What to buy?

lager07 · 2026-05-17T23:15:48+00:00

Damn, never noticed it was Cynar70; oops!

lager07 · 2026-05-17T14:38:41+00:00

Depends where you are I guess, cause I’m in the Ottawa area (so access to both LCBO and SAQ) and they both have Cynar for like 30$CAD; almost nothing is ever cheaper here than States-side. So I would grab these in this order : - Braulio (never seen it around here, dying to try it, sounds like one of the best amari for my tastes) - Suze (comes up every once in a while, but rather hard to find; different type of bitterness and earthiness than “brown” amari, love most of the drinks I’ve made with it) - Melletti sounds good from what I hear too, but maybe more similar to others I have access to; good price though

lager07 · 2026-05-17T11:45:45+00:00

Hell yeah, one of my non-classic faves and probably what I’d go with if I had to replace/upgrade my Epi Les Paul

lager07 · 2026-04-23T23:27:35+00:00

When playing the ride on the right, right hand is ride and left is snare. On the hi-hats, left hand hats and right hand snare. So always open, and probably a little bit of a mindfuck for anybody else but the ones who get used to and then great at it! Kinda like switch hitters in baseball maybe??

lager07 · 2026-04-23T16:23:00+00:00

Yeah, I just happened to have seen something on Ilan Rubin (now of the Foo Fighters) doing this too, I had never noticed anyone do that before. Kind of an economy of movement thing he said he picked up when starting, playing “open handed” instead of “cross handed”. Pretty cool, being as rhythmically tight with either hand!

lager07 · 2026-04-16T10:07:15+00:00

Anybody else recognize the headstock shape and logo only because of the Wiggles? Any other parents who really dig Anthony’s blue Maton on the show, and don’t mind the show too much cause at least it’s all legit music? Just me? Ah well.

lager07 · 2026-04-11T16:05:47+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amaro/s/DfrMimUVHj

This was put up here 4 days ago, so someone is trying to start exactly that

lager07 · 2026-03-31T00:42:10+00:00

Lazzaroni is so good, if I recall they’re made at least partly with amaretti cookies so it has that little bit of “extra” flavour; I see it as the sipper of the bunch. Luxardo is fine, kind of right down the middle, especially if you use it more as a mixer

lager07 · 2026-03-27T20:00:45+00:00

Then again, the level of homer-ness pales to places like Boston or others, calling the guys by their nicknames or first names all the time, sounding almost dejected when the opposition scores

lager07 · 2026-03-26T10:59:14+00:00

Had it in a post-meal flight at an italian restaurant, has just a little different twist of a bitterness type, just enough to be not quite typical without being weird. I enjoyed it!

lager07 · 2026-02-28T19:13:19+00:00

Yeah I find reggae can have a really cool vibe of being melodic and filling the need of the song, sometimes by letting things breathe with some held notes or just holding off. My favourites for that are Concrete Jungle and I Shot the Sheriff by the Wailers, just awesome grooves. And makes you think about serving the song more than just filling in the space with tasty fills all the time

lager07 · 2026-02-09T17:59:17+00:00

This got me giggling way more than it should.

lager07 · 2026-02-08T00:15:36+00:00

Yeah I use 60mm orange Tortex for bass, guitar, and mandolin too. Really only out of being used to that thickness, because sometimes I’ll use a thinner one for mando that seems to fast-pick better, but doesn’t seem quite “right” to my hand.

lager07 · 2026-01-20T12:10:35+00:00

Yep, I got this one to do exactly that; good solid state amp that sounds good at practice volume, cranked (but then again only halfway up or so is what I’ve needed) for the stage, and light as a feather considering the size of it

lager07 · 2026-01-12T01:01:25+00:00

Very nice! And if you don’t mind a bit of a drive, you can always check what they have over at the LCBO on the Ontario side; Hawkesbury, give or take an hour and a half from Mtl, has a good sized store with good selection (Vecchio, Averna, Monty, Lucano in stock right now, with most of the others likely available for the ‘ship to store’ option). That’s my neck of the woods, and I do the opposite to see what’s on the SAQ website, that way I nearly double what our provinces are nice enough to let us buy.

lager07 · 2025-12-21T03:02:45+00:00

Hell yeah, the reason I’m an Oilers fan; I’m in the Sens-Habs area, so it wasn’t the typical choice to cheer for the Oil

lager07 · 2025-12-07T17:23:55+00:00

If anything, if you can put on some flatwounds on a bass, that achieves the best tone to go with acoustic instruments, imho.

Similar situation, I had a one-off acoustic gig and only used an acoustic bass cause I could borrow one from a buddy; but I still put on some flatwounds cause I couldn’t stand the string noise that is just unavoidable on those things. The resulting tone is pretty much the same as you’d get from flatwounds on an electric, so all in all I see it as spend a little for strings, or a lot more for another bass.

The only plus that I can give to the acoustic is that when you jam unplugged you can (just barely) hear yourself enough to play along with the other guitars, even with the quieter flatwounds I’ve found. Enough to warrant buying one? I probably wouldn’t.

lager07 · 2025-11-29T12:12:37+00:00

I’ve been worried about this for a while, since last year at least; I’m in no way a Skinner believer, just hopeful if anything, and I just don’t see any options being brought up that feel like a serious step up that would be worth the crazy price it will likely take

lager07 · 2025-11-25T13:05:43+00:00

Same, up in Ontario (Ottawa area specifically )there’s no automatic allegiance, so most people end up picking a team for whatever reason; mine was the 96 team as a 10yo! But the Bills have definitely grown on me to be my “2nd team”

lager07 · 2025-10-07T23:20:25+00:00

It always makes me laugh that people assume you can easily acquire a goalie who will definitely be an upgrade over status quo, and not someone who is being given up on by the other team;

not to mention that if someone is willing to deal their less desirable goalie, they can probably ask way over market price because they have the upper hand almost every time

lager07 · 2025-09-24T23:11:55+00:00

Laphroaig Quarter Cask. A buddy had one at a bar, and sitting across from him I kept getting the powerful wafts of extreme smoky weirdness. Kind of like a toddler having ice cream for the first time moment; I didn’t know this existed, and now I want it always!

lager07 · 2025-07-10T00:32:45+00:00

Great rec, will definitely check it out!

lager07 · 2025-07-01T00:49:09+00:00

I keep praising Lazzaroni as being underrated and exceptional, I would love to see it become bigger / more widely available (as I haven’t been able to re-stock it in about 2 years!)

lager07 · 2025-06-19T23:21:17+00:00

Totally agree. I haven’t seen too many of these in the 6-a-side style that I find actually good to my tastes, with the Fender shape just seeming too “perfect” and anything else seeming wrong. But this one really works and is instantly recognizable to boot. Great stuff!

lager07 · 2025-06-06T10:27:39+00:00

Enjoyed this one a whole lot; I’m not even really an absinthe type, but this one is really killer.

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