favorite beer/favorite mixed drink
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The Cuban bar I used to drink at added a good dose of lemon juice to the rum and coke,gave it a nice fruity tang. I also like dark rum with ginger ale and the same mixer with irish whiskey.
Guinness is a hearty meal though I hate it when they create a little clover leaf in the head...i refuse to drink it :mad:;)
These days I just go for a good old scotch-or-whiskey & water. That said, I am very partial to a kick ass spicy as hell bloody mary.
amen, brother.
I feel I'm not doing right by making this my first post, but I like Cabernet Sauvignon. $5.99 per bottle. I think I'm a Wino, but I'm comfortable with that.
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Me too! and it is not crap if you like it
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Wheat beer does suck -- but young people love the stuff, makes me gag
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Hey cheap gin
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Being that you are a thinker and a drinker (partial to gin) I was wondering if you could write some about a gin drunk.
I've surely drunk gin in the past, and do remember thinking well (as well as I could), at least compared to other drunks.
Now that I think of it, maybe this would be a good thread: not just descriptions of gin drunks, but wine, whiskey, beer, champagne, etc. as well.
Although I've had my share of alcohol in the past, I'm neither a great drinker or stand in judgement of those who do, but could one make a statment like "gin is the "philosopher's" drink", or should we just leave it as - "one drinks what one drinks"?
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Being that you are a thinker and a drinker (partial to gin) I was wondering if you could write some about a gin drunk.
I've surely drunk gin in the past, and do remember thinking well (as well as I could), at least compared to other drunks.
Now that I think of it, maybe this would be a good thread: not just descriptions of gin drunks, but wine, whiskey, beer, champagne, etc. as well.
Although I've had my share of alcohol in the past, I'm neither a great drinker or stand in judgement of those who do, but could one make a statment like "gin is the "philosopher's" drink", or should we just leave it as - "one drinks what one drinks"?
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justine
stop the penistry
Frangelico on ice with fresh lime... mmmm
tastes like a Ferrer Rocher in a glass!
but generally if i'm drinking at home i stick to cheap sauvignon blanc or vodka with oj and pineapple.
Muscatel is a sweet syrupy wine i think...
what's the definition of an "alcoholic"? if i know then i can tell if i am or not..
tastes like a Ferrer Rocher in a glass!
but generally if i'm drinking at home i stick to cheap sauvignon blanc or vodka with oj and pineapple.
Muscatel is a sweet syrupy wine i think...
what's the definition of an "alcoholic"? if i know then i can tell if i am or not..
HenryChinaski
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new castle brown ale, when I can get it. they don't sell it around here.
right now I've been drinking the hell out of Hurricane and Steele Reserve, because they're both cheap.
Also, I drink the rot-gut Beast Ice.
us poor folks bargain shop.
right now I've been drinking the hell out of Hurricane and Steele Reserve, because they're both cheap.
Also, I drink the rot-gut Beast Ice.
us poor folks bargain shop.
I've been thinking about your post for a while, now, and am still unsure how to answer.
To be truthful, I am internally comfortable with my drinking; it is what I choose to do, and, as Steinbeck wrote, it has its consequences, not punishments, that I am willing to accept. But unlike Bukowski, I am not totally comfortable presenting my drinking to the world. It is my private demon, one that I am intimate with, yet, it is still private.
I just feel to answer your question about my private thoughts regarding a gin drunk would be presenting my private demon to the world. That somehow lessens the intimacy, and I rather enjoy that intimacy.
Maybe I feel this way do to my current sobriety, I don't know. Perhaps the next time I peruse these boards during a drunken writing binge I will be more open. Maybe that's part of the gin effect afterall, openness.
I'll just quote you back: "one drinks what one wants." Good luck with that, in whatever you chose.
To quote Bukowski :"fools create their own paradise."
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I just feel to answer your question about my private thoughts regarding a gin drunk would be presenting my private demon to the world. That somehow lessens the intimacy, and I rather enjoy that intimacy.
Okay. That's cool.
Just to be clear, I wasn't really fishing for any personal information. It doesn't really concern me if you get juiced up and trash your house, go to the chinese massage parlour for happy ending, or calmy sit back and read Marcus Aurlieus.
Mostly I asked not necessarily because I think you are the numero uno expert on getting soused, but because I think you write well. If your forum handle was "cheap plumber" I'd probably ask you to write something about monkey wrenches.
With that said, I suppose it is of personal interest for me to know something about how we think when we are outside ourselves (or inside, same difference). I've got one eye open for a "champagne drunk" (never met one). I'd like to know how that buzz goes, and the hangover to boot.
I try not to be too idealistic about these things though. For example, I read a book about absinthe some years ago. In it was a sort of drinking biography of some of the greats: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, St. Van Gogh, even Saintlier Artaud. To know that they all had a similar experience in which at a certain point the beauty that the absinthe covered them with transformed into simultaneous images and feelings of ugliness and evil was simply interesting for me. BUT, the reality: absinthe was a cheap, hardcore drunk for many a poor person which had nothing to do whatsoever with sublimity or art.
I not only respect not wanting to expose your "personal demons" but think much the same way. Much too special a thing for a computer forum.
As for Marcus Aurlieus, I hope that example wasn't lost on you. Thinks clearly and objectively never relinquishing his dark side.
Okay. That's cool.
Just to be clear, I wasn't really fishing for any personal information. It doesn't really concern me if you get juiced up and trash your house, go to the chinese massage parlour for happy ending, or calmy sit back and read Marcus Aurlieus.
Mostly I asked not necessarily because I think you are the numero uno expert on getting soused, but because I think you write well. If your forum handle was "cheap plumber" I'd probably ask you to write something about monkey wrenches.
With that said, I suppose it is of personal interest for me to know something about how we think when we are outside ourselves (or inside, same difference). I've got one eye open for a "champagne drunk" (never met one). I'd like to know how that buzz goes, and the hangover to boot.
I try not to be too idealistic about these things though. For example, I read a book about absinthe some years ago. In it was a sort of drinking biography of some of the greats: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, St. Van Gogh, even Saintlier Artaud. To know that they all had a similar experience in which at a certain point the beauty that the absinthe covered them with transformed into simultaneous images and feelings of ugliness and evil was simply interesting for me. BUT, the reality: absinthe was a cheap, hardcore drunk for many a poor person which had nothing to do whatsoever with sublimity or art.
I not only respect not wanting to expose your "personal demons" but think much the same way. Much too special a thing for a computer forum.
As for Marcus Aurlieus, I hope that example wasn't lost on you. Thinks clearly and objectively never relinquishing his dark side.
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We've got similar shit here in my town...they ban alcohol sales after 9pm by every place except bars...suppossed to curb drinking somehow...instead of one guy running out to the gas station to get a case of beer for the group, all 15 jump into cars, drive drunkenly to the bar, drink until they can't stand, then play Russian Roulette with traffic on the way home at 2am. Good thinking there.
Oh, and tonight just takes the cake...snow storm from Hell (somewhere around the 9th level or so), I run out of beer, it's about midnight, so I walk through a couple of feet of snow, a mile or so (I have a gas station on the corner, but they can't sell at this time), get to the bar, and they're damn closed!!!! Bartender told me just last week, "Even if two feet of snow and no customers we stay open to 2."
Anyway, I end up at home drinking the cheap gin and surfing the net...how does this help curtail drinking?