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1 year ago4 points(+0/-0/+4Score on mirror)3 children
Alcohol or mocktails? Alcohol is only expensive because of government taxes on it which shouldn't exist. If you think alcohol tastes bad you're delusional. I'll take straight whiskey over sweetened iced tea any day.
1 year ago14 points(+0/-0/+14Score on mirror)5 children
Every alcoholic beverage I've ever had save for one tasted like absolute crap. Every beer, mixed drink, or hard liquor. Except for one I had once, an amaretto sour. That was pretty good. I don't have a problem with people drinking moderately, I just don't understand how they can stand it, unless they're doing it specifically for the buzz. If I was gonna spend that kinda money on something that was harmful to my body, I'd at least want it to taste good.
1 year ago7 points(+0/-0/+7Score on mirror)2 children
What is your ethnicity exactly as a White person?
I honestly don't know what to tell you. I love the taste of alcoholic beverages. Wine is my favorite drink. Beer, I understand. Wine is so good though. And hi-balls are just less sweet soda which is always good to me. Find the right alcohol and it's way better. I find soda on its own to be too sweet so alcohol is a good way to balance the taste.
Store bought eggnog w/o alcohol is sooo sweet. I don't know how anyone can drink that straight. Alcohol makes it so much better.
Hard alcohol straight is an acquired taste but a lot of the shit people drink isn't actually good. I love Bourbons way more than Scotches for example. Cognac is amazing if it's the good stuff but too expensive. Brandy is usually terrible by comparison.
I dunno what to tell you... I could live off wine. There's no way a real person can't like wine. CIDER?!?! How can you not like cider? I live in the wine and cider capital... you can't not get something good. Only crazy people don't like this stuff, from my perspective.
Beer? Again. I totally understand. It's one of the worst alcohol, imo but I do still like it.
Sadly, puritanical Germans ruined beer for everyone. Gruits were health tonics before beer recipe formalization, and they definitely didn't taste like you were blowing a pine forest.
Scottish from my father's side, German from my mother's side. You'd think I'd have it in me but apparently not. I suspect it might be that my taste buds are just fried from years of drinking mountain dew as a kid. I had a good wine one time, now that I think of it. I did try some fancy cognac one time and I did *not* like it. By far the foulest thing I've ever put in my mouth was a swig of Corona beer. Beers in general are just the worst IMO, but that corona was something else. Don't think I've ever had cider...
Maybe that's just the case. I've only ever bought alcohol on my own like twice in my whole life, usually I'll just try something a friend or family member has. I tried some supposedly fancy cognac one time and it too was terrible, felt like being kicked in the head.
Amaretto is an amazing concoction that can make tons of great drinks. Mix it with bourbon, lime, and soda and you'll have effectively a coke, without the coke. There are a lot of other liquors that few people even think to try because all they drink in college is cheap vodkas and Jack Daniel's.
If you're only getting your booze from the bottom shelf at the bar, then it's gonna cost a lot and it's gonna taste like shit.
If you buy your own liquor to drink at home, it's not expensive to get relatively decent stuff. That said, you kinda need to do some due diligence to know what you're getting. For example, Angostura used to be the gold standard for aromatic bitters. Now their recipe is a bunch of artificial flavorings and dyes, and the *actual* good bitters cost less. When Tito's first hit the market, it was pretty good vodka for bottom shelf pricing. Then it got popular, the price went up, and the quality went down...
I honestly don't know what to tell you. I love the taste of alcoholic beverages. Wine is my favorite drink. Beer, I understand. Wine is so good though. And hi-balls are just less sweet soda which is always good to me. Find the right alcohol and it's way better. I find soda on its own to be too sweet so alcohol is a good way to balance the taste.
Store bought eggnog w/o alcohol is sooo sweet. I don't know how anyone can drink that straight. Alcohol makes it so much better.
Hard alcohol straight is an acquired taste but a lot of the shit people drink isn't actually good. I love Bourbons way more than Scotches for example. Cognac is amazing if it's the good stuff but too expensive. Brandy is usually terrible by comparison.
I dunno what to tell you... I could live off wine. There's no way a real person can't like wine. CIDER?!?! How can you not like cider? I live in the wine and cider capital... you can't not get something good. Only crazy people don't like this stuff, from my perspective.
Beer? Again. I totally understand. It's one of the worst alcohol, imo but I do still like it.
Once you've tried $100 a bottle whisky you'll know.
I had a shot of $200 *per shot* Hennessey and it was the most amazing thing I ever had in my mouth.
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If you're only getting your booze from the bottom shelf at the bar, then it's gonna cost a lot and it's gonna taste like shit.
If you buy your own liquor to drink at home, it's not expensive to get relatively decent stuff. That said, you kinda need to do some due diligence to know what you're getting. For example, Angostura used to be the gold standard for aromatic bitters. Now their recipe is a bunch of artificial flavorings and dyes, and the *actual* good bitters cost less. When Tito's first hit the market, it was pretty good vodka for bottom shelf pricing. Then it got popular, the price went up, and the quality went down...