At risk of sounding like a wine cave lib (couldn't find the emojis), wine. It's versatile AF, and small, independent, artisanal winemakers (many of them vinegrowers, too, a lot of the agricultural work behind wine is overlooked so much) are really cool people. It sucks that so much of the wine world has been taken over by the bourgeois and petit bourgeois, and their wannabe acolytes, and that it's become (it kind of always has been) such a strong class marker, when it's such a wonderful drink, and a great gateway drug to speaking about food in different ways. I very much hate people who feel superior just because they know a thing or two about wine, when it's a thing to enjoy, like all food should be.

love a margarita, nothing frozen or fancy, just good silver tequila, lime, and syrup

Old fashioned. Don't know quite what it is but it hits every angle just right

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Anytime I've had anything with alcohol in it I've thought "this would probably taste good if it wasn't for the alcohol". I must just have baby taste buds.

A Pan-Galactic Gargle-Blaster

My friends and I call them "Death Claws"

1/2 black cherry white claw 1/2 ready made cherry margarita mix Optional: a shot of tequila

It's cheap you can sip on it or just chug it and get real fucked up

Stout/porter.

I've been into soju lately, especially a peach or pineapple flavor, but more importantly eggnog season is back. I'll be drinking that for the next few months

Double rum and diet coke stays winning

a fauxjito edit oh wait i read that wrong. a bees knees!

amaretto sour

When I was still boozing I loved a good, simple whiskey sour

vodka

I'm a craft beer nerd. I'm huge into IPAs but can agree that the market has become oversaturated. But I genuinely like most other styles as well.

I've recently gotten back into a red wine kick after finding out that Ménage à Trois is vegan so yay for cheap but good wine that isn't filtered with animal parts.

piss

I'm partial to local ciders

I love basically any gin based cocktail, hell even gin neat tastes good to me. Other than that I love ciders of all kinds.

Yes, I like piña coladas

Much like my coffee wankerism in the other thread, I'm a beer nerd too - always been into dark beers though, so imperial stouts are my favourite, but stout season is ending in Australia. Guess I'll be on the oat cream IPAs for the foreseeable future.

Otherwise, Old Fashioned is probably my favourite cocktail/mixed drink. You can't beat a good one. I tend to make a fuckaround one at home with brown sugar and orange bitters

Bourbon, but I've been off booze for nearly a year now

I had to give it up (I went on a wild bender due to COVID depression and I tried to dry myself out and woke up in the hospital, not good!)

But I used to like a good bourbon. Ice cube in the summer, splash of water in the winter.

Or a gin and tonic with fresh mint leaves crushed up. Super refreshing on a warm summer evening.

Long Island Iced Tea is my fav. I think what I like is that it tastes very strong... but is in fact way stronger than you even think it is.

A vegan irish coffee

whiskey water/coke or a pale lager

Rum & Lemonade

It's hard to choose one, but maybe a Peruvian Pisco sour. It tastes like lime juice, but is probably over 30% abv. Bellinis are great too when you can get them with a decent peach puree.

I like beer, I generally don't drink liquor because I've had problems with alcohol in the past and it makes it easier for me to keep my consumption under control. I would say I like craft beers but that usually implies 'west coast double dry hopped mango IPA.' I prefer locally made, high quality beers that aren't too over the top and trend closer to the traditional ingredients and recipes. Not just IPAs either! I absolutely LOVE saisons, either local or import. You can never go wrong with Saisons Dupont.

white rum with carbonated water or water depending on what i have at hand

I like a g&t with a splash of grapefruit juice, or maybe with some muddled pineapple sage sitting in the gin for a couple minutes before the tonic, or butterfly pea flowers.

I like to brew my own cider and fruit wines. Can't go wrong with an imperial cider or perry plus a berry like blueberry or strawberry

Scotch when I can afford it. More often the It's cheap Brandy I'm actually drinking lol. Also, stouts and ales in terms of beer.

Kahlua. Captain Morgan rum. Vanilla ice cream. Root beer. Combine, put in freezer for hour, til it becomes a slushy freeze. Vanilla ice cream at top, slushy root beer ice at bottom. Tastes best if you drink it with a straw.

usually just a vodka neat, straight out of the freezer. though sometimes a moscow mule is nice.

Unfortunately im fked by genetics so alcohol makes me have a allergic reaction basically