What Are You Drinking?

[darsparx]

Green mountain coffee caffeinated breakfast blend with sugar and some weird "coldstone creamry sweet cream" flavored creamer...I think I need to find a different coffee, and creamer(more so a different creamer because sweet cream isn't that sweet nor do I really like what little flavor it adds)

[samsonlonghair]

Café au lait

[TSTR]

Café au sizzurp

[marurun]

Last night, Weihenstephaner Festbier, Heavy Seas Cutlass Amber Ale, and Ommegang Scythe & Sickle. Tonight, Thirsty Dog's Rail Dog Smoked Black Lager. Thirsty Dog and Heavy Seas were the more pleasing to my palate.

[Hobie-wan]

Capping off a crappy week. Dr. Pepper with Seagram's 7 Stone Cherry whiskey. Or is that whiskey with Dr. Pepper in it?

[marurun]

If I want to start getting into whiskey, bourbon, or scotch, what's an affordable entry point that's worth drinking and won't turn off a newbie?

[noiseredux]

If I want to start getting into whiskey, bourbon, or scotch, what's an affordable entry point that's worth drinking and won't turn off a newbie?

bourbon and scotch are both whiskeys and they're pretty different things.

Better answer: For scotch it was Johnny Walker (red) that initiated me. It's not too pricey, not too cheap, and smooth. I've had better/more expensive, but still keep Red stocked in my own bar.

Everyone attacks it differently. On the rocks helps. I don't care if it's coach-class, but I mix mine w/ ice and some water to make it fill a small tumbler.

[marurun]

bourbon and scotch are both whiskeys and they're pretty different things.

This I knew. But I don't know, experientially, how they are different. I just know they are similar in that they are whiskey, but different in that, well, they're different enough to get their own names and aficionados.

Better answer: For scotch it was Johnny Walker (red) that initiated me. It's not too pricey, not too cheap, and smooth. I've had better/more expensive, but still keep Red stocked in my own bar.

Everyone attacks it differently. On the rocks helps. I don't care if it's coach-class, but I mix mine w/ ice and some water to make it fill a small tumbler.

I may just take that recommendation. My wife has also expressed interest in exploring this particular avenue. I know we had some Bulleit rye whiskey and it was pretty good, but pricey (by our cheapskate standards). Much better than some of the cheaper stuff we've picked up to incorporate into recipes (like whiskey whipped cream for topping pecan pie *om-nom*).

[Cronozilla]

Been drinking this:


It's actually really good ice cold. Shitload of Vitamin C, too.

[SpoonyBard]

Better answer: For scotch it was Johnny Walker (red) that initiated me. It's not too pricey, not too cheap, and smooth. I've had better/more expensive, but still keep Red stocked in my own bar.

Just got back from my local fighting game night and saw this. The house drink there recently switched from Johnny Walker Black to Monkey Shoulder. It's almost $10 cheaper and so far everyone who shows up seems to prefer it to Johnny Red/Black. I don't imbibe anymore, so I can't give my personal opinion - But it may be worth a sample. Plus the bottle has some cool pewter monkeys on it.