I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned Southern Comfort.
Post 2.
I can’t believe you didn’t see post #2. 
Well I was predicting someone would suggest Chartreuse. As for me most Gin is nasty straight. And almost all liquors. Southern Comfort has no reason to exist. it if counts in this category I will have to say Grappa. Nasty. Its usefulness to me is uncertain. Possibly just an example of what can be made with grapes but not ment for consumption.
Grappa was still considered a peasant drink (Italian moonshine) until it became trendy and smoother a couple of years ago.
Hipsters: co-opting their grandparents’ drinks since before you knew they existed.
You do realize that those drinks are all properly gin drinks to begin with, don’t you? The vodka versions are all post-1950 or so doofus versions for people too sissified to drink gin.
Southern Comfort.
I like Jaeger, but it’s a little too sweet and not bitter enough for me. I prefer Underberg, Killepitsch, Chartreuse, or Unicum when it comes to herbal liqueurs/bitters. I am pretty surprised, though, at the popularity it has here in the States. It’s not a drink I’d ever expect to be embraced by a large segment of the population.
Also, vodka. Despite my Polish upbringing, never been a fan of vodka. What’s the point of drinking something with no flavor except alcohol?
Jaeger, chartreuse, absinthe, sambucca, anything with a strong liquorice flavor to it.
Also tequila, metaxa, and coconut based stuff.
I was able to drink tequila for 1 evening, I was fine for 14 shots, but that last margarita I ordered, when I got it near my nose seemed to smell like vomit and I knew that if I drank it I would vomit. I stopped and I have never been able to go near the stuff ever since. I don’t do coconut stuff because I am sensitive to tropical/palm crap, it gives me the immediate shits with nausea. Not good when you are out drinking:eek:
Try this: go to ten different bars, and ask for a Tom Collins in each. Determine how many: 1) Bring you gin 2) Bring you vodka 3) Ask what you want. I will wager that gin comes <=10% of the time, and 3 will probably be the result only a few times. Vodka has become the default for these. I got a Collins the other day and ended up with vodka, even after asking three times. I don’t begrudge people who want vodka, just wish specification wasn’t necessary.
I hate pretty much all liqueurs in the same way as I hate jam and for the same reason - monster sweetness combined with strong flavour. I’m particularly averse to cherry, aniseed and mint. Oh, and the texture reminds me of children’s medicines.
Southern Comfort is only nice in chocolates.
The coconutty ones are weird - I quite like the first couple of sips then it’s back to hating them.
Not hard alcohol I know, but lambic fruit beers are a crime against God and Nature.
Just because 90% of the people ordering Tom Collinses and Martinis want vodka, doesn’t mean that it’s the right way to do the drink.
My relative’s nickname in Germany for Jägermeister: Leberkleister (Liver glue)
Hey, what can I say? I was drunk.
(Some other drinks on that list don’t count—“cut with jet fuel” counts as a “mix,” right?)
Necessary for a White Russian though. Jager is also amazing.
Cheap Tequila is perhaps some of the worst stuff I’ve drunk, although I love the decent stuff. Having said that, I don’t think I’ve ever met an alcoholic drink so bad I couldn’t drink it.
Remember, no matter what you’re drinking you [del]can’t[/del] can go wrong with Monarch. You know-that stuff on the bottom shelf of the bar in the clear plastic jugs.
Hey! Classy people go with Popov, the British/American vodka that pretends to be Russian. Remember, it’s better than Wolfschmidt. But isn’t a hoity-toity Gordon’s.
In Japan there is a drink called ‘white licquer’ which you are supposed to add fruit too and let sit for six months. It’s not much stronger than Vodka, but lemme tell you, you definitely don’t want to drink it straight from the store. Nasty, nasty stuff that made a normal hangover feel like a bubble bath.
Gin, Gin, Gin, Gin, Gin – that crap tastes like hairspray. At least Jägermeister and Southern Comfort have a sweet/sickly taste to go with the alcohol. I’m sipping a tequila that purports itself to be 100% agave and doesn’t taste half bad, that’s on sale for less than 11$/750ml. Monopolowa vodka’s usually less than 12$/750ml, and I think it’s better than most high dollar vodkas. There’s no reason to drink crap, people, and no reason to go broke getting drunk.
ok, I’m gonna go to bed now
IMHO, none of the stuff mentioned above holds a candle to Akvavit, the national hard drink of Denmark, which looks and tastes like goat piss put in a glass jar to concentrate under the midsummer sun for a couple of weeks.