# Can you help me identify this alcohol? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 23, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-identify-this-alcohol/291529 "2005-02-23T14:56:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![saluki\_fan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@saluki\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saluki_fan)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-identify-this-alcohol/291529/1 "2005-02-23T14:56:33Z")
I’m trying to think of a certain drink I used to drink back in the dorms. Basically it consisted of some moderately prices whiskey (I think) and seven up. It wasn’t a very high proof liquor and it didn’t have a strong bite. It almost kind of tasted like Alcohols answer to Root Beer. Before people suggest Southern Comfort, just let me say that I am from a redneck town of 2600 people and I know my so co. Thanks for the help 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-identify-this-alcohol/291529/2 "2005-02-23T15:02:54Z")
Sounds like a Seven and Seven – Seagram’s “7” whisky and 7-Up. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-identify-this-alcohol/291529/3 "2005-02-23T17:15:19Z")
I know a coupla women who drink amaretto and ginger ale/seven up/whatever. Tastes great, but no matter how fast I chug them they do not have much effect. ---
**Author:** ![Ass\_For\_A\_Hat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Ass\_For\_A\_Hat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ass_For_A_Hat)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-identify-this-alcohol/291529/4 "2005-02-23T22:25:57Z")
> [@saluki\_fan](#): > > It wasn’t a very high proof liquor and it didn’t have a strong bite. It almost kind of tasted like Alcohols answer to Root Beer. You’re trying to identify the whiskey-like product that you used to make the drink? I’ll guess Yukon Jack. It’s sweet, whiskey-like, and not Southern Comfort. _Yukon Jack is a taste born of hoary nights, when lonely men struggled to keep their fires lit and cabins warm._ ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-identify-this-alcohol/291529/5 "2005-02-24T01:38:33Z")
> [@saluki\_fan](#): > > **Can you help me identify this alcohol?** > > I’m trying to think of a certain drink I used to drink back in the dorms… The alcohol in question was almost certainly ethanol. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![saluki\_fan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@saluki\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saluki_fan)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-identify-this-alcohol/291529/6 "2005-02-25T15:35:13Z")
> [@vetbridge](#): > > I know a coupla women who drink amaretto and ginger ale/seven up/whatever. Tastes great, but no matter how fast I chug them they do not have much effect. You guesed it :smack: thanks.