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So i know alcohol can be a bad thing but for those who drink what's your favorite drink?
Anything i havent heard of that you like or invented?
Let us discuss drinks here of the alcoholic variety.

At restaurants or at home I'm usually a fan of wine (my favorites tend to be Pinot Grigio), but at bars I'll have cider or a screwdriver.
However: If I'm at Outback I'll order their Strawberry Kiwi Lemonade frozen drink - I thoroughly recommend it!

I have the occasion beer or glass of wine. For the hard stuff, I like a rum and eggnog at Christmas, or a rye and coke at the bar. I once had a Crown Royal and chocolate milk drink, that was really good. Hmmm...I'll have to buy some chocolate milk on the way home! wink

Wine every Shabbat (Sabbath) evening and again on Shabbat morning, to bless the day.

About once a month, we'll go over to see our friends, Ash and ShSh, and each have half of a 'test' beer. That is, ShSh and I like to try different drinks, so one or the other of us will break out a new beer we're trying for the first time, or one we tried and want to share, and we'll sip it and talk about its qualities. Sometimes we do this with other drinks too, but usually only beers, because you can buy them in a single serving size instead of a huge thing that'd get an army tipsy, like with harder alcohols.

About every two or three years, I buy a bottle of good vodka. That's for my RLSO, who enjoys it with cranberry juice. It takes us a couple years to go through it all.

Finally, about once a year, I buy a bottle of Jack Daniels, a bottle of Bacardi (the darkest one they've got), a bottle of whatever bourbon they've got at Binny's that's the best of the lot, and a bottle of one or two other types of liquor. This stuff, we never drink -- I use it to make fruitcakes. Don't wrinkle your nose at me! My fruitcakes are not spongy, dry bricks filled with plastic-candied 'fruit'. My fruitcakes are made to be rich, dense, flavorful cakes filled with the best dried fruits I can find -- golden raisins, dried cranberries and/or apricots, black currants, dates. Sometimes I put dried pineapple and some macadamia nuts in there instead. Anyway, don't run away from my fruitcake. Everyone who's tried it has wanted seconds, and usually thirds as well. I always make a pair for home, one with nuts and one without, and the rest are shipped to relatives who live too far away to come partake in person. I might also make a rum cake or bourbon balls now and again, for a really special occasion.

Gin and Tonic with a twist of lime, Khalua and Cream, Frangelico over ice, Cosmopolitan, and a Mike's Hard Lemonade are amongst my favorites. The only problem is ... I can count on one hand the number of drinks I've had in the past two years ... confused

when I do drink it's usually crown and coke, sometimes at restraunts I'll pick something at random from the drink menu just for kicks. This is what lead me to realize that cosmopolitians aren't that good.

I'll drink whatever's fruity and/or sweet (as long as it's not too sweet), mixed with Sprite or juice. I'm not yet used to the taste of alcohol. ^^;