Favourite and least favourite tipples?

Baze

I'm partial to a gallon or three of bourbon, when out and about, but when I'm home and trying to relax, be it soaking in a bubble bath (has to be done) or just flat out on the sofa, I like to drink some red wine. It just does the trick for me. Hits the right balance between uncontrollably giddy, and comfortably numb. However..

Tonight while perusing the wine shelf at my local alcohol peddlers, I noticed they had this wine. Expensive for me as I'd usually only spring for an €8 bottle, max.. this was €15. But, the fecking thing was very well tipped up online as being a lovely Shiraz and so, I thought: what the heck and splashed out on it, but now I'm sitting here feeling like I've just drank a bottle of balsamic vinegar. It was disgusting! I would actually rather have drunk vinegar.

Oh and to those that ask why I didn't just chuck it after one glass.

IT WAS €15!!!

So, that's my choice for worst.

My best: Sangria in Spain.

There was a powercut and the locals brought out huge dark bottles (with bamooo on the outside of 'em) full of stuff and it was the nicest drink I have ever tasted. Woke up on the beach.

So, what in your opinion is the finest tipple, and also what in your experience is the worst?

Paulie Gualtieri

Rosie Perez the're like dustbin lids . seen them in "white men can't jump" rotten so they are!

Oh .. wait

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Best: Long Island Iced Tea, served by a scantily clad, sexy waitress on a Caribbean beach.

Worst: Budweiser, served by a scantily clad fat barmaid in a dingy Drogheda boozer.

Sir Arthur Daley

Baze wrote: »

I'm partial to a gallon or three of bourbon

You would be dead if you dank 3 gallons of Bourbon on a night out.

WilyCoyote

For my wine .......... Burgundy or Merlot these days ......... 13 - 15% strength
If I need to hit the spot a little quicker ........ Gran Gala or White Rum and Coconut water. These sipped through ice are beautiful ....... but you've got to be careful with the Gran Gala as it's 40%. The White Rum drink tastes like Malibu but you control the strength by adding the Coconut water. I make it to about 20%. Because it's so palatable you become like a Humming Bird

OP ....... Long Island Iced Tea is lovely but too easy on the taste buds. It's a bit like sex ....... once you start etc.

ArnoldJRimmer

Best: Not normally a whiskey drinker, but one night a flatmate produced a bottle of Laphraoig he was given as a present by his Dad. We polished it off that night. Superb

Worst: was on holidays in Prague and when buying a few beers in local supermarket, spotted a bottle of plum brandy for about 3 quid. Thought we may as well try it, cant be that bad. Can still taste it, 10 years later

Lapin

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

plum brandy

Great for keeping dogs away from dustbins that stuff.

Banjo String

Baze wrote: »

I'm partial to a gallon or three of bourbon, when out and about, but when I'm home and trying to relax, be it soaking in a bubble bath (has to be done) or just flat out on the sofa, I like to drink some red wine. It just does the trick for me. Hits the right balance between uncontrollably giddy, and comfortably numb. However..

Tonight while perusing the wine shelf at my local alcohol peddlers, I noticed they had this wine. Expensive for me as I'd usually only spring for an €8 bottle, max.. this was €15. But, the fecking thing was very well tipped up online as being a lovely Shiraz and so, I thought: what the heck and splashed out on it, but now I'm sitting here feeling like I've just drank a bottle of balsamic vinegar. It was disgusting! I would actually rather have drunk vinegar.

Oh and to those that ask why I didn't just chuck it after one glass.

IT WAS €15!!!

So, that's my choice for worst.

My best: Sangria in Spain.

There was a powercut and the locals brought out huge dark bottles (with bamooo on the outside of 'em) full of stuff and it was the nicest drink I have ever tasted. Woke up on the beach.

So, what in your opinion is the finest tipple, and also what in your experience is the worst?

stefan idiot jones

My friend used to drink a pint of bitter with a banana milkshake in it.

Myself, I was partial to White Lightening strong cider with an energy drink top. I gave up soon after, some of my dreams were mental.

Sofiztikated

WikiHow wrote: »

You would be dead if you dank 3 gallons of Bourbon on a night out.

Although, in other news, I hear exaggerations are up 21,000,000% already this year.

Balmed Out

I do enjoy a good stonewell medium dry cider

SilverScreen

Worst alcoholic drink I've ever had was Asda value lager. Yep, it's as bad as you think. Was only about 2% volume and tasted flat even when chilled. Was dirt cheap though.

Colonel_McCoy

Captain Morgan and Club Orange

oldyouth

My favourite all time drink would be Guinness. Unfortunately, I've learned that it is best not to drink it when socialising in company that involves food and enclosed spaces

Can't beat a bit of Jameson either to finish the night off

anncoates

Too many nice ones to narrow down.

Worst piss I've tasted in recent times was that Molson beer. People seem to love it as well, weirdly.

Baze

WikiHow wrote: »

You would be dead if you dank 3 gallons of Bourbon on a night out.

Once I actually went out to paint the town red, but yet brought no paint.

I generally prefer cider to beer, and Kopparberg Elderflower & Lime is the most refreshing alcoholic drink I've ever had. It's just like drinking a soft drink. Lovely stuff altogether, especially when it's ice cold. Also +1 for Long Island Iced Tea, though that stuff is bloody dangerous; a lot more alcohol in there than you would suspect on tasting it! When it comes to cocktails I'm also partial to a caipirinha or a blue lagoon. I once had a cocktail in a bar in Cork that was pomegranate and chilli flavoured - came with an actual chilli pepper in the glass! That was pretty good, though not something you'd drink every night.

Worst drink for me is probably sambuca, though I'm slightly getting used to it now. Anything flavoured with aniseed or liquorice is rotten. Very cheap lagers are horrible too - I can't stand the likes of Carlsberg, Stella Artois or those really cheap Polish or Czech lagers you find in Lidl. If I have to drink lager then I tend to go for Coors, simply because it doesn't really taste of anything and therefore goes down easier.

pundy

Whiskey = Best (if you arent prone to being a d!ckhead after a few)
Mojitos/vodka = worst. (will turn you into a teenage girl on her peri0d)

Tiddlypeeps

I had a really nice bottle of white last week, I can't remember the name of it. Probably the nicest wine I've ever had. I'm bad at remembering the name of good wines I've had and even if I do I can rarely find them again.

Margarita would probably be the most consistently good thing I drink tho. It's delicious and gives me that warm goofy relaxed drunk feeling rather than the hyper giddy drunk feeling I get from beer.

By far the worst thing I've ever drank was Tesco value vodka. Not sure what I expected, but I was a student and it was reaaaaally cheap. I genuinely feared I might go blind as it tasted so much like I'd imagine paint tinners tastes like, never again.

anncoates

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Worst drink for me is probably sambuca, though I'm slightly getting used to it now. Anything flavoured with aniseed or liquorice is rotten.

Deleted User wrote: »

If I have to drink lager then I tend to go for Coors, simply because it doesn't really taste of anything and therefore goes down easier.

This is so Irish when you think about it.

Describing drinks you find repulsive as something you have to get into you regardless, like a horrible but necessary medicine. :pac:

Pug160

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

Best: Not normally a whiskey drinker, but one night a flatmate produced a bottle of Laphraoig he was given as a present by his Dad. We polished it off that night. Superb

Worst: was on holidays in Prague and when buying a few beers in local supermarket, spotted a bottle of plum brandy for about 3 quid. Thought we may as well try it, cant be that bad. Can still taste it, 10 years later

I think that's the stuff a friend bought me in a bar recently and I thought it tasted like bad mouthwash. :pac:

mardybumbum

I'm partial to a Gin and Tonic or Baileys.
Sometimes like a shot of Jameson in my Baileys too.

Hate Beer.

Links234

Nothing beats a good ale for me

Benicetomonty

No bating a pint of Guinness!

Big fan of Green Spot Whiskey and Ardbeg Scotch.

Margarita, Whiskey Sour and Old Fashioned would be the cocktails of choice.

More easy going with beers, especially on a warm day. They're all great.

MonstaMash

Favourite...fine ales

Worst...Absinthe, previous dogging of said libation has left me with 'The Fear' :eek:

Belle E. Flops

I'm partial to gin & tonic, red wine, and for summer months I like Rekorderlig (not as sweet as Kopperberg) and Pimms (which is very big in the UK but not so much here)!

McChubbin

Best: Erdinger selection box of 5 different wheat beers. Very nice mixture and enough to get me comfortably tipsy. Also comes with a very fetching branded glass. I'm also fond of Captain Morgans and Club Lemon. My favorite cocktail, though, has to be the one called Gone Fishin' in the Woolshed bar. I have dreams about it. Lovely stuff! Vodka, lemonade, some blue liquor I can't remember off the top of my head, all mixed together in a pitcher.
Also got to give props to blue WKD and Jagermeister though if I drink any more than 4 of them in a night I'm usually left hugging the toilet...

Worst: Kopacki brand ale. I had one can and I was nearly vomiting after downing half of it. Utterly disgusting, paint-stripper stuff. I also hate Dutch Gold but then again, doesn't everyone?

anncoates

anncoates wrote: »

This is so Irish when you think about it.

Describing drinks you find repulsive as something you have to get into you regardless, like a horrible but necessary medicine. :pac:

Yeah but if someone buys me a shot of sambuca it's just plain rude to refuse it! :P