What don't I like?
Vodka. People who who say it has no taste have no taste buds. Cheap vodka tastes like rubbing alcohol, and expensive vodka tastes like rubbing alcohol with less aftertaste. Flavored stuff like Smirnoff grape and watermelon are tolerable, though.
Peppermint schnapps. I hate peppermint. I once had a Screaming Nazi (Jager and Rumple Minze) on the house, which for some reason was in a pint glass instead of a shot or tumbler. I took an hour, but I finished the fucker.
Beer:
Just to keep around or for cheap stuff:
Coors light. Refreshing served near freezing, not many calories, not enough alcohol to get me anywhere near drunk unless I shotgun 8 of them in a row on an empty stomach, but I can't drink milk, I don't like most soda, and tap water tastes like dirt. It's not so much beer as water plus.
Schaefer. $6/12? Yes, please.
Gennesee Cream ale at $15/30.
Fosters at $2/can, Their Premium Ale isn't bad, either.
When I want a buzz cheap:
Steel reserve. A 24oz can is like drinking 4 Coors Lights at once, tastes tolerable, and has 8.1% abv.
This past week, I discovered Joose brand energy drinks, which are 9.0% or 9.9% abv
When I want a few of something that tastes good:
Magic Hat varieties, especially #9, pretty much any Sam Adams, Bass, Newcastle, Guinness, Molson Canadian, Brooklyn Lager, Saranac varieties, probably more I'm forgetting now.
When I have some money to spend:
Rogue Dead Guy Ale is probably my favorite beer ever. Seriously, try it. Rogue Shakespeare Stout and Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout are great stouts for people who like Guinness and want to expand their taste. Whatever Dogfish Head is making during any given season, plus 60 minute and 90 minute IPAs. Chimay Grand Reserve. Sam Adams Imperials. Innis & Gunn.
I'll try pretty much anything on the wall of singles and 4 packs at least once if I have some cash to spend.
Wine: Red, please. Cabernets are good enough this year that even a $8 1.5L bottle is good. I love me some cabernet sauvignon.
Liquor:
Long Island Iced Tea is my drink of choice. Especially at the local bars where they know me and use the good stuff.
Tequila. Straight tequila or tequila sunrises, and pretty much anything with tequila in it.
Manhattans. Need I say more?
Rum and diet (gets you drunker than rum and Coke but doesn't last as long.) The important variety is
Sailor Jerry's and Cherry Coke Zero.
Jager and Jager bombs
Whiskey. Ilike whiskey. I also have a bit of a story to tell you.
Anyone try Evan Williams Tennessee Bourbon? Yeah, it's that stuff a shelf or two down from Jack, in a nearly identical square bottle with a black label. You've probably noticed it and thought of it as a knockoff of Jack, but you're wrong. Jack Daniels is the knockoff. Evan Williams brewery was founded in 1783 in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Their product was packaged pretty much as it is today. Jack Daniels? Founded 1866 if you believe what they tell you, historians put it at more like ten years later.
There was a big legal storm about labeling Bourbon in the US, much like the nitpicky restrictions you see on wine labeling these days. What was bourbon? Single distilled sour mash aged and bottled in Bourbon County, KY? Jack Daniel realized in those days that the average bourbon drinker wasn't the type to give a shit about any of that, the average bourbon drinker was an illiterate farmer. Jack made the wise business decision of setting up business in (Moore County, TN) he felt like it, came up with something easy and cheap to make that approximated the taste of bourbon, and put it in a square bottle with a black label that looked like what the average bourbon drinker was already buying. Jack Daniels is the real knockoff, but it's now the number 1 in the US, and who can argue with that? Drink whichever you like, just don't think Evan ripped off Jack.
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Originally Posted by CinnamonGirl
Ah. That makes sense. Just sounded odd...very different ends of the spectrum, there. I have to admit, though, if you're gonna go cheap, it might as well be PBR.
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Guinness isn't the opposite end of the spectrum. It's a very basic stout that you can get anywhere, but nothing particularly special as far as stouts go. More of a high school/college faux beer snob drink (I used to be one of those people) than a masterpiece. Now 20 people will jump down my throat for not worshiping Guinness, but I stand by what I said.
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