You’re reeeal close to my favorite summer drink, the Italian Buck. Same basic profile but adding Amaro Montenegro (still bitter but more floral) to the mix. It’s still a refreshing, bitter drink but with a more complex profile than Cynar alone.
My hootch of choice is Laird’s Applejack 86, followed by Warehouse Release Tullamore Dew, then Romana Black Sambuca. My favorite mixed drink is a Chocolate-Covered Cherry(Double chocolate vodka and Wild Cherry Pepsi), and my brew is Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout.
I am an unapologetic tippler. I wait till everything is done and I’m in for the day.
And then I blow my fucking brains out.
Not every day, but above average for even a Cheesehead. I keep it planned around my work and a business I own so as not to affect my performance with either.
I most definitely drank more during the pandemic as did my wife. Mostly as there was nothing much else to do. One can only boredom boink so many times in a day.
I never buy the same kind of beer twice in a row. And what I drink is all over the map. One day it might be Sam Adams, the next day Old Milwaukee. I have over 1300 ratings on Ratebeer.com.
I like Bourbon whiskey. Especially in a properly made Old Fashioned. The only non-bourbon whiskey I drink is Crown Royal and Seagrams 7. I don’t care for other Canadian whiskies nor Irish whiskey. I can’t stand scotch. I loath vodka and don’t care much for gin. I don’t mind rum or brandy but I don’t drink them very often.
I’ll drink wine from time to time but I like sweeter wines. Riesling Spatlese and rhine wines.
You’ve got the whole range of peatiness here, from the “how much smoke can we cram into a bottle” (Laphroaig, and hoo, boy, Octomore) to the whiff of peat from Bunnahabhain and Orkney’s Highland Park.
You may have tried it already, but I’m a fan of the Caol Ila 12 year old. The smokiness creeps up on you in the finish. Also, Bruichladdich’s Port Charlotte offering is nicely peated, and at 50% abv, it’s surprisingly smooth. But for me, the King of the Peated Malts is Talisker, on the island of Skye, a bit north of Islay.
Just my humble opinion. It’s hard for me to not jump in on this topic.
@Czarcasm okay hey so my wife would like to know were to find double chocolate vodka or what brand/s are there that you know of also im definitely gonna have to google those other names they sound exotic
@pkbites Holy shit 1300+ beer reviews ? Whats top 10 beers for you and your preferred type of beer i.e. pilsner etc and yeah I feel you on the Canadian it was okay for a time but its getting old and hard on the stomach . What about tequila ? Oh and I totally feel you on the boredom boinking good cardio tho
Okay when you said sweeter wines I was praying you weren’t gonna say merlot lol
@kayaker is that pretty much a white Russian? That mint mocha sounds fire
For some reason, my sense of taste is not very strong compared to others, which is why I favor the highly peated Islay whiskies, the ones that really kick you in the mouth. I suspect the reason those whiskies are so divisive is because their strength of flavor overwhelms people with normal taste buds, and knocks them flat on their back.
I have tried the Caol Ila 12 and the Talisker, and I felt they were fine whiskies, but they tend to be around ~$75/bottle in my region and compared to the Laphroaig Quarter Cask which I can get at ~$45/bottle, they’re just not as great as value propositions.
I wouldn’t say that I drink more with the pandemic, but to a degree what we drink has changed. Beforehand, it was a lot of stuff with limes and lemons like margaritas, sidecars, daiquiris, and caipirinhas, but with the pandemic, we haven’t been just stopping by the store on the way to/from somewhere if we’re out of citrus.
So we find ourselves having more beer and wine, or things that require less overall citrus, like whiskey/rum bucks (or “mules” if you have to) and drinks without citrus on occasion.
May I suggest you try a few semi-sweet to sweet meads? I do like a Riesling, tawny port or Moscato from time to time, but a good mead warms my heart as do no others. I suggest Redstone Meadery which is semi-local to me, and who had awesome in house visits and tasting [ admittedly, it’s a small business working in a chunk of a strip mall, but they were super nice]. I’ve seen in available in stores outside of Colorado as well.
While I like them, my problem before and during COVID is the whole ‘drink-it-before-it-goes-off’. I just don’t drink enough to justify a bottle unless I’m sharing, and since my wife prefers dry whites . . . just doesn’t work, thus my fondness for long lasting, shelf-stable options.
That’s fair. There’s certainly a wide range of price points, and the Lagavulin 16 is no slouch as far as price is concerned. A saying I once heard: “The best whisky in Scotland is the one in your glass.”
Laphroaig Quarter Cask at $45 per bottle is an impressive find; it runs around $85 here. Local pricing has been thrown for a loop due to the Trump Whisky Tariff (has that been rescinded yet?) and supply disruptions from COVID. I’m hoping that things will stabilize by summer.
It seems like a lot but there are people on that site that have tens of thousands of ratings. Both my wife and I have been to all 50 states and over 30 countries. There are a lot of beers that never get distributed outside of their own country or area. You have to be there to try them.
My favorite style is bohemian. Lagers, ales, pale ales, etc round out my favorites list. But I’ll try anything I haven’t had yet.
I have only given 2 beers a perfect rating. Oskar Blues Dales Pale Ale and Sprecher Milwaukee Pils. They are a pale ale and a bohemian respectively.
@pkbites thats just so many beers still lol so for each you try how often have you said hell no and is Oskar blues readily available do you know in local grocers possibly ?