Bottom line, I guess, is beer is probably an all time favorite in
the boat drink category 'though I guess it isn't really a boat
drink. Goes great when camping, fishing, hiking, listening to
Buffett.
Now you can either put listen to the song Uncle
Hiram Homemade Beer by Dick Feller and brew your own or you can follow the easy beer recipe
The easy beer recipe..
- Go to the store, buy your favorite name brand, (bottled please)
- Use a bottle opener or pop the cap on the side of picnic table (much cooler than that silly twist cap stuff.) Let the bottle breathe a couple of seconds, sip or guzzle to suit one's own preference.
Alternate recipe: Saint Louis Sewer Water.
- Substitute Budweiser in a can for the recipe above.
- let breathe,
- drink with out emotion,
- belch,
- repeat.
Free range beer is always found in a bottle, the way nature intended it to be.
GINGER BEER
This is good stuff and it isn't even alcoholic. Try substituting
where ever beer , carbonated water, or Ginger ale is recommended
3/4 cup of fresh ginger preferably from the west Indies.
6 cups of boiling water. (tap is fine but how about having them
perkier blues or nursery water)
the juice of two limes ( don't skimp get some real key limes)
1 and 1/2 cups of sugar-- Remember all that stuff about simple
syrup. For get it-- use sugar. cane is preferred but beet will
work.
1/2 teaspoon of dry yeast.
Dump all this crap together in a really big mason jar or some
other jar that can be sealed and stir it all up until it is all
dissolved. Seal the sucker up nice and tight and stuff it in the
closet behind the vacuum cleaner or your bill box. Make sure the
closet isn't too hot or too cold-- you know keep the stuff at
room temperature. Now forget about it. Listen to BBBB six to
eight times in a row (wait at least twenty four hours). Go to
the closet open the sucker up, strain the shit through a pair of
panty hose, then refrigerate the stuff until its really really
cold. Drink it straight or use it in some of the recipes that
follow. (like a dark and stormy) Gives you ‘bout 1/2 gallon.
Sorry I don't make my own wine so I can't tell you how to do it.
I do know that it takes longer to make wine than it does beer.
This section will be on wine coolers.
Do-it-your-self-Wine Coolers-- I remember when it was called
SANGAREE.
Get a cooler or other container.
bottle of wine
fruit or juice (Try CAPRI SUN juice drinks They work great!)
carbonated water.
ice
Buy some white wine that you like. I like Italian Sparkling
wines, they are sweet and are already carbonated so you can make
a stronger cooler by cutting back on the water.
Find two or three fruits you like and squeeze out the juice.
Add this juice to the wine and stir it up. Pour in to cooler or
suitable container already full of ice.
pour in the carbonated water and stir slowly. Garnish with
chunks of fruit. Keep a lid on it to keep out the flies and keep
in the carbonation.
BTW a real sangaree combines wine, brandy and water. Try
substituting a schnapps or brandy for the juice for a cooler with
more kick.
Pretty basic stuff but its classier than Bartles and Jaymes and
you can make your own flavors like strawberry banana, watermelon
lime and so on.