this thread isn´t wrong: go home for lunch, accompanied by good friends, and you get the same food, the same good company, maybe even better booze ;-) , for half the price - and, in your own garden, with freedom of smoking and (hopefully) selected surrounding, with even a better setting...

greetings from daigaku, who will only next year be able to make up his garden :-(at the moment used for storage of building materials)

[Peasant Phill]

Had a great weekend ending it with a BBQ (I was the chef), a good beer and afterwards a nice swim. Life can be beatiful.

[daigaku]

Hi @Peasant Phill,

...don´t let us die curious: and WHAT was on the grill?!? ;-))

hungry greetings daigaku

[Peasant Phill]

Hi @Peasant Phill,

...don´t let us die curious: and WHAT was on the grill?!? ;-))

hungry greetings daigaku

Sausages, merguezes, hamburgers, brochettes, ... The usual stuff.
If I had time, I would've thrown in some bananas.

[daigaku]

Hi @Peasant Phill,

Sausages, merguezes, hamburgers, brochettes, ... The usual stuff.
If I had time, I would've thrown in some bananas.

...sounds great. Have no idea what those Brochettes are.

Bananas on the grill? With this spicy food, I prefer to throw some potatoes into the ?embers?, and a few thick oiled slices of aubergines next to the merguezes - yummy!

got me a new gas grill for "quick and dirty" short-term action - throw it into the garden, put food on, and 20min. later - voila!

A good time, good food, good smoke and good drink to everybody,

greetings daigaku