What is your favourite tipple and how do you like it?

stammering · 01-09-06 06:03:11

It's said that water is good, but it lacks sophistication to the finish on the palate.
The only thing which makes it palatable is when its in Whisky.
Now beer is the working person's drink. The English like it warm. I know one Brit who stores his beer in a cupboard by the open fire in the winter to make sure it doesn't get cold. Americans and Australians like it so icy cold that it cracks your teeth when you drink it. To get a good beer at the right temperature you have to go to Germany. Contrary to public opinion the Scots don't drink much Scotch because the Scotch they have in Scotland tastes like sink water. This is because they export all the really good stuff. Wine comes in red and white and sweet, medium and sour. Bubbly is a bit different and you have to be careful what you call your bubbly because the French won't have you calling it Champagne, unless it's Astispumante. If drinking it is "coupled" with coitus it may also be called Astispermante (not original reference the urbandictionary). Some of it is so sickly sweet that you could almost call it Astispewmante. American spirits have to be drunk with Coke and its alarming to note that Brandy drinkers are starting to drink the stuff with coke too. Brandy and ginger ale yeah, but Brandy and coke? I don't think so. Schnapps comes in all kinds of flavours now, but you can't beat the original Schnapps. It puts the fire out in your belly and starts one in your throat. It's a tough question knowing what to drink, but if someone else is buying then it's all good.

Warmtouch · 01-09-06 11:57:07

Scotch: Highland Park, neat.
Bourbon: Knob Creek over ice.
Gin: Bombay Sapphire
Vodka: Why drink something with no flavor? (I can't get drunk, so I have to drink for pleasure.)
Brandy: Courvoisier, but I haven't tried very many.
Rum: Meyers's, especially in eggnog
Aquavit: None, so far. Still waiting to try Linie.
Bitter: Courage Director's Best.
Lager: My favorite went downhill after it became popular. Any German weissbier.
Stout: Guinness, but it has to be FRESH, preferably in Ireland
Belgian beer (a category of its own): Orval
Port: There was this one bottle of Warre's... I'll never find it again.
Sherry: I don't much like sherry. Harvey's Bristol Cream will do. Best in a sherry trifle, frankly.
White wine: Dry and crisp, not too bothered about the origin.
Red wine: Merlot... I don't like the really heavy ones.

blissed · 01-09-06 14:49:48

I don't like the taste of alchahol and I gave it up when I was 18. I've always thought social settings that revolve around alcohol are very conservative and a little dull. When I did live sound engineering I had much more freedom than the punters and used to go out and bring back a couple of pints of milk and drink that. to the absolute ridicule of the clubbers who had just paid loads to buy their drinks. Why drinking a pint of milk is so strange in that setting is quite strange in itself

Siobhan · 01-09-06 14:52:19

oh hi, blissed! I was worried about you

all of my early drinking involved milk: toasted almonds (amaretto, kahlua, and cream) etc.

blissed · 01-09-06 15:06:52

Oh thanks Siobhan I've been a little distracted by other things when I should really be writing in IFM hope your OK.

captaintp2 · 01-09-06 20:04:57

blissed wrote:

I don't like the taste of alchahol and I gave it up when I was 18. I've always thought social settings that revolve around alcohol are very conservative and a little dull. When I did live sound engineering I had much more freedom than the punters and used to go out and bring back a couple of pints of milk and drink that. to the absolute ridicule of the clubbers who had just paid loads to buy their drinks. Why drinking a pint of milk is so strange in that setting is quite strange in itself

You and me both, bro! I gave up drinking when I was 20. However, I do like my own drinks and mixes. Ever tried organe juice and coke? It looks like mud, and according to a friend of mine, tastes the same... but I like it!

However, in my mind, things that do NOT revolve around alcohol seems a little dull to me.. but I dunno from first person experience, since I've never enjoyed any big drinking partys, I've just seen a hundred movies about it...

What beats a huge mug of water? Aaah.

stammering · 01-09-06 21:51:59

Because of my job I have to avoid alcohol for lengthy periods. The truth is there is nothing I enjoy more (when I can) than getting together with a bunch of friends and having a few. In these circumstances I don't mind too much what I drink, but not too much beer - it makes you bloated. We are also of an age now when we no longer pull the cork (unwind the cap these days) and throw it away - the cap I mean. The drinking therefore is much more sedate, the behaviour more civilized and the conversation more intelligent than it was 20 years ago. Also I'm the only one among my friends who is still working. So poverty is something of an issue in terms of how much we drink.

Siobhan · 01-09-06 22:18:52

So things change for me every five or six months in terms of what i'm into.
Lately when I go out I start with a prosecco or two; with food I usually drink something like grenache shiraz combo with one of those third things -- timperello (sp?) the australians must be dog-tired of that combo since it started there but i got hooked on that triptych ten years back from a vineyard called Red Ochre -- I mention it here because maybe one of y'all know if it still exists -- we can't get any more here, anywhere. There's the restaurant in Brisbane -- maybe it was something made just for them and a bunch of overstock got sent to the US. Anyway, the die was cast and i typically drink that with food.

Fave beers are porters, I like a good dark burn. Can't drink beer anymore, though; makes me ill.

after dinner: eisewein or old port

for fun: avoccado martinis, ruddy mojitoes.

when i'm wearing a fancy black cocktail dress: dirty martinis

some drinking requires being paired with a good cigar. cigar of choice: drew estates nicaraguan juicy lucys or dirts.

The_Elfman · 01-09-06 22:47:03

I'm a beer drinker most of the time. North of England bitter. I hate lager type beers. Occasionaly if I'm out in a club and can't get good bitter I will drink screwdrivers. (No ice. I hate it when they give you ice when you dont ask for it). I drink wine at home with friends or out for a meal but don't know anything about it. Although I drink virtually ever day I don't drink much. I have no tolerance for alchohol and go straight from mellow to ill.

Siobhan wrote:

some drinking requires being paired with a good cigar. cigar of choice: drew estates nicaraguan juicy lucys or dirts.

In all my mental images of you Siobhan I can honestly say that in none of them were you smoking a cigar .

Elfman.

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stammering · 02-09-06 00:42:21

Ha ha ha, vintage. Not what he drinks, but Elfman's humour.

Siobhan · 02-09-06 02:52:16

The_Elfman wrote:

In all my mental images of you Siobhan I can honestly say that in none of them were you smoking a cigar .

When I do my submission for IFM, that's how you'll know it's me : I'll be the one with the blunt in her hand, blowing smoke rings into the cool night air. . . .

Cate · 02-09-06 09:32:22

I love beer of all kinds, I will spend a night drinking cheap swill or savour an expensive belgian dunkel or a tart cherry lambic. I recomend www.beeradvocate.com it is thoroughly addictive. Other than beer I love gin, scotch and bloody mary's. I can't stand overly sweet or creamy cocktails.

nihpuad · 02-09-06 18:00:12

stammering wrote:

It's said that water is good, but it lacks sophistication to the finish on the palate.
The only thing which makes it palatable is when its in Whisky.

Water is the "strong stuff,"
It carries whales and ships,
But water is the wrong stuff;
Don't let it get past your lips!

I stains your suits,
And rots your boots,
Puts aches in all of your bones;
Dilute the stuff with whiskey,
Aye, or leave it well alone!

That's from an old folk concert album (vinyl!) I used to own, composer and performer long forgotten. Also from the same album, from the spoken/verse introduction to a Boys of the Lough song about "General Guinness and the Dublin Booziliers":

[It helps to imagine an Irish accent]

It was the Pig Fair last September,
A day I'll long remember,
I was walking up and down in drunken pride,
When my legs began to flutter,
And I sank down in the gutter,
And a pig came up and lay down by my side.

As I lay there in the gutter,
Thinking thoughts I could not utter,
I thought I heard a passing lady say,
"You can tell the man who boozes,
By the comp'ny that he chooses,"
And at that the pig got up and walked away.

As for my own drinking, it's a sometime thing, but my faves are Scotch neat (I'm not broadly knowledgeable about Scotch but I've been gradually sampling a variety of single-malts) and Bombay Saphire gin (preferably in a very dry Martini, up with olives... but I'll drink it with tonic if I have to). I like beer and have very eclectic tastes: I rarely buy the same think twice, and never the standard American mass-market brands. If I'm eating out, I like to match beer to the ethnic food I'm eating (OB, or whatever its new name is, for Korean; Tsing Tao for Chinese; Kingfisher or Taj Mahal for Indian; and there's a very nice Thai beer, Singha, that I'm partial to). For just general beer drinking, I like amber ales and stouts, and I love a well-poured black-and-tan.

stammering · 03-09-06 08:18:16

dauphinb2 wrote:

stammering wrote:
It's said that water is good, but it lacks sophistication to the finish on the palate.
The only thing which makes it palatable is when its in Whisky.
Water is the "strong stuff,"
It carries whales and ships,
But water is the wrong stuff;
Don't let it get past your lips!
I stains your suits,
And rots your boots,
Puts aches in all of your bones;
Dilute the stuff with whiskey,
Aye, or leave it well alone!
That's from an old folk concert album (vinyl!) I used to own, composer and performer long forgotten. Also from the same album, from the spoken/verse introduction to a Boys of the Lough song about "General Guinness and the Dublin Booziliers":
[It helps to imagine an Irish accent]
It was the Pig Fair last September,
A day I'll long remember,
I was walking up and down in drunken pride,
When my legs began to flutter,
And I sank down in the gutter,
And a pig came up and lay down by my side.
As I lay there in the gutter,
Thinking thoughts I could not utter,
I thought I heard a passing lady say,
"You can tell the man who boozes,
By the comp'ny that he chooses,"
And at that the pig got up and walked away.
As for my own drinking, it's a sometime thing, but my faves are Scotch neat (I'm not broadly knowledgeable about Scotch but I've been gradually sampling a variety of single-malts) and Bombay Saphire gin (preferably in a very dry Martini, up with olives... but I'll drink it with tonic if I have to). I like beer and have very eclectic tastes: I rarely buy the same think twice, and never the standard American mass-market brands. If I'm eating out, I like to match beer to the ethnic food I'm eating (OB, or whatever its new name is, for Korean; Tsing Tao for Chinese; Kingfisher or Taj Mahal for Indian; and there's a very nice Thai beer, Singha, that I'm partial to). For just general beer drinking, I like amber ales and stouts, and I love a well-poured black-and-tan.

I just love this post from Dauphinb2

The_Elfman · 03-09-06 10:41:29

Mild and Bitter. Who drinks that anymore? (apart from me on the rare occassions I can get it). It used to be quite popular in South Yorkshire when I started drinking (colloquially known as a pint of mixed). The best pint of mixed I have had in recent years was a blend of Sam Smiths "Old Brewery" and "Tadcaster Mild".

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Adagio · 11-09-06 00:00:25

Ok. alcohol....well, I really don't like beer. But I do like "flavored beer" like Smirnoff Triple Black. It's what the teens drink thinking they aren't really drinking alcohol because it doesn't taste like beer. Whiskey sours are good. As for wine - white zinfidel. I'm a sucker for the sweet cocktail drinks.

I didn't do much drinking in my younger years (some would say I'm still young) but want to try some different things now. (the same could be said for me sexually - but we'll leave that to another thread....maybe )

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Dynamo · 05-10-06 15:10:52

I like what Stammering would call a Warm Beer, though I always figure thats a derogatory term and not really a true reflection on what it really is. For instance, if you were a wine drinker, you'd drink white wine which was chilled, but red wine would be at room temperature, but you wouldn't call it warm.

My favourite ales or bitters are Sammy Smiths OBB, Theakstons XB, The North Yorkshire Breweries Boro Best and Dizzy Dick and Worthington Ale. I love trying out new beers at real ale pubs though. I used to drink a beer called S.O.D. which was a damned good fighting beer and particularilty helpful in hand to hand combat. One of the best pints I ever tasted was Hartleys XXXB which was brewed in Ulverston in Cumbria, but I think that company went to the wall.

Besides beer, I often drink the alco pop called Smirnoff Ice, which is Vodca based, when I go to nightclubs, where the beer is pretty foul and I have a full stomach of ale anyway from the previous boozers I've been to.

Besides that, I like a good single malt, and yes you can get plenty of good single malts (whiskey) in chilly jocko (Scotland) land.

Cheers. Dynamo.

The_Elfman · 05-10-06 15:38:28

Dynamo wrote:

My favourite ales or bitters are Sammy Smiths OBB, Theakstons XB, The North Yorkshire Breweries Boro Best and Dizzy Dick and Worthington Ale. I love trying out new beers at real ale pubs though. I used to drink a beer called S.O.D. which was a damned good fighting beer and particularilty helpful in hand to hand combat. One of the best pints I ever tasted was Hartleys XXXB which was brewed in Ulverston in Cumbria, but I think that company went to the wall.

Do you have any problems getting Old Brewery? A lot of the Sam Smith's pubs have knocked it off. Burlesque tells me that there is a lot of interest in English ales in Sweden now. He is fond of a pint of bitter himself. (Love the avatar by the way).

Elfman

Dynamo · 05-10-06 15:56:58

The_Elfman wrote:

Do you have any problems getting Old Brewery? A lot of the Sam Smith's pubs have knocked it off.
Elfman

Nope. All the boozers that used to sell it here still do as far as I'm aware. You have to be careful where you buy it though cos it needs a bloody good cellar. I used to booze in Guisborough and there were three Sam Smiths pubs within walking distance and they all got deliveries off the same truck. The two furthest away from each other, The Anchor (what we called the "W" ) and The Abby served a beautiful pint of it, but the one in the middle (I think it was called The Fox And Hounds) always sold horrible stuff. It also doesn't travel very well. I've yet to taste a good pint of OBB in London even though all the other beers in the same pub mite be fine.

Cheers. Dynamo.

Dynamo · 05-10-06 15:58:30

The_Elfman wrote:

Love the avatar by the way.
Elfman

Oh yes. I'm a flat cap and pipe man me.

Cheers. Dynamo.

The_Elfman · 05-10-06 16:03:40

Dynamo wrote:

I've yet to taste a good pint of OBB in London

I've yet to taste a decent pint of anything in London .

Elfman

Dynamo · 05-10-06 16:58:55

The_Elfman wrote:

Dynamo wrote:
I've yet to taste a good pint of OBB in London
I've yet to taste a decent pint of anything in London .
Elfman

I've yet to see a decent porno movie. I've seen loads of indecent ones though.

Cheers. Dynamo.

blissed · 05-10-06 17:57:25

You shouldn't drink alcohol, it's not good for you

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Dynamo · 05-10-06 19:14:25

blissed wrote:

You shouldn't drink alcohol, it's not good for you
.

A little of what ya fancy does you good. :-p

Cheers. Dynamo.

blissed · 05-10-06 20:24:42

Dynamo wrote:

blissed wrote:
You shouldn't drink alcohol, it's not good for you
.
A little of what ya fancy does you good. :-p
Cheers. Dynamo.

Ha ha well thats the thing, I don't like the taste of alcohol at all, and by the way I tend to binge on the things I like, so it's probly just as well

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