Tequila is my enemy. More often than not I've felt like I got jumped by a band of luchadores the day after thinking it would be a good choice.
Word to the wise: if you like drinking cheap booze, stick with it. If I were to total what I have spent on alcohol over the past year alone, I would probably cry.
I remember the last time I had a horrible hangover. It was caused by a combination of these things: Started with Spumante. Polished off half the bottle before I wandered down to my coworker's suite. Started drinking beer. Discovered that I don't like Heineken. Eventually switched to liquor. I did shots of Aftershock, Segram's 7, Vodka, Whiskey, SoCo (blegh), then more Aftershock. I managed to walk back to my suite. I laid down in my bed. The room started tilting. Lots of puking in the toilet. I think I was hungover for the entire next day. In my defense, I was 19 and stupid.
It's called Bombay Sapphire my dear woman, and it is an exquisitely distilled liquor infused with a selection of the finest herbs and juniper berries. Over ice, with fresh squeezed lime and tonic, it is very refreshing during the hot months, and a sophisticated yet glorious ride to a screaming hangover in the colder months.
I think it had to do with the grains thread. All I know is that I had absolutely nothing to do with it. I didn't know he was so sensitive! Isn't it time to change your signature? It's been a whole week!
I could never get into straight gin. Gin and tonics are the shiz. Id say whiskey is my preferred drink with rum as a second. Fucking aftershock? All that cinnamon bullshit can suck a fart out of my ass. Also, we don't have a thread in the tv show area but this seasons South Park is fucking awesome.
Obligatory: http://philalawyer.net/2009/06/gin/ Gin is happiness in a bottle. But, like others above, typically a summer drink for me. With the cold weather comes the heavier beers and darker liquors. Into the Evan Williams tonight.
For my money, if I'm going for a nice cocktail I'll take a Manhattan. Its simple, amazing, and classic. I'm sure there are more interesting whiskey drinks out there, however when I'm drinking whiskey I want good not interesting. A nice Manhattan with a good steak is my idea of heaven. Beer is different, I'll try new beers to see what other people are doing. I like trying different IPAs etc, different stouts. I'm starting to get turned back onto Farmhouse ales after swearing them off for a while.
I'm having to redesign the hiring process for a multi-million-dollar company. Even though I've already thought up, tested, and seen successful results of my hiring process... I've still gotta roll it out. And it can still fail. I'm drinking gin right now. A LOT of gin. Hopefully monday will come later than I anticipate.
I just want to drink some delicious whiskey on the rocks, but unfortunately I've got about 200$ to last me two and a half weeks until I leave for basic. I'm taking a trip to Saratoga, NY to visit a buddy next weekend and I imagine a good chunk of it will be blown there. He raves pretty hard about it, anyone been there? Looks like tonight I'm going to grab myself a couple tall boys of steel reserve and call it a night. Cheap and easy.
I have been drinking a LOT of Tom Collins lately. I don't mean a lot in that I'm getting shitfaced all the time (actually I don't remember the last time I was drunk...buzzed, yes, drunk...well watching your two year old more-or-less on on your own kind of precludes that), I mean that when I do have a drink, its only Tom Collins. Other than recently I have almost no experience with gin.
Manhattans are, year after year, voted as the #1 drink by the international Bartenders Association. They are (to me): 2 oz Canadian whiskey 1 oz vermouth Rossi 1 or 2 drops of angostura Stir first two tegether than add angostura with lotsa ice. Pour into chilled martini glass, garnish with single cherry. Boom. You've got yourself a drink so classy a string quartet plays while you down it. I prefer an Old Fashioned or especially a Sidecar if we are talking classy drinks that are used when discussing business mergers.
I had a friend who was a bartender in college, only problem was she didn't know how to do more than make a rum and coke or open a beer. Once, because I'm an asshole, I asked her to make me a Tom Collins and she had no idea what the fuck I was talking about.
Its one thing if I ask them to make some drink that only people in my region drink, but if I ask for a boilermaker and the bartender gives me a stupid look, they suck and should be fired.
Welcome to 95% of every bar in America. WHY would you want them to make something more than a shitty G&T? They fuck it up. Then they get pissed at you for ordering something more complicated than vodka cran. And if you ever want to have service again, you better tip at least a dollar for every beer cap they twist off. The only alternative is overpriced niche bars with $14 cocktails. Nowhere in between. Fucking pathetic. Try our Strawberry Daiquiri, Blueberry Margarita Fizz, Frozen Peach Mojito. Mother fucker, you can't even make the originals properly, why are you bothering me with that sugary mess? You don't pay the respect to the original, which are incredibly satisfying and tasty without the nonsense. Pisses me off. *I* can make a classic mojito, better than anyone else in this state, in 30 seconds. How the fuck is that difficult? I taught one girl how to make a negroni. Gin, vermouth, campari, equal parts. It took way longer than it should have. I've come to accept this. Which is why I go to bars primarily when I want to get housed. Cheap places. Do not remember the last cocktail I had at a bar.