They started to make caffeine infused vodka. I think it’s a little to pricey to take off. If liquor is going to be priced at around $30 then it shouldn’t be mixed with anything. It should taste good on its own.
Two examples are V2 and Pink. They’re trying hard to be the next cool drink, but somehow they seem to miss the mark.
Not liquor, but I’m hoping the next beer faze is craft pilsners, much like the craft IPAs that are everywhere now.
Bwahahaha… that’s fantastic. Thanks!
Around my social scene, whiskey has been a big deal for the past year or so, and there is a new whiskey bar opening soon in Montrose, which is the young fashionable area in central Houston where we all live, so I’m going with various types of whiskey. You can hate on hipsters, but they tend to be at the forefront of lots of fashionable things because they care so damn much.
Agreed. But I guess you’re talking about the Wynn in Vegas?
Didn’t y’all recently get rid of video poker in SC? But you don’t have to have drinks made out of those little airplane bottles anymore either. You got rid of those, too - right?
I see more and more people in their twenties drinking scotch. It does seem that the biggest sellers are always going to be the booze that can be mixed sweet (rum, vodka, etc).
I recently picked up a bottle of something called Aalborg Akvavit. No clue what it is – the description on the bottle says that it “resembles imported flavored vodka”, which isn’t exactly helpful – but it tastes exactly like pumpernickel rye.
It’s just weird enough to catch on. Give me half a million and I can have every college kid from here to Cali chugging it within two years.
Pisco sour, eh? I’m not sure about that egg white thing… 
Yes - very exciting, we have free pour now! They’re arguing back and forth about video poker. Hell, they just fought out whether regular poker is a game of chance or skill. However, even when we had video poker it was never set into every single damned square foot of bar space. E
Yes, in Las Vegas (I meant to say but forgot.) I figure the bartender there would have his finger on the pulse of what’s new and next - he didn’t even have to look up our drinks in the little recipe book like they do at home.
Absinthe is coming back, now that it’s legal. Here’s St George’s (Hangar One).
Personally, I hope the world will collectively get over that time in college when they drank too much gin and puked all night so the rest of us can have more than three options at the bar.
It resembles imported flavored vodka because it is imported flavored vodka.
Cheap Vodka and Rum for Hairy buffalo and party punches. Times are bad… think quantity, cheapness, and parties.
Thanks for posting that again, Dewey.
If you enjoyed that article, there are several others out there, one of which is even more candid than the one I linked to. I haven’t had time to pin it down, but I remember reading it when he died. I’ll see if I can dig it up and post it to the thread.
ETA: I think this is the one.
Oh please, please, please let it be gin. If I never go to another party where the bar options are 1) vodka 2) rum and 3) whiskey OR tequila, it will be too soon. Flavored vodka? No thanks. Rum and coke? I’d rather not. But a really really good G&T, ice-cold with a lime slice in it, preferably being sipped outdoors on a hot day overlooking a scenic vista with good company is one of life’s great pleasures. And I can suck down gin and gingers like nobody’s business, so.
Gin, please.
About an hour after I posted my earlier suggestion, the Pisco Sour, I read the March 27 edition off the Washington, D.C. *City Paper *which carried the results of its annual “Best of…” readers poll and was pleased to see that this year’s Best Designer Cocktail was the Pisco Sour!
I’ll say rye, too. I’ve been noting a gradual increase in interest in this type of whiskey since about 2003.
I thoughtZubrowka Bison Grass Vodka was starting to be it a while ago but it doesn’t seem to have worked.
I’ve always loved this stuff, but hardly anyone here knows about it, from my experience.
Horrible name. Vodka names should reflect class or a swank foreign quality. “Bison” and “Grass” would probably test very poorly in a vodka drinker demo poll.