Wild Turkey barrel proof ...101+ will make you act like a turkey if ya drink enough...lol I think i may have posted something like this already.
Hot cider, mulled wine, mead, fruit and desert wine, and pretty much any good red wine. I also appreciate ale and whiskey.
Favorite, eh.... This is a tough one because I have so many. I'm generally a big red wine drinker, but lately I've been drinking India Pale Ale quite a bit. Beer-wise, I'm more of an ale/stout guy than someone who would go for Budweiser. Needless to say, I love Guinness, lol. I'm also a big fan of Single Malt Scotch as well, but whisk(e)y-wise sometimes I also gravitate toward bourbon or rye depending on my mood. JD which in fact is NOT bourbon is always nice, but I like Jim Beam(which IS bourbon), too. I like Crown Royal too, actually. Oh, and I also recently got into drinking martinis, lol.
Dirty Bastard Scottish Ale is my favorite Scottish ale. Old Rasputin is my favorite stout. I love scotch but it is so darn expensive, especially the good stuff.
Glenfiddich. You can never go wrong with a nice scotch whiskey. If I don't have the cash for that, then just good old beer (Generally larger and not the piss-water larger you americans like to drink ) or cider (Blackthorne or Good Old English) will do me nicely.
Homemade all the way. Beer, wine, shine, whatever. I prefer homegrown, too. I'm into self sufficiency. And I hate paying taxes on my buzz.
I was hoping to find a thread that asked this question! My favorite anymore is single malt Scotch. The "smokier" the better. For those of you unfamiliar with single malts, the smoky flavor comes from natural peat in the water. Perhaps the most pronounced tastes are in Scotches made on the Isle of Islay off the coast of Scotland. Of these, my favorite is Laphroaig. Michael Jackson's (no, not the musician) "Complete Guide to Single Malt Scotch" describes Laphroaig Scotches as follows. This is the most medicinal of malts. "Love it or hate it," said one of Laphroaig's advertising slogans (borrowed, without attribution, from a distinguished writer on whisky). Like hospital gauze? Reminiscent of mouthwash or antiseptic? Phenolic? That is the whole point: the iodine-like, seaweed character of Islay. I love the stuff, but many friends can't take it. The most common reaction is that it tastes like dirt. Fine! That leaves more for me!
Besides Scotch (see above) I'm partial to margaritas, wine (dry reds), and beer. My favorite beers are Molson, Labatt's, and Negra Modelo. Some of the micro brews aren't bad. Back when micro brews got started, so many were trying to find a "unique" flavor that they started pushing out undrinkable crap. Somewhere along the line they figured out that beer still needs to taste like beer. At a micro brewery I can usually find some pretty good local beers - not so 10-15 years ago.
I'm looking forward to this summer when I can start fermenting Mesquite beans of various types. I found some in a damp spot which had slightly fermented au naturale and they had this really rich sweet yeasty aroma that just screamed "Make beer from me" at me. (Screwbean Mesquite but I'd bet the other varieties would do nicely too.)
