What's your favourite alcoholic drink?

I agree with you Jon. Always drank Miller’s beer in the glass bottle. Love beer and maybe one would hurt. I’m tempted to try.. :giggle:
I've always thought that, unless one has a tendency towards alcoholism, a little beer was good for you. You probably know the "it's liquid bread" thing. In that spirit, i remembered this bit of beer snobbery.


Personally, I don't do more than one beer, which is quite filling, and am not into darker, heavier beers. Light refreshment it is.
 

Pappy,

Start off with one of these and work your way up.

DBV1_wsU0AAACgZ.jpg


https://www.walmart.com/ip/Miller-H...Beer-6-Pack-7-FL-OZ-Bottles-4-6-ABV/167929901
The pony bottle. Loved them and drank them all the time. Use to sneak one on my lunch hour.
 
The hard stuff....... a high end single malt
Just the one shot....feels sooooo good goin' down
or
just sip one at a social gathering

Now beer......its jus' plain good
Any more, its just one or maybe two on a hot summer day, after toiling a bit

Used to be a good IPA a couple decades ago, but Michelob came out with a wonderful brew they dubbed AmberBock



Heh, I posted some thoughts on types of beer on a thread of mine
Then, again whenever this subject comes to the fore
(I seem to be repeating myself.....repeating myself.....repeating myself )

Here's my bit on IPA (again);


BEER

With fruit


Up until a couple decades ago I never really cared what kinda beer.
Cold beer was....better.

But one time, while team driving with a happening dude, we stopped for the night.

Found a bar.

Shot the breeze about the usual; politics, sports, economics, sports, ingrown toenails, sports, carburation vs fuel injection, sports, and....beer.

He seemed to know his way around several types and flavors; pilsners, stouts, lagers, ales, porters and on and on.
My main selection was 'wet'.

I noticed he had a piece of fruit in his beer.

'Corona with lime, good beer.'

I try one.
Actually, it was rather refreshing.

But just that one time.


Dark beer

While golfing, my club wielding hippy buddy offered one of his porters.
Black Butte porter
Man, that was gooooood beer.
Was
For awhile it became my beer of choice.

Then, like an old girlfriend...a flame that went out as fast as it flared up, my taste for it just disappeared.


IPA

After months of just getting whatever was on sale, my lady and I dropped by the Edgefield poor farm, one of McMenamins beer gardens just outta Portland OR.
Cool place.
One of our sometimes favorite haunts.
A quaint place on the grounds is called the 'little red shed'.
Cozy
Stone fireplace
Bowls of peanuts, of which you were encouraged to toss the shells on the dirt floor.

xldWEqe.jpg




Short bar, rather up close and personal.

tZUe7gR.jpg




I asked the barkeep what his favorite beer was.

'IPA'

'I Pee what?'

'India pale ale'

He then went on with the IPA story about the Brits needing beer in India.

He drew one for me.

Not a lager

Not a pilsner

Definitely not a dark beer

Not any ale I'd ever had.

It was very good.

Distinctly good.

It became the beginning of a fascinating quest for me to find the best one. The best of the best in my opinion.

Up until last night, I'd actually hoped I'd never find it....traveling around, tasting, sampling.

But,

the hunt is over.

This beer, this medium dark beer....not dark, not amber, but a rich bodied color of....maybe mahogany, was capped with a glorious head.
A head that was not scraped off, but about two inches higher than the brim.
A head of tight little bubbles, bubbles so small they didn't really look like bubbles at all, but more like combed fleece.

This beer, this beer looked the epitome of the word 'quench'.

I knew I'd found it.
I hoped I'd found it.
I hoped it tasted half as good as it looked.

It tasted....better.

There is none other for me.

I cannot go back.

I refuse to go forward.

Why would I?

I have arrived at my destination.


1xCD84e.jpg





cheers
 
When I was stationed in GTMO, Cuba, I fell in love with pinna coladas. And I did like a bit of Drambuie . I have to admit I'm a cheap drunk- a couple of beers does it. I'm not sure if it's my medication, or what but I can't stand the taste of alcohol, . To me, it tastes like bad gasoline. Plus, I more or less gave up alcohol after one last time at the percaline throne, swearing "I'll never drink, again."
 
I like margaritas. It's a good high and doesn't give me a hangover the next day, although it has caused me to post things in forums that I wouldn't ordinarily post. I had to issue a public apology in another forum because of something I wrote about another member. Not that I didn't mean what I posted or that it wasn't true, but I shouldn't have posted it.
 
Tea Total? ... I totally avoid tea although Mrs.L likes flavoured 'teas' especially ones by 'Pukka'.
Mateus Rose - now there's a blast from the past, but is still available. I haven't tried it in very many years, but I have recently acquired a taste for Portuguese red wines and keep a good store of them in my wine cellar (ie. the cupboard under the stairs.)
 
I had my first drink when I was only 12 and my dad mixed me and my older brother a whiskey and coke...because he was reckless. But I didn't like it. And I didn't get it; why would you ruin a perfectly good coke? Years later I was at a club and someone ordered me a rum and coke. Now we were talkin'!

Some time later I was introduced to a shot of oak barrel single malt whiskey, and wondered how anyone could ruin a perfectly good whiskey with the likes of coca-cola.
 
When I was stationed in GTMO, Cuba, I fell in love with pinna coladas. And I did like a bit of Drambuie . I have to admit I'm a cheap drunk- a couple of beers does it. I'm not sure if it's my medication, or what but I can't stand the taste of alcohol, . To me, it tastes like bad gasoline. Plus, I more or less gave up alcohol after one last time at the percaline throne, swearing "I'll never drink, again."
Drambuie is delightful stuff.
 
The hard stuff....... a high end single malt
Just the one shot....feels sooooo good goin' down
or
just sip one at a social gathering

Now beer......its jus' plain good
Any more, its just one or maybe two on a hot summer day, after toiling a bit

Used to be a good IPA a couple decades ago, but Michelob came out with a wonderful brew they dubbed AmberBock



Heh, I posted some thoughts on types of beer on a thread of mine
Then, again whenever this subject comes to the fore
(I seem to be repeating myself.....repeating myself.....repeating myself )

Here's my bit on IPA (again);


BEER

With fruit


Up until a couple decades ago I never really cared what kinda beer.
Cold beer was....better.

But one time, while team driving with a happening dude, we stopped for the night.

Found a bar.

Shot the breeze about the usual; politics, sports, economics, sports, ingrown toenails, sports, carburation vs fuel injection, sports, and....beer.

He seemed to know his way around several types and flavors; pilsners, stouts, lagers, ales, porters and on and on.
My main selection was 'wet'.

I noticed he had a piece of fruit in his beer.

'Corona with lime, good beer.'

I try one.
Actually, it was rather refreshing.

But just that one time.


Dark beer

While golfing, my club wielding hippy buddy offered one of his porters.
Black Butte porter
Man, that was gooooood beer.
Was
For awhile it became my beer of choice.

Then, like an old girlfriend...a flame that went out as fast as it flared up, my taste for it just disappeared.


IPA

After months of just getting whatever was on sale, my lady and I dropped by the Edgefield poor farm, one of McMenamins beer gardens just outta Portland OR.
Cool place.
One of our sometimes favorite haunts.
A quaint place on the grounds is called the 'little red shed'.
Cozy
Stone fireplace
Bowls of peanuts, of which you were encouraged to toss the shells on the dirt floor.

xldWEqe.jpg




Short bar, rather up close and personal.

tZUe7gR.jpg




I asked the barkeep what his favorite beer was.

'IPA'

'I Pee what?'

'India pale ale'

He then went on with the IPA story about the Brits needing beer in India.

He drew one for me.

Not a lager

Not a pilsner

Definitely not a dark beer

Not any ale I'd ever had.

It was very good.

Distinctly good.

It became the beginning of a fascinating quest for me to find the best one. The best of the best in my opinion.

Up until last night, I'd actually hoped I'd never find it....traveling around, tasting, sampling.

But,

the hunt is over.

This beer, this medium dark beer....not dark, not amber, but a rich bodied color of....maybe mahogany, was capped with a glorious head.
A head that was not scraped off, but about two inches higher than the brim.
A head of tight little bubbles, bubbles so small they didn't really look like bubbles at all, but more like combed fleece.

This beer, this beer looked the epitome of the word 'quench'.

I knew I'd found it.
I hoped I'd found it.
I hoped it tasted half as good as it looked.

It tasted....better.

There is none other for me.

I cannot go back.

I refuse to go forward.

Why would I?

I have arrived at my destination.


1xCD84e.jpg





cheers
I've got one hell of a thirst reading your post Gary, cheers.:)
 
I like margaritas. It's a good high and doesn't give me a hangover the next day, although it has caused me to post things in forums that I wouldn't ordinarily post. I had to issue a public apology in another forum because of something I wrote about another member. Not that I didn't mean what I posted or that it wasn't true, but I shouldn't have posted it.
PWI

Posting While Intoxicated
 
Wine overall, but there are so many varietals and then so many different vintages, regions and producers for each varietal so "wine" covers a multitude of sins.

My favorite varietal overall is Zinfandel. The producer who makes my favorites consistently is Mazzocco Winery out of Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma County. I haven't tried their Zins in years because we stopped going to ZAP (Zinfandel Advocates and Producers) events where I used to be able to taste them. The ones I liked were the special reserves that were only available to wine club members, but they served them for tasting during the press and trade portion of the event that I was able to get access to.

Besides that I love many different types of wine. I generally prefer reds but enjoy whites and roses as well. I have wonderful memories of many specific varietals and vintages.

I love wine.
 
@Keesha. That sounds delicious and looked pretty. I can never think of anything to order in a restaurant, so I’ll have to try that.

Generally I’ll have a Pale Ale or dry white wine.
It’s super tasty and a real clean drink, if that makes sense. It’s been a long time since I had one. It’s a really nice combination that I think you’d like as long as it’s made this way. Some bars might use a mix which isn’t quite the same.
I especially love when they rim the glass with lime juice and sugar. It gives a bit of sweetness to the sour. 🥃
 
Haven't been drinking too much lately. My family used to own bars in town, so I visited them frequently when I was younger.

Got in to the moscow mule craze a few yrs ago. I sometimes want a glass of red wine, but the bottle just gets wasted
cause I never finish it.
So, I now just drink a nice cold Pabst beer w/my 91 yr old guy I cook for. I'll stay after I deliver the food to chat and have a beer w/him.

He has such interesting stories...
 
I sometimes want a glass of red wine, but the bottle just gets wasted
cause I never finish it.

If you want to drink red wine but don't want to waste a bottle I highly recommend Private Preserve. It's an inert gas that replaces the oxygen in the wine bottle and prevents the rest of the bottle from going bad. I've been using it for years.

There was one time a winemaker gave me the dozen remaining bottles of wine he had been pouring at a tasting because he didn't want to cork them up and take them home. I corked them and then got home about 2 or 3 hours later, used the Private Preserve on them and put them in the fridge. All of the wines remained very good until I finished them. I simply recorked and private preserved them after pouring myself a glass. I was still drinking one of the bottles three months later and it still tasted wonderful.
 


Back
Top