Your signature makes me think of the song "Hemingway's Whiskey" by Kenny Chesney every time I see it. Then I can't get it out of my head.
I'll have to go through Islands in the Stream and type out some of the passages about drinking in a "Hemingway & his Booze" thread. That particular book has gin, beer, or whiskey on about every page.
He made himself another drink and thought how much better the Perrier was than anything else you could put in whisky... Hemingway