Alcoholic Drink

Jello · 20-07-2008 10:25pm

Fosters or Heineken mostly for me, might have an Erdinger the odd time.

Or Bavaria when I'm low on cash.

Phlann · 20-07-2008 10:27pm

I went through a phase when I was about 21 of drinking triple vodka with a blue WKD in a pint glass. Toilet Ducks we called them.

I don't know if I ever want to revisit that period but I still think four drinks in a pint glass is a very efficient way to get drunk.

Dyr · 20-07-2008 10:32pm

Guinness drinker for years, dunno when i started. its ruined me though, I cant drink the fizzy pish that passes for lager in this country anymore, one pint of that gas and im full. Same goes for bottles of bud, miller etc etc ye might as well drink water for all the taste. Quite like fordin beers and dark beers, some english ales etc etc

Quite partial to koppaberg as a summer tipple though it rips the stomach off me.

dotsman · 20-07-2008 10:38pm

Used to drink mainly bud (due to being the least worst of our traditionally available beers) and spirits (vodka or Southern Comfort), but every time I would travel through Europe, I would be forced to try a new beer as bud wasn't available there. And every time, I ended up preferring what I found. Now that there is far greater choice in pubs/offies, I mainly drink Krombacher, Budvar, Tskie, Prazsky, Tiger etc...

Now, I never turn down the opportunity to try a new beer. Every time I stock up from the offie, I try to include one or two bottles that I have never tried before. If they turn out poor (happens the odd time), I just give up after the first few swigs. Most of the time, however, I have discovered a new great beer!

On the german beer giving less hangovers, it's certainly true. Lived in germany for a while and for certain beers: no matter how drunk you got on them, you would only have a mild hangover (mainly tiredness/thirsty) the next morning.

mawk · 20-07-2008 10:47pm

beamish ftw. unless im in some county/country that doesnt happen to be cork. then ill stretch to guiness

if we have hit shorts , then its jameson with a splash of lime or else some delicious homebrew'd thermal shock. goes well with lemon

Fighting Irish · 20-07-2008 10:57pm

Dampsquid wrote: »

How did people settle on their usual alcoholic drink?

I picked mine (Bud) as it was the least distasteful to me, not that i liked it.
Even after drinking it for 10 years or so now, i wouldn't say i actually like the taste.

How many people are in the same boat? Would you still drink your favourite drink if it didn’t contain alcohol?

99% of alcohol tastes like piss, all you have to do is check your local show to see if they sell non alcoholic beer

Galmay · 20-07-2008 11:01pm

Henieken would be my first choice pint wise. Love the taste of it. It has a bit more of a bite to it than Bud. However Im hardly what you'd call fussy Ill drink whatever is on offer! When I was in college (ie poor) Id buy one can of henieken, drink that first to give me the lip then start on my 6 cans for €7 Dutch Gold!

When it comes to shorts, southern comfert with coke/lemonade/blackcurrent.
And on those rare(!) nights when everyone really starts to go messy its jagerbombs, tequila, green diesels (blue aftershock &red bull), double southern comfort and smirnoff ice mixed and anything else put in front of me and/or likely to make me broke!

DEmeant0r · 20-07-2008 11:25pm

I usually go for Millers since it's very nice

If the pub don't have Millers I'd just drink Bud or Fosters. Was in Amsterdam, and no place I went to had Millers, pretty shocking...

rmacm · 20-07-2008 11:57pm

I started off drinking Guinness and I've stuck with that since, I only drink it when I'm out though not a huge fan of it from a can/bottle. If I'm having a few beers at home it's usually Miller, back in college it was lots of boxes of Biere de France.

Shorts wise I used to drink a lot of JD & Coke, then I moved onto vokda & Redbull and now it's Jager & Redbull although I feel like a change so I'm looking for a new short to try.

JC 2K3 · 21-07-2008 12:31am

Beerwise, Bavaria is quite nice, and for the price it is, I'm not gonna be changing to another beer any time soon.

I like red wine with a meal, but never to get drunk on. Hangover is too bad, and pink puke freaks me out.

Fave spirit with a mixer would be JD and Coke. I like Vodka+Red Bull too, though it can make me slightly crazy, ditto with Jagerbombs.

rainbow kirby · 21-07-2008 7:38pm

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Kind of going off Kopparberg, I'd much rather Rekorderlig. (Seek it out all Kopparberg drinkers, it's a must.)

Tried Rekorderlig a couple of weekends ago, mixed berries flavour (WHICH IS STILL 7%!!) - didn't like it as much as I like Kopparberg.

akamossy · 21-07-2008 7:45pm

rekorderlig is horrible , have tried the pear and strawberry one and all you can taste is sugar, yuck

Sherifu · 21-07-2008 8:37pm

I used to drink a lot of bulmers but it's just too harsh to drink a lot of. I'd still have one on a hot day but only one.

Guinness is the usual now.

gerardoleary · 30-07-2008 8:32pm

drink cider BULMERS ALL DA WAY!!love it.But if i had to drink beer id drink carlsburg.

admiralofthefleet · 30-07-2008 8:51pm

i ended up on guinness as it was the first thing i tried and liked it straight away, i love heineken on a hot day though

Frisbee · 30-07-2008 8:55pm

Carlton Cold

PhillM · 30-07-2008 9:01pm

Mmmm I actually adore a double Vodka and Red Bull, It can cost about €15 sometimes.., But its damn Good!!

KnifeWRENCH · 30-07-2008 9:13pm

I hardly ever drink and so am usually quite clueless as to what people drink.
Last year at my Leaving Cert grad. night, my cousin (who was in my class) said he'd buy me one and asked me what I wanted. I didn't have a clue what to say, so I told him I'd have whatever he was having!
He came back with Vodka & Red Bull. So I tried it, and liked it. So that's what I normally drink on nights out (I only ever have one or two though, just to be sociable. Being drunk doesn't really appeal to me)

Ocassionally I drink Bulmers. I hate most beers - Carlsberg and Stella are horrible. The only beer I ever tried and liked was Cobra, but I'm not sure how many pubs actually sell it.

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