# Your Alcoholic Beverage Choice and Famous People's if you know any **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 23, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-alcoholic-beverage-choice-and-famous-peoples-if-you-know-any/610355 "2012-01-23T01:47:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-alcoholic-beverage-choice-and-famous-peoples-if-you-know-any/610355/41 "2012-01-25T23:00:20Z")
I’m a Stoly on the rocks guy. [Charles Portis the author of True Grit, preferred single malts, martinis, and ice-cold Russian vodka.](http://michaelbarrier.com/Home%20Page/WhatsNewArchivesDec10.html#homeagain) ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-alcoholic-beverage-choice-and-famous-peoples-if-you-know-any/610355/42 "2012-01-25T23:34:38Z")
I drink primarily good beer (as in, beer with actual flavor and character…microbrews and good European beers primarily), and I also like dry red wine quite a lot (Merlot, Cabernet sauvignon, etc) I don’t drink liquor very much. I can’t stand bourbon, and while I don’t mind a good rum or vodka mixed drink, I’d rather have beer or wine. About the only liquor I actually really enjoy is gin and tonic with a lime. I have that about 3-4 times a year. I have beer or wine with dinner most nights, though. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-alcoholic-beverage-choice-and-famous-peoples-if-you-know-any/610355/43 "2012-01-26T00:35:18Z")
Cape Codders, hold the lime. No celebrity drinks that AFAIK ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-alcoholic-beverage-choice-and-famous-peoples-if-you-know-any/610355/44 "2012-01-26T01:57:20Z")
> [@Snake\_Plissken](#): > > My most interesting experience though, was sitting in a bar in Aspen evesdropping on Jack Nicolson and Hunter Thompson pounding Heinekens. Me and Heinies don’t get along. - screws up my stomach, give me unpleasant hangover and I don’t like skunky beer. Beck’s or Stella etc… but I’m sucker for trying out beers I haven’t tried before. I liked Yuenglings; Good light beer. No wheat beers for moi. I like Sierra Nevada India pale ale. I thought I liked India Pale Ales but I realized, not really; they are okay once in a while. BTW I occasionally have Rémy Martin Louis XIII cognac because one of my friend likes that stuff (or he likes to pass around rounds I should say…; I’d never pay for that stuff, no way). That stuff is rocket fuel and get you instantly lit. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-alcoholic-beverage-choice-and-famous-peoples-if-you-know-any/610355/45 "2012-01-26T03:13:10Z")
I’ve been ordering Jack Daniel’s on the rocks quite a bit lately, mostly because of Kesha’s zeal for Jack. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-alcoholic-beverage-choice-and-famous-peoples-if-you-know-any/610355/46 "2012-01-26T04:22:05Z")
> [@Snake\_Plissken](#): > > I forgot about the celebrity part of the question. I know a lot of pro athletes and quite a few musicians and actors, because of my job. My most interesting experience though, was sitting in a bar in Aspen evesdropping on Jack Nicolson and Hunter Thompson pounding Heinekens. Back in the day I saw Hunter Thompson speak at my school. Right before he came on a bottle of Civas Regal was set out with a glass and a bucket of ice. He talked until the bottle was done. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-alcoholic-beverage-choice-and-famous-peoples-if-you-know-any/610355/47 "2012-01-26T04:27:16Z")
John Prine played at a theater my buddy worked at. A part of his contract, every night he got a carton of Marlboros and a fith of Jack Daniels. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-alcoholic-beverage-choice-and-famous-peoples-if-you-know-any/610355/48 "2012-01-26T11:19:28Z")
Beer: Yuengling Liquor: Patrón or a martini I don’t know any celebrities. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-alcoholic-beverage-choice-and-famous-peoples-if-you-know-any/610355/49 "2012-01-26T11:47:46Z")
Cider: West country for preference, 4-5%, light oak and natural fizz. ---
**Author:** ![Snake\_Plissken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@Snake\_Plissken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snake_Plissken)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-alcoholic-beverage-choice-and-famous-peoples-if-you-know-any/610355/50 "2012-01-27T20:29:38Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > Me and Heinies don’t get along. - screws up my stomach, give me unpleasant hangover and I don’t like skunky beer. Beck’s or Stella etc… but I’m sucker for trying out beers I haven’t tried before. I liked Yuenglings; Good light beer. No wheat beers for moi. I like Sierra Nevada India pale ale. I thought I liked India Pale Ales but I realized, not really; they are okay once in a while. > > BTW I occasionally have Rémy Martin Louis XIII cognac because one of my friend likes that stuff (or he likes to pass around rounds I should say…; I’d never pay for that stuff, no way). That stuff is rocket fuel and get you instantly lit. I like a cold heineken on a hot day after mowing the lawn, but I do like a bit more character in my beers. I like a few IPAs, but it seems like many of them are hop bombs. I really like New Belgium’s Snow Day. It has hops up front with a malty finish. I’m having my first Brau Brothers Oatmeal Milk Stout right now, and kind of like it. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-alcoholic-beverage-choice-and-famous-peoples-if-you-know-any/610355/51 "2012-01-27T20:34:17Z")
When I first became old enough to drink, I ordered J&B all the time because it was what Patrick Bateman drank in _American Psycho_, and Shelly “The Machine” Levene in _Glengarry Glen Ross._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-alcoholic-beverage-choice-and-famous-peoples-if-you-know-any/610355.md?page=2)