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[wellinghall]

[Poll #1177046]

ETA: The way to get people to take part in a poll becomes clear ... make it one about alcohol! ;-)

ETA2: And so far, I've had forty-five responses to the "tea" poll, and fity-one to the "alcohol" poll (admittedly over a longer period). Make of that what you will!

Comments

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

The other spirits I occasionally enjoy are brandy and Calvados.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

From my limited experience of them, I have found that they have to be really good before I can enjoy them, while I can enjoy only a moderate whisky. (I prefer the really good stuff, though!)

[wryelle.livejournal.com]

I also enjoy cider.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I've never been a great cider fan. I'll drink it if I'm given a glass, but not normally through choice.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

I quite like Tequila (if it's in a Margarita!).

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Another vote for cider! (As long as it's not too fizzy and actually tastes of apples. I'm not fond of most pub cider.) I also much prefer fruit wine to regular wine.

[gramarye1971]

1) If I'm in a bar, nine times out of ten I'll order neat [insert hard liquor of choice here]. Neat vodka, neat brandy, neat whiskey, neat cognac, neat gin, neat Pernod, neat what-have-you -- no ice, and the stronger the better. A barman once asked me if I was a smoker, because of my fondness for Laphroaig and other throat-searing drinks. I'm not, but if I'm going to go out and spend money on alcohol I want to take my time with a drink. I also like cider, but you really can't get it where I live now.

2) In a restaurant, with food, it's red wine all the way.

3) At home, I'll experiment with mixers. Last night, in fact, my roommate and I created a drink called a 'Violet Beauregarde' out of three parts blueberry juice to one part Bombay Sapphire gin. It's very tasty. ^_^

[findabair.livejournal.com]

Also cider, and various liqueurs, like the cloudberry liqueur I bought in Finland - yum!

*grumbles about being at work on a Friday evening instead of in the pub with friends*

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

I don't drink a lot, I tend to have an aperitif, glass of wine, and liqueur with real celebration meals, and every so often a binge evening. (Like the last night of the Eastercon and the accident with the litre of aquavit, or our Russian New Year vodkas.)

As well as what I ticked off the list, I like good gin (Hendricks), dark rum, and Drambuie is my absolute favourite. I have a sneaky liking for gloopy drinks, especially with cream.

Cider makes me sick, unless it's the fresh dry Breton-style, and I'm not bothered about brandy to drink, what I can afford tastes too raw. I'm happy to cook with it, though.

I don't enjoy lager, but it makes a cooling drink in summer if you mix it with gin.

[white_hart]

I also like porter and Belgian lambic beers. And I'm not averse to a gin and tonic.

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

Ditto; we found making our own cider produced tolerable stuff (better than most pub/supermarket product), although the cider orchard down the road is vastly better still. I do also like a range of spirits, too, in addition to (good!) whiskey - most notably fruit-based ones, especially triple sec.

I'm gently astonished, looking through the comments, that no-one has mentioned mead. Moniack is about the only commercial stuff I have time for, but it's really very easy to make your own! (Hic!)

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I like some bitters, milds and lagers, but not all. For example, of dark beers, I don't particularly like Guinness, but did like one brewed by a small brewery at near Matfen, Northumberland. Of lagers the non-alcoholic Kaliber is pleasant if anonymous.

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the nice tickybox poll that allowed me to vote for apparently incompatible options! So I'd better explain a bit. Ticking the "none of these, but other" option, when I've already said I *do* like some of 'these', is to be fair a function of the fact that you didn't have a 'some of these AND others' option; however I also intend to indicate that while I like the 'these' I ticked I probably like the 'other' even more. 'Other', here, I'm afraid, is the girly sorts of liqueurs such as but not limited to Godet, Tia Maria, Amaretto, Kahlua, and above all Baileys ;-) After which you will not be surprised to hear that I am fussy about the other things I ticked as well, especially wine. There's a heck of a lot of wine I don't like, but some I do, and my very favourites are the really sweet, rich dessert wines, often German, that usually come in half-bottle sizes (obviously context is all; they wouldn't be my favourites to drink with the fish course!)

I'm not sure why I am writing in the present tense above, since I have not drunk any alcohol in many years now, which is why I also ticked the "teetotaller" option. This is because I developed an allergy to alcohol in any form (It makes my face and mouth swell up badly, so not the kind of allergy to take lightly - today the mouth, tomorrow perhaps the throat/airway is not a gamble I'm going to take!) But I am a teetotaller by necessity not choice, and I still know what I like dammit!

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Oh, of course, how could I have forgotten mead!

And someone's mention of summer below also reminded me of Pimm's ;-)

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

All of the above drinks, apart from sherry, which I will drink very happily but don't "actively enjoy." Even lager, from time to time, which is a new development -- it depends on time, place and temperature!

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

*isn't sure what category to put the various Real Ales she enjoys into* Stout, Porter, some IPA...funky fruit beers...I guess some are probably bitters and milds, but I honestly wouldn't know which (I tend to classify beer as "yum" or "not yum" and "dark" or "pale").

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

Gin.

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

I can't drink very much, put me in the same room as a packet of winegums and I'm anyone's, but this doesn't necessarily stop me. I have a shameful fondness for sweet, sticky drinks: Amaretto, Drambuie, the other one I can't think of at the moment but will remember the moment I press 'post' ...

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

Cointreau.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

By 'Whisky' I trust you mean (a) pure malt Scotch (b) whiskey and (c) Jack Daniels...

Also brandy.cider, vodka, and any number of cocktails.

But only, of course, in moderation.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

There are very few alcoholic drinks I don't like. I am very partial to G&Ts and White Ladies, but am basically a wine, beer and cider drinker, which includes sherries (fino and amontillado preferred) and ports and muscats and brandies.

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

Cider too. I picked up a bottle of the 'light' cloudberry liqueur last time I was in Finland, which I particularly like. Drambuie.

But I prefer spirits to liqueurs Grappa. Various kinds of rum. Various brandies. Plymouth gin.

*grumbles about having to walk back to work at eight this evening because some lads have been mucking around: went past supermarket and bought bottle of wine on the way back*

[muninnhuginn]

Absinthe

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Bitter, Stout, Porter, Pale Ale, IPA, Mild, Guiness (yes I know its a stout but it seems to be a thing of its own), Cider (apple, pear, dry, medium - haven't had sweet in years don't know why), German Lagers, Belgian Lambics, (other lager only if nothing else available and with lime ideally to give it some taste) Wines (fruit, red or white, medium-dry, medium, or sweet), Sherry, Port (Ruby, LBV, Tawny, White: can't afford proper good stuff though), Madeira, Amaretto, Gin (Gordon's, Plymouth, Greenall's), Rum (Lamb's, Woods 100, Cockspur: but there was a good 21 year pause on that having got shitfaced on Tobago), brandy, cloudberry juice, mead.

Just not whisky/whiskey - yuck!!

[segh.livejournal.com]

"Three be the things I shall never obtain -
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne." (Dorothy Parker)

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

For me also liquer (especially Amaretto) Apfelkorn and schnapps.

[freya-9.livejournal.com]

Only sweet red wine of the wines for me. I'm quite partial towards Baileys and daiquiris :) Things like Pernod with lemonade too.

[lalwendeboggart.livejournal.com]

The only thing I had to drink while pregnant was a whisky when I was on holiday (staying in an all-inclusive hotel in Scotland, what bad timing eh?). Whisky is never a bad idea.

Though I also came back to cider a couple of years back, after many years sworn off it. I used to drink it when I was on the dole and it gave horrible hangovers and I swore never to touch the "giro booze" again. Until I tried a pint of Magners with ice and a large bowl of Ben & Jerry's Apple Pie ice cream....

But for years I've been mostly tee-total!

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

The list of alcoholic drinks I dislike or am ambivalent about would take a lot longer than t'other way around. I like variety ;)

I didn't tick champagne, because I don't buy it as I think it is overpriced and overrated. If offered a choice between that and something else nice I might well go for the something else. But I wouldn't turn down a glass of champers.

I do/did like bitter and lager just occasionally for a change, however I am not now meant to drink them due to tightening up on my special diet. I won't be all that sorry though.

I didn't tick Madeira as I have only had it once or twice and can't remember if I think it'd be worth actively seek it out again or not.

I drank some cider, some red wine, some cinzano (haven't had that for more than a decade) and some vodka at the weekend. Not all in one sitting.

The End.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

That's interesting (although unfortunate for you) - my grandma developed same around the age about 80ish having enjoyed a small tipple all her life. I think we assumed it was due to combination of medications (or something like that, not sure anyone was sure TBH), although she had an autoimmune disorder too (RA) so maybe that was it? Your comment is only the 2nd time I have heard of the specific development of this allergy.

Hope same doesn't happen to me :o

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Clearly, this was the wrong way around:

"The list of alcoholic drinks I dislike or am ambivalent about would take a lot longer than t'other way around."

Contrary to the apparent evidence, it was not imbibing one or more of said liquids that caused this, but being exhausted. I meant, it would be much quicker to write out the list of drinks I don't like than those which I do. Dur.