GTP's Official Drink Thread!

[Diego440]

Johnnie Walker. It makes me feel like the world is right again, and I get nostalgic about the good times. Actually, I like it when I'm feeling good, too.

I feel the same way when I drink good whisky 👍

Red Label is NOT good whisky. It's the equivalent of 87 octane gasoline.

 

[Pupik]

I feel the same way when I drink good whisky 👍

Red Label is NOT good whisky. It's the equivalent of 87 octane gasoline.

Actually, I've never really sampled other brands of whiskey, except for Canadian Club, and it wasn't as good.

 

[Duke]

maybe because daiquiris are made with rum, and margaritas are made with tequila?

My point exactly. Thank you.

 

[Diego440]

Actually, I've never really sampled other brands of whiskey, except for Canadian Club, and it wasn't as good.

Crown Royal is quite good too. Canadian I think.

My point exactly. Thank you.

Thing is, tequila hangovers are worse than rum hangovers... at least from personal experience. And rum seems to have more people who can stomach it than tequila... odd. Also, there's many brands of so-so tequila and maybe only two or three brands of really good tequila. Sauza and Cuervo are bad-to-horrible tequila, by the way.

 

[Duke]

Thing is, tequila hangovers are worse than rum hangovers... at least from personal experience.

I rarely got hangovers, even when I used to drink unto drunkenness (which I haven't done in 15 years).

The secret? Absolutely do not go to bed until you've drunk 32 ounces of clear, cool water on top of the alcohol.

 

[Diego440]

The secret? Absolutely do not go to bed until you've drunk 32 ounces of clear, cool water on top of the alcohol.

And THAT is the gist on not getting hangover. Preach it!

Forget about anti-hangover pills, drinking a beer the following morning, drinking bloody or virgin marys; the absolute and surefire way to avoid a hangover is that one. Even if you're crapfaced and don't even remember your own name, be sure to drink a lot of water before going to bed... at the very least, it'll make it much better in the morning... something a nice chicken noodle soup will easily cure 👍

 

[exigeracer]

The secret? Absolutely do not go to bed until you've drunk 32 ounces of clear, cool water on top of the alcohol.

Exactly. If you've made it to that point without throwing up, pound that water and you're all set for the AM.

 

[daan]

The secret? Absolutely do not go to bed until you've drunk 32 ounces of clear, cool water on top of the alcohol.

How do you expect us to weigh water when we're drunk? Get home, get the scales out, fill 'em up with water, read the wrong scale, end up drinking 32 kilograms in water, go to loo all night...

What's that in pints?

 

[Diego440]

about one litre, although I'd recommend between 1.5 and 2 litres.

 

[daan]

Pah! I'd only spill it onyway...

 

[Venari]

So what's everyone's down-in-the-dumps-my-girlfriend/wife-just-left-me-I'm-looking-to-get-s&*^faced-drink?

Down to the local Que Pasa and order a bowl of long island iced tea, but only with friends.

Drinking alcohol in quantities alone is a very bad thing.

Any sake fans in the house?

Yes. Been a while though, I tend to only drink it in Canada when I visit the west coast. It's a refreshing change.

 

[///M-Spec]

Red Label is NOT good whisky. It's the equivalent of 87 octane gasoline.

Harsh, man I heard somewhere Red is made expressly for mixing.. anyone who if that's true?

Down to the local Que Pasa and order a bowl of long island iced tea, but only with friends.

Drinking alcohol in quantities alone is a very bad thing.

I dunno... I've done the 'get hammered with friends who are trying to cheer you up' thing and it usually ends up being a considerably more destructive evening



BTW, I'm enjoying a nice glass of table wine right now An '05 Greg Norman chard...


M

 

[Diego440]

Harsh, man I heard somewhere Red is made expressly for mixing.. anyone who if that's true?

I heard whisky shouldn't be mixed, maybe just with water or club soda. I used to bartend at this place where kids would order whisky with Coke or Fanta... I felt like smashing their heads with the glass everytime.

BTW, I'm enjoying a nice glass of table wine right now An '05 Greg Norman chard...

Golf wine?

 

[exigeracer]

Speaking of golfers...

Grab some iced tea, lemonade and vodka and mix yourself up a tasty Arnold Palmer. I was just shown this drink this summer, and let me tell you, it's great. Some people, like myself, don't like iced tea all that much, but made with the right amounts of mixer and you've got yourself one amazing summertime beverage.

 

[Joey D]

The best summer drink ever is Sangria.

 

[Jimmy Enslashay]

I usually drink Fosters

Oops, there goes your credibility.

 

[YSSMAN]

The best summer drink ever is Sangria.

Cheers to that... Only problem is that it has to be made correctly in the first place. I've had some nasty Sangria at family functions before, for some reason they used Orange Juice...

 

[Kylehnat]

Drinking alcohol in quantities alone is a very bad thing.

No it isn't. Only former alcoholics say that. You can't trust an alcoholic.

 

[Zrow]

Oops, there goes your credibility.

American Fosters isn't the horse piss that it apparently is in Australia - it isn't a great beer by any means, but it's not really the bottom of the barrel. Plus, you gotta love those jumbo-sized cans.

 

[3-Wheel Drive]

I heard whisky shouldn't be mixed, maybe just with water or club soda. I used to bartend at this place where kids would order whisky with Coke or Fanta... I felt like smashing their heads with the glass everytime.

Okay, whiskey and Fanta does truly sound horrid, but whiskey and Coke kicks ass (rum and Coke also mix well). And the greatest mixed drink ever IMO is a 7&7, Seagram's 7 and 7-Up. So whiskey can be mixed

Now, one drink that is not to be mixed under any circumstances is Bacardi 151. Anyone familiar with this drink knows it tastes like...burning. It really lacks any flavor other than "pain". And mixing it into a drink just doesn't dilute it. I tried once with a Dr. Pepper. I couldn't taste the Dr. Pepper

American Fosters isn't the horse piss that it apparently is in Australia - it isn't a great beer by any means, but it's not really the bottom of the barrel.

Doesn't that title belong to Pabst Blue Ribbon?

 

[Zrow]

Doesn't that title belong to Pabst Blue Ribbon?

There's about four that I can think of off the top of my head that I'll usually avoid - Pabst, Natural Light/Ice, Busch, and Milwaukee's Best.

They're pretty hard to avoid when you're a college student, unfortunately.

 

[YSSMAN]

There's about four that I can think of off the top of my head that I'll usually avoid - Pabst, Natural Light/Ice, Busch, and Milwaukee's Best.

Unfortunately, they're pretty hard to avoid when you're a college student.

So you're saying you don't like any of what I'd call "NASCAR Beer." Go to any local short track, or hell even a full-fledged NEXTEL Cup event, and those four are usually the ones you see the fans drinking most. A few of the guys my Dad and I used to meet at the races every Saturday Night drank S-loads of PBR. Its a bit of a joke between me and my brother, and its stuff I'd never touch.

 

[Touring Mars]

Oops, there goes your credibility.

He he, although to be fair, Mark T did say 'Fosters Superchilled' which I believe is different to the regualr 'Fosters Piss Simulator'... on a similar note, I have found myself enjoying Carling Extra Cold, particularly in my local Wetherspoons where they serve it between 1-3 deg C - they even have an electronic sign showing you what the exact temperature of the beer is (They even guarantee that your beer is between those limits, but I don't quite get how that works, since if it goes over the limit, they'll just stop serving it, surely?)

 

[Diego440]

Grab some iced tea, lemonade and vodka and mix yourself up a tasty Arnold Palmer.

Is that canned Iced Tea, like the Lipton's type, or must you make tea and later chill it?

Now, one drink that is not to be mixed under any circumstances is Bacardi 151.

There's a whole bunch of drinks that should not be mixed. I used to work in an ad agency where they handled Santa Teresa rum, which is more common in Europe than in the US. ST makes about seven different types of rum, out of which two are extremely good. One is a blend of rums between 10 and 80 years old called '1769' and the other is a blend of 1769 and Orange-tasting rum... both exquisite and sacrilegous to mix.

There's about four that I can think of off the top of my head that I'll usually avoid - Pabst, Natural Light/Ice, Busch, and Milwaukee's Best

There's a reason they call it Milwaukee's Beast... and Nattie Light. Out of all the American mainstream beers, I personally could only stomach MGD and Miller Light, but only 2-3 cans... other than that we'd stick to Heineken, back in college.

I have found myself enjoying Carling Extra Cold, particularly in my local Wetherspoons where they serve it between 1-3 deg C - they even have an electronic sign showing you what the exact temperature of the beer is

What ever happened to the days of just leaving the beer bottles in the chiller and take them out, see if they turned white and then serve it?


I am however, much guiltier of a worse sin... for the last two months, I've been drinking Shandy

 

[Touring Mars]

What ever happened to the days of just leaving the beer bottles in the chiller and take them out, see if they turned white and then serve it?

Well, this is England, and they like their draught beer here - not only that, they like their warm beer here too (bitters, anyway)... Ireland has long been ahead of England in serving draught beer at a decent (low) temperature, but now bars in England have caught up - the biggest irony is that the 'supermarket chain' pubs like Wetherspoons have been the first to really exploit the demand for chilled draught beer. Also, Wetherspoons have really stolen a march on the bottled beer front aswell - now, you can get just about anything you want from a 'Spoons pub (unfortunately that also includes a fight occasionally) - but the moral of the story is that us consumers are becoming alot more picky and demanding and less tolerant of getting a crap pint...

I am however, much guiltier of a worse sin... for the last two months, I've been drinking Shandy

Daiquiris... Shandy.... are you trying to tell us something?

I should really applaud you, though... since I've always been against people who slag others off for drinking Shandy. Mostly, folks I know drink Shandy for a purpose i.e. they're driving, they have an early start in the morning, they have a wife and children etc. and want to enjoy the same time in the pub but with less alcohol involved - it's also the perfect summer drink... (not that we really do 'Summer' up in Scotland)

 

[Diego440]

The summer reason has been the main one for drinking it. I mean, when it's 37 degrees celsius outside, a Shandy (0.9% alcohol here) is quite refreshing with that lemon taste and I can chug down about four in less than 5 minutes.

I've also been drinking non-alcoholic beer, since it seems to be a big thing in Spain too. Fernando Alonso even appears in a few commercials for it (Buckler 0,0%), and I only do that when I have to drive after.

Still, I keep about six slightly chilled Guinnesses in the fridge, and they get constant rotation.

 

[EXelero]

First round of 'The Ocho' is on me. You heard it here first, ladies and gentlemen.

does that start friday night seeing as thats when the dedicated are arriving!!!

 

[Mark T]

Oops, there goes your credibility.

Admittedly Fosters Superchilled isn't the greatest beer in the world, but it's good to drink while watching football. It's not as stong as Stella and Kronen, which means I don't start feeling merry after a few pints.

Shandy is always a good drink for me as I usually like to drive to different places to visit various pubs. Taxi's and trains are too expensive so I normally drive and have a couple of lager shandys. Better than drinking Red Bull or coke.

 

[///M-Spec]

Golf wine?

Sounds weird, but he owns vineyards in Napa Valley (CA) and somewhere in Australia (not sure where exactly, bottles say "Regional Appellations"). The bottles have his shark motif on it and everything.

For table wine, it's not bad stuff.

Sangria's good.. my wife mixed some up before dinner last night since I drank what remained of the golf wine. She used orange juice as well.


M

 

[Diego440]

There's something called "Tinto de Verano" here which, as its name implies, is a summer drink. Take not very expensive wine, mix it with 7-Up, and you have refreshing wine to drink at the beach.