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Cunty
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My friend is getting married, and there will be an open bar. My first. The price for the open bar doesn't change based on how much anyone drinks - it's included with the catering. I would like to maximize my alcohol enjoyment. Any help choosing what to drink that night would be appreciated.
Here's what's available to mix with:
Vodka
Ketel One
Grey Goose
Absolut
Absolut Citron
Stoli
Stoli Vanilla
Stoli Raspberry
Stoli O
Whiskey
Dewars
Johnnie Walker Black
Macallan 12
Maker's Mark
Seagrams 7
Glenfiddich
Crown Royal
Jack Daniels
Beer
Heineken
Heineken Light
Amstel Light
Corona
Coors Light
Blue Moon
Sam Adams
Tequila
Jose Cuervo
Milagro
Patron Silver
Rum
Bacardi
Malibu
Captain Morgan
Cognac
Hennessey VSOP
Gin
Bombay Sapphire
Tanqueray
Other
Kahlua
Triple Sec
I graduated recently, and have had my share of shitty drinks while in college. However, I do enjoy quality liquor. Getting sloshed is not a concern. Right now I'm planning on drinking straight up Johnnie Walker and Hennessey. Your thoughts?
Here's what's available to mix with:
Vodka
Ketel One
Grey Goose
Absolut
Absolut Citron
Stoli
Stoli Vanilla
Stoli Raspberry
Stoli O
Whiskey
Dewars
Johnnie Walker Black
Macallan 12
Maker's Mark
Seagrams 7
Glenfiddich
Crown Royal
Jack Daniels
Beer
Heineken
Heineken Light
Amstel Light
Corona
Coors Light
Blue Moon
Sam Adams
Tequila
Jose Cuervo
Milagro
Patron Silver
Rum
Bacardi
Malibu
Captain Morgan
Cognac
Hennessey VSOP
Gin
Bombay Sapphire
Tanqueray
Other
Kahlua
Triple Sec
I graduated recently, and have had my share of shitty drinks while in college. However, I do enjoy quality liquor. Getting sloshed is not a concern. Right now I'm planning on drinking straight up Johnnie Walker and Hennessey. Your thoughts?
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But if you're only into blends (the Walker), I'd stick with the Dewars.
Hennessey? No. :P Are you a rapper from 5 years ago?
Personally I just drink Bushmills neat so I can't speak for the whiskey selection. The Glenfiddich may be okay, but it really depends on your taste.
1. Smirnoff (Vodka made in England)
2. Whisky Grand Old Parr
3. Dewars 12
Not something you want to drink more than one of. Alcohol + Creme is not something you want to layer much of in your stomach.
You talk clean and bomb hospitals, so I speak with the foulest mouth possible
I have never had any problems with White Russians. People tell me that when they drink them, they always puke, to which I respond "That's cause you drank 34 of them."
Bombay Sapphire is my favorite gin. I love it. If you like a piney taste, this is not for you. It's subtle. Gin and Tonic is win.
If you haven't drank a lot of it before, I would stay away from the flavored vodkas. They are pretty sugar heavy which can lead to an early hang over, or super gut rot. I like vodka + water, but usually only as a night ender. It's quite refreshing, with the lime/lemon, and you get to put a little bit more water into you. That being said, the water that you get isn't going to do a whole lot, but I have found it helps.
Bombay Sapphire was made for vodka drinkers. It's inoffensive to a point.
My next two drinks would be top shelf scotch (on the rocks since it's summer) with a splash of water or soda to thin them out just a little. Either the Macallan and Glenfiddich or both would do.
After that, I'd probably switch to a basic mixed drink of your choosing. Screwdriver, Whiskey and Coke, Rum and Coke, Gin and Tonic, or 7 and 7.
Whisky is tough since there are so many different types. Do you like scotch whisky? Irish whiskey? etc. I would recommend sticking to a single malt. I find that they taste better. Remember the bigger the number, the older its aged. I would probably recommend the Macallan.
That beer list is pretty woeful.
Tanqueray for the gin.
Those rums are tequilas are pretty interchangeable, as far as I'm concerned. The kahlua and triple sec are useful mixers to have around. Whiskey as has been discussed is really a matter of taste, but I like glenfiddich.
That beer list is fucking shameful and your caterer should feel bad. Blue Moon is tolerable and lots of people like corona for no good reason, but good god.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Anyway, just keep it simple. Clear alcohols with citrus and spritzer, neat whiskeys, quickie margaritas for the ladies.
If you do get a bartender who'll drinks rather than just serving, just let him do his thing.
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You just made my mouth water.
This, all of this.
Or if it's appropriate have the bartender make you a Manhattan with Maker's.
As far as the beer list order whatever you haven't had and feel like trying but that list is shitty so don't be expecting much.
Spoiled beer snobs are so annoying. There is nothing wrong with what his friend (the host) is providing. It's a respectable open bar for a wedding.
No, that beer list sucks.
I'd probably stick to drinking a favorite drink (for me, either Milagro margaritas or Sapphire and tonics) and move on to beer if I want to slow down.
Until I was done w/ that, and then Amstel Light.
That beer list is respectable, I mean, Blue Moon, Sam Adams, Amstel.
It's a wedding, not a bistro.
Plus the bartender is probably a hired catering guy, so chat him up and tip him.
If it were me, and I knew these people well enough to risk acting a fool, I'd be all over that Macallan 12yo. It's a pretty fantastic single malt. All sherried up and looking for fun. Crown on the rocks ain't bad either. Drink the Macallan neat, or with a splash of water though.
Have fun and all that!
No, that beer list is fine.
Were it me, Maker's Mark on the rocks until I decided to switch to beer.
I'm sorry but when you've got a wide variety of expensive single malts and top shelf vodkas and you can't be bothered to provide a single decent beer you're slapping beer drinkers in the face. It's an active insult.
Every single one of those is a cheap and terrible lager (except Blue Moon which is a cheap and terrible amber). This is like having nothing but $10 bottles of rotgut whiskey at your open bar.
You don't need to have ultra-obscure microbrews to have a decent beer list but failing to provide a single pale ale, IPA, stout, porter, golden ale, or any Belgian-style beer is worthy of being fired. This is why so many people aren't beer drinkers, because of beer selections like this. Why on Earth would you get a Coors Light when you can get a Macallan 12 or a Maker's or Crown with coke or a decent martini?
Edit: since this is H/A, here's my advice - don't drink any of those beers unless you hate yourself
Because you like Coors Light and don't like liquor?
Craftbrew/Microbrew consists of 5% of the market. Dogfish Head Brewery puts out like 75K barrels a year, Budweiser puts out over 100 million. I myself am a picky beer drinker, but I know well my taste is in the extreme minority.
The beers served are decent, they just don't have a lot of character. There are plenty of shittier beers, see Natural Light, Sports Light, Red Dog, most beers sold in 32+ oz capacity vessels (growlers not included), amongst many others.
Most of the time caterers' beer selection is not very interesting.
Except none of those rums on the list are dark.
If you're not a bourbon drinker, I don't know. I like a gin and tonic with bombay sapphire. Tanqueray kind of sucks.
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Speaking as a proud Canadian, I will tell you right here and now that Crown Royal? Crown Royal is cat piss. It's a mediocre rye at best. Centennial is a better Canadian rye. Forty Creek is possibly not a rye (I think it might jut be a whisky) but it is also Canadian and way better. Crown Royal is silliness. Jim Beam even makes a better rye.
I still prefer a solid bourbon to a rye six and a half days of the week though, and Maker's Mark is a very solid bourbon. It's smooth enough to drink straight up, without ice in my estimation, though I wouldn't judge someone who preferred it on ice. I would however judge quite harshly the silly goose who felt it necessary to add cola to bourbon, as bourbon is way more than sweet enough as-is.
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Crown Royal isn't a rye. They only use a touch of it.
See, we're stupid about liquor up here. So Crown Royal is marketed and categorized as a rye whisky. Despite the fact that it is not. We allow our own companies to lie to us about the nature of our national alcohol. And that's only the beginning of what's fucked up around here.
Anyhow, my point is, don't drink Crown Royal. Drink Maker's Mark. It's flat out better. And you better be careful, or it'll lay you flat out.
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That depends on the flavour. Most eastern Europeans prefer herbal additions over fruits. Żubrówka is a ludicrously old Polish/Belorussian variety of rye vodka using buffalo grass, starka (also rye, 16th century, and Polish, I think I'm seeing a national taste) uses lime-tree flowers and apple-tree leaves, Nalewka, nalivka, Akvavit, and kryddat brännvin (Poland, Russia, Scandanavia, Sweden) are often complex infusions (the Swedish one is popular for summer celebrations, so you should check that out), and krupnik is a popular Polish/Lithuanian vodka flavoured by formulations of up to fifty herbs and sweetened by clover honey (although you might as well go with Medovukha if you want something like that).
Of course, your best bet may be horilka z pertsem/Pertsivka /Pertsovka (horilka is the Ukrainian word for vodka, with the other two varieties being regionally ambiguous and Russian, respectively), vodka infused with hot pepper (z pertsem is usually made by putting the pepper into the bottle like a worm in tequila, the other two use extract), because a new brand, Nemiroff, is working quite hard to sell pepper vodka to the west.
On the lighter side, a lot of people like cider, especially pear cider/perry. This is also nice to have on hand because it allows you to make mixed drinks (snakebite, Poor Man's Black Velvet).
For brandy and whiskey, make sure to have a good variety. Eau-de-vie (fruit brandy) is very nice, especially calvados (aged apple brandy). For whiskey, try to have at least some barley, malted barley, rye, malted rye, wheat, and maize (Bourbon) whiskey. You should probably also make sure to have scotch (Highland, lowland, Islay, Speyside, and Campbeltown), Irish whiskey, and American whiskey in single malt, single grain, vatted malt, pure pot still, and blended varieties. Don't bother trying to find every combination, as anybody able to find a pure pot still maize scotch has clearly manipulated space and time. Esh can probably tell you what's most viable and affordable, as I personally have no idea how much more expensive single malt rye is than single malt barley. He'll also be able to tell you the one of two blended scotches that are actually decent.
Edit: also, try to keep eggs on hand, as they are used in many cocktails to impart more body.
If we're talking mixes, I suggest the Boston sour, Ward 8, and Jack Rose, as well as some cocktails associated with the vodkas I named above.
Edit Edit: holy shit I misread the OP. I thought he was trying to create the menu.