jus read the first few posts, an ive got a mystic secret to impart

before you drink a bottle of vodka make sure its:

1. good quality: %quid crap from the corner shop aint worth it, mind you, my favourite for this is absolute (the NORMAL not all that tuti fruti crap)

2. been in the freezer for 36 hours (at least). don�t worry, the bottle won�t break cos the alcohol level is too high in the liquid.

once you�ve got yer partially frozen vodka then fuckin drink it. its not as harsh as normal vodka so don�t bother puttin a mixer in it (orange juice or coke or whatever) and in the bottle it looks stringy where the impurities have frozen and seperated from the alcohol.

maybe yer alloud ice to keep it frosty wi a bit of ice like but remember - cos its so cold it enters yer bloodstream alot quicker so after 1 healthly glass you won�t know what the fux goin on. 

Cheap cornershop vodka (e.g Glen's, Imperial) + coke is your fastest most efficient route to a relatively painless drunken state. Embrace it: after a few hefty glasses you won't even notice it tastes terrible. 

I was talkin about the gentlemanly route to notavinafukinclue

trust me all the drugs are a pale shadow of 2/1.5 day frozen vodka

yeh, I have tried it wi glenns (grants it used 2 be) an yeh, still worx but for tht shit you might as well drink thinners - its cheaper 

paint thinners

ie. turps (turpuntine) 

Eristoff/Smirnoff/etc.. Vodka suck and are ungood. I'd rather prefer drinking either Absolut Vodka, or (my favourite) Zubrovska Vodka... simply pure directly out of the freezer, or with apple juice (don't kill me Vondur ;P ... ).. You should try... :) 

I had one of the strangest experiences of my life visiting a game development team today and now I am drinking to wash it all into my subconscious.

O_O 

How expensive does this vodka have to be, ijed? When I was at uni, I found Tesco Finest to be the best. It was better than all the well known brands, and a couple of quid cheaper too. I agree that just buying the cheapest you can find will only yeild bad results in the case of alchol, but I think you need to try various brands to see which is the best taste for the money, and to determine you skank threshold.

With beer, I won't sink to tenants super or any of the other tramp beers you can get. In fact, I've really gone off most lagers, and drink real ale if I'm in a pub. In Japan I have lager, because there is little else, and the lager is fairly decent. In the UK, it's fairly disgusting (but real ales pwn lager)

By the way, drinking 1/3-1/2 a pint of vodka very quickly is a relatively painless way to get drunk too. It's pretty bad at first, but you don't feel it after a minute or two. The drunken effect kicks in very quickly too. I've only done this once, and won't do it again, since I don't really drink to get drunk these days...

...I drink to take away the bitter taste of death and take away the pain and endless suffering in my life!

Ok, that's a lie, I rarely drink because it's expensive :( 

I'm not much of a drinker, so bleh.
You drink any of those Chu-hi things in Japan than? I really like those, but I guess you can't really call it true alcohol. 

Zubrowka is cheap in Japan :) Same price as in Poland (under 4 EUR if someone is interested). At least it was two years ago.
So, than just go for it and don't forget to use JPL's recipe (apple juice, citron, ice) 

went for the tramp beer a few times in my youth - good old special brew.

It tastes like devil piss but after the second gulp all your taste buds are paralyised . . .

for lager, in england at least, you should find your nearest sam smiths brewery pub, they�re all in the north but the lager is very nice indeed. It�s powerful as well and comes in three varieties, from normal to rocket fuel: eingerbrau, eingerbrau pills and prinz. I wouldn�t reccomend going for pills first off, its 6%, same as prinz but not as nice tasting.

and best off; samuel smiths pubs are very cheap.

beer I used to avoid (don�t really have a choice here in SA) but my favourite is a real ale (northern again) called summer lightening, with its seasonal counterpoint being winter lightening. Very nice stuff - you don�t want to finish your pint and make an effort to just sip it, but cos it�s so nice as soon as you�re distracted you end up drinking half of it by accident.

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I worked in pubs for five years. 

drum roll...

Northern Glory. It was the special when I went into my favourite pub once, but the next time I went (quite a while later, because said pub is small and always full) they didn't have any :( As a result, I've only had it once.

I think all the best ale must be from the north. I've not hear of Sam Smiths Breweries, but I will check it out if I ever see one.

Bal: yes, I like ume-chu the best. ume-shu (similar taste, but not fizzy, and probably aimed at older folk) is also very good. Not terribly fond of sake though. I'm not really keen on spirits, but I prefer both whiskey and vodka to sake. 

In Japan I have lager, because there is little else, and the lager is fairly decent.

Asahi SUPER DRY, pretty good tipple that, goes with the food too I reckon. 

My favorite is Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout
(Ironically, made in California by the North Coast Brewing Co.).

It really has an interesting rich taste, and runs about 9%...

http://www.planetquake.com/pjw/grafix/rasputin.jpg 

everyone mix their vodka/whiskey with soda water, water and ice so it doesn't taste anything, they do this to bear too with lots of ice so all the taste is washed away :/ 

they do this to bear too

Poor bear. Do they do it to cybears? 

Summer Lightning is not a northern beer, it's brewed in Wiltshire ffs. It is very nice though.

It's almost as inaccurate to say that all good real ales are from the north of England, there's plenty of good beer to be found in Somerset, Gloucestershire, Suffolk -- even London! 

1.) Tequila is gross.
2.) Vodka is great, especially Absolut.
3.) Everclear is great too, in small quantities. Like Vodka, but less tasty and more powerful.
4.) Salud. 

Too bad Zwiffle has never had Guinness. Yet. I'll have to see what I can do about that. 

I had some Guinness Drought around Christmas. Y'know, beer's not all that great, at least the stuff I had, but Guinness kinda grew on me. I still prefer Vodka though. And lolicon. I MEAN WHO SAID THAT OMG. 

You just haven't had the right beer yet. There's beer, and then there's BEER, if you know what I mean. Don't listen to those people who tell you that Budweiser is good, or even real, beer. However, if you need to satisfy a sweet tooth while drinking, there's always hard cider. Wow, that stuff is nice. 

Is like saying food isn't good. There's a ridiculously wide range of beer tastes and types.

And yeah, hard cider is quite nice.

Tequila with Dr. Pepper is a pretty good combo. It's like the two tastes end up in a drunken embrace saying "Oh no, you're the greatest" over and over. 

 

heheh - offended southerner?

only thought summer / winter lightning was northern cos its the only place I ever drank / saw it.

And yeah there are some nice ales below the divide but there�s more in the north, though they�re not necessarily all nice.

Guinness is lovely stuff and used to be my drink of choice but after a few you find it hard to stand cos you�ve got a iron-rich bowling ball in your gut.

Hard cider is great stuff - went to a party last year of a mate of me dad�s who brews his own on his farm in big fukin kegs. He had two varieties, normal and clear. The normal was pretty strong but the clear stuff you had to drink in a shot glass cos otherwise it�d send you blind. 

Leffe Blonde is a so-called Belgian Abbey beer and since I discovered it (here in the UK), I look out for it in every pub I visit. I can't get enough of the stuff. If they do it on tap (which one of my locals does), it comes in a poncy custom glass (a bit like a wine glass) and at 6.6% it gets you in the party mood fairly quickly :}

I've noticed it popping up in quite a few pubs and bars in bottled form, and there's a darker variant, Leffe Brune, which I've only seen in supermarkets.

Very awesome and unique tasting beer. Highly recommended. 

Come on, if you're going to talk about beer, accuracy is important!

I'm grew up the east midlands, not a place good beer comes from...

(Ill, not drunk, and not happy about either).

Kinn: get ye to belgium and drink.