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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At risk of sounding like a wine cave lib (couldn't find the emojis), wine. It's versatile AF, and small, independent, artisanal winemakers (many of them vinegrowers, too, a lot of the agricultural work behind wine is overlooked so much) are really cool people. It sucks that so much of the wine world has been taken over by the bourgeois and petit bourgeois, and their wannabe acolytes, and that it's become (it kind of always has been) such a strong class marker, when it's such a wonderful drink, and a great gateway drug to speaking about food in different ways. I very much hate people who feel superior just because they know a thing or two about wine, when it's a thing to enjoy, like all food should be.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

love a margarita, nothing frozen or fancy, just good silver tequila, lime, and syrup

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Old fashioned. Don't know quite what it is but it hits every angle just right

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Went to a cocktail bar and ordered these because the bartender there recommended it. I was having a exceptionally bad day and this guy was just serving only me and giving me on after the other. After about 4 i felt better.

Barely any words exchanged but watching him make each one was very hypnotic and i forgot about all my problems. Since then its been my favourite drink.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Same. I'm a huge fan of classic spirit-forward cocktails. Old-fashioned, Manhattan, martini, negroni.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A Pan-Galactic Gargle-Blaster

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anytime I've had anything with alcohol in it I've thought "this would probably taste good if it wasn't for the alcohol". I must just have baby taste buds.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

that's your body telling you that the poison you're ingesting is bad

"learning to like alcohol" is mostly beating this reaction into submission

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This is largely true

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm going to stick with drinking my juice and asking for uppies to get the cereal on the top shelf.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

nah, alcohol tastes bad and most drinking culture is all about brainwashing yourself to like the bad tasting thing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My friends and I call them "Death Claws"

1/2 black cherry white claw 1/2 ready made cherry margarita mix Optional: a shot of tequila

It's cheap you can sip on it or just chug it and get real fucked up

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been into soju lately, especially a peach or pineapple flavor, but more importantly eggnog season is back. I'll be drinking that for the next few months

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

soju bombs are a fun way to chug a light beer

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Prairie makes a colab with Evil Twin(I think) called Bible Belt that is one of the best stouts I've ever had. It's boozy AF and pricy but if you haven't tried it, seek it out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

When I was still boozing I loved a good, simple whiskey sour

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

fidel-salute-big finally someone in this thread with taste

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Double rum and diet coke stays winning

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Living in mexico i learned that my favorite way to have rum/coke was to have half coke, half soda water, and double rum, and a bit of lime juice. SUCH A GOOD DRINK, and often i wouldn't get hangovers because the water kept me hydrated.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I love basically any gin based cocktail, hell even gin neat tastes good to me. Other than that I love ciders of all kinds.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Much like my coffee wankerism in the other thread, I'm a beer nerd too - always been into dark beers though, so imperial stouts are my favourite, but stout season is ending in Australia. Guess I'll be on the oat cream IPAs for the foreseeable future.

Otherwise, Old Fashioned is probably my favourite cocktail/mixed drink. You can't beat a good one. I tend to make a fuckaround one at home with brown sugar and orange bitters

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Not an alcoholic drink- unless you're talking about Budweiser, in which case it's piss that tastes kinda good

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm partial to local ciders

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm a craft beer nerd. I'm huge into IPAs but can agree that the market has become oversaturated. But I genuinely like most other styles as well.

I've recently gotten back into a red wine kick after finding out that Ménage à Trois is vegan so yay for cheap but good wine that isn't filtered with animal parts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

whiskey water/coke or a pale lager party-parenti

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Bourbon, but I've been off booze for nearly a year now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Long Island Iced Tea is my fav. I think what I like is that it tastes very strong... but is in fact way stronger than you even think it is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Rum & Lemonade lt-dbyf-dubois

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's hard to choose one, but maybe a Peruvian Pisco sour. It tastes like lime juice, but is probably over 30% abv. Bellinis are great too when you can get them with a decent peach puree.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

A vegan irish coffee

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I had to give it up (I went on a wild bender due to COVID depression and I tried to dry myself out and woke up in the hospital, not good!)

But I used to like a good bourbon. Ice cube in the summer, splash of water in the winter.

Or a gin and tonic with fresh mint leaves crushed up. Super refreshing on a warm summer evening.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Kahlua. Captain Morgan rum. Vanilla ice cream. Root beer. Combine, put in freezer for hour, til it becomes a slushy freeze. Vanilla ice cream at top, slushy root beer ice at bottom. Tastes best if you drink it with a straw.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

usually just a vodka neat, straight out of the freezer. though sometimes a moscow mule is nice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I like to brew my own cider and fruit wines. Can't go wrong with an imperial cider or perry plus a berry like blueberry or strawberry

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hahaha very glad to see where this link went. Them crooked vultures was so sick

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I like beer, I generally don't drink liquor because I've had problems with alcohol in the past and it makes it easier for me to keep my consumption under control. I would say I like craft beers but that usually implies 'west coast double dry hopped mango IPA.' I prefer locally made, high quality beers that aren't too over the top and trend closer to the traditional ingredients and recipes. Not just IPAs either! I absolutely LOVE saisons, either local or import. You can never go wrong with Saisons Dupont.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

white rum with carbonated water or water depending on what i have at hand

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately im fked by genetics so alcohol makes me have a allergic reaction basically

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

A good gin&tonic is my go-to. Also rum (had the privilege of getting a bottle of Cuban soft rum once long ago and it made me a rum lover), dry white vine, the occasional beer. Not really much of a drinker, I hate being drunk, but I do like to have a drink here and there every once in a while, with food typically. In wintertime a hot beverage with a splash of rum in it in the evening is a wonderful thing.

When younger I liked single malt whiskeys, but have totally lost my taste for those, unless used in a nice Irish Coffee. Same for all the jägers, passoas, irish creams and other such things. Wine taste has also turned from red to white over the years.

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