Your Drink of Choice

[Solly]

Old Rosie

[Sikander]

I don't like or drink beer.

I prefer red wines, and I particularly like Cabernet Sauvignon.

I also like a wide variety of Whiskeys, Bourbons, Sour Mashes etc. There is no reason for me not to select high quality products, as they are typically superior and I don't drink enough to be put off by price. I also like cognac, my favorite which is commonly available in the U.S. is Hennesy V.S.

[Arrian]

Beer: Brown Ales (Newcastle, for instance), Stouts (Guiness)... basically darker, heavier bears. Sammy A is good too.
Wine: Cabernet Sauvignon
Liquor: Capt. Morgan (spiced rum), Jack Daniels

-Arrian

[GhengisFarb™]

beer: Sam Adams (Boston Lager, Boston Ale, or the Cherry Wheat)
wine: Don't drink wine as I prefer juice.
liquor: Don't really drink liquor either.
water: Ozarka

[Snotty]

been working my way around cheap canned bitters recently. Best avoid 92p for 4 cans of tesco value bitter 4%, although its not as bad as it sounds.

I quite like the worthingtons creamflow draught bitter, and waitrose own brand bitter

[Provost Harrison]

Cherryade

[Dinner]

Had some home made scrumpy last night. Not exactly my drink of choice but it was a promising batch.

[Caligastia]

Knob Creek on ice with a splash of Coke.

[Dinner]

Current top beer choice: Alesmith Oak Barrel Aged Speedway Stout.

[Caligastia]

So how did that scrumpy taste? Does it need more aging?

[Dinner]

From my Counterglow thread:

I'm afraid curiosity got the better of the cat and I tried one of the bottles of scrumpy today. I had gotten off work and was sitting around bored when my eye just happened on a box under the stairs; I originally didn't plan on opening a bottle,thought I’d just taking a look, but next thing you know I'm putting a bottle in the fridge. I just couldn't help myself.

All in all it isn’t bad considering how young the scrumpy is and right now it is entirely drinkable though it’s clearly only aged half as much as it needs. As I poured the glass the first thing I noticed was the subdued yet slightly pungent smell which wasn't unpleasant but was... distinct. Back in November when I was bottling it the smell was so strong it was almost over powering but now it was only 1/10 as much so the aging is clearly having the desired effect. Currently the color is a some what cloudy yellowish white but that also was a big improvement over the brownish yellow stuff we started with and looking at the glass the biggest surprise was how effervescent it was. The bubbles were tiny but there were so many of them it was almost like someone had thrown an Alka-Seltzer the glass but this calmed down after a minute or two.

Taking a sip the scrumpy has a tart flavor, not unlike a tart apple, with good mouth feel and a nice dry finish. Swishing the scrumpy around in my mouth there is a whole lot of different tastes in it, not all of them good (there is a vaguely vinegar like taste to it but only slightly), but the balance is promising especially since it didn’t taste like a “gasoline drinker’s piss” which Las had said unripe scumpy could taste like. I’m hoping the tartness will fade in time along with some of the more wild off tones but with six months left to go it’s definitely tasting better then I expected when I was brewing it. I have high hopes.

In other news it has now been 30 minutes since I drank the glass and I have not experienced any ill effects. I will update you all in the morning.

[Dinner]

I also notice the fat content of the meat seems to prevent any head from forming on the scrumpy. Much like eating fatty foods while drinking beer will cause the bubbles in the head to pop so has the fat in the meat caused there to be a lack of head on the scrumpy. It bubbles and bubbles with great vigor but the head just doesn't stick around long.

[Caligastia]

Interesting. Sounds like it could be a good batch.

[Sirotnikov]

Beer : Guinness or dark lagers and ales (leff or barbar or kilkeny)
Wine : no special
Spirit : Vodka Finlandia
Juice : Orange

[General Ludd]

Another for water.