Why not drink what you like? Life’s too short to waste in forcing yourself to drink something that you don’t like and don’t want to acquire a taste for.
I can’t stand beer. I’ve never had a beer (ale, etc) yet that I’ve enjoyed. I can choke the stuff down, but why bother?
Anyone who tries to equate my manliness with my choice of beverages is simply gonna get laughed at.
If it does nothing else, drinking what you enjoy will function as an asshole detector: Anyone who seriously mocks you because of your choice of beverage (I’m not talking about a buddy making a quip) isn’t someone you’d want to waste your time with anyway.
To paraphrase Terry Pratchett: The only correct answer to the question “What is the cool/manly thing to drink?” is “Hey man, whatever I order.”
Although three very large ones caused me almost-infinite pain after the NY Dopefest in January, another possiblitity (if somewhat cutesily named) is the Jack and Ginger. But then again, maybe if you don’t follow the J&G with wine, beer, and a vodka drink or two you won’t have the same hangover…
Except that tonic contains quinine, which, if overimbibed, can affect the auditory system and cause ringing in the ears. I don’t know if it has the capacity to damage your hearing permanently.
Order a banana daiquiri with 151 Bacardi. Trust me on this. A beer-drinking friend once ridiculed me when I ordered this in a restaurant (he was drinking Foster’s or something). I looked at him and said: “A real man doesn’t drink beer when he can get something that has a warning: flammable label on it” He shut up really quick.
However, there is one caveat. 151 Bacardi is 75.5 percent alcohol (that’s why the bottle does carry a warning: flammable liquid). Don’t drink too many of these or you will be out like a light.
Vodka, chilled to as cold as you can get it (0 degrees centigrade is fine, but ideally I’m talking -10, -15, -20 here. WARNING do not touch a bottle when its this cold with naked flesh. Seriously.) has virtually no taste. And its practically rocket fuel, it jumps straight to your head and makes you go instantly all fuzzy.
Failing that, tequila with salt and lemon tastes good. Again, I prefer the tequila savagely cold (maybe this whole cold thing is just me), but the lemon makes the thing taste good. Plus, you get to do the whole preparatory ritual involved in drinking the thing. (Although that gets complicated after fifteen of them).
Otherwise, uh…well, its a long shot, but on the offchance you enjoy the refreshing taste of fire, I recommend absinthe.
i’m guessing you don’t drink coolers or rigos or bacardi breezers or smirnoff ice?
all girly, but still acceptable, escpecially if you get vodka and smirnoff ice and mix in a glass…or bottle rocket them.
i take it guinness counts as beer?
cider is nice in the summer too, but it makes me think of drinking in fields when i was 15…hence the nausea and giggling.
g&ts are very good, and not too girly.
people have mentioned jack d & coke, what about southern comfort & coke or lime? a bit sweeter and not too girly.
kahlua and milk or coke or orange juice is also good. and acceptably blokey.
whiskey and milk?
brandy and ginger?
just be more imaginative.
and if you like fuzzy navels, why not try a cocksucking cowboy? it’s baileys and butterscotch schnapps.
you have to have balls to order that one!
thus speaks the girl whose drink of choice is a half pint of guinness with a black bush chaser.
Yes, Shagnasty, we are. The OP wasn’t looking for an appropriate drink for a certain setting. He was looking for a manly drink that doesn’t taste like alcohol, that he can drink with his odd scotch-drinking friends. He has switched from drinking Mudslides and Fuzzy Navels to rye and coke, and still feels that his drink choice needs to be more “manly.”
I think your observations about scotch as an old man’s drink are correct. In my opinion a VO Manhattan is pretty much an old man’s drink too, just a little more palatable.
I am quite fond of gin and tonic, and am not disparaging that as a drink choice. However as an answer to Steel’s dilemma, it just doesn’t work.
I wouldn’t worry about it… when I was in college(1991-1996), I got a bottle of Jim Beam Rye Whiskey, and most people who weren’t familiar with it assumed that it was absolutely the most heinous of all rotgut whiskies, and that drinking it with Coke was the only way to choke it down. What’s funny is that Rye & Coke is actually pretty damn good- better than Bourbon and Coke anyway. So that got the best of both worlds- respect and a decent tasting drink.
If you’re still bent on changing, I’d go with a margarita. As far as I’ve seen, here in Texas, both genders guzzle these like they’re going out of style. No sissy-ass extra liqueur like Chambord though- that’ll get you laughed at.
I’d agree with the Gin & Tonic or Vodka Tonic suggestions…You can have a few, then on your way to the bathroom tell the waitstaff to only bring you tonic and lime or soda and lime for the next few rounds. I have done this at business meetings and no one knows the difference. To add style, suggest the brand of Vodka or Gin (as previously mentioned).
You can also do this with a scotch and soda if you feel pressured by the scotch drinkers. Ask for Johnny Walker Black and screw the puritans. When you are tired of drinking these, ask the waitstaff to bring you soda with a splash of cola. They know the score, and if they do it, you’ll tip them nicely.
And yes, you are doing the right thing by thinking this out. Especially if you do after work drinks. Being able to whip out a drink with no thought looks like you know what you like, and having something simple will never get condemned.
Also, Vodka will leave you feeling less bad in the morning than Bourbon or Scotch. And, due to the fact that you don’t really care about alcohol, Vodka doesn’t really taste like much, so don’t waste your time trying to find something that you barely like.
Clean, simple, to the point. “I’ll take a Vodka tonic please, do you have Stoli’s? Absolute?” “Gin and tonic, Saffire please.” “Scotch and soda, J.W. Black, please.”
