Name Your Drink

Diet Coke

 

Limoncella also belongs in the freezer and is best served in a frosty codial glass

Mixed: I am going with Schmika, Rum and Coke (diet) hits the spot
Wine: Red...love Penman Springs from Paso Robles and Lucas and Llewelyn from the Santa Barbara area
Other: Water, cold

 

One part thawed, frozen orange juice concentrate;
Four parts purified water.

I get enough poisons from the environment without adding them to my diet on purpose

 

I can't do wines or some of the mixed drinks (allergic to sulfites), so... I'm beer and ale gal mostly out of sheer laziness

Partial list:

Unibroue-- anything by them is fantastic.
http://www.unibroue.com/produits/bieres.cfm

hog heaven
black toad
youngs double chocolate stout
utenos Porter
Hippa Ipa pale ale

 

Me too. Rum and diet for me. Lime preferred but optional. Diet Pepsi is ok in a pinch. Rum's in the freezer, bigdaddy!

I love Tangueray and tonics too (lime mandatory) but they give me a headache. Doesn't mean I'll turn one down though.

A good Savingon Blanc is nice too.

To galaxee... LI Ice Teas are quite tasty ... minus the Ta-Kill-Ya (oh... that 6th of May one year!). BTW -- Rare around here to find all 5 clears in one drink. I think they limit it to 3.

 

Belgian beers, recommended by a Belgian:

1) Piraat (10.5% alc), always seems to taste better from the 75cl bottle than from the 33cl bottle. Truly fantastic and definitely my #1 choice

http://www.vansteenberge.com/newmodel/htm/2en/21200en.htm

This beer can be purchased in North America; I recommended it to buddies and they found it in specialist bars and specialist shops.

2) Chimay Grande Réserve (an aged Chimay Bleue) Trappist
3) Chimay White label (aged 4 years beyond what label says 'drink before...').
4) Rochefort 8° (8 Belgian Degrees) Trappist
5) Westmalle Tripel Trappist
6) Westvleteren Trappist

Solar Hydro

 

The Belgians brew some fabulous beers. No Lambic on your list? :blink: Man I love that stuff. The Trappists are great too. Sooooo estery and fruity.

 

Very occasionally, I drink and enjoy a Lambic - straight, with no fruit addition.

(I live near the area that has the 'special bacteria' in the air that make Lambic possible... my office is in the area...)

Solar Hydro

 

Is there any other way?!

 

Hey tripp I listed Lambics as my favorite drinks!!!!!!
I tried Geueze Lambic, but I prefer the fruit flavored, because I am a fruity kind of girl

My husband goes nuts about Grande Reserve Chimay, Orval and Duvel. All I need to do is bring him a bottle of one of them and he is all over me :lol:

 

Earl Grey, one sugar in regular mug, two sugars in Spode Jumbo cup and saucer.

Vons Select extra rich cocoa, straight.

I also like Hazelnut liquor and cream (also Amaretto and Cream), but have no idea what it's called or what the recipe is.

 

At summer parties husband Dan drinks either Yuengling (oldest brewery in America, German in origin http://www.yuengling.com/) or a Heinekin. I have either wine or something my British diving friends introduced me to, the "G and T".

A friend, Ernie, makes the best gin and tonics on the planet.
First he makes ice cubes using Schwepps tonic. He keeps Bombay Blue Sapphire gin in his 'frig with fresh-scrubbed limes (NO herbicide tastes in his drinks, thank you very much!) Ernie fills a tall glass with the ice cubes, measures out gin to my requested "heavy" or "light", squeezes a lime wedge into the glass and drops the oily skin on the ice. Then he adds cold tonic, stirs gently and plops the glass into my hot little hands. Yum!! Two of 'em out on Ernie's deck, the company of some good sailing buddies, and the world's become a much nicer place.

Dan prefers martinis before dinners.
His current favorite vodka is Grey Goose.
While ice sits in the cooling glass, he measures room-temp vodka into a shaker over ice and shakes it. The vodka sits on the ice while he dumps out the glass and drizzles some sweet vermouth into it. The vermouth then gets tossed out of the glass and the vodka, poured into it. One drained olive is added and swirled once around the glass to mix.
The other way to add a touch of vermouth is to pour it over the ice in the shaker, shake, dump the water/vermouth out and then add the vodka and shake.

He complains that modern martini glasses are too large, the martinis warm up while he's trying to enjoy the drink. He'd prefer a return to smaller glasses, is willing to pay more for two perfect, smaller martinis than one monster slug that he can't and won't finish.

I haven't found a favorite cold-weather mixed drink yet. Until then I'll stick with wine. Usually a red CA or Italian.

Our favorite winery for 2005: Cakebread in Napa. Tasted and then purchased a memorable Cab and a surprising to-die-for Sav. Blanc at Cakebread last March. We'll see what rises to the top during our trip next month to Napa and Sonoma.

For 2007: five days in Rome followed by a week in a Tuscan villa and then four days in Florence. Plan to wine and dine our way through the countryside. If Dan can negociate another week from work then we'll spend it in Venice and the near-mainland vineyards. Woof!!

 

I don't drink beer. Beer is for fans of the Superbowl (it was the Sonics vs. the Cardinals this year, right?) and too young snow boarders who can't afford better stuff.

That was true until I went to France and Belgium with a group of friends. On the second to last day we took a train to Bruge, a gem of a medieval city. Lunch was at a great corner pub where each beer was served in its own special shaped glass.
One companion insisted I taste his beer. It came in a huge red wine shaped glass and was black. I mean the beer was so dark no light passed through it, black. The thick foam was composed of tiny tan bubbles imbedded in cream. The foam stuck to my upper lip, I had to lick it off. Ordered one for myself, used both hands to cup and lift the bowl.
Loved it so much I ordered a second. Later learned that many Belgian beers are 12% ethanol.
After lunch we agreed to meet back at the railroad station and the group broke up. I walked to an art museum, the cobble stones rising to meet my feet at each step. Used my camera on the local statuary and buildings on the streets. Have no memory of doing this but have the pictures as evidence.
Found the museum and its collection of northern european paintings. Dumped my wallet on the counter so the ticket lady could pick out the fee. Wow, all those tortured Christs-on-Crosses, who'd have thought they'd be so popular? Said this out loud and insulted the other art patrons in English, tried to apologise in pidgeon-Japanese and broken Arabic. Erk. Time to leave. I have a train to catch.
Managed to find the train station although the mobile street pavement tried its best to confound the effort. Snored all the way back to Brussels.

I seem to have inherited a common genetic mutation of Japanese folks. It doesn't take much alcohol to get me feeling very, very good but I've never had a hang-over. No headache, dry mouth, or tiredness the morning after. Husband Dan gets jealous.

 

single malt scotch...neat with water chase

 

Yeah, Gueze is an acquired taste. I'm not a huge fan but I don't mind it. I'm with you, I like the fruited varieties better. My wife and I split a bottle of Framboise on our anniversary (we included lambic in our wedding ceremony), but over all I think I like the Peche the most.

Chimay is capital stuff. Too bad it's not cheaper, though perhaps that's a good thing.

I just brewed an Abbey style. 5 gals on tap... at work! It's great being self-employed.

 

Occasionally I have a mixed drink. Most of the time it's a white Russian. However, I watch my weight all the time, so I generally drink either Diet Coke or Hood carb countdown. Oh, I almost forgot -- every morning I generally have two to 3 cups of coffee cream in artificial sweetener.

 

I DON'T get enough poisons in my environment, so, to my diet I add:

Jack and Coke

White Russians

or, if I'm feeling really macho, a

'Chocolate Martini'

2 oz Vanilla Vodka
1/2 oz Creme de Cacao (clear)
Shake until well chilled
Garnish with chocolate shavings

Cheers!

Ps can't stand beer of any kind! You guys are faking it, right? You don't REALLY like that stuff, right?

 

I like vodka made from the potato

 

I like wine... all kinds of wine. Second to wine, I like gin... straight, in a martini, with tonic, whatever. Lately, my husband has been making Sandy Collins for him and Tom Collins for me. Both are delicious.

Tom Collins:

2 oz gin
1 oz lemon juice
1 tsp superfine sugar
3 oz club soda
1 maraschino cherry
1 slice orange


Sandy Collins:

2 oz. Scotch
1 oz. lemon juice
1 tsp. superfine sugar
2 oz. soda water
1 maraschino cherry
1 slice orange


I also enjoy Pat O'brien's Purple People Eaters:

2 oz. Vodka
2 oz. grape juice
1 orange slice
1 maraschino cherry