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Ask Soylent - What to Do With a Bottle of Creme de Menthe

posted by martyb on Sunday November 18 2018, @09:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the alcoholic-mouthwash dept.

An elderly friend died last year and among other things I inherited a couple of bottles of Creme de Menthe. For anyone unfamiliar, it's bright green and very minty -- 60 proof / 30% alcohol by volume. I'm not a regular drinker, and I am one of those weirdos that believes in waste-not, want-not, so I felt obligated to find a way to (slowly) consume it. My eventual choice was to pour a shot or two over a bowl of chocolate ice cream -- not bad, compare to mint chocolate-chip ice cream, with a little kick.

Any other suggestions?

[An Anonymous Editor suggested Creme de Menthe Brownies (located at the bottom of the page).]

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Acabatag on Monday November 19 2018, @12:40AM (3 children)

    by Acabatag (2885) on Monday November 19 2018, @12:40AM (#763693)

    Beer is actually a practical water purification method.

    Or it was, when it wasn't an anachronism.

    Towns had breweries to produce a beverage that wasn't unsafe to drink.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Monday November 19 2018, @02:56AM (1 child)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday November 19 2018, @02:56AM (#763757) Journal

    One of those infinite shows on Ancient Egypt they run on cable said beer was the pharaoh's soldiers' daily ration of food + drink (they fermented it by throwing chunks of sourdough bread into the barrel).

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @09:36AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @09:36AM (#763828)

      Yep. Until about roman times, pretty much all bread that wasn't flat was sourdough, and beer used the same yeasts. Eventually, breweries got big enough that byproducts of alcohol production (the "barm") was used (for people who could afford it at least) until yeasts started to be grown industrially (mid-1800s?).

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by archfeld on Monday November 19 2018, @03:26AM

    by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Monday November 19 2018, @03:26AM (#763769) Journal

    Low beer or Small beer as it was commonly known.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_beer [wikipedia.org]

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