/ck/ - Food & Cooking

what is paraffin

>>20455184
It's specifically sold and marketed as a mixing scotch, not really sure what you expect.

>>20455186
NTA, it's a product made from crude oil.
>>20455184
Yes, that shit is terrible.

>*who cares*
Treat it like all other alcohol (which all tastes like shit): take a shot, chase it down with a non-diet soda.

Ever notice how everyone loves a nice delicious soda straight from the fridge, but alcohol culture is purely centered around coming up with all these retarded, complex concoctions? Know why? It's because alcohol tastes like SHIT. Stop trying to put lipstick on the shit. It's still shit. Drink the shit, then chase it down, you pretentious faggot.

>>20455184
Picrel is surprisingly good if you like peatiness.

>>20455184
blue and even blakc label are quite pleasant but red is absolutely vile
>>20455192
there are many products in this price range or cheaper that are far better both for drinking neat and mixing, red label overpowers the drink even in small concentration

>>20455212
I tried blue label once and didn't care for it. It was harsh with a pronounced alcohol burn. I find black label to be a lot smoother, but that might just be me because I like smoky scotch. At best, I think I can say that blue label is overpriced for what it is.

>>20455221
>>20455212
Blue is overpriced (though I have a bottle sitting next to me), it's got a fine taste to it, but it's just a bit weak and doesn't linger as long as it should (for its price).
Of all of the Johnnie Walkers' Green and Gold are the best. 18 year (formerly Platinum) is decent but a bit too expensive. Black is fine if you just want a cheap blend with some smoke. Red is fine if you just want a cheap mixed drink (and by cheap i mean $5-7).

>>20455228
Yeah, Black is our everyday scotch. Our special-occasion scotch is Lagavulin 16. Note that we are not connoisseurs especially; we just like what we like.

Ok, I guess we can all agree that red is useless.
The other colours may perhaps have some use.

>>20455230
Lag 16 is great if you like that profile.
A bit expensive, but still affordable.

If it ever hits $200+ just kill me.

>>20455202
This is my favorite liquor. I like it more than other scotches because of how unpeaty it is.

For me it's Wild Turkey 101. The best liquor

>>20455386
Well shit, man, sounds like you might have some kind of problem

>>20455184
How do you know what parafin tastes like

>>20455184
its red label, its the youngest and most rough and the price reflects that.

>>20455184
The green one is actually pretty good for the price
But at that point I just buy the le frog 10

all scotch whisky is crude shit anyway. thankfully people are remembering that fact after a century of baffling success for bottled paint stripper.

whiskey or bourbon always. never go scotch.

>>20455727
all whisky is good
Scotch, bourbon, Irish, japanese, etc.

>>20455618
Laphroaig, even just the basic 10 year is getting harder to find, and more expensive. Up to $60/bottle and anything besides the basic 10 year is an allocated release bottle so you can't just walk in and buy them.

Johnnie walker is basically always available.

>>20455202
>I love the peatiness taste
Whisky drinkers really like the taste of fucking dirt?

>>20455804
Yes, and iodine/antiseptic, unironically.

JOHNNIE WALKER
BLUE LABEL
OHHHHHHHH YEEEEEAAAAAAAH

>*pukes*
Gastroenteritisfags are miserable

>>20455844
when I drank a single glass of it, I could feel a nic, yet soft pleasurable drunkness
that shit must be insane to get drunk on

>>20455850
Louis XIV is better

>>20455850
I'm a novice drinker, do different types of booze give different experiences of drunkenness?

>>20455863
No. Moreso how easily you can get crunk off it. Something more eloquent will be bitter but palpable whereas something cheap will make you retch and vomit.

>>20455863
it'd be a crime if it wasn't
>>20455863
all I know is that I've only gotten euphoric drunkness out of good quality beers and whisky

>>20455790
Oh really, I hadn't noticed this yet in my area, I still get it for 40-45 euros or so
Should I stock up?

>>20455618
>le frog
Based.

>>20455804
i love to sniff permanent markers

>>20455901
Based

>>20455192
>mixing scotch
What's the most based mixed drink using scotch?

>>20455901
most retards do

>>20455863
People will say no but then instantly turn around and say that there is a major difference in the hangovers. So obviously, yes, the other non-alcohol substances change the experience somewhat. It's subtle but it's there. More important is the set and setting aspect though. If I'm sipping scotch I'm in a different mindset than crushing a 12er of beers. Tequila, wine, gin, etc... it's more about my state of mind than about the physical components of the liquor. But the physical components do make a difference.

>>20455184
I think it tastes like parafilm.

>>20455186
Jet fuel

>>20455853
Try looking for Laubaude 1888, it's the Armagnac equivalent of Louis XIV

>>20457330
>Laubaude 1888

Louis XIII is cheap in comparison

>>20455184
for me, red label tastes like iodine and liquid smoke.

>>20456534
So does that mean that you liked it or not?

>>20456493
scotch and ginger ale

>>20455197
Pretty much this. Alcohol tastes like shit and everyone tries to act like it doesn't but nobody is drinking for the taste. That's why non-alcoholic beer is such a non-starter in the commercial market.
>>20455744
A couple of years back I was house sitting for my Dad out in a rural area and the local bottle shop sold the cheapest Scotch I'd ever seen. Actually was kind of decent for the price, too. I was regularly getting drunk every 3rd or 4th night because of it.

>>20455863
No. Ethanol is ethanol.
Anyone who says anything like 'wine relaxes me more' or 'tequila makes me go wild' is a fucking idiot. Things like sugar content and sulfates can give you a worse hangover, but other than that it's all the fucking same. A .20 BAC from 12 year scotch will feel the exact same as a .20 BAC from Miller Lite.

>>20455197
fucking lol
alcohol gets you high
thats it

and some of it tastes great
wines for example
scotches take getting used to - but even a bland whisky gets you up.

you guys are such fucking newbs in the worst way

>>20459667
mathematically true but incorrect
do you know what it takes to get to .2 with miller light?

FUCKING LOL

its unlikely to feel the same at all

>>20455197
hellava long post for somebody accusing people of being pretentious fags

>>20459577
non-alcoholic beer tastes way worse than real beer

>>20459667

The drunkenness might feel the same the hangover can vary. Dark liquors are more of a headache, clear liquors makes my joints ache, wine wrecks my inards, and beer makes me feel bloated.

>>20459577
non-alc beer is a "non starter" because PEOPLE LIKE THE FUCKING ALCOHOL
and tat beer is for people who really like a beer but want of the wheel of drunkenness

>>20460142
clear / brown meh, dont buy it, but sure everyone is different

its really about percentages and how the drink encourages behavior. a glass of wine likely does mellow someone out because its x% alcohol consumed at a certain rate. tequila likely gets a certain response because its3 to 4 times more potent (say 40% to 1--14% wine) and you consume it 4x as fast.

yeah at the end of the day its all ethanol or whatever it is but also at the end of the day its exactly not the same and so simple.

>>20455184
>god I wish I had something to make this coke taste more like peat moss

>>20461081
thats not a mossy scotch and if youre doing high balls like that you should really just use a lighter irish whisky

if youre drinking something that makes you feel for your wallet, id recommend not mixing save for some ice or a touch of sparkling water

>>20455186
Imitation whale blubber.

>>20461134
I've always been a sucker for real whale blubber.

>>20460949
Beer tastes good. There are lots of times I want to taste beer but don't to want or can't consume alcohol. The real problem with alcohol free beer is that it's expensive to get it as close to beer as they currently get, and they're still not very close. If you could get a beer flavored non-alcoholic beverage for the price of soda, it would be popular.

>>20461176
>If you could get a beer flavored non-alcoholic beverage for the price of soda, it would be popular.
A subscription for athletic brewing Co is like $2 per non-alcoholic beer when bought in quantities of 30+

>>20455184
Not a fan, but I'll mix it with coke if I get a nice discount nearby. I tend to prefer Famous Grouse if it's on discount though.
I never really got the hype around red label, the black label is good for the price, but I don't care for the others save for green label which is nice.

Currently got these 2 for the coming days since I have days off and I plan to play vidya and get fucked up and enjoy life a bit while smoking pipe / drinking.

>>20461272
Redbreast 12 is good stuff for the price.

>>20461272
this is how i beat Jedi Fallen Order
when friends asked how i got through specific section though id be like "fuck if i can remember"

This one is my favourite.

>>20461275
Around 50 euros but I work in a winery that has a small yet proper whiskey section so I get amazing discounts.
>>20461804
I play MMOs mostly, but gettting drunk in vc with friends is always peak comfy.

>>20461924
I'm paying $55 USD. So more or less the same.

>>20460142
One more step and you'll be there. The components of your drink that lead to the nasty hangover start impacting you while you're still drunk. I don't know how someone can say that the hangover is wildly different but the drunk is the same. Both of those things are happening at the same time. The sulfites in your wine or whatever else are in the glass from the first drink. It doesn't magically just start effecting you only tomorrow morning.

>>20455184
Yes it's disgusting shit. If you want something cheap drink Tullamore Dew or something, at least that's not terrible for the price.

>>20455184
>>*tastes like paraffin*
Paraffin has very little taste. Definitely not burned cork like cheapo trying hard whisky taste.

>>20455863
>I'm a novice drinker, do different types of booze give different experiences of drunkenness?
Drinking carbonated drinks (sparkling wine, soda coctails, beer chaser after shot) get you instant light drunk buzz.
Drinking booze brings slow steady building drunkenness.
That is pretty much all difference you can experience about drunkenness itself.

>>20455184
for me, it's this garbage over ice with soda water and a big squeeze of lemon

Whiskey thread?
Just bought mellow corn for the first time, gonna try it tonight, should have bought it for the meme years ago.

>>20455804
Why are your parents letting you browse this shithole?

>>20455184
this is genuenly my favourite drink in the whole world , idk how you dislike it

>>20461804
Did you play it on grandmaster. It felt like torturing myself for no reason during some of the mob fights. The bosses weren't too bad but the ship arena fight and the bit on Kashyyk where you have the waves of stormtroopers then the double ATs was brutal.

>>20465877
im actually a total game newb.

i played through on story mode!!!
Was my first game. Currently stuck in the Haxion Broos arena fighting bugs in a harder mode. still bugs tough as fuck

>>20456493
scotch and soda

>>20466017
Fuck you and your pathetic blog

I love me some fancy single malt scotches but when I see an 1L Jameson bottle discounted to about 22 bucks then I will always pick it up
God tier for mixing but pretty alright even straight

>>20466029
I did as thus,
>frozen ginger chunks (the ass end of my frozen roots i didn't grate bc i dont want to shave my fingertips off) then the rest of the glass filled with ice. maybe 3 shots of scotch and a 7.5oz can of club soda, filling the glass to the top

>>20466073
never had a conversation that didnt start and end with "fuck you" huh?

>>20466097
could you taste the ginger?

>>20466084
I'm not usually a Jameson drinker but I enjoyed the stout cask edition a while back, very nice for the money

>>20455844
JOHNNIE WALKER
SECOND HARVEST
OH YEAHHHH

>>20455184
I actually quite like it by cheap whisky standards, it's my go to cocktail whisky.

It's gold for me

>>20466297
Not really, a little bit but I expected it to be way stronger considering I really put quite a bit in there compared to what I'd use for a tea or something, plus obviously they got soaked in liquor. But I did have the cleanest, least hung-over morning after drinking in recent memory despite having two of the listed drink plus 6 PBRs so I'm thinking the ginger might have done a little herbal medicinal magic. If I do it again I'll probably use about the same amount of ginger but slice or break the chunks into smaller bits to increase their effect.

>>20467908
I think the ginger needs to be smashed up a bit first if you want the flavor to become infused into the drink

>>20455202
I stole half a bottle of this from my grandparents when I was a teenager
They never drank it and so I thought it'd be fine