taste buds damaged irreversibly about 10 years ago so anything really. I never forgot the sensation of a 50 year old whisky shared with a connoisseur near Edinburgh.
a good brandy with loveage for medicinal purposes a decent vintage champagne to celebrate a good red with food a pint of what I fancy down the pub - mostly cider a few bottles of lager (not fussed so long as cold) on a Saturday night with nibbles never - Guinness and Gin nearly died from/would never drink again - homebrew cider from the Square & Compass at Worth Matravers
this modern stuff does give you a splitting headache doesn't it AL? or am I getting old. I remember trying meths once when young and stupid. I was trying to get an idea of what it must be like getting drunk when 'in the gutter'. It was far worse than I thought
It's that bl**dy ethanol again............I knew it wouldn't do things any good......(but it was lead that did your tastebuds in........we could use you as a soldering stick):wink: AL
http://dlaird.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/zubrowka-bison-grass-vodka1.jpg Bison Vodka from Poland ice cold! Yorkie
A decent pint of Bitter for me please. Being a Yellowbelly I must recommend Batemans, but Bushys, Okells, Black Sheep etc. are also fine by me, but I will also keep trying new ones and with my tolerance level I am not likely to run out of options. I will have Two if I'm going for it and maybe a Third one if being coherent tomorrow morning is not required. Wine, The Red Stuff is very dangerous - I can get quite blurred for 3 or 4 nights without opening a second bottle.
Tbh I'm not a fan of Scottish at the best of times, probably something to do with sharing a bottle of J. Walker red as a 17-18 yr old between two of us, and finishing the bottle within half an hour. By christ I've never been so paralytic in my life, the smell of it these days is enough to put me off. I do remember walking home tho (read bouncing off lamp posts) in one part of town, the rest (before and after) is a complete mystery. What isn't a mystery is the next morning in a vain attempt to make myself feel better. I thought I'd run the gauntlet by covering the 100 or so yards to the nearest shop to purchase some ALKA-SELTZER. This took me approx 3/4 of an hour to get there, and about the same to return. The pan-galatic gargle blaster is a poor imitation of being hit over the head with a gold bar compared to a hastily drunken bottle of Scottish. I'll stick to rum in moderation.
It's made by mixing 1/2 Advocaat or Eggnog and 1/2 Brandy, mixed with spirit of the alps. It's served hot and with whipped cream on top. Like drinking boozy Custard! :biggrin:
Lots of coffee And occasional JD, various whiskey or a bottle of Corona... and an occasional cigarette. In the past this list was much longer
Frequent favourites Real ale - at home usually our homebrew, and if we run out, often Hog's Back TEA (though Adnams Broadside is another favourite beer - obviously not real ale when drunk out of bottles at home) Real scrumpy - the flat stuff, served in the plastic 4 litre jerry cans from random farms in Zummerzet - Hecks, Perrys, Burrow Hill and a few smaller ones Red wine - though I have an appalling memory for which ones I've tried and enjoyed Dalwhinnie whisky - a taste for which was one of 3 good things that came out of a student friendship which went horribly sour (the other 2 being a recipe for egg fried rice and an introduction to Neil Gaiman's Sandman graphic novels) Occasionally - Guinness, Baileys (if someone buys us a bottle), amaretto, white wine and at present "Spirit of Broadside" (effectively distilled Broadside - not quite whisky and really rather interesting) Only under duress with UKMOC - limoncello (came to realise at WDW that it's impossible to avoid limoncello when on tour with UKMOC unless I volunteer to drive!) Never - gin, vodka, brandy, alcopops
