best alcoholic drink?

If we're talking straight drinks here, I've gotta be boring: gin martini straight up with olives. DA BOMB, BABY!

Most classic drink: Gin and Tonic Best beer: Caledonian Flying Scotsman Best Exotic Drink: "Death By Fruit" (involves various fruit liquers mixed in with a deadly amount of absinthe) Most effective drunk (and least painful hangover): Vodka and Coke

Oh, I could wax poetic all night. ::happy grin:: And soon I'll be able to drink again! Hooray!

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Cosmopolitans ARE yummy....... I had a gorgeous cocktail made of blue Smirnoff and blackberries and soda called (imaginatively) a black and blue. It was blimming marvellous. Though they stuck a stoopid cherry in it.

But in general you can't beat rum and coke (not Bacardi, Captain Morgan).

Green drinks also tend be awesome. Has anyone _ever_ had a green drink that tasted like "melon"? (The apple ones do tend to taste like apple, I'll admit.)

Ingredients: -2 fingers absinthe -1 finger midori -1 finger malibu rum -big helping of pineapple juice -dash of mango or guava juice

And any other fruit juices you happen to have lying around. Never has a GIRLY drink reduced so many grown men to a state of utter foetal drunkenness so fast. Mwah hah hah!

It is fairly lovely.

Guinness is tar. Blech. All this strawberry nut blonde pale ale stout lime twist spritzer micro-brewery crap all tastes like wet stalks of barley. Of course, most wine (red, white, other) reminds me of a stiff shot of vinegar, so what do I know?

The wine thing really SUCKS, as a really nice wine can be a glorious thing. I sort of see where you're coming from, though, especially with a cheap red. In my experience, a really dry chilled chardonnay can be a gateway into a world of vintny goodness.

As opposed o carbonated beverages...?

Coke, or the equivalent carbonated beverage, tastes approximately the same coming up as it does going down, except minus the carbonation. Milk starts to digest almost as soon as it hits the stomach- meaning that when it comes back up, it is a half-digested mucousy MESS.

Sorry for those of you who didn't want to know that. Dan did ask!

Best drink: Vodka & Orange juice, though an extended binge in 1999 led me to never being able to drink spirits again.

Anyway. Remy Martin.

I became almost addicted to vodka and Red Bull a couple of years ago, but I'm much better now, thankyou.

And always remember:

Beer and wine -fine. Wine and beer - queer!

Tracer, I love that idea. It adds an additional sense of ritual to the whole thing (and I think it's partly the complicated ritual that I like most) but darn it if I'm not allergic to dust, so I'd have to use just the *tiniest* amount.

The Gin and Tonic. (Preferably double, with a slice of lime on a Sunday if I am feeling fancy). Accept no imitations.

Crushed ice, crushed mint, dark brown sugar, splash of ginger ale(dry), lots of vodka, shake.

G&T, tanquery, or bombay saphire, lime and schwepps for preferance, fresh lime juice

Fresh lime juice vodka and soda

I've never ot my head round rum. My dad keeps banging on about martinique aged rum, i must get him to offer me some.

Man, I cannot wait till the Drs give me the all-clear and I can drink again. This thread is making me SOOOOOOO thirsty.

There's this place out in Lenox, MA, that serves a martini-style drink called an Orange Bliss. I can't remember all the ingredients, but orange juice, Absolut Mandarin, and Alize are involved. Tastes just like Orangina until you stand up to go to the restroom... WHOA.

So what, you ask? So, I actually dreamed of drinking a lovely pint of rough-as-arseholes farmhouse cider last night. It was delightful. I must be getting better.

One thing I've had real trouble finding tho, and as a Mtl'ian you would know this one: Goldshlaeger (sp?). The schnapps with the gold leaf in it. I cannot find that shit ANYWHERE and I really really want to try some...

My Mid-Sentence Drink is Wild Turkey 101, but I can drink that again without getting the shivers. I just choose not to.

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I highly doubt that's real gold.

And if you weren't supposed to eat the silver balls, why were they sugary? They were the best bit of any cake for me. Mmm, mercury.

Started it off with some Gewustesomethign wine, eh, ok, supposedly good with cajun food, fuck dat shit. Switched to a Magnum of Tabernash Maibock beer, decent, solid malty lager. Pretty high alcoholic content jugding by it efefct on me. After I finished that I started to eat some homemade chicken and sausage gumbo w/ some pilsner uRquell - oh yes, gumbo wa sexcellent and th ebeer matched perfectly .... that stettles iT:

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Fav drink for a long night ahead where I don't want to wear out the bartender with intricate drinks and I don't want a hangover the next morning: Vodka Cranberry

Guilty Pleasure: Glass of Goodness (Midori, pineapple juice, cointreau)

Other favorites: Sauza for sipping or shooting, ginger and whiskey, salty dog, toasted almond

I just blended a cored apple w/some apple juice, vodka, lime, and splash of orange squash and it was teh num.

5 parts vodka
3 parts vermouth
1 part creme de cassis
apple juice
crushed ice
good friends
dash of self-loathing

this shit is kicking it right here

Corona with a slice of lime. Livin' the yuppy dream!

tonight so far: caipirinha (on topic), red wine, some ale of course and scotch yet still i am in craving

Considering port.

i have some port! good call.

Lordy, I was in the middle of opening a wine bottle when the phone rang, and then after that I was distracted by the internet. THANK YOU ILE FOR REMINDING ME OF WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO BE DOING!

Usually my go-to drink is a martini, with about a cap-full of vermouth, vigorously shaken so that there is a thin layer of ice shards on top. Lately I've been alternating between Hendrick's Gin and Tito's vodka.

However, tonight's drink is probably going to be a margarita on the rocks. I've a bottle of Cazadores silver that is calling my name.

Why do those wine-bottle openers with the two flat blades, one longer than the other, exist in the world?

Those are wine openers? I always wondered.

Beth, those two-bladed openers are designed for people who love to solve puzzles, the more difficult, the better. They also are effective at preventing drunks from opening another bottle of wine to drink.

Pish, everybody knows you just smash the neck off and suck at the jagged stump.

I always find that bloody lips spoil the taste, but I guess it wouldn't affect the alcoholic content, so it's a fair enough strategy.

Our son gave us a rechargeable battery-operated corkscrew for Christmas 2007. We disapproved, of course, and then grew totally enamored of it. It's not in its cradle. Hiding.
I found a regular one.

You can aways shove the cork down into the bottle.