The Gaming Den

ubernoob wrote:Yeah, it's dirt cheap. It's also undrinkable. If you're so poor that you have to drink Keystone, you might as well get a fvcking job.

Well, you're welcome to take on my student loans or rant at Chancellor Nordberg's decision that none of the staff in the entire university gets a raise this year (despite tuition increases continuing to outstrip inflation).

But you are really just so busy being a beer snob that you are not getting the context of the post where I brought it up: Keystone Ice is the beer I buy when I need to bring a cheap case to a party. As in: I need to bring something to the party, but I do not know or like the event/host/guests enough to want to spend more than the minimum. As in: the other options are Beast, Genny or yet more PBR.

My drinks of choice? Newcastle, Guinness, and Negro Modelo when drinking beer, Gin & Tonic and Tom Collins when I'm drinking cocktails (made with Bombay Blue Sapphire Gin), and Choya Plum Wine when I'm at the sushi restaurant.

So how easy is it to import tasty Czech booze, anyways?

Josh_Kablack wrote:

ubernoob wrote:Yeah, it's dirt cheap. It's also undrinkable. If you're so poor that you have to drink Keystone, you might as well get a fvcking job.

Well, you're welcome to take on my student loans or rant at Chancellor Nordberg's decision that none of the staff in the entire university gets a raise this year (despite tuition increases continuing to outstrip inflation).

But you are really just so busy being a beer snob that you are not getting the context of the post where I brought it up: Keystone Ice is the beer I buy when I need to bring a cheap case to a party. As in: I need to bring something to the party, but I do not know or like the event/host/guests enough to want to spend more than the minimum. As in: the other options are Beast, Genny or yet more PBR.

I was trying (and failing) to make my poor control over my gag reflex funny. Sorry for the confusion. I wasn't disagreeing that it's cheap. I just find the stuff incredibly hard to drink. I HAVE brought a thirty of the stuff to a party because they were short booze. I just didn't actually drink any of it.

My spouse has a funny story about how the gay bar in Tulsa, OK has Keystone Light on tap.

-Crissa

Not alcoholic either. During the last eleven days I have had only 136 beers (0,33 litres a piece). This is the style I've had for a few months.

I came up with a new drink earlier this week, I made a micky of it last night and shared with my sister. She agreed that it was good.

I call it the Snowbird:

the proportions are more... "by eye" than anything else, but the ingredients are:

3% Milk
Bacardi Gold (I guess any spiced rum, or rum will do, I`m sure that other stuff would work too)
Organic Maple Syrup

A Snowbird if the word we use in Canada for people that leave for Florida, or the warmer parts of the world in the winter.

It fits the drink since I'm mixing a pretty Canadian thing (Maple Syrup, although I know that you can probably get it in the states), a drink from somewhere hot (Rum is more equatorial); and well... it's a white, creamy looking, drink.

Oh, and serving it ice-cold is freaking awesome.

I'm going to try it with half and half on the weekend, I might crack open that months old mickey of southern comfort that I've got.

Hmm, I may give this a shot. I happen to have pretty much the ingredients on hand.

I suppose you could just replace the maple syrup with canadian whisky, which tastes like maple.

Also, a kid was drinking a drink like that at my sister's neighbor's graduation party on saturday...

-Crissa

Maj wrote:

Catharz wrote:Is everyone (with the exception of Fuchs) alcoholic?

Nope.
I like the occasional beer - Asahi dry is one of my favorites - and I like dry wines, preferably white. I fell in love with a Chianti that some friends brought back from Italy a while back, but that was a rare and precious thing. I also really love Sheridan's, but to the best of my knowledge, you can't buy it casually around here.

Wanna run away together? We can bring the kids? Sure bring the spouses? Well that defeats the purpose of running away doesn't it? damn....

I will admit, with shame, that back when I was a weeaboo I drank Asahi just because it was Japanese. Sake, on the other hand, isn't bad (when fresh), and Plum Wine is delicious. It's the kind of thing you could drink just for the flavour. This is coming from someone who dislikes most wine.

WTF is wrong with Asahi dry?

My brother invented a drink called 99 Turkeys.

It's half wild turkey and half 99 bananas. It's even fouler than it sounds.

A Cynic wrote:Wanna run away together? We can bring the kids? Sure bring the spouses? Well that defeats the purpose of running away doesn't it? damn....

A Cynic wrote:WTF is wrong with Asahi dry?

For my brother's 21st birthday, I went and bought him a whole bunch of different kinds of beer from all over the country and world. My hope was that he'd give them a try and pick out his favorite. Instead, I ended up buying a whole second batch of beer for me to try because he decided he was going to put the unopened bottles on display.

Asahi dry was my fave.

Nothing specifically, I just can't stand beer of any kind. The closest I can manage is stout (specifically, Guinness), which is like vegemite in liquid form. So I have no qualms with Asahi as a beer, it's just... it's a beer.

guiness isn't vegemite it's liquid bread!

I like the first slogan created for it:

Guinness: it makes you drunk.

Seth Green's Robot Chicken did a show about Ireland being the land of awesome science until they found beer. suddenly you see half hidden sign guinness in the background and everything else lying in ruins.

A_Cynic wrote:Seth Green's Robot Chicken did a show about Ireland being the land of awesome science until they found beer. suddenly you see half hidden sign guinness in the background and everything else lying in ruins.

Really, cause Family Guy did pretty much that exact same joke.

shau wrote:

A_Cynic wrote:Seth Green's Robot Chicken did a show about Ireland being the land of awesome science until they found beer. suddenly you see half hidden sign guinness in the background and everything else lying in ruins.

Really, cause Family Guy did pretty much that exact same joke.

I'm probably thinking of Family Guy then. Seth MacFarland does Family Guy, and Green does Chicken. In retrospect, that sort of show is more Family guy or simpsons' joke than Robot chicken because it plays out too smooth.

Yeah, Family Guy did that joke.

Pretty new to drinking, don't like the taste of beer but am too poor/young to get the high-tier stuff yet. I like bitch drinks, Whisky and Ginger Ale, and (oddly enough) tequila though.