What drink did you recently learned.

astyle said:
Tried 'gin & tonic' for the first time during this year's World Cup... When the stuff comes from good brands (Beefeater gin and Schweppes tonic, not the diet but regular stuff), AND mixed right, the results are fantastic - clean taste, not too sweet, not overly strong...
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Many decades ago, our housemate was dating a sailor who liked to drink gin and tonic. So we decide to have a tasting comparison, you know like wine tasting. The problem with gin and tonic is that you can change two things, so we had to explore a matrix: about 10 different gins x about 5 different tonics. Sadly, nobody was able to drink all 50, but we did try. The winner was (somewhat expectedly) Bombay Sapphire, but mixed with (quite unexpectedly) the cheapest Safeway brand generic tonic.

I'm a fan of Kolsch style of beers, ...
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I'm very sorry, and please don't take it personally, but I'll have to kill you for that.

You see, I grew up in a small town near Düsseldorf. That's only an hour by car from Cologne. And we like our beer dark and flavorful. We call it "old beer" or Altbier. Kölsch is garbage. Worse than garbage, Rhine water mixed with dog pee to give it the yellow color. Here is a quote from the Wikipedia page that describes the situation well: "There exists a regional rivalry between the drinkers of Altbier in the Düsseldorf area and the drinkers of Kölsch beer in the Cologne (Köln) area."
 
In my backwater, Red Bull and Jägermeister make a very popular combination among the local daredevils. By 2 AM you can often find them bouncing off the walls just as the polizei arrive. Mace and pepper spray are sometimes used to assist them at finding their way into the grüne minna.
 
tootoo. olive at the bottom of vodka slips onto your tongue as you drink it. peppered alcohol gets you that spicy flavor. guys from Argentia took this thing to Yerevan and this place is called RIO bar now (or a year ago it was).
 
Vull said:
In my backwater, Red Bull and Jägermeister make a very popular combination among the local daredevils. By 2 AM you can often find them bouncing off the walls just as the polizei arrive. Mace and pepper spray are sometimes used to assist them at finding their way into the grüne minna.
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<Spoken in the voice of TF2-Spy> "One shudders to imagine the scenes taking place behind the scenes..."
You know that there are festivities where they waterproof any outlet in the ER because drunks tend to aim at them when peeing on the walls?

For some real fun, you need
- a coaster
- a bar towel
- a sturdy pint glass
- one good shot of tequilla
- some champagne or substitute

Fold up the towel to be a good cusion.
Pour champagne, one or two fingers high
Add tequilla
Place the coaster at the top. Hold it tight.
Lift the glass and slam it hard on the bar towel
Bottoms up.

The champagne will turn into nice foam, thus allowing the tequilla maximum contact with your body while going down. You will be utterly toasted seconds after, for about 5 minutes. People usually stop this nonsense at age 25. Using a shaker is safer, believe me.

Now for some coffee.
 
ralphbsz said:
Many decades ago, our housemate was dating a sailor who liked to drink gin and tonic. So we decide to have a tasting comparison, you know like wine tasting. The problem with gin and tonic is that you can change two things, so we had to explore a matrix: about 10 different gins x about 5 different tonics. Sadly, nobody was able to drink all 50, but we did try. The winner was (somewhat expectedly) Bombay Sapphire, but mixed with (quite unexpectedly) the cheapest Safeway brand generic tonic.


I'm very sorry, and please don't take it personally, but I'll have to kill you for that.

You see, I grew up in a small town near Düsseldorf. That's only an hour by car from Cologne. And we like our beer dark and flavorful. We call it "old beer" or Altbier. Kölsch is garbage. Worse than garbage, Rhine water mixed with dog pee to give it the yellow color. Here is a quote from the Wikipedia page that describes the situation well: "There exists a regional rivalry between the drinkers of Altbier in the Düsseldorf area and the drinkers of Kölsch beer in the Cologne (Köln) area."
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I have that kind of attitude towards Budweiser/Coors/Miller/Foster/Corona, and just about any cheap canned stuff. So, I do get this.
 
It's not recently discovered but recently drank: An ice cold pint of dry sider with 4 shots (~100ml) of vodka added once there is space in the glass to add it.
 
rorgoroth said:
It's not recently discovered but recently drank: An ice cold pint of dry sider with 4 shots (~100ml) of vodka added once there is space in the glass to add it.
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That's like 1:1 proportion of vodka and cider... gin and tonic normally is 1 part gin to 3 parts tonic! ?

In an old cocktail recipe book (don't have it handy right now), I once saw a 'Dollar Shot' recipe:
  1. Note how the bar arranges its booze. This works best when you have a 3- (or 4-) tiered shelf in the back:
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  2. Pull out a $1 dollar bill, and read the first 3 digits of its serial number.
  3. Shelf closest to you is shelf 0, next is 1, then 2... up to x.
  4. Leftmost bottle on the shelf is bottle 0, last is bottle y.
  5. If first digit of serial # on bill is 8, that indicates bottle #8 on first shelf: [0][8]
  6. Code: 
    while(shelf_no != x) {shelf_no=0; get(shelf_no[bottle_no]); pour(); shelf_no++;
This can get even wilder if you use git commit or SSL cert hashes! I once tried that in a bar - the owner was so tickled, he let me have the resulting stuff on the house. :P
 
Alain De Vos said:
I couldn't agree less. Some flavors go good together others just don't.
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That's kind of the point of that. You don't know what you'll get. If you don't like the idea, stick with something you know - either on the menu or a recipe you know. Besides, bars do follow a certain logic in bottle arrangements, and there are outer limits in the algorithm.
 
I am traditionalist and I didn't learned any new drinks. I am on wine all life. What kind? On the depend of food, mood... Sometimes a congnac Courvosier XO or V.S.O.P. and I didn't changed the brand either, ha ha.
 
astyle said:
That's like 1:1 proportion of vodka and cider... gin and tonic normally is 1 part gin to 3 parts tonic! ?
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You know, I never thought of it like that. I'll admit I don't often drink to enjoy the flavours though, I like to have one big drink late evening on a fri & sat that will finish me off which is why I always make it something strong.
 
rorgoroth said:
You know, I never thought of it like that. I'll admit I don't often drink to enjoy the flavours though, I like to have one big drink late evening on a fri & sat that will finish me off which is why I always make it something strong.
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Yeah, for me, I like to enjoy the flavor of the drink just as much as the strength/punchiness... Sometimes rum is treated as a spice in tea and baking... But sometimes wanting to just crash after a few - I can relate to that. ;)
 
astyle said:
Yeah, for me, I like to enjoy the flavor of the drink just as much as the strength/punchiness... Sometimes rum is treated as a spice in tea and baking... But sometimes wanting to just crash after a few - I can relate to that. ;)
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I just realised something, when I wrote 100ml I meant that as the total! Admittedly since I don't drink in the week the drink I make really does knock me sideways and get me ready for bed.

Ironically I'm thinking better now AFTER that drink than earlier when I just got in from work.
 
Black Polar Bear, which means 330 ml. strong dark beer and 50 ml. rum, and ice, lots of it. A safe way to get wasted, usually used when the party is over (you don't care how you get back home). Quite a popular fill on team building trips here, in the land of Dracula.
Kind of extreme measure, don't try it if you're not a pro boozer. (Did that, never again, thanks).
 
I've found that the more patches you add to dwm, the harder it becomes to manage it all. The code becomes bloated and the dwm becomes unstable.
 
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