Your Alcohol of Choice

Beer
Ales and stouts aged in bourbon barrels, such as Dragon's Milk or Louie's Resurrection.
Imperial Russian stouts
Hop-heavy IPAs, like Surly Furious or Bell's Two-hearted Ale.

Also have really liked Allagash White, Stone Vertical Epic and The Beast grand cru.

Not a big fan of Belgian ales or Hefeweissen styles. Hate most lagers and pilsners.

Wine
Red wines with body -- not too sweet, but not thin-tasting like many French wines (IMO). Drink a lot of Malbec.

Spirits
Don't like much hard liquor, other than as mixers. About the only thing I drink straight is Sambuca.

 

I don't get it.Old Timers do not and would not cotton these almost skunky
Microbrews.Is it they lack years of beer experience.? of course not.
I think it's a new movement. It's a way to be a snob.Like Ugh ... why would I ever
stoop to buy a Bud or Miller or Blatz. Probably because gazillions of those
beer were extremely proud purchases in bars throughout this Great Land for
decades.Now all that changes on account a clique of bratty trendies and old
hippie type { the same group btw that were in - Occupy Wall Street - }
declare as if by some edict what good beer is and isn't. I detected a *****
in thbe armor of that mindset when using YouTube and watching all the
Beer reviews.They all seemed to have a predisposed bias.As if it was some
kind of new beginning for how Beer is to be viewed.
That quality beer like Michelob's Original Lager is not very good.I Beg your
bigotry.That beer is just wonderful. This is all a New Age of Beer Deconstruction.
I fell in love with Michelobs Original Lager 10 years ago. It motivated me to start
drinking more expensive beer like Samuel Smiths { Which ARE good and worth the
Price } and then this entire B.S. Domestic Micro beer market.With the most
Cartoonishly Hellish labels and monikers. Then I watched.
Occasionally shopping for my Red Wine at a Big City Trendy Liquor store
that was very popular and right near where the action was.Nice antique shops
and book stores and little restaurants.The owner of that small but heavily stocked \
trendy Liquor store being a Trendy himself and a big ego snob.But very appreciative
of customers.He basically remembered me on account of my motorcycles.
I used to be amazed at how 20 something Trendies who obviously were renters
not owners managed to be able to come up with the scratch for The Most expensive
of Craft Beer.Often mixing and matching to make a 6-pack.Like we're talking $ 2-3 dollars
a bottle.If my old man were alive he would have scolded them right on the spot.
He's say ... " Hey sonny. I never spent more than $ 4 dollars on a 6 pack of beer in
my life.And never will.here you just spent over $ 14 bucks on a 6-pack. Do your
Mom & Dad know you spend that much ? " !
I remember back in the late 80's having dinner with the old man,since my mom
spends August at our Summer Home and the old man liked to stay back home
and have his own Private Time. I arrived to help with dinner and brought a
4-pack of Duvel Ale and some nice French Cheese.The old didn't want any part of it.
I tried by doggonedness to convince him how good that beer and the cheese were.
He practically flipped me off.He didn't drink wine,let alone red Wine.So that was
out of the question.But he did Love his Beer.As a kid it was Blatz and then Strohs.
Real manly beer.I guess it was an Old Timer thing.Know thy Beer and don't
let anyone tell you different.The Old Man Knew crappy suds.He had enough WWII photos
of his Naval buddies on Islands and pics of the kind of beer they drank on R&R.
Bigish brown bottles of Beer,usually never being refrigerated.
But man to look at the faces of them WWII sailors,they were in heaven.
Traipsing around and goofing off and dressing up as Whores.
Was it the Beer.Or mere thought of having Beer.
You be the judge.

 

First of all, learn how to do paragraphs. Second of all, were you foaming at the mouth and spitting on your keyboard as you were typing this?

The title of the thread was "Alcohol of choice", to which I gave "MY" choice. My choice is not the same as yours, but the venom that you spewed at me was quite funny. Seems you are threatened because others like microbrew while you like alcoholic (*)(*)(*)(*) water.

Everyone I know drinks Bud, Coors, and Michelob for one or both of the following reasons. Because it is cheap and they want to get drunk.

I drink beer because I like the flavor of it and Bud, Coors, and Michelob do not offer the main beers I like which are reds, IPAs, and stouts. I have been a homebrewer since 1998 so I don't know why you bother listing irrelevant things like WW2 and OWS in regards to beer. I can drink almost all my beer that I make at room temperature. When is the last time someone did that with a Bud or Coors? Why don't they? Because it tastes like (*)(*)(*)(*).

As a hobby I try to make clones of beers like Blue Moon and I even did a Budvar clone which everyone has claimed it is better than the store bought versions. The reason being is it is smoother and since homebrew has a shorter shelf life, there isn't the additives and other things done to the beer to make it last years on a shelf.

So, have fun reminiscing about the old days and leave us crafters alone then. And again I laugh at the fact you are sooo threatened by someone who likes craft beer over mass produced beer is funny as (*)(*)(*)(*). You remind me of the old man on the porch telling people how he had to go uphill both ways in the freezing cold fighting Grizzly bears for your school books. Lighten up, it's only beer.