BigDropper

LBD While the sun sets.

From my personal experience, it's best prepared by cutting into thin 1/4" to 3/8" slices and cooking directly over high heat.

I prefer to cook the thin slices of Wagyu to R or MR doneness, but it is a little more forgiving and responds well to being cooked to higher doneness like M & MW because of the high fat and collagen content.

This was a ribeye cap that we cooked over charcoal in a ceramic clay hibachi. Cooking individual thin slices make it a layed back sociable experience.





My brother had the same cut of meat, cooked it whole, and served it like a steak but it wasn't as enjoyable as when we did the hibachi.

Any carbonated beverage is sure to go flat so you're correct to avoid it.

Here's what I would serve with your criteria. You can adjust the sweetness by adding simple syrup to make it sweeter or add a little fresh squeezed lemon juice to cut the sweetness. I like to put the garnish in 4-6 hours before serving to allow the flavors to infuse and meld. Add ice just before serving.

Lily Blossom Cooler
Gin + Elderflower

2L botanical gin
750 ml elderflower liqueur (like St-Germain)
2 gallon white grape juice (or 1 gallon white grape, 1 gallon white cran peach)
Garnish
Cucumber slices
Strawberries quartered
Citrus slices (orange, lemon, lime)
Green grapes quartered
Peach slices

Looking at about 7-9% abv


If you're trying to keep it affordable, I recommend The Botinist or St George Gin Botanivore but if you want to splurge... Go with Uncle Val's Botanical or Hendrick's. Of course, the typical well gins like Bombay Sapphire, Tangueray, or Beefeater will do just fine.

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Some interesting ingredients... had to look up phantasm powder.

I notice your sulfate levels are slightly elevated. Did the beer express the hops like you intended?

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old courthouse in Lawrenceville GA

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Mmmmmm... cuy!

1.Go get this little doohickey out of the kitchen drawer and another glass.
2. Pour the whisky through the strainer into the new glass

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don't tell Eminem...

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Make sure you take the lungs off.

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don't you mean the gills?