Boozification, Yay or Nay?

[BoomerD]

Only if you're drinking too much or too little. If you drink just the right amount it's fantastic.

One's too many...and ten ain't enough.

 

[highland145]

One's too many...and ten ain't enough.

Amen.

 

[OccamsToothbrush]

One's too many...and ten ain't enough.

It's more like boobs. One isn't enough, three is too many (other than that Total Recall chick, she made it work). The sweet spot is two, properly lubricated, still in control, no hangover. All you have to do is be able to quit after two. It's not that hard.

Oh yeah, and three also works in the Al Bundy arrangement. One on the back, for dancing.

 

[Scarpozzi]

I really like bourbon...I buy a large bottle of Maker's Mark once a year (at least). It's great on the rocks, mixed with coke, or even egg nog this time of year. I prefer it to the pre-mixed alcoholic egg nog.

I just try to limit my intake because it's really easy to get into that habit of drinking every night...or more frequently. I never have been addicted to alcohol that I'm aware of.

 

[Captante]

I go through a six-pack of premium IPA about every 2-3 weeks and have a glass/bottle of quality red wine upon occasion with a dinner out.

The only seasonal alcoholic drinks I enjoy are warm spiced mead and eggnog with bourbon or dark.

 

[nakedfrog]

It's drinking season! What I've bought so far...

Case of Chimay red
Asbach Privat Brand brandy
Highland Park 12yr scotch
Festlig Krogstad aquavit
Pussers rum
Powers Irish whiskey
BlackBush Irish whiskey
GreenSpot Irish whiskey
Chivas Regal scotch
Michters rye

edit:
forgot Five Farms Irish cream

edit2:
Lost, try Carolans Irish cream. It's better than Baileys, and a good bit cheaper. It wins on taste, and the price is icing on the cake.

That seems like a nice selection, though I'd probably go for Chimay blue.

Whiskey sours are great!

Concur.

 

[WelshBloke]

Concur.

Try an amaretto sour! It's super Christmassy!

 

[zinfamous]

i might try a sip of alcohol someday

careful: that might inspire you to do more crazy shit like get on an air-o-plane and go somewhere!

 

[zinfamous]

im hammering some makers mark tonight with some beers
alcoholism is a post 40 hobby for me
pretty interesting

You know, maybe if I started treating it like a hobby, I would feel less shame!

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Will probably be having 2 of these tasty 12%+ stouts tonight

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Scratch that, moved on to this one

 

[brianmanahan]

Why?

Scratch that, moved on to this one

candles glowing softly on a leather-upholstered reclaimed-wood desk

with a bottle of bourbon and an alienware keyboard?

found the fatcat

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I think we used to put Devonshire (spelling?) in our coffee. It was cheaper than Baileys at the time.

Go buy the stuff Costco sells. Its pretty good and cheap ($15/1.75 liter bottle). I buy it by the case every 2-3 months. Two shots in the morning brew every day for the past ~25 years and my liver is still doing good.

 

[WelshBloke]

candles glowing softly on a leather-upholstered reclaimed-wood desk

with a bottle of bourbon and an alienware keyboard?

found the fatcat

If you drank more stout then you could be that fat cat!

 

[brianmanahan]

If you drank more stout then you could be that fat cat!

i would like to try it, but with my meds and my brain it would mess me up so bad

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

candles glowing softly on a leather-upholstered reclaimed-wood desk

with a bottle of bourbon and an alienware keyboard?

found the fatcat

Hehe -

Well, when you work from home you gotta step up from an ikea desk if it's something you're going to be on 50+ hours a day.

The alienware keyboard just bought the other day as a black-friday special... decent mechanical one - Used to be a Razer but it slowly deteriorated.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

i would like to try it, but with my meds and my brain it would mess me up so bad

Brain surgery mate. Absolutely nothing can go w-wrong wrong wrong wrong.

 

[BoomerD]

i would like to try it, but with my meds and my brain it would mess me up so bad

getting messed up is the whole point...

 

[zinfamous]

Goose Island...that's an evil beer company.

They, in the "Chicago Way," lobbied to ban all outside-Chicago beer companies from distributing inside Chicago. This was ~2005 or so.
They were at least somewhat successful, because you could no longer find Bells in Chicago. ...better than anything that Chicago makes, among many others, ESPECIALLY Goose Island

Fuck those assholes. Don't buy their beer. ever.

 

[zinfamous]

i would like to try it, but with my meds and my brain it would mess me up so bad

Stout is great, but don't drink and of that whiskey barrel-aged crap. Just drink real stout. Drink whisky if you want to drink whiskey. Save the stouts for stouts. The whiskey for whiskey

Most actual stouts are really rather weak--some of the best in the world aren't even 6%
(Holy crap--RSS is still going strong...that thing was a World Gold Medal back when it was my 21st BDay keg in ~2000. )

...but there are those that are much stronger, and very good. They are dinner and beer in one glass, really.

 

[brianmanahan]

Brain surgery mate. Absolutely nothing can go w-wrong wrong wrong wrong.

those things don't always work

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Goose Island...that's an evil beer company.

They, in the "Chicago Way," lobbied to ban all outside-Chicago beer companies from distributing inside Chicago. This was ~2005 or so.
They were at least somewhat successful, because you could no longer find Bells in Chicago. ...better than anything that Chicago makes, among many others, ESPECIALLY Goose Island

Fuck those assholes. Don't buy their beer. ever.

Goose Island was bought by AB Inbev (AKA Budweiser - mass macro brewer) to which I do say - yeah, I'm generally not in support of them.

However... I'm genuinly fine with mass producers buying out a craft brew SO LONG as they don't fuck with shit.... Which is the problem, 99.9% of the time if a macro brewer buys out a micro brewer the first question to be asked is "How can we make the same product with less costs?" That means replacing the hops/barley/wheat etc. with whatever they can get for cheaper and presuming it will have the same outcome. It doesn't.

There is a few breweries that have been bought out that they have intelligently been reluctant to touch - which I am fine with. Goose Island is one of them (bought by AB Inbev) and I also will forever love Unibroue which is owned by the mass produced Japanese Sapporo.


Also don't like in IL / Chicago (although I travel there often) so I don't know the laws and legislation trying to be passed. I'm too busy being in Texas where liquor stores are closed on Sunday for our lord and savior. Except beer after 12:00 noon... of course you can buy a beer/wine after attending church!

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

those things don't always work

Tis true. It was based on me having an awesome neurology group where I live, seeing the same person for 10+ years, and going through all the protocols of detecting where it's at and if it was something they felt that they could safely operate.

So yeah, you're absolutely right.

 

[zinfamous]

Goose Island was bought by AB Inbev (AKA Budweiser - mass macro brewer) to which I do say - yeah, I'm generally not in support of them.

However... I'm genuinly fine with mass producers buying out a craft brew SO LONG as they don't fuck with shit.... Which is the problem, 99.9% of the time if a macro brewer buys out a micro brewer the first question to be asked is "How can we make the same product with less costs?" That means replacing the hops/barley/wheat etc. with whatever they can get for cheaper and presuming it will have the same outcome. It doesn't.

There is a few breweries that have been bought out that they have intelligently been reluctant to touch - which I am fine with. Goose Island is one of them (bought by AB Inbev) and I also will forever love Unibroue which is owned by the mass produced Japanese Sapporo.


Also don't like in IL / Chicago (although I travel there often) so I don't know the laws and legislation trying to be passed. I'm too busy being in Texas where liquor stores are closed on Sunday for our lord and savior. Except beer after 12:00 noon... of course you can buy a beer/wine after attending church!

goddamn it don't tell me that Unibroue is owned by Sapporo (literally Budweiser in Japan) ...I will promptly forget that now.

(actually, I'm somewhat confusing them with Kirin Ichiban...which is, quite literally, Budweiser in a fancy can. It is the same fucking beer, and that is a made up name for a beer that doesn't exist. Prove me wrong, lol--seriously, drink one of those, and read the actual label....MIND BLOWN ...Sapporo isn't nearly as bad)

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

goddamn it don't tell me that Unibroue is owned by Sapporo (literally Budweiser in Japan) ...I will promptly forget that now.

(actually, I'm somewhat confusing them with Kirin Ichiban...which is, quite literally, Budweiser in a fancy can. It is the same fucking beer, and that is a made up name for a beer that doesn't exist. Prove me wrong, lol--seriously, drink one of those, and read the actual label....MIND BLOWN ...Sapporo isn't nearly as bad)

It is, sadly. I was disappointed as well.

But like I said, they keep their greedy shit hands off the brewery. So I'm cool with it. They have their master brewer and they don't screw shit up.

La Fin du Monde is my Bud light of beer - I can always go back to it - and it's always fucking awesome.