Alcohol Thread

The Highwayman

For me it's always straight vodka and somekind of juice or coke to chase it down with.
I've found that due to it's pure consistency you rarely get a hangover and when you do a nice shower, breakfast with plenty of fluids and about an hour of time will get you feeling just fine.

Since some of you were giving tips:
*One of the main mistakes people make is they drink their alco' mixed: a shot of vodka, then a shot of whiskey followed by a few beers, some more vodka ect. This kind of drinking is the best way to end up praying to the white porcelain god and feeling like a bag of shit-sausages in the morning.
*Get to know your limits: since I'm a lightweight it takes me 4 shots of vodka to get the conversation flowing, 6 to get drunk and about after the 8th I'd have a hard time reading the screen of my cell-phone.
*It doesn't matter how much water you drink during partying since the reason why your head hurts during hangovers is dehydration caused by the alcohol which basically takes away the liver's ability to digest water so it sends it right through (the reason why you take so many bathroom trips during heavy drinking).
So in the morning all of your organs have a deficit of water so they drain some from the brain and when that water is gone the brain slightly shrinks in size, pulling on the membrane that is connected to the skull. Resulting in pain.
*And about alcohol poison. It is commonly thought to occur when you finally puke. Actually it's already happening when your elbow starts slipping off the chair and while pouring yourself another drink you get some on the table (or in other words: when your coordination starts getting affected).

Oh yea, I'd also take this as an opportunity to introduce myself, being new to the forums and all.
So, hello everyone!

MichaelLC

So absinthe is availble leagally in the US again!

Wired Article wrote:

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2007/07/absinthe

For several years, Breaux has been working with a French distillery, faithfully reproducing a number of classic absinthes based on chemical scans of the contents of vintage bottles. The scans accord with recent research and contradict the traditional theory that thujone is absinthe's magic ingredient.
"When I tested bottles of vintage absinthe," he says, "I was surprised to find they contained very little thujone."
Many of the Eastern European imports, spirits with strange neon colors, advertise "ultra-high thujone" levels in some of their products, no doubt figuring that if thujone is grounds for banning, it must be a selling point.
Breaux has no respect for these colorful wannabes.

Product site wrote:

http://www.drinklucid.com/

Pour 1.25 - 1.5 oz of lucid into an appropriate glass. Place a sugar cube atop a flat, perforated spoon that rests on the rim of the glass. Using the sugar and spoon are optional. Slowly drip 4-5 oz of ice cold water on top of the sugar cube (or directly into the glass), which slowly dissolves into the Absinthe. The cold water causes lucid to louche ("loosh") into an opalescent cloud as the herbal essences emerge from the Absinthe and perfume the room.

Food & Wine Review (sort-of) wrote:

http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2007/5/9/First-Sip-Lucid-Absinthe

Absinthe’s fabled hallucinogenic properties have been blamed on the chemical thujone, which in high concentrations will likely kill you before it conjures any aberrations. (Sage, I’ve been told, contains much, much more thujone than even the most potent 19th-century absinthe. Scary, eh?)

Not sure if I'd risk $60 to try bottle, but certainly would order a drink. Seems to be focused in New York at the moment, but probably available in major cities.

Please share any absinthe-related experiences in US or abroad.

Retarded_Turkey

How is Sky Vodka? I see it in it's purdy blue bottle and its at a decent price..

CATMAN(FORFUNNINESS ONLY)

baleted

madstork91

Never cork a watermelon with clear springs for 2 days and then expect it to taste alright.

Vodka is a much better choice these days and they even make watermelon flavored ones.

Bad experiance freshman year taught me this. Although the shots you can make from the juices of the clear springs corked watermelon arent that bad.

Still though... its the only thing higher proof than everclear. I do not recommend it.

This was part 1 of storks alcohol advice. Maybe there will be a part two... iunno.

(the end of the night involved me drunk and blacking out. All i had after the watermelon was ~10 beers.)