Happy New Year

[darkoshi]

This is why I've never been drunk - I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Not even this champagne, which didn't taste that bad at first sip. Like fizzy apple cider. But more sour. Yep, way more sour.

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champagne

[(Anonymous)]

That's not how you should drink it. Champagne should be sipped not gulped. There are sweet and dry Champagnes, cheep and not so very good, and expensive that are much better. Try it again mixed with orange juice.

Re: champagne

[darkoshi]

I sip alcohol by default on the rare occasions I drink it, as I can't stand to swallow more than a tiny bit at once anyway - regardless if it is wine, beer, sweet liqueur, or champagne. In this case, I wanted to empty off the glass quickly. Even so, it still took 2 swallows to get down a relatively small amount.

There isn't much point in me mixing alcohols with other drinks, as I prefer the other drinks plain. Sweeter wines are slightly easier for me to drink, but still don't taste *good* to me.

Re: champagne

[marahmarie]

Not that I'm trying to turn you into a drinker, but have you tried vodka? It's relatively flavorless (and bonus: doesn't burn going down unless you're drinking the cheapest crap possible). It's wonderful in a Bloody Mary because all it does is lend a certain stoutness (I almost want to say "crispness" or "fire" but it's neither and yet somehow it's both) to the other ingredients.

I've been re-indulging my Bloody Mary addiction over the holidays for the first time in something like 10 years but the problem for me with hard liquor is I don't get drunk. I just get a little fire in my stomach and my eyes get a little damp and that's it. So I have to stop at exactly one drink or I'll go from fiery-feeling and damp-eyed to sick to my stomach, there's no buzz or glow or anything in between (I even could - and have in the past - seriously drink myself well into oblivion and beyond without even knowing it until too late).

On the plus side, wine has the opposite effect: it takes very little to get me feeling very nice. But sweet wines are not really for drinking-drinking, they're more for having with dessert or as a part of certain meals (especially traditional Jewish meals).

I go more for dry-ish cabernet sauvignons myself (Robert Mondavi's is a good choice for something fairly cheap and drinkable - it's my all-around favorite, though I'm polishing off a Spanish Garnacha right now that's really not so bad, either).

Re: champagne

[marahmarie]

Also, if it makes you feel any better: I can't stand champagne - it's awful. The bubbles and fizzies and headaches I get from it are just like, nah.

Re: champagne

[darkoshi]

I have tried Vodka before, but wasn't remembering how it tastes. I was thinking that Vodka, being a relative pure alcohol, would have even more of that alcohol "taste" that I dislike.

But as I happen to have a partial bottle of "Absolut" Vodka in the cupboard (someone brought it over several xmases ago), I just now tasted it again. You really are right that it is mostly flavorless - it has only a slight flavor that is hard to describe. But it burns! my mouth. Mixing that with other drinks would surely lessen the burn. Doing that might be a good method to use, if I wanted to attempt to get myself drunk, to see what the experience is like. (I tried that in the past with liqueurs, but gave up.)

Re: champagne

[marahmarie]

Oh. I never drink vodka straight up (I don't know why, either; I just never did) so if it burns without mixing it into something else then you have my apologies (and I just learned something new so thanks for volunteering). :(

Personally, wine is a nicer kind of drunk, at least for me. The drunkest I ever got - without getting sick before I could actually enjoy it - was doing Jaegarmeister and drinking mudslides (and this was probably 10 years ago as well, before I quit all hard liquor and actually quit drinking for a while because my mom quit). Those two drinks weren't so bad. But wine still feels like a nicer, tipsier, more pleasant drunk to me, so you might want to experiment if you do decide to get drunk, to see which type of buzz works best for you.