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[Alcohol] - THE FINAL DRUNKENING
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ALCOHOL
In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which a hydroxyl functional group (-OH) is bound to a carbon atom, usually connected to other carbon or hydrogen atoms.
But that, of course, isn't why you're here. You're looking for this:
Ethanol, also called ethyl alcohol, pure alcohol, grain alcohol, or drinking alcohol, is a volatile, flammable, colorless liquid. It is a powerful psychoactive drug and one of the oldest recreational drugs. It is best known as the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages and thermometers. In common usage, it is often referred to simply as alcohol or spirits.
Everyone loves booze! Ours (and by ours I mean mine and yours and that person's- anyone but Muslims and Straight Edgers, I suppose.) There are lots and lots of types- flavors, preparations, serving sizes, et cetera- of alcoholic beverages- and lots of social accoutrement. You could be interested in one, or both of these things. Do you want to sip port while discussing the recent dip in reactionary fiscal pools? Maybe you're home. Have a desire to mix together a classic cocktail, and feel vintage and current? This is you! We will also accept full blown alcoholics drinking liquors straight up, throwing away their lives, piece by cask-aged piece. Maybe you like sipping a beer with dinner- come on in. And I suppose we'll even offer an environment for brahs in tight tshirts with bottle service who insist on SoCo and lime. I guess.
So, what can you expect?
Beer
It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches, mainly derived from cereal grains—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), and rice are widely used. Most beer is flavoured with hops, which add bitterness and act as a natural preservative, though other flavourings such as herbs or fruit may occasionally be included.
Beer is the most popular alcoholic beverage in the world. It really offers something for everyone- the casual drinker, the casual drunk, the frat bro, the snob, the do-it-yourselfer, and on and on.
Liquor
A distilled beverage, liquor, or spirit is a drinkable liquid containing ethanol that is produced by distilling fermented grain, fruit, or vegetables.
Liquor is especially relevant, because it offers a huge cultural crossroads- it's a coming of age for a lot of folks. It's a base for most popular cocktails. It's the province of cheap drunks, and well funded aficionados. Whether whiskey, tequila, rum, whatever- these spirits are probably the most direct and widely compatible route to a high BAC on the planet.
Liqueur
A liqueur is an alcoholic beverage that has been flavored with fruit, herbs, nuts, spices, flowers, or cream and bottled with added sugar.
Liqueur fills a sort of tenuous role if only because of how the line can be murky as a result of modern liquor trends. Flavored vodkas and all sorts of sugared up rums have really led the youth- myself included, at one time!- to be a bit ignorant of where one thing starts and one thing ends. Generally speaking, a liqueur can expected to be consumed in smaller quantities than other prime alcoholic beverages- not for their alcohol volume, but for their cloying sweetness en masse.
Wine
Wine is an alcoholic beverage, typically made of fermented grape juice.
This is probably what your mom drank when dad was 'still at the office' and you were being awful and stressful. Its pairing with meals is often considered a crucial element of its quality and applicability as a beverage. Wine is one of those things mentioned earlier that offers a massive social experience- with vineyard tours and, in the better half of society, clubs that sniff and deliberate.
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These are some things you might want if you're getting into consuming alcohol at home:
^-- shaker and strainer
^-- muddler to mash or otherwise express or reduce or integrate ingredients… a pestle for cocktals
^-- bottle opener to remove metal bottle caps
^-- corkscrew for removing corks from bottles
^-- a jigger, for measuring volume- each side contains a different measurement; sometimes 1.5 oz / .75 oz; 2oz / 1.5 oz, etc
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I'll be sticking with Samuel Smith for now.
2 parts Kahlua
2 parts Irish Cream
1 part Vodka
1 part Creme de Menthe
Ice
Garnish with cherry
And it's pretty great...the only problem is it looks like Christmas Elf vomit. Any ideas on how I can make it look better?
it was pretty nice, i'm glad i skimped on the chocolate
Godiva makes a White Chocolate liqueur that might go well replacing the Kahlua.
sounds like it has kind of a lot going on there. i guess i'd recommend choosing just two out of {Kahlua, Irish Cream, Creme de Menthe}
creme de cacao is one of those that i can't really wrap my head around. maybe it's because the only brands that i can ever find are really bottom-shelf affairs that just taste artificial. i'm thinking of buying some cocoa nibs from a local place and just making my own to see if it tastes any more like i feel like it should.
yeah this was my first time having any and i guess i kind of intuited that i wouldn't like it so i halved it in the recipe
i don't think i really like the flavor of it (insofar as a beginner like me could taste it past the brandy)
I have yet to have a Samuel Smith product that wasn't fan-freaking-tastic. Even their cherry beer is perfect -- not too tart, not too sweet. It's a fruit beer for manly men.
It was a good night.
you could go with a daiquiri. that's kind of the classic rum drink.
rum really only got super-popular as a mixer during the "tiki drink" era to my knowledge, so a whole lot of rum drinks have these intricate and controversial recipes that require like four kinds of fruit juice and several varieties of rum
well-mde mai tais are really pretty tasty, but it's really a roll of the dice whether your local bar is gonna make a decent one. odds are excellent that if they can even make it at all, it's either gonna be a shot of rum and a bunch of pre-mix, or else some really truncated recipe like rum, pineapple and sprite.
i'll see if i can't think of a better basic rum drink. you might want to think about branching out from rum for orderign at a bar though.
old fashioned
manhattan
daiquiri
margarita
martini
there are tons of good drinks, but i think i'd consider these the basic classics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuQDR1PmCng
Be careful with daiquiris and margaritas... the frozen kind are what a lot of places will serve. And those are bullshit.
I don't really know what to do with it. The best suggestion so far seems to be drinking it from the freezer with lager as a chaser.
Limed, even though some aren't. There are quite a few places by me that make premium fresh frozen margaritas (real ingredients, no bullshit mixes). Of course those will set you back $50 a pitcher, so there's that.
there were a bunch of people on this board who were big advocates of this bullshit before i civilized this place.
it's true. i mean, let's be straight - an applebees will manage to fuck up even the basic classics.
they'll make your martini with spritzed vermouth and vodka
they'll pull your margarita out of a slushy machine and make it with cuervo
your "daiquiri" will be strawberry candy mix and bacardi silver
manhattan will be jack and cherry juice and bitters if you're lucky
old fashioned will be a fruit salad with whiskey and 7 up
there's a reason to have a simple highball that you can stomach in your back pocket if it comes down to it. mine is bourbon and soda.
That is just bizarre.
it's just ign'ance, japan
ign'ance
It's fair to say he's maybe not received the best lessons.
i mean, no offense or anything quid, but i think he's already a bit over the respectability hill
nevermind, quid
i love you too much
It can't simply be that, because anyone with the slightest hint of sense must realise that carbonated drinks are not generally improved by rendering them flat.
That officially tops this that I found on a pub menu the other day. I took a picture because I didn't think anyone would believe me if I tried to describe it:
EDIT: I am amused that vodka and monster is described as "classic"
Burn things.
Thats the best thing you could hope to get out of that shit.
# 1 1/2oz Creme de banana
# 1/2oz rum
# 1oz vodka
# 2oz cream of coconut
# pineapple juice
that seems like a lot of banana liqueur compared to the liquor though
I had one at a restaurant. It's not too sweet.
And the lesser sin of mixing vodka and rum??
Yeah, that drink is an abomination against god.
(could be tasty though)
oh and you can also use creme de banana to make bananas foster!
Picked up a bottle of Beefeater, and at first, I was put off. Harsh, oily, almost a.... sugary after taste?
But then I grew to love it. Now I'm writing a bazillion page paper, and like generations of writers before me, drinking gin.
(Holy fuck Beefeater is fucking expensive. 21.99 for a 750?)
chili sambuca (?!) + blue curacao + energy drink
someone is trying to kill scottish people
I want to know what kind of name or how you'd order that drink. What the fuck would you even call that? I like Mountain Dew, but it shouldn't be mixed with liquor. The closest I've come is Vodka and Code Red which my friends and I called Code Poop.
Although I don't know how judgmental I can be since I'm drinking bottom shelf whiskey and bud light, but if I had money I'd be drinking better stuff.
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You're writing a paper and you think Beefeater is fucking expensive? I'm going to use my brilliant powers of deduction to conclude that you're in college.
Although if you want cheaper gin you could try New Amsterdam.
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