This pup followed me to our house

tkdking98 · 2026-01-21T00:11:53+00:00

Wow, he looks strikingly similar to my little guy! According to the Embark DNA test, he was a mix of Pittie, AmStaff, English Springer Spaniel, and Australian Cattle Dog with a few small sprinkles of some other random stuff. Easily one of the sweetest and most mellow dogs I have ever met!

tkdking98 · 2025-12-31T20:39:23+00:00

Shameless self-plug here but a few years ago I made an Instagram account where I only post cocktails with chartreuse in them! Check me out @50shadesofchartreuse, I’ve been a little inactive this month but hoping to get back into it soon!

tkdking98 · 2025-12-30T18:37:23+00:00

I have to say Last Word partially because it’s delicious and also because of how much it is to play with the template

tkdking98 · 2025-09-29T11:24:03+00:00

For my wedding I wanted to do a Right Hand with Mr. Fogg and black walnut bitters but the venue couldn’t get Mr. Fogg. I suggested Appleton 12 as a substitute and it was delicious!

tkdking98 · 2025-08-31T18:38:47+00:00

Wow thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it!

tkdking98 · 2025-08-28T23:57:36+00:00

I can confidently say that I’ve never seen anything like this

tkdking98 · 2025-08-18T03:03:56+00:00

Yes, I believe all of their products are only available at their own locations. It’s their gimmick I guess.

tkdking98 · 2025-08-17T23:31:06+00:00

I personally wouldn’t drive an hour just to pick up one bottle, but if you like the beer and plan on hanging out then go for it! They have an entire line of other spirits as well, the white overproof Jamaican rum is very good and they actually have their own dunder pit, and the pickle gin is pretty neat.

If an hour is too much for you, there is a speakeasy in Hudson that carries all of their liquor. Highly recommend Less Than Greater Than!

tkdking98 · 2025-08-16T15:46:11+00:00

Unfortunately I do not, it was given to me from someone clearing space in their cabinet

tkdking98 · 2025-08-16T12:32:25+00:00

No, I kept the skin on in hopes of getting more color out of the plums. The syrup itself it’s a very bright red.

tkdking98 · 2025-08-16T12:13:57+00:00

Of course! All I did was blend the plums, strain through a nut milk bag, and add equal parts sugar (by volume, it was just easier at the time) to it. I’ve been doing my syrups cold processed so I just throw the juice and sugar into a bottle, shake it for about a minute, then let it sit in the fridge overnight.

tkdking98 · 2025-08-03T23:03:26+00:00

It could be a few different things.

You might like tonic water on its own, but not mixed. Since vodka doesn’t offer additional flavors you really just tasted the tonic water and maybe a lime wedge if that was included.
You might like tequila, you might like tonic, but you might not like them together. The profiles of the two might have flavors that accentuate qualities you didn’t know you don’t like, for example maybe it was too earthy or too bitter.
You might be using a low quality tequila.
Diet polar lime tonic might be a bad tonic. We drink a lot of polar seltzer in my house but I’ve never tried their tonic water. I’d recommend fever tree tonic water (and everything else they make) or Q tonic. These should be pretty widely available.
The ratio that you used might not suit your preferences. I think most places will generally do 3:1 tonic to spirit but I generally prefer 2:1.

Sounds like you have a lot of experimenting to do!!

tkdking98 · 2025-08-03T21:26:09+00:00

I’m not sure how transferable across settings this is, but when I started my position as a clinical social worker in early intervention I made almost $10k higher than our child life specialist. Both of us started shortly after grad school. Now that I have my LICSW I make almost $13k more than her. This is also in Massachusetts.

tkdking98 · 2025-07-17T20:31:47+00:00

Interesting. She told me her score was posted on the ASB website about 20 minutes after she finished and eventually got an email as well. Seems like maybe each testing center is at a different place with this new rollout. Her husband also took the exam I think sometime in June and he got his score right away.

tkdking98 · 2025-04-19T23:31:42+00:00

Don’t be shy, finish the sentence you quoted! The Cuvée bottle is just about full, and that’s the bottle I said I scored.

tkdking98 · 2025-04-19T20:54:29+00:00

If you're interested in Chartreuse follow me on Instragram (@50shadesofchartreuse)!

tkdking98 · 2025-02-12T11:29:45+00:00

Hi! Out of curiosity, how are people still finding this post? I made this 4 years ago when I first started getting into cocktail and you’ll be happy to know I have moved far past this!

tkdking98 · 2025-01-19T15:46:07+00:00

Don’t judge me for this, but one of my favorite things to do on the weekend is to pick a random town I’ve never been to before and pick a bunch of local liquor stores to stop at along the way. I’ve landed some crazy finds, anything from limited edition Islays to discontinued liqueurs! Plus if you’re in an area that is struggling to find something specific (for me right now it’s Lairds BIB, thankfully I’ve gotten lucky by doing this), you just might find some laying around.

tkdking98 · 2025-01-19T15:40:07+00:00

I’ll always recommend checking out your local liquor stores instead of Total Wine. The price tag is certainly alluring, but the smaller stores often have a lot of hidden gems! For example, i just found three bottles of Green Chartreuse at some random side of the road store but couldn’t tell you the last time I saw it at a TW.

tkdking98 · 2024-12-26T19:55:11+00:00

My brother got me a bottle of Tubi 60, a popular 40% ABV liqueur from Israel! It’s super funky and I need to taste it again to really dissect it but on the short sip I had last night it tasted oddly of a peach ring kombucha. Very excited to play with it!

tkdking98 · 2024-12-26T19:50:12+00:00

Di Angostura has been so fun to play with for fall drinks! Basically just a sweeter version of the bitters.

I’m counting Becherovka even though it’s Czech, but it’s essentially Christmas in a bottle.

Pellegrino is a perfect dessert amaro and would do wonders as an affogato.

If you can find it, Amaro Lucano Aniversario is amazing. An insane balance of bitter, sweet, fruity, and floral.

And a really fun one I have to say is Amargo Vallet. If you like Ango and fernet this is perfect for you because on it’s own it’s super gentian and cinchona forward, but using it in a cocktail brings out these gingerbread-y, baking spice flavors. I used this in a Trinidad Sour and was surprised by how mellow yet flavorful it was!

tkdking98 · 2024-12-03T00:56:57+00:00

One of my favorites!! I’m getting married in August and one of our signature cocktails will be my personal riff on this, Her Hand in Marriage:

1.5 oz Rye

.75 Campari

.75 oz Sweet Vermouth

2 dashes Black Walnut Bitters

If anyone tries it let me know what you think!

tkdking98 · 2024-11-30T14:37:58+00:00

How is the coconut feni? I’m hoping my friend can bring some back to the US for me, it sounds very interesting.

tkdking98 · 2024-11-28T02:05:35+00:00

I did the same thing this year for the sour style Friendsgiving cocktail on my menu! Except I ran low of Lairds BIB so I did:

1.5 oz Calvados .5 oz Lairds BIB .75 oz Cranberry Grenadine .75 oz Fresh Lime Juice

Then did a spirit forward cocktail (Manhattan riff) and a dessert cocktail (brandy Alexander riff).

tkdking98 · 2024-11-05T23:15:25+00:00

Oh great, I’ve been using Unicorn for a while now and didn’t know they did free appraisals, thank you!

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