52 thoughts on “Drunken Confession Memorial Open Thread”

  2. You make margaritas with JD???*
    * Triple question marks in honor of Gary, despite my personal loathing of same. ‘Cause that’s the kind of humanitarian I am.

  5. Moe. Please. Get broadband.

    It’s time.

    Call me crazy, but my suspicion is that said urging would be more effective if accompanied by a check to pay for the price differential, which is substantial for many.

  7. Margarita with JD? {{{shudder}}}
    JD is perfect exactly as it comes out of the bottle. It’s the one Potent Potable (nod to Ken J. who won again last night) that I cringe when folks mix it. Short of a Manhattan (which, let’s face it, if made correctly, is 99.9% JD anyway), JD should not be mixed with anything else.

  8. While I agree with you in principle, a JD & Coke is a perfectly fine drink to have over some ice on a hot summer night. And the Lyncburg Lemonade is a tasty treat indeed. Other than that, though, no.

  9. a JD & Coke is a perfectly fine drink
    AYE!{!!!!!}*
    My eyes! My Taste Buds! Make it stop! MAKE IT STOP!
    Just kidding, Phil. I just don’t like Coke.
    When’s it hot outside, Jack and Ginger is, as you say, a fine drink.
    *set off in brackets so you can mentally delete the extras if they grate on your nerves.

  10. Cretins!!!!
    Ruining perfectly fine elixirs by dousing them in children’s soda pop. For shame…

  11. I’ve never understood why people adulterate perfectly good booze with anything and that includes water and ice: “When I drink whisky, I drink whisky and when I drink water, I drink water.”
    I’m an Early Times man, myself. Not that there’s anything wrong with JD. It’s a purely religious issue.

  12. Dave,
    Don’t even get me started on the subject of bruising fine single malt with the malicious use of ice…

  13. Ruining perfectly fine elixirs by dousing them in children’s soda pop. For shame…
    Good God, Macallan, have we stumbled across one of those rare, rare topics on which we are precisely in agreement? *lifts glass* Cheers!
    I have never seen the point of drowning any drink I like the flavor of in Coke or any other kind of soda. And if I don’t like the flavor of it, why would I drink it?
    (Though Cointreau and espresso, combined, pack a delectable wallop – to continue the whipping theme from the previous thread.)

  14. Let me just say that, as a college sophomore, and coming off the worst dumping in the history of dumpings, I once drank an entire bottle of green label JD, straight, in about two hours. (While watching a double feature of “Excalibur” and “The Blob” with my fraternity brothers. College was fun.) I then spent the next several hours vomiting. Straight JD is rarely an option for me anymore.
    Now, if you so much as open the freezer near my Laphroaig or Balvenie, I’ll put your eyes out with a swizzle stick.

  15. Mac:
    Funny story about single-malts. A couple of years ago I gave my wife a bottle of 18 year old Highland Park for her birthday. She bragged to her friends: “My husband gave me an 18-year-old for my birthday.”

  17. Highland Park — an excellent choice.
    Believe it or not I’ve actually been to the Orkney Islands, and if anyone were going live on that windswept godforsaken island you’re going need to great scotch. Highland Park is a great scotch.

  19. “The fact of the matter is we live in a free society and freedom means freedom for everybody. And I think that means that people should feel free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into. It’s really no one else s business in terms of trying to regulate or prohibit behavior in that regard. I think different states are likely to come to different conclusions, and that’s appropriate. I don t think there should necessarily be a federal policy in this area.”
    Thanks to Senator Barbara Boxer for reminding us what Dick Cheney used to say about gay marriage.

  20. Ye gods, the stuff is 124 proof.
    Worse than that, Dave, it’s young. I love cask-strength whiskey (Booker’s bourbon was my first love and my best), but the Old Potrero just needs more time in the barrel. But crionna and I have been over this one before.
    As for scotch, give me Lagavulin.

  21. As for scotch, give me Lagavulin.
    Used to love Lagavulin. For years the only scotch I drank. Then after a break (during those dark, best-forgotten Mojito years), I tried it again, but now find it a bit too peaty.

  23. Laphroaig or Talisker
    Think I’ve had Laphroaig (can’t remember how peaty it was though), but pretty sure I haven’t tried Talisker yet.
    I’ll give it a go. As with most of life’s finer things, I’m sure they’re both an acquired taste.

  24. Edward:
    Laphroaig is what’s in the blend of Johnny Walker Black to give it smoke—it’s quite peaty. To my taste Talisker is the perfect Scotch but it’s pretty peaty as well like all island Scotches. Highland Park is just lovely. It’s the cognac of single malts.

  25. If you’ve never had the Balvenie Doublewood, drop what you’re doing and go find some. Three fingers’ worth and exactly one drop of spring water is the recipe. Kampai!

  26. I can’t tell y’all how much this second thread has done my heart (if not my liver) good… (wipes a tear from his eye).

  27. In honour of this thread, I bought a 750 ml bottle of Jack Daniels last night, and had a belt. With ice, sorry.
    And 18 year old Highland Park is nectar. I was given a bottle for Christmas a couple of years ago, and was only having a glass (neat) every time my bike’s odometer passed another thousand kilometers. I’ve saved the bottle to look at and feel happy.
    Last year, I visited a medical clinic while on holiday, and the doctor was Scottish. Being Glaswegian myself, I asked where he was from, and he informed me that he grew up in the Orkneys. Turns out that as a child, he fished for stickleback on the distillery property.
    Oban is also very nice. So is Auchentoshan.

  28. JD should not be mixed with anything else.
    Including, for example, me. I find that JD tastes entirely too much like bile for my liking. It does make a swell carbeuretor cleaner, though.
    Bushmill’s is a perfectly good Irish whiskey. Canadian whiskeys are also (in general) unoffensive. American whiskeys, though, taste (as I’ve noted) entirely too much like stomach contents for me. My nomination for a Scotch of manifold goodness is Ardbeg. Excellent flavor per unit dollar, IMO. Meaning, it costs less than, say, Macallan, Lagavulin and Glenmorangie for the same aging but tastes better.

  30. Short of a Manhattan (which, let’s face it, if made correctly, is 99.9% JD anyway),
    You truely are a heathen if you are trying to make a Manhattan with bourbon (well TN whiskey). Do yourself a favor and go out and buy some straight rye whiskey, Old Overholt

  32. “Being Glaswegian myself”
    Shame about the Old Firm moving south, hey?
    “I can’t tell y’all how much this second thread has done my heart (if not my liver) good”
    Hmm. . high quality hard alcohol. Generally not a fan of the browns. We keep a bottle of Patron Añejo on hand at all times. More of a wine man. Mmmm. . Chilean Pinot Noir.

  34. You truely are a heathen if you are trying to make a Manhattan with bourbon (well TN whiskey). Do yourself a favor and go out and buy some straight rye
    One man’s heathen is another man’s hopeless romantic rebel. Being neither, I’ve asked repeatedly for rye in my Manhattans (IN Manhattan, no less) only to be told the dive didn’t have any. So rather than poison myself with anything so syrupy as Canadian Whiskey (sorry my friends north of the border, but…ewwww yuck), I stick with JD.

  35. At last, something I can agree with Timmy on! Manhattans are indeed tasty with rye (although I still like ’em with Maker’s Mark too). Old Overholt’s a good standby, and the Jim Beam rye works pretty well in a Manhattan too.

  36. So rather than poison myself with anything so syrupy as Canadian Whiskey
    Syrupy? First, Edward go out and buy yourself a bottle of Crown Royal I prefer it neat.
    Then start going to some bars which focus on hard liqour, for October when you are covering the tab.

  37. sorry my friends north of the border, but…ewwww yuck
    A few weeks ago I would have agreed with you, but a neighbour has recently indroduced me to a number of fine Canadian Whiskies (not Rye, by the way, a common fallacy). But they still don’t compare well with American whiskies, and all pale before the mighty Scotch single malt.
    But why is no one is mentioning Rum? A good rum (eg Appleton Estate or Lemon Hart) is excellent straight up as well.

  38. Yes, Crown Royal. Yum!
    That’s Canadian? It’s too good to be Canadian
    {{{ducking to avoid heavy objects flung from up north}}}

  39. Mount Gay rum + Stewart’s Ginger Beer + ice = perfect summer drink.
    I don’t think I’ll ever accquire the taste for scotch, whisky or rye.

  42. Our weed is supposed to be good too, but I wouldn’t know anything about that.
    Canadian intelligence monitoring this site?

  43. But why is no one is mentioning Rum? A good rum (eg Appleton Estate or Lemon Hart) is excellent straight up as well.
    Oh my god. The single best spirit I’ve ever had was a bottle of rum my dad brought back from Costa Rica. It was called Millenario and I’ve never been able to find it anywhere since then.

  44. That’s Canadian?
    Sure, that is why get that purple pouch to carry your hockey pucks back and forth from the rink.

  45. That’s Canadian?
    Sure, that is why you get that purple pouch to carry your hockey pucks back and forth from the rink.

  46. Canadian intelligence monitoring this site?
    It’s pretty close to legal here, so I don’t worry about that. People smoke it in the streets, and we have stores and cafes selling it. There are ongoing attempts to decriminalize personal use. As our outgoing Prime Minister said a short time ago, “I don’t know what is marijuana. Perhaps I will try it when it will no longer be criminal. I will have my money for my fine in one hand and a joint in the other.”

  47. Ahh, Rye Whisky (as we call it). Good stuff. I haven’t had Crown Royal in some time. I might buy some tonight.
    It is most often drank here as “rye and coke”, which I find tastes like liquid diabetes.
    I tend to drink my whisky with ice because I like the taste, and because “neat” gives me wicked heartburn.

  48. Josh, your fav watering hole have Pyrat Rum? Kind of a Dumb**s name, but its made by Patron and not too bad straight.
    Still, I long for the Havana Club available on European travels.

  49. Josh, your fav watering hole have Pyrat Rum? Kind of a Dumb**s name, but its made by Patron and not too bad straight.
    Still, I long for the Havana Club available on European travels.

  50. Never heard of it, crionna, but I’ll be on the lookout for it. I know just the place that’ll have it, too.

  51. I’ll plug the 12-year Tanduay Rum again, that Slarti (at least) probably remembers me imbibing some weeks ago 🙂 The Philippines’ finest, a smooth and warm light amber rum that’s virtually hangover-free, and at $2 a bottle in the grocery store* it can’t be beat…
    * In Manilla, that is. I’m told that it’s almost twice as much in the duty-free store…

  52. I had to come back to this now antique (by ObWi standards) thread for three comments:
    1. On scotch, I cannot overemphasize the goodness of Balvenie, especially the Doublewood.
    2. On rum, Thailand also produces a few varieties that are smooth as a baby’s butt.
    3. A reminiscence… When I was poor in Minneapolis a year on from graduating from uni, we used to drink what we called “lower manhattans”… tall glass, ice, Dewar’s, a splash of dry vermouth, and a lime wedge. They made our evenings nasty, brutish, and short.

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