Booze recipes

[Dog Pants]

Talk about what combinations of alcohols you like! Especialy ghetto ones for when all the beer has run out. I tend to keep things fairly simple personally;

EDIT: I was going to use this as a sort of food post but for beers. But I got bored and started being silly. So now it's bollocks. But it's taken me ages to write so I'm posting it anyway. Now I'm going to google the contents of my drinks cabinet to work out what to drink tonight.

Single malt whisky:
Often referred to as Scotch, but there are some nice Welsh and Japanese ones too. Serve neat, or with a little mineral water. Don't chill it with ice or anything - you want to taste it, otherwise you might as well drink Teachers. If you mix this with anything but water a Scotsman will come round and kick you in the testicles. Jockgit is on standby.

Other whiskey:
Chuck ice in it, makes it taste less bad. Some people put coke in it but I think it makes both the coke and the whiskey taste like shit. Tesco Value whiskey is traditionally mixed with Tesco Value bottled water, mainly so that when you regain consciousness you'll stil have your eyesight. Alternatively, mix it with other spirits in a cocktail. There are different types of whiskeys - bourbons (face melt from America), blends (face melt from Scotland), and probably others (still face melts).

Gin:
I like gin and tonic. The British first started mixing gin and tonic water together in colonial India back in the day. Many people think they mixed the tonic water in to hide the taste of the gin, when in fact the gin is there to hide the taste of the tonic water. I like the one with lime personally. Don't mix it with lemonade, it's fucking horrible.

Vodka:
I drink mine neat. Like whiskey, it makes coke taste funny. Stick it in the freezer for a bit first to do it Polish style, it makes you a man. Berk swears by coke with his, and other people mix it with orange, which isn't too bad. I won't go into any more detail when we have a connoisseur.

Liqueurs:
Just don't, they taste like tramp vomit and girls like them. Southern Comfort can be made almost drinkable at a push by mixing it with copious amounts of ginger ale, which makes it taste like whisky (face melt, not nice whisky). If you knock back a swig of neat SoCo (as the Americans like to call it), then the face melt will taste much nicer.

Brandy:
I think you're meant to drink this i a big glass that spreads the surface area out and warms it to the temperatire of your hand. It's made out of the goo in the bottom of wine barrels. I enjoyed it with lemonade and angostura bitters, known by the Cypriots as brandy sours. Although the first time I drank that, in March 2003, I got hammered and found myself on a C-130 heading south east by the time I sobered up.

Wine:
Amblin and Friz like it. I think the good ones come in boxes.

Beer:
Stronger does not mean better, and neither does expensive. There's a reason Belgium exports Stella Artois, and it's because the Belgians won't drink the stuff. Lagers are nice served cold on warm days. Preferably not out of a can (and particularly not a can that has the word 'Carling' or 'Fosters' on it). Czech lagers (eg Budweiser Budvar) are nice and light, German lagers (eg Warsteiner) are quite heavy and can fuck you up, Belgian lagers (eg Hoegaarden) are also quite heavy and will almost certainly fuck you up. Kronenbourg comes out of France and is half decent, about the only thing that is. Stay away from expensive lagers in tiny bottles, they make you look like a knob. Unless it's Duvel, in which case you'll look like a knob when you fall over after a few of them. Polish lagers can be nice, such as Zywiec, Okocim and Tyskie. Australian beers come in little bottles, stuff like Tooeys and Carlton. It's strong so that Aussies can drink them faster and get smashed off their tits.

When drinking British, you're pretty much better off sticking to bitter and ale if you want something nice. Loads of people avoid them because they think they're either what old men drink, or are harder to drink than lager. maybe the former was true once upon a time, but not so much any more. I'm not convinced there's any such thing as a bad ale, but just to be on the safe side consider that the fancier the bottle the more likely it is to taste like horse piss. In my experience the best thing to do with ales is drink as many as possible to try to find out what you like.

Cocktails:
Some I've found to be nice;

Manhattan
Whiskey, vermouth and bitters. Easy to make, and quite nice. I found them when Mrs Pants was working late one monday night and I experimented with the contents of the drinks cabinet.

Long Island Iced Tea
Equal parts vodka, tequila, gin and rum, with a splash of triple sec and a bit of coke. Complicated, so not likely to be something you drink at home unless you've a particularly well stocked drinks cabinet, but nice.

Ghetto Cocktails:
Sometimes you're just stuck in the house with nothing but a bunch of spirits. You've got to drink something, but your options are limited. Time to experiment.

Turbo Shandy
Beer mixed with Smirnoff Ice. Best to use a cheap lager, it'll taste like piss regardless but it's drinkable.

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[HereComesPete]

Cocktails - Mojito's are lubberly. As are Caipirinha's, but ordering them after a few is a fucking nightmare.

Gin and orange juice is a weird one that'll you'll probably try once but never again. Gin and icy cold fresh orange seem to make your mouth really warm. I have no idea why.

[friznit]

Easy way to wine: Dry Sauvignon Blanc. Pretty much any country except Chile....profit.

For the ladies: Rosé. I don't think they care where it's from.

[amblin]

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[buzzmong]

Ales: I like my ales and there is such as a thing as a bad one. They taste like soap, handily they're quite rare and I've only ever had 3 or 4 out of the few dozen different ales I've tried and even then, I'm willing to put some of that down to the pub.

Porters (and by extension, Stouts) are lovely and you can never go wrong with them.

German lager: Germans practically invented lager. It's nice. Munich stuff is the best due to quality control placed on them by law.

Liqueur: Baileys. It's lovely. Also, you can't make a white russian without coffee liqueur.

SoCal with lemonade is quite nice as well when you feel like being faaabulous.

Vodka depends on the quality of it. Stoli is fine with coke, Smirnoff isn't. Orange juice works well with cheap vodka as it smooths it out.

Absinthe: Strong aniseed flavour. Strong booze. Turns cloudy when mixed with water. Shots arn't advisable. 4:1 ratio of booze to water is good, maybe add sugar.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

A mess: Take one Berk, being sure to shave its hands to the wrists, Mix well with 1-2 bottles of vodka, some dodgy homebrew and some kopparberg, Retire to 30'

[buzzmong]

Amaretto and coke: Tastes like a slightly muted Dr Pepper. Seems to be quite popular with females if my uni friends are anything to go by.

Rum: White (read: Bacardi) is gash apart from use in part of a cocktail, but it's not to be used as the main alcohol with a mixer. Spiced (dark) rum is very nice and all dark rums pretty much go well with coke.

[Roman Totale]

Spiced Rum with Ginger Beer is lovely. Flavours work really well together, not too much of fiery kick.

I love Mojitos too. A few places do Berry Mojito (fruity and with spiced rum) which is great. Regular ones are ideal for summer.

Regarding ale and the strength of it, I find that 6% and over just isn't nice. There may be a few decent ones, but best stick to the ones at 5.5% or lower. I always prefer bottled ale as canned stuff tastes metallic and 'thin'.

Champagne. Horrible, horrible stuff. Fizzy piss that gives me terrible heartburn.

Vodka - I only drink this with lemonade (or orange if I'm feeling healthy). Don't know how anyone can drink it with coke - tastes fecking revolting I think.

I also like to partake in shots when I'm out. Sambuca is a favourite. Don't like Jagermeister though - don't care how popular it is.

[Dog Pants]

Yeah, sambuca is a favourite chaser among my mates. I've done silly things after drinking it.

Right, I have:
A splash of lemonade
About a litre of tonic water
Jack Daniels
Cpt Morgan
Malibu
Pimms
Winter Pimms
Gordons Gin
Angostura bitters
Cava
Aquavit (off some crazy Norwegian Air horse officer)
A miniature Jagermeister
Kopaničiarska slivovica (plum brandy by all accounts)

Lets see what I can do with that

[buzzmong]

If it was the middle of the day, I'd suggest doing a pitcher of Pimms, lemonade and fruit. Excellent summer time drink.

I thought you were planning a G&T spree tonight Pants?

[eRabbit]

I'm not a fan of ale, which causes Buzz to always frown slightly whenever we're <s>having rampant sex</s> having drinks'n'stuff.

After 3 years at uni, including accidentally necking a pint of 1/2 lambrini 1/2 white cider I can't say I'm particularly fussy... however a particularly nasty/AMAZING yet simple invention from first year is:

Quarter fill a pint glass with vodka, fill the glass to just over half full with some cheap blue vodka alchopop and top up with cherryade. Bright purple, reports seem to suggest it glows in the dark and if the alchohol doesn't get to you the sugar definately will. For extra "man test" capabilities drop in some absinthe... although you'd ruin the beautiful flavour.
Don't want to know what it does to your insides as we have several glasses permanently stained purple from this crap.

On a slightly classier side Mojito's may well be my most favourite thing on the planet, when going to a 2-for-1 night at a local cocktail bar I'm normally found with at least 6 surrounding me at any time.

[HereComesPete]

German lager: Germans practically invented lager. It's nice. Munich stuff is the best due to quality control placed on them by law.

The Reinheitsgebot was lifted about the same time you were born.

[Dog Pants]

I thought you were planning a G&T spree tonight Pants?

I am, and despite going for somewhere around 25% gin at the moment, I don't think the tonic will last the night. I'm intrigued by this aquavit though. I have a USAF shot glass somewhere to drink it from. Might save all that for when I've some civvies to impress though.

[buzzmong]

The Reinheitsgebot was lifted about the same time you were born.

Ah, I didn't know that had been lifted. Breweries still stick to it as a matter of pride so it's still worth mentioning. Could have sworn there's something else in law about Munich lagers though, relating to naming and exporting.

[Fred Woogle]

and here I was thinking this would be an awesome thread to teach me how to make my own booze

[Fred Woogle]

German lager: Germans practically invented lager. It's nice. Munich stuff is the best due to quality control placed on them by law.

I'll think you'll find this is all German beer, not just Munich Lager!

[buzzmong]

Good point Ty.

As it's nearly the correct time of year:
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Elderflower champagne recipe

Now with quite a bit less sugar @ 700gram. Last version was 2kg. And it was far too sweet.

There's some mead making instructions on Instructables which I might also try this summer.

[Anhamgrimmar]

People slag off carling, fosters and the like, but for some reason i can drink it quite happily :shrug:

I do like a stout though (co-op freeminer and gold miner are usually on offer so dirt cheap!), or a jamesons (its the only whiske..whisk...fuck. which ones the irish one again? anyway, it's the only one i can drink without blowing my throat out!)

But please god, keep me away from berentzen. a bottle of schnapps for a £10. that'll make for an interesting night




More ghetto cocktails.

Irish Turbo:

1 x Blue WKD in a pint pot, topped up with guiness. If done right should separate out. Tastes foul, but gets you smashed so YMMV.

Cheeky Vimto:
50 ml of port (I don't know why, but all the pubs round here seem to sell it in double measures) in a pint pot.

1 x Blue WKD.

Looks, tastes and smells like vimto. Will result in loss of motor control because its just so drinkable.

[shot2bits]

i generally dont drink anymore and i dont actually like the taste of alchohol, but if im going to get drunk i forget about the taste and just drink whatever there is around with some kind of alchohol content in it, which usually results in nasty murky brown concoction with a hint of orange