What is your favorite alcoholic drink?

[Captante]

(1) Strong full-bodied red wine (Cabernet)

(2) Pure Agave Tequila

(3) Dark beer (too many I love to choose one)

(4) Girly-drinks ... In particular top-shelf Pomegranate Martini's!

 

[mmntech]

I've personally never ran into it myself, kinda why I posted the Appleton thing up there above.

I'm pretty sure there would be some floating about, but not something I've looked for I guess.

However, I have ran into some cigars now and then

I picked up a bottle of Havana Club White at the duty free in the Varadero airport. It was like $7 for a 1.5L bottle. Not bad because it was double that price in Havana. Kind of wished I had bought the 7 year blend, but I have bad memories of that particular vintage. ^_^

Havana Club is the original Bacardi. You can get it in the liquor stores here, but it's a lot more expensive.

 

[MongGrel]

Depends on how I am feeling and the time of year. In the winter I will usually drink whisky mixed with a little something to take the bite off. Whiskey and ginger is a longtime favorite, but lately I've been turning more and more to the whiskey "old fashioned."

On a hot summer day though my favorite drink by far is the Mojito. Quintessential summer drink. Cool, light and refreshing. And if done well it can knock you on your butt in short order.

Mojito's I like also, but haven't had a good one in a long time or bothered there either.

I first ran into one when we went on a Fam Cruise with the wife about 15 years ago, the bartenders were making em from scratch and crushing the leaves fresh and we ordered a couple.

By the time the cruise was over were people in the bars waiting to have them made.

 

[MongGrel]

I picked up a bottle of Havana Club White at the duty free in the Varadero airport. It was like $7 for a 1.5L bottle. Not bad because it was double that price in Havana. Kind of wished I had bought the 7 year blend, but I have bad memories of that particular vintage. ^_^

Havana Club is the original Bacardi. You can get it in the liquor stores here, but it's a lot more expensive.

I'd forgotten that one, I knew Bacardi at one point was a split off.

Kinda like Zildjain and Sabian Cymbals for a drum set, not that relevant I imagine but same thing happened.

If ya get in the mood try Appleton Estate Rum sometime once, I recommend it at any rate, but it isn't a white.

 

[Slick Mcflicken]

RUM

https://www.google.ca/#q=appleton+estate+rum

 

[Mai72]

Rum an coke.

 

[MongGrel]

And I looked into that myself even if the above was off, I guess there is white.

Might have to try that out.

But not at that price.

http://www.maxliquor.com/product-p/appleton-rum.htm

 

[Slick Mcflicken]

For me I love all beer, so that's a given like I love all rock music... but for Rum, I have tried all kinds over the the years, everything tastes like a thin alcohol taste. Appleton Estates rum for me is true flavour. Like syrup to real maple syrup. The Taste. Plus i smoke too L;P so i can really taste it.

 

[dennilfloss]

Red wine is my favourite but I can't really afford it these days (or champagne for that matter, which I love), so I drink port instead. I also love Dubonnet, half white/half red ("moitié-moitié").

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Red wine is my favourite but I can't really afford it these days (or champagne for that matter, which I love), so I drink port instead. I also love Dubonnet, half white/half red ("moitié-moitié").

In what world is port cheaper than red wine?

 

[dennilfloss]

If I open a bottle of red wine and drink 2 glasses, the rest of the bottle goes to vinegar in a couple of days and gets wasted. With port, I can sip just 2 fingers of it once in a while to relax and the rest doesn't go bad when I recap the bottle. A $11 bottle of port lasts me 5-6 months.

 

[BladeVenom]

Absinthe, after that Port. Hard to pick a third choice since there are so many I like.

 

[MongGrel]

Have never tried Absinthe in my life, probably won't as the recipe was lost long ago even on retries and no one drinks it like they used to anyway.

I'd assume a joke.

Port is more something you drink with a cigar after a large dinner, I couldn't imagine just drinking that either on even a semi regular basis.

To each their own I suppose.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Gin Martini straight up with about 3 olives sounds real good about now....
Appleton Estates rum - very flavorful!!

 

[JEDI]

Have never tried Absinthe in my life, probably won't as the recipe was lost long ago even on retries and no one drinks it like they used to anyway.

I'd assume a joke.

Port is more something you drink with a cigar after a large dinner, I couldn't imagine just drinking that either on even a semi regular basis.

To each their own I suppose.

yup Absinthe is a joke, even over sugar cube on a spoon heated by cigarette lighter

 

[JManInPhoenix]

When I used to drink, cuba libre

 

[Atomic Playboy]

If I open a bottle of red wine and drink 2 glasses, the rest of the bottle goes to vinegar in a couple of days and gets wasted. With port, I can sip just 2 fingers of it once in a while to relax and the rest doesn't go bad when I recap the bottle. A $11 bottle of port lasts me 5-6 months.

You need one of these. It'll keep your wine going to vinegar for at least a month or two; plenty of time to enjoy it.

 

[smackababy]

Have never tried Absinthe in my life, probably won't as the recipe was lost long ago even on retries and no one drinks it like they used to anyway.

I'd assume a joke.

Port is more something you drink with a cigar after a large dinner, I couldn't imagine just drinking that either on even a semi regular basis.

To each their own I suppose.

There is real Absinthe if you know where to find it. I've read articles about them using gas spectrometers on vintage (meaning old, not the vine term) bottles to get the actual ingredients. A guy in NO did that (he was a chemical engineer and found a bottle at an estate sale) and bought an old Absinthe brewery in France to make the real stuff.

 

[alkemyst]

You need one of these. It'll keep your wine going to vinegar for at least a month or two; plenty of time to enjoy it.

These work great to keep bubbly wines bubbly as well

 

[vi edit]

Scotch neat or Belgian ales.

At a bar, an Old Fashioned is really growing on me. Bonus points if the bartender is hot, and bent over showing lots of cleavage while muddling the sugar cube.

 

[sourceninja]

For me it's:

Neat Scotch
Rob Roy
zacapa rum on ice
cucumber vodka tonic
beefeater gin and tonic

 

[BladeVenom]

Have never tried Absinthe in my life, probably won't as the recipe was lost long ago even on retries and no one drinks it like they used to anyway.

Plenty of recipes survived. They never stopped making it in someplaces.

There's also analytical chemistry. You can figure out almost exactly what was used.

Herbsaint and Pastis is almost the same thing, but they use Artemisia pontica instead of Artemisia absinthium.

 

[OCGuy]

Whichever one is in my hand at the time.

 

[BladeVenom]

A guy in NO did that (he was a chemical engineer and found a bottle at an estate sale) and bought an old Absinthe brewery in France to make the real stuff.

Ted Breaux, I've even talked to him online a long time ago. He rents the old original absinthe stills at the Combier distillery in France to make his absinthe.

 

[OCGuy]

In what world is port cheaper than red wine?

Certainly that depends on what red wine you are drinking.

There is a big difference between Yellow Tail, Caymus, and a nice Bordeaux.