Pick Your Poison--tell us your favorite drink!

[Cameraman Jenn]

I am a wino. Reds my friends, bring on the reds.

If I am drinking hard alcohol then a nice single malt scotch aged 15 years or more is my first choice. A nice tequila would be my second choice and Bombay and Tonic my third.

I also appreciate good beers. Depending on my mood it's either a nice Kirin Ichiban ice cold or Guinness or Chimay red label.

For non alcoholic drinks, my fave is Blenheim's red cap ginger ale.

[Menolly]

Non-alcoholic drink is Publix bottled spring water (for 79 cents a gallon), bottled locally at Ginny Springs, with a twist.

[Creator]

On travel (when I'm not driving) Belvedere Martini Up and Dirty - Extra Olives!

There was just something on PBS on the Saturday cooking shows about a deconstructed and dirty vodka martini that featured an olive lollipop so you can make the drink as dirty as you want, plus dip the pop into the drink and suck it off. It's one of the 'separating your taste from preconception' drinks offered by MIT trained chemist and mixologer Eben Klemm.
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I don't think there is anything 'safe' I can say!!

[But is sound very interesting!!]

[Wyldewode]

I don't think there is anything 'safe' I can say!!

[But is sound very interesting!!]

[Gil galad]

Give me beer lots of beer! The wetter the better!

[Wyldewode]

I'm personally a fan of mixed drinks like the aforementioned high-end margaritas and cocktails like Mai Tai, or anything that's fruity and rather sweet. I'm pretty partial to things with rum in them.

I'm developing a taste for wines (slowly) though so far that only extends to sweet and semi-sweet red wine. I love Velvet Red from St. James Winery.

Having said that, I have a drink about once a month or every second month, and almost never have more than one. I take medication for migraine prevention and am not supposed to drink period because of it.

My beverage of choice on day to day basis is Diet Pepsi. I keep thinking about giving up soda, but haven't gotten really serious about it. I know it's bad for my body, but I just can't seem to get motivated to change that habit yet. Listen to me. . . I sound like an addict!

[I'm Murrin]

Give me beer lots of beer! The wetter the better!

You like it watered down, eh?

[CovenantJr]

I suppose I'll go with mead...

Ooh, mead! I forgot about mead. Decent mead is gorgeous, though be careful with it. It's stronger than it looks. You know you see people in medievally-type films drinking flagons of it? Don't try that.

[Menolly]

I'm developing a taste for wines (slowly) though so far that only extends to sweet and semi-sweet red wine. I love Velvet Red from St. James Winery.

Being Jewish, I grew up with four 'glasses' (I think technically they were crystal stemmed cordial glasses, as they were tiny) of sweet concord grape wine at the Passover seders. Truthfully? I still prefer that over most other wines...

:::hanging head in shame:::

[Loredoctor]

Water-flavoured cordial.

[CovenantJr]

Some jokes never get old.

That may or may not be one of them.

[Loredoctor]

Mr Darcy is holding a glass of it in my avatar.

[Zarathustra]

I also appreciate good beers. Depending on my mood it's either a nice Kirin Ichiban ice cold or Guinness or Chimay red label.

Wow, the ONLY mention of a truly world-class beer in this entire thread. Yet, I'm confused that you put it anywhere near a Guinness or Ichiban. (Or the words, "ice cold," for that matter.)

I'm a homebrewing beer fanatic. I couldn't possibly narrow it down to one. How about 5?

1. Goose Island Bourbon County Stout
2. Bell's Hopslam
3. Stone's Russian Imperial Stout
4. Great Divide Hercules Double IPA.

And if I'm in the mood for a Belgian beer, rather than Chimay, I prefer

5. Rochefort.

[stonemaybe]

Alcoholic, my faves are ciders of most types but especially Strongbow, Scrumpy Jack, Savanna, and Glastonbury pearcider!
Wines I prefer New Zealand Savignon Blancs.
Spirits - normally Bombay Sapphire gin and tonic with lime and lots of ice, though when in the mood I can be persuaded to try just about everything except chilli tequila.

Might sometimes have a beer on a really hot day - but nothing too beer-y!

Non-alcoholic may fave is a 'Henry' - half and half pure orange juice and lemonade.

[Cameraman Jenn]

Beer has to fit my food, mood and the weather. I like a nice Chimay on a temperate evening with perhaps some homemade beef stroganoff. Kirin goes great with a hot summer night crab feast. Guinness is all about cold evenings and hot beef stew.

[dANdeLION]

I like girly drinks. I can drink a beer after mowing the lawn, but it has to be frigid and I have to gulp it down immediately, or else I'll taste it and then it'll take me an hour to drink it. My ex gave me something like a Seagram's Seven Grape cooler thing that I liked; but that's about the only thing I like that's alcoholic, other than perhaps Miss America.

[iQuestor]

cocktail
Cap'n Morgan and Diet coke, twist of lime

Scotch:
Glenlivit
Glen Morangie (Highlander's fav )
or any single malt

Cognac
Remy Martin Louis XIII (I own a bottle I haven't opened yet. )
Remy Martin XO
-- I have to have a fine cogar with these. --


Beer:
Guinness
Sam Adams
Bass Pale Ale

[drew]

Give me beer lots of beer! The wetter the better!

You like it watered down, eh?

He must like American Beer.

[ur-monkey]

Real Ales, Wheat (Weiss) beer, Rum, Scotch, a decent red wine...

I was a barman for 3 years so fairly eclectic alcoholic tastes!

[Wyldewode]

Being Jewish, I grew up with four 'glasses' (I think technically they were crystal stemmed cordial glasses, as they were tiny) of sweet concord grape wine at the Passover seders. Truthfully? I still prefer that over most other wines...

:::hanging head in shame:::

We like what we like, Menolly! I think I have a bottle of the sweet concord wine in the cabinet (not the kind of thing you display proudly!). I do have one really nice bottle of wine that I'm saving for some special ocassion. It's a 2004 Cabernet Sauvingon from Chile.