Most people can only tell water or at most beer from “blah alcohol”. Ritzy places are also no place to test vodka. Try substituting the vodka in a bar here , you’ll get lynched the second your first drink is served. As someone coming from Easter Europe i can reassure you there’s quite a difference.I drink my vodka straight , sipping. Shots are for special occasions such as getting warmed up for the next 5 shots :). I’ll tell what vodka a friend is drinking just by smelling the glass. I can even tell it apart in a Blood Mary if i taste it , provided there’s not too much pepper and Tabasco in there. Bad (not necessarily cheap) vodka just tastes and smells bad and has you puking and feeling horrible the next day. I’m not saying sell your liver for a bottle , but have some respect for yourself and your health. The brands i listed are in no way expensive , they’re just the good kind. I know more expensive “vodka” that is 10 times crappier , and “rye spirit” that’s better than that more expensive “Vodka”. I only drink straight spirits. Beer If there are no distilled drinks. Wine / champagne and other drinks i will only taste.
If you drink liquor straight, you can taste the difference.
I’m thinking of having a Hoefen Brau Muenchen tonight while I watch the Orlando - Cleveland game.
Screw this abstinence nonsense , I’m hitting my plum moonshine stash as of now. (that is: palinca , 60% ABV). I study better on a fuzzy mind anyway.
Many cans of cheap lager await me tonight. I’m visiting a friend tonight and I am taking no prisoners. I will be snuffing mostly FUBAR Grunt and Toque Absinthe. Banzai!!!
Tonight when I go to the pub I shall have a pint of Chestnut Mild, followed by 7 or 8 bottles of Newcastle Brown Ale. Tommorrow night I shall be on Old Rosy cider which is something like 8.4% so 6 pints of that I shall be anybodys lol. Stefan
I’m suddenly craving some Strongbow.
I’ll be in my local drinking Old Empire Ale with an abv of 5.7% and of cause sum snuff.
Here’s a silly question for you across the pond: What temperature is your beer served at?
Now so silly, most of the young like larger served cold. I like a hand pulled beer around room temperature. No prizes for guessing I’m old lol! The larger is like your light beers.
Just about everything around here is served ice cold (the way I like it). However, there are a few pubs in town that now serve hand pulled beer (at a higher price).
Im drinking a 1661 beer right now… well its okay but not much more.
English beer, real ale, call it what you will, is seved at cellar temperature, which when all pubs used hand cranked pumps not forced through a cooling jacket, obviously varied, but it was cooler than room temperature as it would be coming from an unheated storage cellar. Nowadays you see even real ale chilled, my personal taste is for cool beer - not warm or chilled. With lagers, chilled. But the days of everyone drinking beer at the same temp over here are in the past.
The larger if not served cold taste awful. Our real beer if served cold looses it’s taste.
I’ve been spoiled with bars serving beer at near freezing temp. IMHO, there is nothing better than a near frozen beer when it’s 100F+ outside.
Loses its appeal in a country that has two days summer a year.
Haha, so true! We have too many days of summer!
Here’s a strange one. In my younger days when I first started drinking, Guinness was always served warm, or at room temperature. Then the Guinness company had a go marketing for the younger drinkers and pubs got coolers added to their pumps, then later two pumps chilled and extra chilled. I’m looking at a empty can right now as I type in the garden on my laptop, even on the can it says “Serve Chilled”!
Tommyknocker Pick Axe…
Homemade sloe wine followed by a pint of ale from the brewery I work at (in the UK). Cold serving temperatures are ideal for lagers, but 13 degrees C or cellar temperature is perfect for English ale. When I stayed in New England in 1995, there were loads of good microbrewery ales (more than in Old England!), and loads of Stouts. Is Catamount brewery still going? I had a brewery tour around there (White River Junction Vermont?) and many fine evenings in Gritty McDuffs in Portland (Maine) sampling their excellent beers…