# Does brandy ever taste good? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2002, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-brandy-ever-taste-good/141848 "2002-12-10T21:11:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-brandy-ever-taste-good/141848/41 "2002-12-12T01:46:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*“80 dollars a shot??? That’s insane!” > > Yep, that’s what I thought. If I’d had to pay for it I never would have tried it. Like I said, he was a friend so it was gratis. > > It was such an incredibly high concentration of alcohol that it was unlike anything I’d ever been exposed to before. Had I “known” how to drink and enjoy it I probably would have appreciated it more. Instead it made my eyes red, my nose run and I was instant blotto. > > Scylla wonders elsewhere if an alcohol enhanced pee can ever be flammable. The stuff I was served certainly gave you an opinion on the subject. \*\* My mind is continuing to boggle here. Just to clear this up for me, when you say “80 dollars a shot”, do you mean a shot as in the amount that fits in a shotglass, or do you mean a bottle? Also, I thought all brandies were in the neighborhood of 40% alcohol, the same as most hard liquors. Do I have that wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-brandy-ever-taste-good/141848/42 "2002-12-12T01:51:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Manduck \* > \*\*My mind is continuing to boggle here. Just to clear this up for me, when you say “80 dollars a shot”, do you mean a shot as in the amount that fits in a shotglass, or do you mean a bottle? > > Also, I thought all brandies were in the neighborhood of 40% alcohol, the same as most hard liquors. Do I have that wrong? \*\* 80 dollars is high! As far as the 40% thing, I’d say that most hard liquors are around that, but it’s not uncommon to see anywhere from 40% (80 proof) to 55% (110 proof). Also, depending on where you live, 151 proof can be legal, as well as 180 (everclear, I believe). ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-brandy-ever-taste-good/141848/43 "2002-12-12T15:31:44Z")
It was at The Mansion on Turtle Creek so it was bound to be pricey but I think it was called Napoleon Brandy or something like that and it was 80 dollars for a snifter of the stuff, which probably equates to somewhere between one and two shot glasses of the stuff. This was back in the mid 1980’s or so. It was like getting a nose hit off a Zippo but you could tell that it obviously was really good stuff. Some more friends joined us later and I couldn’t carry on a normal conversation. Thank goodness I didn’t develop a taste for the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-brandy-ever-taste-good/141848/44 "2002-12-12T15:46:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*I know a girl named Brandy. \*\* She taste good? Sua I can’t believe no one asked that yet. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-brandy-ever-taste-good/141848/45 "2002-12-12T15:53:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*It was at The Mansion on Turtle Creek so it was bound to be pricey but I think it was called Napoleon Brandy or something like that and it was 80 dollars for a snifter of the stuff, which probably equates to somewhere between one and two shot glasses of the stuff. This was back in the mid 1980’s or so. > > It was like getting a nose hit off a Zippo but you could tell that it obviously was really good stuff. Some more friends joined us later and I couldn’t carry on a normal conversation. Thank goodness I didn’t develop a taste for the stuff. \*\* It couldn’t have been Napolean Brandy, unless it was an expensive, old one: [http://www.skywards.co.nz/listBrandy.htm](http://www.skywards.co.nz/listBrandy.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Humble\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/47e85d/32.png) [@Humble\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Humble_Servant)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-brandy-ever-taste-good/141848/46 "2002-12-12T16:44:40Z")
When you’ve started the day by writing-off half of a bill because a client couldn’t wrap his mind around your outrageous and entirely unjustifiable billing rates, segued to a 3 hour non-billable meeting in which a decision on secretarial assignments was again not made, continued by efficiently finalizing a beautiful and creative letter to shareholders for a deal WHICH NO ONE BOTHERED TO MENTION WAS CALLED OFF YESTERDAY, and topped the day off with a conference call to discuss how a witness in a client trial has just insinuated that firm records have been falsified and that we all should be disbarred, well, then, brandy tastes good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-brandy-ever-taste-good/141848.md?page=2)