Butterflying Posted September 8, 2011 Posted September 8, 2011 I'm not a huge drinker. I have never developed a "taste" for beer because the strongly bitter flavors disgust me to the point of gagging most times. It doesn't matter if it's a light beer, sweet beer, or exoticly expensive beer. I just don't like it. However, I do liked mixed drinks (martini's, cosmopolitan, daquri's) basically anything with rum or liquor mixed. I havn't found a single alcoholic beverage other than wine that I can drink straight without mixing it with a non-alcoholic beverage. My question is, how does one develop a craving for such drinks as gin, vodka, whiskey, scotch, brandy, beer, ect? Is it the taste they crave or the effects of drinking them? Another problem I have with alcohol is that I've never been intoxicated, therefore, no drink has ever given me an effect. It's like drinking water or fruit juice. So I don't even understand why people want to feel a specific way after drinking alcohol. If you've ever been intoxicated, what does that feel like? Why would you want to be intoxicated again?
Trolly Posted September 8, 2011 Posted September 8, 2011 For a lot of people including myself drinking straight liquor and some beers was an acquired taste. I don't drink much either, but I do enjoy beer and can enjoy scotch, whiskey or tequila every now and then. Getting used to them was much like getting used to a lot of things i've acquired a taste for. I used to hate onions, but one week I just said, it's time to get over this and once I did that it I probably only had to eat them two times before I came to enjoy them.
Feelin Frisky Posted September 8, 2011 Posted September 8, 2011 (edited) Hi Butterflying. I developed a thing for fine brandy/cognac, single-malt Scotch Whisky and high end blue agave tequila. All booze drunk straight up. The trick is to make a straw out of your tongue and sip the booze though the natural tongue straw without letting it run under the sides of the tongue. Tequila is a little different if you use the lemon and salt--you just lick some salt, gun a shot and chomp down on a wedge of lemon before exhaling the tequila (which is not a very pleasant booze if you ask me). With Scotch and Cognac you want to enjoy the fragrances of the exhale and buying top shelf stock makes that a smooth pleasure. Wait, I didn't ask you for your driver's license before telling you that, so ignore if you're not yet 21. Those pleasures--the Cognac, the Scotch--can be addicting and I've had my share of calls from those bottles to return. I rarely drink anymore and don't miss it. If you want to splurge and try, say, some nice Cognac, try Remy Martin, Courvoisier, Martell, Hennesey and go for the V.S.O.P grade which is smooth. I actually like a snifter of Remy heated for ten or 15 seconds in the microwave which sets off its bouquet to the nose. Enjoy. PS: Vodka and Gin aren't very distinctive different from one brand to the next. Get a good brand if you want to drink a Martini--not an "appletini" or one of those other low rent bastardizations of the Martini--and save some bucks if you're gonna make mixed drinks with them. Edited September 8, 2011 by Feelin Frisky
Author Butterflying Posted September 9, 2011 Author Posted September 9, 2011 What about Abstinthe?? Anyone have experience with that one? I'm interested in a particlar brand called "Lucid." My boyfriend just bought some and I'm so nervous about trying it.
Feelin Frisky Posted September 9, 2011 Posted September 9, 2011 What about Abstinthe?? Anyone have experience with that one? I'm interested in a particlar brand called "Lucid." My boyfriend just bought some and I'm so nervous about trying it. It's more myth than anything. It's a cheap peppermint booze with wormwood oil in it that was long made illegal due to health risks. Supposedly some folks hallucinate from it but that can only be because a "toxin" is in there rather than a proper "drug". If it were a hallucinatory drug it would be a schedule one controlled substance and illegal completely. But instead it's like turpentine that gives you a petroleum distillate intoxication that can cause the brain to lose it's countenance. I would not put that kinda think in my precious cabeza. Go slow if you try it. At least you'll be able to say you did.
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