Choose: Drink less or buy cheaper booze?

[noshenanigans]

I'm leaning towards the "cheaper booze" thing, but I don't wanna be the girl with the Boon's Farm.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Compromise and drink hard liquor!

Jack isn't too expensive!

[TSIAS]

21. I love Jack Daniel's

I can usually find the big 1.75 L bottle for somewhere between $30-35.

[Left Is Write]

2. I personally would drink less and have the good stuff.

[blm]

3. Drink less and savor the good stuff.

Works for me.

[edbermac]

4. NO NO NO!!! Remember the old phrase 'Quality not quantity'

That rotgut will kill you...

:beer:

[Seabiscuit]

47. Ditto. Some 18 year old malt. A fine French wine.

Sip it, savor it, make it last.

Rotgut just rots your gut.

[sui generis]

5. mmmm boons farm strawberry wine

(blech - I tried it once, didn't swallow, get your mind outta the gutter)

I'd rather drink a little less on a budget than drink swill. I likes my Wild Turkey though, but can sub Crown and Jack when desperate.

[bif]

6. Buy a half gallon of cheap scotch

Best way to stretch your $. I think Lauders is around $19 for a 1.75L bottle.

[tk2kewl]

7. Aren't you supposed to drink the cheap stuff after you're already drunk

anyway? :shrug:

[MrScorpio]

8. Life is too short to drink cheap booze

Get the better stuff and drink less of it.

[sundog]

9. drink less of better quality stuff

[tjdee]

10. That reminds me, I need a drink.

:silly:

Are mudslides good (apologies to CA)? I don't like rum, but I remember having one once that was like a milkshake--did that bartender make it wrong?

We should all probably drink less, in the interest of health and all that.

[Floogeldy]

24. You came to the right place

Rum has no business in a mudslide. Its not cheap but it is my favorite drink right now.

Make it with about one-half vodka, one-fourth Kahlua, and one-fourth Bailey's Irish Creme. You might want to fiddle with the recipe to get the right balance.

And, yes, it does taste like a milkshake! It's hard not to chug it.

I'm gonna go make one right now.

:toast:

[tjdee]

38. Good recipe...

I don't like rum.

I was considering getting the ready made mudslide--but I think it has rum in it. :(

Thanks so much for the vodka recipe--sounds much better.
Mmm.

[Floogeldy]

39. Yum yum yum yum yum yum

Only drink them with someone you trust!

[StopTheMorans]

11. cheaper booze, go mad dog 20/20

and you'll never go back :D

[Worst Username Ever]

12. Silver Wolf vodka.

C'mon, be a man.

[JVS]

13. Cheaper booze, but make sure that it's the best cheap booze you can find

Don't waste money on $25 bottles of vodka when there are some perfectly nice $9-$12 vodkas

[Butterflies]

14. Doesn't the cheap stuff cause worse hangovers?

I don't drink much because I hate hangovers. I'd spend more and drink less to avoid the misery of "the morning after".

[GOPisEvil]

15. Life is too short to drink crappy booze.

[JVS]

16. Life's too short to have to save up money for overpriced bourgeois booze

[funkybutt]

17. I've tried both!

currently going through a "drinking less" phase...but that will probably pass.

[northzax]

18. if you really have to make this heartwrenching choice

I reccomenend skipping food. getting your calories from booze is faster, and you'll be able to afford more!@

[sendero]

19. Hmmm...

.... you leave me puzzled since you mention "booze" and "wine".

Anyway....

If it's beer, I say get cheaper and drink the same amount.
If it's wine, I say get cheaper and drink the same amount.

If it's really booze, it depends on the booze. Never drink cheap tequila, its horrible. Some cheap vodkas are ok, some will kill ya. Some cheap gin is ok, some will kill ya. Whiskey/bourbon, cheap stuff will kill ya :)

[WMliberal]

20. You can make cheap vodka taste great by running it through a Brita filter.

Crystal Light lemonade masks gross vodka if you don't have a Brita filter.

Cheap gin can be masked well with ginger ale. You can make a double strength gin and giner that tastes as strong as a one shot gin and tonic.

[noshenanigans]

22. wow.. that's awesome.

I have one of those Brita squirt bottles.. I wonder if that will do it.

[WMliberal]

53. ha. better tasting vodka for your alcoholic on the go!

[livinginphotographs]

23. Drink cheaper booze.

Milkwaukees Best (aka the Beast) does the job just as well as the expensive stuff.

Um, I've heard.

[noshenanigans]

25. oooh, The Beast!

That brings back some college for me. (Well, I'm only 25, so it's not that hard.. but still.)

We would always get 2 kegs of, like, Killians, then fill the rest with Bug Light. No one ever said anything.

[livinginphotographs]

26. I'm only 24

So don't act all old on me. ;)

We could never afford kegs of killians. All the keggers I've been to involved tons and tons of Natty Ice. *yech*

[noshenanigans]

27. Wow..

It's nice to see someone in my age-range here. I've never been a big fan of Natty Ice, but I do have the uncanny ability to drink whatever's in the keg.

The plus side of being a girl may be that I was always offered shots really early. :)

[livinginphotographs]

28. Another plus side

Is that you're not expected to drink as much as a "normal" guy.

Not that I can't. *penis envy ensues*

[noshenanigans]

29. ooh, really true..

I always hated going drinking with guys that couldn't hold their liquor. Like, I'm a girl and can really hold my booze, but when a guy I was around got drunk.. well, he "just had too much".. whether it was 10 shots or nothing at all.

[livinginphotographs]

30. You sound like my kind of girl.

:naughty eyebrows:

[noshenanigans]

31. Yeeeah, I get that a lot...

You should've met me in college.... :) I'm tame now in comparison.

[livinginphotographs]

33. Didn't you say you were 25?

Or is that someone else?

[noshenanigans]

34. Yup, 25.

Depending on how you look at the world, I was either a) A really smart kid who happened to graduate in 2001, or b) A film major who managed to smoke my way through graduation.

[livinginphotographs]

35. And you've grown up already?!!!

For shame!

[noshenanigans]

36. now that *totally* depends on your definition...

I'm not a "grown up" by any stretch of the imagination! I own.. well, a laptop. Other than that, I don't own Jack. My 30-year-old sister just had a baby.. I think it made me even more insistent on my no-strings lifestyle.

[bettyellen]

32. i read on a thread here if you put cheap vodka

through a britta filter three times, it's better than stoli.
don't drink cheap whiskey or scotch. it's never good.
:beer:

[livinginphotographs]

50. That sounds like an interesting idea.

I'll report back.

[Schema Thing]

37. I'm a *drink less* kinda guy.

I really do drink for taste & only mild buzz, so I'm into quality over quantity.

But damn! The price of good booze...:thumbsdown:

[Telly Savalas]

42. Moi aussi.

As I see it, if you're just looking to numb your brain, huffing gasoline would be a cheaper option.

[dean_dem]

54. I heard pounding your skull with a mallet gets a killer buzz.

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Don't anyone go try that or anything.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

40. Drink the better stuff

The hangovers aren't nearly as bad.

[Seabiscuit]

49. Did you know that one bottle of Andre's or Korbel will give you a

splitting headache the next day?

Whereas two bottles of Veuve Clicquot and you'll wake up refreshed the next day.

Better yet, half a bottle of Veuve Clicquot. Share it with a friend.

[EstimatedProphet]

41. Drink less

The good stuff is worth it. The bad stuff can be a trip to the ER.

[EstimatedProphet]

43. BTW here's a good reason to avoid the real cheap stuff...

Apparently, the origin of the term rotgut doesn't have anything to do with how it affects the human digestive system. "Rotgut" whiskey came about in the 1800's when medical schools would try to get cadavers for research and teaching., and the cadavers were usually packed in whiskey barrels with cheap distilled spirits. Students who didn't have any money would, if they wanted a drink, strain out the floating bits of organs left by the cadavers...
Hence, "rotgut whiskey". Stick with the expensive stuff.

[Butterflies]

51. That can't be true

nobody could possibly want a drink that badly.

[EstimatedProphet]

52. That's the story I heard

May be an urban legend, but it's a darn good one.

[Threedifferentones]

44. Cheaper booze!

[Dirk39]

45. Drink more and buy or steal more expensive booze...

Lord, I hate those moderate democrats...

Prost from Germany,
Dirk

[sleipnir]

46. Cheaper booze. Geting tanked is too important.

Hickup....hicup....hicksup.....fushitkupt...

[UdoKier]

48. Definitely drink less.

I hate crap booze. Besides, I don't need to be soused. Just a very light buzz is best.

[meganmonkey]

55. How about 'Eat Less and Buy Good Booze'

Hee hee