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Beverage of Choice

Beverage of Choice

Beverage of Choice

(OP)
OK, this is an English/Grammar forum, so to tie this in, sometimes words get slurred and grammer gets disjointed whilst partaking of a favorite beverage.  With that said, what's your favorite beverage?

Mine:  Laphroigh Scotch



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I love Islay whiskey too. Ardbeg is my favourite.

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Ah,
One of my favorite engineering subjects,
If you get befuddled enough you can spell it Laphroaig. then there is Islay misht( mist), Talisker, and others off the island, like that produced by the 13 men of Tay or is it 14 I am too befuddled to tell.
B.E.

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I'll be boring and say a G & T (with ice and slice)!

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Rack up another vote for Islay malts - Lagavulin is a personal favourite of mine.

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Three HUB Dry Martini (1.5 cl Noilly Prat + 10.5 cl Bombay Saphire + two olives + lemon zest) once saved my life. That's my favvo beverage ever since.

Gunnar Englund
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Depends.

After work at the pub - pint of Guiness, or 4 or 5

Lunch - tonic with slice of lime

Weekend afternoon on the patio - chilled Riesling or something sweet

Dinner - a light red like a Pinot Noir

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In the beer category, Guiness but there are so many good real ales out there that it's pretty close.

If you're talking hard stuff then one of the smooth Irish (real) whiskeys, Powers Gold or Tullamore Dew are both a nice drop.

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   Creemore lager beer.

   In the winter, I like a full-bodied red wine.

   I keep a bottle of Canadian Club lying around, but I am not a good judge of whiskey.

                     JHG

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drawoh: you are definitely not a good judge of whiskey!  Try some Crown Royal or, if you can find it, Century Reserve.  It is a Canadian single-cask rye whiskey.  Very tasty.

Add another Guinness fan here.  I'm an ale lover, though, and if I could go the rest of my life never drinking the same beer twice I would be a happy man.  I love trying different beers.

I also enjoy red wine, and drink mostly new world varietals.  Shiraz, Pinot Noir, Cabernet.  There are some very good shiraz/cabernet blends out there as well.  In the summer I'll drink some chilled whites as well.

On a hot day, not much beats a G&T with a glass full of ice.

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Irish whiskey, Scottish whisky, they get very prickly about that.

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(OP)
I might add to my first post above the following favorites:

Seghesio Old Vine (a very very good red zinfandel)

as with others above - Guiness Stout

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The "beverage of choice" depends largely on availability.  I used to survive on "cooking whisky" (e.g. Bells, Grouse, others) when in England.  But once I lived in America, cooking whiskys were real nasties from Canada in plastic bottles.  So I switched (could afford it at the time) to the real thing.  Friday night = leave work and pick up a bottle of Islay from the local liquor supurstore.  Talisker and MTV, what a great night!

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Easy to remember on the whiskey/whisky front.

The Irish make whiskey, no one else doessmile

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And the Scots make Scotch. winky smile

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Two personal favorites, both Islay malts

BUNNAHABHAIN

LAPHROAIG

An as we are in the language forum, JAE you have spelt Laphroaig incorrectly  smile

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(OP)
....ya, I know.  sorry  sad

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Barenjager

Sometimes room temperature, sometimes freezing cold.  Otherwise I usually just have water.  

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I'm a big fan of the American micro-brews.  Mostly local Michigan stuff.  Bell's, Founder's, and New Holland.

I also like the Belgian beers like Chimay.

I'm a big fan of Jim Beam and Coke.  Also like the G&T on hot days.

Lately, I've been getting into hard ciders.  Strongbow is a tasty English cider.  I also like the local cidery's peary.

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Glen Kieth scotch.
Cold beer.

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eric1037  Strong bow is kind of mainstream commercial stuff.  It's OK but there are other more flavorsome options.

My favorite commercial Cider would have to be Old English although I haven't had it for years.

The South West of England makes probably the best cider, scrumpy is a slightly more traditional version.


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I'm another one in the Lagavulin & Laphroaig camp. Lagavulin is a great bedtime whisky after a good meal.

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KENAT, you have to realise that in America, "cider" is apple juice and "hard cider" is what Brits would call cider.

If someone talked about "hard cider" in the UK, they'd probably be refering to one of those cheap 7+% white ciders that are affectionately known as "tart fuel".

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Ooo, I almost forgot Lambic - the fruit kind.  There's only one or two brands commonly available down here in Florida, but good times when you can find it.

Strongbow isn't the best (hard) cider agreed, but it's the most commonly accessible.  

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I'm off to the 29th Annual Peterborough Beer Festival this evening (check out www.beer-fest.org.uk for a list of the hundreds of beers available). Hopefully I'll come away with a new favourite beverage!

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Looks like a cracking beerfest, kchayfie. Shame Peterborough is so far south of here (Teesside)! Have one for me.

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I know that cider in the US is just fizzy apple juice unless otherwise specified.

My point was Strongbow whilst probably the most available isn't necessarily the best.

You're talking white lightning or similar.

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Strongbow isn't the best, but on a hot day, floating in the pool Strongbow is tasty ice-cold.

I much prefer the local cidery's brews.  They are pretty pricey though.  They have a peary, a peach cider, a couple of different apple varietals, and a few blends like cranberry-apple.

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Probably slightly more hygienic than the fermented mess of barnyard straw (to be polite), rotten apples, and rats, that we used to drink. AKA scrumpy. Three pints and you are gone. And will have a hangover to remember for a week.



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Greg Locock

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GregLocock (Automotive)
If you remember that kind of scrumpy, do you remember "Stun'em" ? It was a scrumpy put out by either Westons or Bulmers fortified with grape juice. Two pints would do a person for the night or start a fight. They finally banned it.
B.E.

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No, scrumpy was straight from the farm. That Stun'em sounds ridiculous.

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Straight from the farm...

and usually in unmarked 1/2 gallon opaque plastic containers.  It never occurred to me back then that those containers were probably "recycled" and could have contained anything before (kerosene, meths, fertiliser, etc).

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If anyone is ever in Northern Ireland a visit to the Old Bushmills Distillery is well worth a visit. At the end of the tour visitors take a tasting test - comparing various Scotch whiskies and Irish whiskeies (is that spelling right?). After the test you also get a certificate to prove that you are a Qualified Irish Whiskey Taster!! Plus you can buy a bottle of 30year old Distillery reserve (only available for purchase in person at the distillery) - expensive but absolutely superb.

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Kenat,

"White Lightning" must mean different things in various regions and dialects.

Where I grew up in the 1960s (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia), "White Lightning" was the local slang name for 50% "metho" (methylated spirits or methanol) / 50% Fanta (fizzy orange soft drink / pop / soda) much favoured by the local homeless. The corner shops kept the metho cold in the fridge alongside the Coke and Pepsi - I kid you not!

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Aha! That's where the name came from.  In the UK, White Lightning is sold in convenience stores for 99p and drunk by tramps.

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(OP)
Here in the US, we have a product called Everclear which is, I think, something like 150 proof. (see the link below)  We used to use it in college (you know...the young and dumb years) and mix it with Mountain Dew, sit in a room lit with candles and with soft music, and just start talking about life.  The discussion proceeded down a path (and I mean down) where eventually we had completely solved all of life's problems, and we actually never started any major fires.
We called them EverDew parties.  very strange.

Everclear link

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Wow! I'd completely forgotten about "Mountain Dew".

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JulianHardy,

A corner shop owner in Blyth, Northumberland was imprisoned for selling glue to the local kids. Tablespoons of glue. In paper bags. This must have been mid-late 1980s when I worked there. Blyth is the kind of place which should be marked on tourist maps with a skull & crossbones.

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Sompting,

By Tramps do you mean the UK version, homeless or the US version, ladies of dubious virtue.

From what I recall White Lightning (the cheap bad cider not the aussie version) was popular with both.

I always assumed those scrumpy containers had contained milk or similar previously.  The other options you proposed would explain the taste and effects it had though!

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Mostly in the southern US, white lightning is a home brewed liquor sold on the sly to avoid the revenuers.  What it lacks in taste it makes up for in kick.  Became wide spread during prohibition, with stills hidden out in the hollows of the Smokey mountains and the Ozarks (the original mountain dew).  Our NASCAR is a direct result of good ol boys making whiskey runs in their souped up cars, staying just ahead of the law.  Can still find some if you know where to look (nobody wants to pay taxes on it if they don't have to)!
Tramps aren't just ladies of dubious virue here, either.  We share the UK understanding of a tramp being homeless, similar to a hobo.  

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