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Title: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on September 15, 2014, 06:06:48 PM
Don't think there's a thread for spirits here. Just craft beer and wine. :fabulous

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I had Pravda vodka last night at a divey-ass dive bar and had to yell Pravda really loud when I ordered it.

It was definitely not the truth. :beli
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: CatsCatsCats on September 15, 2014, 06:16:02 PM
Bought this on the way to a party the other day because they were sampling it at the liquor store and I'm the target for that kind of thing:

(http://www.eastsidedistilling.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Burnside_Bourbon.jpg)

Pretty durn good
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on September 15, 2014, 06:35:06 PM
I had a bad feeling there was one already. :goty2
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 15, 2014, 06:38:18 PM
lol, no one's posted in that thread in a year, don't listen to Esch
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: CatsCatsCats on September 15, 2014, 06:41:17 PM
Yeah, I mean, how many Taco Bell threads are there? Make a new one, at least 3 pages. :)
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on September 15, 2014, 06:41:32 PM
Mods help.
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Post by: CatsCatsCats on September 15, 2014, 06:45:33 PM
That's emoticon abuse, no one here is mad.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: toku on September 15, 2014, 11:31:54 PM
I love liquor. Vodka particularly. I have some garbage bottle right now though.
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Post by: chronovore on September 15, 2014, 11:55:16 PM
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rAyhRRrfohc/SrBH8oyT0mI/AAAAAAAAAr0/3Y6u0e0EGgA/s1600/Jeff+Prez.jpg)

Om nom nom.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: StealthFan on September 16, 2014, 12:16:31 AM
We needed another thread where Esch can lowkey brag about his money.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Positive Touch on September 16, 2014, 12:45:28 AM
I'm drinking pineapple Amsterdam because suck my dick
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on September 16, 2014, 01:17:07 AM
I bought pre-citrused rum so I could have ghetto Cuba Libres without keeping fresh fruit the fridge.

We needed another thread where Esch can lowkey brag about his money.

Don't worry, the documentation of my travels through the cornucopia of rubbing alcohol like spirits of the world itt will be the antithesis. :jawalrus
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: El Babua on September 16, 2014, 01:55:59 AM
When it comes to liquor for me, it's either cheap whiskey, cheap bourbon or cheap vodka.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on September 16, 2014, 05:47:39 PM
Recently came into some unearned shekels and instead of squirreling them away Imma gonna blow them on some absinthe for home. :hyper

I'll show that fucking bartender from my date how it's done. :ufup

Now to invest like $100 in accoutrements I'll use twice in my life. :neogaf

Not sure if I should start with something on the reasonable end of the price spectrum or go full out on some overpriced shit first doe. (http://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/ehh.png)
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 16, 2014, 05:52:14 PM
@ Karakand :ufup

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=39768

:ufup

isn't the first time the Jews have co-opted a minority operation.
 :leon
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on September 16, 2014, 06:09:05 PM
One of the few online retailers for one of the few highly regarded nu-sinthe recipes from America sells sugar cubes for $ 6.50. :neogaf

Pay $ 6.50 for sugar cubes because they're allegedly wrapped up how they used to be wrapped up back in the day brehs. :neogaf

The culture around this spirit. :neogaf
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: CatsCatsCats on September 16, 2014, 06:16:46 PM
Kara come to Portland and being your absinthe supplies!

Or better yet, leave 'em at home and I'll take you to a bar that brings out all the equipment for you if you order absinthe
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: nudemacusers on September 16, 2014, 06:25:38 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcoJyvxlbCI
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: naff on September 16, 2014, 07:02:42 PM
whisky or gin, whisky: whatever half decent Scotch the shop owner recommends, local liquor stores have some pretty dedicated alchys that've never done me wrong for recommendations. not fussy about blended, single grain, single malt etc. gin: either beefeater or if feeling a little fancy tanqueray, or really fancy hendricks.

at a cocktail bar depending on my state negroni, sazerac or old fashioned. if im feeling camp or annoying a whisky sour. when i start feeling seedy gin and sodas.

at regular bars i drink beer, when i start feeling seedy gin and soda (or just soda in a short glass w/ ice so it seems im drinking  :P ).
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 16, 2014, 07:44:13 PM
:piss vodka :piss2

:rejoice bourbon

:rejoice rye
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on September 16, 2014, 07:47:48 PM
when i start feeling seedy gin and sodas.

at regular bars i drink beer, when i start feeling seedy gin and soda (or just soda in a short glass w/ ice so it seems im drinking  :P ).

At dinner last night one of my clients was like, "Check out this low carb drink I found, vodka and soda. :smug" and I was all, "Just wait until you end up like me, drinking vodka neat. :goty2"

Everyone at the table was all :holeup.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: /r/neofeg on September 16, 2014, 11:17:36 PM
You haven't lived until you've had the choice of Stolichnaya or bottom shelf vodka on Christmas Eve... and chose the bottom shelf vodka. And drank it neat.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: toku on September 17, 2014, 07:36:10 AM
when i start feeling seedy gin and sodas.

at regular bars i drink beer, when i start feeling seedy gin and soda (or just soda in a short glass w/ ice so it seems im drinking  :P ).

At dinner last night one of my clients was like, "Check out this low carb drink I found, vodka and soda. :smug" and I was all, "Just wait until you end up like me, drinking vodka neat. :goty2"

Everyone at the table was all :holeup.

I drink it neat too most of the time and all of my friends think I'm a mad man.

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Girls tend to know you're just an alcoholic though :goty2
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Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Brehvolution on September 17, 2014, 08:47:01 AM
Grey Goose/Kettle One is pretty damn good on it's own.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: toku on September 17, 2014, 08:59:09 AM
I can drink it neat all the way down to like $20-24 dollar bottles. Once you dip below that 20 limit you enter into "tastes and smells like freshly cut grass" territory.

I've drank too many plastic bottles of Popov in my life.

 :snoop
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on September 17, 2014, 12:19:55 PM
Liquor story.

I shared about 1/2 a bottle of Jhonny Walker Blue with an asian customer. He went from this  :) to this at the end of the night  :maf

I apparently was the last guy in the world to learn that asians really don't do liquor well. Anyway the next day I went to his house and his wife let me in and he looked exactly like this

:dead

This is your life lesson of the day, do not share good scotch with Asians. K thx.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on September 17, 2014, 06:58:37 PM
You haven't lived until you've had the choice of Stolichnaya or bottom shelf vodka on Christmas Eve... and chose the bottom shelf vodka. And drank it neat.

If you're not picky about specifics, I have a story like this involving gin and Thanksgiving.

It ends with me eating all the rolls at the table to stave off yakking, yakking during dinner anyway (in the bathroom at least), and passing out at the dining room table with my hand in the gravy.

I also may have ranted belligerently for several hours beforehand.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: CatsCatsCats on September 17, 2014, 07:02:37 PM
You asshole, gravy is the best part.

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Ah, thanksgiving dinner. That's when I got on my own cell phone plan because I had enough of my drunk dads shit, and left. My mom called me on some come back bullshit and I got so mad at her asking me to pretend it was okay I snapped my fold phone in half as a way to hang up. Got my first iPhone the next day! He had to pay out the remainder of the contract, too :smug
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Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on September 17, 2014, 07:04:24 PM
On a more upscale note, I opted for a bottle of absinthe that only cost 50 clams.

Sadly it doesn't have a green hue, but at least it doesn't have an artificial green hue.

Knickerbocker at the BevMo asked me if I had the tools of the trade already and I wanted to respond truthfully and say I'd be using a fork instead of an absinthe spoon (I got this protip from the Wormwood Society website :mynicca) and whatever clean glass I had available when I got home tonight instead of an absinthe glass but instead I just said I had all the absinthiana I needed already. I'm already buying spirits when my schedule permits (i.e. late morning on a weekday), I don't need to add insult to injury. :heh
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on September 17, 2014, 07:15:16 PM
I think I bought a bottle of the Kroger label (Prestige?) whiskey once.

Some depths were not meant to be plunged to.

e: I should add to this that I drank Prestige vodka and gin on the reg. I only got into gin because Prestige gin was $1 cheaper for a fifth.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: toku on September 17, 2014, 07:19:17 PM
My go to cheap and misery. Ice cold over ice, no pretension here :(

(https://wn-l.s3.amazonaws.com/ups/releases/1871/191_135_Evan-Williams-Green-Label.jpg)

I have a long history with Evan Williams

(http://i.imgur.com/lP7Xe2G.jpg)

I wasn't sharing it...Slept on a half blown up airbed. Woke up with belt indent marks and a fucked up hip.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: toku on September 17, 2014, 07:25:55 PM
Yeah I had to stop pregaming before going out too. Kept waking up the next day with phantom bar tabs. "Wait, I went back for drinks four times? and drank a quarter bottle before leaving?"
 :noah

I've been doing gin and tonics more because I don't care too much for the gin aftertaste so it's way easier for me to chill and watch myself on it when I'm out.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on September 17, 2014, 07:29:35 PM
Blacking out after a fifth? (http://i.imgur.com/Bfhcd2q.png)
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on September 17, 2014, 07:36:17 PM
I was gonna put something like that last line in spoiler tags but I didn't want to rob you of the pleasure. :-*

A fifth can actually put me out these days anyway. :shh
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: toku on September 17, 2014, 07:37:19 PM
I was gonna put something like that last line in spoiler tags but I didn't want to rob you of the pleasure. :-*

A fifth can actually put me out these days anyway. :shh

system failure?  ;)
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: /r/neofeg on September 17, 2014, 07:39:52 PM
I was gonna put something like that last line in spoiler tags but I didn't want to rob you of the pleasure. :-*

A fifth can actually put me out these days anyway. :shh

that's a good thing, dude.

To be honest all my eastern european friends are like you. Niccas can drink an entire fifth and still be a solid 5 or 6 drunk.

Well it depends on time we're talking here. A fifth over the space of 3-5 hours of drinking? Absolutely a blackout, yeah. A long day drinking sesh? 5-7? fine. would just be a constant 6/10 drunk.

slavs are superior europeans.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on September 17, 2014, 07:41:35 PM
Oh yeah, definitely. Esch and I just like to give each other shit. 8)
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Post by: /r/neofeg on September 17, 2014, 07:49:41 PM
 8)

you mentioned thanksgiving. where are you from?
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on September 17, 2014, 07:57:17 PM
I'm from the U.S. but only 1 of my grandparents was born here so I can collect nationalities like trading cards if I want.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: chronovore on September 17, 2014, 10:00:41 PM
Liquor story.

I shared about 1/2 a bottle of Jhonny Walker Blue with an asian customer. He went from this  :) to this at the end of the night  :maf

I apparently was the last guy in the world to learn that asians really don't do liquor well. Anyway the next day I went to his house and his wife let me in and he looked exactly like this

:dead

This is your life lesson of the day, do not share good scotch with Asians. K thx.

Yeah, many asians genetically do not have the enzyme which allows for alcohol processing, and they'll get severely flushed after only one beer. Half of my wife's family is this way, so they just don't drink at all, and the memories of the Godzilla moments which followed their last time imbibing are enough to ward off any attempts to even offer them social drinks.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: CatsCatsCats on September 17, 2014, 11:12:14 PM
So are like Asian peoples big stoners then?
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on September 17, 2014, 11:52:25 PM
Damn, didn't realize the ABV in absinthe was so high. This bottle I got is 53%. :phil No wonder the glass I had last Saturday hit me hard. :neogaf

Too bad I made bad life decisions and am still working at 20:45, and will be for many hours more, and thus cannot partake in this high proof bounty. :shaq2
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: chronovore on September 18, 2014, 08:54:20 AM
So are like Asian peoples big stoners then?

Not really. Drug laws here are pretty hardcore, and the public shaming which goes with them will ruin the person and their business and family. Many Japanese drink; not all of them are missing the enzyme.
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Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on September 18, 2014, 09:03:18 AM
So are like Asian peoples big stoners then?

Not really. Drug laws here are pretty hardcore, and the public shaming which goes with them will ruin the person and their business and family. Many Japanese drink; not all of them are missing the enzyme.

No wonder the suicide rates are so high. No drugs, can't drink, shitty games, and envious americans running around jerking off behind you.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: T234 on September 18, 2014, 07:41:31 PM
A few years ago, I drank a whole fifth of this (http://2aa4087f78017e1f1b37-16f23d656172844e12593721a8048632.r98.cf1.rackcdn.com/catalog/product/cache/1/image/265x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/n/o/northern_lights_nv_175.png)

at a wedding reception one time in an hour and 15 minutes.

It was as big a fiasco as you think it was. I had to walk around the following day and find my car. I don't do shit like that anymore.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on September 18, 2014, 07:46:22 PM
Brehs absinthe at home was a revelation. :lawd

I had one glass and woke up 9 hours later. :lawd
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: toku on September 19, 2014, 11:14:06 PM
Picked up some garbage Florida brand vodka (why? why did I do this?) because it was on sale and I regret it. Fucking awful. I have to actually mix it now.

:goty2


Now I'm sitting here with a cranberry vodka drink, bout to listen to some garbage rap album with a frozen  :tocry permanent look on my face

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Waste not want not though. This whole bottle will get drunk before I get a new one...probably next week.
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Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on September 20, 2014, 07:17:07 AM
Yeah, I definitely love absinthe.

I think this is the first time since I discovered nicely made beer that I like everything about an alcoholic beverage.

Even the smell of it when I open my bottle makes me go :lawd.

Fucking sucks to have fallen for top shelf stuff, but on the upside that's a decent check on overindulging.

Can't wait to acquire a bunch of ridiculous paraphernalia for my new vice, it'll be like being a stoner but retro.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: toku on September 21, 2014, 12:54:26 AM
Complain a 1.75l bottle of garbage vodka but still finish almost half of it over two nights by yourself


 :goty2
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on September 21, 2014, 02:13:22 AM
Complain a 1.75l bottle of garbage vodka but still finish almost half of it over two nights by yourself


 :goty2

Been there breh. Been there.

There was a time in my life where I drank ~liter a day, every day.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on October 01, 2014, 07:38:27 PM
Bugs really like slivovitz. Passed out last night before I could drink my night cap and I woke up to find a big ol' thing had died the death I was meant to die.

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Your uncle Dick drowned last week in a vat of whiskey in Dublin
 Brewery. Some of his workmates dived in to save him, but he fought
 them off bravely. We cremated his body, and it took three days to
 put out the fire.
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Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on October 05, 2014, 10:41:27 AM
Absinthe is a really great booze for staying drunk off 1 glass all night but an absolutely terrible booze for trying to forget things. The clarity, it's so tragic friends.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on October 06, 2014, 10:17:55 PM
I can't believe I'm about to type this.

I got a bottle of La Clandestine today. It's one of the first legal brands of absinthe and its creator used to bootleg it when it was illegal (hence the name I suppose). It's from Neuchatel / Val-de-Travers so it's legit in that regard too.

Recently I was listening to an interview with this hipster breh who makes St. George absinthe in the San Fran Bay Area and he threw shade on La Clandestine for skimping on the anise "to appeal to a mass market." He was like, "I won't name names, but it was one of the first legal brands. :hitler" :dead

After sampling it I have to agree. It needs more anise, which is something no human being should ever write about a liquor. Kubler is so :lawd because it's rich with herbs, this is much more understated. :obama

On an ironic note, if you're looking to dip your toe into absinthe I would probably rec La Clandestine for this reason. (Ignoring the fact that it's fuckexpensive.)

It gets you hella drunk at least. :yeshrug

Can't believe I've fallen down this rabbit hole brehs. :stahp

Next up after I sell an organ or 3: St. George absinthe. It'll be my first vert, hopefully my green fairy is a hottie. :phil
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Yulwei on October 06, 2014, 10:21:31 PM
Damn, didn't realize the ABV in absinthe was so high. This bottle I got is 53%. :phil No wonder the glass I had last Saturday hit me hard. :neogaf

Too bad I made bad life decisions and am still working at 20:45, and will be for many hours more, and thus cannot partake in this high proof bounty. :shaq2

53%? I feel like puking just from reading that  :yuck
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on October 06, 2014, 10:45:39 PM
You water it down. :larry

It's basically a liqueur you make at home. :yeshrug
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Post by: Positive Touch on October 06, 2014, 10:58:00 PM
:what water it down?? why don't you just take the magic out of rainbows and children's laughter while you're at it
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Post by: chronovore on October 07, 2014, 12:51:17 AM
It’s always a preparation:

https://vimeo.com/97592961

(Penny Dreadful :heartbeat )
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on October 07, 2014, 03:45:04 AM
It’s always a preparation:

https://vimeo.com/97592961

(Penny Dreadful :heartbeat )

They added water but there's no louche. :ufup

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I'm ~3 months from having a absinthe fountain too. :fbm The preparation ritual is the best part. :lawd
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Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 07, 2014, 08:22:04 PM
I want to perform fancy drinking rituals with Kara :'(
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Post by: Kara on October 07, 2014, 10:10:44 PM
It's pretty improvisational atm (I won't get into the particulars because they're fucking ghetto as hell, even if I got them from the Wormwood Society) so it's better that you can't right now.

One day we will enjoy a bottle of vintage Pernod Fils I spent 4 (or 5) figures on with my antique fountain, glasses and spoons that also probably cost more than a community college education. :uguu

BTW as someone who thinks wine's only purpose in life is to make kalimotxo and contribute to California's economy, it warms my heart to know the French wine industry was a big player in absinthe being made illegal. Fuck wine. :pacspit
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on October 31, 2014, 07:01:43 PM
I bought a bottle of St. George vert. My first green absinthe. :uguu

Shit is SIXTY PERCENT ALCOHOL BY VOLUME which I did not know until I looked at the label while putting it in my trunk. :dead
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: toku on October 31, 2014, 07:08:12 PM
I bought a bottle of St. George vert. My first green absinthe. :uguu

Shit is SIXTY PERCENT ALCOHOL BY VOLUME which I did not know until I looked at the label while putting it in my trunk. :dead

http://youtu.be/3Q8RHxowIdE
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: octopushover on October 31, 2014, 09:41:32 PM
Canadian Absinthe situation is still woeful, but luckily we have Herbsaint which is essential to a good Sazerac.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on November 01, 2014, 08:13:41 AM
Hmm, $69.99 at BevMo for a 750 ml bottle of the St. George. That's a bit steep, but I'm intrigued.

When I try a new one I start with a 200 mL. (1) That's more than enough to last awhile since a shot will put me down for the night on most nights and (2) I don't want to invest that much money upfront on a new marque in case I don't like it or I do something idiotic like buy a Bohemian-style. (That almost happened to me today. Thanks for saving my ass, based Wormwood Society message board I was searching while in BevMo on 2G. :whew)

Anyway, St. George has a distinct lemon flavor which was interesting, you smell it right away when you pop the cork. From my understanding, vertes are the color they are because of an additional infusion of herbs after distilling; however, I didn't feel like St. George was as herby as Kubler (a blanche) is, but I have a bad feeling that since Kubler was my first I think it's how all absinthe should taste since I found La Clandestine had the same problem.

Absolutely subjective opinion, but I don't really think the louche on a verte looks nice.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on November 01, 2014, 05:55:27 PM
Do you like anise? If you don't your only real choices are Bohemian-style which I have no experience with because I love anise almost as much as I love fucking up my life. (Reviews will be unhelpful too as drinkers have a profound antipathy for Bohemian-style, heaven forbid people not like anise.)

If you like / don't mind anise, I'd start with a 200 mL of La Clandestine. It's a very distilled absinthe (like a nice--not necessarily expensive Esch :comeon--vodka) so you can decide if you like the "base" flavor of the drink, and, if you do, you can then work your way into more challenging (i.e. less distilled / clean) offerings.

Even though it's kind of encouraging bad behavior (the distiller is milking the prestige of a marque from the late 19th century without really backing up their claim) I think I'm going to try nu-Pernod Fils next. Sucks that you can't get it in 200 mL to my knowledge though, at 80 clams a bottle I'm going to have to save for like two months to buy that. :shaq2
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Tribal on November 01, 2014, 09:06:48 PM
Do you like anise? If you don't your only real choices are Bohemian-style which I have no experience with because I love anise almost as much as I love fucking up my life. (Reviews will be unhelpful too as drinkers have a profound antipathy for Bohemian-style, heaven forbid people not like anise.)

If you like / don't mind anise, I'd start with a 200 mL of La Clandestine. It's a very distilled absinthe (like a nice--not necessarily expensive Esch :comeon--vodka) so you can decide if you like the "base" flavor of the drink, and, if you do, you can then work your way into more challenging (i.e. less distilled / clean) offerings.

Even though it's kind of encouraging bad behavior (the distiller is milking the prestige of a marque from the late 19th century without really backing up their claim) I think I'm going to try nu-Pernod Fils next. Sucks that you can't get it in 200 mL to my knowledge though, at 80 clams a bottle I'm going to have to save for like two months to buy that. :shaq2

christ, you're a taco
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Rufus on November 01, 2014, 09:10:07 PM
Talk to me, Tribal.
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: team filler on November 02, 2014, 02:36:22 AM
thinking of going to buy a bottle of something right now, feeling the need to drink myself into oblivion
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: chronovore on November 02, 2014, 08:00:56 AM
Hmm, $69.99 at BevMo for a 750 ml bottle of the St. George. That's a bit steep, but I'm intrigued.

I have half a 1.75 of Bacardi left, and a whole bunch of juice. I think I'll be cocktailing it up tonight, playing Dark Souls until I get too drunk to beat the enemies.

That’s negative-one beers for me.  :'(
Title: Re: Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!
Post by: Kara on November 02, 2014, 11:32:52 AM
christ, you're a taco

I'm trying my hardest.
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Post by: toku on November 06, 2014, 08:13:33 PM
Full moon tonight so *migos voice*
tequila tequila tequila
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Post by: team filler on November 08, 2014, 07:22:38 PM
just bought a bottle of tangeuray
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Post by: CatsCatsCats on November 08, 2014, 07:33:40 PM
Drinking from a handle of Seagrams 7 with diet ginger ale. It works
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Post by: team filler on November 08, 2014, 09:14:15 PM
my first time getting rangpur, shit is good brehs. drinking quality liquor straight up  :rejoice
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Post by: Kara on November 08, 2014, 09:22:45 PM
Drinking the good stuff. :whew

Waving goodbye to the rubbing alcohol. :heh
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Post by: team filler on November 08, 2014, 09:28:32 PM
liquor is cheaper on post too, so blessed
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Post by: team filler on December 20, 2014, 01:11:15 AM
working on a bottle of tanqueray
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Post by: team filler on December 20, 2014, 01:29:13 AM
we should do a plug thing
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Post by: Kara on December 30, 2014, 10:46:40 PM
Had Calvados for the first time recently. It's just not-as-shitty slivovitz, but has a good reputation and decent cost of entry which baffles me. It's amazing what you can get people to overpay for by saying it's from France. *takes a sip of Pernod Fils*
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Post by: Great Rumbler on December 30, 2014, 10:52:40 PM
I bought some Mike's Hard Strawberry Lemonade.

Does that make me a bad person?
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Post by: toku on December 30, 2014, 11:59:12 PM
I bought some Mike's Hard Strawberry Lemonade.

Does that make me a bad person?

this is the liquor thread, not the bitch ass nicca thread.
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Post by: Kara on February 01, 2015, 10:23:34 PM
Chartreuse :lawd

Getting a strange look from the cashier at the liquor superstore when you bring a bottle of Chartreuse up on Super Bowl weekend. :lawd

Funding the enclosed monastic lifestyle by buying booze. :lawd

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Funding institutional child molestation by buying booze. :fbm
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Post by: /r/neofeg on February 01, 2015, 10:47:59 PM
homemade rakia  :lawd



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Post by: Trent Dole on February 01, 2015, 11:53:52 PM
It's supposed to snowageddon here AGAIN tonight/tomorrow. If it's okish in the morning think I'ma get me some Fireball.
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Post by: nachobro on February 02, 2015, 02:50:42 PM
Slivovitz is a special thing. Pretty sure Jews drink it as atonement for imagined or real sins. That's what I use it for anyway.

Thanks to Kara bringing it up and there being a specialty booze store next to my work I grabbed a bottle of sliv (Serbian, which I've never had before) and some Becherovka and tonic. Been a bit since I've had either so I'm excited to get home and break them open.
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Post by: Kara on February 03, 2015, 01:01:59 AM
Slivovitz is a special thing. Pretty sure Jews drink it as atonement for imagined or real sins. That's what I use it for anyway.

Why does it always have to be about guilt with the Tribe huh? Why can't we just like drinking an absolutely godawful spirit that isn't even really ours?

Oh yeah, Manischewitz is why. :shaq2
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Post by: nachobro on February 03, 2015, 01:13:16 AM
I've had Becherovka plenty of times before but mixed with tonic water it's really damn good. I think this is gonna be my go to drink for a while.
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Post by: toku on February 18, 2015, 12:41:14 AM
https://vine.co/v/Oj3Hve1TXtK
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Post by: Kara on May 27, 2015, 12:26:44 AM
Bought a bottle of Leopold Brothers absinthe verte. It's good, and having a batch number on the bottle is deliciously decadent, but I feel like American absinthes try too hard to inundate you with strong herbs and miss that crisp, cool taste Franco-Swiss product has.

The bottle is super ghetto, which I like.
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Post by: octopushover on August 22, 2015, 09:09:24 PM
this one's for vularai

(https://igcdn-photos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/t51.2885-15/11809541_1005847739455103_843064664_n.jpg)
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Post by: Kara on August 22, 2015, 09:30:20 PM
That's the same absinthe spoon I use at home. :)
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Post by: Kara on August 22, 2015, 10:01:51 PM
I'm drinking USDA certified organic vodka. Who the fuck cares if poison is organic. :cac
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Post by: toku on August 22, 2015, 10:04:12 PM
I'm drinking USDA certified organic vodka. Who the fuck cares if poison is organic. :cac

is it tito's? kinda rough straight up but really nice when mixed
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Post by: Kara on August 22, 2015, 10:10:32 PM
http://www.cropvodka.com

This.

They should change the name to Crap Vodka imo.

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It's actually pretty smooth straight. :rash
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 21, 2017, 01:40:52 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/MjFicDJ.png)
hola amigos

Any tequila recommendations?
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Post by: toku on February 21, 2017, 01:47:36 PM
Don't really have brand recommendations just don't go cheap. Whatever you usually spend on booze, go at least $20 on top when you're looking at tequila. I can and still do all types of cheap liquor but I refuse to believe there is any kind of tequila that's sub $35 - 40 that's drinkable.
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 21, 2017, 02:34:37 PM
you prob don't fuck with Patron right.
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Post by: nudemacusers on February 21, 2017, 05:41:23 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/MjFicDJ.png)
hola amigos

Any tequila recommendations?
herradura reposado is great and you can find it pretty easily.
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Post by: nudemacusers on February 21, 2017, 06:50:37 PM
:donot



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Post by: Valkyrie on February 21, 2017, 06:52:53 PM
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hola amigos

Any tequila recommendations?
Not a fan of silver tequila, gold only. Jose Cuervo is quite generic but is my favorite brand. Silver is probably more shot friendly in taste for most though, so it depends on how you're gonna drink it. But Patron is good for silver. Try Don Julio if you can get your hands on it. Pretty good stuff. :lawd
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 21, 2017, 07:24:28 PM
What about if I wanted to mix it with juice? Not for myself, of course.
(http://i.imgur.com/o4daRM0.png)
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Post by: nudemacusers on February 21, 2017, 07:33:19 PM
Get patron and conspicuously leave the bottle on your shelf.
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Post by: toku on February 21, 2017, 09:16:17 PM
jose gold actually solid forgot about that one
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Post by: Valkyrie on February 22, 2017, 01:34:35 AM
Bottoms up, I'll out-shot you
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Post by: Kara on February 22, 2017, 01:41:23 AM
Get some mezcal or something broseph. You already have a well-earned rep around here.
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Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 22, 2017, 09:05:10 AM
I kinda like cazadores, don't drink tequila much anymore tho
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Post by: chronovore on August 28, 2017, 07:06:48 PM
I have been bequeathed the liquor collection of a good friend, who had been collecting stuff in Japan for decades. One of the items is a triangular-bottled 10-year Glenfiddich Pure Malt in a very old looking cylindrical tin. My first thought is that this is from some era before Glenfiddich exported single-malts, as there was a time when it was considered too rarified a taste. So my assumption is that this is a blend, so I don't have high hopes.

I have a drink. It is magnificent.

I have another drink the next day. It wasn't my imagination, it is really, REALLY good. I look more closely at the bottle. It says it's from 1974. Investigating on the web, I haven't found a perfect match on it, but what I'm seeing so far is that it's no longer bottled this way, hasn't been for decades.

I'm going to treat it a little more reverentially from here on out, and toast my departed friend each time.
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on August 28, 2017, 07:12:19 PM
post on r/scotch  they will tell you what it is
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Post by: chronovore on August 29, 2017, 03:16:06 AM
post on r/scotch  they will tell you what it is
I did it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotch/comments/6wplnl/glenfiddich_pure_malt_purchased_in_japan/
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Post by: chronovore on July 29, 2018, 08:37:10 AM
https://twitter.com/AviationGin/status/1007036639699505152

:heartbeat
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Post by: nudemacusers on July 29, 2018, 11:39:50 AM
Picked up Martell blue Swift today; ‘cognac finished in a bourbon barrel’. Definitely inherits some of the bourbon feel and notes, but I don’t think this will unseat Remy 1738 for me in this price range.

(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0363/8621/products/fullsizeoutput_467f.jpeg?v=1528515650)
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Post by: nudemacusers on July 29, 2018, 11:50:49 AM
Also scrolling back I see some digs at calvados. watching you all closely :bolo
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Post by: HardcoreRetro on July 29, 2018, 11:56:09 AM
Nikka Whisky From the Barrel

It's nice but the price is a bit steep for what you get. Think it's like half the price in Japan itself. Good value over there.

Only stand-out thing to me seems to be the finish. Great lingering chocolate raisin aftertaste.
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Post by: Kara on July 29, 2018, 11:56:45 AM
Picked up Martell blue Swift today; ‘cognac finished in a bourbon barrel’. Definitely inherits some of the bourbon feel and notes, but I don’t think this will unseat Remy 1738 for me in this price range.

(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0363/8621/products/fullsizeoutput_467f.jpeg?v=1528515650)

VSOP :girlaff
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Post by: nudemacusers on July 29, 2018, 12:21:48 PM
 >:(  :(
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Post by: Tasty on July 29, 2018, 03:04:19 PM
https://www.reddit.com/r/IASIP/comments/3kesv9/the_real_rum_ham_recipe_getting_drunk_off_pig/

Probably gonna give this a try soon.
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Post by: Kara on July 29, 2018, 06:01:54 PM
>:(  :(

It's really weird to see VS stuff locked up in cases, even if it's "good." (For example, Hennessey.)
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Post by: team filler on July 29, 2018, 06:04:05 PM
a lot of niccas drink hennessey  :trumps
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Post by: Tasty on July 29, 2018, 06:08:49 PM
More like Hunnecessary.
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Post by: BisMarckie on July 29, 2018, 10:31:51 PM
I think I am buying too much Gin  :doge

(https://abload.de/img/img_0190f8e6b.jpg)
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Post by: Kara on July 29, 2018, 11:11:11 PM
Well yeah, you have a bottle of Pernod Fils!

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I actually don't like French absinthe very much. It's extremely bitter.
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Post by: BisMarckie on July 30, 2018, 12:09:22 PM
Well yeah, you have a bottle of Pernod Fils!



Pastis with ice and a little bit of water is the GOAT drink for the summer. :rejoice