Okay, here’s my problem, I am an occasional social drinker - i.e.: I only drink when I am out with friends at a bar or restaurant. Never at home - never alone. This being said, I must admit that I have never been able to acquire a taste for alcohol. I can’t stand beer and wine makes me violently ill every time. I’m almost embarrassed to admit but my favorite drinks when I came of age were mudslides and fuzzy navels - not exactly the manliest drinks. I have since moved on to predominately drinking rye and coke but that doesn’t really stand up when my friends are drinking scotch on the rocks. So here is my request of you: I need a list of manly alcoholic drinks that I can proudly consume with my friends without feeling like a dork where the alcohol cannot - or can barely be tasted.
I’ve been trolling these boards long enough to know that y’all can be quite creative so let’s hear some suggestions!
Bourbon (not Sour Mash); much more manly and much less stuffy than scotch. It affords you the sweentness you crave…one of the few liquors that can’t have a speed-pour top on the bottle because the bar-room fruit flies will smell it out, crawl in and drown in a foggy bliss.
Well, speaking as a guy who’d consider your friends wimps for taking ice in their Scotch…
(Heh heh. Not really…whatever floats your boat is fine by me, although I prefer it “neat.”)
You might try a kamikaze. That’s vodka, Triple Sec, and lime juice. They’re quite surprisingly tasty, and don’t taste much like alcohol, but they pack a pretty good kick. Plus they have a suitably manly name.
Steel Wheels, I know just how you feel. I tried several times to develop a taste for scotch and never managed it.
I have settled on the vodka tonic as my drink of choice when I don’t want to be seen drinking a screwdriver in public. When I absolutely don’t care, I have a vodka collins, 4 cherries.
Get apple juice and tell them it’s straight whiskey!
I hardly ever drink anything except beer and wine, but on the rare occasion when I do drink hard alcohol I go with a tequila sunrise with extra umbrellas. Unless I care about looking ridiculous, then I go with a gin and tonic.
But I urge you to get over the manly bit. It restricts your choices.
I was going to suggest Bourbon - Southern Comfort, to be precise. I stopped myself when I realized that you shouldn’t drink and drive. Hand over the hands, young man!
I forgot to mention - the other advantage of a gin and tonic is that you can transition to a tonic and tonic and no one except the bartender will know!
This advice is all coming from a girly-drink drinker, so read accordingly…
Vodka and cranberry is my “yeah, I’m a wussy – so what?” drink. Vodka tonic is my less-girly default. (Citron and tonic is yummy, although more girly.) Gin and tonics are good, as are jack and cokes.
The key is to embrace your wussiness. Ignore the ribbing of the manly Scotch drinkers. They only mock you because they have small penises.
There’s always the Long Island iced tea. Supposedly, you really can’t taste the alcohol that much, even though it’s got rum, whiskey, vodka, tequila, and triple sec in there.
Bourbon and 7-up on ice. Which bourbon? Knob Creek if they have it. If not, JimBeam or Old Crow. That’s right, Old Crow, a surprisingly fine taste in a cheap whiskey.
It’s a shot, but you might want to try a Cat’s Eye. It’s got Jaegermeister, Kahlua, and Rumplemints (sp?) and you can barely taste the alcohol in it.
Then there’s my favorite “drink this to prove you’re a man” drink, although you might want to avoid it if you don’t like the taste of alcohol: Liquid Cocaine. Jaegermeister, Goldschlager, and Bacardi 151. Definitely a “manly” drink, but very alcohol-tasting, so again, you might want to avoid it.
