GTP's Official Drink Thread!

[FoolKiller]

When talking about alcoholic drinks I stick mostly with beer. It's good and you can drink a lot of it without getting (too) drunk. Monday night I've tried an MGD for the first time, my brother-in-law brought a couple of long neck's six-packs on sunday for father's day and there's a few left in the refrigerator. Tastes good but I thought it would be stronger.

Do you means stronger flavor or alcohol content?

Not that it matters because it is an American beer. It will lack a good amount of both.

 

[livemusic]

Stronger flavor, sorry. But I liked it. It just caught my attention because our beers are usually stronger.

 

[FoolKiller]

Stronger flavor, sorry. But I liked it. It just caught my attention because our beers are usually stronger.

I don't think I've had any Brazilian beer. My memory is getting fuzzy in my old age.

I'll have to check the menu when I go back and see if they have any. If they do then I have had some, I've got my name on a wall to prove it.

 

[livemusic]

I don't think I've had any Brazilian beer. My memory is getting fuzzy in my old age.

I'll have to check the menu when I go back and see if they have any. If they do then I have had some, I've got my name on a wall to prove it.

I'm not sure if they're known outside of Brazil, but the most popular over here are Skol, Brahma, Bohemia, Antarctica and Kaiser. I think Bohemia is exported.

 

[Diego440]

Brahma is, for sure. I'd dare say the most exported beer from Brazil.

 

[FoolKiller]

I'm not sure if they're known outside of Brazil, but the most popular over here are Skol, Brahma, Bohemia, Antarctica and Kaiser. I think Bohemia is exported.

I've had Bohemia. It's been quite a while, but I have had it. It wasn't anything that stood out but it was definitely better than most American beer.

 

[Jimmy Enslashay]

I definitely know Brahma.

If you take a normal beer, take it out of the fridge and let it warm up to room temperature and then drink it, I guarantee it'll taste horribly.

But non-cooled beer is meant to be like that. So it'll keep its smoothness and (to a certain point) freshness even if it's not chilled. They even taste better lukewarm than cooled.

So yeah, warm beer is horrible, unless it's made to be had that way. Tis not the same. I think it has less gas.

That makes sense. Although, I did try warm beer when I was in England with my family, however I'm not sure it was the nicest beer in all truth, therefore I probably haven't experienced a decent warm beer.

As for chili alcohol, I have this locally made stuff called Dragon's Breath. It has chili (with a few chilis stuck in the bottle for good measure), rosemary, and a couple of other ingredients I'm not sure of at the moment. I can't find it on Google, because it's only a very locally made alcohol. I still have a bottle of the stuff sitting at Emily's house, which I might take a picture of in the not-too-distant future. It's very spicy stuff.

 

[Keef]

Hey, I just found a bottle of Canadian Club whiskey in my pantry! W00t!

Is the stuff good? Never had it.

 

[TheCracker]

It's fine as a mixer.

 

[Jimmy Enslashay]

Canadian Club's an odd drink. It's probably the only drink I know that's better mixed or in a can, than on it's own. On it's own, it's a pretty nasty tasting drink. Mixed right, or in a can, it's pretty weak stuff, but it tastes alright.

I consider it the Vodka Cruiser of bourbon.

 

[exigeracer]

CC in a can? Explain.

 

[Jimmy Enslashay]

We get it pre-mixed in a can in the clubs around here. It's very weak, and tastes like cordial, like you would expect from a Cruiser, or something along those lines.

 

[Joey D]

I've been meaning to ask this...how can anyone drink Pimm's and Lemonade? I had it in the UK and it was possibly the grossest thing I've ever consumed (next to Marmite).

 

[Slicks]

I've got Crown Royal on ice beside me - I'm not a big fan. Worth a try, though.

Mabye I'll (gasp!) add some coke.

Edit - Yep. Crown and Coke is good.

 

[Diego440]

Edit - Yep. Crown and Coke is good.

Sacrilege!!

 

[///M-Spec]

So my wife mixed up a couple o' cocktails last night:

2 parts vodka (left over Skyy)
2 parts OJ (Tropicana)
1 part nasty cherry liqueur (forget the name.. some cheap crap)
1 part fresh squeezed lemon juice.

We had some peaches laying around so to complete the fru-fru chick-drink image, I dropped some peach slices in there.

..shaken, then poured into a cocktail glass.

Not bad! Especially the peaches at the bottom

I thought 'surely someone's thought of this before, it's just a variant of a Screwdriver'. But if not, I think I'll name it.


M

 

[FoolKiller]

Sacrilege!!

No kidding. Never sully the Crown. But, being from Kentucky I will drink bourbon over whiskey any day, especially Woodford Reserve, which just happens to be made within ten miles of my house. My brother in-law use to give tours of the distillary.

I thought 'surely someone's thought of this before, it's just a variant of a Screwdriver'. But if not, I think I'll name it.

Was the nasty cherry stuff amoretto? Because that sounds like a homemade amoretto sour, with vodka for fun.

If not then I don't know what it is.

Looking at that I am thinking it may be really good if you cut back the OJ by half and replace it with some pineapple juice.

 

[Touring Mars]

Sacrilege!!

No kidding. Never sully the Crown

I thought he was talking about the Coke...

 

[Diego440]

Crown Royal is a pretty good whiskey... not to be mixed. Except for water or club soda, if you must.

 

[Touring Mars]

We always used to have a bottle of that at home, my Canadian relatives usually bring a bottle over... comes in a purple bag, right? I don't think I ever tasted it though. Funnily enough, my Mum is in Canada right now, so maybe I should call her and ask her to bring me some back? 💡

 

[FoolKiller]

We always used to have a bottle of that at home, my Canadian relatives usually bring a bottle over... comes in a purple bag, right? I don't think I ever tasted it though. Funnily enough, my Mum is in Canada right now, so maybe I should call her and ask her to bring me some back? 💡

Yep, purple bag. It's a very nice and smooth sipping whiskey. Plus, it looks much classier sitting on a counter than a bottle of Jack.

 

[TheCracker]

Yep, purple bag. It's a very nice and smooth sipping whiskey. Plus, it looks much classier sitting on a counter than a bottle of Jack.

Yes, as long as your name's Liberace.

 

[///M-Spec]

Was the nasty cherry stuff amoretto? Because that sounds like a homemade amoretto sour, with vodka for fun.

If not then I don't know what it is.

Looking at that I am thinking it may be really good if you cut back the OJ by half and replace it with some pineapple juice.

Hmm. Some pineapple juice sounds good 👍

No, it definately was not amaretto, which has a very distinctive almond taste to it. I like amaretto.

This was a bright red cherry liqueur/cordial. Much sweeter than anything I would consider palatable and is closer in taste to cold/cough medicine than something I might drink as a desert wine in a fancy restaurant. It overpowered the drink until Heather put some lemon juice in it.

It had a Slavic sounding name... like "Shevaka" or something. Came in a fancy bottle with a miniature toy red fedora at the top. I have no idea how we got it and can only presume a guest brought it for a dinner party once.

Yes, as long as your name's Liberace.

M

 

[FoolKiller]

Yes, as long as your name's Liberace.

Or Bruce Campbell.

It's called class.

 

[Touring Mars]

Is that who Bill Murray's character in 'Lost In Translation' is based on?

 

[TheCracker]

It's called class.

Yes, class like this 👍

 

[FoolKiller]

Is that who Bill Murray's character in 'Lost In Translation' is based on?

No that's from a set of Old Spice ads he did this past year or so.

 

[Diego440]

Speaking of Crown Royal, I've always liked this ad:





In other matters... is anisette a common liquor? We had it in Venezuela, and it was what you usually got when you had enough to choose between that and 87 octane gasoline. That and a wine called "Pasita", made from bananas... actually, banana wine.

Nevertheless, anisette came in as a common mixer with all kinds of trash you could find around the house... Think of it as a Mr. Fusion for drunkards.

 

[TheCracker]

In other matters... is anisette a common liquor? We had it in Venezuela, and it was what you usually got when you had enough to choose between that and 87 octane gasoline. That and a wine called "Pasita", made from bananas... actually, banana wine.

Nevertheless, anisette came in as a common mixer with all kinds of trash you could find around the house... Think of it as a Mr. Fusion for drunkards.

It sounds like what the french call pastis. Usually made by Pernod or Ricard. Its usually drunk heavily watered down. I like.

 

[Diego440]

It sounds like what the french call pastis. Usually made by Pernod or Ricard. Its usually drunk heavily watered down. I like.

ummm... yeah, tastes exactly like it, except it's a clear liquor. Pastis is more like a nasty paste... but it's gooooood.