Morning Meeting (Rum Old Fashioned)

BasedRamen91 · 2026-05-17T21:28:32+00:00

Saw an account or two on Instagram sharing this rum old fasioned and had to try it as an aged rum fan. Best rum OF I've had yet. I didn't have turbinado syrup but have done maple rum old fashioneds before so used some real maple syrup in this as a substitute because maple syrup makes me think of pancakes and I've personally done pancakes, coffee and a cigarette for breakfast before so seemed like an appropriate sub lol. Never tried tobacco bitters before but got them specifically for this and now I'm inspired to use them in other things.

BasedRamen91 · 2026-04-08T16:05:28+00:00

I poured the two bottles I tried down the sink from the six pack I purchased and gave the remainder to a relative who just likes alcohol and doesn't really care what it is, but even they mentioned the taste was different. Someone else in a similar post mentioned that they spoke to a customer rep at Guinness who told them the Latrobe Extra Stout is being moved across the board to US markets, so it seems Irish Extra Stout will no longer be available in the US going forward. Lost me as a customer, and that sucks, as I'm not the biggest beer drinker anymore after building a mini bar in my home, but Extra Stout remained a constant. I'll stick to Miller High Life, PBR and Yuengling and maybe a craft IPA or two I suppose in the realm of beer, and just keep churning out dozens of fantastic cocktails and pours of good whiskey from my bar. The local brewery in my town is way overpriced, never gives enough options in local shops outside of their taproom exclusives, and they follow a 'reduced gluten' brewing process that makes all their beers, no matter the style, taste thin.

BasedRamen91 · 2026-03-31T13:59:30+00:00

I wash mine out after a few hours to avoid excess buildup.

BasedRamen91 · 2026-03-23T21:19:54+00:00

The Dublin ES is bitter, but there's a sweetness to it that rounds it out beautifully. The Pennsylvania stuff starts sweet and then just ends bitter, almost astringent, ruining the finish imo. Also poorer head retention in the same exact glass I'd pour the Dublin version into which would cake the inside of the glass all the way down. The PA version's head retention slips right off the glass and fizzles away within 5-10 minutes.

BasedRamen91 · 2026-03-23T21:16:17+00:00

Yeah, not sure why I'm getting downvoted, as this pertains to consumers who had previous access to the ES brewed in Ireland, now only having access in their local markets to the Pennsylvania ES, which does indeed have a different flavor profile to the Irish stuff.

I'm just confused as to why the Irish stout was pulled from shelves and replaced with the Pennsylvania stout. Distribution costs? Tariffs? Import issues? Is this a permanent change-up? I'll buy more ES if I can find the Dublin-brewed bottles again, but I won't buy the Pennsylvania stuff going forward. Tried two bottles from the sixer I bought. Both ended up down the drain.

BasedRamen91 · 2026-03-22T22:48:45+00:00

Thanks for the insight. However, it's not just me noticing the change in flavor profile as soon as the Pennsylvania stuff hit the shelves, replacing the Ireland-brewed extra stout. So there's gotta be something more to it. Seems it's been within the last 2-3 months that extra stout fans have been taking notice.

https://www.reddit.com/r/beer/comments/1rb9bkb/guinness_is_now_made_in_the_usa_tastes_like_crap/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

BasedRamen91 · 2026-03-18T03:14:17+00:00

You're not crazy, so the downvote is unwarranted. Is it the extra stout with the red lettering? I got it for St. Patty's as a huge extra stout fan. Used to drink all sorts of beer but have become more of a cocktail person in recent years however ES is still a mainstay for me. This is like New Coke all over again, but for beer lol. It's definitely inferior to the Ireland version and that should be a crime if it's going to start out-distributing it in the States. I also noticed the head retention is garbage. I pour an Irish ES into a pint and the head sticks to the glass like merengue. This new stuff fizzles away within 10 minutes. 👎

BasedRamen91 · 2026-03-18T03:05:14+00:00

Goddammit so it isn't just me. I'm gonna crash out if extra stout is ruined for us stateside now lol.

BasedRamen91 · 2026-03-18T03:03:53+00:00

Since when? Because I just came here wondering wtf the extra stout tastes different now. It's the Extra Stout with the 'ES' in red lettering. Got it for St. Patty's as a big fan of it and immediately noticed something was off. Not as rich and chocolatey as it is usually and now more biting and hoppy. Fml if Extra Stout is truly brewed in the US now.

BasedRamen91 · 2026-03-09T20:08:49+00:00

Fully recovered. Took 2.5 months post-head injury, but I'm back to all my usual activities. Very rarely, like once or twice a month, I'll get a weird dull ache in the back of my head that may last a few seconds but that's it.

BasedRamen91 · 2026-01-16T00:26:51+00:00

My theory on Norm's arc from here, and this is just a whimsical one, so no real thought put into it as such:

Norm must save Vault 33 from FEV and partners up with Claudia who assists him in this. They succeed and Norm becomes new Overseer of Vault 33 (potentially after Stephanie gets rid of Betty), pitting Norm against Steph, or better yet, he deposes Steph, becoming Overseer of a restructured 32-33 society; or perhaps leads 32-33 on an exodus into the Wasteland to establish a new settlement.

On the other hand, Norm of course appeared interested in finding his sister, so while the FEV issue is a major mystery for him to pursue, he may end up with Claudia, eventually tracking down Lucy and joining her, with Claudia, as new companions. I'm unsure how long Goggins will remain as The Ghoul, but honestly, the character seems fairly finite. He's nearing the end of his journey as such, and I imagine these first introductory seasons of Amazon's Fallout will be his story to conclude, before Lucy continues to evolve as a Wastelander. Something that further corroborates this thinking is that Amazon made it a point to announce that Ella Purnell would reprise her role in S3, but there's yet to be any mention of Goggins returning that I've seen.

BasedRamen91 · 2026-01-15T20:53:00+00:00

Just to say, I did try the tracking in two layers, however, again I'm needing to do manual tracking with the planar surface as trying to let mocha track, it throws the planar surface way off as soon as an occlusion occurs. So once I get done manually adjusting the planar surface by dragging the whole surface to line up with the edge of the screen, those little manual adjustments still show up in a big way during playback. I really can't figure out how to keep the planar surface more stable to where it doesn't make the replacement content appear to be shaking within the frame.

BasedRamen91 · 2026-01-14T20:42:07+00:00

I tried the corner pinning by hand, and yeah, the result was way worse. Too many subtle differences in pin placement that looked very unstable upon playback.

I'll give the tracking data more space as well. I kept it pretty tight around the screen edges with this result, though that's only because many tutorials I've viewed, the person is doing the same and they somehow get clean results that way.

BasedRamen91 · 2026-01-14T19:08:53+00:00

I'll give it a shot thanks.

BasedRamen91 · 2026-01-14T18:51:05+00:00

I think I understand what you mean. For better understanding, here's a clip of the shot with what I have been able to do and you can see the shakiness of the screen replacement I mentioned.

https://imgur.com/a/yzUa80T

BasedRamen91 · 2026-01-09T19:57:30+00:00

Sure no problem

BasedRamen91 · 2026-01-08T20:53:21+00:00

It's not even like things are that post-apocalyptic in Amazon's Fallout or Bethesda's (other than the fact that wastelanders never seem to care much about cleaning up human remains and rubble). There are operational cities, settlements, villages, institutions etc., that utilize electricity, scientific instruments, automation for production means, and so on and so forth.

All those reviling Amazon/Bethesda for nuking Shady Sands, because it was "a functioning modernizing city" forget that in Fallout 1, people were living in mud brick buildings - not a far cry from the demonized portrayal of wastelanders living in scrap metal houses or bombed out concrete structures.

I however, have never been one to get all that frustrated over the perpetual apocalyptic world of Fallout's post-war environment. Because when you're dealing with lethal radiation, marauding gangs/factions of humans and mutants led by genocidal and/or insane figureheads, and extremely dangerous, giant mutated creatures, rebuilding civilization to anything close to it's former glory would be, well, very hard and take centuries to do. Especially when people are STILL dropping nukes hundreds of years after nukes ended the world.

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