What Is Everyone's Favorite Drink?

[nevadamedic]

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is good to.

[nevadamedic]

Also Mike's Hard Lemonade and Jack Daniel's Coolers are really good.

[Kathianne]

I had some kind of liquor made from sugar cane, but I can't remember what it was. It was Mexican, I believe. The bartender at the local Mexican restaurant has gotten to be a buddy of mine, and he occassionally brings in some off-the-wall liquor from his home country that he makes me try.

I forgot to add that the stuff I had was very good, TOO good, really, as it went down very smooth but had a strong kick to it.

I found this, which sounds alot like rum, which you are fond of, no? It's Brazilian:

Cachaca

Note, it's an 'education' site, lol!

http://www.american.edu/TED/cachaca.htm

Identification

The Issue:
Unknown to many outside Brazil, the cultural significance of cachaça, a distilled liquor, ranks among soccer, carnival, and samba. Although non-Brazilian’s compare cachaça to rum, their only similarity is that they both originate from sugarcane. Cachaça first gained popularity among slaves and peasants during Brazil’s colonial period but the spirit has recently become a favorite domestically and internationally regardless of the drinker’s class. Also, Brazilian cachaça exports to Europe and the United States have been aided by the trendy drink caipirinha. The cocktail’s global success has inspired other Caribbean and South American states to produce their own cachaça-like alcohols. Consequently, the Brazilian government has initiated protectionist measures at home and abroad to preserve cachaça’s foreign markets. These developments bring together cachaça’s trade, cultural, and environmental aspects.

Description:
No one knows for sure who began cachaça production, but everyone agrees that it began somewhere between 1530 and 1550. Around this time, sugarcane had been introduced to Brazil as a cash crop by their colonial motherland Portugal. Slaves, who planted and harvested the sugarcane, were given leftover cane juice from the milling process and let it ferment to produce an alcoholic beverage. As an incentive, plantation owners often promised slaves this fermented cane juice once they had completed their work. Eventually, someone realized that by boiling the fermented juice a more potent libation Cachaca Distillationwas produced, marking the birth of cachaça. At this point, wealthy Brazilians regarded cachaça as a poor man’s drink and thus preferred European alternatives. However, this did not stop cachaça from becoming an integral part of Brazilian culture. It is estimated Brazilians consume close to 350 million gallons of cachaça per year – about two gallons per person.

There are roughly 30,000 small producers along with a few handfuls of large cachaça producers in Brazil. Because the distillation process is relatively easy compared to other liquors and because sugarcane is so abundant in Brazil, the business can be is open to anyone. Sugarcane is first milled to extract its juice, then fermented for about 24 hours, and finally boiled until it an 80-proof substance emerges. Cachaça is usually bottled soon after distillation but some have tried to fashion new varieties by aging cachaça much like whiskey. The Brazilian legislation indicates that cachaça must be aged for at least one year in barrels no larger than 700 liters for the legitimate use of the “aged” appellation. Brazilians aging their cachaça use a variety of woods for their barrels, including Brazilian woods such as imburana, cedar, freijó, and jequitibá and American and European oak, which give the liquor a smoother, rounder taste. In addition, a third type of cachaça, called “yellow” cachaça, is made by merely adding caramel or wood extracts directly into the drink without aging causing the cachaça to have a much sweeter taste. Regardless of the variety, cachaça should not be confused with rum, which is distilled from the molasses left over after sugar refinement. However, the mistake is made; cachaça imports into the United States are taxed as rum and cachaça is sometimes referred to as Brazilian rum.

Cachaça’s export capability was uncertain until the caipirinha became a bestseller in bars across Europe, United States, and Japan. The cocktail combines crushed limes, sugar, ice, and cachaça to produce a sweet and zesty flavor packed with alcoholic intensity. But since cachaça and caipirinha were associated with drunkness and the lower classes, not until recently when the drinks began to be marketed as fun, exciting, and tropical have exports grown....

[nevadamedic]

Blow Jobs are pretty good too, same with screaming orgasm's

[dan]

ummm Genious the only Beers I like are Corona, Heinekin and Fat Tire.

What's Fat Tire?

[dan]

I found this, which sounds alot like rum, which you are fond of, no? It's Brazilian:

Cachaca

Note, it's an 'education' site, lol!

You had me then you lost me!

That may actually be what I had. I'll talk to mi amigo at Teresa's next time I'm in there.

[Kathianne]

You had me then you lost me!

That may actually be what I had. I'll talk to mi amigo at Teresa's next time I'm in there.

Look at the 'link', I think it's a university, where 'serious study' of liquor is not suprising.

[nevadamedic]

What's Fat Tire?

Beer, Dark Beer.

[dan]

Look at the 'link', I think it's a university, where 'serious study' of liquor is not suprising.

And to think I wasted the best five years of my life studying English!

[Kathianne]

And to think I wasted the best five years of my life studying English!

Is there anything more entertaining than quoting Shakespeare with 3 rum and Cokes inside of one?

[nevadamedic]

Is there anything more entertaining than quoting Shakespeare with 3 rum and Cokes inside of one?

Shakespeare is pretty good. I was in Romeo and Juliet when I was in school. I like some of the movies they made loosely on his plays like A Mid Summer Nights Rave it's obvious what that is based after and She's The Man based on Twelfth Night.

[dan]

Shakespeare's good, but not good to read after 3 R&C's! That's Hemingway time, there.

[Abbey Marie]

Shakespeare's good, but not good to read after 3 R&C's! That's Hemingway time, there.

If I had 3 rum & cokes, the only thing I'd be reading is the inside of my eyelids.

[diuretic]

If I had 3 rum & cokes, the only thing I'd be reading is the inside of my eyelids.

Years ago (when I was much younger) I was in a pub in an outback town I worked in and me and a mate sat down at a table (it was a rather nice pub witih waiting staff in the lounge and dining room). The waitress (whom we knew) came over and asked what we would have to drink. My mate looked up at the waitress and said:

"Jug*of scotch and coke please Vera, " and then he looked at me, "and what are you having?"



(*you might call it a "pitcher")

[dan]

If I had 3 rum & cokes, the only thing I'd be reading is the inside of my eyelids.

For me, it depends on the setting. For example, if I sit down at home by myself and have a drink while I watch a movie or something, yeah, put puts me to sleep, but if I'm in a bar, I can drink quite a few. I don't know how many, I'm kind of over my "I've had _____ drinks tonight!!!!!!!!!!" phase.