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Tiberious aka Sparkles

Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!
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Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:33 am Post subject: |
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I'm generally curious, what's the vodka attraction? I'm a whisky man myself, and while I sometimes venture into tequilla or rum territory, I've always thought vodka a little foul, close behind gin as the worst of the big spirits. Do you mix it? If so, with what?
PS - I did have some good times a long time ago with vodka and cranberry juice. Does that make me gay? Again, not a huge vodka fan, so I wouldn't know. Is that like putting sauce on a steak?
Sparkles*_* |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib
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Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:27 am Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
| I'm generally curious, what's the vodka attraction? I'm a whisky man myself, and while I sometimes venture into tequilla or rum territory, I've always thought vodka a little foul, close behind gin as the worst of the big spirits. Do you mix it? If so, with what? |
Oh god, gin is terrible.
I'm not crazy about hard liquor, but if I'm gonna drink anything it'll be vodka first, whiskey a distant second. The reason I prefer vodka is that it's not sweet. When I drink other liquors, they leave that nasty sticky-sweet film up on the top of my mouth where the throat begins. It makes me queazy, especially if I'm around smoke.
So, of course, when I drink vodka, I sip it off the rocks.
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| PS - I did have some good times a long time ago with vodka and cranberry juice. Does that make me gay? Again, not a huge vodka fan, so I wouldn't know. Is that like putting sauce on a steak? |
Haaayyyy!!! |
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JongnoGuru

Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep
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Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:39 am Post subject: |
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| We had cranberry juice and vodka tonight. First time that I can remember drinking it that way. It's a dangerous drink for girls in the way that cherry soju doesn't taste like it has any soju in it. Made a pitcher of it, and we watched Batman Begins. Finished the pitcher before the movie. Still wondering where that half-bottle of Absolut went. Tasted like non-alcoholic punch. |
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:50 am Post subject: |
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Vodka is good with orange juice, cranberry juice,... Don't think it's good with soda unless it were a lemon and/or lime soda. Vodka and lemon is good. I think the lemon at the bar is some sort of special lemon juice. Can't remember. I was buying vodka and cranberries for the woman staff at a small bar I was going to. That can run pretty expensive though.
I don't really drink vodka that much. One time, in Taiwan, I drank a whole bottle at a bar and had a huge headache the next day. The next time I got a headache from drinking was from mixing soju and beer and drinking yet another bottle of vodka my co-teacher had on separate occasions.
Other than that, I never get headaches. I'm a whiskey man myself (rye whiskey) as far as hard alcohol goes.
I'm what you'd classify as a beer drinker and I'm in the wrong country for that unless you want to spend a ton on imported beer. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib
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Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:20 am Post subject: |
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| jacl wrote: |
| I'm what you'd classify as a beer drinker and I'm in the wrong country for that unless you want to spend a ton on imported beer. |
Yeah tell me about it. I just don't understand the lack of quality beer in Korea. When I visited Thailand, the grocery store had a huge supply of all my favorite beers at the same, or lower, price than in the US. And I'm like, what edge does Thailand have on the world market that they can get a wide variety of imported products at regular price? Garrr. |
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mole

Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Act III
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Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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Fun conversation. I like soju, beer, tequila in that order.
In college, my frat bros & I drank Crown Royal a lot. '72 vintage.
Don't think the Crown ever froZe. |
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tacon101

Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Location: seoul
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Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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can't beat a gin and tonic...give me a mug and a straw and i'm good to go...
vodka is the second drink of choice...not girlied up, just with a chaser of
some sort
beer is just too much to drink to get drunk, (guess because i'm a girl and honestly can't chug it like a guy)but in and of itself, definitely not terrible (umm excluding all cheap korean beers with the exception of maybe a really cold capri)
don't hate soju either...and don't get hangovers from it
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| When I drink other liquors, they leave that nasty sticky-sweet film up on the top of my mouth where the throat begins. It makes me queazy, especially if I'm around smoke. |
ditto...even the smell of something remotely whiskey-like will start the gag reflex... |
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Thunndarr

Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Someone's been in your house. Or someone's in your house. It doesn't freeze. Any natural born alcoholic can tell you so. |
You are indeed wrong.
No one has touched the vodka. In fact, this happened again (yeah, I bought more vodka), but the bottle froze before I'd even opened it. |
Q- there is something wrong wth your supplier-frozen vodka isn't possible-unless you have a -100c freezer-your supplier s screwing you-can't you get it? |
Where did you get that number? I did a bit of googling, and most sites claim that 80 proof vodka will freeze at around -27 degrees C. (100 proof freezes at around -40.) |
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kiwigirl :O)
Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Location: Bundang
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:31 am Post subject: |
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[quote="jacl"]Why keep it in the freezer in the first place?[/quote]
i dont know why but keeping vodka in the freezer is just the done thing (we do it in nz) and if its real vodka then it should not freeze and how would it last a 1year!!!???
i think it needs to be reincarnated as vodka jellies!!! |
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Mills
Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Location: Incheon
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 1:02 am Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
I'm generally curious, what's the vodka attraction? I'm a whisky man myself, and while I sometimes venture into tequilla or rum territory, I've always thought vodka a little foul, close behind gin as the worst of the big spirits. Do you mix it? If so, with what?
Sparkles*_* |
Vodka + Orange Juice + Snowboarding = Very Sore
Just the thing to keep you warm on the mountain, gives you that little bit of confidence to go off something way bigger than you would otherwise... |
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EFLtrainer

Joined: 04 May 2005
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 3:17 am Post subject: |
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| I dislike/hate all hard liquor. The only way I drink any of them is mixed. Straight tequila, for example, is disgusting, but a well-made margarita is the best drink ever concocted. (The margarita, btw, was created in calfiornia, not Mexico.) I drink beer for reasons of economics, but prefer wine generally. Actually, the economics thing doesn't really worl given that I hate piss beer, i.e., typical beer. Wheat, micro brew, stout.... ah... |
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EFLtrainer

Joined: 04 May 2005
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 3:21 am Post subject: |
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Qinella, looks like you may have your answer: great freezer and low proof? Maybe turn down your freezer to the next setting or buy better booze.  |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles

Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 5:56 am Post subject: |
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Q,
From where did you buy the bottle? Maybe it's counterfeit.
Sparkles*_* |
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HapKi

Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:13 am Post subject: |
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Absolut has both 100 and 80 proof. Which one did you have that froze?
Great ad campaign. I've collected the ads for years.
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