/lit/ - Literature

>>6385643
Drinking Stolichnaya and reading Moskva-Petushki was a sublime experience.

>>6385643
Smirnoff one hunna isn't bad, OP. I like it for screwdrivers and greyhounds and bloody maries because it doesn't dilute the drink as much as normal vodka. It's smooth and does the job.

For neat drinking I prefer Russian Standard to anything else though.

Seven Against Thebes/Evan Williams (sorry, I'm poor)

>>6385650
I prefer RS, too. But alas, sometimes we have got to drink what we've got.

>>6385653
woah woah, anon. Bourbon is bourbon; unless it's Kentucky gentleman. Cheers

Who /bohemian/ here?

What the fuck drinking vodka while reading?
Are you people alcoholic?

>>6385688
Maybe, is that a problem? It is a mixed drink in that it is mixed to some proportion with my saliva

>>6385688
>implying drinking while reading is a strange thing

do you even partake in the literary lifestyle?

>>6385688
You don't get the full experience of russian doorstoppers unless reading while drinking pisswater vodka, squatting in a corner of a poorly built cabin while it flurries outside with nothing to keep you warm but a still-bloody bearskin coat that you made yourself.

>>6385688
>take break from drinking for a week to verify not alcoholic
>barely get an urge to drink during that time
>resume drinking every day when the week is over

>>6385688
>he can't even absorb information through reading while drunk

It's like you're subhuman or something.

Black Velvet and The Amber Spyglass

Almost done with this and then I'll be able to move on to the Chinese story about the monkey king

>>6385736
I've never had BV. R8 plz m8

>>6385741
Goes down pretty easy. That's about the best you can say about straight hard alcohol, right?

I started getting it because it's pretty inexpensive compared to other whiskeys

>>6385748
>That's about the best you can say about straight hard alcohol, right?
plen

>>6385757
sry senpai maybe i will like the taste of poison after more years of drinking

>>6385757
If I'm not mistaken most of the great writers only drank 25+ yr scotch.
>faggot

>>6385770
>not liking the taste of poison from your very first taste as a youth

'Tis a bad omen.

>>6385774
I'm not sure what your point is.

Eastside distillery double barrel Burnside bourbon from last year's Portland trip

Wind up girl (yes, late to the party)

Good Omens, Yoichi 20 Single Malt

>>6385784
Just bc it's cheap hooch doesn't make one a pleb

>>6385804
I'm not calling him a pleb for drinking cheap hooch, I'm calling him a pleb for saying 'it goes down easy' is the best thing you can say about hard liquor.

I enjoy cheap hooch.

>>6385819
Oh. A thousand pardons.

>>6385835
Cheers, m8.

>>6385711
This feeling

>>6385676
I prefer it straight.

>>6385924
There is an old bottle of Pernod sitting at my local B&M, but since I live in the states the GW ingredient is suspect to say the least

>>6385939
GW ingredient?

>>6386027
Grand wormwood: it produces the thujone which gives absinthe it's hallucinogenic properties. It was illegal then legal then illegal then legal and so on, therefore there is a chance that an old bottle may be legit. Absinthe roulette

>>6386053
Absinthe never produced hallucinations beyond the effect of delirium tremens.
You would literally have to drink yourself past death to consume enough of the active hallucinogenic ingredient to get hallucinations from it.
It's a myth and it always has been.
You'd be better off dropping acid.

>>6386072
I didn't know that

Can't always get the 20 year but I have a steady supply of he 15 year

>>6385666
Evil trips is right. I fucking love bourbon. Sorry anti-edgers.

>>6386130
oh fuck. I was evil trips. Fav bourbon? For now mine is Wild Turkey Rare Breed with WR right behind it

Hold the phone. Kyfag reporting in... Tell me about your bourbons.

>>6386156
I want some bourbon...

>>6386201
>>6386156
Firewater is decent but apparently racist these days.
Adds to the authenticity I guess.

>>6386218
Why racist? It seems like its becoming the new craft beer industry while craft beer is being bought up by the giants

>>6386232
What? no I mean the actual bourbon called Firewater.
Apparently the name and logo triggered some tumblrites.

I'll be downing these bad boys all day, as I sell my labor for money

>>6386250

>>6386240
I understand now. I have not had that

>>6385643
I don't like to drink while I read but let me recommend you some nice vodka that is relatively cheap and gets you a lot for your money. Two things russians are good at is literature and vodka. Check your local russian stores for "Green Brand" or whatever it's called in english.

Either this or Tea, Earl Grey.

Depends on what I'm reading.

>>6386270
we also call it green band, but my ex gf from Moscow got me onto RS so now I drink it for nostalgia and such. Not drinking and reading? Madness.

>>6386270
That looks like russian standard with a different label. Same font and everything.
Made by the same people?

>>6386325
I don't really know but I don't think so. I'd take it over Russian Standard any day. Goes down very easy, doesn't leave a bad aftertaste and I never had a hangover from it (at least when I didn't mix it with other drinks).
Also, if you want to get hammered the St. Petersburg way, try the Boyarsky shot: 30ml vodka, 20ml Grenadine, a dash of Tabasco.
Guaranteed madness will happen afterwards.

>>6386144
I don't have a favorite. I like Evan Williams okay for what it is (cheap but not bad). Buffalo Trace is overrated, it's not bad, but it doesn't improve on the signature bourbon taste IMO. What are some good higher end bourbons?

>>6386353
>Tabasco
For me the madness would most likely be taking place in a bathroom over the course of a few hours.
My stomach hates everything.

>>6385924
So you prefer not to taste it? What kind of shitty absinthe do you drink?

>>6386072
This man is right. The myth is a myth. It's still delicious though.

>>6386250
>>6386256

Maybe it's because I'm so used to Tim Hortons but when I see that kind of coffee, I just feel sad. there's no enjoyment in it, it's just fuel designed to make you work harder.

I'm trying to lose weight so I've cut alcohol out of my diet and I really miss drinking while reading. I have 16lbs to go before I can even think about picking it up again.

>>6386385
What kind of shitty taste buds do you have that you can't taste absinthe without it being diluted by sugar water?

>>6386397
>working hard to lose weight just to put it back on
Why? Try to find a balance instead.

>>6386397
Having a drink or two and restricting some of your calories outside of it isn't going to kill you anon. Just have more protein and veg, and fewer carbs.

>>6386363
Good cheap(er) bourbon? Jim Beam Black is you can find the miniatures for 99 cents. Mind you that 15 minis equal one fifth and the avg price for a fifth s 35. knob creek is good, not great. If you want some bargain priced whiskey that is fantastic i reconfirmed Bulliett bourbon and Speyburn scotch

>>6386416

That's what I'll be doing. right now I'm at a calorie deficit. When I'm done, I can go back to drinking and keep myself to a calorie maintenance.

>>6385643
Does /lit/ goes to bars?

>>6386460
I'm not quite drinking age yet. Fuck being a burger.

>>6386460
I did when I had friends. Now I feel weird going to a place like that on my own.

>>6386460
I go out with my friends on the weekends normally. Usually to burned out after a day of work to go to the bars during the week. I've never read at one before.

When I lived abroad in London I used to go to the pub during lunch and have a pint and read. Just isn't as accepted over here to have a few drinks at lunch.

>>6386424
>Bulliett

I gotta try this. Everybody recommends it, and I always dismiss it but now that it's on 4chan...Idk. I guess I'll buy it.

>>6386460
Yeah. They're so weird. I want to shit on them categorically, but I've actually gotten girls numbers at some bars. It really all depends.

>>6386460
I sure do. I have three local bars that have my beer on the counter as I walk in (alco) I read, write and lounge at bars

>>6386406
absinthe is supposed to be taken in sugar water
Whiskey is better with a splash of water
etc.
drinkers have been agreeing on these methods for hundreds of years
just because somebody doesnt chug from the bottle doesn't mean they'd rather be drinking a smirnoff ice

>>6386406
Sugar is debatable, I often dismiss it myself, but you need some water to bring the flavours out. Kind of like single malts, but you need more water in the case of absinthe. Absinthe is made to be drunk diluted. When you drink it straight you don't really do it justice. Otherwise it's like eating bouillon cubes instead of eating soup.

>>6386561
Are you from /ck/, friend? I remember reading almost this exact post months ago, schooling the plebs.

>>6386460
I did in the past. Now I'm more frugal.

>>6386561
I wasn't questioning how it is "supposed" to be drunk.
I said I preferred it straight and some guy/you implied I could not possible appreciate it that way.
Stop trying to turn the argument around as you are with that last sentence. That is literally what you/he did.

>>6386615
Not who you were responding to but I am who you were originally responding to. Absinthe drunk neat literally has less flavour because it needs the water to open up the oils. And the alcohol burn masks even more. It's a waste of absinthe to drink it neat.

>>6386640
What if you drink 80% absinthe straight and the burn is barely noticeable to you because you're not a girl?
Not that guy btw.

>>6386390

they have a keurig thing where I work so it's not that bad

I'm unsupervised at my job and there's virtually no labor required, I mostly read and get fucked up on middle class java all day

>>6386648
It's not about the burn hurting, it's about the burn inhibiting the flavour of a good absinthe. I'll gladly burn when I'm drinking Albanian moonshine or something, but when you spend thirty to eighty bucks on a bottle of decent absinthe I'd expect you'd want to experience the flavour that the distillers try to put into it.

Supposedly, you don't drink absinthe merely to get drunk. There are cheaper methods for that that are just as efficient.

>>6385643
i read while stoned all the time. i can't do much of anything when i'm drinking.

Best booze:price ratio

Canadian Hunter
Evan Williams
Famous Grouse Scotch
Seagrams Gin
Espolon Tequila if you can find it (Jose Cuervo tradicional if you can't, tequila's tough).

Absinthe is try-hard tier.
Big name stuff like Jim Beam and Jack Daniels and Crown Royal are wastes.

If I have the money, Maker's Mark, Knob Creek, or Woodford's Reserve is as good as it gets.