If it were me, I’d pound down a Maker’s Mark with a Chivas chaser. Or if I were feeling really flush, the best single-malt you’ve got. (Of course you said this is a college bar, so NOTA might be in force here …)
Nothing on fire; I just saw a bunch of videos were it went horribly wrong. People need eyebrows! :eek: <-- See? No eyebrows.
A drink to savor is one I don’t know has a name. Vodka, limoncello, grenadine, seltzer water. Muddled mint or just to garnish. You can switch cranberry juice for the grenadine if that seems too sweet.
Me, I prefer sipping LaPhroiag 18 years old or more, if I’m going to make it easy on the bartender. Enjoy!
Just noticed this post. Really? I’ve never noticed that flavor. Were you drinking it from your actual ruby slippers? 
I notice the peat seems stronger, depending upon companion noshes.
Well, it’s the old velvet glove versus gnarled fist single malt dicotomy. Some people are bianary and like one or the other. Thankfully, there are plenty of us that enjoy both. A nice peaty single malt certainly hits the spot most days, whilst a McCallans is appropriate just about any day. YMMV
I Googled it, and all I got was Youth Drug and Alcohol Deterrence. 
Goddamnit, right now I’d take a gnarled glove or a velvet fist over the idiocy of the last two hours. I’ve been called an “Asshole,” dude broke one of my pool cues after I yelled at him for slamming cues, a dozen pleasant customers have been through, asshole who called me an asshole called me on the phone.
I hate working holidays.
Got a couple regulars, friends, shooting on one table. My Nepalese shooters on another table just left. Three of us in the bar – manageable.
The night in my real world has been something of a pain-in-the-ass. I’ve had a lot of fun spending time with all of you, though. Merry Christmas to all of you.
Can you suggest a shot for three for the end of the night?
I googled YDAD + alcohol, and the second hit on the hits list was “You Deserve A Drink.”
Taken in context with Stickler’s post, it seems to mean a fancy, high end cocktail.
I’ve looked. I’m going to make one of those Grinch martinis made with Midori and a cherry. I just wonder how I can make it sink.
Thank you all, very much. Merry Christmas.
Try a rum and scotch and Coke® with no ice–very Beatlesque.
Might as well go with the top-shelf stuff, too, even though no one could possibly taste the difference.
It’s several hours later and I hope you’re not still drinking, lol. That having been said my drink of choice is the “Adios Motherfucker.” (It’s a Long Island except for made with Sprite instead of coke, with a dribble Blue Curacao.)
Hilary, Vix, God love you, but I’m not drinking either of those. Especially something with dribbling Blue Curacao.
At the end of the night, I got tipped $55. Shocking to me. I wasn’t giving away the joint, but I did offer a drink or two to the friendlies. And only one person called me “Asshole.”
I made it home moderately sober. Thank you all for your suggestions.
I feel like Scrooge on Christmas morning.
Heh, my drink of choice at one bar was a California Cocaine. SoCo, Amaretto, Malibu, Curacao Blue and pineapple juice. It was the most offputting shade of green you’d ever seen.
(YDAD or You Deserve a Drink is a youtube channel where a comedian makes up a cocktail and names it after a pop culture star who’s currently in the news mixed in with lots of terrible topical puns. "How many flaming butterbeers will it take to turn me into a horcrux?’. I have no idea how most of them would taste but they’re usually pretty intense like a pumpkin pie shot or a cinnamon bun flavored martini.)
…on EARTH? To someone serving liquor? RAEG!
I’ve been drinking my own variant on that, using spiced golden rum rather than dark rum, in this case Bacardi Oakheart, although I doubt you can get that in America.
Sadly, I’m almost out of both spiced rum and ginger beer, and the shop’s don’t open till tomorrow… It’ll have to be rum&coke for the rest of the day.
I’m stuck trying to understand how a full service bar would not have a “wine license”. You need a special license for wine?
John, you would scarcely credit what and incredible mish-mashed/patchworked/fucked up mess liquor laws/licensing is.
ETA: so yeah, I would believe that there are places where beer, wine, and hard liquorous spirits all require a separate licenses.
Yeah, I know that these laws can be very complex. I’m just only familiar with the idea that you could have a license for just beer and wine, without the ability to serve hard alcohol, but not the reverse. Wondering how that works and where.