Liquor? I Hardly Knew Her!

[Kara]

Don't think there's a thread for spirits here. Just craft beer and wine.

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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.

[CatsCatsCats]

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:



Pretty durn good

[Kara]

I had a bad feeling there was one already.

[Joe Molotov]

lol, no one's posted in that thread in a year, don't listen to Esch

[CatsCatsCats]

Yeah, I mean, how many Taco Bell threads are there? Make a new one, at least 3 pages.

[Kara]

Mods help.

[CatsCatsCats]

That's emoticon abuse, no one here is mad.

[toku]

I love liquor. Vodka particularly. I have some garbage bottle right now though.

[chronovore]

Om nom nom.

[StealthFan]

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

[Positive Touch]

I'm drinking pineapple Amsterdam because suck my dick

[Kara]

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.

[El Babua]

When it comes to liquor for me, it's either cheap whiskey, cheap bourbon or cheap vodka.

[Kara]

Recently came into some unearned shekels and instead of squirreling them away Imma gonna blow them on some absinthe for home.

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

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

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.

[Phoenix Dark]

@ Karakand

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

isn't the first time the Jews have co-opted a minority operation.
 

[Kara]

One of the few online retailers for one of the few highly regarded nu-sinthe recipes from America sells sugar cubes for $ 6.50.

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

The culture around this spirit.

[CatsCatsCats]

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

[nudemacusers]

[naff]

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  ).

[Human Snorenado]

vodka

bourbon

rye

[Kara]

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  ).

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

Everyone at the table was all .

[/r/neofeg]

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.

[toku]

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  ).

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

Everyone at the table was all .

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

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[Brehvolution]

Grey Goose/Kettle One is pretty damn good on it's own.

[toku]

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.

 

[Am_I_Anonymous]

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 

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



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

[Kara]

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.

[CatsCatsCats]

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

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[Kara]

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 ) 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.

[Kara]

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.

[toku]

My go to cheap and misery. Ice cold over ice, no pretension here

(Image removed from quote.)

I have a long history with Evan Williams



I wasn't sharing it...Slept on a half blown up airbed. Woke up with belt indent marks and a fucked up hip.

[toku]

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?"
 

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.

[Kara]

Blacking out after a fifth?

[Kara]

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.

[toku]

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.

system failure? 

[/r/neofeg]

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.

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.

[Kara]

Oh yeah, definitely. Esch and I just like to give each other shit.

[/r/neofeg]

 

you mentioned thanksgiving. where are you from?

[Kara]

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.

[chronovore]

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 

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



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.

[CatsCatsCats]

So are like Asian peoples big stoners then?

[Kara]

Damn, didn't realize the ABV in absinthe was so high. This bottle I got is 53%. No wonder the glass I had last Saturday hit me hard.

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.

[chronovore]

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.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

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.

[T234]

A few years ago, I drank a whole fifth of this

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.

[Kara]

Brehs absinthe at home was a revelation.

I had one glass and woke up 9 hours later.

[toku]

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.




Now I'm sitting here with a cranberry vodka drink, bout to listen to some garbage rap album with a frozen  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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[Kara]

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 .

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.

[toku]

Complain a 1.75l bottle of garbage vodka but still finish almost half of it over two nights by yourself


 

[Kara]

Complain a 1.75l bottle of garbage vodka but still finish almost half of it over two nights by yourself


 

Been there breh. Been there.

There was a time in my life where I drank ~liter a day, every day.

[Kara]

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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[Kara]

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.

[Kara]

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. "

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 because it's rich with herbs, this is much more understated.

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.

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

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.

[Yulwei]

Damn, didn't realize the ABV in absinthe was so high. This bottle I got is 53%. No wonder the glass I had last Saturday hit me hard.

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.

53%? I feel like puking just from reading that 

[Kara]

You water it down.

It's basically a liqueur you make at home.

[Positive Touch]

water it down?? why don't you just take the magic out of rainbows and children's laughter while you're at it

[chronovore]

It’s always a preparation:

https://vimeo.com/97592961

(Penny Dreadful )

[Kara]

It’s always a preparation:

https://vimeo.com/97592961

(Penny Dreadful )

They added water but there's no louche.

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I'm ~3 months from having a absinthe fountain too. The preparation ritual is the best part.

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[CatsCatsCats]

I want to perform fancy drinking rituals with Kara :'(

[Kara]

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.

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.