Cognac, anyone?

Texas Star said:
Nope. Those bottles said, schnapps. Look for Mauldin's Willie and Joe war cartoon books.
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Hard to believe that he left us in 2003:
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Thanks, Ringo!! He was a great talent, he had the eye for composition, he was a great draftsman, and he could capture the essence of the GI's world and find humor and pathos side by side and communicate them to both civilians and military. He was a good guy, and thanks also to Texas for remembering him. I fondly remember reading his autobiography, and later a book of his cartoons from the war years.

Best Regards, Les
 
les.b said:
Thanks, Ringo!! He was a great talent, he had the eye for composition, he was a great draftsman, and he could capture the essence of the GI's world and find humor and pathos side by side and communicate them to both civilians and military. He was a good guy, and thanks also to Texas for remembering him. I fondly remember reading his autobiography, and later a book of his cartoons from the war years.

Best Regards, Les
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Anyone who could live through Patton, more than earned my full respect. :)

I think my ultimate favorite Willie anf Joe-was one captioned: "Th hell this isnt the most important hole in the world, im in it."
This one to be exact::D
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I kinda remember something about Texas remembering him, just cant recall exactly what they did? Idc love to have his postage stamp.
 
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Bill Bates said:
I don't drink Cognac all that often, I'm more a Scotch whisky guy. When it comes to brandies I drink way more Calvados than Cognac.
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Since you mention Calvados, which is a brandy distilled from apples, anyone interested in America's historical heritage should give Laird's Apple Brandy a try.

Laird's is the oldest distilling company in the US, receiving its license during the Revolutionary War, in 1780.

Their apple jack is cheaper and more available, but don't get that; it's a blend of 30% brandy and 70% neutral spirit, so you get all the booze, but only 30% of the flavor.

The bottled-in-bond apple brandy is the one to try. 4 years old and 100 proof. The bottle looks kinda cheap with a plastic twist top, but don't let that fool you. Great stuff for sipping, and spiking hot cider during the holidays when nobody is watching ;) .
 

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Be careful of treating yourself to a 'special' bottle. I had occasion to get a bottle of Hennessy Bras D'or. I can't afford to buy more, and anything cheaper tastes like naptha.

I now don't drink cognac. ��
 
When we lived in NYC I'd go to the liquor store and buy a bottle of slivovitz and my dad would keep it in the basement in an antique record player. This thing stood about 4' high with double doors and that was where he stashed his bottle. I was out shoveling snow and it was bitterly cold. When I came in couldn't find any brandy, but rememberd dad's bottle. Being down in the basement that bottle was cold. Took one good slug and slowly let it trickle down my throat. Man went off in my stomach like a bomb. Did warm up though. Thanks for the memories. Frank
 
Raynal is a very inexpensive VSOP Brandy that is the smoothest I have ever tasted. I think it is a good bit smoother than Courvoisier. I prefer it to all others...................
 
Back in '67 two days before leaving Iwakuni, Japan to go down south, two of us in the squadron got our hands on a bottle of Hennessy VSOP. We were going to go into town and celebrate. Well we got caught at the gate. While waiting for the paddy wagon the gate guard told one of the the other guards to be careful not to let us near the bottle because we might break it, thus getting rid of the evidence. Break it, we would have licked it up off the ground for what we paid for it. We were taken to the Provost Marshall's station and had out ID's taken. I asked several times what we were charged with and the desk Sargent did not tell us. The next morning we got our ID's back and met with our lawyer, a First Lt. We told him our story and he told us to standby. We were restricted to base but we left the next day so no big deal. About a month later we met the Lt and we asked him what happened. Apparently nothing happened. We were told that the bottle was supposed to be flushed, yeah right. The Provost must have had a good collection.
 
Renault, XO is my favorite although very hard to find here. I usually pick up a bottle when in Europe on vacation. The listserver is turning my poor bottle on its side.

Stu
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Interesting thread...

I've been sipping cognac for a couple of years now, just Hennessey though, because I'm too broke to afford the good stuff.

I do plan on getting a bottle of the good stuff though, at least once, just want to know what it's like, that's why this thread is interesting.

I'm willing to go a couple hundred dollars or so but that's about my limit.

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Courvoisier VSOP. I have a bottle downstairs that I haven't touched in quite a while. Mostly I drink scotch and for an after dinner drink it's Johnnie Walker black label and Drambuie. If you go to a bar and ask for it you need to ask for a Rusty Nail.

I don't often drink beer (never did like the taste) but if I do it is most likely a Moose Drool from BIg Sky Brewery, Missoula MT
 
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Never had any Brandy or Cognac, very likely I never will.

"If you start with anything that can be fermented, and distill and filter the heck out of it until there's no flavor but ethanol left, you have vodka."

I believe many, if not all, Vodkas sold today are simply diluted high-proof industrial ethanol, the same stuff that goes into gasoline. Most of that ethanol is made from fermented corn. Some makers add a little flavoring and put it in a bottle with a fancy name on the label.
 
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DWalt said:
I believe many, if not all, Vodkas sold today are simply diluted high-proof industrial ethanol, the same stuff that goes into gasoline. Most of that ethanol is made from fermented corn….
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Basically yes.

However, there are specific regulations and processes for the production of food-grade ethanol (which makes up less than 3% of industrial ethanol). Fermentation/Distillation produces a number of toxic byproducts (congeners) which don’t matter in fuel or solvents, but have to be controlled for human consumption.
 
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