What are you drinking tonight? - Day drinkers stay out

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I'm gonna chug a bottle of Balvenie Caribbean Cask
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If water tasted like this scotch I wouldn't even drink alcohol anymore
 
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An inexpensive, but very nice douro, from Asda's extra special range. Portuguese wine is severely underrated.
 
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Moonshine. Firefly moonshine, 200 ml (about equivalent to drinking a six pack).

I've been very cheap in the past and that meant I always bought the largest container possible, but since I can't buy more than I intend to drink in a sitting, and the next big container was 21 standard drinks, I had to settle for this.

Moonshine is actually an amazing substance. You all know I have a huge interest in traditional Indian and Southern agriculture, which is based around corn. Moonshine - as it is used in America - is corn liquor. Age it in charred oak barrels and it becomes bourbon, but the substance as it comes straight out of the still is moonshine. If it is made purely then it should be perfectly clear and bubbly. This is quite like vodka, and in some sense it is just corn vodka, while "vodka" is conventional European grains or potato.

Pure moonshine also leaves no hangover. Turns out all of that comes from either adulterants, impurities, byproducts in the recipe, or from intentionally added things like spices. This is why dark beverages like wine are so wicked. High quality moonshine as it was TRADITIONALLY produced is all corn and produces a drink that is sweet and minty. If the Cherokee had invented distilling of their own I wonder if they would have worshipped it as a sacred substance from Corn Mother. They did regard alcohol as sacred (a substitute, more or less, for traditional tobacco and yaupon tea use).

It is also basically watered-down ethanol, the same shit you'd run a car on. Sacred energy. Feels appropriate, given the legacy of coal.

I've gotten quite good at nursing a drink instead of guzzling. Take nips of the moonshine, feel the warmth and build up a gradual intoxication instead of a sudden drunk. There is something warming about liquor you don't get from beer and wine. Of course the flip side is that those things taste better. When I drink wine it's almost always white wine anymore. Red wine tastes worse and is a worse experience all around.
 
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The bourbon and the cola and the cola and the bourbon, these are the quadropefectra of life itself.
 
i've had plenty of bourbon and beer, so forgive me kiwis, but the last time that i was this intoxicated, i propositioned @AnOminous. btw, the offer of reverse-cowgirl still stands.

edit: my sober self doesn't understand why my drunken self makes this decision. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
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