[caladanbrood]

Illuyankas, on Aug 8 2009, 12:36 PM, said:

I like ales a lot - I've tried as many as I can justify as being new and untested but whether or not they've been delicious has been ruined by getting too drunk to remember. The makers of Hobgoblin do some fine ales, though, and there's a regional one that I'm getting to like more and more called DOOM BAR which is a fantastic name. Oh, Abbots Ale and Bishop's Finger are probably what I've bought again the most.

...
The BEST is Tuborg, which is delicious. San Miguel is pretty nice actually.

You sir, know your beers. Doom Bar is a fine tipple, and Bishops Finger is also an excellent drink. I tend to go by breweries rather than specific beers when saying what I like though, and the Wychwood brewery (of Hobgoblin fame) is certainly right up there. Along with that, Dunham Massey; Frodsham; Shepard Neame; Hyde's; Fullers; Three Rivers, they're all relied upon to make a damn good pint

Other than ales I drink mostly cider. The cloudier and stronger the better. Weston's is the best that you can normally find readily available in shops and pubs. Green Goblin is also very good, that's made by the Wychwood brewery, again.

There are only three lagers I will drink when I'm sober - Tuborg, Toohey's New and Bluetongue, the last two of which are aussie beers, and I've only ever found Toohey's in aussie bars in England, Bluetongue never.

Spirits wise, I drink plenty of cheap vodka, and plenty of cheap whiskey, and we end up making some amusing cocktails reasonably often, but nothing specific springs to mind. My default in clubs tends to be JD and coke, since in the student places it can be cheaper than beer

[Zanth13]

General:
Beer and Whiskey

more in depth:

right now i love Bud Light Lime... but im a fan of most beers... anything on draft is outstanding usually...

Jack and Coke is the king of all drinks... Crown is always awesome... and my favorite club drink is a Jeager Bomb... i can go through dozens of em... ill probably have a heart attack one day.

[caladanbrood]

Surely if you "love Bud Light Lime" you shouldn't really be qualified to call yourself a "King of Drink"

[RodeoRanch]

Beer. Lovely beer. For cheap domestic beer, I love Molson Export. Always fond of a pint of Guinness too.


For when I feel like getting rowdy, Gibson's whiskey. But I'm not supposed to drink whiskey. Things happen.

[Urb]

I keep a small stash of Erdinger (beer) and Balvenie (whiskey) for whenever I feel like having a drink.
And I love good tequila (Herradura, Don Julio, ...), but for some reason they only sell cheap tequila in this country.

For getting drunk with friends, there is Heineken.

[cauthon]

Duvel.

And really, who want to drink Heineken without a gun to the head?

[Pilgrim]

Beer=Sam Adams Boston Lager
Spirits=Smirnoff Vodka (best taste for the money), Bushmills Irish whiskey!

[Zanth13]

caladanbrood, on Aug 8 2009, 06:10 PM, said:

Surely if you "love Bud Light Lime" you shouldn't really be qualified to call yourself a "King of Drink"

shut your whorish mouth you...

its just a phase im going through i promise...

and as a King of Drink i drink everything... its mandatory, anything that can buzz me ill drink given the right circumstances...

ill have to tell you about the rum being smuggled using a febreeze bottle one day....
worste choice ever... but damnit i drank it

This post has been edited by Zanth13: 08 August 2009 - 07:59 PM

[Volkh]

Zanth13, on Aug 8 2009, 02:58 PM, said:

ill have to tell you about the rum being smuggled using a febreeze bottle one day....
worste choice ever... but damnit i drank it

LOL Do tell!

[HoosierDaddy]

Wodka. Brands = Pravda, Grey Goose, and Stolichnaya.

Beer = Dos Equis Special Lager

Wine = Fuck wine. Wodka.

[Morgoth]

Zanth13, on Aug 8 2009, 06:01 PM, said:

General:
Beer and Whiskey

more in depth:

right now i love Bud Light Lime... but im a fan of most beers... anything on draft is outstanding usually...

Jack and Coke is the king of all drinks... Crown is always awesome... and my favorite club drink is a Jeager Bomb... i can go through dozens of em... ill probably have a heart attack one day.

Zanth, go to your room. I want you to stay there and think long and hard about what you just said until you feel ready to come out appologice.


For me it's dark beer and whisky. Scotish single malt to be exact. Right now I'm drinking a glass of Laphroaig Quarter Cask which is delicious, though my favourite is Ardbeg, particularly Ardbeg Reneissance. Mind you, Japanese single malt is just getting better. This; "Karuizawa 1973 Martin's Selection Of Single Cask", and especially this; "Hanyu 1986", are two stunning single malts. The Hanyu is so unique in flavour you've never tasted anything like it.

[Avatar]

I would love to just respond to whatever you people already said here, but instead I will just answer the OP

I (being from Holland) love a Heineken, though Grolsch is also pretty good (be sure to have when you get the chance. A white beer can be nice as well. Love wine, I'm trying to find out which wines are good, and trying to remember the good ones I've had. I'm not so much for the stronger stuff, but tried whiskey a couple of times, and I think I'm going to like that.

[Darkwatch]

I'm a beer man myself, with a tendency towards darker beers (though so far I'm no fan of Stouts).
When it comes to brands I like there are a few:

In Québec:
Since interprovincial trade is massively difficult in Canada I do not have access to any Ontarian microbreweries.
And while Québec may allow beer to be sold in groceries and convenience stores, the average selection is pretty piss poor compared to The Beer Store back home. This makes good Québecer microbrewery beers hard to find. Also the SAQ (liquor store) has a very pathetic variety compared to the LCBO except when it comes to French wine.
So what I drink here mostly (my favourite major brewery in all of Canada) is Sleeman.
Sleeman Rousse/Dark
Sleeman Honeybrown
Sleeman Fine Porter (when I can find the bloody stuff).

Otherwise I'm a fan of Alchimiste Brewery from Joliette that brew:
-L'écossaise
-La Bock de Joliette

In Ontario:
When I'm back home I enjoy having access to The Beer Store and usually indulging in my favourites:
-Sleeman Fine Porter
-Waterloo Dark
-Upper Canada
-All the Sleeman mentioned above.

Now as to imported beer, this is where it get's tricky. Finding proper imports that aren't just major labels is difficult and finding good major labels is hard to.

U.K. probably my favourite beer country.
-Newcastle Brown: Yes I know.
-Strongbow Cider: I like this stuff a lot, and you can't get it in Québec.
-Boddington's Cream Ale: only cream ale I like.
-There's another one I had last time I was at the LCBO but I don't remember the name.

Ireland:
-Klikenny

Belgium
-Leffe Brune
-A whole host of beers privately imported at one of the local pubs whose names escape me.

Germany, interestingly I'm not a big fan of German beers. I find they are far too much into lagers and pilsners.
-Korstreizer (sp?)


Then it dies down.
Getting proper U.S. beer here is very hard, so I can't really judge.

As a rule I avoid most light coloured beers (lagers, pilsners, wheat beers). I find they have no taste or body.
There are a few exceptions to this as I've mentioned (Boddington's)

As to wine, I'm no fan.
Though if pressed I'm drinking red.

Now onto the hard liquor.
I'm not as much a huge fan of pure booze as I was a few years back but I do prefer a good glass to wine.
My usual staples are Scotch and or Rye whiskey and Rum.
I'll sometimes have gin.
Vodka is a good cure all but I don't drink too much of it.

That's about it.

[lobo the wolfman]

Beer - VB mostly although i do prefer Carlton Draught if it's on tap.

Vodka - love the Grey Goose

[Mentalist]

Pilgrim, on Aug 8 2009, 03:57 PM, said:

Beer=Sam Adams Boston Lager
Spirits=Smirnoff Vodka (best taste for the money), Bushmills Irish whiskey!

The day I turned 19 (and no longer had to ask people to buy booze for me), I swore I will never drink Smirnoff (or any North American vodka)
ever again.

If i'm just relaxing, I drink beer--Heineken or Stella if I go out, or my hometown L'vivs'ke if I'm at home or with friends. if I'm out, any Polish/Ukrainian/Russian beer will suffice, as long as it's in pints and not those silly 350 mL bottles. As a general rule, those imports all taste better then the comon domestic stuff.

if i'm drinking heavily, vodka makes an apearance. Always imported, and always ice-cold--usually one of the triumvirate of "Absolut-Finlandia-Stolichnaya". A 350 mL bottle of that, either straight or occasionally diluted with a mixer, and i'm good and buzzed for the night.

I enjoy tequila shots, though i've never been drunk exclusively off tequila, but I am yet to develop an acquired taste in that department.

[lord of tragedy]

so hard to get nice beers in ireland. we're dominated by guiness group sales. thank god for lidl and the bottles of fransiskanner. kostriker is like a german guinness. smooth and rich. respect to darkwatch. big fan of german beers. lowenbrau is class. love belgian duvel too. and peroni reserve. love red wines. italian valpolicellas and nebiollo, masi campfiorini is a particular favourite. love pinotage too. and chilean merlot.

have to have amaretto too. and getting into port.

don't like spirits. unless they are made into mango mai thais or strawberry marguritas.

[Zanth13]

I won't justify my drinking habits to yall

I love a lot of diff beers, foster in the big can is one of my favorites,

Oh yah my story...

Well as a soldier I could not drink in a certain un friendly area. And a fellow soldier may or may not have had there wife clean out a bottle of fabreeze and shampoo fill it with liquer and mail it to us...well we may or may not have gotten said bottle and it may or may not have tasted just like shampoo and fabreeze and I may or may not have vomited...

It turns out that mouthwash bottles are the best to use... But trial and error

[HoosierDaddy]

Toy Soldiers should have taught you that about mouth-wash bottles, Zanth.

[Zanth13]

it wasn't my idea to use the nast bottles...

I just don't know if ill ever recover

[HoosierDaddy]

Chug some vinegar. That'll clear your palate for years. (Side effect being you can recall taste of said vinegar at a moments notice for years though.)