Friday, May 29, 2009

What's Your Poison?

It's Friday! And do you know what I love to talk about on Fridays? That's right. Liquor. I've covered this topic once or twice before. On Fridays. Except it's not like I only drink liquor on Fridays, so I don't know why it seems so appropriate that Fridays be Liquor Forum day on Going Country.

BUT ANYWAY.

I have gone through distinct phases in my drinking evolution. First, of course, is the Broke Phase, during which you pretty much drink whatever you can afford and/or can get someone to buy you if you're not 21 yet. (For my father: NOT THAT I DRANK BEFORE I WAS 21.*) This mostly meant cheap beer. I never really developed much of a taste for beer, though.

The Broke Phase usually coincides with the Shot Phase. Lots of shots. Of whatever swill is available. I hope to never again in my life ingest Jagermeister straight. Gross.

After college, I didn't drink much at all. Since the only time I really drank was when I was out with friends, and I wasn't going out a lot once I was working and doing all those other boring adult things, I mostly limited myself to the odd rum and Coke at happy hour with my co-workers. How dull.

Then A. introduced me to real mixed drinks, after we actually had enough money to have a respectable liquor collection. Gin and tonics. Sidecars. Hot buttered rum. Mint juleps. Slippery Slopes. Even frozen margaritas. All featuring very strong liquor cleverly disguised as tasty beverages. I do love mixed drinks. I also will occasionally drink sweeter kinds of wine. But mostly, bring on the cocktail shaker.

And now it's your turn, my fellow drinkers. Are you an oenophile? A beer imbiber? A whiskey sipper? What's your poison?

* For everyone else: I was actually 19 when I had my first drink--I think that's pretty restrained.

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16 comments:

  1. SusanMay 29, 2009 at 5:14 AM

    I don't drink anymore, which is sad because there's really no way to make a virgin mojito or black & stormy.

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  2. Phoo-DMay 29, 2009 at 7:10 AM

    Funny enough my grandparents were the ones to "really" teach me how to drink. Because of that I have an appreciation for the classic mixed drinks and can even handle scotch (though it's not a regular thing). As you may have noticed we also enjoy wine. Oh and craft beers are good too...guess I like it all ;)

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  3. SaintTigerlilyMay 29, 2009 at 7:42 AM

    Wine: Cabernet, almost any sparkling white
    Beer: Guinness or Erdinger
    Liquor: Laphroig (neat), Hendricks (with tonic and giant cucumber slice), and bloody mary's, preferably the ones at Prune downtown with a big ball of wasabi and a housemade beef jerky swizzle stick.

    Aaaaaand now I want a drink.

    Stupid green tea.

    (*My word verification is "funkee"!)

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  4. AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 7:42 AM

    I wasn't gonna comment 'cause I don't drink........but.....the word verification word is wasters right now, so I had to point that out. Hey, don't get me wrong I don't car if YOU drink....it just isn't MY thing.

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  5. SaintTigerlilyMay 29, 2009 at 7:43 AM

    Does bloody mary have an apostrophe?

    Tis Friday.

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  6. Drew @ Cook Like Your GrandmotherMay 29, 2009 at 8:39 AM

    Cherry slushies with vodka. Don't drink them sitting down. By the time you realize how much you've had you won't be able to stand up.

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  7. CountryMidwifeMay 29, 2009 at 8:40 AM

    Gin and Tonic, on a hot day, preferably in the tropics!

    Mojito.... yum. But then I have to floss.

    Mostly, wine. God did good when he created wine grapes.

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  8. SaraMay 29, 2009 at 8:47 AM

    Kristin, I think I had my first real drink (a white Russian!) when I was 19 also! I had a few sips of things here and there, but I think that was my first real drink. After that, it was amaretto sours, which is strange, and Long Island iced teas, until I realized that those are a bad idea. And cheap beer, of course, because that's what college is all about. Now I enjoy wine a lot. I still like a rum and diet or vodka and (diet) tonic every now and then. Or a good beer. (I pretty much enjoy drinks with booze.) But not Jagermeister. Yikes. Never again.

    I do remember a shot called a buttery nipple (barely remember, I should say!). Anyone know exactly what's in that?

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  9. milMay 29, 2009 at 8:56 AM

    While I did try to cultivate good drinking habits in my children (cardinal rule: nobody improves after three drinks), making sure they knew the difference between good beer and swill and Boone's Farm and real wine, I didn't train cocktail drinkers. A. developed that on his own, though I may have introduced him to Negritos. Awesome and dangerous.

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  10. Mayberry MagpieMay 29, 2009 at 9:17 AM

    Merlot lover and whiskey sipper here.

    Beer is boring (except on a really hot day doing yard work).

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  11. Tami bami wamiMay 29, 2009 at 7:00 PM

    I love just about anything minty flavored so peppermint schnapps mixed with milk, hot chocolate, or even just straight up is good.

    otherwise i love a good red cabernet sauvignon.

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  12. Drew @ Cook Like Your GrandmotherMay 30, 2009 at 6:39 AM

    Tami, add it to chocolate milk and it tastes just like Girl Scouts Thin Mints.

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  13. Chiot's RunMay 30, 2009 at 10:34 AM

    I'm not much of a drinker, I enjoy an occational glass of champagne - MMMMMM. And some wine every now and then.

    I have decided that I can only have one vice though and mine is coffee. We spend our drinking money on good coffee!

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  14. AmyMay 30, 2009 at 1:57 PM

    I love my Kahlua on ice cream. It's a win-win.

    Also, chocolate milk and peppermint schnapps = Girl Scout Thin Mints? Drew is the Devil. Now I must go buy some to see.

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  15. rlsMay 30, 2009 at 2:04 PM

    Oh, man, was it a bad idea for me to read these comments. Now I want to try all of these drinks. 'Specially the Thin Mints one. And a Bloody Mary with wasabi? Genius, my friend. Genius.

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  16. KayMay 31, 2009 at 7:27 PM

    I like sweeter wines, and really love a good margarita. We just discovered Butterscotch Schnapps. Oh my~

    After a long afternoon of mowing, I like a flavored malt beverage.

    (Koolade for grownups?)

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