Alcohol

[Milo]

Good old EtOH. It's funny stuff, really. After extensive investigations I have discovered that three pints within ninety minutes will make me feel like a normal, energetic, sociable person but that feeling will only last for an hour before depression comes back. It is a very clumsy tool.

Y'know, I have completely lost my point here. It was something halfway profound else I wouldn't have typed damn near 200 or so keystrokes on a new topic. Hum.. Well, I'll hit Submit anyway. Maybe someone else can salvage things.

[Al Tha Funkee Homosapien]

Drink more.

[SOTS]

Hello there. I'm also drinking so I thought i'd say hello.

I've just been drinking some Brahma lager and then some Red Stripe lager.

[Al Tha Funkee Homosapien]

No Buckfast?

[Milo]

I've been on the real ales and as my mood is now nosediving I think I'll get some sleep. Firestoker really is lovely stuff.

[SOTS]

No, it's disgusting. My local shop actually has a sign up that says that they "WILL NOT sell Buckfast to under 21s."

No-one drinks buckfast unless they're a chav anyway. Most people at my school drink straight vodka quickly in order to get completely bladdered before the end of the night.

[Pinball]

I mainly drink Corona beer nowadays. Beautiful stuff. No headaches/hangover, finely filtered, imported & not brewed in the UK under licence (which shittifies any previously good beer). Nice.

The only problem is, I buy it by the boxload from Makro, so I have to be careful...

[Lady Beaner]

Ooooooh Corona... would love one of those right now. A PERFECT beer on a lovely summery day or night. Am feeling hard done by because I met a mate in Highbury and Islington during the Arsenal match today. Whilst I waited for him in the pub I ordered a pint of Diet Coke. Y'know.. a soft drink, usually cheap, and I was gasping.

£2.30!! Two fucking pounds thirty pee! For a pint of sodding coke! Should have got a pint of the good stuff. Bastards.

[SOTS]

I enjoy Corona as well. I should've got some of that and threw in a slice of lime.

[Artemis]

I've been off the booze for a good couple of months now, and feel much better for it.

[SOTS]

I know what you're getting at. The only reason I was having a drink is because it's the last day of my Easter holidays today and then i'm back at school.

So i'll probably go on the wagon until study leave in May.

[Milo]

I've been off the booze for a good couple of months now, and feel much better for it.

I think I'm going to try this. I did try before and lasted about four days. Hopefully I'll have better luck this time.

[Hound]

I mainly drink Corona beer nowadays. Beautiful stuff. No headaches/hangover, finely filtered, imported & not brewed in the UK under licence (which shittifies any previously good beer). Nice.

The only problem is, I buy it by the boxload from Makro, so I have to be careful...

Corona is cheaply brewed rubbish. They use corn which is why it doesnt taste of anything. This is why they sneakily serve it with lime so no one notices, which has the dual purpose of making people think they're vaguely sophistocated because drinking a foreign beer with a bit of fruit floating in it is better than a british pint, and also hiding its bland taste. You'd be better buying a load of generic supermarket white label beer and a lime. Or drink vodka and lime in a pub if its hangovers that are the worry.

[chand]

I mainly seem to be drinking Hoegaarden at the minute, it's a good one if, like me, you just want to drink a beer because you think it's nice rather than wanting to drink 11 beers so you can forget your name and vomit on your shoes.

I drink really conservatively now; one bottle of beer at night maybe, or the odd one or two if I'm out having a meal or something. It was a partly conscious decision...I haven't been drunk in years. Towards the end of my more drunken days I'd begun to associate beer with a bad time; it was a dreadful cycle of getting drunk, becoming a more obnoxious version of myself, starting to self-pity about the fact that the girl I'd decided I loved that night wasn't talking to me even though I'd made no attempt to talk to her, and then having the following day completely killed, spending it in and out of bed with a sore head and finally surfacing at 7pm for dinner. So now even if I go out to something hectic like a New Year's Eve party I'll nurse maybe three beers and enjoy the socialising with the comfort of knowing that tomorrow I might be able to get up at a decent time and achieve something with my day, knowing for certain that I hadn't sexually assaulted anyone the night before. I can at least partly thank having a girlfriend for extricating me from the need to drunkenly 'party' all the time. I don't wanna sound preachy though, I have no moral problem with people getting wasted, it's just not for me any more. Drinking made me even more of dick, and for someone who's a fairly colossal dick already that's unacceptable.

[boki]

Ah, now Hoegaarden I Do Not Get.  I've got a mega sweet tooth and even i find it horribly sickly.  Very much in agreement about the standard british drinking experience, though.

I have problems with lager these days.  The first couple, particularly on a sunny day or after a fucker of a day at work are always great, but I usually find that if I ever have more than three of a night a bastard behind the eyes will ensue in the morning no matter how much water I drink before going to bed.  So, I try not to have more than two and then switch to spirits or summat.  Sometimes, though, it's just too easy to order a pint...

I rarely drink at home, so i'm not that often in the mood for it really.

[Artemis]

The surprising thing about clambering on the wagon is it puts a lot of things into sharp focus. I live in an apartment in the centre of Manchester and on a weekend I can step out onto my balcony and just watch hoards of pissed up people staggering down the street. When you're drunk or drinking a lot it seems like you're just enjoying yourself, but when you've got the experience of taking better care of yourself, you soon realise that getting tanked up and generally make a cock of yourself is no kind of life. I think a lot of my generation are tragically drinking away the better part of their lives at the moment, and it makes me a bit sad, to be honest.

[gazzyk1ns]

You can get tanked up and not generally make a cock out of yourself though. People who get all nimmy about alcohol (I'm not necessarily saying you are, though...) and say things like that are usually missing the point, which is simply that they can be a bit of a cock.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Brahma beer doesn't actually taste of beer. It's beer but only by the loosest weediest definitions.

You want some premium dutch, german or eastern european lager down your pallette. Crisp and clean taste and superb flavour. Asahi is good as well but that's brewed under license, so you might need to deploy your ethics if that isn't your bag.

Being drunk in a club surrounded by people you can't identify with isn't a good state of affairs, and usually makes me depressed as I can't dance or skillfully imply to a woman that I'd like to get shifty with them. Drinking in pubs and bars with friends tends to put me in a great mood though. Alcohol is definitely a contribution to a carefree fun evening but conversely can be a depressing socket of hell on a worry-strewn one.

I also drink ale/bitter which I'd recommend to anyone who enjoys drinking and experimenting with different types of drink really.

Pear cider seems to be the in thing at the moment. Tried a bottle of Kopparberg and I thought it was lovely. Couldn't drink more than that one though, but it was just the ticket.

[Cupid Stunt]

I once had a snakebite made with Special Brew and White Lightning.

[sick as a pike]

Kopparberg

Ooh that's reminded me there's one of them in the chiller right now. Hm, I've been working in the garden all day, had a shower, is there any better time for a chilled pear cider as I sit out here on the Internet?  No, there isn't.
Right.

[The Plaque Goblin]

This is Polish beer I saw in the supermarket:

[rudi]

I've (you've) found my brand!

[waste of chops]

Is Lech good stuff? The shop round the corner from me started selling it on their Polish food shelf and I wasn't sure if it was their equivalent of Carling or not.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Call me a snob, but I don't think I could drink Lech in public, even if it was the tastiest beer ever brewed.

[Rolf Harris]

It's a deliberate Beck's rip-off, right?

[Morrisfan82]

You can't keep me out of pubs at the moment. Bloody weather.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

It's not uncommon to see a young woman in bars these days with a Lech in her hand.

[Uncle TechTip]

Kopparberg fans rejoice:

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/drink/story/0,,2061754,00.html

Next up, apparently, is perry, or pear cider. Withrington cites Brothers, sold at a number of music festivals last summer, and a Swedish pear cider called Kopparberg: "There's an unbelievable amount of noise about it, no marketing as yet, but it's staggering - it's already listed by eight pub companies as a drink they plan to stock." Great things are anticipated for pear cider "because pear is a bit sweeter than apple, and people expect it will be easier to drink for women. That's the goal for everyone, to find a drink for women."

A drink for women? Suddenly I can see male pear cider drinkers dropping it like a stone...

It's all about the ice, apparently - god, consumers are so gullible.

[actwithoutwords]

Anything that results in Kopparberg being more widely available this summer can't be a bad thing. I'll just have to chop wood or have sex with a lady while drinking it to prove my manhood.

[Milo]

I've been off the booze for a good couple of months now, and feel much better for it.

I think I'm going to try this..

I have now had a number of bottles this evening, a mere six days following this post. I shall now eat my words and wash them down with more beer.