An Old Fashioned the old fashioned way?
An Olde Fashioned, perhaps.
Generally, I’m this kitten.
(Two photos.)
This was one of our college beers (three cases of returnable bottles for $12 (which was cheap even in 1980)).
Indeed. Ironic, huh? And I’d be willing to bet if you made the real deal for a lot of people, they’d probably tell you that you made it wrong without the orange, cherries, etc…
That was more or less my experience. I remember trying a sip of Dad’s beer as a child (probably Miller Lite or something) and thinking it was bitter and unpleasant. So fast forward to college, I remembered that experience and assumed I wouldn’t like beer, so if I did drink alcohol I stuck to sweet cocktails (like the guy in the KITH “Girl Drink Drunk” sketch). Until I was an intern at a large company and went to their company picnic. We had a cookout by a lake where both beer and soft drinks were served, and then went out on a coworker’s boat. Except no one thought to bring anything to drink on the boat other than beer. So just because I was thirsty and there was nothing else to drink, I tried a Rolling Rock, and thought it wasn’t bad. Probably the fact that Rolling Rock is a rather light beer was a good way to ease me into it. As I got older I started trying various craft beers and started appreciating darker, more flavorful beers. I still don’t like the super bitter IPAs that were trendy for a while, though.
Yeah. I know some American men, even some American homebrewers, who disdain witbiers and anything similar as “chick beers”.
I mentioned that on a trip to the Netherlands one July while out with some colleagues drinking witbier, and they just shrugged and laughed. No gender stereotypes are gonna keep Dutch guys off their witbier in the summertime!
Another entry in the Dueling Prejudices category of “American men think European men tend to be rather effete and un-masculine while European men think American men tend to be obsessed with and insecure about their masculinity.” See also: slim-fit vs. loose-fit tailored dress shirts and Speedo-style bathing suits vs. trunks.
Something happened to my tastebuds around the legal age, I liked the bitter flavor of beer more and sweets less. I have always wondered if tongues do that to some extent. Or the brain gets rewired or something.
My understanding is that’s true. Children can taste bitter flavors more, which is why children often don’t like vegetables, and coffee, and beer. By adulthood your sense of taste dulls, bitter foods no longer taste as strong, and you start liking them more.
I can top it. I was working in a Snyder Drug store in 1980, a year after I graduated high school. They had a full liquor department. There were 3 beers you could buy, 24 twelve ounce returnable glass bottles, for $1.88 each: Kingsbury, Red, white, & Blue, and Wisconsin Club.
Kingsbury was one of the best cheap beers ever, RWB wasn’t too bad, Wisconsin Club was terrible.
There is a drink called Ti Ponch that is popular in the Caribbean. It consists of muddled limes, some sugar or simple syrup, and Rhum Agricole. It is a “manly drink”. Women are welcome to order it, but they’ll add ice to tone it down.
I ordered one at a beach bar. I was pretty buzzed. The bartender, seeing a tourist, scooped up some ice as he put my drink together. I growled, “ICE??” He apologized and left it out. When I’d emptied my glass he made another for me on the house.
I can top that.
The cheap beer of choice when I was a lad. Almost as bad as:
Yeah, I was VERY pleasantly surprised to find out that witbiers were pretty much THE spring/summer beer in the Netherlands and Belgium. I had gone expecting it to be some variation of pale lager, but it turned out to be witbier. With lemons, not oranges like they often do here in the US.
Well, there is the “Gay or European?” game… and Graham Norton’s Irish, not American.