# What is the best booze you ever had? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 29, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521 "2005-12-29T01:00:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521/41 "2006-01-02T07:06:47Z")
> [@Kitchen Wench](#): > > (I’ve noticed a lot of Brit Dopers think cider is just for chavs. Not on _this_ side of the pond!) Booyakasha, luv. How’d ye like to come wiv me an’ have a pint o’cider? Mind the bling an’ the Burberry! ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521/42 "2006-01-02T07:27:20Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Booyakasha, luv. How’d ye like to come wiv me an’ have a pint o’cider? Mind the bling an’ the Burberry! Lou, ya plank! When jah git owt th’ nick? ---
**Author:** ![Andros\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Andros\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andros_X)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521/43 "2006-01-02T07:47:23Z")
Not much experience with alcohol here – I’m a poor college student – but the best booze I’ve ever had was some 2004 [Gray Ghost](http://www.grayghostvineyards.com/index.htm) white wine. They make it out in Northern VA. It’s very sweet. I’d get some more, but it appears that they are sold out, alas. ---
**Author:** ![Bernard\_Marx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@Bernard\_Marx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bernard_Marx)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521/44 "2006-01-02T07:55:42Z")
Absinthe - not so much for the taste, but for the irrepressible feeling of being a louche, fin-de-siecle Bohemian dandy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521/45 "2006-01-02T07:55:46Z")
Raki, it doesn’t taste great but it is all alcohol (well it worked well when I was 19!). ---
**Author:** ![caligynephobia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@caligynephobia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligynephobia)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521/46 "2006-01-02T17:44:19Z")
Had a roommate for a while who had a bottle of gummy bear liqueur from Germany in the freezer. Stuff was amazing; like drinking gummy bears, but it was booze. Would probably go over as well as “Beer for Kids” here in the US though. Second and third places go to my first Newcastle and some Tecquila-like booze prepared with honey I drank in Northern Spain. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521/47 "2006-01-03T02:52:05Z")
> [@Dag Otto](#): > > I’d guess that wine was most certainly a Banyul, if you wanted to look for it by name. OK, I goooogled the heck out of Banyul, and it is universally described as being tawney, and this was a definite deep ruby/garnet. Any other ideas? ---
**Author:** ![TwoOnSunday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@TwoOnSunday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoOnSunday)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521/48 "2006-01-03T04:19:58Z")
My uncle and I invented the drink at my sister’s wedding - Champagne (brand may be unimportant) and lemon sorbet. It’s a drink AND dessert. ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521/49 "2006-01-03T04:51:58Z")
The [Metropolitan Grill](http://www.themetropolitangrill.com/) in downtown Seattle has a “100 Years of Tawny” port sampler. It’s on the dessert menu [here](http://www.themetropolitangrill.com/food.cfm). It’s a flight of 1-ounce ports, starting with Cockburn’s 10 Years Old Tawny, then Sandeman 20 Year Old Tawny, Graham’s 30 Year Old Tawny, and ending with Taylor’s 40 Year Old Tawny. I actually like the Graham’s best, but they combination of the four is wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521/50 "2006-01-03T05:26:01Z")
You guys all sound so fancy with your 50 year old alcohol and $50-a-glass champagnes! I came in to say that I had the best booze ever this new years. First of all, I had a shot called a Copper Camel. I actually hate shots. They usually burn my throat, or I just plain don’t like the taste of them. A copper Camel is butterscotch Schnapps, a splash of vodka, and Bailey’s Irish Cream. I swear, it tasted just like caramel. It was as if the shot glass were filled with liquid caramel and you just poured it down your throat. Very delicious. ---
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521/51 "2006-01-03T06:44:23Z")
The best I ever had was some French cognac from the late 1800s, given to me by a very drunk Kurt Loder. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521/52 "2006-01-03T12:20:22Z")
_El Rey Zapoteco_, a Oaxaca mezcal (is there any other kind?) ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521/53 "2006-01-03T20:06:00Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > OK, I goooogled the heck out of Banyul, and it is universally described as being tawney, and this was a definite deep ruby/garnet. Any other ideas? Sorry, but no. I remember the one bottle of Banyuls we drank as “almost a syrup, deep ruby, sweet and smooth as velvet”. That was in Collioure, near where you were at, so I thought you may have had a Banyul wine. Of course, we were drinking a lot of wine (who doesn’t when in the region?) so my memory may not be the best. It was a sweet wine though. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521/54 "2006-01-03T20:21:58Z")
> [@Dag Otto](#): > > Of course, we were drinking a lot of wine . Maybe more that I should have. I think it’s Banyuls, not Banyul. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521/55 "2006-01-03T22:46:20Z")
> [@Martin Hyde](#): > > I’ve had a lot of expensive booze. But surprisingly enough (because typically a lot of the bigger labels don’t have the best of the best in my opinion) the best blended Scotch whisky I’ve ever had was Johnnie Walker Blue Lable, and it’s also one of the only bottles of Scotch I truly feel is good enough that it’s worth spending $200 on a bottle (I’ve had $400 bottles of liquor that don’t please me as much.) > > And I typically favor single malt over blended, but nonetheless Johnnie Walker Blue is excellent. I concur with your assessment. The first time I had Johnnie Walker Blue I was truly amazed. Quite simply, the delicate balance and interplay of flavors was nothing short of a cathartic experience. It was so much fun simply to smell it, to gently put it against your lips, to savor the flavor and just experience the changes the whiskey undertook at the beginning of the sip, during the hold in your mouth, the swallow, and then the aftertaste. Yes, I find it fun and playful, yet sophistacated. I, too, generally favor single malts, but Johnnie Walker Blue is worth every penny of the $200 or so a bottle it fetches. ---
**Author:** ![Opengrave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/919ad9/32.png) [@Opengrave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Opengrave)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521/56 "2006-01-04T19:04:46Z")
Far and away the best thing I ever had was moonshine. The dropoff point was an air-conditioner unit behind a bar in far-eastern Oklahoma. One quart for $15 or two for $25. Leave your money under the big rock and come back at the same time the next day. It came in mason jars each wrapped in the previous Sunday’s newspaper circulars and hidden in a paper sack. Smoooooth and clean tasting and by my guess about 120 proof. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521/57 "2006-01-04T19:28:33Z")
Man, I feel like some kind of unrefined peon compared to you people. The best booze I’ve tasted is a tie. It’s either the first time I had Bass (it was just a few weeks after my 21st birthday, in my school’s pub. It was happy hour, and the Cute Asian Girl bought it for me. Divine) Or ice-cold Grey Goose, served in a small glass, with a lone ice cube, sipped slowly. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521/58 "2006-01-04T20:33:42Z")
I just finished off a cute little bottle of La Fogata Mezcal Añejo tequila. If it’s not the best tequila I’ve ever had, it’s a good enough contender that I’d have to line up the competition and do a side-by-side taste test. Which is really a pretty nice idea 🙂 Seriously good tequila, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-booze-you-ever-had/337521.md?page=2)