If you are/were a drinker, what drinks did you not like but still drank/drink?

Bretrick

Bretrick

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I was a heavy drinker and would drink most things.
Except Whiskey. Most disgusting.
Beer was the dominant drink of choice. Bacardi Rum, Southern Comfort, Port was delicious
I would drink Mercury Cider which was alcoholic apple cider. Disgusting but if there was nothing else to drink...
Cask wine was quite awful but very cheap...about $4 for 2 litres. It used to be called two buck chuck, cheap and nasty.
 

When and where I grew up, drinking was an activity like bowling or skiing, we drank to get drunk.

Not particularly proud of it but that was the way it was.

I have never really enjoyed wine or beer with a meal but when in Rome…

A Manhattan or two before a meal, a liqueur with coffee after a meal, plain old ice water with the meal.
 
Aunt Bea said:
When and where I grew up, drinking was an activity like bowling or skiing, we drank to get drunk.

Not particularly proud of it but that was the way it was.

I have never really enjoyed wine or beer with a meal but when in Rome…

A Manhattan or two before a meal, a liqueur with coffee after a meal, plain old ice water with the meal.
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My main reason for drinking was to get drunk. Block out reality for a few hours.
 

I drank two things in college that almost made me gag, but I swilled them down like a good little state-schooler: (1) lukewarm cheap beer and (2) Everclear mixed with fruit and/or fruit juice. :sick: I always think of them when I have to ingest something distasteful, such as the colonoscopy prep beverage, along the lines of, "You drank Meister Brau in college—you can get this down!"

When I got older I drank white wine, but that's all in the past as of mid-August. My alcohol-drinking days are over.
 
Bretrick said:
My main reason for drinking was to get drunk. Block out reality for a few hours.
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I can't remember drinking anything i didn't like except picking up the wrong beer at a party that was used as a cigarette dump. YUK.

I would have maybe 6 beers at the pubs listening and dancing to great bands. It was fun, but the morning after was a bit rough. I am very glad I don't do that any more. :)
 
The legal age was 18 back then so many started at 16. We would drink at the cocktail lounge at the Waldorf or Biltmore or some other fancy place where they would never think of questioning you. Or everyone knew which local places were safe.

Gin and tonic in the summer, scotch on the rocks in the winter and numerous other trends.

Now it is only a glass of white wine before dinner but I enjoy it.
 
KSav said:
I drank two things in college that almost made me gag, but I swilled them down like a good little state-schooler: (1) lukewarm cheap beer and (2) Everclear mixed with fruit and/or fruit juice. :sick: I always think of them when I have to ingest something distasteful, such as the colonoscopy prep beverage, along the lines of, "You drank Meister Brau in college—you can get this down!"

When I got older I drank white wine, but that's all in the past as of mid-August. My alcohol-drinking days are over.
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Well done.
Will you miss drinking?
Fewer social get togethers?
 
Bretrick said:
Well done.
Will you miss drinking?
Fewer social get togethers?
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Thank you! I do miss it sometimes, but none of my friends drink (they just don't—no particular reason), so it hasn't affected my social life. In fact, I've made new friends in the AA group I've been attending. :)

And I have no problem with my daughters and their husband/boyfriend—or anyone—drinking in my presence.
 
KSav said:
Thank you! I do miss it sometimes, but none of my friends drink (they just don't—no particular reason), so it hasn't affected my social life. In fact, I've made new friends in the AA group I've been attending. :)

And I have no problem with my daughters and their husband/boyfriend—or anyone—drinking in my presence.
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That is marvelous. How are you finding AA?
I went to one meeting and decided it was not for me.
 
If you are/were a drinker, what drinks did you not like but still drank/drink?
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Interesting multi-faceted question. So, "did not like but still drank/drink": well, to be honest- if I drank it I generally liked it. Back in the 70s: Southern Comfort tasted like some kind of medicine...haven't' drank it since. Wine coolers: why do I recall vomiting my guts out at the mere mention? Beer? Used to drink a LOT of beer, but after I totally quit alcohol for 13 years I really have lost my taste for it.
At present: I'll drink distilled spirits(Scotch, Irish Whiskey,Rum, Vodka) in strict moderation.
 
I did my most serious drinking while in the US Navy. In Vietnam years, Petty Officers club beer was 5 cents a glass and mixed drinks were 10 cents a drink so you could get loaded up for not much money if you wanted to. Manhattan was my consistent order and to this day I still appreciate a well made one. In tropical settings, I drank gin and tonics. Beer was generally from whichever brewery won the government contract so we saw and drank some bad brews. In WestPac, where available, San Miguel was the official beer of the fleet and I enjoyed my share simply to honor Navy tradition, you understand.

I don't drink much now, with my consumption limited to Scottish single malt and Guinness
 
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When I was single I drank beer, or a shandy. Later on I mainly stuck to wine because I knew nothing about mixed drinks and I’d get flustered trying to order one because I had no idea what I liked.

For some years now I’ve been an amateur mixologist, which interest I share with one of my boys. I enjoy both mixing, and drinking, a wide variety of cocktails. I don’t have one specific favorite, but I enjoy an old fashioned, N e g roni, (spelled like that because the first past of the word was censored out) and Vodka tonic as regular go-tos.

I don’t care for drinks that are too sweet, so things like Margaritas I prefer to make at home where I can tweak the sweetness level to just where I like it. If I order something out and find it’s too sweet I’ll ask for a dish of citrus so I can squeeze lemon or lime juice into the drink to make it more to my taste.
 
What drinks did I not like but drank anyway? Anything containing alcohol. Beer always hit my stomach and wanted to bounce right back up and wine gave me instant hatchet-head. I could drink things like rum and coke (boy could I) but once started I couldn't seem to stop.

Wouldn't it be nice if that lovely buzz you get from one drink would last all evening? I would try to make it last with a second drink, but with a second drink there would go all restraint so more would follow.

When I quit smoking 35 years ago I quit drinking, too, as a matter of course, because I knew the second drink would have me asking the nearest smoker if I could 'borrow" one.
 
Della said:
When I quit smoking 35 years ago I quit drinking, too, as a matter of course, because I knew the second drink would have me asking the nearest smoker if I could 'borrow" one.
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I went through that for a period of time after I quit smoking.

After a few drinks, I would be at the cigarette machine pumping in quarters.

The next morning, I would have a couple cigarettes with coffee and climb back up on the wagon.

I still enjoy a drink every now and then but I know that I could never do that with cigarettes.

It’s been about fifteen years since I finally quit smoking cigarettes and I still miss them.

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Bretrick said:
That is marvelous. How are you finding AA?
I went to one meeting and decided it was not for me.
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I got sober in AA, but not for the steps. The community was what kept me there. Open discussion meetings where they would set the Big Book aside and deal with issues specific to drinking, as they came up, were very helpful to me. Also, I decided right away that I needed a place to go every night that wasn't a bar or a party. I felt it was imperative to extricate myself from the whole drinking environment.

There was an element of AA that leaned toward "It's AA or failure and damnation," but I held my tongue and made up my own rules, NOT all of which were my first choice, but that's what we have to do to quit. Once I got through the first week of hideous cravings, I never looked back. I had a close call around 6 months that scared the tar out of me, but I was prepared for it, and came to my senses after a moment's consideration. On that occasion, when someone offered me a glass of wine with dinner, it was like someone slapped me hard in the face to bring me to my senses and said, "You're not seriously considering having a drink, are you?"

In four days, Jan 3rd, it will be my 30 year anniversary of a life without alcohol. It's been wonderful too.
 
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