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What type of booze do you mainly drink? If it's "all of the above", just list which you drink more of, or what you drank most recently.

Also, as an aside, there's an interetsing quiz here: http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=16336235046633759176

I drink beer. Not lite beer...lite beer is for pansys. :D

I drink beer. Not lite beer...lite beer is for pansys. :D

And drinking American beer is like making love in a canoe.

Beer is for pansies.
Get drunk like a man; drink whisky.

My top 5 preferred drinks:
1. Bourbon
2. Scotch
3. Ale
4. Vodka
5. Lager


As for the quiz... (I guess I kinda suck.)

Vodka
Congratulations! You're 100 proof, with specific scores in beer (80) , wine (16), and liquor (60).
All right...you're getting into the harder stuff. A good martini, a Mai Tai or straight shots of hard liquor is what you're into.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 13% on proof

You scored higher than 82% on beer index

You scored higher than 66% on wine index

You scored higher than 74% on liquor index

What type of booze do you mainly drink? If it's "all of the above", just list which you drink more of, or what you drank most recently.

I tend to average 4-8oz of Vodka/Whiskey/Rum per evening while on NS. Less if I just go to bed, more if I'm arguing with Oye Oye. ;) (though in this case we agree about canoes et.al...)

Otherwise, when it's hot I drink US 5.9 cheap soda-pop "Ice" beer and when I'm out I won't drink it if I can see through it.

Bourbon
Congratulations! You're 130 proof, with specific scores in beer (100) , wine (50), and liquor (121).
Screw all that namby-pamby chick stuff, you're going straight for the bottle and a shot glass! It'll take more than a few shots of Wild Turkey or 99 Bananas before you start seeing pink elephants. You know how to handle your alcohol, and yourself at parties.

http://is2.okcupid.com/mt_pics/146/14674075597740859281/16336235046633759176-6.jpg

I drink beer pretty much every day, but if I go out I drink whiskey.

What type of booze do you mainly drink? If it's "all of the above", just list which you drink more of, or what you drank most recently.

Also, as an aised, there's an interetsing quiz here: http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=16336235046633759176

Lagers mostly, although stout ales like Guiness work well for me as well. It is the rare pale that I like.

Bourbon Pansy. :D

Bacardi 151
Congratulations! You're 146 proof, with specific scores in beer (120) , wine (100), and liquor (139).
All right. No more messing around. Your knowledge of alcohol is so high that you have drinking and getting plastered down to a science. Sure, you could get wasted drinking beer, but who needs all those trips to the bathroom? You head straight for the bar and pick up that which is most efficient.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 88% on proof

You scored higher than 90% on beer index

You scored higher than 83% on wine index

You scored higher than 98% on liquor index

And I didn't even go look at my bartending manual....

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b1/thenazz/3ae88d23.jpg

That sign is from the taproom of the best brewery in North America--Anchor Brewing in San Francisco. And I'll drink anything on that poll that's of good quality, although liqueurs are on the bottom of my list. A good single-malt scotch or Irish is usually at the top of my list, neat, or a solid lager like Anchor Steam beer.

Hey, check me out!

"Bacardi 151
Congratulations! You're 144 proof, with specific scores in beer (80) , wine (100), and liquor (121).
All right. No more messing around. Your knowledge of alcohol is so high that you have drinking and getting plastered down to a science. Sure, you could get wasted drinking beer, but who needs all those trips to the bathroom? You head straight for the bar and pick up that which is most efficient."

Not bad for a seventeen year old, eh?

edit: Really not bad. Compared to other chicks my age,
"You scored higher than 96% on proof
You scored higher than 89% on beer index
You scored higher than 92% on wine index
You scored higher than 99% on liquor index"

None of the smilies look drunk, pre se, but I'd say that,
:mad: This is the angry drunk,
:( This is the crying drunk,
:p This is the entertaining, fun-loving drunk,
:headbang: And this guy drank half a bottle of rye before he went out and picked a fight at the club.

Oh yeah, and on that test, I'm Bacardi 151. Comes from years as a bartender and from working in a brewery. :D

Just edged you out Oxwana--146 proof with specific scores in beer (80) , wine (100), and liquor (121).

Cahors, Sauternes (hmm Yquem..), Pomerol, Vosne Romanée, Jura wines (savagnin), Grüner Veltliner from Austria, Tokaji Aszu from Hungary aso are my favorites. I hate the Californian over oaky snob wines (fucking expensive FF. Copola and Opus one wine that allways disapoints me) Buy quality at a good price, don't buy Californian.

Cahors, Sauternes (hmm Yquem..), Pomerol, Vosne Romanée, Jura wines (savagnin), Grüner Veltliner from Austria, Tokaji Aszu from Hungary aso are my favorites. I hate the Californian over oaky snob wines (fucking expensive FF. Copola and Opus one wine that allways disapoints me) Buy quality at a good price, don't buy Californian.
I've discovered that place is lless important than year. For instance, if you can find anything that's French from 1998, buy it, even if it's just table wine. It'll be terrific. Same for California in 2001--great year for grapes and it's hard to do poorly with a 2001 California. '02 and '03 were a different matter altogether.

Pansy. :D
Hey, cut me some slack - we don't even get half the drinks mentioned in that quiz here downunder :p If it had been an Aussie booze based quiz I'd probably be up with the top ranks. :D

Hey, where's the Absinthe option?

Hey, where's the Absinthe option?
Hmm, would Absinthe be considered a spirit or liquer? I guess liquer...

Hey, where's the Absinthe option?On the "I want to go blind" thread. :p
j/k
I've never tried it, but I think I will when I go to Europe next summer. Have you had it before? What did you think?

On the "I want to go blind" thread. :p
j/k
I've never tried it, but I think I will when I go to Europe next summer. Have you had it before? What did you think?

No, I've never had it. I only found out recently that it's still being made in some parts of the world; I thought it had been completely banned or something. According to Ernest Heminway it tastes like liquorice.

No, I've never had it. I only found out recently that it's still being made in some parts of the world; I thought it had been completely banned or something.I think it was always being made, just illegally. Is it legal anywhere now?

According to Ernest Heminway it tastes like liquorice.That, and it makes you see green faeries. :eek: I think the taste is secondary.

I think it was always being made, just illegally. Is it legal anywhere now?

That, and it makes you see green faeries. :eek: I think the taste is secondary.
According to the absinthe buyers guide, the Swiss ban on it was lifted in 2004. Still very much illegal in the US, but apparently it's available in much of the EU.

For the most part, Absinthe has been replaced by Pernod and other aniseed-flavoured liquers (Ouzo, Sambuca, Anisette etc.). Most Absinthe made now is not original recipe, but has had the harmful ingredient, wormwood, replaced...

For the most part, Absinthe has been replaced by Pernod and other aniseed-flavoured liquers (Ouzo, Sambuca, Anisette etc.).What, no mention of Pastis???

Most Absinthe made now is not original recipe, but has had the harmful ingredient, wormwood, replaced...I only really want to try it if there's a chance that I'll go blind, or see green fae folk, or both. :(
I could always make my own...
Hmmmmm...

For the most part, Absinthe has been replaced by Pernod and other aniseed-flavoured liquers (Ouzo, Sambuca, Anisette etc.). Most Absinthe made now is not original recipe, but has had the harmful ingredient, wormwood, replaced...
Okay, I admit that I have no idea how reliable this source is--google ain't perfect after all--but according to these folks (http://www.absinthebuyersguide.com/faq.html#Anchor-3800):Is drinking absinthe containing thujone harmful?

Modern commercially produced absinthe has been shown to contain a safe level of thujone.

In order to comply with European Union (EU) limits, the thujone levels in commercially distilled absinthe must be10mg/l or less. The thujone levels in commercially distilled absinthe in Germany must be 30mg/l or less.

As an example: before you could consume a toxic amount of thujone from drinking commercial absinthe, you would have been suffering from alcohol poisoning.

Modern analysis supports the theory that poor manufacturing processe, and adulterants such as antimony trichloride and cupric acetate, present in cheaper varieties of absinthe produced at the turn of century, of being a higher suspect for acute effects such as restlessness, vomiting, vertigo, muscular disorders, and convulsions.

That makes sense to me, because a lot of food-related illnesses from a hundred years ago were due to anything from unsafe production practices to simple unclean production conditions. Clean up the production and you get a better and safer product.

The production and sale of Absinthe is illegal in the US, but not consumption.

It is perfectly legal to order some online from Europe and have it shipped right to your front door by Federal Express! :D

Guinness.

Edit: And btw the Absinthe that they are producing today is not the same as the old stuff, it doesn't have anything like the effect that it used to have. It just gives you a really hideous headache and a sort of "I've been poisoned" sort of a drunk.

Beer by necessity, and in very large quantities. I live in a very hot country.

Now this is one of my favorite subjects. I love to drink. My favorite drink is: Absinthe (I like the green fairy on the outside). My boyfriend and I have 6 bottles of it at home. The stuff is expensive but worth it because it doesn't take much to get drunk off from it. My favorite poet drank it (Edgar Allen Poe). Tastes like black licorice, goes down smooth, and I rarely have a hangover from it no matter how drunk off of it I get. :D

Here is a hilarious site that talks about absinthe: http://www.strindbergandhelium.com/absinthe.html

Guinness.

Edit: And btw the Absinthe that they are producing today is not the same as the old stuff, it doesn't have anything like the effect that it used to have. It just gives you a really hideous headache and a sort of "I've been poisoned" sort of a drunk.


Don't know what absinthe you've been drinking but I've never had that effect from it. The kind you have had probably had some additive in it. There are a lot of immitations. The real stuff is expensive as hell but well worth it. I am quite familiar with it and my boyfriend is pretty much an expert on it as he has done a lot of research into how to make it from the original recipes. He only buys the kind that is made using the original recipe (which most of the time has stuff settled in the bottom of the bottle--wormwood-- unless they strain it out).

i love whiskey and beer. though not together......

Mostly red wine, although I also always keep a decanter of really good scotch (or, less frequently, bourbon) on hand.

Hmm, one of these days I must try Absinth with wormwood/thujone, and tequila with peyote/mescaline...maybe both at once! :p

Whiskey is better than Whisky!

What's the strongest liquor you've all drunk? Mine would be Polish Pure spirits at about 85% alcohol content - tasted like paint stripper...

What's the strongest liquor you've all drunk? Mine would be Polish Pure spirits at about 85% alcohol content - tasted like paint stripper...

I've had that Polish Pure spirit, it's pretty bloody harsh.

I mostly drink beer or red wine. I'm particularly fond of a good, beefy cab sav.

Beer ...

What's the strongest liquor you've all drunk? Mine would be Polish Pure spirits at about 85% alcohol content - tasted like paint stripper...


Everclear, or moonshine. Tequila Quervo Gold has fcked me up too tho.

Vodka
Congratulations! You're 95 proof, with specific scores in beer (60) , wine (100), and liquor (34).

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 2% on proof

You scored higher than 71% on beer index

You scored higher than 89% on wine index

You scored higher than 66% on liquor index

Ich bin ein Biertrinker :D:D:D

um . . . Eine Tasse Kaffe?

Ich bin ein Biertrinker :D:D:D

Steins fur uns!

(My german's not very good, hope that makes sense.)

Well I drink red wine in the house, a few glasses on Sundays and the odd glass during weekdays.
When I go out on Friday's and Saturdays I drink shorts to begin with then move on to lagers, Guinness and cider.
My favourite short is gin and slimline tonic, Bombay Sapphire being the best gin.

What's the strongest liquor you've all drunk? Mine would be Polish Pure spirits at about 85% alcohol content - tasted like paint stripper...
Youve tried Paint thiner?

Bacardi 151
Congratulations! You're 144 proof, with specific scores in beer (100) , wine (83), and liquor (104).
All right. No more messing around. Your knowledge of alcohol is so high that you have drinking and getting plastered down to a science. Sure, you could get wasted drinking beer, but who needs all those trips to the bathroom? You head straight for the bar and pick up that which is most efficient.



My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:


You scored higher than 82% on proof

You scored higher than 84% on beer index

You scored higher than 80% on wine index

You scored higher than 88% on liquor index

and no I have never been a bartender or worked in a Bar, However I do make my own wine.

Cider mainly, followed by lager and Guinness, although I also like some Savignon Blancs too.

Drinks are good.
Ouze is meant to be chronic.

Beer, usually...I prefer spirits, but they're too expensive.

Bacardi 151
Congratulations! You're 137 proof, with specific scores in beer (40) , wine (100), and liquor (86).
All right. No more messing around. Your knowledge of alcohol is so high that you have drinking and getting plastered down to a science. Sure, you could get wasted drinking beer, but who needs all those trips to the bathroom? You head straight for the bar and pick up that which is most efficient.


i love merlot.

Bah, Americanised test :P

Well a few questions anyway..

as it is, I got:

Bourbon
Congratulations! You're 123 proof, with specific scores in beer (160) , wine (33), and liquor (78).
Screw all that namby-pamby chick stuff, you're going straight for the bottle and a shot glass! It'll take more than a few shots of Wild Turkey or 99 Bananas before you start seeing pink elephants. You know how to handle your alcohol, and yourself at parties.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 63% on proof

You scored higher than 99% on beer index

You scored higher than 69% on wine index

You scored higher than 84% on liquor index


Get me a beer?

Congratulations! You're 130 proof, with specific scores in beer (80) , wine (116), and liquor (86).
Screw all that namby-pamby chick stuff, you're going straight for the bottle and a shot glass! It'll take more than a few shots of Wild Turkey or 99 Bananas before you start seeing pink elephants. You know how to handle your alcohol, and yourself at parties.


http://is2.okcupid.com/mt_pics/146/14674075597740859281/16336235046633759176-6.jpg

Youve tried Paint thiner?
Lol - no, but I have drunk methylated spirits :p

Oh yeah, and on that test, I'm Bacardi 151. Comes from years as a bartender and from working in a brewery. :D

Just edged you out Oxwana--146 proof with specific scores in beer (80) , wine (100), and liquor (121).
How did you manage a 146 with those scores?

Bacardi 151
Congratulations! You're 146 proof, with specific scores in beer (120) , wine (100), and liquor (139). That's 40 points higher in Beer and 18 points higher in liquor - so how did we get the same result?

Of course, I was a bartender too, but still... methinks the poll has glitches.

I drink slightly more spirits than beer, but beer's a very close second.

Rum
Congratulations! You're 88 proof, with specific scores in beer (60) , wine (83), and liquor (43).
Bring on the mixers! Take something strong, add something without any alcohol and you got yourself a Cuba Libre, a Presbyterian, a Greyhound or a Whiskey Sour. You like your drinks strong, but with the flavors of your favorite colas or juices. You're willing to try something new, just so long as it doesn't give you a headache.

I only really want to try it if there's a chance that I'll go blind, or see green fae folk, or both. :(
I could always make my own...
Hmmmmm...I'm going to make my own Absinthe (http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink692.html). Exciting, no?

Looks like the spirit shooters are just pipping the beer swillers at the post! :p

Bourbon
Congratulations! You're 116 proof, with specific scores in beer (100) , wine (50), and liquor (86).
Screw all that namby-pamby chick stuff, you're going straight for the bottle and a shot glass! It'll take more than a few shots of Wild Turkey or 99 Bananas before you start seeing pink elephants. You know how to handle your alcohol, and yourself at parties.

http://is2.okcupid.com/mt_pics/146/14674075597740859281/16336235046633759176-6.jpg


My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 31% on proof

You scored higher than 88% on beer index

You scored higher than 73% on wine index

You scored higher than 85% on liquor index

Youve tried Paint thiner?

Christ. You just reminded me of my poteen years. My memory of those nights is somewhat vague, to say the least. What can I say in my defense? We were unemployed, had few if any prospects and it cost about £4 for a litre of illegally distilled 40% alcohol booze.

Christ. You just reminded me of my poteen years. My memory of those nights is somewhat vague, to say the least. What can I say in my defense? We were unemployed, had few if any prospects and it cost about £4 for a litre of illegally distilled 40% alcohol booze.
ha

ha

If only I were kidding the ages 21-23 in my life might not have been such a bloody fucked up mess. Let me tell you a joke:

'A man walks into a bar. He is an alcoholic and it is ruining his life.'

In retrospect it's almost funny.

BEER!!!!!!!! and vodka

Congratulations! You're 118 proof, with specific scores in beer (60) , wine (83), and liquor (86)

How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 50% on proof
You scored higher than 75% on beer index
You scored higher than 89% on wine index
You scored higher than 89% on liquor index

Wow. I'm totally impressed. I've reached an all new high for BSing: I have absolutely zero experience with alcoholic beverages/bartending; besides Passover and an occasional sip of wine, I have no experience with booze.

That said, I'm fascinated by alcohol culture, and want to be a bartender (amidst all of my other various random jobs), or at least learn how to mix drinks.

I know I like wines the best, simply because that’s inherent in my elitist character: Mimosas are my favorite so far.

I quite enjoy a glass of Champagne to be honest...but it has to be from the Champagne region of France, not like the stuff you can buy in the States

Christ. You just reminded me of my poteen years. My memory of those nights is somewhat vague, to say the least. What can I say in my defense? We were unemployed, had few if any prospects and it cost about £4 for a litre of illegally distilled 40% alcohol booze.
I had a friend at high school who's uncle used to bootleg homemade tequila - wasn't half bad, either :p

i love whiskey and beer. though not together......

Beer before liquor never been sicker...liquor before beer have no fear. :p

I quite enjoy a glass of Champagne to be honest...but it has to be from the Champagne region of France, not like the stuff you can buy in the StatesThe stuff you buy in the States isn't Champagne.

Beer before liquor never been sicker...liquor before beer have no fear. :p

beer before wine makes you feel fine, wine before beer makes you feel queer ;)

How did you manage a 146 with those scores?

Bacardi 151
Congratulations! You're 146 proof, with specific scores in beer (120) , wine (100), and liquor (139). That's 40 points higher in Beer and 18 points higher in liquor - so how did we get the same result?

Of course, I was a bartender too, but still... methinks the poll has glitches.
I guess I did better in the general stuff--maybe about glassware or alcohol history? Who knows?