Bottoms Up!
Posted by LC Aggie Sith on Friday, August 27, 2010 in Open Thread
Time again for Aggie’s nosy infamous Open Thread. It has occurred to me that this here is a blog about HOOKERS!!! AND BOOZE!!! ArmedGeek and I try to accommodate y’all (well, I only do booze, and girlie ones at that. Hookers are his territory), and though we give reviews on the booze, (not the hookers, since y’all can handle those), we have never asked about y’all’s preferred libations. Shocking oversight, I know. So, without further ado, knock one back, be it beer or soda, and tell us your preferred method of getting sloshed!
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I’m gonna have to go with a pint of the black stuff. And a slight variation, the Irish Car Bomb.
Try ordering THAT in a pub in Ireland that was close to a British checkpoint….
I used to be strictly a “Beer & Potatoes” kinda guy, but the last few years I’ve pretty much gone to Captain Morgan’s® Silver Spiced Rum™. I make either Cuba Libre’s or mojitos with it.
BTW, I started drinking rum when my doctor told me I had to cut back on my drinking. My thinking was/is, I can tell him that I’m only having a couple of drinks per week. (Which, technically-speaking, I am, since they’re HUGE, but few.) If I was drinking beer, I’d have to have a bunch of ‘em to achieve the same, desired effect.
Liquid bread’s my thing. Beer. I prefer my own brews, but like most of the Sam Adams stuff, some microbrews, etc. As Ben Franklin said,
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
I guess I have to divide the libations into categories. As far as “liquid bread”, I like dark ones, like Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown Ale, or Newcastle. For wine I prefer sweet whites from the Franken region, like Spatleses or Ausleses. For cocktails, I enjoy many, many different girlie drinks, mostly in the “vodka + a sweet liqueur” range. Hence my love of the chocolatini
Crown Royal for most occasions, beer for Giants football.
I drink too heavily when football is on to drink whiskey if I want to be conscious for the fourth quarter.
My name is Laura, and I’m a hooker and a boozer.
I loves my gin and tonic best of all. Tanqueray is my fave. Gin and tonic with 2 twist of lime. I also like vodka- Grey Goose, kept in the freezer and drank in shots. Mmmm mmmmm good. I like rum and coke. Most girly cocktails as a desert- White Russians, Pina Coladas, ect., not to drink drink though. Whiskey makes me mean, so the liquor stores around here won’t sell it to me (court ordered) Ha! I loves me some ice cold beer on hot summer days. I usually get Michelob, but I like Samuel Adams a lot.
Did I miss anything?
I missed a “s” in dessert, not desert, though having booze in the desert would be okay because you’d just say “fuck it” and sit there and drink and then throw your empty bottle at the vultures but your aim would be all off because you’re drunk and the heat unbearable so you’d miss and after you pass out they’d start pecking at your eyes to eat them first but you wouldn’t care because you’re totally wasted and dreaming about being a pirate on a ship and playing with your booty of gold or something. What was the question?
I likes me a hard booty, but one made of gold would be a bit too hard for a good love-bite. (Or is that how one goes about gettin’ a gold, blinged-out grill like all da’ rappers?) And vultures only go for the eyes first so that their victims don’t have to watch ‘em eatin’ their junk. They’re nice about that kinda stuff.
Shit, now that I have had time to sip on it a bit, I guess it also depends on the weather. Mojito is great when it’s hot out, but in the winter I want something with more fire, and less ice. Because those two weeks can be hell
1. Vodka Martini extra dry, made with potato or rye vodka and Noilly Prat vermouth, with menage a trois olives (one stuffed with pimento, one stuffed with garlic, and one stuffed with jalapeno). (My vodka and glasses are kept in the freezer, no ice ever touches the nectar!)
2. Single Malt Scotch, preferably Glenmorangie Burgandy or Port finished, neat with a splash of water.
3. Any decent red wine in the appropriate Reidel glass.
4. A good Tokaji or Muscatel for/with desert.
DESSERT..damn it!!
HA! HA! We should all meet in the desert for dessert drinks! Wear a pirate patch.
I used to be a slicer, but I learned to be a hooker and never broke par again.
As for booze, I go for Single Malt Scots whisky or Jameson’s Irish Whiskey…or when I’m broke, almost any vodka.
BC–When it comes to rum, you have to try this–the Five Star–the only thing that ever came out of Haiti that was worth a shit.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZXSsLYde8U/TD25-5NLF0I/AAAAAAAADEY/M9YVIg3pSKg/s1600/barbancourt01web.jpg
Whiskey and coke. I like Maker’s Mark but it’s kinda $$ and the grocery store has Jim Beam on sale a lot of times.
I can’t think of anything that would be more fun than getting smashed with Laura. You ought to come to Las Vegas – we can get dressed up as pirates and hang out a Treasure Island!
AAARRRGHHH!!!
@LCAS: “Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown Ale”–Oh, yum! Avery special brew indeed. Very nice. I’ve tried brewing up something similar with mixed success. Also, a coffee beer (yes, I brew up the coffee first and then use some nicely dark roasted malt) in order to combine the two Holy Brews in one. Actually, it’s just a littler “stouter” than some of the, urm, stouter stouts.
Washington had a bit in common with Ben Franklin. Brewed about 200 gallons of molasses beer a month for the folks at Mount Vernon. I brew a version of that, too, from time to time (only I add some cascade hops–Washington’s version was before the popularity of hops was established). I called my first batch of it “Kitty Litter Beer” because I used a (very clean and empty–*heh*) plastic cat litter bucket as a primary fermenter, since everything else I had was occupied. Turned out pretty good, except for having used to much of a specified spice, used in George’s day primarily as a preservative, I think, or perhaps to ameliorate the strong flavor of the molasses.
Mitchell- OH MY GOD I would go to Vegas and to Tresure Island dressed like a pirate in a skinny minute. I’ll be “Arrrghing” all over the place and be all “Alas Matey, shivers me timbers” and start shaking the slot machines and then the pit bosses would start chasing me and I’d jump on the crap tables and pull out my plastic sword all pirate like. It will be a blast, until I’m tasered. Let’s go.
I used to (20+ years ago) drink what Mitchell said: Makers and coke. When I drank, that is.
The last 15-20 years or so, when I’ve had a choice it’s been Macallan 12-yr, or cask strength if possible, on the rocks.
I’ll drink bread on a hot summer day, though as long as it’s not too dark and hoppy.
Slightly off topic, but does the disembodied hand in the above pic look kinda creepy to y’all? I know it’s a Boilermaker, but damn….
I just thought it was “Thing” from the Addams Family.
I think it’s his wife…it’s too feminine
So when Thing gets some sumpin-sumpin from Mrs. Thing, what do they consider it? Head or hand?
Vanilla Coke Zero… on the rocks. In fact, I hear it calling to me right now from the bottom shelf of my fridge. ‘Night y’all.
Beer with a cranberry juice chaser. It’s called a Brew-Ha-Ha. Seriously. Kind of like a fruity boilermaker. Not that I would ever drink one. It just sounds kinda, heh.
I’ve been drinking Old Charter bourbon, ’cause the local Quik-E-Package-Mart-N-Shit has it for $11.99 a fifth and I’ve had to stretch my drinking-politics-away budget. Yeah, it’s not Maker’s, but really, is there such a thing as a bad bourbon?
Jack and Ginger works for me, too.
BC Thing gets a hand job, his wife just gets “nailed”.
*Thank you, I’ll be here all week! Don’t forget to tip your waiter.*
As for drinks:
Beer – If I am mot buying, anything will do, have even been known to do PBR on occasion. IF I am bringing it home, either Sam Addams, or Bluemoon.(Shocktop works in a pinch) Used to drink MGD, and still do so for a generic domestic. Also used to drink Stroh’s, great beer, but gave me a tremendous headache (not a hangover, an honest to god major headache) so I haven’t had one of those in better than 25 years.
Spirits- Gin; either Tanqueray or Sapphire, tho I haven’t done gin and tonics in quite some time.
Scotch: out of deference to my old man, will do Cutty on the rocks. But not adverse to trying a good single malt.
Rum; Capt Morgan is the usual for rum and coke (or Dr Pepper). Have been wanting to try “Sailor Jerry’s” and the suggestion above from Haiti sounds worth looking into if we ever get more then a couple of nickles together to call our own.
Rum, is the spirit of choice over all.
Wine – depends on what we are eating, or the occasion. Though a good bottle of “real” plumb wine will never go to waist around here.
I like disembodied hands. There ought to be more of them. You know what I’d LOVE to have? A Thing like from the Addams Family.
Aww, should have read before posting. Everybody already went there with Thing.
Sailor Jerry is good Guy. It’s almost 90 proof so it definitely has some extra kick to it.
Ahhh, Stroh’s. Fire-brewed beer. Whatever that means. Great beer.
You guys should try this beer called “Colorado Native”. All the ingredients come from my State. The hops, water, barley. Even the bottles and the packaging are made here. It’s a fairly new product from Coors.
Did I mention it’s only available in Colorado? You guys don’t know what you are missing.
Good beer, Good Single-Malt Scotch, or Good Irish.
Sierra Nevada, Lagunitas, Goose Island, anything from Great Lakes Brewing for beer.
Single Malt: Oban, Isle of Jura, Macellan, and plenty of other good choices.
Irish: It’s all good.
I like wine. Lots and lots of that glorious gift of Dionysus.
And scotch.
And cachaça.
And wine.
So, I was out getting a gift for my BIL, and found a recipe for a new drink!
2 oz vodka
1 oz grenadine
1 oz pomegranate juice
Serve in a sugar-rimmed glass, like this one:
http://www.homeandgardenart.com/lolitatiaramartiniglass.html
And yeah, I got the glass. STOP JUDGING ME!!!!
How about a prune juice & Everclear® cocktail? I call it the “Shit & Go Blind”.
eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwww, BC!!!!
That’s just…..UGH!!!!
Okay the glass definitely makes it a girly drink, Aggie. Don’t care if you put straight Jack in it. That’s girly.
I like amaretto sours and amaretto with Coke.
I have found I like Lynchburg Lemonade with cherry diet 7-up instead of Sprite. And thanks to Aggie, I found I like Midori sours. I kind of like red sparkling wines as well.
Generally speaking, though, since the hub has scared me silly of getting sick from eating sweet things with alcohol I tend to go with the Vanilla Coke Zero like Woody. I like my desserts way too much to not eat them just because I am drinking something incompatible.
Oh, and so when is the Vegas get together?
I don’t know, Nicole, but if you and Mitch and Laura are going, I’M THERE!!!
Hey BC, How about some garden variety red wine with a drop (no more then 2) of Hydrolic fluid mixed in …. I call it “The Grapes of Wrath!”
White wine in a drum. Sauvignon blanc. Or in an IV. I just sort of wheel it around while I bitch at people.
Aggie? You getting a gift for me?!?!
Smartass
But maybe for next January you will, if you remember mine in November
In the Summer, I need something light….either a rye and ginger, a mojito or even MGD if it’s too hot out for real booze. Things change in the Winter, though. Pumpkin ales in the Fall lead into stouts and dark ales from England, or a case of Alexander Keith’s when I can’t afford the foreign stuff.
If you ever get the chance, try Lancaster Bomber, Hobgoblin, Bah! Humbug (Only out at Christmas) and especially make room for a Lava from Iceland. Smoked. Beer. Aw, yeah.
Oh, and one other thing. Never tell a bartender to surprise you. My favourite surprise drink was the Cheesy Dutchman. One part gin, three parts coffee cream.
Surprise!
I actually didn’t drink anything special this weekend. I went for quantity over quality and pounded Jack & Coke all weekend. I really don’t want to go to work tonight.
I had a margarita this evening, and will now snore loudly in my sleep
Mmmm….sleep….
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Shirley Temple, with the required Umbrella. If it’s a choice between hookers OR booze, however, I will maintain my sobriety most cheerfully, thank you.