Hey everyone. Just recently turned 21 wondering what is a good place to start with liqueurs and alcohol in general. Picked up a bottle of whiskey and vodka but have no idea what good brands and what to make with them.
>>7606233
I mix my vodka with soda or seltzer water
>>7606261
So far I've just tried orange juice and vodka. It's really the only thing I know about. Also someone told me tullamore dew was a good whiskey so that's what I got
>21
For you Four Loco and Corona.
Just kidding, but anyway you're asking a crazy broad question, almost as silly as saying "I've just started eating food and I don't know what to make with them." Alcohol comes in so many categories and moods.
For Whiskey I'd say Whiskey Sour, if it's a good whiskey you might want to try and Old Fashioned but keep in mind that's an old man's drink and you probably won't like it until you're a full blown alcoholic. Don't drink Jack and Coke, that's a shitty drink and I think it's only popular because they're so popular and ubiquitous.
Vodka is vast so very vast. Bloody Mary's, White Russians, Moscow Mule, the whole Martini thing. Vodka can pretty much add to anything. My favorite is a Salty Dog.
For you I'd suggest trying a real Margarita. Cointreau, Gold Tequila, Fresh Lime Juice. Margarita's get a bad wrap because of the Americanized over sugared crap. A real Margarita tastes incredible and gets you buzzed nicely.
Also as a side note for anyone who comes here I am allergic to barley so don't recommend beer. Tastes like shit anyways
>>7606298
>implying all beers are made of barley
Missing out if you never try a Wheat Beer.
If you're mixing vodka just buy the cheapest, you can't tell the difference. Bushmills is a good mild and inexpensive Irish whisky to get you started.
>>7606304
I did try a gluten free beer, Literally tasted like I took a clump of dirt and grass and ate it
>>7606310
>just buy the cheapest
Please shut up. Look I agree no bottle of Vodka should ever cost more than $40 but there's a tremendous difference from a big brand Vodka (Absolute, Belvedere, Kettle One) and the fucking rotgut like Barton's.
I would never go cheaper than Smirnoff.
>>7606333
No, not if you're mixing with something strongly flavored like juices.
>>7606333
>mfw stoli is on sale 33% off at tesco
>>7606233
Pic related. Could crack open my Glenfiddich 12 but it felt like a beer night.
Whiskey? I agree with anyone suggesting the Old Fashioned or Whiskey Sour. If you can't handle that, maybe Whiskey and Cola, but I would splurge and get "real" cola; something flavored with kola nut. The extra bite really adds to it.
For the vodka, just add it to things you already like. Best way to do it.
Drinking pic related while playing Skyrim
>>7606380
Not a bad one
>>7606312
dank
>>7606333
I feel like I learned this way too late in life. I used to hang out with some real scumbags and we'd drink the absolute cheapest shit we could get, just to get drunk. I spent a decade living like a tramp.
Now I've got a bit of self-respect, I also draw the line at Smirnoff, and I'll usually only drink that if I'm already drunk.
You owe it to yourself to turn down those industrial accidents on the bottom shelf that are there for broke alcoholics who have no choice. You'll feel way fucking better if you spend less time pissed, but do it on better stuff.
That said, fuck buying the silly priced shit. Unless you're desperate to impress someone or a multi-millionaire, aim for decent. Not astronomical, not gutter trash, just fine.
>>7606380
Did not like it. I could literally taste the dye and shit in it.
>>7606298
>having food allergies
Nice try immunecuck
>>7606609
My nigga
STAND ASIDE PLEBS
Kidding, lifted this shit from a restaurant
Pays to know someone in the liquor industry
>>7610617
>stemless wine glasses
promptly end your life senpai
>>7610619
I guess drinking with a stemmed glass would make me more of a wine connoisseur?
>>7606233
For bourbon try Buffalo Trace. It's reasonable inexpensive and good mixed or on its own. I like it in manhattans or with ginger beer
Go to a cocktail bar and try different mixed drinks like a gin and tonic, or a dark and stormy. It's cheaper that way and they use better ingredients. Once you know what you like you can buy the liquors that are in it.
>>7610562
Tbh that shit is at least better than bacardi. It actually tastes and smells like rum; good enough for complex cocktails at least.
This tastes like shit and it wasn't even really that cheap. Guess i'll have to down it with coke. What a big mistake bying this was.
Beginning drinker here as well, I've been pretty big on rum and vodka. There's a lot of pretty good cheap rums out there nowadays too.
Kirkland Signature is actually pretty top-tier.
>>7610955
>sam's club liquor
>>7606304
Wheat beer is still about half barley malt except in certain extreme cases. Hoegaarden is 40% wheat, 60% barley.
american honey mixed with goatmilk.
surprisingly tasty.
>>7610638
Not that Anon but they are there for a reason. Stems allow you to hold a glass without warming it by your hand's body heat. Especially important when drinking something meant to be served chilled like white wine.
>>7612097
not that anon but let's be honest, who actually holds a wineglass by the stem?
I'm never drinking again after watching that fucking Louis documentary
>>7610907
Red Label is literally made for mixing. You're not supposed to drink it pure.
>>7606333
he's most likely going to dilute it up with a shit load of ice, soda, coke
the difference the increase in quality will make, is marginal
>>7612121
People who don't want to warm their chilled drink with their hand.
Bit of an acquired taste, not too good even then but perfectly fine to drink guilt-free that I'm not wasting the good stuff on casual consumption.
And sinc eit only cost me £10 for the bottle I can't complain.
>>7612286
Forgot pic.
I think I've had one too many already.
>>7606233
Pic related, of course. It being the evening before we celebrate our glorious monarchy.
>>7611090
>He can't afford to shop at Costco
Seriously Familia, Kirkland vodka is distilled one more time than grey goose for 14 dollars a handle at my local Costco. It's top quality.
>inb4 Costco shill
>>7612290
Is this the blend that used to be sold just as "Black Grouse" under a new name or is it an unrelated product?
>>7612376
Yeah, same stuff, new name.
Not sure why they had it renamed, I liked the old one, nice and concise
>>7612386
Good to know. My preferred pour for scotch cocktails.
Drinking Segram's gin earlier but I had to go into work so I'm forced to be sober for about 6 hours. The gin isn't great but I enjoy gin enough not to care.
>>7608904
Astronomical price is a meme for all liquors, beers, and wines. Vodka, perfect example, has tiers. First tier (real tier not drinking petrol) is rot gut like skol. Rail or house liquor at dive bars, kids getting drunk at parties while underage and v&. 10 dollars per handle maybe.
Second tier is smirnoff. More expensive but still bretty damn cheap, no real problems with it per se. Can be drank straight but usually isn't except for by alcoholics. 20 dollars per handle is common.
Third tier is flawless vodka. Grey goose, belvedere, hangar 10. It's so smooth it tastes like softened water. The alcohol bite is so minimal you have trouble believing it's 40 percent. Any hangover or bad feeling is purely from bingeing. Can be put in mixed drinks but unless minimally done that's a shameful waste. Better off straight or with a splash of lemon on the rocks.
The price of third tier is where people go wrong. Goose is 70ish a handle but doesn't need to be, that's marketing costs. Lower brands with equal quality maybe 60 dollars stateside. Some total unknown here like pic related, White Birch vodka from russia, is like 50 dollars a handle if you can find it. In a blind test, not even a big drinker would know it's not goose.
This meme is repeated in some way or another for all alcohol. Other more flavorful kinds have more variety but none escape the tier system, only hope to confuse you with fancy words and paid-for media reviews.
>>7606609
>not making your own Skooma
>>7606233
>HARAM
Why is this allowed? Is Hiro a racist bigot?
>>7612141
Link?
>>7612912
Cocaine Rum, now there's a tipple I wouldn't mind splashing out on.
>>7612146
what's even the point of buying it? you can buy whiskies that are drinkable straight for that price and you can mix them too if you want
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$15 / 750ml
best vodka in the price range, extremely well reviewed
try it at least once
>>7612352
You don't need a membership for the liquor store anyway
It's alright. I wish I bought something a little more costly than this.
I WANT SCOTCH, GIVE ME GOOD BRANDS OF SINGLE MALTS FROM EACH REGION
I'm drinking Jim Beam Devil's Cut. All I ever buy is Jim Beam. Not a connoisseur. One time I got this blue bottle rum as a gift and it was divine. I hope I get bored of whiskey. Feels wrong to stick with one booze for so long.
>>7612938
Drinking To Oblivion, Louis Theroux
>>7606310
That's protestant whisky
>>7613534
I just bought a bottle of that. It was my first time in this particular liquor store, and it was the only whiskey over $20.
It's bad. That will be my last time in that liquor store.
old whiskey thread is here >>7559780
>tfw 25
>still look the same as I did when I was 21
>hold alcohol better than I did when I was 21
Why did you faggots build up this horror about how it was all downhill after 21 when it's been anything but that?
>>7614156
25 is not old but it's the point at which the aging process begins.
If you don't work out and eat right, you will lose your youth fast after 25.
>>7614156
Because it's the "hurrr me so old kek lel" meme.
>>7614156
It's never downhill at 21.
Downhill starts for Women at 22
For men, it's 27
>>7610798
Ayo senpai, this is where it's @
I'm an amateur. Can someone explain why certain drinks call for certain alcohols? Like why a daiquiri is always made with rum? I could not even begin to tell the difference between gin, rum and vodka behind all the fruit flavor in a daiquiri. Is there REALLY a difference when you're making mixed drinks like that?
>>7612769
Tito's vodka gets higher reviews than grey goose a lot of the time and it's $24
>>7614162
This, 25 is generally the threshold where sitting around treating your body like garbage starts to finally kick in. If you stay somewhat active and eat well you'll likely not notice it as much, but if you spend all day on the computer and eat garbage you'll start feeling it more.
>>7606233
My nigga, I have a bottle of that sitting right here, goes down smoothly, tasty in small quantities yet you can also get blitzed on it excellently, unlike the Scots with their peat that I don't like for the latter purpose.
>>7615116
Obviously. Give it some time and you'll taste past the raw alcohol.
>>7615193
Even through mixers? I mean I can tell the difference in straight spirits but there's no way fruity girl drinks can be differentiated right
>>7606233
Fuck it.
I've been sober for like 4 days, I'm having a few drinks.
My personal go-tos are:
>gin+tonic
>rum+orange juice
>various beers, whatever micros are on sale
currently broke with a bottle of wild turkey 101, but no mixer. Could only down two drinks with ice.
>>7614052
>spend a whole weekend drinking entirely too much captain morgans and coke, get really sick of it
>few days later go out for a meal with friends
>have a coke with my meal
>drink it
>can taste rum
same as the last 8 threads
>first time drinking
>head into a bar, I was 18 so only allowed to be in the place, not order drinks
>rub off sharpie mark
>buddy I was with and I both do 7 shots of jack daniel's premium meme liquor each
>I get a beer and a shot of Vladamir because it was the cheapest vodka they had
>I'm in way too deep
>we find our way to a local frat party and score 2 more beers each
>somehow stumble back to my college dorm room
>vomit everywhere in the bathroom, all over everything because I wanted to stand while vomiting
>panic, grab paper towels and mop up vomit
>try to flush paper towels
>the toilet is clogged because it's not made for a basketball sized wad of paper towels
>the vomit water overflows out of the toilet
>I can't comprehend this problem, much less figure out a way to solve it without a plunger
>decide to go to sleep and deal with it in the morning
>wake up the next afternoon, it's hot as fuck because someone hit a power pole and knocked out the electricity for my entire dorm
>this means my vomit has been stewing on every surface in this heat for up to six hours
>finally clean it all up
>the bathroom smells like vomit for the rest of the semester
>>7613341
OK tried.
Yep it's gud
Any good whiskies with the taste of brine or sea water?
Old Pulteney Navigator sounds good.
i know absinthe is a bit of a meme but as far as taste goes is it pretty good? it seems like you really can't get it for anything less than 50 bucks.
>>7615485
why the hell would you clean up after yourself in a dorm bathroom? who gives a shit
>>7615785
It tastes like anise and booze. So, no. There's a reason they used to pour it through a sugar cube
>>7615788
Every room had a bathroom shared by only you and your roommate.
I was responsible for it
>>7615785
unless the taste you want is the taste of alcohol you should get chartreuse or sambuca or frangelico instead.
>>7615795
All the preparation bullshit is the reason absinthe is so much fun to drink.
You pour the ice water over the sugar though, not the absinthe.
>>7606233
The only time I drank tullamore dew I made out with two other dudes and ended up chained to the fucking ceiling during an orgy
>>7606233
only the best, anon
![NEW-Harpoon-IPA-12oz-Bottle-And-Glass[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/hae2lmJ.jpg "NEW-Harpoon-IPA-12oz-Bottle-And-Glass[1].jpg")
This and lagunitas.
>>7615116
I remember a time when scotch, bourbon and rum all tasted the same.
It changes you get older, experience counts.
>>7615434
All these pussys here that cant handle 101 lol
>>7606304
>literal retard the post
wheat beer has barley, and if it doesn't, its not beer.
>>7616689
Beer is any alcoholic beverage fermented from malted grains.
>>7613875
This is something I got from /ck/.
Campbeltown: Springbank 10
Highland: Glendronach 12
Speyside: Balvenie 12 DW
Lowland: Auchentoshan 12
Island: Highland Park 12 or Talisker 10
Islay: Ardbeg 10
>>7612769
Is Russian Standard Imperia 3rd Tier vodka? Saw one cheap for sale.
I think this shit is delicious.
What else would I like?
>>7615456
Know exactly what you mean
>drink too much coopers stout at a dinner
>end up throwing up
>now taste vomit whenever I have coopers
Can only have a few sips before I have to tip it down the sink which is a shame because it was my favourite beer
>>7606233
I'm a poor fag so just 4x steel 211s
I don't know what it is about this but I would drink it forever if I could
>>7606233
>roommate is Irish descent and buys a while back a family favorite: a bottle of Tullamore
>we try a glass each; I wasn't really impressed (scotch and bourbonfag), but he seemed to like it
>days turn into weeks as I notice that his whisky is just sitting there in the fridge unloved
>just days ago I notice the empty bottle in the kitchen and jag him about finishing off almost the whole bottle in one go
>he tells me he's not much for hard liquor anymore and he dumped it all down the sink
>I look at him a bit perplexed, but didn't care much at the time
>it was only later I realized his uncle is suffering from the final stages of liver cancer that was probably caused by the same brand of alcohol that he bought
>>7616689
Oh how meta
>>7617218
You have genuinely bad taste bro
>>7617262
probably yeah. I mean I also like wild turkey and jack daniels but i think d'arbys reserve tastes like how boot polish smells.
>>7617296
wild turkey is good though
>>7617240
poor bloke
>>7606578
What brands of cola contains real kola nut?
>>7617240
>whisky in the fridge
Is this a dank new meme?
>>7618061
No, whatever gave you that idea?
>>7618067
Why would anyone put whisky in the fridge if not for dank memes?
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I'm just getting into brandy.
Should I add a few drops of water to open up new flavors as with whisky, or would that just dilute it?
>>7618061
I always store my whisky in the fridge. Next to the red wine. On the shelf below the honey.
Crystal head vodka i bought in sweden mixed with orange juice soon.
>>7615785
Its good, but make sure to mix it with water, and perhaps sugar if Its needed.
>>7618435
Wont hurt to try but most brandy will be at standard abv and wont need it. Brandy is fairly soft and subtle so doesnt really benefit from further dilution IMO.
Just let it sit in your snifter for up to 10 mins before enjoying.
>>7618482
>Crystal meme
>>7618428
Don't see a problem here, unless you want to trigger autistic faggots on the internet. lol
>>7612141
My god Anon, a little part of me broke after watching that
>>7618051
Pepsi's new ultra-hipster 1899 line. It's actually pretty fucking good after the first one.
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I've been enjoying Yukon Jack a lot. Can anybody recommend any other good whiskeys?
http://latamerspirits.
wix.com/distillers
This nonsense that I'm not even sure is real scotch or just a total fraudulent label. Anyone have a clue? Distributed by latin american spirits marketing company
i started with bourbon recently, and i really enjoyed pic related and buffalo trace.
what are some good similar bourbons?
I have tried WT101 and Maker's as well (i did not like this one)
>>7606233
Ballantine's Finest
>>7606233
Grüner Veltliner
Decided to try a pint of this. Very nice, and about half or less of the price I'd normally pay for gin.
