what are your "ex" drinks??

[NorCalBoozer]

influenced by BobbyC's post in "what are you drinking now" thread where he mentioned that whiskey sours used to be his poision, what are your major "ex" drinks???

what I mean is, the drink that was your standard that you always ordered for at least a few years straight...Seems like most people get onto a drink and that becomes their "standard" for a while then *poof* you move onto the next and rarely visit the previous....almost like an ex-w_f_.

mine have been(in chronological order)

Gin & Tonics (for about 6 years, usually Tanquery)

JD on the rocks (for about 2 years)

bourbon straight (for 1 year)

[camduncan]

My only previous drink is Australian Bundaberg Rum and Coke...

Fortunately I drank far too much of it one night:puke: - an 1125ml bottle between 2 people (I think it was the coke that made me sick :skep: )

The result is that I can't stand the stuff even today, but it had a positive result - I found Bourbon as my drink

[Gillman]

Years ago when I first started to drink liquor, I liked gin and tonic or bitter lemon but early on people warned about the calories in the mix so I got away from those drinks. For a while after, rum drinks like rum and Coke or Diet Coke more usually, then fancier rum drinks. (I still mean to make a Zombie and report my conclusions to the Board, using both rum and, innovatively I think, bourbons. This is a planned tip of the hat to Jim Butler who used to sample Zombies in the 80's. I still haven't gotten around to this but I will before long. I think the drink would be good with bourbons but need the time to assemble the ingredients and ponder how to build them).

Later, I liked martinis, and Manhattans. I still like the latter of course but they taste different now, richer and hevier than I used to make them (in the early days I used Canadian whisky only).

In recent years I sip different kinds of whisky straight, and usually have some beer, it averages to two drinks per night (I try not to exceed that now and sometimes I have nothing. ). My favourite whiskeys are bourbon, malt whisky, Canadian and Irish in that order but it depends too on mood or fancy.

I find beer and whiskey suit my system best. I experiment with other drinks I keep in my bar, e.g., lately with dark rums (making my own blends again) and the other night I had a Dutch Genever gin, but that is rare, ditto sampling vodka (of which I like Polish rye vodkas the best, I have decided).

I drink a little wine, with meals. I like to read up on wine (just bought Robert Parker's massive 2002 world survey) but I don't drink much of it except once in a while Champagne.

Gary

[gr8erdane]

I started off with beer which was pretty much what everyone drank when I was younger, either Busch Bavarian, Budweiser, Miller (pony size), Schlitz Malt Liquor (baby bulls) with an occasional foray into sloe gin/7 up or cheap wines (Boones Farm, TJ Swann) and a one night only bout with MD20/20 (mad dog, cuz one night was all it took to break me). Most of our drinking took place at the Hi-Y drive in theater and if you couldn't find someone to buy for you, there was always someone willing to share.

When I left smalltown Missouri and went to Mizzou, I was introduced to many of the standard mixed drinks that were cheap and easy to make: screwdrivers, gin and tonics, 7&7s, Rum and coke, etc. It was during this time that I learned the fine art of producing SpoliOli (sometimes called Purple Passion or other names). Mixing a case of Everclear, Hawaiian Punch, Grape Hi C, 7 up, cheap champagnes, a bottle of 151 Rum for taste, and just about any other sweet liquid that came to hand in a 50 gallon (lined) trash can. Of course this was only done a couple of times a year as we did value our vision and required some brain cells to finish classes. And of course more beer. My first party there I helped pick up 57 kegs of beer for one night. Drinking at Mizzou was a pasttime. Somewhere along there I tasted the Turkey for the first time (Thanksgiving Turkey Shoot I believe) and was introduced to DN 1843.

After dropping out of college, I went back to smalltown Missouri to work and it was beer time again, but at least I had learned to appreciate some of the better beers of the period. Heineken, Moosehead, and Grolsch were favorites at that time. But when I turned 21 and started to go to bars, I settled on rum and Coke. Myers Rum usually. It was during this period that I discovered Tequila and the strange effect it had on me. The more tequila that went into me the more clothes came off of me. Not good in smalltown bars where everyone knows you. It was during this time that I started buying a bottle of something different every week and building a pretty good home bar for guests (that never came around).

Eventually I ended up back at Mizzou and more eventually in St Louis where I continued my rum and Coke/beer diet until one visit home where a close friend introduced me to the Small Batch Collection. I bought my first bottle of Bookers and it's history from that time on. I now occasionally drink Rum, Irish Whisky, Tequila (in small amounts), and even occasionally sip on a Single Malt (but never again the Arfbag). Bourbon does just about everything I ask of it and when I need something a little different I enjoy an imported or microbrewed beer. But bourbon has become my go to on most any occasion where a libation is required. And I don't see that changing anytime soon.

[Edward_call_me_Ed]

bourbon straight (for 1 year)

I thought this thread was for EX drinks? Don't tell me bourbon straight is an EX drink? Say it ain't so, NorCal!

Ed

[BourbonJoe]

The drink of my youth was Old Grandad & Water. This, plus beer, got me through my 20's, 30's and 40's. Then I woke up. Bourbon is still my choice, although I drink a much broader variety and seldom add ANY water.

Joe:usflag:

[barturtle]

While I still drink many things, I guess the drinks I no longer consume would be whiskey sours, bourbon and coke, and white russians.

[kbuzbee]

Similar to Joe, I started with beer and Kentucky Tavern (my folks pour). Other choices made periodic appearances but nothing you would consider a "standard". Never was much of a regular drinker though until the past few (10?) years. The more regular I became the more Wild Turkey settled into my bar, in all it various guises.

Ken

[TomH]

My ex's are:

Chivas on the Rocks - This was my standard when I became "legal" (a long time ago). Now its normally single malts neat. If the selection is poor or non-existant I will fall back on this old reliable.

7 and 7 - No more mixing with seven-up and have left Seagram's far behind and have a good bourbon neat (though I still put $$ in Diageo's vaults with Captain Morgan (Diet and Captain is my standard drink when I take the wife out dancing), Red Stripe (Never drink it in Jamaica during our annual trips, but have it a home occasional just to get in the island spirit), and several of their single malts.)

Tom

[jspero]

Teens - Beer (any beer)

Early 20's - Rum and Coke

Late 20's/Early 30's - Jack and Vanilla Coke

I haven't gone back to any of them since I found this site.

Jay

[NorCalBoozer]

:shocked::shocked: whoops...your right, I meant that I'd been drinking bourbon for the last year AND STILL GOING.

It would take me at least 2-3 years to drink all the bourbon I've accumulated, so I can't affort to leave it. :slappin:

[clayton]

I used to drink vodka & tonic when out at clubs and so forth, just to be social. I never quite liked it. Never developed a taste for beer of any sort. Most liqueurs are too sweet for my liking. Once I got around to tasting (good) whisk(e)y, I knew I'd found my drink.

[pepcycle]

1. Yago Sangria/Boone's Farm

2. Harvey Wallbanger/Tequila Sunrise

3. Seven and Seven

4. Dr. Jazz (Shot of tequila, shot of vodka, pineapple grapefruit drink. A Middlebury Vt regional favorite). This was also the very short, shots of Tequila phase

5. Beer, Domestic: Haffenreffer Private Stock, Labatt's Blue, Molson, Genesee Cream, Schlitz

6. Mean Marine Punch (I was never a marine, but drank this concoction, see SpoliOLi)

7. Imported, Craft Brewed and Microbrewed Beer

8. Wine (mostly with a cork, not in a box)

9. Wine

10. Polynesian/Tropical: Mai Tai, Coladas, Daiquiri, Moon Rockets (Limeade, ice, beer, blend)......

11. Whiskey: JD, Beam,Crown Royal: Mixed with just about everything

[hookfinger]

I have always drank beer, and growing up near StL, like Dane it was Busch or Bud. Now it's much less beer but usually a nice crisp imported lager. I also spent considerable time with Jack and water and WT101. For some odd reason I then switched to Jameson, which I rarely touch anymore. Don't touch Jack anymore either, but I have no qualms with WT.

[Gillman]

I remember Genny Cream in Rochester New York where it was and still is made. At Fox's deli off South Winton Drive with a corned beef sandwich, served super-fresh in schooners (stemmed, rounded glass mug) with a collar an inch and a half thick. And Wise's potato chips on the side. Haffenreffer was a malt liquor as I recall, rather potent but good. Ah yes, pre-microbeer days, they weren't so bad...

Gary

[JeffRenner]

1. Yago Sangria/Boone's Farm

Before that, do you remember Mateus rose'? (What, no accents in the font selections?)

In the mid-late 60's, that was the cool drink. Then when the flat bottles were empty, you'd stick a candle in them.

Makes me think of parties I went to with my then-girlfriend (and now wife of 37+ years) with the only light coming from those candles.

I think I'll go put on my tie-dye shirt now.:cool:

Jeff

[ratcheer]

I have a lot of ex-drinks. Mixed drinks were a popular item when I was a young man.

I shudder to remember the Singapore Sling. What the hell is sloe gin?

There were also many Tom Collins, Rusty Nails, Planter's Punches, whiskey sours, margaritas, daquiris, rum screwdrivers (I think I have always hated vodka), Irish Coffees, and pina coladas. I could probably go on and on.

Of all those, my favorite was probably a particular Tom Collins made at a bar on Peachtree St. in Atlanta, circa 1970. I can still sensorily remember its simple perfection.

A recent favorite (that is to say, in the last five or ten years) is the super simple Hemingway Daquiri. A large glass of crushed ice, a large shot of good rum, and a half fresh lime squeezed in. No sugar. Supposedly Hemingway's favorite drink.

Tim

[ratcheer]

While I still drink many things, I guess the drinks I no longer consume would be whiskey sours, bourbon and coke, and white russians.

Oh, shit, you just reminded me of grasshoppers and Harvey Wallbangers! How did I ever survive? :shocked:

Tim

[ratcheer]

Before that, do you remember Mateus rose'? (What, no accents in the font selections?)

In the mid-late 60's, that was the cool drink. Then when the flat bottles were empty, you'd stick a candle in them.

Jeff

Yes, I remember. You say true.

What was that stuff we used to roll up and smoke with it?

Tim

[ProofPositive]

In no particular order, I have cast all of the following by the wayside over the course of the past 10-20 years:

1. Tom Collins

2. Rum & Coke

3. JD & Coke, 7-Up

4. Bourbon & Coke, 7-Up, and any other soft drink - can't stand the sweet

taste....drowns out the good stuff on my palate.

5. Hurricanes

6. Seven 'N' Seven

7. Most Wine

8. Miller Lite

[gr8erdane]

What the hell is sloe gin?

Sloe gin is a liqueur made from sloes (I believe the fruit of the blackthorn), gin and sugar. Tastes a lot like cough syrup and is really sweet. Mixed with 7 up some call it a Sloe Gin Fizz. I have heard others order a Sloe Comfortable Screw Up Against the Wall but never had one myself.... I believe it's a mix of Sloe Gin (sloe), Southern Comfort (comfortable), Orange juice (screw as in screwdriver), Galliano (Wall as in Harvey Wallbanger) and Vodka (part of both screwdrivers and wallbangers).

[TomH]

I had totally forgotten about sloe gin. My wife does not like high alcohol drinks (Bailey's (or rum cream if available) on the rocks is her basic drink) and she drinks those VERY slowly so she never gets drunk. The closest she ever got to being drunk was one night in college (during the course of an all night 2 board Risk game) she was drinking Red Peppers (Sloe Gin and Dr Pepper). Since she didn't taste the alcohol it almost caught up with her <G>.

A couple of weeks ago a friend said he had a bottle of Yukon Jack and wondered what kind of drinks he could make with it. I "googled" recipes and found an excellent page with a lot of strange (and obscene) sounding drinks. One of them was a Dr. Jack (Yukon and Dr. Pepper) so I had to get Barb to try it. Of course since it was whiskey based she didn't like it (I was surprised, that I actually found it drinkable - but not enough to drink again).

Tom

[scratchline]

From what I've read lurking at other boards, real sloe gin is actually pretty good and impossible to get in this country. Much like commonly available grenadine, US sloe gin is just sugar water with coloring. The british company that makes Plymouth Gin also makes a sloe gin that folks say is excellent, but you can't get it here. Afficionados recommend making your own.

[luv2hunt]

You guys are killing me here with memories that simply make me GAG! Mine used to be:

Tom Collins

Slow Gin Fizz - there was a bar in Madison WI that made these....I think they had 7up and orange juice but I don't remember any "wall banging" going on unless you count when I had to many and was bouncing off the walls?!?

Segrams 7 & 7

and I can't remember what I drank the Southern Comfort with....but just the thought of it makes me nauseated!

I still like Rum and Diet Coke! Lately I've been enjoying martini's.....just the fruity ones with vodka. I'll have Jon mix up some Pomegranate Martini's for your wives at the Sampler. Mmmm!

Dawn

[doubleblank]

Drinks I've pretty much left behind include.....

Tequila with the old lime and salt thing. Before tequila became cool, relatively inexpensive tequila was pretty good....ie 100% blue agave. Now the cheap stuff is blue agave and who knows what. Anyway, we had a couple of neat swimming holes on the Guadalupe River north of San Antonio. Once of age (or close enough), we never made a trip to the river without a bottle of Sauza, limes and salt. We don't need no stinkin glasses....right from the bottle and it sure warmed you up after swimming in what could be a cold river. Haven't done this in forever. I still enjoy a good tequila straight up, but no lime and salt please.

A Harvey Wallbanger was THE drink to order at the Disco. I even purchased my own bottle of Galleano (sp?). Never again. A whiskey sour was also ordered from time to time.

Early drinks I still enjoy on occasion include gin and tonic and a rum and coke with lime. Nothing beats a good, icy, rum and coke with a twist of lime when its 95 degrees laying at the pool.

Randy