Alcohol

[boganlux]

We are boozy enough (except for Andrew) to have a dedicated topic for alcohol conversations such as: Am I stupid for having spent $35 for 750 ml. of Chopin Polish Potato Vodka? What are your favorite drink recipes? Etc.

[nonotyet]

I do not think you are stupid. If I had that sort of money (more accurately: If I could justify spending that sort of money and not feel guilty about it) I would be all up in getting a full stocked bar and spending large amounts of money on good vodka.
Lately I have been loving vodka gimlets. I had two last night and the second was 5/6ths alcohol, 1/6th lime juice and whatever else they put in them. Is it just lime juice? Whatever: my head hurts. Also, mimosas even though I feel like a twat ordering them, and red wine, always. It is my goal this summer to drink as much sangria and mojitos as possible.

[Bernard]

Shoot, wish I'd seen this last night. Caipirinhas at my house. Strong ones, too, the cachaca's all gone now. I may be addicted to lime.

[Greg Nog]

I would be all up in getting a full stocked bar and spending large amounts of money on good vodka.

You mean, like General John Stark vodka?  LIVE FREE OR DIE, MOFOS!

My favorite "drink recipe" is a pint glass, which is then filled with beer.

[stephanie]

Lately I have been loving vodka gimlets. I had two last night and the second was 5/6ths alcohol, 1/6th lime juice and whatever else they put in them. Is it just lime juice?

Indeed, all the recipe calls for is vodka & Rose's sweetened lime juice.
Ah, vodka gimlets.  My first favourite drink, after the abomination that is rum and Coke (or, in my case, hippie pseudo-Coke, which may be even slightly more gross)!

My favourite drink for the past year or so has been the blessed, tart, numbing glory that is the vodka tonic.  When I'm at home, this gets turned into a pint glass with 4 ice cubes (no more, no less), filled 3/4 with vodka (times are tough; I'm drinking Smirnoff), 1/4 with either 7UP or tonic, topped with a spritz of OJ or an orange slice.  Or Foundation's Long Island Iced Teas, which are $5.50 for a pint and will fuck your shit up, serious-styles.  Their Blue Malahinis are also wicked delicious.  And BLUE.  Like, if Windex had gin and fruit in it.

Blowing mad cash on nice liquor to drink at home is understandable -- when I was making more money, I used to regularly purchase Vox and Belvedere for enjoyment neat, right out of the freezer or at room temperature ('cos refrigerated just felt icky-lukewarm).
Inexcusable, unless you just won the lottery or got yr tax return:  ordering top shelf liquor to put in a mixed drink; e.g. those fuckers who only get Bombay Sapphire and tonics (it all tastes the same once you stick it in a glass with some Schweppes, so why bother blowing the extra $5 on top shelf instead of the house rail?).  Also, drinking wine at shows.  Fuck those people.

[somersaulter]

There is nothing, NOTHING, like a glass of pretty good red wine (i'm too skint to be fussy), a rollie cigarette (i've given up but still), and a sunny afternoon. In fact, wherever, whenever. Can you tell i'm in an office right now?

[nonotyet]

when I was making more money, I used to regularly purchase Vox and Belvedere for enjoyment neat, right out of the freezer or at room temperature ('cos refrigerated just felt icky-lukewarm).

Well, lookit you, Kirsten Cohen.

sorry. that whole She's an alcoholic! She's fine! OH NOES DEAD CALEB! drove me NUTS last week, especially because it could have beeen written and handled so much better considering the buildup it had all season.

[Bernard]

Also, drinking wine at shows.  Fuck those people.

I was going to ask why you say this, but then I realized I'd misread it as 'at art shows'.

As you were.

[Kath]

I would be all up in getting a full stocked bar and spending large amounts of money on good vodka.

You mean, like General John Stark vodka?  LIVE FREE OR DIE, MOFOS!

My favorite "drink recipe" is a pint glass, which is then filled with beer.

Hey, He's from my state! I did a report on him in fourth grade.


Ps - Whiskey is where it's at.

[lucky strike]

WOAH WOAH WOAH
two quesitons!
1. bombay saph is top shelf?
2. people drink wine at shows?
wack!

[bcl_power]

Cheap vodka + science = pure drinking pleasure

[justinh]

1) i'd drink wine at shows.  actually, that would be totally killer.  I think hope sandoval played here at a venue with a wine bar.

2) the vodka gimlet is totally my dad's favorite drink.  

3) as for me, i don't really go for the mixers or shots, unless i'm in a major hurry to get messed up, but that usually ends badly for me.  Generally, I just stick to beer and wine.

[bucko]

i'm thrilled to find others who hold the ol' vodka gimlet near and dear. i've actually been to bars in the midwest where they did not even know how to make one! of course when that happens you just tell them to keep filling the glass with vodka till it reaches the top. you usually get more bang for the buck that way. oh, and in my experience, potato based vodkas really aren't all that superior to other varieties. also, for a while i was into ketel one, which i now find inexplicably repugnant. anymore i just buy the cheap plastic jug of whatever and make sure there's enough rose's lime to make it palatable. but these days i'm more of a beer drinker, as oregon has state-sanctioned liquor stores which are a pain in the ass and, conversely, portland has about five zillion microbreweries. and for some reason pbr (which i hold near and dear from my midwest punk rocker days) is totally the thing to drink amongst local hipsters.

[cold before sunrise]

homemade lemonade in a tall frozen glass with three shots of corn vodka and two ice cubes and a bruised mint leaf, in a hammock, in the sunshine, with anything by martis amis or gabriel garcia marquez. cheap and priceless.

[RoyBiggins]

I can't believe Kath is the only person who has mentioned whiskey.  My God, I love whiskey.  Since I'm unemployed and and there's no end immediately in sight, I drink Early Times.  When I've got the money, or am at my parent's house, I drink J&B.  Or Jack. Or Jameson.  Sweet Jesus, when I get a job I'm buying some Jameson.  And a glockenspiel.

I hate Johnny Walker in all its forms, though I've never had any variety more expensive than black.  I don't think there's much of anything in the booze world worth as much as the price tag on the Johnny Walker Blue.

[Greg Nog]

Hey, He's from my state! I did a report on him in fourth grade.
Ps - Whiskey is where it's at.

My home state, too; I was born in your fair city.  

As for whiskey: there's already a very nice Scotch Thread.

[boganlux]

When I'm at home, this gets turned into a pint glass with 4 ice cubes (no more, no less), filled 3/4 with vodka (times are tough; I'm drinking Smirnoff), 1/4 with either 7UP or tonic, topped with a spritz of OJ or an orange slice.

Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly is a spritz?

[Bernard]

A spritz is a small amount. Like a squirt.

[robOt]

homemade lemonade in a tall frozen glass with three shots of corn vodka and two ice cubes and a bruised mint leaf, in a hammock, in the sunshine, with anything by martis amis or gabriel garcia marquez. cheap and priceless.

what'd you call me, love? cheap & priceless? damn right.

(bernard: can i join your posse? i meet neither criterion, but i'm all about the caipirinhas.)

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[boganlux]

A spritz is a small amount. Like a squirt.

That's what I assumed when I just made myself a vodka tonic following Stephanie's directions. I just wanted to make sure. It was very good. I have three hours to recover before my next class!

[Bernard]

(bernard: can i join your posse? i meet neither criterion, but i'm all about the caipirinhas.)

<3::robot::

Absolutely. Come on in, kick off your shoes, grab a glass. Here's a slice of sugar cane to use as a swizzle stick.

[robOt]

or, as we say: shwizzle shtick. *toasts*

[JamesSchneider]

All of y'all are just pretending that you don't know that absinthe is the only thing to drink. When that's not on hand I dig a red stripe or a bottle of the cheap cheap Earnest & Julio Gallo red wine. Or, you know, both. Or all three.

The only thing that you need to know about absinthe is that only pussies mix it with sugar and water, and they also enjoy it when their parents change their underpants.

[robOt]

lmao. how is red stripe anyway? never could bring myself to trust it. it always looks to me like a squat little bottle of sin. or a headache waiting to happen.

p.s. the gallo family lives in my town. they're crooked.

[stephanie]

All of y'all are just pretending that you don't know that absinthe is the only thing to drink.

*yarf*

Shit tastes like black licorice, man.  I just can't drink that much of something that makes me wince when I smell it.  Plus, it's waaaaaaay too much buck (after scouring Glasgow for it, I had to lug a -#40 bottle of it through Scotland and England for 2.5 weeks) for the bang.  Is there even actual wormwood in it anymore?  The stuff I got had wormwood essence, or something pansy and fake-sounding like that.

Glad you liked my drink 'recipe,' boganlux.  Sorry for any resultant loss of motor skills.