# What Are You Drinking Right Now? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 6, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700 "2010-11-06T15:23:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/81 "2010-11-10T02:51:21Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > [It](http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/29/31731) [is](http://tellmewhatsitallmean.blogspot.com/2009/01/michelob-porter-beer-review.html) [Michelob](http://www.thebrewsite.com/2007/11/13/michelob-porter.php) [Porter.](http://truebrews.blogspot.com/2009/06/michelob-porter.html) I give Michelob credit for trying with their multiple quasi-artisanal varietals. A few (many) years ago I hit a stretch of drinking lots and lots of Old Milwaukee Red, an ale variant they had out for a brief while, which IIRC won a Consumer Reports or the like taste test in its category. Snobbery doesn’t pay and is as restrictive as domestic provincialism. Smirnoff Red won the N.Y. Times vodak taste test and to the extent there is any meaningful variance/differentiation among neutral grain spirits – I can’t dispute that and won’t pay for Grey Goose or worse/more expensive. ---
**Author:** ![dzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@dzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzero)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/82 "2010-11-10T03:29:38Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > And by “Budweiser,” I mean my “everyday, drinkable beer.” > > [It](http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/29/31731) [is](http://tellmewhatsitallmean.blogspot.com/2009/01/michelob-porter-beer-review.html) [Michelob](http://www.thebrewsite.com/2007/11/13/michelob-porter.php) [Porter.](http://truebrews.blogspot.com/2009/06/michelob-porter.html) > > Now, before anyone gets persnickity over my overuse of cites, I’m forestalling the inevitable tide of beer snobs who will descend to tell me my taste in beer is one step below skunk piss for choosing such a mass-produced generic-market swill to drink. > > They will hold forth on the merits of numerous micro and craft brews which are infinitely superior to the ambrosia of the Ancient Gods, and if a stoopid neandethal such as myself would simply elevate myself from such bourgeois mendacity to try any of these (almost entirely unavailable to me locally) Beverages of Greater Beings, then I would promptly pour my mass-produced swill down the toilet (a far better fate than it deserves!) and forever adhere to _their_ choice of suds. > > But they will have overlooked my general point: this is my “Budweiser.” It’s my everyday, go-to, _ **affordable** _, drinkable, _ **available** _ beer. > > Not the specialty craft-brew or import I select when I want a “cut above.” Not the locally made, award-winning stuff I trot out to impress family and friends with my “refined, sophisticated palate.” :rolleyes: yeah right, go ahead and pull the other one I think we should talk about something less controversial than beer - maybe politics . . . or even religion. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/83 "2010-11-10T04:04:35Z")
Sprecher Cherry Cola ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/84 "2010-11-10T04:10:44Z")
After being pretty down on all of the New Belgium beers I’ve tried, I’ve started to warm up to the brewery. I’m drinking their Abbey and Tripel now, which, fortuitously, is actually cheaper than Fat Tire of any of their other main beers (2 Below, Skinny Dip, etc.) Fine with me, as I’m not a fan of Fat Tire. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/85 "2010-11-10T05:31:27Z")
> [@dzero](#): > > I think we should talk about something less controversial than beer - maybe politics . . . or even religion. How about them Cowboys? ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/86 "2010-11-10T05:51:28Z")
Chardonnay out of a box. Oh…I at least have the dignity to pour it in a glass first! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/87 "2010-11-10T06:14:14Z")
A '98 Shallon Valley apple wine. ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/88 "2010-11-10T06:22:03Z")
A New Belgium Trippel, more specifically half of one that I’m splitting with my husband. I wish we still had some Deschutes Obsidian Stout, but beggars can’t be choosy! Maybe I’ll have the leftover of an extremely underwhelming bottle of Argentinian white wine that I got at a restaurant yesterday (it was half price bottle day and I selected the cheapest one in lieu of just a glass- I got upsold). Or maybe I’ll save it to cook with- there’s only about a cup left. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/89 "2010-11-10T07:44:26Z")
As it is late in the evening, I’m drinking a Big Rock Brewery’s “Traditional Ale,” which is a brown ale in the style of Newcastle. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/90 "2010-11-10T14:34:59Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Just finished a Glenfiddich. Nice! I prefer Laphroig, though - had one last night. Is it wrong to drink single-malts out of plastic cups? ---
**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:** [November 10, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/91 "2010-11-10T14:50:43Z")
Yes, yes it is. Right this minute, I’m drinking 2% out of the bottom of my cereal bowl. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/92 "2010-11-10T15:22:34Z")
7:22am Molokai Coffee ---
**Author:** ![dzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@dzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzero)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/93 "2010-11-10T16:02:50Z")
Ruby red grapefruit juice - and I don’t know why. I seem to get specific hungers for certain foods and lately I’ve been on a grapefruit juice, bagel and bacon binge. I do try to keep my bacon consumption to 5 strips per day though. I exercise no restraint whatsoever on the grapefruit juice. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/94 "2010-11-10T16:17:18Z")
Luzianne Green Tea, sweetened with Splenda. ---
**Author:** ![AutumnLeaves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@AutumnLeaves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AutumnLeaves)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/95 "2010-11-10T18:50:24Z")
> [@Emily\_Litella](#): > > My morning coffee. Tonight with dinner I’ll probably have some Yellowtail Shiroz. I adore this typo, and how fitting, like if you saw a coffee substitute and they weren’t allowed to but the word coffee on the label so they called kaw-fee or something. Yellowtail: It’s not quite shiraz, it’s shiroz! I’ve got an open and rapidly disappearing bottle of 2004 Chateau Reignac. Perfectly drinkable, and the bitter edge is going nicely with this hunk of bitter dark chocolate I’m gnawing on because making dinner seemed like too much effort. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/96 "2010-11-10T21:22:18Z")
Seltzer. ---
**Author:** ![dzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@dzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzero)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/97 "2010-11-11T06:35:11Z")
Twinings Darjeeling with a splash of half&half and some milk. Theoretically it doesn’t really make any sense to do it that way but it does taste better. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/98 "2010-11-11T13:41:06Z")
My morning hit of _8 O’Clock_ fresh-ground coffee, with generous amounts of cream and sugar. nectar of the gods… ---
**Author:** ![Loisseau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@Loisseau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loisseau)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/99 "2010-11-11T16:38:12Z")
Salada Orange Pekoe with a dash of milk and one Splenda. Tonight, several poor man’s sangria-any merlot mixed 1/3 wine, 2/3 Polar Diet Orange soda over ice. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/100 "2010-11-11T20:35:54Z")
Had Lagunitas Brown Shugga last night. Three of them actually. 🙂 I really love that stuff and was patiently waiting for them to re-release it for this season. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700.md?page=6)