I’m wondering how many of my fellow SOC friends like a little snort? I asked a Dr friend do they actually believe us when we tell them our daily consumption? He says it gives them a good idea once they double the answers Anyhow, what say you?
I say I'm a beer drinker but don't care for the hard stuff. I don't even like wine very much... gasp.
A couple of serious hangovers taught me a lesson about hard liquor early on. Even one drink just before bed and I feel off in the morning. Guess I can't handle much of it. If I'm at a party I'll drink to be sociable, but rarely alone. One shot on New Year's Eve, because I'm trying to get rid of a bottle of Old Crow I've had in the pantry for years, and I don't want to throw it away because I might need it some day.
Now and then I'll have a couple glasses of wine or a beer. Wine is expensive now so mostly its beer. I do have a shot of Crown every so often, like every couple month's.
I quit drinking in 1990. That being said...because I like to cook so much...I have fully stocked stocked beer/wine/liquor cabinet (I make a mean Drunken Papaya Rum Chicken, and sautéed fish in a Vermouth sauce.)
I like alcoholic beverages, but I know they're bad for me, so I mostly abstain. If I have one beer, or a glass of wine, every six months, that's it. I really like Mezcal, and have a designer bottle of very, very smooth stuff, but I smile at it, in my liquor cabinet, and that's all. Occasionally, maybe once every three months, I'll put a teaspoon of it in my baked beans. Oh baby!
I usually have a beer on my Thursday night out but it's no guarantee...I dod have an Old-fashioned a few weeks back when I treated a nice nd her mother to dinner..An old-fashioned is so old fashioned they didn't know that it has it's own glasss...Yjey served it in a wine glasss
No wonder you quit drinking,. I learned at an early age not to mess with that or too much vodka. Vodka will sneak up on you.
I'm surprised there are not more red wine drinkers posting here. I thought the stories of resveratrol being good for one's heart would have made Cabernet drinkers out of all of us.
Me too plus I prefer red to white. I don't care for any white wine never bought any. Although I've drank others white wine.
I would drink it, but I think it tastes nasty. My son-in-law is one of those beer, wine and coffee snobs; he gets on my nerves after a while with all the twirling and sniffing. The only wine I really like is made from Muscadine grapes because you can actually smell and taste those grapes in the wine. Takes me right back to childhood and my grandma's huge grape vine.
I worked with a woman whose retired husband took classes to be a sommelier...it's a popular thing here. There are over 200 wineries in the state, with a large number of them around me. The land is fertile and it's inexpensive. And with all the apple orchards there are in the state, there have been cider houses springing up as well. Some do their own pressing, while others outsource it and then bring the final product back to the orchard to sell. Wine experts are the same as food critics. Who listens to advice on something as subjective as taste?