Find me a drink!

[Airenn]

Could be wrong, but aren't mudslides generally slushy versions? Ice blended? If so, definitely not. Not a fan of ice-based really cold drinks.

[archibaldcrane]

bailey's instead of cream or milk is still a white russian

nah, and she said milk and bailey's anyway

Could be wrong, but aren't mudslides generally slushy versions? Ice blended? If so, definitely not. Not a fan of ice-based really cold drinks.

they can be made blended, like at TGIFridays or something, but most mudslide recipes are just over ice cubes.

[Plow]

yeah, I think it's chilis? or maybe applebees?

I dunno one of those places has a popular mudslide (and used to do commercials about it) that are basically an ice cream shake or sundae with kahlua, irish cream, and chocolate.

[Airenn]

Yea. Well, I like mudslides, then. But White Russian's are ok, too. Those are my go-to drink in Vegas.

[Churchill]

lol

[vagus]

OP, I thought you were a chick. Guess you're not. In that case, man the fuck up. Drink some bourbon.

[Apelila]

If you hate the taste of hard alcohol, I'd suggest staying away from shit tier vodka. Since your in a town where the bartenders are usually kids the simplest and deadliest drink to make is ScrewDrivers made with Gin (Orange juice and Gin).

If you want to give someone a challenge, combat juice.
1 bottle beer
8 oz orange juice
2 oz vodka
1 oz grenadine syrup
2 oz rum
2 oz gin
8 oz cranberry juice
8 oz pineapple juice
Sprite® soda
lemon juice
lime juice
Mix everything but the beer, Add the beer last. Seriously. And don't use a fancy beer either, or anything like Sam Adams or Heineken. Dear god.

Or get a Long Island Ice tea, have the bartender drip grenadine down the straw after mixing to make a layer on the bottom.

And again: if you hate the taste stay away from anything with Vodka in it unless you can sweet talk the bartender into using good vodka. I'm honestly surprised no one has mentioned that the quality of the spirit affects the taste, and that might be your problem encapsulated.


Related Threadjack: Anyone got any good wine guides? The ones I keep running into are all skewed towards the authors tastes, apparently you can't talk about wine you don't care for in anything less than full on condescending douchenozzle mode.

Edit: Also, order shots of any amber colored alcohol. Stay with the same make, after 3 you wont care about the taste.

[Kalmado]

That combat juice looks interesting! As far as vodka quality, what do most think are good to great vodkas? I'm not a vodka person, but last time I had it a friend brought over Ciroc. I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. For $35/fifth, I'd rather have that than absolute or goose.

[Aylee]

bought some captain Morgans private stock the other day and tried it with coke just sipping on it and actually really enjoyed it. Maybe quality is one of the big problems since its the highest quality thing i have bought so far. To acquire a better taste for it just slowly start lowering the coke amount?

[djzombie]

2 words.

white russian.

mmm mmm bitch.

bar near me makes them with hennesey instead of vodka, never had it like that before but it is damned delicious

[Apelila]

That combat juice looks interesting! As far as vodka quality, what do most think are good to great vodkas? I'm not a vodka person, but last time I had it a friend brought over Ciroc. I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. For $35/fifth, I'd rather have that than absolute or goose.

Well, I don't know the names of what I used to drink. I lived with a friend who was a bartender at a rather high end bar in Scottsdale from 2007-2010, and he always used to keep the oddly named Eastern European vodka's around that just totally slammed anything domestic/cheap. The one I can remember was Snow Queen, since he got that just before I moved out and we used it in some very expensive Jello shots. Holy shit that stuff was amazing.

[Stromgarde]

Talking about Russians and Old Rasputin hasn't come up yet? Rubbish.

[archibaldcrane]

bought some captain Morgans private stock the other day and tried it with coke just sipping on it and actually really enjoyed it. Maybe quality is one of the big problems since its the highest quality thing i have bought so far.

Probably not, but if drinking higher-priced alcohol will make you stop being a pussy, then continue to believe that. Whatever works.

[Tajin]

It takes time to develop a taste for liquor.

What? lol no, either you like it or you dont.

[archibaldcrane]

What? lol no, either you like it or you dont.

lol

[Rhyis.]

It's more accurate to say your taste in quality accumulates over time. When you first start out, you wouldn't know the difference between a 18-year-old scotch and a hole in the wall.

[Kalmado]

It's more accurate to say your taste in quality accumulates over time. When you first start out, you wouldn't know the difference between a 18-year-old scotch and a hole in the wall.

So true. I know tons of you guys were drinking Natural Light (or some similar beer) or bottom shelf liquor at house parties or when you're broke while young. I know I was! My beer of choice when I was younger used to be Coors Light. I practically gag when drinking it anymore.

[Apelila]

My point was some people are naturally sensitive to the differences between crap and not crap booze.

It doesn't mean that they'll instantly be a sommelier after one bottle of wine, but given 2 different spirits of different enough qualities a difference would be inherent. They just wouldn't know what it was or how to convey it.

[AoE]

Well, I don't know the names of what I used to drink. I lived with a friend who was a bartender at a rather high end bar in Scottsdale from 2007-2010, and he always used to keep the oddly named Eastern European vodka's around that just totally slammed anything domestic/cheap. The one I can remember was Snow Queen, since he got that just before I moved out and we used it in some very expensive Jello shots. Holy shit that stuff was amazing.

Yeah H.Q vodka makes you wonder what fuck you were drinking before when you have it.

[Manako]

Related Threadjack: Anyone got any good wine guides? The ones I keep running into are all skewed towards the authors tastes, apparently you can't talk about wine you don't care for in anything less than full on condescending douchenozzle mode.

No idea on an actual guide, they all seem very dry to me I find that tasting wines is the best way to get familiar with what you like. We went to sonoma/napa for our honeymoon and tasted a whole lot of wines, the people at the wineries seem to be of the opinion that all that really matters is that the drinker enjoys the wine which was very refreshing. Before I went there I was really scared to have any white wine because I felt like it was like russian roulette, I'd wind up with something too sweet or too dry. When I buy wine now I go to a store that has wine review ratings next to the price to help sort that out, sometimes they have tastings which really helps as well (you need to sign up on a mailing list.) I find that Malbecs are generally a good red wine, I don't think I've ever had a bad one, it seems much easier to pick a tolerable red over a tolerable white.

When I was in college we used to have silly wine and cheese parties, where we'd buy wine with silly labels and snacks and then watch terrible movies. This was a great way to get exposed to wine because there were more people to share with the price of the bottle doesn't really seem to have any bearing on taste, and the different types of wine that are named are based on the varietal used which can vary in flavor profile based on the soil, and weather.