OT: The booze you refuse

[Husky25]

Gin

That is all.

 

[uconnell]

Irish Mist

 

[uconnfan68]

Yukon Jack!

Yuke will make you puke. Wisdom from 45 years ago.

 

[Adios]

Been clean from drinking for 2 years. Temptations existed. You guys just made it easier to forget I ever drank.

 

[TRest]

Might have been with you playing 3 man (dice) in the jungle.

I can't remember the rules to most of the drinking games thank God. Just simple ones like quarters.

 

[UConnNick]

Yukon Jack!

No self-respecting Husky fan can dislike our namesake Jack from Canada!

Actually, it is pretty nasty...like Southern Comfort on steroids, but it makes for a good additional ingredient in a Long Island Ice Tea. The sweetness adds to the tea, and there's enough other alcohol in there you don't notice the YJ.

 

[Deepster]

Sad enough, short of the real deal moonshine from the woods, NO!

If you can hammer down Rebel Yell at a tailgate with Deepster you can pretty much stomach anything I'm afraid.

Amen, brother.

 

[storrsroars]

Aquavit. Tastes like grain alcohol filtered through a loaf of bad rye bread.

Have to agree on Southern Comfort and add blackberry brandy. Two things we drank as teens that are sickly sweet and an affront to my taste buds today. Jager and schnapps are tolerable, but I wouldn't seek them out.

Light beer. What's the point? And pumpkin beer.

 

[temery]

Does anyone have an alcoholic beverage they abhor? For me it's rum. It's not so much a taste thing as it is the thickness. It works like ipecac when I drink it. I'm vomiting long before I can even get buzzed.

Pretty much all alcohol at this point.

I never had a drink until i was close to 40. Rather than continue to give me sleeping pills, my doctor told me to have a glass of brandy before going to bed. I stopped at the liquor store on my way home, grabbed a water glass, and proceeded to drink a pint or more of 100 proof schnapps a day for two years.

funny think is, a pint of high test barely affected me. It did help me get to sleep. But drunk sleep isn't real sleep.

At this point I guess I was lucky. If I even look at a bottle I get sick. I can't even stomach niquil.

Note to all doctors: Don't tell a middle aged Irishman it's a good idea to take up drinking. To quote Leo McGarry (West Wing), "It's a family thing."

 

[Migs]

21st birthday in the dorm and I'm drinking everything. Because we're young and stupid someone breaks out a bottle of Godiva Liqueur for me to mix with Firewater, Goldschalger, Dr McGilicutty's, and who remembers what else. A plastic bag from Stop and Shop was attached to my ears to allow for massive puking, which would probably still be needed today if I tried drinking that crap.

 

[Excalibur]

I'm getting close to going the way of Tom, which will be difficult as I do like beer, wine, and particularly, scotch. Plus, there's nothing like a (good) gin and tonic on a hot day. But I'm drinking less and less, and my stomach reacts more and more poorly to all types of booze with each passing year.

As for what I could never drink -- after one particularly bad incident with a bottle of Hot D@mn when I was a freshman, I couldn't stomach anything cinnamon for about 10 years.

 

[Excalibur]

Johnie Walker. Non scotch drinkers think it's scotch but JW is the whiskey equivalent of moonshine, raw and not very tasty. Give me a Talisker any day.

It's reputation is more about who drinks it than how it tastes. I prefer Aberlour 16, but there is nothing wrong with sipping some Johnnie Walker Black for a good middle of the road flavor More here . . .

In general, "peat" has become the equivalent of hops in beer. There is a certain unsophisticated portion of the scotch drinking public that will trash anything that doesn't taste like an ashtray. If I do want a peaty scotch, I'll take Lagavulin over Talisker any day.

 

[IMind]

Jose Cuervo Gold (or Silver) but mainly the gold. I can drink high end tequilla in a mixed drink... but don't like it on it's own.. but just the smell of Cuervo gold is enough to make me feel ill.

 

[polycom]

Box wine

 

[Chin Diesel]

As many on here have already stated by the time you hit 30 old, bravado has gone by the wayside and you've learned how to decline booze you don't like. You know what you like and you know how to order with confidence.

For me, besides not touching gin, I don't drink tequila in mixed drinks but I'll do the occasional shot. Not a fan of Irish whisky, scotch whiskey, brandy or cognac.

I like middle of the road vodkas- Tito's or Absolut are fine.

American and Canadian whiskeys, bourbon, dark rum and spiced rum.

I think my liquor cabinet currently has Absolut, Sailor Jerry, Crown Royal, Bulleit Bourbon and Johnny Walker Red (for my dad when he visits).

That's plenty enough choices for a weekend cookout or short notice social at a house.

3-5 types of liquor and a few different mixers.

 

[KingOPancakes]

Schnapps. The first time I ever got drunk was freshman year of college. I drank almost an entire bottle of 99Apples, a sour apple flavored schnapps. Later that night my friends and I made a trip to a convenience store where I decided it would be the perfect place and time to try sushi for the first time. To this day I have no idea why the sushi was orange, but nevertheless "Sushi To Go" made its way back to my dorm. I spent the next 30 minutes telling everyone how great "Sushi Togo" was (my drunk self thought "Sushi To Go" was named after the small African country Togo and not, as I would later find out, a failed warning system trying to stop drunk idiots from buying pre-made sushi from a 24 hour gas station).

After 3 hours in the bathroom my roommates had to move my mattress off the top bunk and onto the floor for fear that even if I made it up to the bed, I'd either immediately roll off or vomit all over the poor guy asleep underneath me. You really find out who your true friends are a week into college when they spend their entire friday night helping you not die. Nevertheless, over a decade later and I've never had Schnapps again. I've never had anything green apple flavored again. Oddly enough, I love sushi.

 

[Rico444]

Ever have a Screaming Nazi Rico?

1/3 jaeger, 1/3 rumplemintz, 1/3 goldschlager....chill it

Hammer time

I think I'll pass, thanks

 

[IMind]

Schnapps. The first time I ever got drunk was freshman year of college. ... Nevertheless, over a decade later and I've never had Schnapps again. I've never had anything green apple flavored again. Oddly enough, I love sushi.

I have a similar story... in which I decided that a bottle of cheap brandy and a bottle of Drambuie and day old Sushi were perfect complements.

 

[UCweCONN]

Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer.

 

[UConnKev]

Only hard liquor I truly enjoy is Tequila but I'm talking the good stuff like Clase Azul, Don Julio 1942, and etc.

Everything else I pass on.

 

[Lefty2one]

Beer. Once I hit my 30s it stopped agreeing with me, whether it's trashy piss light beer or some snobby microbrew. I get weird headaches and jaw pain after only 1-2 beers. My dentist chalked it up to an allergy but who knows.

Mainly a single malt scotch man (Islay region) and occasionally have red wine. Kinda baffles me that my body can handle campfire-in-a-bottle like Laphroaig but can't handle two beers.

 

[UConnStats]

College tip learned in the north campus jungle: Never funnel Old Crow (let alone drink it).

 

[UConNick]

Can't believe no one has brought up Dubra. (Altho maybe it's a younger generation thing)

$10 for a 1.75 gets you exactly what you'd expect: rubbing alcohol restaurants use to clean their tables. Once killed about two water bottles of it at Carriage my freshman year, and ended up puking in the woods 5 times, getting poison ivy so bad I had to go to the ER, and sleeping on a couch in a random apartment. Now I can't smell the stuff without gagging. It's also more or less ruined all vodka for me, which hurts a lot with Eastern European family members.

 

[Drumguy]

It's reputation is more about who drinks it than how it tastes. I prefer Aberlour 16, but there is nothing wrong with sipping some Johnnie Walker Black for a good middle of the road flavor More here . . .

In general, "peat" has become the equivalent of hops in beer. There is a certain unsophisticated portion of the scotch drinking public that will trash anything that doesn't taste like an ashtray. If I do want a peaty scotch, I'll take Lagavulin over Talisker any day.

And I'd go for laphroaig - I have a bottle of 10 open and an 18 in waiting. My point is Dewers, Chivas and many other blends are sooo much better that Walker. I really think the whole line is over hyped and not very tasty.

 

[Bezzz]

I remember an Onion sarcastic comedy piece once complained that there were too many Nobel Prize categories...but here's a few more we'd like to see. One was "Most Schnapps Vomited".
So yeah, most of us have been there.

 

[Northbound]

I wish I could at least have an appreciation of Scotch, but goodness I can't and I had someone give me a Macallan 18, but it tastes pretty horrible. I'm a big fan of bourbon and actually have well over 100 different bottles in the house and 4 supposedly really good bottles of scotch - any scotch drinkers have any tips about gaining an appreciation of it? I've had it neat, perhaps a single cube to open it a bit or with some type of food, I'm opening to suggestions because I can't sell them on the secondary because I opened them to try them so now I'm stuck with them.

 

[James]

Also everybody should be passing on Fireball, pretty sure it has components of antifreeze in it.

 

[Hankster]

Southern Comfort myself. Let me see if I can remember. Age 16, Crosby High School, winter, I think it was New Years. Me, I drank a pint of Southern with two Bud pounders. I think it was Bud. My girlfriend said I called her up from a in store phone booth and dropped the phone and left. Evidently I walked home. About a mile close to a busy East Main Street. My brother said Everyone heard the garage door go up, then down, up and down. My mother opened up the back door from the kitchen and let out a screech. LOL My Brother said, there I was, pants unbuttoned only my belt holding them up with vomit designs over my pant legs. Needless to say I lost my license for a month. Ended up two of my buds landed in the hospital and got their stomach pumped. We did this party sitting on grave stones. Anyway, still up to this day, 60'ish, you put a Southern Comfort cap to my nose, it's over, lunch everywhere.

 

[CTBasketball]

Gin.

Drank it once my Frosh year of HS on homecoming weekend.

My parents went to visit one of my sisters at Fairfield U.

I had another sister who as a Soph and she acquired some gin.

I drank way too much on the way to the dance. Made it to the gym. Walked up to the top of the stands. Sat down and rolled down to the floor. Stood up, threw up on a Senior. Walked past all the chaperones and walked 2.5 miles home.

Woke up the next morning in a pool of vomit in my bed. Parents found me there mid-afternoon.

My "punishment " was cleaning my sheets and living with the hangover.

The smell of gin 25+ years later still makes me nauseous.

Ah I'm a Fairfield U Alum. Nice.

But for me, I can drink anything but jager. Cannot stand the smell or taste.

 

[Tommyboy]

Can't believe no one has brought up Dubra. (Altho maybe it's a younger generation thing)

$10 for a 1.75 gets you exactly what you'd expect: rubbing alcohol restaurants use to clean their tables. Once killed about two water bottles of it at Carriage my freshman year, and ended up puking in the woods 5 times, getting poison ivy so bad I had to go to the ER, and sleeping on a couch in a random apartment. Now I can't smell the stuff without gagging. It's also more or less ruined all vodka for me, which hurts a lot with Eastern European family members.

I remember something similar. Rikaloff Vodka. 9.99 for 1.75. We used to joke that "Rikaloff" was Russian for "rocket fuel".