Booze

[elSicomoro]

Originally posted by Chewbaccus
Bottled Guinness is the tool of the Devil, nothing but

Not necessarily. The Extra Stout bottles...now THAT was/is crap. The cans and draught bottles are pretty good though. Of course, nothing beats draft Guinness...

[wolf]

Originally posted by ladysycamore
This is going to sound weird, but for some reason, to me, I've always saw beer as a "man's" drink. Maybe it's because in my family, during parties, etc., it was the men always going to the cooler for a beer. Then, there are the commercials...very rarely do you see a woman getting a beer, chugging a beer, etc.

Most of the beer I prefer doesn't even HAVE commercials.

Also, while this may come as a big surprise ... I'm not one for girly drinks (except for a brief period in my younger days when I had a fondness for Fuzzy Navels, but I got over it).

I like my beer dark and my scotch and bourbon straight, thank you.

[Kitsune]

Then, there are the commercials...very rarely do you see a woman getting a beer, chugging a beer, etc.

I, for one, would like to see more women chugging beer. That would make my day.

You probably still wouldn't hear the standard low, long "post-chug belch" come from one, though.

[headsplice]

For those us of who like their liquor brown and straight (don't read into that, please) like Wolf, I highly recommend Famous Grouse (very, very, very smooth, and only about $12US up here in a nort), or a Three Wise Men (and if anyone argues, that's Jim Beam, Jack Daniels, and Johnny Walker; adding Jose Cuervo to two whiskeys is just a BAD idea) which is also like drinking a little sip of heaven.
For beer: the Champagne makes a good chaser or for grillin' out on a hot day, but for good beers: Belgian Trappist ales (of the monkish variety, like LaTrappe, which come as high as 13% ABV!) or Aass, which I think is Norwegian and also is terrific.

[elSicomoro]

Originally posted by russotto
Sycamore, you should have just told him "New Jersey".

Now do you really want to ruin a tourist's visit by sending them over there?

[wolf]

Originally posted by Kitsune
I, for one, would like to see more women chugging beer. That would make my day.

You probably still wouldn't hear the standard low, long "post-chug belch" come from one, though.

Sure you will. Come to Plastic Forks this year.

And I won't be the only woman doing so. You gotta watch out for the lawyer. She's a wildwoman.

[elSicomoro]

I wonder if she'll try to top drinking the beer from between her boobs this year...

[wolf]

You never know with Maria. She is just like the song from The Sound of Music.

[elSicomoro]

Speaking of Forks, where the fuck did Bitmap go?

[wolf]

I have no damn clue.

Haven't even seen the boy on IM in a while.

My guess is that he drank his way out of college or something. Or maybe he's actually "applying himself" to avoid parental ire.

[Lady Sidhe]

Originally posted by Kitsune


Speaking of gin, I'll state right now that there are two other evils in this world: Goldschlager and Jagermeister. If you've ever been truly sick and it wasn't due to a virus, it is almost certainly blamed on either of these two liquids. Stay away, far away. Recently I saw someone actually mix these two to create a super nauseating drink.

I ran like hell. [/b]

I agree with you on the Goldschlager and the Jaeger, and would like to add Berenjaeger to that list. I can drink Jaeger (it tastes like Formula 44D) if I absolutely HAVE to, but Goldschlager is de debbil!! That shite's 104-proof! (the first and only time I ever drank it, no one bothered to tell my lil ol' 100 lb- butt that...I had five shots of it over an 8-hour period--otherwise I was drinking water--and I got sick as the proverbial DOG and hid in a dark room for the entire next day.)

Gin is pretty icky, too...vodka, to me, has an oily, greasy texture, and vermouth...ACK...that stuff tastes like freshly-mown grass smells (I tried a martini once....bleh)...and as for scotch...I've never tried it...I figure if you have to AQUIRE the taste for it, why bother?

One thing I'd like to try, though, is brandy. I'm a sipper, and brandy's a sipping liquid. I'd like to try the flavored ones. I like sweet wines, too, usually red.

Sidhe

[elSicomoro]

I just dumped out 13 beers...man, that was hard. Although, they were rather old (most of them were from Forks, the rest were easily 2 years old).

[wolf]

Why risk skunky beer ... think of it as an excuse to buy new.

[Kitsune]

Originally posted by sycamore
I just dumped out 13 beers...man, that was hard. Although, they were rather old (most of them were from Forks, the rest were easily 2 years old).

The difficulty of this action depends on the type of beer you just poured out. Example: spilling Tennet's by accident would make me weep, but turning a case of Miller Genuine Draft into the sink is soothing, somehow.

[elSicomoro]

2 Coors lights and 2 Michelob lights from '02. 9 Yuenglings from last summer.

Not a big loss...