What are you drinking?

[LickTheStar]

I've never had Wild Turkey before, but I finds this (Wild Turkey 101) delightful.

I didn't start drinking until this year (crippling depression will do that to a person!) and this is my drink. I'm recently started being less of a wuss and stopped mixing it with other things.

Despite that, I'm having a bourbon sour tonight... if only so I can still feel my throat in the morning... OK, later in the morning...

 

[Danny Mac]

I became filled with great sadness when it was said, by roni, that he did not drink. I thought to my slef. No F-ing way that our points leader and spiritual leader does NOT drink. How, I said to myself, that a German on THE Buk site does not drink! It is an outrage. It can not be! Maybe we could ban him from this point forward?

I flet grate releef when it was determined that he did drink. I was like Holy S***. I am so happy that roni does drink. Afterall. I was taught by my Dad to never trust a man who doesn't drink.

What goes on in the mind of a man who doesn't drink. John Martin.

I am drinking a bottle of Francis Coppala's Pinot Nior. Ever since I saw 'Sideways' I kant drink Merlot. Last weekend I drank a bottle of LaCrema Pinot Nior and it was one of the best wines I ever did drank.

 

[Skygazer]

Danny... get to yer bed - but ps you do make me laugh and it's a rainy, cold morning here, so thank you. Don't fancy your hangover.

 

[Bruno Dante]

I got a bottle of this for my recent passing of another year:
http://www.masterofmalt.com/gin/professor-cornelius-ampleforth/bathtub-gin/
It's great in a Martini or a G&T.
Presumably my better half couldn't source the Millionaire brand ;-)

 

[PhillyDave]

Going to be drinking Thursday night to celebrate my neighborhood at the "Mt Airy Street Fare" with a case of this http://philadelphiabrewing.com/beers/ I like the sampler case of Philly brew but am partial to the Walt Whit and the Kenzinger. AND, I have off Friday.

 

[roni]

haven't clicked on this thread for a long time and thank god i did tonight all of a sudden.

[...] when it was said, by roni, that he did not drink. [...]

Don't remeber saying this. Musta been drunk. But it sure was meant in an ironical way. The context would show.

[...] our points leader and spiritual leader [...]

O my god, this is so wrong!
Please! Really!

There are so many great fantastic wonderful cats here who do know MUCH more about Buk than I ever will and contribute MUCH more than I ever could!

Look around in older posts and you'll see.
I'm only good in letting myself look good. Concerning the REAL knowledge and understanding (and Contributing!), I'm way below par.



Now back to things that really matter:

 

[PhillyDave]

Mmmm... G & T's...:DD

 

[Danny Mac]

I sware to you roni that you said this...that you didn't drink. I went back and tried to find it but there were already so many post I couldn't find it. Don't you remember that someone busted on you for "Lying" in your post? I wouldn't make something like that up.

By the Way ( a former name of one of my bands), since you are a German Dude you might know if Carl Weissner is still alive? Is he?

 

[roni]

[...] if Carl Weissner is still alive? Is he?

not quite.

 

[5:28am]

I'm very curious if there's anyone on this forum who either a) doesn't drink or b) has quit drinking.

 

[bospress.net]

I don't drink much. Used to drink a lot when I was younger. Nothing against drinking and I like the occasional crap american beer, but just don't drink much.

 

[Skygazer]

Don't know if it's been a blessing or a curse, but can't drink more than about 4 drinks.Done it once many years ago and was ill for 3 days,
Still... looking on the bright side - very cost effective, get drunk pretty quick.

 

[Bruno Dante]

Cheap date ;)

 

[Skygazer]

I know! then again - I only order four of these babies:
Diva Vodka (from the Shetland Islands and apparently one of the world's most expensive)
Macallan 1946 Single Malt Whisky (apparently pretty expensive too):wb: and I think it's your round Bruno.

Actually all a fib, mine's a Bailey's or a G& T or Red Wine (not too picky)
Cheers:D.

 

[Danny Mac]

Oh My God Skygazer....you had me goin there for a half a second when you said you like "The McCallan." You have to "The" MacCallan, it's that good! Then I finish your sentence only to find you are a trickster. You got me.

I learned about the MacCallan from Neil Peart, the drummer from RUSH. That is his drink. That is just about all he drinks. I bought my first bottle of the MacCallan when I was reading his emotionally brutal book called Ghost Rider. I mix the scotch with a bit of 7 Up and ice cubes. It has such wonderful flavor that I encourage you, if you are ever in a high end restaurant or hotel to try it. It is really, really good.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Macallan and other Highland whiskies are great for removing bathtub ring and somesuch, but you ain't really drinking scotch if you aren't working on a bottle of Laphroaig, Lagavulin, or, at the very least, Talisker. I'll grant Balvenie a pass; someone in the Highlands actually knows how to produce some flavor. ;)

 

[5:28am]

I've been sober for over a year. A coworker and I recently bonded while telling black-out stories. We've got a lunch-date next week.

Yeah, you can see where this is heading. :confused:

 

[mjp]

I mix the scotch with a bit of 7 Up and ice cubes.

Fag.

 

[Skygazer]

[... I encourage you, if you are ever in a high end restaurant or hotel to try it. It is really, really good.

I hate whisky Danny, only tried it once, but since you are recommending that one so highly then I will - maybe:)
As for trying it in a high end hotel or restaurant; hate them, totally devoid of life or vitality, just deadening.

ps quite like a Drambuie (does that count?) it's made in Broxburn, a wee town just about a 15 min drive from me, but picturesque it is not, unlike some of the distillery places in the Highlands and Islands.

Macallan and other Highland whiskies are great for removing bathtub ring and somesuch, but you ain't really drinking scotch if you aren't working on a bottle of Laphroaig, Lagavulin, or, at the very least, Talisker. I'll grant Balvenie a pass; someone in the Highlands actually knows how to produce some flavor. ;)

So picky!

 

[Bruno Dante]

Macallan and other Highland whiskies are great for removing bathtub ring and somesuch, but you ain't really drinking scotch if you aren't working on a bottle of Laphroaig, Lagavulin, or, at the very least, Talisker. I'll grant Balvenie a pass; someone in the Highlands actually knows how to produce some flavor. ;)

Ah, come on. I love the peaty stuff too but Macallan is up there with the very best. That is if you go with the 'traditional' bottlings that have been sherry cask aged. Balvenie Double Wood (which sounds like it should be a euphemism) is superb stuff though. I had a nice wee Caol Ila last neet though.
Incidentally, William Grant (of Grants Whisky and Glenfiddich) own Balvenie. Although Glenfiddich (and Grants) are massively popular brands, it's actaully one of the very few family owned companies. Most of the Scottish distilleries are owned by one of about four massive international conglomerates now.

I hate whisky Danny, only tried it once, but since you are recommending that one so highly then I will - maybe:)
As for trying it in a high end hotel or restaurant; hate them, totally devoid of life or vitality, just deadening.

ps quite like a Drambuie (does that count?) it's made in Broxburn, a wee town just about a 15 min drive from me, but picturesque it is not, unlike some of the distillery places in the Highlands and Islands.

Drambuie is supposed to have been a gift to the people of Skye by Bonnie Prince Charlie for helping him to escape the English. Probably bollocks like. Although it is thought that years ago, when whisky tasted like shit, that it would have been common to flavour it with herbs and honey etc. and this is how things like Drambuie came about. I like a Rusty Nail which is meant to be 50/50 Scotch and Drambuie but I prefer it 2 parts whisky, one part Drambuie. I do quite like a Drambuie on the rocks too though when the mood takes me.

 

[Danny Mac]

I'll have to leave the Scotch to Purple Stickpin and mjp somewhere else.

 

[mjp]

haven't clicked on this thread for a long time and thank god i did tonight all of a sudden.

I don't know about god, but I had a wonderful concoction tonight (a few times) that was sort of a high-octane Manhattan, without the vermouth. It was just these two things:

And though it might seem they wouldn't compliment each other...

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Like for Itchycoo Park, not so much the Wild Turkey.

 

[mjp]

Yeah, I know.

Well, bourbon is more of a man's drink, not everyone has the manliness for it. And when you pour in a bottle of Underberg...well, now you're in super he-man territory. So it's not for everyone. The extended pinky crowd should probably stick to civilized conversations about the differing climates in peat producing regions and leave the Kentucky bourbon to the men who have work to do, mouths to feed and knuckles to bust.

;)

 

[d gray]

that reminded me of a video someone sent me recently...

[This video is unavailable.]

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Well, bourbon is more of a man's drink...

I like bourbon just fine. But Wild Turkey is like drinking syphilitic piss straight from the tap.

 

[mjp]

that reminded me of a video someone sent me recently...

Isn't that how everyone in Boston drinks?

Shoenice reminds me of the time a "friend" of mine poured a 12 oz. tumbler of Jack Daniels and set it down in front of me. He said later that he had done it, "as a joke." I didn't realize it was a joke though, so I did what anyone would do and drank it down in one mighty multi-gulp. In my defense I was maybe 19 years old, so my 19 year old brain made that decision.

It is funny what slurping down way too much liquor in very short amount of time does. I mean, not comedy funny, but something interesting to experience. Once. It's like turning an ape switch in your brain and you go instantly from human to ape. Like the sideshow Ape Girl, only faster.

Wild Turkey is like drinking syphilitic piss straight from the tap.

I've got to get to one of those Boston tap rooms. I don't think I'd like syphilitic piss, but I'll try anything.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

We call 'em bahs. :wb:

 

[d gray]

...Shoenice...

you'd heard of this guy before seeing that vid?

apparently he's "internet famous" for eating and drinking almost anything.

It is funny what slurping down way too much liquor in very short amount of time does. I mean, not comedy funny, but something interesting to experience.

three big shots of whatever is about as extreme as i get to start the proceedings. that works real good...

 

[mjp]

you'd heard of this guy before seeing that vid?

No, I just learned his name seeing it scrawled on the bedsheet hanging behind him.

Internet famous or not, he's a pathetic motherfucker, and when he dies (soon) everyone will weep and moan and say how they shouldn't have encouraged his self-destruction. But here we are.