I'm dry, bro'.  I had a drink problem before leaving school and now avoid it like the plague.

The Mojito has been big with me, down here, this Summer, so far.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojito

I like 'em with bite. Sugar light.

Ah, mentioning alcohol brings FNB himself to the sub-forum....

I'm very boring: if it's a pub, I just drink beer, all the time (bitter or Pils usually), in a nightclub just water or orange juice (without alcohol), I can't stand people with beer bottles and ciggies on the dancefloor, and in a restaurant it's a nice wine (white or red depending on the food)...

.....real "drinks" only occasionally! I like Scotch, but I don't say no to a Bourbon once in a while, when I'm with my father, I might drink a Cognac or a Calvados, in my favourite bar they always wanna give me what I had christened a "wet clit"... it's simply vodka and soda, half and half, with an optional slice of lime.... usually Polish vodka (Grasovka?)...

I grew up in a 'macho' environment: we were getting served at 13.  I got into more fights at 15 than I care to remember.  I would just as soon wear a Burberry baseball cap as venture into a pub filled with overexcited male drinkers.  Cafe culture is much more my thing these days.  Not necessarily Italian places - sausage, chips and thick toast joints, too.  My daughter, who is 21, has a similar aversion to alcohol.  Her fiancee has never touched a drop.  I like the idea that the Italians have no word in their language for 'hangover'.  It must sound puritanical, but the memories of blood and puke have never left me.

It's summer, so during the day it's a Gin and Tonic.  After dark, bourbon.  Neat (currently working on a bottle of Four Roses single).  Out and about, I'll order a Manhattan.

Ales in proper pubs (often in a backstreet or off the beaten track).

I have given up wine. I know the various tastes but found I was not getting that much pleasure from wine. Buying it by the case was silly. It helps moderate my alcohol intake as well.

I used to drink whisky, port,  sherry in the Winter but I am cutting down on that as well.

Beer is the complete antidote to fashion.

The Great British Beer Festival is currently on at Earls Court - http://gbbf.camra.org.uk/home  . It will be stewarded by enormous bearded men in orange tee shirts. Some of them will have pewter tankards hanging from their belts like gunslingers in the Wild West. It would be a great place to take a five year old. You could tell them 'This is what will happen to you if you get too fond of beer!'

Anyway, I was in the pub last night (till one in the morning). We decided we would not go to Earls Court. I was bored with it. Furthermore it was £10 on the door to get in, plus £3 for a glass to drink out of, plus £2 for a programme. £15 plus fares before a drop has even touched your lips.

Last edited by Kingstonian (2009-08-06 07:23:30)

Laophroaig this evening, no ice or water (like the fella in 'The Quiet Man' says:

"When I drink whiskey, I drink whiskey. When I drink water, I drink water."


OR

Vodka martini with a lemon twist. A few of those and I'm under the barmaid. In fact, I remember dragging a barmaid out from behind the bar for a dance once in my younger days...Ah, youth.

Last edited by 1966 (2009-08-06 13:56:00)