Favourite Alcoholic Drink?

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This for me is a very hard question to answer. Alcohol happens to be one of my (many) vices. I like anything from fine red wines, to single malt whiskeys, to local micro-brewery real ales, right over to 'standard fare' European lagers.

Normally I can be found sampling locally brewed ales, but I've shelved those for the moment. Right now I've a flavour for Estrella Damm, a Spanish lager. Sharp, crisp and easy to drink. That and South Australian merlot's.

If I had to give a favourite drink of all time though, it would have to be the indian pale ale, Jaipur...



It's gorgeous, delectable, and what's more.... it's brewed just up the road from me.

 

Probably Guinness. I've never been much of a whiskey drinker but I'm starting to experiment with that.

 

My favorite beer is whatever one that happens to be in my hand, and I honestly couldn't name one beer that I like so much better than all the rest. So I suppose I'd need more of a list of beers I like. In no particular order: Sam Adams, Yuengling Lager, Guinness, Bass, Harp, Blue Moon, and probably a dozen others that I'm leaving off the list.

Now that the summer months are rolling around, I'll indulge in mixed drinks some more, and nothing beats a Bombay Sapphire gin and tonic on a warm summer night.

Vices are just too much fun. I'm the same way - name a vice, and I probably like it. Drinking, smoking, gambling - you name it. Name any enjoyable activity you can think of, and if you incorporate a vice along with it, it invariably improves it.

 

Blue Moon is really good. And Yuengling isn't too bad, a bit 'ten a penny' as my dad would say, but it's not nasty.

Oh Alders, tell me about it. I have every vice going. I drink too much, smoke too much, gamble too much and have become dangerously close a drug habit a time or two! (although I hasten to add I will never actually allow that to happen - I'm a stubborn bastard when I've a mind to be). Life would be so ****ing boring without vices!

Oh by the way Americans, I've tasted that *thing* you have over there posing as Guinness, and it should be done under the trade descriptions act!

 

I don't drink beer; I've never developed a taste for it and Guinness makes me violently ill. (Yes, I live in Ireland. Sad, sad thing.) My usual drink of choice is Kopparberg pear cider - it is really light and enjoyable, although I do appreciate Bullmers, too. The original apple, their pear is vile. I'm also partial to red wine, especially merlots, and for some reason Australian ones.

And of course, vodka With red bull, preferably.

Says the one with too many vices to list here...

 

Any beer that is on tap Amstel, Hertog-Jan, Warsteiner, Guinness and last summer in England I got a taste for Stella Artois. (Beer might not be the right name for all, but I always get confused between beers, stouts, ales and lagers )

When I venture away from the "standard" tap beers I quite like a Karmeliet, Pauwel Kwak or Desperados in the summer.

Besides beers, I love single malt whiskey and I often drink Beerenburg in my coke (it's a Dutch liquor, I don't even think there is an English name for it).

 

Do you mean the bottled extra stout, Barmy? I don't care for that as much, but according to Guinness itself, the draught is the same here as in Ireland.

I have heard the popular opinion that Guinness in Ireland is best due to freshness though, and I wouldn't doubt that.

 

It was bottled from a Walmart or something that I got it from, so yeah probably. It might be OK in its own right, but I expected it to taste like Guinness and it just didn't lol. Then I got one on draught in a restaurant which wasn't very nice either, but that might have just been the previous experience playing on my mind. Guinness here tastes different though I thought, thicker and tastier.

It was great in America actually, really enjoyed it. I'd go again in a heartbeat. A holiday to New York around Christmas time is definitely on my to-do list! Take in an NHL game too .

 

You see that's kinda my point. I'm not trying to belittle the US or anything lol, but none in the UK, not one swinging dick would call Guinness a light drink. I think over there its deliberately changed to make it more likeable with the mass market. Over here its basically a 'love it or hate it' drink because of how heavy and thick it is. The running joke up and down the country is that Guinness is a 'meal in a glass' .

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Ah fair enough pal. Yea I know American lagers are literally like being raped when you drink them. Absolutely dank. America has produced some decent beers tho, I was a bit surprised myself, but they have! Blue moon, sierra nevada and a few other American ales I've tried have been mint. A bit rich and obviously full of calories haha, but that's America isn't it. Very nice none the less.

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Mesmero, Stella (AKA Wife-beater) is a lager, not a beer

 

I don't drink a lot, its not my preference. But when I do drink its generally vodka mixed with something.

 

Nothing straight to vodka ... sounds like a recipe for trouble! (I shouldn't talk - nothing to whiskey is probably worse. )

I had a nice smooth whiskey a couple weeks ago that I can't for the life of me remember the name of now. Pisses me off. It was something rather micro-ish.

 

Silvery... lager is a beer.

My favourite is a nice single malt, Penderyn being top of the list.

 

I am anything but a connoisseur when it comes to what I drink, but lately I've become a fan of a local pilsner called Mr. Huff.

Other than that I'll generally drink an ale like Alexander Keith's. The one thing I can't stomach anymore is Heineken, but that stems from an unfortunate all-you-can-drink Oktoberfest event when I was 19

 

That's why I avoid tequila.... you guys remember my 19th birthday....

 

Yeah but if you go into a pub and ask for beer you're not going to get offered lager unless they're really pedantic or American

 

That is a good drink! I prefer Islay whiskeys for stronger drinks and Lagavulin is probably on top of that list (well, actually my best friend has an Islay of about 30 years old. Very nice!). Ardbeg is good too. My cabin also contained a bottle of Bruichladdich, Bowmore and Laphroaigh. Unfortunately, all whiskey bottles are empty now.
Recently been to a whiskey tasting in a n old mill here in my city. I learned quite a lot.

For regular larger: Hertog Jan. In summer a white beer like Paulaner or Grolsch Weizen
There are many special beers I like. Usually Belgian. Leffe Blond is what I stockpile most in my house when it comes to beer (other than Hertog Jan).

In bars I usually start with larger (no Heineken!), and later get coke with Jack Daniels, no ice.

Sometimes I drink port and red wine. I hardly ever drink white wine.
I never had Cognac, but I should try it some time. My dad and brother couldn't stand that stuff and didn't feel well after, so I never bothered yet.