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What am I drinking?
Apr. 17th, 2008 03:11 pmIt's amazing what you can get used to. I grew up drinking strong English tea with milk in it, apple juice, coffee (this replaced apple juice) and cranberry juice with 7-up. Water tasted too stale for me to drink, and herbal tea was too insipid.
Now my usual drinks are water, herbal tea, ginger beer, milk, and good beer. I've gone heavily towards strong and bitter flavors. Looking at that list I'm also heavily into home-made beverages (except the milk). My tenant upstairs is a homebrewer, so he makes the ginger beer (from my grandfather's recipe) and a lot of the beer in our house. The other day I realized that I have never even tasted mass-market cheap beer. Which sounds pretty elitist, but that's just what I like the taste of.
I'm sitting here looking at my glass; it looks like it's iced tea. Actually it's red clover (like from the lawn!) with a pinch of mint, infused for over 4 hours. And it tastes remarkably good. I would never have thought that I'd actually enjoy odd herbal teas.
Now my usual drinks are water, herbal tea, ginger beer, milk, and good beer. I've gone heavily towards strong and bitter flavors. Looking at that list I'm also heavily into home-made beverages (except the milk). My tenant upstairs is a homebrewer, so he makes the ginger beer (from my grandfather's recipe) and a lot of the beer in our house. The other day I realized that I have never even tasted mass-market cheap beer. Which sounds pretty elitist, but that's just what I like the taste of.
I'm sitting here looking at my glass; it looks like it's iced tea. Actually it's red clover (like from the lawn!) with a pinch of mint, infused for over 4 hours. And it tastes remarkably good. I would never have thought that I'd actually enjoy odd herbal teas.
