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| HAYATO 805th Post
 
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|  "Hayato's spirits of choice" , posted Sat 28 Jul 18:06
I'd recommend you Northern Spain's white Orujo, whose alcoholic percentage varies between 35 and 60 (it depends on the brand).Quite tasteless, albeit fragant to the nostrils and relatively easy to swallow, it's one of my prefered spirits. Experienced customers usually o for home-made ones, but if I were you, I'd go for "Sierra del Oso", which also comes into 2 other variations (mixed with honey or mint herbs).
Kao-Liang (around 65-70% vol.), the Chinese cousin of our Orujo is pretty good as well, although getting a fine brand may be an almost impossible task, at least here in Spain (it's hard to get, out of chinese restaurants).
Oh, and in case you are given the chance, don't hesitate to try Stroh, the Austrian Spirit. Here I have a small bottle of this wonderful beverage, well-kept (i.e. out of my father's reach) in a cupboad of my PC desktop, and its dark orange label reads as follows :
ORIGINAL
Sebastian Stroh Klagenfurt
STROH <<80>>
0.2 l ------- 80% vol
Since 1832
The Spirit of Austria
Well, I ought to warn everyone who is interested on trying it: this is a bitch of a bewerage, only suitable for those who don't care about petty details like smell or flavour, as Austrians left them aside centuries ago. To be more exact, this STROH is a dark-brown fluid (pretty similar in tone to Kikkoman's soy sauce), which stinks like petrol and tastes accordingly. I don't know where this spirit is distilled from, and I think this is for the better. Try to swallow the stuff straight if you appreciate your sense of taste (otherwise you'll lose it for almost half an hour) and drink it on moderate doses if you don't want to end in hospital (1 or 2 tequilla glasses should be enough for an average person to get soaked).
All these 3 spirits make wonders on women (at least on the ones I know), so now you know what to purchase to make them go wild...
And remember dudes : party hard, but safe!!!!
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| Grave 953th Post
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| "Re(7):Harlock's hard drinks" , posted Tue 31 Jul 07:32
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Funny, where I am an Irish Car Bomb is a shot of Irish whiskey dropped in Guiness WITH Baileys Irish cream mixed in.
Either way, letting the irish cream sit is not a great idea. Where I'm from, the shot was half Baileys, half Jameson. Jager is never part of an Irish Car Bomb unless your bartender is severely mentally handicapped.
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this is the only time I'll drink a beer other than Yuengling or Singha
Please, drink more good beer. I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm from NEPA, I love Yuengling, it was the first beer I ever had and I still enjoy it a great deal, it's a damn good beer and all... but there's so much better out there. Please make an effort to find it, you won't be sorry.
The other day a guy told me he wouldn't join us in pounding Key Light (in the interest of getting drunk on a hot day and not paying much money) because he was a "beer snob."
"Oh? What do you drink?"
This is a good one. What does he say to me? "Molson Ice."
I wanted to slam my head through the table.
I know, I know... drink what you like. But I feel like a lot of people don't have a damn clue about half of what's out there. I can still pound cheap beers (after all, I still don't have my degree yet), I can enjoy PBR or High Life in a dive bar, and I can enjoy Delirium Tremens, La Fin Du Monde, hell, last night a friend and I split a bottle of Sam Adams Triple Bock... now THAT is an interesting beer.
A site like beeradvocate.com is a good place to start, and a valuable resource so long as you don't get caught up in snobbery. When people say "I don't drink beer" I feel like the have a specific and narrow image of what beer is, when there are styles so wildly different they don't resemble each other in the slightest, besides that they are both liquids with some alcoholic content. There is a (probably several!) beer for everybody!
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| Oroch 974th Post
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| "Re(8):Harlock's hard drinks" , posted Tue 31 Jul 15:44
quote:
Funny, where I am an Irish Car Bomb is a shot of Irish whiskey dropped in Guiness WITH Baileys Irish cream mixed in.
Either way, letting the irish cream sit is not a great idea. Where I'm from, the shot was half Baileys, half Jameson. Jager is never part of an Irish Car Bomb unless your bartender is severely mentally handicapped.
this is the only time I'll drink a beer other than Yuengling or Singha
Please, drink more good beer. I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm from NEPA, I love Yuengling, it was the first beer I ever had and I still enjoy it a great deal, it's a damn good beer and all... but there's so much better out there. Please make an effort to find it, you won't be sorry.
The other day a guy told me he wouldn't join us in pounding Key Light (in the interest of getting drunk on a hot day and not paying much money) because he was a "beer snob."
"Oh? What do you drink?"
This is a good one. What does he say to me? "Molson Ice."
I wanted to slam my head through the table.
I know, I know... drink what you like. But I feel like a lot of people don't have a damn clue about half of what's out there. I can still pound cheap beers (after all, I still don't have my degree yet), I can enjoy PBR or High Life in a dive bar, and I can enjoy Delirium Tremens, La Fin Du Monde, hell, last night a friend and I split a bottle of Sam Adams Triple Bock... now THAT is an interesting beer.
A site like beeradvocate.com is a good place to start, and a valuable resource so long as you don't get caught up in snobbery. When people say "I don't drink beer" I feel like the have a specific and narrow image of what beer is, when there are styles so wildly different they don't resemble each other in the slightest, besides that they are both liquids with some alcoholic content. There is a (probably several!) beer for everybody!
screw you beer drinkers this thread is for hard liquor only
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| Grave 957th Post
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| "Re(9):Harlock's hard drinks" , posted Wed 1 Aug 06:01:
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I've been getting into scotch and bourbon lately. Glenfiddich and such. I need to learn more about brandy and other interesting drinks. Lots of fun 'underground' bars in SF to enjoy :)
Hooray scotch drinkers! Laphroaig rocks my world. Only had the chance to have the 15 year a few times, but it was excellent.
As for bourbon, I'm digging Knob Creek, but I'm told Bulleit is very good. Must try.
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Grave - if that's the case, then the 'tenders at EVERY bar I go to are retarded. Must be a Florida thing.
Well, considering how many jackass bartenders seem to think vodka is analogous to gin and try to slip a vodka gimlet to me, I wouldn't be surprised if they were all retarded.
I just don't get the very concept of how Jager ended up in someone's "irish car bomb" when half the appeal of the drink was in the lumping together of irish ingredients blah blah blah, and the other half was in the fun of pounding it before the irish cream curdles. Plus it tastes really, really good.
Also, Oroch: you can lecture me when you learn how to spell Guinness! Count 'em, two Ns! Really, it's not that hard. I don't know why people have to struggle with it.
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| Oroch 975th Post
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| "Re(10):Harlock's hard drinks" , posted Thu 2 Aug 19:19
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I've been getting into scotch and bourbon lately. Glenfiddich and such. I need to learn more about brandy and other interesting drinks. Lots of fun 'underground' bars in SF to enjoy :)
Hooray scotch drinkers! Laphroaig rocks my world. Only had the chance to have the 15 year a few times, but it was excellent.
As for bourbon, I'm digging Knob Creek, but I'm told Bulleit is very good. Must try.
Grave - if that's the case, then the 'tenders at EVERY bar I go to are retarded. Must be a Florida thing.
Well, considering how many jackass bartenders seem to think vodka is analogous to gin and try to slip a vodka gimlet to me, I wouldn't be surprised if they were all retarded.
I just don't get the very concept of how Jager ended up in someone's "irish car bomb" when half the appeal of the drink was in the lumping together of irish ingredients blah blah blah, and the other half was in the fun of pounding it before the irish cream curdles. Plus it tastes really, really good.
Also, Oroch: you can lecture me when you learn how to spell Guinness! Count 'em, two Ns! Really, it's not that hard. I don't know why people have to struggle with it.
blah blah blah, yea the harp is backwards too blah blah blah
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