Strawberry Frozen Daquiris. White rum with lemon frizzante and cranberry. Vodka-cranberries, obviously. Singapore Slings. Jello shots and Marvin Gaye And I had a dream once where sweet champagne was really good.
The trouble is, I can take a lot of booze without feeling the effects, but my sense of taste, like my hearing and touch, is really sensitive. This means that I'm stuck pounding back girl drinks, but because the prepackaged ones have such cheap shit making up their booze-portion I have to mix mine myself.
I know it makes me sound like a bitch, but I don't care; there is a taste difference between Smirnoff and Stoly, and Stoly is just fucking better.
edited 16th Jun '11 11:30:49 PM by FurikoMaru
A True Lady's Quest - A Jojo is You!Oh my. >_<
That reminds me of the time I tried Spumante. It was pretty horrible.
I don't mind "girly" drinks: cocktails like frozen daquiris and ginger cosmos can pack a serious punch (even though it tastes like it shouldn't), but it's this weird thing where the intoxication hits your legs before it hits your head.
edited 16th Jun '11 11:38:39 PM by zeroplusalpha
Play Again? Y/NI tried champagne a couple of times, and I was not very impressed with it. Bordeaux wine is good, however, even though I feel that in French wines as a whole the wine takes too much the taste of the wood of the barrel.
Technically, by the way, "spumante" only means "very sparkly wine" — the term is usually used for stuff like Prosecco
or Brachetto
, but I have heard people using it even for stuff like my region's Lambrusco
— which is sparkly, sure, but is not what I would call a "spumante" myself.
By the way, Lambrusco is also very much subject to Sturgeon's Law — most of it is mediocre at best, but there are a few varieties which are actually pretty good.
edited 16th Jun '11 11:45:37 PM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.Hm, the Norse thing when it came to alcohol was mead, right?
I never tried it, to be honest, so I have no idea how it tastes like. Neil Gailman seems to dislike it, but sooner or later I want to give it a try.
edited 16th Jun '11 11:54:22 PM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.@Mead haters: Clearly, you sampled the wrong variety. That's not hyperbole; most mass-produced examples taste like old socks and ass. Sky River (unfortunately only available in the Pacific Northwest), Lover's Mead (ditto) and Staggering Bastard (an SCA original) are damn delicious.
@poison: The "experts" say there's no difference, but every drinker I know disagrees. draw your own conclusions.
edited 17th Jun '11 12:00:53 AM by drunkscriblerian
If I were to write some of the strange things that come under my eyes they would not be believed. ~Cora M. Strayer~Kinda sorta, but I don't know how much of it is a pyschological effect and how much of that is to do with the composition of the drink.
In the end, an excess of any and all varieties pretty much result in the same thing.
edited 17th Jun '11 12:02:24 AM by zeroplusalpha
Play Again? Y/N

DG:Or - nevermind, my bad, not gonna finish that statement.
I need to cut back on the crass remarks tonight.
edited 16th Jun '11 11:29:09 PM by MarkVonLewis