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Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote2005-12-07 02:28 am
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Travel Plans: SF for the end of December!

... jalapeño mead. Dude. That is ... extreme brewing. (This WTF moment brought to you courtesy of the Academy.)


I'm going to be visiting Guide Dog Aunt over the holidays. Guide Dog Aunt lives just outside of San Francisco, and she thinks my plan of letting myself loose on the public transit and meeting up with friends for a day is a capital one. I'll also be in & around Lake Tahoe for Christmas.

I'm plotting exactly which days I'll be going as we speak -- locals around that neck of the woods, input?
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[identity profile] juuro.livejournal.com 2005-12-07 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
Jalapeno mead? I would have thought that the poisons in that fruit are enough to kill most microbes, especially ones used for brewing.
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2005-12-07 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
Habañero mead would be less likely and more exciting.

Someone was relating tales of unlikely brews. It seems that the jalapeño mead was a vivid and vile green.

[identity profile] elysianmusings.livejournal.com 2005-12-07 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I love mead and I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole. Damn that's disgusting.

Wormwood mead is pretty good, btw.
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2005-12-07 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
How does wormwood mead differ from absinthe?

[identity profile] elysianmusings.livejournal.com 2005-12-07 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Traditional Absinthe had mercury in it, hence the hallucinations. Plus, Absinthe has a very strong anise flavor... you'll be tasting black licorice for weeks. *shudder* I know this because I have a bottle of french imported absinthe on my counter right now.

Wormwood mead is just well, um.. it's hard to explain. But damn good none-the-less.

[identity profile] crisavec.livejournal.com 2005-12-07 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
That's some vaguely frightening mead.

[identity profile] tyrantmouth.livejournal.com 2005-12-07 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
I'm south of San Francisco, easily accessible by commuter train. I could head north or you could head south.
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2005-12-07 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
My vaguely-conceptualized plans involve a noisy, cackling group of people, a friendly and centralized bookstore/coffee shop/socialization hub, and the cheerful fact that my cellphone coverage plan's features include minutes that are not roaming in many areas of many states, including the California.
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2005-12-07 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
I'm wondering if http://www.borderlands-books.com/ wouldn't be a good place. I wound up at http://www.nciba.com/stores/sfstores.html skimming around for something topical...

http://www.transitinfo.org/tripplanner/index.asp looks to be my friend. My very, very good friend.

It looks as if I'll be starting out from the 94044 zip code.

Who knows, I may wind up zooming around with the cousins. (One of them is an LJ-friend of mine, which makes things very surreal at some points.)

[identity profile] tyrantmouth.livejournal.com 2005-12-08 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
I'm trying and failing to remember if that place has coffee/cafe and so forth. If not, however, I'm familiar with the area, it's a funky neighborhood with an abundance of restaurants and thrift shops and the like, I'm sure we could find something. My botanica's on that street. :)
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2005-12-08 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, score! That's exactly what I was looking for. I wasn't looking for an all-in-one; I was looking for an area to stroll around in and have the grandest old time.
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