# Question for women: What "laddish" drinks do you enjoy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568 "2009-08-24T23:21:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SecondJudith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@SecondJudith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecondJudith)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/1 "2009-08-24T23:21:59Z")
Sorry, I couldn’t think of a good American synonym. Is “guy” or “dude” an adjective? Anyway, I thought this thread: [Question for guys: What “girly” drinks do you enjoy?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=529303) needed a companion. I’ll start: I love a thick black pint of Guinness – or five – on a Saturday night. I went to Ireland two years ago, and the fellow standing beside me at the bar said that, when he was growing up, a bartender wouldn’t serve a lady a pint of Guinness – only half. But I like the feel of a sturdy pint glass in my hand, and I like the old-man-pub taste. I also like how you don’t have to eat dinner before you start drinking, because it’s a sandwich in a glass. 😉 So, ladies, what are your favorite “macho” tipples? ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/2 "2009-08-24T23:33:05Z")
Another for a pint of Guiness, and my favourite drink is always scotch. If I’m thirsty, it’s any old scotch and soda; if I’m not, it’s a single malt, Lagavulin and Laphroaig, straight, sometimes with a bit of water on the side or a few drops in the whisky. No sweet drinks or cocktails for me. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/3 "2009-08-24T23:39:01Z")
My wife generally matches me bourbon for bourbon, single-malt for single-malt. We both drink them neat. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/4 "2009-08-25T00:23:20Z")
Scotch and soda! I always had a scotch and soda when I took a plane trip. Once I had an opportunity to taste the good expensive stuff - yowsa! Also like dark beer - Guiness, oatmeal stout… ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/5 "2009-08-25T00:28:34Z")
Beer, all kinds, but I don’t shy from the darker beers - porter, stout, brown ale. My standard mixed drink is vodka and sours mix. ---
**Author:** ![BlueKangaroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@BlueKangaroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueKangaroo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/6 "2009-08-25T02:03:11Z")
I vastly prefer a darker beer. At one point, I offered a [Goose Island Bourbon County Stout](http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1146/10672) to a friend and then finished it off for him when he told me he wasn’t “manly enough for that beer”. I also like tequila, straight up. Don’t know if that qualifies or not. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/7 "2009-08-25T02:21:29Z")
Crown and Coke. I suppose it isn’t entirely masculine, since I get it with diet coke. G&T. Scotch tastes - and looks - just awful. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/8 "2009-08-25T02:24:19Z")
Dewar’s rocks or Absolut Pepar shots. Hubby drinks cosmos ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/9 "2009-08-25T02:51:37Z")
Do gin-and-tonics count as laddish? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/10 "2009-08-25T03:11:51Z")
Many years ago, I lived in rural Tennessee, in a dry county. I was going to Atlanta to see my mother for the weekend and a buddy of mine asked me to bring him back a case of Guinness Extra Stout. I was helping Mom do some errands around town on Saturday afternoon and I told her I needed to stop at a liquor store to get something for my buddy Lou. She asked me what he wanted and I told her “Guiness Extra Stout” Mom, with a perfect deadpanned face, said: “Your grandmother used to drink that” :eek: My Grandmother was born in 1885 and I barely remember her as she died when I was a child. My vision of a stereotypical grandmother who baked pies and cookies was instantly shattered with those 6 words. And I developed a newfound respect her was born at that very instant. And interestingly enough, my grandfather was a teetotaler. And FTR, my mother’s drink of choice was “Jack on the rocks.” I have never dated a girl who drank anything but sweet drinks or beer. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/11 "2009-08-25T13:42:52Z")
Rum & cokes, tho’ I’m not certain how laddish that is. Old Fashioneds, too (but again, not certain how manly. Some certainly are, some are sweeter. And with Bourbon! Stupid Wisconsinites.) G & Ts. Hendricks, please. Manhattans, occasionally. I’m learning to like Scotch, but I’m going slowly there. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/12 "2009-08-25T14:53:32Z")
Pretty much dark beer and any liquor that tastes like jet fuel. Neat. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/13 "2009-08-25T14:58:15Z")
I drink tons of whiskey, and I drink it neat. Bourbon and Irish Whisky mainly. I’m not rich enough yet to become a Single Malt snob. I drink my dark rums neat as well. Gin on light rocks, and with an occasional splash of bitters. I don’t consider these “laddish” drinks, but I’ve been told that I “drink like a man.” I’m not sure if they’re commenting on the volume, the particular drink choice or my tolerance, or if they’re saying I have a propensity to start bar fights. ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/14 "2009-08-25T15:01:01Z")
I like tequila neat, whisky’s, rocks or with water or soda, and beer, though not together. Lately, I am loving scotch and soda’s. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/15 "2009-08-25T15:10:16Z")
Well, I didn’t think gin & tonic was particularly manly (or feminine), but I think the thread you linked to suggests it is, and I do like those, and any drink with gin, really. I love a good dirty martini. I also like a lot of dark beers, and massively hoppy beers, and scotch. I don’t like syrupy-sweet drinks that often, which are often associated with girliness, but I do also like cider & fruity beers. ---
**Author:** ![Jelly\_Roll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Jelly\_Roll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jelly_Roll)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/16 "2009-08-25T15:14:02Z")
Jack and Coke. I consider myself a “girly girl” in most respects, but when it comes to my drink, I don’t mess around. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/17 "2009-08-25T15:31:55Z")
I love me a good Manhattan - not sure how “laddish” it is, considering it’s a cocktail and there’s a cherry in it, but it’s definitely not what I’d call a girlie drink either. Come to think of it, I don’t particularly care for sweet drinks on the whole… I’ll occasionally make an exception for a good girlie-tini or a strawberry margarita, but that’s a once in a blue moon sort of thing (and even then, I tend to lean towards sour rather than sweet). Other than that, the girliest I’ll usually go is a raspberry or apricot wheat beer. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/18 "2009-08-25T18:10:04Z")
Dark beers, bourbon on the rocks, bourbon Old Fashioned and rye Manhattans. In college I’d belly up and take a shot of Jack (no whiskey face) just so everyone knew who not to fuck with. ---
**Author:** ![MN\_Maenad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@MN\_Maenad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MN_Maenad)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/19 "2009-08-25T18:27:54Z")
G&T and Guiness, like lots of other women here, and whiskey sours. WSes were my grampa’s favorite drink - he used to call them (phonetically) “kanoopers”. I’ve never heard another person use the term, though. Martinis are good too, but none of the fancy-schmancy kind. Just gin, vermouth, and an olive (plus some brine if I’m feeling dirty). ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/20 "2009-08-25T18:34:26Z")
> [@MN\_Maenad](#): > > Martinis are good too, but none of the fancy-schmancy kind. Just gin, vermouth, and an olive (plus some brine if I’m feeling dirty). Yes. Someone please tell me how martini now means anything served in a cocktail glass. There’s no chocolate in a martini, and there’s no mango salsa. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568.md?page=2)