You probably ended up in the natural wine band wagon by doing this. That's how I got in. Never to be able to escape anymore :)

Since we're going on tangents, I enjoy cannabis and one of my top ways to resupply is asking for the ones with the strangest names. Cheetah Piss stands out to me and also ended up one of my favorite strains

I got one called Pot Roast and it had a meaty aroma just like you opened the lid to a cooking roast. It was weird but very alluring

I love giving budtenders my budget and that request because their eyes always light up and they go hunting excitedly around gathering little jars and tubes in their arms like a witch about to concoct a potion

You said you drink wine so I assume you enjoy smelling them as much as I enjoy smelling the various strains. They're all unique and have an incredible range of aromas from dirt to citrus, diesel being among my favorite

My wife has been really into wine lately, which means I have been too, and we’ve been doing that a lot. It’s fun to buy by the bottle.

Interesting. I always pick the very ugliest most boring wine labels. There is clearly so much attention seeking design on wine labels that is borrowed from the sugar drink industry where it literally doesn't matter what is in the can because it's going to have about the same level of sugar that people enjoy as everything else. In sugar drinks you fly or fall based on labeling and marketing. I figure if a wine can survive without any label pandering, there's at least a decent chance that it's probably pretty good.

I should do a fully pretentious mock post comparing instant coffee done as lazily as possible to the most over-the-top snobbish espresso that’s ever been made. That sounds like fun actually.

You best be using powdered nondairy

Burn the witch!

Oh neat! Thanks for the links. That was cool to learn about.

Those look pretty neat.

Thanks! It’s Propel by Kruve out in Toronto. It’s double walled on the bottom where you hold it and the drink sits, single walled at the top where you sip. It also has internal fins to destratisfy the oils in the shot so you can just swirl instead of having to stir. Really neat design. I got them from Cafuné from Montreal:

https://cafune.ca/collections/kruve-1/products/kruve-propel-espresso-glasses

Only a little bit so far. I’ve done:

• 9 bar OPV spring
• Low profile drip tray
• Extra long waste water straw to better fit the lower drip tray
• Single hole steam wand tip

I think that’s it so far. I eventually want to get a Gaggimate but I have other purchases first. I just bought a Cafelat Robot yesterday (ridiculously excited to get it in the mail), and now I’m saving up for a new grinder, and then I’ll get the Gaggimate. So it might be a little while yet, but I’ll get it at some point. I also have a few accessories I want to get, a couple of which are $100-200 so that’ll delay the Gaggimate too most likely. But I’ll have one some day for sure.

It is legal where I live, but no. I do agree, though.

I’m looking forward to trying their other options in the future.

Not yet. I’m leaning more towards Gaggimate at the moment actually but I’ve got a few purchases first before that happens. I just bought a Cafelat Robot and now I need to save up for a grinder, but the Gaggimate will come.