RHJunior wrote:Look. I've tasted medicine. I've tasted bugs that flew in my mouth. I've tasted soap. I've tasted my own earwax. I've tasted my own vomit. <I>I have never tasted anything as awful, as nasty, as HORRIBLE as that single sip of beer.</i> It was so awful I literally couldn't spit; I had to run to the toilet and just sort of let it -- fall-- out of my mouth. Ebbleaupgh.
I'm with you, Ralph. I've yet to find an alcoholic beverage I actually liked, although there's a few I can tolerate for special occasions. And I can't abide the thought of being inebriated.
Beer and coffee have an identical problem for me -- they both taste burnt. Oddly, I tend to enjoy some teas. (And I drink iced tea year round. So much that I switched to decaf.)
The JAM wrote:About two years ago the family tried to be a bit formal in our Christmas celebration and bought some IMPORTED cider. And all I can say is that it tasted like spoiled apple juice, ugh.
That's just about what hard cider (or really any fermented juice) is. Alcohol or vinegar. Or both.
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Besides it was a lot more fun to watch the morons I went to college with get drunk, a lot easier to mess with their heads.
Yes, sir. I agree completely. It takes a well-balanced individual... such as yourself to rule the world. No, sir. No one knows that you were the third one... Solidus. ...What should I do about the woman? Yes sir. I'll keep her under surveillance. Yes. Thank you. Good-bye...... Mr. President.
Beer and coffee have an identical problem for me -- they both taste burnt.
You don't....like....coffee?!?! I hate you now.
Heh. Actually, I never met so many people that didn't like coffee until I went to college.
Anybody else see the irony in that?
I hate the stuff as well, never touched it of booze in college.
Yes, sir. I agree completely. It takes a well-balanced individual... such as yourself to rule the world. No, sir. No one knows that you were the third one... Solidus. ...What should I do about the woman? Yes sir. I'll keep her under surveillance. Yes. Thank you. Good-bye...... Mr. President.
Narnian wrote:Got drunk once. Back in college - free beer. Fell UP the steps, busted my bladder, pissed blood, threw up on my typewriter, passed out.
When I got out of the hospital 3 days later I figured it was a bad idea to ever get drunk again.
Damnnnnnnnnnnn. Well glad you learned your lesson.
Yes, sir. I agree completely. It takes a well-balanced individual... such as yourself to rule the world. No, sir. No one knows that you were the third one... Solidus. ...What should I do about the woman? Yes sir. I'll keep her under surveillance. Yes. Thank you. Good-bye...... Mr. President.
I've enjoyed coffee since I was a kid, but recently I've mosly avoided it. Guess it makes me nervous or something, he he. But I wouldn't turn down a cup or two if it was made CORRECTLY, or formally. So far the best coffee I've had is the Mexican ORO brand.
Tomorrow I will tell you a tale of drunk college housemates.
Yes, sir. I agree completely. It takes a well-balanced individual... such as yourself to rule the world. No, sir. No one knows that you were the third one... Solidus. ...What should I do about the woman? Yes sir. I'll keep her under surveillance. Yes. Thank you. Good-bye...... Mr. President.
I enjoy a good dark beer, good brandy or single-malt scotch, occasionally and very much in moderation. Can't stand coffee at all. It's just what your taste buds like, I guess.
OTOH, I didn't drink at all until after college - cheap American beer is not worth the money. And I did much better at poker by not drinking during my college years....
I have my own particular tastes in ale. I buy mail-order ingredient kits, boil 'em up and brew 'em.
It takes one or two months to brew a five-gallon batch (approximately 48 12oz bottles) of a decent brown ale or a porter. Bottle-conditioning for several more weeks or months removes that nasty back-of-the-throat sourness commercial beers tend to have, and then I give most of it away to friends and family - and drink an occasional bottle myself.
I've only got four bottles left, which are about eight months old now. I had five, but was curious and drank one to see if the long conditioning had changed it. This stuff is so good I'll have to give it away just so people will think I'm a better brewer than I really am.
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A Cappio, or a bottle of starbuck's chilled mocha cappuccino.... that's gooooood.
I don't drink coffee myself, generally, but even I know a few rarely-told secrets of the bean.
Secrets of coffee #1:
Forget all that stuff about fancy machines or adding a pinch of salt to the brew or rubbish like that.
There is only one real trick to getting really good coffee. Stop the drip coffeemaker when it's about 2/3 done. After that point is when it starts getting the bitter oils out of the beans that give bad coffee it's classic bitter flavor. Stop the brew a little bit EARLY, you avoid that.
Secrets of Coffee #2:
Starbuck's "gourmet flavored coffee" is an even bigger ripoff than you know. You see, they use the leftover, <I>sub-standard beans</i> from their roastings--- beans that weren't quite the right size or weren't quite roasted well enough--- in those flavored mixes, to cover up the inferior taste. You're better off, both price wise and TASTE wise, just buying some Maxwell House and adding your own flavors.
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I will most definitely have to try no. 1 when I get up in...oh wait. Two hours. Durnit. Guess that's even more of an excuse, then.
As for no. 2...I honestly don't see the appeal of Starbucks as opposed to a good cup of nice, normal Maxwell House coffee anyway. Sure I enjoy their specialty drinks, and I was much saddened when my campus snack shop stopped carrying their Frappuchinos, but when it comes to my morning coffee, give me a well-brewed cup (or two, or three) of generic brand stuff--black, of course--and I'm golden. Heck, my school cafeteria carries good coffee.
Alton Brown had a good episode about how to make perfect coffee. Wish I could find that one again. In it he said there is one perfect strength to make it (just before starts to turn the corner on extracting the bitter oils) and if you don't like it that strong, cut it with water.
As for beer, I like most kinds except American light. One time I stayed with someone who didn't have anything else. My reaction: "It reminds me of water". Last month I went to a beer festival and got to sample a lot of excellent beers. It was one of those times I wish it didn't have alcohol so I could sample more of them.
To me it tastes like sour mineral water. Not a big fan of it. I work at a beverage magazine, so I run into this a few things.
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I am immune to caffeine, that's why i don't even bother drinking the swill called coffee, maybe I am really a mutant. To heck with Xavier, this mutants gonna go on a rampage with his immunity from caffeine powers. .
Yes, sir. I agree completely. It takes a well-balanced individual... such as yourself to rule the world. No, sir. No one knows that you were the third one... Solidus. ...What should I do about the woman? Yes sir. I'll keep her under surveillance. Yes. Thank you. Good-bye...... Mr. President.
my middle frother once got invited to drive around all the seniors in high school home after the after prom (the time when they would all be so drunk they would need someone to drive them home)
a friend of ours said it was a good idea and that he could go around the block every five minutes and say he needed gas money and then go to the pump and put like $0.03 in the tank and pocket the rest then keep doing it until they are all out of money and then drop them off one at a time within an eighth mile of the sherif's office and just let them walk themselves into trouble, it wasn't like any of them would remember what happened the next morning anyway...
well my brother in the end didn't drive the seniors but the idea was always funny to us.
Shyal, sounds nice and evil, wish i had thought of it.
Yes, sir. I agree completely. It takes a well-balanced individual... such as yourself to rule the world. No, sir. No one knows that you were the third one... Solidus. ...What should I do about the woman? Yes sir. I'll keep her under surveillance. Yes. Thank you. Good-bye...... Mr. President.
