The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Snarf Zagyg]

Gin is just vodka with flavor. I wouldn't drink vodka straight either, but I don't generally bother making mixed drinks with vodka anymore.

There's definitely a good variety of gins, too. Some have a much less "punch of pine tar in my mouth" level of juniper.

Gin .... is just vodka with flavor?

Let's set a few ground rules, here.

First, I concur- anyone who makes mixed drinks with with vodka is doing it wrong. And anyone who makes cocktails with vodka is a MONSTER. The whole ideal of vodka is that it is tasteless- everything else is just marketing hype. You might as well say, "Get some mixers and add the booze, 'cuz I like getting likkered up."

...don't get me wrong. I like getting likkered up too. BUT I'M CLASSY ABOUT IT. Vodka is class, but without the first two letters.

Second, there is no such thing as a gin martini. Martinis are GIN. If you make some other abomination, you're making a cocktail. And if you're making a vodka martini, you're making sewer water.

Third, everyone knows that a martini is only an excuse to drink chilled gin. All that "extra dry" or "extra extra dry" or "rinse the shaker with vermouth and pour it out" or "bow towards France" stuff? The whole point is to lower the amount of vermouth until it's a faint memory and you're drinking yummy yummy gin.

I've said my piece. And you know it to be true.

 

[dragoner]

“There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.”
- Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

 

[Mannahnin]

“There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.”
- Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

I thought the movie version, with Brad Dourif and Harry Dean Stanton, was pretty good.

But damn, is O'Connor dark.

 

[dragoner]

I thought the movie version, with Brad Dourif and Harry Dean Stanton, was pretty good.

But damn, is O'Connor dark.

She is, very much so, there is a song by Killdozer, Flannery O'Connor: "She wrote many books and then death was upon her." The Displaced Person from A Good Man is Hard to Find, and The Violent Bear It Away are also great.

 

[payn]

Gin .... is just vodka with flavor?

Let's set a few ground rules, here.

First, I concur- anyone who makes mixed drinks with with vodka is doing it wrong. And anyone who makes cocktails with vodka is a MONSTER. The whole ideal of vodka is that it is tasteless- everything else is just marketing hype. You might as well say, "Get some mixers and add the booze, 'cuz I like getting likkered up."

...don't get me wrong. I like getting likkered up too. BUT I'M CLASSY ABOUT IT. Vodka is class, but without the first two letters.

Second, there is no such thing as a gin martini. Martinis are GIN. If you make some other abomination, you're making a cocktail. And if you're making a vodka martini, you're making sewer water.

Third, everyone knows that a martini is only an excuse to drink chilled gin. All that "extra dry" or "extra extra dry" or "rinse the shaker with vermouth and pour it out" or "bow towards France" stuff? The whole point is to lower the amount of vermouth until it's a faint memory and you're drinking yummy yummy gin.

I've said my piece. And you know it to be true.

I prefer a cognac sazerac, but then again, I'm classy AF.

 

[Mannahnin]

I prefer a cognac sazerac, but then again, I'm classy AF.

Heretic! The best sazerac is with rye.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

@payn
@Mannahnin

Oh, I love a good Sazerac!

I'm all like, "Can I have a Sazerac? Hold the rye. Hold the Peychaud's. Hold the glass. Just bring me the bottle of absinthe."

It's called a Snarf's Sazarac.

 

[payn]

Heretic! The best sazerac is with rye.

Na, thats flying coach.

 

[Mannahnin]

@payn
@Mannahnin

Oh, I love a good Sazerac!

I'm all like, "Can I have a Sazerac? Hold the rye. Hold the Peychaud's. Hold the glass. Just bring me the bottle of absinthe."

It's called a Snarf's Sazarac.

For my 30th I just drank absinthe on the rocks all night.

Nowadays absinthe is an accent for me, not the main course. I do enjoy it in a Sazerac, Corpse Reviver #2, or a Death in the Afternoon, though. And a drop in my Old Fashioneds.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

For my 30th I just drank absinthe on the rocks all night.

Nowadays absinthe is an accent for me, not the main course. I do enjoy it in a Sazerac, Corpse Reviver #2, or a Death in the Afternoon, though. And a drop in my Old Fashioneds.

On my most recent sojourn, I was experimenting with spritzes and negronis. I have found that I like my drinks like I like myself- BITTER.

Anyway, a Negroni with Cynar subbed in for Campari is excellent. Also? I was dabbling in some straight-up amari.

Best?
Il 28 di Via San Nicolao. (Berta Disterrie)
Maybe the most complex, engaging digestif I have ever had.

The ... most one-note, yet I still am like, wut?
Anima Nera.
It's the taste of black twizzlers distilled into a drink. Really.