gin and tonic – safe, easy to make (doesn’t piss off the bartender), and isn’t sickly sweet
Bartender expects 25% tip on an overpriced drink they can make you whatever the fuck your want and shouldn’t bitch
This is mine
Beer. I’m boring.
And also I don’t want to get wasted, so something long with low alcohol does it for me.
Same. I’ll very occasionally do an Old Fashioned, Manhattan, or Mojito, but usually just an ale or lager
I usually stick to beer, but I love a fruity wheat beer.
Soda water. Because getting drunk isn’t on my agenda. But it fits the vibe and people think your having a vodka tonic or something
Pro tip- you can get soda water with lime for the same price in most bars. Still looks like a g&t but with that vitamin C.
My go to alcohol impersonater is a non alcoholic beer. Gonna have to try your method though. Cheers 🥂
A gimlet, an old fashioned cocktail that a lot of bartenders have never even heard of before. Its a fun litmus test of the knowledge and skill of the bartender, and really tasty and refreshing if made right.
Its just gin and lime syrup, about a 2 or 3 to 1 ratio, shaken with with lots of ice and served neat.
Hail my gimlet brother! I’ve gotten back into these in a major way over the last couple of years for the exact same reasons.
Isn’t this more of a litmus test of whether or not they have lime cordial in stock?
You can make it to order with just lime juice and sugar. Never had a complaint.
I think its pretty standard stock in a bar, I’ve never had someone not have it. There are other drinks with lime flavor too.
Old Fashioned, Whisky Sour, Gin and Tonic.
Or beer. Then usually wheat beer if they have it.
But I so rarely drink that’s literally once a year maybe.
Kamikaze, because somehow I almost always get it made differently (usually completely wrong). It’s comedic at this point watching a drink that simple turn out that weird. I’ve seen over a dozen variations, with the inclusion of muddled cherries being the weirdest.
I asked for a scotch “neat” and the waitress brought it to the table and said “I put ice in it, just in case”
Diplomatico or Plantation rum neat. As to why, I just like it.
Diplomatico is so good!
I prefer Plantation XO myself, diplomatico is really nice, but it is my second choice.
I don’t drink much because I get red easily, so I don’t know a lot about drinks. What I do is ask the bartender to make me a fruity drink with half the alcohol (usually vodka), then nurse that drink as long as I can. It’s nice because I get a different kind of drink every time.
Water because I’m a raging alcoholic
Water because anything else is too damn expensive
That too, I can’t believe some of my friends bar tabs. Who drops a couple hundred bucks a night in this economy? Many people, that’s who.
Sour cherry juice probably the most feequent. Though if there’s food, I’ll probably pick the food option.
As for why, well, I don’t really go the bars for the drinks, but instead for the company, to talk with my friends and have fun. I buy a drink or food as “entrance fee” and I use the calories to keep me from starving. If there’s any fancy non-alcoholic/non-caffeinated drink (or food) I may pick it as a change. I also dislike alcohol and its culture which society tries to push so hard to everyone (especially younger people), thus it’s my way of acting agaist this. For me it doesnt taste well, it’s literary cancerous poison that helps mask social anxiety without solving the issue, only extending it and there are companies making huge profits by harming so many people out there. It’s sad. I want to be the one having fun, not alcohol. (Btw I’m not in favor of banning alcohol, this may only cause more issues. A proper approach would probably be to teach people for the issues and (possibly the hardest part) to have a better society without so many struggles which tend to push people to drink alcohol.)
(I recently found out that there is a “straight edge” community inside punk community and I seem to kinda align with them :) (I’m not talking about the hardline community, I think this may not even be considered punk).)
Lol, I don’t know if you expected a text-wall when asking this, but well, there you are.😅
Thanks for replying! In my city of Long Beach, California there is a non-alcoholic “bar” that opened up. They have a whole menu of mocktails and it’s really a cool concept for those that don’t drink alcohol.
Pint of cider
Happy cake day, fellow cider enjoyer!
If it’s a brewpub or similar, I tend to go for darker beers. And since the “All Craft Beers Are IPAs Now Act Of 2018” was signed into law I have just stopped going to brewpubs entirely.
If you’re going to open a bottle or can for me it’s probably going to be cider, though I notice the ciders that bars tend to stock are trending in an acidic and heartburn inducing direction so I don’t walk in there as often anymore.
I’ll order a neat bourbon unless it’s hot/I’ve been working hard then I’ll order a whiskey and coke.
Depends. At a meh bar with bar food, probably an IPA. Mexican place with Mexican food, probably margarita or tequila sunrise. At a cocktail bar, I’ll pick a signature cocktail, probably one with a whiskey of some kind. If it looks like they know what they’re doing but they focus on botanical type stuff (which I don’t really like), then I’ll usually go for something like an old fashioned or a Manhattan, and if it’s not too busy I might request it with the bartender’s choice of unique flair on it. Or I might order a carajillo if they have an interesting one on the menu and if I see an espresso machine.
Either the “girliest” drink they have, or (more likely) a soft drink. I’m intrigued by cocktails and want to like them, but I never acquired a taste for alcohol.
In 2003, The Onion had an “article” with no text that was just the headline “Taste Acquired” and a picture of empty beer cans.
If you want to get into cocktails, I can think of a couple ways in.
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White Russians. Pleasant sipping cocktail if a little heavy because of the cream.
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Crown and coke. Crown Royal is technically a whiskey. Many of its fans don’t identify it as such, and neither do many whiskey fans. A shot of crown stirred into a glass of cola will present as a glass of cola with a little bit of an interesting flavor added. From there you can graduate to bourbon and coke, Jim Beam or Jack Daniels are common enough and pair well with cola. If you survive this long, maybe try this experiment: order a whiskey and cola, and then a rum and cola, find the differences in those flavors.
If you’re up to those shenanigans, maybe try going to a bar on a Tuesday afternoon when it’s a little slower, talk to the bartender tell them you’re wanting to explore cocktails and see if they’ll mix you smaller portions of a couple drinks like that, so you can test A and B. You would be amazed what that can do to open up your palette. If I handed you one glass of neat scotch, it might as well be a goblet of gasoline. If I hand you two glasses of different whiskies you’ll find some flavor in there.
It might be weird, since I’ve never seen it recommended as a “beginner” thing, but the spirit I come closest to liking (aside from overtly sweet liquors like Kahlua and Midori) is actually gin.
As for a White Russian, I’m more inclined to just mix Kahlua and milk and skip the vodka entirely, LOL.
I do happen to have some spirits at home, including some Montego Bay light rum and some “Red Stag by Jim Beam honey tea bourbon.” I had some of each with (store-brand) coke to refresh my memory, and yep, I can confirm that I don’t care for either. The rum and coke was worse than the honey tea bourbon and coke, though: I was able to at least get through the latter, whereas I had to resort to diluting the rum and coke with extra coke.
Wanna really know how terrible I am at liking the kind of drinks people are “supposed to” like (as opposed to the ones folks are “supposed to” find way too cloyingly sweet)? I tried making a “triple sec and coke” and actually kinda like that one!
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