# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/101 "2010-11-11T20:52:27Z")
Right now, I’m enjoying a cup of Earl Grey, hot. I put a couple of bottles of homebrewed nut brown ale in the refrigerator this morning and I’m very, very much looking forward to those when I get home. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/102 "2010-11-12T00:54:44Z")
Polar diet Orange Dry. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/103 "2010-11-12T01:30:41Z")
Wal-Mart brand orange soda. I love orange soda. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/104 "2010-11-12T03:56:58Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Wal-Mart brand orange soda. I love orange soda. There is a local one in Thailand called Green Spot. It is hands down one of the two best I have ever had. Been drinking it for decades. It’s not promoted here as heavily as the international brands like Mirinda and Fanta, but it is G-O-O-O-O-D. And not hard to find. Used to be in bottles only, then a decade or so ago they started putting it in cans, and the canned stuff just doesn’t seem to taste the same to me. The other best one is another long-running local product called [Bireley’s](http://www.bireleythailand.com/). Bottles only. Tastes like heaven. The company was started in 1948 by an American, and it at least used to have an American parent company, but I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of it while I was in the US. A little harder to find than Green Spot but still not too diffilcult. As for what I’m drinking now, Moccona Select instant coffee again, as the wife has left me. ☹ (She’s at her office.) ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/105 "2010-11-12T03:59:52Z")
Just water at the moment, but the kettle is on for tea. So in a bit, I’ll have tea. ---
**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 12, 2010, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/106 "2010-11-12T04:39:54Z")
Knob Creek. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/107 "2010-11-12T16:21:05Z")
Friday night, and I’m nursing a Scotch and soda. Not a great Scotch, just an everyday one, 100 Pipers from Seagram’s, but it’s okay for non-special occasions. ---
**Author:** ![One\_Swell\_FlooP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c5a1d2/32.png) [@One\_Swell\_FlooP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_Swell_FlooP)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/108 "2010-11-13T04:58:25Z")
Beer. Corona. No lime. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/109 "2010-11-13T05:09:51Z")
I’m actually on a solo vacation this weekend. It’s turning out to be a lot more fun then I expected. I ate at this place called Gino’s Pizza and they had some sort of Firestone Ale on taP. It was amazing but I couldn’t figure out what beer it was from Firestorm Breswery. Brown, easy drinking, slightly sweet taste and it had a light smell of alcohol and sweetness. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/110 "2010-11-14T00:18:10Z")
Sunday morning. Coffee. Starbucks’ breakfast blend. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/111 "2010-11-14T00:49:43Z")
Beer. Pacifico. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/112 "2010-11-14T01:00:04Z")
Ten High. Either the cheapest good bourbon or the best cheap bourbon, for my money. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/113 "2010-11-14T01:10:29Z")
rolling Rock. I may have a Wing Walker next. ---
**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 14, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/114 "2010-11-14T01:44:21Z")
Nyquil with a Cepacol lozenge chaser. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/115 "2010-11-14T01:46:52Z")
Killed the coffee earlier. Now it is ice water . ---
**Author:** ![nachtmusick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@nachtmusick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nachtmusick)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/116 "2010-11-15T00:45:07Z")
> [@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 You argue eloquently, I admit, but you waste your effort. Nobody cares what swill you dive into when you want to get a buzz on. I quote your post only because it is exquisite. Despite my admiration for your prose, I must persist in my opinion that Michelob beer is flavored water. It has no effect on the palate, and only carries the benefit of drunkeness if you have the thirst of a camel. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/117 "2010-11-15T01:00:56Z")
Pomegranate limeade (from Trader Joe’s). ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/118 "2010-11-15T01:16:40Z")
Lagunitas Lucky 13 Mondo Large Red Ale. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/119 "2010-11-15T02:06:42Z")
Chilled Fresca. I’m not much for diet drinks (the chemical aspartame/nutrasweet taste just turns me right off), but Fresca works for me. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700/120 "2010-11-15T02:12:04Z")
I’m finishing a bottle of [Prometheus Springs Lemon Ginger Capsaicin Spiced Elixir](http://www.prometheussprings.com/category/flavors/lemon-ginger/). I saw it at the health food store the other day and figured I’d give it a try. It tastes pretty much like a glass of Master Cleanse / Lemonade Diet concoction when you go heavy handed on the cayenne. Some of the other flavors may be more interesting and not trigger previous taste memories. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-drinking-right-now/559700.md?page=7)