Booze recommendations....

[His Divine Shadow]

Mead.

Brand name please?

Homemade, the stuff you buy is SHIT!

[Dalton]

Don't drink much, but when I do it's usually some citrus variant like Smirnoff Ice and Bacardi Silver since I dislike b33r as well. For harder stuff, I like rum and Coke, but Jack and Coke is a little much for my palate. I'm an alcoholic lightweight.

[weemadando]

Don't drink much, but when I do it's usually some citrus variant like Smirnoff Ice and Bacardi Silver since I dislike b33r as well.

You big girly man.

[Dalton]

You big girly man.

Well, I generally find that I have a healthier liver and more teeth because of it!

[His Divine Shadow]

You big girly man.

Well, I generally find that I have a healthier liver and more teeth because of it!

I drink moonshine from time to time and my liver never complains and my teeth are beatifull.

[Dalton]

You big girly man.

Well, I generally find that I have a healthier liver and more teeth because of it!

I drink moonshine from time to time and my liver never complains and my teeth are beatifull.

I'm talking about pub crawls and bar fights, the SOP for college students like Ando

[weemadando]

You big girly man.

Well, I generally find that I have a healthier liver and more teeth because of it!

I've only lost half a tooth to alcohol - and that was because some arsehole opened a door into my face (but that didn't do the damage). I was knocked back and as I fell (With a lovely twist) went face first into a table.

And my liver is in pretty good shape. Only mildly necrotic.

[Dalton]

You big girly man.

For the record the above is fucking funny and I giggle every time I see it.

[Dalton]

I've only lost half a tooth to alcohol - and that was because some arsehole opened a door into my face (but that didn't do the damage). I was knocked back and as I fell (With a lovely twist) went face first into a table.

And my liver is in pretty good shape. Only mildly necrotic.

Foiled again.

Eat my dick.

[weemadando]

I'm talking about pub crawls and bar fights, the SOP for college students like Ando :D

Pub crawls are great fun...

GREEN RALLIES
-A drinking game for any number of people.

Ingredients
-A bar with several pool tables
-Green Chatreuse

How to play
-Each person lines up x amount of shots of Green Chatreuse (where x is the number of laps in the rally +1).
-Everyone downs their first shot, then you take off on a slalom race around the pool tables, you come back do your second shot and so on and so on.
-The winner is the first one to finish their last shot.

Warning
-This game will get you amazingly drunk and likely thrown out of a bar.

[His Divine Shadow]

Foiled again.

Eat my dick.

Now now, I'm sure you're gonna find a use for it sooner or later, don't give up on it just yet!

[His Divine Shadow]

I'm talking about pub crawls and bar fights, the SOP for college students like Ando

Yeah you can take in moonshine there if you're good

[Dalton]

Foiled again.

Eat my dick.

Now now, I'm sure you're gonna find a use for it sooner or later, don't give up on it just yet!

Quiet you.

[weemadando]

I'm talking about pub crawls and bar fights, the SOP for college students like Ando :D

Yeah you can take in moonshine there if you're good :P

One of my friends has been stilling his own stuff, its actually fairly good (once mixed, by itself, its well... Bleargh. Well filtered so you don't get the "I'm blind!" side effects. He's looking at distilling it further to get it up to 50%-60% proof.

[DocHorror]

Drink Guinness, its good for you...

Also after about 12 pints of the stuff you feel like a king!

[Hendrake]

Good wines like Ando said, but $15 is a lot for a bottle already. Some Australian wines are really good (if you like red wine), e.g. Koonunga Hill and another one with a yellow label with an eagle on it, cost around €13 here in Finland, and a lot of that (75%) is tax. Some cheap but drinkable wines would be the Gato wines from Chile, both red (Gato Negro) and white (Gato Blanco). If red, I prefer the merlot grape version to the cabernet-sauvignon.

Merlot is a very good red wine.

I personally would recommand Barbera (especially from Asti), who is the wine with the best quality/price ratio, very good and only about 4 dollars a bottle (3.80 euros actually), but I understand it's difficult to find outside Italy. Expansive but very good Italian wines are Brunello di Montalcino, Camelot and Amarone

Port is wonderful.

For the strong stuff, ouzo (greek) is good if you like aniseed, vodka is good and mixable, herb liquors tend to be strongly flavoured, and if you can find it try nut-liquor (nuts as in the things that grow into trees, not male anatomics. It is quite a good booze, here is called Nocino).

[Slartibartfast]

For some strange reason, i CANNOT stand the taste of beer, whether it
be Budweisers, coors, or evein Heiniken's.

It all tastes like bitter piss to me.

I'm thinking of going for the hard liquors instead of the pissy beers. Are
there any alcoholic substances that go down sweet and smooth?

If you live in LA I think you can import pisco.

U.S. beer tastes like crap

[salm]

dont drink the budwiser and millers crap. go for real beer. drink the stuff from the local breweries. during my last stay in the us i´ve had some rather good beer, all from different local breweries. it´s nothing compared to real ( german ) beer course, but it´s ok.

as for hard stuff i recomend rakia. it´s sort of a bulgarian type of vodka which tates really good and is strong as well.

tequilla is good to drink while you´ve got a beer infront of you *wonders why nobody has mentioned it yet*

vodka: tastes pretty good, combined with fanta lime

whiskey i only like when it´s a whiskey sour.

jägermeister is ok every once in a year

[Stormbringer]

Well, look for a good local micro-brewery. Most commercial beers aren't that great.

And if you're going to go for hard liquor I'd recommend vodka. Best vodka I ever had was Grey Goose. Good stuff but not cheap.

[irishmick79]

Ok, for you vodka fans out there, what is your favorite brand? Stoli? Smirnoff? Grey Goose?

Shep, for good beers you definitely would want to try some bavarian stuff. I highly recommend Hacker Pschorr Weiss. A buddy of mine can't stand the taste of hops for the life of him, and he managed to at least appreciate hacker.

Anybody here fans of Aftershock?

[Stormbringer]

Ok, for you vodka fans out there, what is your favorite brand? Stoli? Smirnoff? Grey Goose?

I'm partial to Grey Goose myself. Really good.

[Ghost Rider]

Grey Goose...expensive but I like it enough to make it worth the price.

[RedImperator]

If you change your mind about giving up on beer, I recommend Labat Blue. Not as pissy tasting as most American beers. THe only problem with it is that it costs $22 a case here. Yuengling is pretty good, especially considering its price (it's a local product, so it might be more expensive down your way). If I'm looking for cheap, eazy to guzzle beer, I prefer Miller Genuine Draft to Budweiser or Coors.

Wine I can't help you with, as most of the stuff I've ever had is homemade red wine. Good good with Italian food, lousy by itself.

Now, for booze:

Vodka is versatile, and when it's chilled, you can drink it straight up. I wouldn't recommend warm straight vodka. Then it goes down like paint thinner. You can mix vodka into just about anything, including, in an emergency, more vodka.

Gin: looks like vodka, tastes like radiator fluid. Gives you a hangover like a train wreck. Avoid at all costs unless mixed with something else.

Rum: another versatile drink. Good straight up with ice, or mixed with any kind of cola. Capt. Morgan's in generarlly considered the best widely available, and I concur, but if you're looking to make the hairs on your ass stand up, try Bacardi 151 (a 50-50 mix of this and Coke in a 24 ounce glass will make the world seem like a better place, and when it comes back up, it doesn't taste too bad, as far as vomit goes).

Whiskey: Jack and Coke is a perennial favorite. They complement each other nicely. Good scotch, of course, should always be had straight up. This is sipping liquor, not recommended for a general booze-up where it won't be appreciated.

Tequilla: A real man's drink. It tastes vile, yet it goes down relatively easily. Great for lamenting a failed relationship, getting fired, flunking a major exam, or the humiliating implosion on national television of the football team you've given your heart and soul to and the bitter, crushing realization that all your hopes for a grand parade and victory and a blighted city united in celebration and redemption for years of misery were for naught and this will be year 43 since the last time they won a championship and why did you ever get your hopes up because deep down inside, you knew, or you SHOULD have known, that they would break your heart again, because that's what they do and that's your lot in life is to be left broken hearted, defeat snatched from the jaws of victory, sweet triumph turned to the taste of ashes before your very eyes while a team of loud-mouthed, red-suited brigands from a glorified suburb in vacuous tropical wasteland of a state celebrate on your field and you want to cry and scream and hurt people but you can't so you curl up with a bottle of oily oblivion and hope when you wake up the next morning the pain in your head will make you forget the pain in your heart. Fucking Eagles. *sob*.................Ahem. Most people need salt or a lime wedge to enjoy tequilla. I laugh at them. Laugh I say.

A note on Jack's Hard Cola, Mike's Hard Lemonade, Bacardi Silver, and other so-called "malt beveredges": Steer clear of them. Oh, they SEEM harmless, cloyingly sweet, slightly fizzy, seemingly the best of the soda and booze worlds. But in reality, they'll make your head feel like a major industrial accident, your mouth taste like the ballast tanks of the Exxon Valdez, and your entire GI tract feel like it's been boiled. Let's not discuss what they taste like on the way back up. Hydrochloric acid and fizzy girl drinks don't work at all.

[irishmick79]

Tequilla: A real man's drink. It tastes vile, yet it goes down relatively easily. Great for lamenting a failed relationship, getting fired, flunking a major exam, or the humiliating implosion on national television of the football team you've given your heart and soul to and the bitter, crushing realization that all your hopes for a grand parade and victory and a blighted city united in celebration and redemption for years of misery were for naught and this will be year 43 since the last time they won a championship and why did you ever get your hopes up because deep down inside, you knew, or you SHOULD have known, that they would break your heart again, because that's what they do and that's your lot in life is to be left broken hearted, defeat snatched from the jaws of victory, sweet triumph turned to the taste of ashes before your very eyes while a team of loud-mouthed, red-suited brigands from a glorified suburb in vacuous tropical wasteland of a state celebrate on your field and you want to cry and scream and hurt people but you can't so you curl up with a bottle of oily oblivion and hope when you wake up the next morning the pain in your head will make you forget the pain in your heart. Fucking Eagles. *sob*.................Ahem. Most people need salt or a lime wedge to enjoy tequilla. I laugh at them. Laugh I say.

Wow. I don't know wheather to laugh or cry at that. Do you ever read Bill Simmons "The Sports Guy" on ESPN's page 2? You NEED to send a quote of this in to him. Good stuff.

[irishmick79]

Stupid double post. Aaaargh.