Comments on: Stop Ordering Drinks Like an Undergrad: Learning to Drink After College

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:41:39 +0000

Hey Dave,

Thanks for the comment. Did you read the full article? The problem with mixed drinks is that in college, people drink things that are sweet with horrible liquor in them, not that mixed drinks are unmanly somehow. I drink an Old Fashioned regularly, and don’t feel any less a man. Nothing wrong with a REAL gin & tonic, but that’s not what college guys order most times. They’re ordering the $4 well special.

The ol’ gin and vodka debate…to each his own I suppose. Vodka may not have much ‘flavor’ but it certainly doesn’t lack bite.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:34:41 +0000

Okay. The question is really where to start with this one. First off vodka up in a martini glass is a drink for women. If you want to drink like a man learn to drink gin instead of tasteless alcohol. Second the idea that mixed drinks are not manly drinks is about the dumbest thing I have read about drinking alcohol. Drinking mixed drinks has been a truly American man’s craft for the last 200 years. While I agree that drinking rot gut well is never a good idea for anyone with more than $5 in their wallet, I really don’t see how gin and tonic or a is a sissy drink. Better yet I would like to see the author of this drink a chartreuse cocktail or a Negroni or a Rye Manhattan and tell me that mixed drinks are not manly. Seriously this is how an unsophisticated drinker that wants to forget he was in a frat drinks, not how a “man” drinks. Graduating from college and making more than $20,000 a year does not make you a man.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:39:11 +0000

Dan, Great comment! I’m going to try the Maker’s Mark Manhattan, straight up in a chilled glass next time. Awesome.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:56:03 +0000

From a man who lived in a fraternity house in college, I can attest to this article. I know wines and I only drink hand-crafted ales. I had my share of shooters, beer bongs, and keg stands in the 1980s

Impress your clients when you order cocktails: “Bombay Sapphire martini, straight up, two olives” or “Makers’ Mark Manhattan, straight up in a chilled glass”. Call brands are more expensive, but impressive.

Of course, when you are in New Orleans or Vegas for a boy’s weekend with your college fraternity brothers, you can do shots again!

By: Oliver Klimek

Oliver Klimek — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:16:42 +0000

I generally agree with you, but the statement "wine is not a bar drink" does sound a bit patronizing. Tell this to the people in a French bar, and you will risk to be kicked out immediately. But of to enjoy it in a bar you should of course know a bit more about wine than just to tell apart red from white. .-= Oliver Klimek´s last blog ..Woodford Reserve =-.

By: erik

erik — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:08:49 +0000

I didn’t start drinking until after college, and now I drink a gin and tonic specifically because I like the taste and I’m not looking to get drunk. I hate the taste of beer, and I don’t want something as strong as a gin martini.

Any advice?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:00:06 +0000

As long as you sip slowly, it shouldn’t be a problem. What’s your favorite gin for a martini?

By: tudza

tudza — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:19:23 +0000

You drink scotch to get hammered? I suppose it depends on what scotch you’re drinking, now doesn’t it. And stop drinking those vodka martinis. sonny. Martinis are made with gin.