Don't try this

[Adelaidey]

DO leave your friends unguarded with your Jamba Juice and a bottle of coconut rum.

DON'T leave your friends unguarded with your Jamba Juice and bottles of green apple vodka and cinnamon Schnapp's.
(Why do I have friends that enjoy messing with my Jamba Juice?)

DO enjoy copious amounts of homemade mead.... my favorite (alcoholic) drink ever!

DON'T, under any circumstances, let a friend decide to make a Cheeseburger Milkshake with my precious mead.... and for the love of all things sacred, NEVER EVER be dumb enough to try it.... trust me....

 

[Grnidwitch]

Dinner - Tuna Salad Sandwich
Poison of choice - Jose Quervo 1800
Result - face down, fetal position on friends driveway in the rain.

That stuff comes up like jet fuel. Being close to 6' and sleeping in a powder room that only measures 4.5ft wide makes for bodily contortions that really should be seen to be believed.

 

[scotrace]

But...

DO enjoy copious amounts of homemade mead.... my favorite (alcoholic) drink ever!

How does one make it??

 

[Helen Troy]

DO enjoy copious amounts of homemade mead.... my favorite (alcoholic) drink ever!

Your really like mj??d? Oh my.... I have a big wine balloon with the stuff sitting in my cellar for years. My parents made many liters for me as a birthday present once. I have tried to donate it to friends, but not even my swordfighting medivial reenactment buddies want it. It tastes better than most mj??d, witch means it "only" tastes awful. Guess you are just more of a viking than me!

 

[olive bleu]

DO enjoy copious amounts of homemade mead.... my favorite

(alcoholic) drink ever! {Quote}



I have tasted mead once...and really did love it. I would most definitely drink more , given the opportunity. A close friend of mine, her Uncle keeps bees, so they make a batch every year and then drink gallons of it at their annual winter solstice party.I was invited to this bash last year but came down with a stomach flu the day of.

 

[rockyj]

Those cookies.

Washing down Girl Scout cookies with vodka and V8.

Were they "Thin Mints?"lol

 

[Dr Doran]

An old friend I lost track of, Scotty Rehlaender, who used to be in the vintage scene in San Francisco in the early 1990s, and I heard that nutmeg gave hallucinations. We mixed some with water and drank it. It was hard to drink, like drinking fine sand. No hallucinations, only a headache and a feeling of lowered IQ for a day.

 

[dhermann1]

I saw recently one of those British archaeology shows where they determined from molecular evidence that an ancient flaggon had contained a combination of mead, ale and wine. No kidding. They recreated the concoction and drank it. The host sort of blanched at the idea, but took a guzzle and proclaimed it delicious.

 

[Helen Troy]

An old friend I lost track of, Scotty Rehlaender, who used to be in the vintage scene in San Francisco in the early 1990s, and I heard that nutmeg gave hallucinations. We mixed some with water and drank it. It was hard to drink, like drinking fine sand. No hallucinations, only a headache and a feeling of lowered IQ for a day.

Nutmeg is actually a dangerous thing to play around with. As I have been told, only fresh nuts (not the dried ones in your kitchen cabinet,) gives the hallucinations, but this is NOT something you want to try out, as it is a real risk of poisoning. I quote wikipedia on effects:

A risk in any large-quantity (over 25 g) ingestion of nutmeg is the onset of 'nutmeg poisoning', an acute psychiatric disorder marked by thought disorder, a sense of impending death, and agitation. Some cases have resulted in hospitalization.

Actually, children should be kept away from whole nutmeg. I have been told that a couple of nuts can be lethal! Also adults can die if the dose is big.

Be careful with nutmeg, folks!

 

[Orgetorix]

I saw recently one of those British archaeology shows where they determined from molecular evidence that an ancient flaggon had contained a combination of mead, ale and wine. No kidding. They recreated the concoction and drank it. The host sort of blanched at the idea, but took a guzzle and proclaimed it delicious.

Wow. Were they able to deduce the proportions of each from the molecular evidence?

 

[cookie]

Nutmeg

Nutmeg is actually a dangerous thing to play around with. As I have been told, only fresh nuts (not the dried ones in your kitchen cabinet,) gives the hallucinations, but this is NOT something you want to try out, as it is a real risk of poisoning. I quote wikipedia on effects:

A risk in any large-quantity (over 25 g) ingestion of nutmeg is the onset of 'nutmeg poisoning', an acute psychiatric disorder marked by thought disorder, a sense of impending death, and agitation. Some cases have resulted in hospitalization.

Actually, children should be kept away from whole nutmeg. I have been told that a couple of nuts can be lethal! Also adults can die if the dose is big.

Be careful with nutmeg, folks!

There goes cocktail hour!

 

[dhermann1]

Wow. Were they able to deduce the proportions of each from the molecular evidence?

I believe so. It might have been The Naked Archaeologist. He likes being controversial, but I think this was for real. It also might have been Meet the Ancestors.

 

[Diamondback]

That stuff comes up like jet fuel. Being close to 6' and sleeping in a powder room that only measures 4.5ft wide makes for bodily contortions that really should be seen to be believed.

Didn't anyone tell you that jet fuel as a narcotic is to be either just barely sniffed on the tarmac or combusted, never taken internally? lol

Oh, if you're in Germany, DON'T drink the "Diesel"--beer and coke. Waste of both IMO--just sounds revolting. (No actual experience, never intend to have any, believe I'll stick to my Collinses and gimlets...)

 

[Feng_Li]

Coffee, the grounds for which were mixed with minced garlic before brewing. My flatmate was lucky to escape with his life.

 

[Adelaidey]

But.... How does one make it??

Well, I don't make it (not really enough space in my tiny room lol), my friend makes it a couple gallons at a time every month so that, with the right fermenting schedule, there's a constant revolving supply.

I know that the base is just honey, water, and yeast, plus spices that he refuses to reveal-- he found the recipe online somewhere and then tweaked it according to some old book recipe until he got it right. I've never actually tried to make it-- I just rely on him to keep the mead flowing!

 

[Adelaidey]

Your really like mj??d? Oh my.... I have a big wine balloon with the stuff sitting in my cellar for years. My parents made many liters for me as a birthday present once. I have tried to donate it to friends, but not even my swordfighting medivial reenactment buddies want it. It tastes better than most mj??d, witch means it "only" tastes awful. Guess you are just more of a viking than me!

Well, it depends on what kind of mead you have... you might just have straight mead, where I think instead of adding spices you add some type of acid to balance out the honey, making it more like white wine than honey-sweet. I think some people add fruit juices too... it all depends on who made it... maybe you just got a batch that wasn't particularly great. Hopefully someday you'll be able to taste some of the good stuff!

Haha...."not even my swordfighting medieval reenactment buddies want it"... oddly enough, my friends who make it are swordfighting pirates... must be something about those swordfighting people, huh? lol

 

[Paratrooper]

The local mead vintner at the MN Ren Fest dose a wounderful Eyptian mead Hunny with hyasenth (I know it's spelled wrong)
Now a Champane float is yummy. We stubled acrros this one new years party, while dishing up some vanilla ice cream some fell in to his champane he drank it and said "hmm that's really good." so we tried it and now it is a tradition at all your new years parties.

 

[Vintage Betty]

Really bad home made mead (vs good home made mead which I love)

Really bad home made wine

Real Russian Potato Vodka

And my favorite that I PAID FOR and than returned when I realized what this bartender attempt at a barristo did: Coffee with liberal amounts of baking Creme de Menthe. Ugh!

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

Don't try this...

7) For the premiere of Pinocchio Walt hired 11 midgets, dressed them up like the little puppet and put them on top of Radio City Music Hall in New York with a full day's supply of food and wine. The idea was they would wave hello to the little children entering into the theater. By the middle of the hot afternoon, there were 11 drunken naked midgets running around the top of the marquee, screaming obscenities at the crowd below. The most embarrassed people were the police who had to climb up ladders and take the little fellows off in pillowcases.

http://www.disneydreamer.com/Pin.htm

 

[HadleyH]

Don't try this...

By the middle of the hot afternoon, there were 11 drunken naked midgets running around the top of the marquee, screaming obscenities at the crowd below.

Oh boy, I'd have given an arm and a leg to have watched the show lol