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Baseball Caps

I've owned quite a few baseball caps over the years from fitted, snap backs, mesh truckers and so on.  And generally, I wear a hat either to protect myself from the elements or when I'm lazy and didn't fix my hair. Minimal Design/Colors In keeping with the minimalist theme, I've preferred either single color black or white hats, with as few designs or logos.  It's quite easy to find a decent baseball cap for about $10 at various discount retailers and even less online from Amazon. Mesh Caps for the Breeze For hot weather or when I anticipate sweating, mesh trucker hats offer the most utility.  Otherwise, I favor the classic snap back and try to get them slight oversize. Logo Caps Back in the day, I favored logo caps from a favorite sports team or some name brand.  My favorite was my NY Yankees and another was a simple white Adidas logo snap back. Simple is Best By no means do I consider myself an expert and continue to learn and discover new

Black Velvet - Canadian Whisky

I've always been curious about Black Velvet and surprisingly, never tried it until now.  I knew it would be cheap liquor as I can always find for under $10 and usually on the bottom shelf of any grocery store.  So along with my usual Bourbon fix (Wild Turkey 101), picked it up. At first, I tried it with Coca Cola and couldn't taste anything, but coke.  And it was too sweet for my taste so I tried it again on the rocks and was surprised at how smooth it was, indeed as smooth as velvet.  There are some sweet notes in the flavor profile and barely any hint of alcohol burn, but something about it just doesn't rest easy with me. It's smooth...that's about it. If anything, Black Velvet is very smooth and easy to drink, even more so on the rocks.  It rests somewhere below the sweetness of a Jim Beam and below the heavy flavoring of Jack Daniels is where I would put it, however the lack of an alcoholic burn is disturbing, especially for an 80 proof whisky. For