Best alcohols-thread 2006

[Golden AWe]

Now that the doctors have ordered me to stop drinking (doesn't go too well with the epilepsy meds I take, my blood/liver results had tripled since last February thanks to the meds and the wild summer), I still would like to think about all the best booze around the world...

Feel free to talk about drinks/mixes too, but especially all the best LIQUOR...

Anyone fan of ABSINTH?

[Coyote]

Absinth is "time-travel" liqour...

Whiskey & Vodka too, but they work for me.

[bastardog]

Bacardi......Puertorrican cheap rum

[bastardog]

Jack Daniels do grate hangovers.....

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by Golden AWe
Now that the doctors have ordered me to stop drinking (doesn't go too well with the epilepsy meds I take, my blood/liver results had tripled since last February thanks to the meds and the wild summer), I still would like to think about all the best booze around the world...

Feel free to talk about drinks/mixes too, but especially all the best LIQUOR...

Anyone fan of ABSINTH?

Gee! The one from Pontarlier (Doubs/Jura , France)...
I know that area by heart, really. It's right at the east of France, along the Swiss border (it's about 300 km north from where I live). It's a very nice area, and Pontarlier is a small fortified city, the "biggest" around. Nothing much to do there, safe beating the mountains, meet amazing villagers and bang their pretty daughters. :D

But as far as absinthe, one of my friend brought some back from the Czech Republic last year and again this summer, and it's said to still be the same that was forbidden decades and decades ago, the one that Baudelaire drank like mad, for example. It was said that it drove drinkers mad, but it rather was the laudanum that you added that did. It's got an aniséed taste, which I personally can't stand, you know, like "Pastis" (from Marseille ) or "Ricard". Either the inoffensive one from Pontarlier or the Czech one have that aniseed flavor.

The area around Pontarlier has the reputation to be "the land of Kirsch", the cherry liquor. Every old villager has his ancestral wooden barrels with the cherries soaking, and on the mountain sides, in the valleys, in the gardens, everywhere it's covered with cherry trees.
They also do "Guignolet Kirsch", which is soft (15 or 16%). Girls like Guignolet in particular. Maybe they think that will give you ideas, just as if they had to help you have ideas... :D

Generally speaking, beyond wine, France is also the land of liquors. OK, there's Cognac (grapes liquor), Cointreau (orange liquor) Grand Margnier (orange liquor + Cognac), Armagnac (wine spirit), Benedictine, Calvados (from cider distllation), Chartreuse, and generally speaking, "white" alcohols from all the fruit you can find in France, and there are many, made all over the country, a fair part being home-made... But...*
*Let's not forget that part of the West Indies are part of France, like Martinique, Guadeloupe. Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean, is French too. So, you can say that RUM is French too!

Yes, BUT... I'll promote my original region, the North of France here...
I know there's a Dutch alcohol that's called genever, which already makes gin a little dull insipid.
In the North of France, not far from Lille (the biggest city "up" there), they produce GENIEVRE. There are several sorts, but I firmly recommend the one from LOOS (I used to be a teacher there when I started my career ), and then, the absolute best, the one from HOULLE, that makes every gin drinker a fag. :D

As far as I'm concerned, "white" (fruit) liquors will always make it best, but there are very few liquors in general that I don't like.

Though I dig whisky a damn lot myself, I can't resist to quote my fave humorist here, Pierre Desproges, who wrote in his "Unnecessary Dictionary": "Whisky is the cunt's Cognac". :D

[binnie]

In thoery, I haven't been able to drink for eleven months now due to medication.


However, that hasn't stopped me.

Jack Daniels, all the way.

Followed by Southern Comfort, if I want to gve my throat a rest for a day.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Here's the stoneware of Loos's "genievre"... Very typical.



Thje one from Houlle:



And, well, my fave: Calvados, from Normandy... Nothing can beat this IMO:

[rustoffa]

Top-shelf corn liquor. The term "moonshine" covers alot of scortched territory, but if you have access to good-to-grate corn liquor? You'll be happy...extremely happy. No hangover....if there's a rope swing over a body of water nearby, that's fucking Nirvana!!

[Dan]

Originally posted by Golden AWe
Now that the doctors have ordered me to stop drinking (doesn't go too well with the epilepsy meds I take, my blood/liver results had tripled since last February thanks to the meds and the wild summer), I still would like to think about all the best booze around the world...

Feel free to talk about drinks/mixes too, but especially all the best LIQUOR...

Anyone fan of ABSINTH?

G.A,you look like Merv Hughes.:D

[ace diamond]

Originally posted by Golden AWe
Now that the doctors have ordered me to stop drinking (doesn't go too well with the epilepsy meds I take, my blood/liver results had tripled since last February thanks to the meds and the wild summer), I still would like to think about all the best booze around the world...

Feel free to talk about drinks/mixes too, but especially all the best LIQUOR...

Anyone fan of ABSINTH?

had the very illegal kind when i was over in munchen(munich)
deutcheland(germany) 2 years ago.

[kentuckyklira]

Re: Best alcohols-thread 2006

Originally posted by Golden AWe
Now that the doctors have ordered me to stop drinking (doesn't go too well with the epilepsy meds I take, my blood/liver results had tripled since last February thanks to the meds and the wild summer), I still would like to think about all the best booze around the world...

Feel free to talk about drinks/mixes too, but especially all the best LIQUOR...

Anyone fan of ABSINTH?

I love absinthe!

Tunel Black Absinthe. 160 proof. Best absinthe ever!

[franksters]

I had it in england, and it was a wild night...

[blonddgirl777]

"Jose Cuervo 1800"
Or any other Cuervo Gold...

HhMmm...... The things that dear Jose can make me do!...

Followed by a Cuervo Margarita, on the rocks (no salt)...
Cheers!

[Panamark]

GA, man that must suck ! Im on similar meds, I hope
they never tell me that....
I tend to stick to light-mid beers these days, hopefully
that is a little more gentle on the old liverski.....

[Golden AWe]

Originally posted by Panamark
GA, man that must suck ! Im on similar meds, I hope
they never tell me that....
I tend to stick to light-mid beers these days, hopefully
that is a little more gentle on the old liverski.....

Yup!

As a matter of fact, the meds are not totally dangerous with alcohol, but the use of alcohol increases the possibility of a attack and that's very dangerous if I'm driving a car...

Gotta find some proper ganja then :D

I took only small amounts last winter, and only drank beer and cider, but this summer, the festivals etc. made me have vodka and the amounts increased too...but I'll survive! I can make bad jokes when I'm sober too...ahahahah

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