The Boozers Thread
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Black Swan
Abord the Yorikke!
Just be careful when you sit down...
CarversDog
RIP
I spent the better part of 12 months -- September '06 through November '07 -- perched on a bar stool every day. Vesuvio in North Beach, also known as Kerouac's bar, across the alley from City Lights Books. Got a lot of reading done. A lot of drinking too. My morning wake-up drink was a Bailey's and coffee and a screwdriver in a bucket glass. My favorite bartender invented a name for the combo: Fists of Fury.
Exactly why I drink screwdrivers all the time. I haven't had a cold in years! The ol' alky yin/yang...
Black Swan
Abord the Yorikke!
I drink everyday too. But I have learned to be moderate.
I'll have a porto before dinner, never drink before 6. With dinner 1-2 glasses of dry red wine. Sometimes a treat with a digestive.
In the summer heat I like to drink a couple of beers in the sun. A glass of cold white wine, with ice occasionally.
That's it for me...
I've seen Bukowski days...but that was then...
I'll have a porto before dinner, never drink before 6. With dinner 1-2 glasses of dry red wine. Sometimes a treat with a digestive.
In the summer heat I like to drink a couple of beers in the sun. A glass of cold white wine, with ice occasionally.
That's it for me...
I've seen Bukowski days...but that was then...
No worries, it's one of the main parts of my job, actually.
Somehow I guessed that!;)
anything but bacardi rum, that has given me the worst emotional drunk ever.
i'm very versitile when it comes to drink, i hate to drinkt he same shit two days in a row. i go with beer usually, pbr pounders more then others whem i'm brole. once a weak i'll get a bottle of some sort of decent cheap red wine. since i've started drink i'm always trying a new decent priced beer. i love whiskey, rum and gin but my dad kicks me out of the house for weeks when i bring it in.
i'm very versitile when it comes to drink, i hate to drinkt he same shit two days in a row. i go with beer usually, pbr pounders more then others whem i'm brole. once a weak i'll get a bottle of some sort of decent cheap red wine. since i've started drink i'm always trying a new decent priced beer. i love whiskey, rum and gin but my dad kicks me out of the house for weeks when i bring it in.
Thank you Dick Van Dyke :D
Out and about I knock back JD and Coke, I just don't fancy beer anymore.
Me either. Actually, a couple days ago I said to me mate after drinking a bourbon brown beer from the brewery up the street, "Wow, sometimes I forget how much I just don't like beer anymore."
She replied, "Good. More for me."
There ya have it.
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
A great friend invited me to try some Macallen (cask to bottle- cask strength) the best scotch I've had to date. The lable recomends a splash a water to bring out the flavor. 56.8% alc. and after three nice shots I felt like I could perform brain surgery. No hangover unless that's why I feel tired today ,this being two days later.:D
It was $60 a bottle. Macallan
It was $60 a bottle. Macallan
MaCallan is pretty good; the special bottles are better, of course. The problem is, somehow it became so popular and a benchmark, so the prices have become more than unreasonable. The 18 year is something like $140,which is way overpriced.
For $60, a nice bottle of Lagavulin or a 15 year Laphroaig is far better to me. Of course it's 95 degrees today, so it's beer and sparkling white wine tonight for me.
For $60, a nice bottle of Lagavulin or a 15 year Laphroaig is far better to me. Of course it's 95 degrees today, so it's beer and sparkling white wine tonight for me.
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Laphroaig is a lowland scotch and has that peat flavor to it. All scotch is good in a medicinal way.
I just got a phone call from my sons best friend to go to his house for a bar-b -que -and we have a bottle of Blue Label Johnnie Walker!(talk about over-priced) Come on over for a drink. I have to go now. What a great way to celebrate his completion of US Navy boot-camp.
The rest of you-Have a nice day.:)
Lagavulin, Laphroaig, and Caol Ila (and, of course, several others) are all Islay malts. Islay is in the southern Hebrides, so I suppose that qualifies as lowland, although scotch from there is nothing like lowlands from the mainland. I don't care too much for highland scotch. Too subtle. When I drink scotch, I want to know that I'm drinking.
I love that smoky, peaty flavor found in the Islay malts. Talisker is from the Isle of Skye, and is very similar. One noteable exception is The Balvenie, which is a highland from Speyside. The honey is amazing. Very different from most of the highlands I've 'ad.
And yes, the only time I've had JW Blue is when someone offered it to me for nuttin'. Meh, but it is free, so enjoy!
I love that smoky, peaty flavor found in the Islay malts. Talisker is from the Isle of Skye, and is very similar. One noteable exception is The Balvenie, which is a highland from Speyside. The honey is amazing. Very different from most of the highlands I've 'ad.
And yes, the only time I've had JW Blue is when someone offered it to me for nuttin'. Meh, but it is free, so enjoy!
The good wife and I have taken a hiatus from scotch for, well, for a good long time. It's impossible for us to drop that much $$$ every night for Lagavulin and Laphroaig or Talisker and wake up with an inch or two left in each bottle. Not to mention the mental fatigue. But it was a good deal of fun while it lasted. I don't think I'll ever be able to extract that pair of her panties from the ceiling fan... ;)
Now I drink Miller Genuine Draft and a cheap bottle of white wine, or perhaps Absolut and orange mango martinis, and she goes for Baccardi light. Christ, even drinking second-shelf ain't cheap.
Now I drink Miller Genuine Draft and a cheap bottle of white wine, or perhaps Absolut and orange mango martinis, and she goes for Baccardi light. Christ, even drinking second-shelf ain't cheap.
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
The truth about Blue Label JW
I've heard the expression 'smoke and mirrors' and Johnnie Walker Blue Label has the smoke. It was just blah. Some people love that smokey flavor but you might as well drink Cluny right up next to the campfire, and get the same thing for a fraction of the cost.
The host of yesterday's party enjoyed the 12 year old Macallan much more than the JW Blue. If he would've shelled out the $169. for the JW Blue he might have talked himself into liking it more. As it was the other party guests said it was all my fault for getting him drunk. Hey I didn't pour the booze down his throat. I very good time was had by all, my sons have yet to turn up.
I've heard the expression 'smoke and mirrors' and Johnnie Walker Blue Label has the smoke. It was just blah. Some people love that smokey flavor but you might as well drink Cluny right up next to the campfire, and get the same thing for a fraction of the cost.
The host of yesterday's party enjoyed the 12 year old Macallan much more than the JW Blue. If he would've shelled out the $169. for the JW Blue he might have talked himself into liking it more. As it was the other party guests said it was all my fault for getting him drunk. Hey I didn't pour the booze down his throat. I very good time was had by all, my sons have yet to turn up.
Laphroaig, Scottish Malt Whiskey. Room Temp with touch of water (or ice)
http://www.whiskyshop.com/Shop/Detail.aspx?pid=2393
If you aint tried this and like your Malts then get stuck in!
Do you guys have Buckfast in the States? :)
http://www.whiskyshop.com/Shop/Detail.aspx?pid=2393
If you aint tried this and like your Malts then get stuck in!
Do you guys have Buckfast in the States? :)
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
No I don't I wait until after lunch.
Bukowski would have loved the 99 cent store. Last year we were drinking some good French red wine and this year some DeLoach from Sonoma county Russian River Valley. I picked up a bottle of Spanish Red Wine Tierra Salvaje which may very well translate to mean dirt shit.
It is tastey and I am feeling no pain in less than 2 glasses.
Please drink plenty of water.
Maybe I will be blind tomorrow.
Bukowski would have loved the 99 cent store. Last year we were drinking some good French red wine and this year some DeLoach from Sonoma county Russian River Valley. I picked up a bottle of Spanish Red Wine Tierra Salvaje which may very well translate to mean dirt shit.
It is tastey and I am feeling no pain in less than 2 glasses.
Please drink plenty of water.
Maybe I will be blind tomorrow.
bluebottle
Founding member
i am interested in the scotch and milk combo. never heard of it before and i've done some fair amt of drinking. sounds good! right now it's a 1/5 evan williams and a six of shinerbock beer, from tx. for under twenty bucks. that will get me through the night no problem. and i love carlo rossi burgundy in those big jugs - you know how you can hook your finger through the loop and rest in on your forearm and guzzle away with the purple running down your throat? hell yeah, that's what white t-shirts were made for....
I was straight edge until I was about 22, then I decided that I was through with it. I started drinking what my dad used to drink--whiskey. I love the smell of that stuff. Lately I have gotten into gin--my favorite being Hendrick's gin...just the way it's meant to be drunk with cucumber and tonic. I never developed a taste for beer but I do like the dark stuff sometimes.
I am pretty new to drinking though and have decided to stay away from the stuff until I have a reason to celebrate--life has a way of kicking you in the balls and the last thing I wanna be is a weeping drunk. So...until September I am pretty dry.
I am pretty new to drinking though and have decided to stay away from the stuff until I have a reason to celebrate--life has a way of kicking you in the balls and the last thing I wanna be is a weeping drunk. So...until September I am pretty dry.
Gin - the sputum of Beelzebub. My ex-wife used to drink gin on occasion, and EVERY SINGLE TIME she'd end up like this:
and this:
My current wife drank gin once, and I had to ask her: "Do you want me to go bury myself under 60 miles of concrete for the rest of eternity? Please, do anything else you want, but don't drink gin."
and this:
My current wife drank gin once, and I had to ask her: "Do you want me to go bury myself under 60 miles of concrete for the rest of eternity? Please, do anything else you want, but don't drink gin."