What the fuck do I do with this?

[Jasper]

Some wines I've had, maybe once in a while with certain foods.  But yeah, if I'm honest...

[LMNO]

Well, yeah.  But.  I'm afraid that I don't really want to drink "just" to get drunk anymore.  I kind of want a pleasant experience.  Or at least an experience that isn't close to choking down fortified flat Welchs' grape soda.

if getting drunk in and of itself is no longer a pleasant experience, why drink at all? I mean, let's not delude ourselves, the reality is that pretty much all booze tastes like crap and we wouldn't drink ANY of it "for the taste" if it contained no alcohol.

Your statement and my statement are in conflict.  Please read my statement again and answer in a more appropriate manner.

[Jasper]

Oh, missed that.  Gotcha.

[East Coast Hustle]

Well, yeah.  But.  I'm afraid that I don't really want to drink "just" to get drunk anymore.  I kind of want a pleasant experience.  Or at least an experience that isn't close to choking down fortified flat Welchs' grape soda.

if getting drunk in and of itself is no longer a pleasant experience, why drink at all? I mean, let's not delude ourselves, the reality is that pretty much all booze tastes like crap and we wouldn't drink ANY of it "for the taste" if it contained no alcohol.

Your statement and my statement are in conflict.  Please read my statement again and answer in a more appropriate manner.

apologies, dear chap. And you are quite right, Muffy and I dearly love a dram of good scotch before the canape course, and grand marnier is the only apertif one ever needs.
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[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Well, yeah.  But.  I'm afraid that I don't really want to drink "just" to get drunk anymore.  I kind of want a pleasant experience.  Or at least an experience that isn't close to choking down fortified flat Welchs' grape soda.

if getting drunk in and of itself is no longer a pleasant experience, why drink at all? I mean, let's not delude ourselves, the reality is that pretty much all booze tastes like crap and we wouldn't drink ANY of it "for the taste" if it contained no alcohol.

Getting drunk is no longer fun for me. Tipsy is fun. More than three-four drinks and I get headachy and a little nauseous, like a pre-hangover announcing the hangover to come... and so, I personally prefer to make every drink something I enjoy the act of drinking. This is why I still have a quantity of mediocre Scotch in my kitchen... I'd rather drink no alcohol than one I dislike.

[Jenne]

Dammit, my mom had a port-requiring recipe for which she was going to use the 25-year old bottle my dad unearthed from the stash of shit she managed to stockpile willy-nilly when he went in the clink.  My dad of course said FUCK NAW and just decanted it to get the chewy bits out.

Will ask the mothertypeunit what the fuck it was she was going to make before dad usurped the use of his own (while probably ill-begotten but still HIS) goods.

Also, I LURV ECH's recipe and will be making suchlike if I can get my hands on the ingredients.

[East Coast Hustle]

Well, yeah.  But.  I'm afraid that I don't really want to drink "just" to get drunk anymore.  I kind of want a pleasant experience.  Or at least an experience that isn't close to choking down fortified flat Welchs' grape soda.

if getting drunk in and of itself is no longer a pleasant experience, why drink at all? I mean, let's not delude ourselves, the reality is that pretty much all booze tastes like crap and we wouldn't drink ANY of it "for the taste" if it contained no alcohol.

Getting drunk is no longer fun for me. Tipsy is fun. More than three-four drinks and I get headachy and a little nauseous, like a pre-hangover announcing the hangover to come... and so, I personally prefer to make every drink something I enjoy the act of drinking. This is why I still have a quantity of mediocre Scotch in my kitchen... I'd rather drink no alcohol than one I dislike.

Now we're splitting hairs. You call it "tipsy" I call it "less drunk". Still intoxicated from alcohol regardless of what you call it. My point was that we've only taught ourselves to enjoy the taste of alcohol to ANY degree because of what it does to/for us. I don't think there is an alcoholic drink in existence that would be widely enjoyed for its taste if it contained no alcohol whatsoever.

[Slyph]

Mix it with sprite. Or cough syrup.

[East Coast Hustle]

Hell yeah. RoboPort. If there's anything more ghetto than that, I can't think of it.

[East Coast Hustle]

I had some cheap port a while back and made a "classier" version of the Classy Lady (Wild Irish Rose and Coca Cola mixed 50/50) with it. It was pretty "good".

[Triple Zero]

Wait I remember, mix it with IRN BRU !!!!

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Wait I remember, mix it with IRN BRU !!!!

[Triple Zero]

It's called "Iron Cock", that is, if the port is named "something cock or other". Payne made one for me. It's interesting. I can't really remember, but it wasn't awful or anything.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

It's called "Iron Cock", that is, if the port is named "something cock or other". Payne made one for me. It's interesting. I can't really remember, but it wasn't awful or anything.

best done outside in the irn bru bottle.

[Sepia]

If you still have the port, reduce it to 1/3, buy a block of cheap stilton, break it into chunks, put it in a box, add the port and some bay leaves and one star anise pod. Let sit cold and eat it with a spoon.