whiskey

yeah nothing lightweight about that at all

been drinking this over the past week. really good stuff.

http://www.freewebs.com/macleod-eh/redbreast3_gr.jpg

xp and water back is fine and i've never gotten a weird look for ordering it.

lightweight = "I CAN DRINK YOU ALL WATER DRINKING LADY MEN UNDER THE oh no i feel like i might be BLAAAARRRRGGHHH" in my experience

xpost ok that looks interesting

the coffee thing is bullshit, it always makes me think of that scene in stagecoach "BLACKER, STRONGER!"

there's no "cancelling out" or anything going on there, folks

A water back is the way to go. A beer back is only going to make you pee extra -- a water back is pure stuff that you're going to be lacking soon. Plus it doesn't mix flavors in your mouth. I'd say that ordering a water back means you're serious about what you're drinking.

coffee = more awake

whiskey = more drunk

this seems like a simple equation for happiness AFAIK xpost

xp Or at least serious about drinking a whole lot of it.

never been clear on the "Drink you under the table" he-man threat; is it meant to say "I can take more poison in my body than you can, due to my vast and worldly experience"? A randy acnescarred teenager can drink me under the table if I haven't eaten in the past twenty hours and I'm sufficiently absent-minded, but I suppose I've done more idiotic power drinking than Pizzaface Strawman.
Besides, guys falling out is NOT fun when you're out drinking; it tends to be more of a "say, I'm still doing this. what a goose am i" heads up. I like to drink with people who get stodgier, funnier and less confrontational not vice versa.

oh and to fill out the lineup

water = more not dead by dehydration

which is pretty much always cool

um xposts

xp Less confrontational is too much to hope for

i will say that the major "o no i got old" sign I'm seeing when I drink these days is not a headache, but serious sore throats. Apparently, I'm drying out my sinuses with this hyar rotgut?

Zzzzzz

If you're dehydrated, you're drying out every goddamn thing.

s'pose so.

this weird scotch i found at the local hole in the wall liquor barn - PRETTY AWESOME

my "find the dustiest bottle of liquor because they probably have never repriced it" local market strategy is working.

sounds awesome

i really like the idea of pint of beer + shot of whiskey but haven't really found a good combo yet

water is always good for all consumption activities

a wise man once told me that any time someone offers you water, you should take it

I like that. If someone is offering water, specifically water, either a) they are out of other beverages, in which case it would be rude not to take the only thing they've got, or b) you look like a person who needs a glass of water. And if you look like that, you probably do.

finished the bottle

yelled along with tunes in the car

listening to super dramatic post rock now

lolololol

Here, have some water.

And also this Ramones CD.

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i have learned mylesson

never the gsybe during the sex

tbh

Yeah, no good to listen to something with big slow builds and then big crashes and crescendos. It's too much pressure! Keeping time isn't important. Good music for sex: the hum of the refrigerator, traffic noise through an open window, the neighbors having sex.

Ok strike the last one, that's just amusing anytime.

i really like the idea of pint of beer + shot of whiskey but haven't really found a good combo yet

― guammls (QE II), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 06:06 (4 hours ago)

I used to do this quite a lot - a decent bitter, not too light, and malt scotch whisky - a large measure rather than a shot. Perfect combination and over time gets you delightfully drunk in a very profound way. Great for daytime drinking.

Can't really do it any more - whisky plays havoc with my mood. Have seen thriving old men doing it as well though, so it can't be all bad.

I tell you -- they skip the beer. Whiskey will let you get old, but you have to learn its strange ways.

It's true - the mysteries of whiskey are very deep indeed.

The age-old rule, passed down from father to son, is "Don't drink too much of this deadly shit." But it's written in such sloppy handwriting that few can read it. Also it seems to have been pissed on a bit.

There was a point, not a very good point in all probability, where I was drinking half a bottle of Macallan's a day on top of beer etc. God alone knows how I was affording it, not eating very much I suspect, and still functioning fine. Then about a year later of more or less heavy drinking I had a 12hr or so blackout, stopped drinking completely for a couple of months and have never been able to drink to the same levels again. (Surely a good thing, although it's hard not to feel a certain fondness for the days of booze and roses).

Nowadays drinking whisky, although pleasurable at the time, the next day envelopes me in such heavy gloom and sadness that I rarely do it, or if I do, have no more than a glass.

Your story makes me glad that I am able to miss it. I love whiskey. I have drank far too much of it at times myself -- FAR too much. I vaguely remember weeping, lying on the floor in a hallway, covered in Ethiopian takeout. But just vaguely. Others close to me could probably tell you things I don't remember at all. They're welcome to tell you as long as they don't tell me. I don't want to know, I really don't.

I don't want to know.

I wish I had some whiskey right now.

Yes, I'm at work. So?

the older I get the more I appreciate keeping a pleasant low-level buzz going over a few hours before bed. this is why I now spend money on good tasting liquor. I generally drop a single ice cube in a nice heavy glass and sip on it for a good while.

oh shit I need whiskey

it is so goddamned hot here

oh that was actually the last 100 posts sorry for being redundant

Whiskey and I...we're like a previously married couple who used to fight/fuck/fight/fuck/fight/fuck and then just decided it was too exhausting for us to continue.

We still get together for the occasional low-level petting, which rarely leads to getting it done. We are pretty much fond, but distant, acquaintances.

It makes me sad that I can't handle it any more, but the truth is I can't, and whiskey is more than willing to remind me of that any time I need that type of reminder.

Also - to clarify: whiskey (or whisky, if you prefer) is an alcoholic beverage distilled from grain mash. Scotch, bourbon, Tennessee, Canadian...all are whiskys/ies. The differentiation between some as and some as not whiskey/y is an irksome, and completely incorrect.

is an irksome habit

I wish I had some whiskey right now.

Yes, I'm at work. So?

― For other uses, see Cornhole (disambiguation). (Oilyrags), Tuesday, June 23, 2009 2:16 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ditto

rip van winkle family reserve rye is where it's at when whisk(e)y has an 'e' in it.
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:13 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^four year old post totally on the money

Be even better when it's 12 years old. Or 16! Might cost a lot more by then, though.

hahahah. it costs plenty now as it is!

It makes me sad that I can't handle it any more, but the truth is I can't, and whiskey is more than willing to remind me of that any time I need that type of reminder.

Also - to clarify: whiskey (or whisky, if you prefer) is an alcoholic beverage distilled from grain mash. Scotch, bourbon, Tennessee, Canadian...all are whiskys/ies. The differentiation between some as and some as not whiskey/y is an irksome, and completely incorrect.

Both points had me firmly nodding at the screen like a simpleton responding to a question. The spelling differentiation between single malt whisky and whiskey needs to go as well. Some form of needless snobbery is at work here, although I can't quite work out the mechanics of it.

rip van winkle family reserve rye is where it's at when whisk(e)y has an 'e' in it.
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:13 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^four year old post totally on the money

^one of the many things you can't get in Pennsylvania.

I really want to try this:

http://www.anchorbrewing.com/images/old_potrero_19th_bottle.jpg
Also not available in PA.

TBH, their whole line up looks awesome:

http://www.anchorbrewing.com/about_us/anchordistilling.htm

the A1 top rule for not getting stupid drunk isn't drinking water all night (that'll help the hangover), it's eating a lot of food before drinking. it doesn't "soak up" the alcohol, but having food in your stomach modulates how long things (including alcohol) stay sequestered there. that is, your intestines can only absorb so much at a time, so

empty stomach: alcohol gets dumped by the stomach immediately, and is taken up by the intestine and you get housed
full stomach: alcohol has to hang out while the stomach metes out small portions of food into the intestine, like an on-ramp at rush hour