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[GoGo Yubari]

Hard liquor: Vodka.

Wine: Grape vodka.

Beer: None.

Mixed drinks: Double vodka, neat, with vodka.

We'd get along.

[Benjamin Shepherd]

Why does everyone here drink so much

[Saede Riordan]

Why does everyone here drink so much

because we have problems, and alcohol is a great way of not solving them.

[Z.Sinraali]

Have you considered, Ben, that maybe, possibly, there might be a smidgen of sample bias at work in a thread asking people what their favorite alcohol by type is?

For example, I only drink for the social lubricant benefits, and then usually only beer, of which I have little preference other than 'Not Budweiser/Miller/other such crap'.

Though I do have a permanent soft spot in my heart for Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve. Probably because of residual branding effects from seeing the ads on TV as a youth.

[Boma Airaken]

To answer your question Ben, the reasons are many, and most of them personal, ranging from people just liking to get shithoused, the social lubrication factor, to self medication.

I drink a ton because I cannot survive without it. I have worst case scenario PTSD and maintaining a buzz all day allows me to function on a level that no medication has allowed me to so far. Fuck, even my shrink thinks it is working out well as long as I don't drive.

I have a wife and a kid, and I can't exist drooling in a fetal position.

[hellgremlin]

I DRINK BECAUSE IT MAKES FAT GIRLS FUCKABLE

[Boma Airaken]

I DRINK BECAUSE IT MAKES FAT GIRLS FUCKABLE

Also this.

[Graelyn]

Liquor: I prefer good Scotch, then cheap scotch, then Crown Royal if the pickings are slim. I prefer whiskey because my stomach can handle a lot more of it (hence: DRUNKRE!) than anything else without stability issues.
Unfortunately due to holes in my stomach and esophagus, I have to chug a shot, then chug a chaser (usually carbonated), otherwise I start bleeding down there, and that tastes nasty. Doing so several times in a row gets me drunk fast tho.

Wine: Avoid. Gives me morning headaches. People who disturb (read: MAKE LOUD NOISE "HEY HOW ARE YOU THIS MORNING!") risk real and unprovoked violence to be suddenly visited upon them. The only hangovers I've ever had to deal with came from Wine. Fuck that.

Beer: The darker and higher ABV %, the better. German and Belgian are best, Guinness or Newcastle Brown if I'm in a shitty store with no good selection. Samuel Adams has a few good seasonal beers now and then.

My favorite: Chimay Grande Reserve (Belgian Trappist Monk Beer)


Give me a bottle of this to pound down, and I may suddenly start behaving like life is wonderful.

[Vikarion]

I can't say that I enjoy alcohol for any other reason than the taste, and perhaps a very mild buzz. I try to avoid anything more than that - as I've noted before, I prefer to have complete control over my actions.

[Boma Airaken]

I can't say that I enjoy alcohol for any other reason than the taste, and perhaps a very mild buzz. I try to avoid anything more than that - as I've noted before, I prefer to have complete control over my actions.

Works different for everyone I suppose. If I had any sort of control over my actions I wouldn't be celebrating my tenth year of happy marriage and my child's 8th birthday.

ET to clarify: They were both the result of an epic bender.

[John Revenent]

Hard liquor: Vodka, Grey Goose.

Wine: Do not tend to drink wines..

Beer: Molson Canadian.

Mixed drinks: Caesar, Vodka and Clamato.. not Tomato Juice.

[Casiella]

Ben: I like the taste of (good) beer. I enjoy the feeling of having one or two; rarely do I have more than that. (/nod Vikarion)

But also: yeah, I expect the folks that rarely or never drink probably don't post a lot in threads asking them what they like to drink. Y'know.

[Vieve]

Beer: I prefer lambic and hard apple cider, but I'll tolerate beer as long as it doesn't taste like a rotten loaf of bread or weak vinegar strained through a bag of lawn clippings.

Wine:  Yes, please, I'll have another glass.  Especially if it's a Cakebread red.

Mixed Drinks: 

Summer:  Sapphire tonics. Georgia Iced Tea (brewed iced tea -- none of that instant crap -- with a shot of peach liqueur and a lemon twist).

Winter: Tart lemondrop martinis, hold the damn sugar and you'd better not be using a bottled mix.  Café Borgia (my favorite interpretation of one: a cappuccino with a shot of Cointreau, some orange peel and a drizzle of melted dark chocolate).

Vieve-Bane:

Cheap port or Madeira.  Even a small glass of either will give me a nasty headache. 

Ouzo, Sambuca, or any licorice based alcohol.  Want me out of a room fast?  Light up a clove cigarette and pour yourself a glass of that stuff.  After once drinking enough ouzo not to care about the nasty taste and smell, I lost several hours of my life.  Heck, I possibly might have lost the rest of it if my sainted then-apartment mate hadn't been in medical school.  (Other life lesson learned: have something more entertaining to do on a Friday night than drink liquor cabinet leftovers while cleaning out the refrigerator.)

I can't drink anything but Southern Comfort without throwing up, and I prefer it in Pepsi. It's nice and smooth, which is how I like it. It's not a kick in the teeth. It can sneak up on you though, it's so smooth you don't think you're getting drunk....then you try to do something like lift your next drink, and find you've lost the strength....

Southern Comfort and Coke (I can't stand Pepsi) was my first-time-around collegiate liquor of choice.

[Kazzzi]

I'll drink pretty much anything, but my favs are

Kostritzer, German black beer. Try it.

Dragonhead stout

Myer's rum

Drambuie, straight

[Vikarion]

I have to admit that I pretty much loathe rum. To me, it's only a half-step up from gasoline.