Question for women: What "laddish" drinks do you enjoy?

[JoseArcadio]

• Lager. However, I don’t really think of lager as a “laddish” drink anymore since most women I know either drink it as their first choice or enjoy the odd pint from time to time. Nobody would blink an eye at a lady enjoying a pint around here.
• British Ales
• Guinness.
• Jack Daniels on the rocks.
• Trying to get back into Whisky, which I enjoyed when I was a teenager. However, one bad experience with a bottle of Chivas Regal (and too much tequila) means whenever I take a sip it threatens to set off my gag reflex.

Beyond that I’m not really sure what would fall under the “laddish” category. Cider? Vodka? Rum? Jagermeister? I know at least as many women who drink those as I do men.

[SanVito]

@silenus

There was a long-standing tradition (now lost) in this country of the “3 martini lunch.” I have never associated gin with anything other than “manly” or at the very least “gender neutral” drinks. The cocktail hour was a sacred institution back in the day, when Men were Men and mixed up a pitcher of martinis after a hard day’s slaving over accounts receivable.

Chalk it up to cultural differences.

Where I come from (UK), men drinking what you describe would be classed as pretty effeminate. ‘Men’s’ drinks here come in big glasses. So, that’s beer then. Maybe a whisky chaser.

And gin and tonic is certainly a woman’s drink, or at least a refined non-gender speicifc drink. Certainly not manly in any way whatsoever. That goes for all cocktails too.

[SanVito]

@JoseArcadio

Beyond that I’m not really sure what would fall under the “laddish” category. Cider? Vodka? Rum? Jagermeister? I know at least as many women who drink those as I do men.

Thunderbird? Special Brew?

[Joey_P]

@BlueKangaroo

I vastly prefer a darker beer. At one point, I offered a Goose Island Bourbon County Stout 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.

Looking for a darker beer. Watch for Oskar Blues Ted Fidy. Pours like tar, but tastes great.
http://oskarblues.com/brew/
Scroll almost all the way down.

[MeanOldLady]

@SanVito

Thunderbird? Special Brew?

Thunderbird isn’t so much “laddish” as it is “I just visited the local check cashing place, and now I’m $30 richer and thirsty!”

[Freudian_Slit]

@SanVito

And gin and tonic is certainly a woman’s drink, or at least a refined non-gender speicifc drink. Certainly not manly in any way whatsoever. That goes for all cocktails too.

Really? I’ve always heard people call it an old man drink.

[Dogzilla]

Does red wine count as a laddish drink? While I trend toward lighter pinot noir, I will go for a nice full-bodied merlot or cabernet sauvignon once in a while. Rosés and zinfandels need not apply. I don’t touch dessert wines either.

I see only sorority chicks drinking white wine. Men and I drink reds. In fact, my guy friends and I refer to Chardonnay as “That sorority chick wine.”

[Freudian_Slit]

I like white wine. I’ve never seen so much as the outside of a sorority. Probably on account of not being white.

[WolfpackJeep]

@Dogzilla

I see only sorority chicks drinking white wine. Men and I drink reds. In fact, my guy friends and I refer to Chardonnay as “That sorority chick wine.”

I thought white zinfandel was the “sorority chick wine”?

[Tastes_of_Chocolate]

@MeanOldLady

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.

This is a favorite rant of a friend of mine. Usually followed by a comment about serving a dead rat in a stem glass and calling it a martini.

[Jennyrosity]

@irishgirl

I like my drinks to taste like alcohol.

Same here. Strong G & T, very dry dirty martini, whisky and cognac are my drinks, depending on the weather, though I also like wine.

And chalk me up as another one surprised to hear gin described as a “manly” drink - it isn’t here. Very few British guys that I’ve met drink it - and the ones I know who do are wheat intolerant and can’t drink beer, and even then a request for one will often be met with “you big girl” by the other guys.

I have to admit though, to an inate prejudice against women drinking beer, especially pints of beer. I just think it looks unfeminine. And yes, I know how old-fashioned and prissy that makes me sound! I’m not saying I’m right, it’s just something I can’t get over.