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What’s Your Poison? Craft Beerfags Are Not Welcomed Here

I’ve gone through a long journey in my life long goal, barreling towards alcoholism. Truth be told, no matter how hard I try, I just can’t become an alcoholic. I don’t have it in me. Starting off as a wee lad, around the age of 14, my friends and I drank plenty of malted liquor. We used to buy a 40 ounce after school, like true degenerates, and imbibe the nectars of the ghetto until half retarded. Disgustingly, we used to share the bottle.

Then I moved onto other things, like Cisco, which we called ‘liquid crack’ in Brooklyn. It was a sweet wine with lots of sulfites in it that used to make everyone really sick.

Then I experimented with mixing things into my beer, like pina colada coolers or even fruit punch — real fag shit.

Moving into adulthood, I still drank beer, but also tequila. From 20-22, I drank bottles of that stuff — earning a reputation as someone who could truly hold his liquor. When you’re young and stupid, meaningless titles like that are appealing and coveted.

Then I went through a dry period, becoming turned off by the whole beer scene and definitely soured on the Mexican cacti genre.

In my 30s, I experimented with single malt scotch and wine — because I had a lot of money and I thought that’s what I was supposed to drink. Again. I’ve demonstrated a keen propensity for high level retard thinking over the years.

Fast forward to today, I’ve become an aficionado. I’ve become very particular about everything, from the shoes on my feet, to coffee, tea and now cocktails.

The way I figure, craft beer is a genre that is for fags, 100%. I don’t mean that in the homosexual opera way either. It’s just that, beer, for lack of a better term, is for rubes — rusticate swindlers who enjoy vomiting on their own shoes and their wives.

I’ve found that FDR had it right all along: martinis.

Now, we can go straight vodka, dry vermouth, shaken, not stirred, and have a great evening of laughter — uninterrupted by beer burps. Or, we can mix up a french martini for the ladies, which is a fruitier beverage, topped off with champagne (when done correctly, the champagne must be frapped). Or, we can go the FDR route and simply add a little olive brine to the martini, which I make extra wet with 1/2 parts of vermouth in it, and there isn’t a drink in the world that is better.

As you age and meet new people, you should carry yourselves with a modicum of sophistication — eschewing plebian beverages like crafted beer or shots of Jagermeister. That shit is for retards.

If you want to discuss martinis and the different variants, we can do that too. Personally, I prefer grey goose vodka over gin, but gin works too.

What’s your poison? Say ‘craft beer’ and I find out where you live and punch your jaw loose.

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184 comments

  1. s.k.

    Have you ever tried a potato vodka? Puts the wheat blends to shame.

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  2. mensch

    It takes a real man
    To drink vodka and cran

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  3. dragline

    Four Roses bourbon.

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  4. drdart

    Bud Light Lime!

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    • ironbird

      No shit. Your avatar looks just like a drunk Mexican. Well done.

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    • Dr. Fly

      Weller is my favorite bourbon. My neighbor has barrels of it in his basement, literally.

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      • Dr. Fly

        Things we’ve learned about Peaches in recent months.

        Drank whole bottle of cheap bourbon out of bottle in bathroom stall in college.

        Smoked crack several times

        Thinks raping men isn’t gay

        Robbed some people in youth

        Converted to Judaism for inexplicable reason

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        • peaches

          I don’t think raping men is not gay. That was a joke. In poor taste I’ll add. You old farts are clearly out of touch with the youth these days, and taunting homophobes is something we all grew up doing. Tom Brady “raped” the Falcons. I know you get it. And I know its your best argument to delegitimize what I am saying.

          And I did not convert to Judaism. My mother’s family is Jewish. I’m latino. I still bump salsa *just* loud enough to piss off the neighbors. I don’t eat gefilte fish. You guys are so far out in the “real” world you define religions by the things you don’t like about them.

          I was not proud of Jewish blood in my veins in my early years, for the same reason most of you would not be proud of it. I grew up in suburban America. I was a bigot.

          Then I had a moment. Recently. I think analyzing the nature of the rules in the Bible can change your life for the better. I have seen it happen before my very eyes. I have seen the glory. Some of you have also. It is not an exclusively Jewish or Muslim or Christian thing. If we realized that we would change this world. We would tear this motherfucker down.

          You guys champion Christianity, or at least never talk shit about it… but disregard the fact that Jesus was a Jew. Who didn’t eat pork. Who got circumcised. Science is proving the benefit of these strange middle eastern practices more and more. Circumcision reduces your chances of contracting STDs by half. Stupid middle easterners… must be coincidence.

          I’d love to see any of you do the 180 I’ve done. I was an asshole. Alcoholic. Drug Dealer. Got a BJ from my friend’s girl in the bathroom at his birthday party. Stop acting like being a badass wasn’t the thing to do in your youth. I was just more of a badass than most of you guys. But I never raped anyone. I swear. Deal with it.

          Now I’m not an asshole, or at least much less of one. Now I volunteer in soup kitchens and I help AA members speed up the process. I’m 28. Most kids my age are hungover lazy shitheads. I believe in a God that wants me to make the world a better place and I believe that process happens by following commandments. The rest of the path is illuminated for you as you do the mitsvahs. Feed a homeless person. For you guys that means get a bum a hotel room and a steak dinner. Spend as much as you do on yourself in one day on a homeless man. Do it today. Its shabbat. Do it. Do it. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

          If you spent a day with me you’d feel like shit for saying the things you say. I know you know that Fly. And I completely understand you have a circus to run.

          Shabbat Shalom.

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        • peaches

          In Hinduism, vegeterian diet is highly respected. The idea is that a plant has no soul, and a vegetarian animal has a cleaner soul than an animal that eats other animals, like a lion.

          So when you kill and eat an animal you are part taking in the emotions in that animals soul…

          Pigs eat all sorts of garbage. Shrimp are roaches at the bottom of the sea eating fish turds and dead creatures. Kosher animals are all vegetarians. You are not allowed to hunt in Judaism or Islam unless you are starving. You should also kill animals as quickly and as painlessly as possible.

          Now science is confirming this. If you eat an animal that has lived a stressful life (factory meat) that meat is full of cortisol and other chemicals delivered by the brain during moments of stress. Anitbiotics and an inorganic diet also do this.

          Pig flesh is so dirty that there are worms living inside of the muscle fibers. The meat. A pig will eat a dead rat covered in maggots. A cow will only eat grass.

          The Torah says not to eat it. It does not say why. God is not a Hindu. If you are familiar with your “old” testament you see he is not some Mr. Roger’s type. He says do. The only reason to follow any commandment is because you have faith that God knows best.

          This is the test. God wants to see you make a fool of yourself. Because you value the next life more than this one.

          When science and the human eye confirms that last belief, as it has been confirming more and more, faster and faster, it will be too late to say “Oh my God!”

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        • peaches

          Also Christians…. Jesus never said he came to change the laws. Paul threw the Torah in the garbage. Jesus said he came to uphold the law.

          “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”

          Your book… Not mine.

          Jesus did not create Christianity.

          This is not a Jewish belief, or a Jewish conspiracy to undermine your religion. Sorry Sarah Palin. This is a historical fact.

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        • peaches

          whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven

          ***Drop your cult and listen to your leader***

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      • boyaj

        As always, you are a gentleman shown through your distinguished choices

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  5. brassmonkey

    Mr Fly,

    I to meandered almost the same path as you amid the various forms of alcoholic beverages. Today I am only fond of dirty martinis and Grey Goose is my favorite. But what I find the secret to be is Dolin Vermouth. Also never keep your vodka in the freezer as it need to be room temperature when you shake it. And god forbid don’t use any hipster stemless glass that takes the warmth of your hands into the beverage. Use a real mans martini glass with a proper stem! Good weekend to you!

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  6. matt_bear

    patron silver

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  7. gappingandyapping

    I have given up alcohol all together and only partake in edibles. I have found alcohol to be bad for the body and the mind where quality cannabis that is organically grown is very clean and healthy. Its weird, 1 year ago I would have recommended hanging for cannabis users, now I realize I was just blue pilled all along, suffering from low IQ.

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  8. The Alchemist

    Kettle one dirty martini with cream cheese stuffed olives. The light horse tavern is a GS haunt in Jersey City, very nice martinis.

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    • Dr. Fly

      I use big ass olives with sweet peppers. I found them in Whole Foods. Choice.

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      • J Adabese (your pen pal)
        J Adabese (your pen pal)

        You should quit drinking. It progressively ruins lives. Not only yours, but those around you. I take no intoxicants except morning caffeine. Haven’t done so since college. Not having to recover from a “night out” or however you want to phrase it puts me way ahead of the pack. And I feel better than most. Weak people reach for bottles, and dope. That is the truth.

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        • Dr. Fly

          quit caretrolling. Not everyone has substance abuse issues.

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          • J Adabese (your pen pal)
            J Adabese (your pen pal)

            Care trolling? I could give two shits who takes what. By all means, keep at it champ. You’ve posted on the same topic a number of times in the past. Funny to see all the enthusiasm for it. Most of the stuff being talked about tastes like shit. You couldn’t sell a pint of any of it if it didn’t contain alcohol. Oh yea, big olives and peppers. Shit, don’t fool yourself. Thats decoration to help garnish the garbage the shit that it truly is. Stay with it. Worked great for the Indians.

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        • Dr. Fly

          Adebese needs a drink.

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        • michael

          Mormon. Not everyone who drinks abuses alcohol.

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        • The Maven

          Whoa. Douchebaggery Level just ratcheted up a notch or three.

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  9. dragun

    Mad Dog 20/20 .. on the rocks.

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  10. wolfdaddy

    Titos. Wheat allergy and the other stuff puts me in the hospital

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  11. lesurgeon

    You old fart New Yorkers put Red Rose On the map..
    Just remember that..

    A Great Job done my amazing people!

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  12. billiejones

    Makers Manhattan is the beverage of choice for gentlement of taste. On The rocks, sans the martini fag glass…..just in a normal lo ball.

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    • The Maven

      My grandma used to drink that.

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      • billiejones

        Well then, your Grandma sounds like a dope ass bitch. Send her my way and well knock a few back while you go looking for your shinebox son. Kind regards to your granmama.

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  13. nemesis

    Favorite warm day drink- Couple fingers good dark rum over rocks, a few oz’s soda water, splash of lime juice.. simple / refreshing. Bring on the bikinis.

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  14. t.c.

    I have for years loved Tito’s Vodka. However, I typically only drink beer. The Mexicans make some of the best in my opinion.

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    • Dr. Fly

      Titos is pretty good. Cheap too.

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      • joshua

        and made in the states. You all claim to be MAGA, but clearly not ’bout that life. Craft beer is for douchebags, but at least it’s supporting local shit everyone claims to care so much about.

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        • t.c.

          I drink craft beer occasionally too. I just didn’t want Fly to know I am secretly a fag (no-homo).

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  15. dmfracer

    Great topic and discussion. I enjoy a good beer when sitting by my pool on a hot Houston day, or on the boat or at the beach. Margaritas are also great.

    I like a good red wine with dinner or when sitting around the house relaxing. California preferably, because America. Though I have been trying some of the Texas Hill Country wines- but I prefer California.

    For cocktail hour I enjoy a good Irish whiskey, or quality bourbon whiskey.

    My wife got into all the different vodkas when we live in New Orleans – the ladies like their vodka in that town.

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  16. dcolella15

    Bourbon on the rocks. Nothing lower shelf than Makers Mark. Arizona has one distillery and they make a small batch Bourbon that is called Copper City Bourbon, it is currently my favorite.

    Old fashioned, is my Go to cocktail. I am very particular about how they are made though. If someone muddled the cherry in my old fashioned I send it back. If they use a shitty maraschino cherry, they get an awful review on yelp. Grow up and learn how to make a classic cocktail

    Costco sells a Kirkland brand small batch Bourbon that is great. You must keep it in a crystal decanter though so people don’t know you are a classless mutant.

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    • Dr. Fly

      LOL.

      The old crystal decanter trick.

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      • dcolella15

        Classic move right!? Generally I drink the Kirkland stuff myself with no company. I make it a habit to have something branded when company is around. Plus to be honest, I enjoy the Kirkland branded better than most of the name brand shit. (doesn’t make drinking it feel less shameful in front of strangers though)

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        • joshua

          I’d bust out Bourbon in a box if I could find it. Make sure I show the guests too.

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        • The Maven

          I will consume anything with a Kirkland label, even the lawn furniture.

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        • mspm

          Kirkland Bourbon is bottled by Woodford Reserve, their blended whiskey is 8 year DeWars…..both a bargain bestowed by Kirkland

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    • krauthammer

      Nothing more disappointing than a terrible Old Fashioned.

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  17. iago beets

    Fly, there is still plenty of time to become an alcoholic. Have you tried drinking earlier in the day, or substituting alcohol for meals?

    Don’t give up on your dream, just because it hasn’t come true.

    Yet.

    Try this: half Myers dark rum, half Coca-Cola, juice of one half lime.

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  18. Dr. Fly

    Good drinks gents. Never stemless glass. Also load glass with ice before mixing so it’s cold. If you are low on olive brine, muddle an olive and mix. Works well.

    I have a lot of glassware and prefer 1920s style coupes.

    True martini aficionados believe gin is the only appropriate form of martini. Be sure to refrigerate your vermouth. It goes bad.

    Try a french martini. It’ll be your favorite summer drink. I discovered them in Newport, RI a few summers ago and have been making them ever since.

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    • nemesis

      I don’t know, that french martini looks pretty Milo dude.. But worth a try. I see standard and sparkling type. Which do you prefer?

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      • Dr. Fly

        Top off with champagne or prosecco.

        1/2 Chambord, 2 pineapple juice, 1 vodka. I garnish with lemon peel and a raspberry. Top off with Moet.

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    • dragun

      nothing like getting side swiped by a sidecar. We had a French themed dinner night and the aperitif was the sidecar. Ladies and gents were six sheets to the wind before dinner.

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    • michael

      Gin martinis are the best.

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  19. soupbone

    I’m actually having local beer due to the hardness of the water it is the best I have tasted. I suppose it is a craft beer. Why not drink that which does not depend on the city producing good water. Water is the most important ingredient. I started drinking beer at the age of three. My first spoken word was ‘beer’. It is a part of my metabolism and my culture.

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  20. aj

    microbrews

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  21. Dr. Fly

    BTW: the new Amazon show, Z, is pretty good for any of you F. Scott Fitzgerald fans.

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  22. derp

    I keep coming back to Stoli vodka for cock tales. I mean, grey goose is nice to be sure. There’s also the deadly Bombay sapphire.

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    • Dr. Fly

      You must be a Russian hacker.

      Thanks for giving Trump the win, comrade.

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      • derp

        Hah! WRC4 here in DC is obsessed with the Russians. Meanwhile across the river Northern Virginia is like the sex trafficking Capitol of the world and they would never report on it.

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  23. joshua

    Titos, sometimes with an ice cube. Putting a bunch of shit in your drink is for snowflakes, and homos who call other men homos.

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  24. soupbone

    My organic chemistry prof, a dude from Oxford originaly, told us about many things. On this topic it was how to make synthetic gin. Do Not Do This! They would obtain the denatured alcohol which contained the carcinogenic compound benzene. For a liter of denatured alcohol they added 100 mL of water and then boiled it back down to 1 L in the fume hood. The water replaces the benzene completely due its affinity to alcohol. Presto. Don’t try this.

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  25. The Alchemist

    Winston Churchill martinis are always fun. The vermouth should be in the same room as the martini.

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  26. hedge500

    I tend to stick purely to red wine or occasionally champagne. Preferring Cabernet Sauvignon/Bordeaux. If you enjoy wine, try a bottle Quintessa. The 2013 Rutherford red is a work of art.
    Also get saki bombs when I visit my favorite sushi place..

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  27. ericbakerbruce

    I like ayahuasca.

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  28. husaria

    Have real vodka. Zubrowka! Straight up, ice cold of course, or with apple juice on the rocks.

    Best pivo….that’s beer to you….is Piast. Unpasteurized beer at its best. Tough to get in this country, so go with Zywiec or Praga. Good pilsner beers!

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  29. mr.wiggles

    God, I had some wild nights on Zima.

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  30. krauthammer

    Beer – Peroni, light refreshing and great tasting no matter what season.

    Liquors –
    Old fashioned’s for days bourbon or whiskey: Four Roses, Woodford, Buffalo Trace, you get the point.

    Gin and ginger beer/ginger ale with lime. Screw Moscow Mules, they can’t compete.

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  31. husaria

    For more “sophisticated” drinking, I recommend absinthe. Very hard to get good absinthe here. Best is in Czech Republic.

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  32. stries

    West Michigan has benefited a lot from craft beer market (Founders, Bells, Perrin, etc) but I prefer Grey Goose or Ketel One vodka or Tanqueray gin.

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  33. Dr. Fly

    Gin is a whole different genre. There are lots of flavor profiles there. I have a favorite, but the name escapes me at the moment. Big blue bottle with raised gold letters on it.

    Try a perfect martini if you like both sweet and dry vermouth.

    Fav summer drink: GIN FIZZ.

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  34. boyaj

    Single malt scotch for me. The problem (if you want to call it that) is it’s difficult for me to drink anything with the slightest bit of mixture. Old Fashioned and Manhattans are the extent I drink anything mixed. To your point about tequila, if you pay up for one, drinking it straight can be enjoyable (no shooters or poppers).

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  35. Raul3

    Vodka martinis, lightly soiled, preferably w bleu cheese olives. And Mezcal

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  36. handyandy

    When I was young (13) my parents owned a pub in England, everyday I would cycle home from school, and in the back yard the barrels of ale were there ready to be exploited.

    I figured out how to extract the Stella Artois using the flexible pipe that screwed into the end of my bicycle pump. With a flat end screwdriver I would slowly prize the ball valve in the to, and beer would fill the small recess, which I would suck out with my bicycle pump flexible pipe.

    Problem was, if you twisted the screwdriver to much it would gush out like a broken oil well, covering my upper body and face in beer, which is difficult to hide!!

    Many a day would I sneak in the house smelling like an acute alcoholic.

    My father constantly complained to my mother that the barrels were always short, and the brewery (Whitbreads) did numerous audits without success.

    Fast forward 37 years and a career as a Cruise Ship Captain, I now enjoy strong dark rum, mixed with Coke.

    After many years at Sea, I have tried every type of drink/cocktail/spirit/beer known to man, and all for free!!

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  37. rastocks

    Fly have you tried Beluga vodka?

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  38. moneybagz

    Angel’s Envy has been my go to, and just recently found out they just put out a new line of Rye finished in Carribean rum casks. Sharp and strong. The original bourbon finished in port wine casks is much smoother. No pappy but good mid shelf.

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  39. The Maven

    You cannot put fucking vodka in a glass and call it a fucking martini Jesus H. Christ. And for fucksakes, Don Julio Añejo is one fine sipping tequila. Guinness is good for you. I’m enjoying a lovely St Emilion with dinner. What is with the guy who only drinks coffee?

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    • moosh

      True dat. Guinness is overlooked on so many levels because it is “heavy”. Fake news. Its just not stripped of every beneficial nutrient and actually pretty light, although I haven’t tried the og chunky stuff yet.

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    • The Maven

      I finally got to drink it fresh from the tap in Ireland. I can now die a Complete Man.

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  40. The Maven

    On another note, Impicked up a bottle of Hudson Manhattan Rye Whiskey and it is stunning.

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    • The Maven

      Whoever gave me a thumbs down on this drinks Budweiser from a wine glass.

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  41. Research Donkey

    Russian Standard Vodka

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  42. masteroneass

    Craft beer is definitely totally for faggots. Jack D neat or a Miller Lite here. What do folks think of steel stocks up in here? I am a serial downside short side “bear” smasher trend only guy but I want to start going long and steel seems like the way.

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  43. ferd

    Adabese is correct, at least regarding the hard liquors being discussed. “Most of the stuff being talked about tastes like shit. You couldn’t sell a pint of any of it if it didn’t contain alcohol.”

    Good red wine before and with meals. Beer when passing gas with male friends. Burp.

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  44. montresor

    Jack Daniels is the only whiskey worth drinking.

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  45. din

    112 posts and counting. Clearly a heavy buy on all spirits.

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  46. heckler

    Take a tall thin water tumbler and fill it with finely cracked ice.

    Lace this broken debris with 4 good purple splashes of Angostura, add the juice and crushed peel of 1 green lime, and fill glass almost full with Holland gin…

    No sugar, no fancying. It’s strong, it’s bitter — but so is English ale strong and bitter, in many cases.

    We don’t add sugar to ale, and we don’t need sugar in a “Death in the Gulf Stream” — or at least not more than 1 tsp. Its tartness and its bitterness are its chief charm.

    +++ That’s Ernest Hemingway and I’ve tried it it’s good +++

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  47. montresor

    Cheap booze is fine if you drink for the effect like I do. No need to get all hoity toity.

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  48. ho_chi_min

    DMT crystals

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  49. john_galt

    Johnny Walker Blue Label, on the rocks, with a splash of Perrier.

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    • longrun

      If in FLA- dark and stormy with black seal rum.

      If in northern homelands-rye whiskey Gibsons finest and spring water. I don’t know if you Yanks know what rye whiskey is though. Puts hair on your chest.

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    • The Maven

      JW Blue, finest kind!

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  50. LP

    Fly, you don’t like beer?! For shame. True, the craft thing is out of control now, to the point it’s annoying. Too many brands anymore and everyone thinks they can brew in NJ now. I go for dark beer, the porters and stouts. Best porter I can think of at the moment is Anchor’s. I like brown ales like Newburgh’s. When I want to treat myself I go sours like Rodenbach or Duchesse de Bourgogne. Try one of those and let me know what you think.

    I love scotch. No bourbon or anything that has corn in it, though I have Pappy on my list of stuff to try. But it’s always malted barley for me. I like some smoke but not overdone so Islays or a Speyside, preferably finished in a wine barrel. No ice, maybe a few drops of water.

    I enjoy wine a lot, my family makes it for personal consumption using local grapes from South Jersey. We do it like my original ancestor from Italy made it. But, lately we’ve been trying various unoaked chardonnays.

    I like my martinis vodka, no gin. Belvedere or other Polish vodkas preferred.

    I don’t really do cocktails. I think alcohol and sugar is a recipe for a hangover.

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  51. Dr. Fly

    It looks like a fucking Mormon is downvoting all comments. Faggot

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  52. iago beets

    At some point, you have to decide: Do I want to be an alcoholic, or do I want to be a connesseur?

    The alcoholic never has to make this bothersome decision.

    The alkie, the Jack-Lemony-Days-Of-Wine-And-Roses alkie, drinks anything and everything, even sterno and listerine.

    That is where you gentlemen are going wrong–premium booze, caring about such things as method of stirring, sourcing of condiments, etc. This too is error. If you must care about extraneous trivia other than getting hammered, then care about a, whether the bartender is female, and b, whether she’s stacked. That’s it. No point cluttering up your brain with anything else–you’re drunk, remember?

    Of course, good booze is better than bad booze. But the important thing is to get your hands on some booze, now. Daily, often.

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  53. fryguy15

    Try Jeppson’s Malört. Only the true alcoholics think that stuff

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  54. firehorsecaper

    Here in Japan Shochu & Green Tea is all the rage, taking a lot of market share from carb heavy beer. Ocha-Hai is how to order it.

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  55. ericbakerbruce

    I’ve had 3 major crises in my life. They all involved alcohol-
    Very young USMC PFC wakes up in Jacksonville NC jail with new tattoo and broken nose. Friends bail me out and say “but you should see the other guy”
    Young USMC corporal wakes up in Tijuana jail with new tattoo, chipped tooth and no money in wallet.
    Older civilian wakes up with second ugliest woman he’s ever seen who insists on making breakfast. I barf all over the kitchen table.

    Learn a lesson here kids.

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  56. firescout

    I truly enjoy gin. As a martini and as a refreshing summer drink. I have friends who enjoy Ultimat vodka. Never tried it though.

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  57. southernjam

    All I know is I had 5 beers last night and have a savage headache now.

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  58. ckmfox

    I like Crown Royal, sometimes with ice. In a pinch I will drink a Belgian beer or maybe Fuller’s ESB. I will accept that those are the choices of an uneducated suburbanite homosexual.

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  59. fxtradepro

    <——Blantons

    Much like the Fly, as I moved into my 30s I felt the need to step up my level of sophistication. Started in on the Macallan selections, usually 12 was my "everyday", 18 or 25 On occasion. But really began to settle in on Bourbon just about 1 yr ago. Going on 36yrs old, it's blantons single barrel only. No blantons? Basil Hayden works just fine. Perhaps because of the corn base of Bourbon, and the sweeter taste is why I chose to switch from scotch, but mostly because Bourbon is American as apple pie.

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  60. fxtradepro

    Also, if you drink scotch or bourbon out on the town, make sure the gin mill of your choice serves the the giant ice ball or cube. I refuse to drink a fine scotch or bourbon poured over ice chips. I have my own personal ice ball press kit at home.

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  61. cancel19

    BTW, fantastic Friday evening blog post Dr. Fly. I’ll drink to that! Cheers!

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  62. gary g

    Whiskey … neat

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  63. zephler

    high dose LSD trips

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  64. jungleegirl

    **Old World Beers, Ales** (no over-hopping)
    Sour Golden Ales aged in Wine Barrels
    Orval
    De RAnke XX Bitter
    BFM Root 225
    Basserie Trois Dames – Saison Sour; La Tentation; l’Amoureuse Rouge
    Birrifico Del Ducato – Setttembre
    Hansenns Oude Gueze
    Lindeman’s Cuvee Renee
    Boon Kriek
    Boon Mariage Parfait
    Dubuisson Scaldis Prestige (aged in Mersault)
    Deciduous Brewing – Sepal, Auranja
    Evil Twin Geyser Gose
    Green Flash Cellar 3 Oculous Sauvage
    Loverbeer – Beerbera and Nebiulina (Lambic aged w/Nebbiolo)
    Mikkeler Beliner Weisse – Drink’in Berliner


    Nauhuales Mezcal Reposado
    Camut Calvados – all ages good

    —-

    Listen to me very quietly, Italian beer is where its at, and I dont mean Peroni.

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  65. bennyhill

    Only because you apes have never had beers fromTree House, Westvleteren or Hill Farmstead. Many craft beers suck but until you try the best like these, you have no idea.

    Martini glasses are for pussies.

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  66. georgiebest

    English Ales, hand pulled, room temp, mostly low alcohol content are fantastic!

    Grew up drinking Ale, continue to drink Ale decades later, not even scratched the surface there are some many across the UK. Then craft beer pops up and some guy in beard tries telling me it’s something new, fuck off! CAMRA been around for decades promoting and protecting real ale.

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