The Unofficial Booze Thread

[krashkart]

Okay, now I certainly don't mean to ruffle feathers, but I wonder what the other kaleuns quaff after/during a rough patrol.... or whenever the time is right.

For me it varies, but usually beer will suffice. Stella Artoise? Stella!!! If only Iowa would import Weinhard's from wherever the Western States get it, I would be truly, a mostly content man. Perhaps it is a forbidden product in this strange and uncertain culture of which I am. Is Iowa part of the Iron Curtain which still lives within my warped childhood memories? Only repeated watchings of famous American documentary "Red Dawn" will tell, perhaps.

[frau kaleun]

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=144&pictureid=1120

[frau kaleun]

BTW if anyone who posted about Hoegaarden in http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=160276 is reading, I did find some "Hoegaarden White" (at least that's what they call it here, apparently) for sale locally. Worth a try, or no?

[frau kaleun]

Stella!!!

Well, when you put it that way...

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RpjsoC1F74o/0.jpg

[razark]

I don't drink when I'm on patrol. It wouldn't be fair to my crew to be less than clear minded if we run into an enemy patrol.

However, if we manage to sink a ship full of British ale and manage to haul a few crates aboard, the men deserve a bit of relaxation. Or perhaps we break out a bit of the "depth charge medicine" after a particularly tough time of playing dodgeball with the escorts.

[conus00]

http://www.1-877-spirits.com/store/images/large/Gentleman-Jack-lg.jpg :yeah:

[Snestorm]

One of these days I'm going to buy myself a bottle of Drambuie.

Good stuff!

[kiwi_2005]

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/2554/5299932m.jpg:rock:

[Ishmael]

Okay, now I certainly don't mean to ruffle feathers, but I wonder what the other kaleuns quaff after/during a rough patrol.... or whenever the time is right.

For me it varies, but usually beer will suffice. Stella Artoise? Stella!!! If only Iowa would import Weinhard's from wherever the Western States get it, I would be truly, a mostly content man. Perhaps it is a forbidden product in this strange and uncertain culture of which I am. Is Iowa part of the Iron Curtain which still lives within my warped childhood memories? Only repeated watchings of famous American documentary "Red Dawn" will tell, perhaps.


Henry's is from the Irish part of the country, O'regon.

http://www.henryweinhards.com/hw/Default.aspx

When I can get it, I prefer THIS brewery:

http://www.mendobrew.com/home.html

I mean, how can you not like a beer brewed in a town called, "Hopland"?

Here are my other 2 faves:

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/4434/glenmorangieglenmorangizk9.jpg

or this, quite simply, the best brandy in the world:

http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/3543/germainxo.jpg

http://www.germain-robin.com/

My Daddy always taught me to drink the best. That way, you go broke BEFORE you become an alcoholic.

[Blacklight]

I'm always sipping on Guinness Drought or occasionally their cream stout or Sam Adams Lager.

I like beer that tastes like beer and not that watered down crap.

[GoldenRivet]

http://www.1-877-spirits.com/store/images/large/Disaronno-Liqueur-lg.jpg.jpg

or

http://www.collegebeing.com/uploads/2007/07/killians-irish-red.jpghttp://i.ivillage.com/DF/072505/beer/DF_becks_366.jpg

[Morts]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Ouzo_-_plomari.jpg:up:

[Sea Demon]

or

http://www.collegebeing.com/uploads/2007/07/killians-irish-red.jpghttp://i.ivillage.com/DF/072505/beer/DF_becks_366.jpg


Killian's Red. :up: That stuff is just darn good.

[CaptainHaplo]

I don't drink. But when I did - and this was years ago mind you, it was B-52's or Orange Jubillee Mad Dog mixed with Everclear (tastes like orange juice, has a kick like a MULE).

Now I don't drink, nor do I smoke....

My vice is somewhere else entirely - and alot more fun than either!

[Sea Demon]

My vice is somewhere else entirely - and alot more fun than either!

Something other than sub sims and booze???;)

[frau kaleun]

Something other than sub sims and booze???;)

In the immortal words of Adam Ant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3g5G0PFuXQ),

Don't drink, don't smoke - what do you do?
Don't drink, don't smoke - what do you do?
Subtle innuendos follow...

[HunterICX]

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/272/paulanerweissbier.jpg

HunterICX

[Sniper_Fox]

Jameson's (mixing jamesons is punishable by death) a white russian, Guinness(BRILLIANT!) or good ol' Holsten festbock! 7% and doesn't taste like an ass :arrgh!:

[Takeda Shingen]

http://luekensliquors.com/store/zen-cart-v1.3.8a-full-fileset-12112007/images/highland-park-18-year.jpg

My staple.

[Admiral8Q]

Beer is all I can handle these days, but I was into the rum. Too many black outs smartened me up!:oops:

Alexander Keith's is my favorite beer!
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/3559/99947218.png

[DarkFish]

BTW if anyone who posted about Hoegaarden in http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=160276 is reading, I did find some "Hoegaarden White" (at least that's what they call it here, apparently) for sale locally. Worth a try, or no?definitely:DL
The "White" postfix is because it's "witbier", which translates into "white beer".
White beer is a turbid, light-yellow type of beer, and ideal to enjoy on a hot day.
You shouldn't just pour it in your glass as that makes it too clear, which influences it's taste. Ideally, you should not be able to see more than let's say 1.5cm (half an inch) through it.
To get it turbid, first pour in about 3/4 of the bottle (preferrably without creating too much foam). Then shake the remaining quarter a bit, and pour it right in the middle of your glass to make it turbid and create the recommended 2 finger widths of foam:
http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/hoegaarden-glass-0609-lg.jpg

You might also want to try La Trappe Witte Trappist, another superb white beer, IMHO much better than Hoegaarden (and Hoegaarden is already really good), but much harder to find.
http://www.twinbeer.com/site_images/latrappewitte.jpg

[AVGWarhawk]

http://www.packaging-technology.com/projects/diageobottling/images/5-johnny-walker.jpg

:D:03:

[DarkFish]

Oh, forgot to mention that my student corporation's pub is likely the cheapest pub in all the Netherlands, at 42 cents a beer (12 beer (Bavaria pilsner) for €5,00 if you buy them separately):)
If you buy them all at once, you can get 14 beer for €5,00:DL
Or even 30 beer for €10,00:D

That while a regular pub in Eindhoven usually doesn't get any cheaper than €1,00 a beer, at least.

[Feuer Frei!]

http://www.andrewsvirtualbrewery.com/images/picks_stella.jpg http://www.lasplash.com/uploads/gift_guide/roundup_0000000000003295_image_01.jpg <<<<< this with a dash of Ginger Ale!

http://www.homeliquordelivery.com.au/images/9731.jpg

This would be my all-time fave, on a little ice! Been drinking it for years.

[TarJak]

http://www.murraysbrewingco.com.au/cmsAdmin/uploads/b_whlae.jpg

[antikristuseke]

If i had the money, this is what I wold drink
http://www.thegreenwellystop.co.uk/whiskyshop/images/uploads/caol-ila-20cl.jpg

[Jimbuna]

Nelsons Blood

http://www.drinksdirect.co.uk/acatalog/Woods_100_Navy_Rum_70cl.jpg

I'm currently enjoying this little beauty when on the ale

http://www.vintagemarque.com/media/g0568vm_spitfire_cropped_copy.jpg http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/5307/downed.jpg (http://img708.imageshack.us/i/downed.jpg/)

http://www.ladsarmy.co.uk/more_lads_links/spitfire_ads/Spitfire%2010.jpg

Don't mind a drop of what TarJak brought to the Texas SS Meet for me....a little pricey but it can be ordered from Edinburgh of all places :doh:

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/6820/bundabergrum.jpg (http://img707.imageshack.us/i/bundabergrum.jpg/)

And last but not least....the ever faithful Old Brown Dog

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/2884/drunkcob.gif

[frau kaleun]

http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/5307/downed.jpg (http://img708.imageshack.us/i/downed.jpg/)

:har:

That's awesome.

[ReallyDedPoet]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Sapporo_beer_canada.jpg/220px-Sapporo_beer_canada.jpg

[ETR3(SS)]

http://www.1-877-spirits.com/store/images/large/Jack-Daniels-Tennessee-Whiskey-lg.jpg.jpg

Can't go wrong with the Old No. 7. :up:

[KL-alfman]

when it comes to whisky:

http://www.scotchwhisky.net/images/bots/knockando.jpg


and for beer I stay local:

http://www.ottakringer.at/html/02_biere/img/helles.jpg

[frau kaleun]

definitely:DL
The "White" postfix is because it's "witbier", which translates into "white beer".
White beer is a turbid, light-yellow type of beer, and ideal to enjoy on a hot day.
You shouldn't just pour it in your glass as that makes it too clear, which influences it's taste. Ideally, you should not be able to see more than let's say 1.5cm (half an inch) through it.
To get it turbid, first pour in about 3/4 of the bottle (preferrably without creating too much foam). Then shake the remaining quarter a bit, and pour it right in the middle of your glass to make it turbid and create the recommended 2 finger widths of foam

Er... my standard operating procedure for beer is to take the cap off the bottle and start drinking. :O:

[Jimbuna]

http://www.1-877-spirits.com/store/images/large/Jack-Daniels-Tennessee-Whiskey-lg.jpg.jpg

Can't go wrong with the Old No. 7. :up:

My 21 year old loves the stuff yet I can only drink it's Irish cousin :doh:

Heaven only knows who raised the boy :hmmm:

[frau kaleun]

http://verydemotivational.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/129157547162765636.jpg

[ReallyDedPoet]

http://www.rans.ca/pictures/Moose%20Light%20logo2.smaller.jpg

One brewed here in the Maritimes.

http://www.virginislandsthisweek.com/images/captain-morgan.jpg

Always liked this stuff.

[Tchocky]

and for beer I stay local:

http://www.ottakringer.at/html/02_biere/img/helles.jpg
Dammit I miss Vienna

[DarkFish]

Er... my standard operating procedure for beer is to take the cap off the bottle and start drinking. :O:fie! how dare you!:O:
Glasses are much better than bottles. If you want to just relax and drink a good beer, you really need a glass. And if you want to drink fast and get drunk, you need a glass too because you simply can't drink fast from a bottle.
...So I guess if you don't want to get drunk AND you don't want to enjoy the taste of your beer, a bottle would be okay:hmmm:

Seriously now:O:, you shouldn't drink the better, more expensive beers from the bottle. If you really want to enjoy the taste you should take a glass (yes, you can taste the difference. Especially in the case of white beer)

[Takeda Shingen]

If i had the money, this is what I wold drink
http://www.thegreenwellystop.co.uk/whiskyshop/images/uploads/caol-ila-20cl.jpg

Oh, that stuff is good! Way too expensive to drink regularly, but very, very good.

http://blogs.wickedlocal.com/beernut/files/2008/12/weihenspehanweisse.jpg

My beer of choice. Great with a meal.

[Takeda Shingen]

fie! how dare you!:O:
Glasses are much better than bottles. If you want to just relax and drink a good beer, you really need a glass. And if you want to drink fast and get drunk, you need a glass too because you simply can't drink fast from a bottle.
...So I guess if you don't want to get drunk AND you don't want to enjoy the taste of your beer, a bottle would be okay:hmmm:

Seriously now:O:, you shouldn't drink the better, more expensive beers from the bottle. If you really want to enjoy the taste you should take a glass (yes, you can taste the difference. Especially in the case of white beer)

I could not agree more. Beer from a glass is the way to go.

[Tchocky]

DarkFish, do you take Hoegaarden with a slice of lemon? I can never make up my mind!

[KL-alfman]

http://blogs.wickedlocal.com/beernut/files/2008/12/weihenspehanweisse.jpg

My beer of choice. Great with a meal.



absolutely right! :up:

these Bavarian "Hefe-Weizenbier" is extraordinary tasty!
(I like the "Kronprinz Luitpold" especially; but it's hard to get it here ....)

[Torvald Von Mansee]

I don't drink, and I'm a vegetarian. Does that make me Hitler?

[DarkFish]

DarkFish, do you take Hoegaarden with a slice of lemon? I can never make up my mind!Personally, never. I never put anything in my beer:)
Besides, Hoegaarden has already got a slightly lemony taste, so I can't really see the added value.

But yeah, it's something done very often, and I know there are lots of people who like it a lot that way. Just a matter of taste I guess:)

[Sammi79]

I don't drink, and I'm a vegetarian. Does that make me Hitler?

That depends. Did you invade Poland? :stare:

Kudos to you though non-drinkers are rare in this world, and I've known too many alcoholics.

For me it's Woods 100 or Becks beer. or both.

(though to be honest I'm not fussy, cheap cider will do if that's all u got. :doh:)

[DarkFish]

[...] and I've known too many alcoholics.ahem:oops: I generally drink around 5 days a week, usually 3-6 pilsner a day, Thursday night 20-30:oops:

now where do you guys think the border between being an alcoholic and not lays?
IMO, as long as you drink with friends, for the fun of it or to really enjoy your beer, and can stay without alcohol for a while, you aren't an alcoholic no matter how much or how often you drink.
If, however, you drink on your own, to drink away your problems, and you can't live without alcohol, you are. Even though you may drink much less then someone who isn't an alcoholic.

I only drink with friends, and can easily stay without alcohol for 1 or 2 weeks (yes I actually do that once in a while), so using my own definition that would render me not alcoholic:yeah:


Ah, the good old student time:cool:
Something tells me that the moment I finish my study, all that partying and going out and drinking is gonna stop real soon:-?
Luckily it's gonna take some years before it is that far:D

[Sammi79]

now where do you guys think the border between being an alcoholic and not lays?


That's a good question, there are many different opinions on this matter and the doctors and scientists have yet to come to agreement on this, but for me, I would say that if you must have a drink everyday, however little then you are an alcoholic. (IMO)

And I drink on my own a lot when I drink because I find very few people here in Plymf that I actually enjoy drinking with :oops:

Also, Hey you're a student! you are meant to be having a good time with your friends, just watch out for that daily habit.

[Sledgehammer427]

I'm 19 and don't drink...there's already enough kids getting boozed up in this town underage (the pregnancy rate of our particular county shows it) I would prefer not to join that certain statistic.

However, I mix drinks (Manhattan up, anyone?) for my mom and I enjoy a glass or two of wine on holidays.

[Platapus]

now where do you guys think the border between being an alcoholic and not lays?


This is one of the problems with diagnosing alcoholism, there are no universal signs that can be measured.

One school of thought is to follow the criteria in the DSM IV, for other disorders, in that a person is an alcoholic when he or she

1. Their drinking causes social, legal, economic, or business problems (a disorder) and

2. The person recognizes that their drinking is the cause of this disorder, and

3. The person has tried to stop/control drinking and

4. Is unable to stop or control their drinking

However, this is a less than satisfactory criteria.

This problem with diagnosing alcoholism is one of the reasons some practitioners do not like characterizing alcoholism as a disease, but more along the lines as an addiction or in some cases a compulsion.

The problem is that alcoholism is all of these and more. There is much the medical and psychological world still needs to understand about alcoholism.

[DarkFish]

I'm 19 and don't drink...there's already enough kids getting boozed up in this town underage (the pregnancy rate of our particular county shows it) I would prefer not to join that certain statistic. I just find the right friends to drink with. All my friends are nice responsible people (even when drunk) who'll never get you into trouble. And who care for you and get you home, should something go really wrong.
(Oh yeah, you don't really have to worry about joining the pregnancy rate statistics, sledge:O:
...or did you get any transgender surgery I don`t know of:o)

However, I mix drinks (Manhattan up, anyone?) for my mom and I enjoy a glass or two of wine on holidays.Don't know why but mixes give me headaches. Gimme a mix and 3...2...1...POOF within 3 quarters my head is bursting.
I can drink strong drinks (whiskey, tequilla, etc.) with no problems, but mixes are a quite different story...

[Sledgehammer427]

(Oh yeah, you don't really have to worry about joining the pregnancy rate statistics, sledge:O:
...or did you get any transgender surgery I don`t know of:o)


I'm still a guy but I'm looking at it from the "I don't want to be screwed over buying diapers and toys and books and cars and all the other things that comprises being an american teenager for the next 18 years" side of the fence.

As for mixes...I'm not fond of them either (said Manhattan smells like gasoline and I fear it is just as bad when ingested)

[ETR3(SS)]

Wrap it before you tap it SH. Wise words to live by!

[DarkFish]

I'm still a guy but I'm looking at it from the "I don't want to be screwed over buying diapers and toys and books and cars and all the other things that comprises being an american teenager for the next 18 years" side of the fence. well drinking doesn't mean you have to f*ck every girl you see. As far as I'm concerned, alcohol and sex don't have very much to do with each other.
(okay, maybe you get a little more 'loose' and do things you normally wouldn't likely do, but I've never in my life done anything I really regretted when drunk. I can still think when I'm drunk, so generally I'll never do insensible/irresponsible things. If I had sex with a girl while I was drunk, it would be with a girl I would have sex with if I were sober)

[TarJak]

But for some the beer goggles make it hard to tell the difference:

http://maaadddog.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/beergoggles.jpg

[Feuer Frei!]

But for some the beer goggles make it hard to tell the difference:

http://maaadddog.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/beergoggles.jpg
Dam! I'd be getting a refund on those, the person with the cap on the left looks like a man with a padded bra :haha:

[Jimbuna]

Dam! I'd be getting a refund on those, the person with the cap on the left looks like a man with a padded bra :haha:

Obviously eye tested on TarJak then...to meet his requirements :rotfl2:

[Feuer Frei!]

Obviously eye tested on TarJak then...to meet his requirements :rotfl2:
Wait a minute!
A new pair of glasses for him, this should improve things considerably:

http://www.salamandersociety.com/toptens/joseph_smith_beer_goggles.jpg

Hmmm :hmmm: it would seem that that man is there again, with the same padded bra! :haha: Interesting.

[Takeda Shingen]

I don't drink, and I'm a vegetarian. Does that make me Hitler?

I am a vegetarian and I do drink. What does that make me?

[AVGWarhawk]

I am a vegetarian and I do drink. What does that make me?


A drunk broccoli :har: