Alcohol thread

[regwec]

My new favourite thing: red wines from the Douro in Portugal. Many of them are now stunning, and stunningly under priced.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

quick question: does alcohol kill your brain cells? i don't mean for it to be a stupid question because I do want to know, seeing as how marijuana allegedly does so and both intoxicate

 

[Lantern Venom]

quick question: does alcohol kill your brain cells? i don't mean for it to be a stupid question because I do want to know, seeing as how marijuana allegedly does so and both intoxicate

In small amounts, no. Regular consumption and/or binge drinking is linked to frightening neurological changes, both temporary and permanent:

http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa63/aa63.htm

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

In small amounts, no. Regular consumption and/or binge drinking is linked to frightening neurological changes, both temporary and permanent:

http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa63/aa63.htm

damn... but supposedly in these same small amounts marijuana will?

 

[Lantern Venom]

damn... but supposedly in these same small amounts marijuana will?

I don't want to get too far into that discussion since it's a separate thread. Anything that compromises one's judgment is dangerous. That's an indisputable fact. But there aren't nearly the studies done on long-term pot use that there are on regular alcohol consumption, and there are always numerous other factors that come into play from individual to individual. There are just too many variables to say marijuana = alcohol or one is worse than the other.

 

[tzarinna]

My new favourite thing: red wines from the Douro in Portugal. Many of them are now stunning, and stunningly under priced.

I don't think I've ever had Portuguese wine. South Africa has some amazing wine. At the moment I'm finishing off a rockin Australian cabernet/merlot blend.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

How the most popular alcoholic drinks around the world are made

If you are like me and often wonder how that thing you are drinking is made or what's exactly in it, this interesting infographic will help you figure it out. It shows how the different countries in the world prepare their most popular alcoholic beverages and what ingredients they use.

http://visual.ly/compendium-alcohol-ingredients-and-processes

I'm sober these days but thought this was cool and worth sharing with all you normal drinkers!

 

[TX85]

I used to be into whisky but I just drink light beer now on occasionas,1-3 bottles

 

[regwec]

How the most popular alcoholic drinks around the world are made



http://visual.ly/compendium-alcohol-ingredients-and-processes

I'm sober these days but thought this was cool and worth sharing with all you normal drinkers!

It's wrong to say that grapes are usually crushed to make wine or brandy: they are usually pressed. There is a very important difference.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Are they pressed by feet?

 

[regwec]

Traditionally, in many places, but it is more often mechanical now. Supposedly you could get seriously inebriated from the fumes emitted while treading grape must.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

No one presses grapes by feet in France anymore unless as an experiment.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Edit : I just bought a bottle of Double Black Label from J Walker, will taste it soon.

Edit 2 : tasting done. It's good, very drinkable, taste is good, grilled / smoked aroma. As for the price/quality ratio I assumed better for the Black Label is already really good for the price ( the 2 black is a bit more expensive ).

I went further in my investigation and bought a second bottle of JW Double Black Label. Verdict is, I like it and find it on part with Whiskey in that price range ( JW 2BL is a 12 y/o blend ).
I usually prefer single malt ( otherwise I drink Bourbon ) but this blend is top notch.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Booze Consumption Changes Dramatically Over A Person's Lifetime

A recently published analysis combined data from nine studies to create the "life course trajectories of alcohol consumption" for folks in the UK. The study marks the first attempt at estimating, from longitudinal data, how our drinking habits change with age.

The results of the study, which was led by University College London epidemiologist Annie Britton, appear in the latest issue of the journal BMC Medicine. They're open access, too, so be sure to check them out for yourself.

The graph above reflects the projected weekly drinking habits of an average UK man and woman. The curves are actually predictions, based on 9 separate longitudinal cohorts and a a combined sample size of 59,297 people and 174,666 alcohol observations. In other words: No, these researchers did not monitor the lifelong drinking habits of one big cohort of people for the better part of a century. What they did was combine some pretty big data sets, all of which were amassed over extended periods of time, and perform some fancy statistical analyses. The resulting graph provides us with a unique perspective on the dynamic nature of alcohol consumption over a typical lifetime.

So, how do you read this graph? The x-axis, which denotes age, is pretty clear. But what about the y-axis?

Because different beverages contain different quantities of alcohol by volume, the UK, like the United States, has a standard by which it quantifies alcohol consumption. One "UK unit of alcohol" is equal to 8 grams of pure ethanol. Here in the U.S., we measure not in units, but in what are called "standard drinks," which the National Institutes of Health defines as "any drink that contains about 14 grams of pure alcohol." A standard U.S. drink is therefore equal to 1.75 UK units of alcohol, and is roughly equivalent to a 12-ounce beer, a 5-ounce glass of wine, or a 1.5-ounce shot of hard liquor. The Washington Post's Christopher Ingraham took the liberty of converting UK units into standard U.S. drinks, and translating the figure at the top of this post into the color-coded graph you see here. Note that these graphs convey little information about day-to-day drinking habits also revealed elsewhere in the study. For instance, in men especially, total alcohol consumption decreases with age, but frequency of consumption actually increases, as our drinking habits become less of a weekend-binge thing and more of a glass-of-wine-at-dinner thing.

From Ingraham's graph, we can see that for the average U.K. man, alcohol consumption is projected to peak at around 25 years of age at roughly 13 drinks per week. Women, by comparison, drink considerably less, topping out at a little under four drinks per week.

The researchers also concluded that "non-drinkers were uncommon, particularly among men, where the proportion remained under 10% until old age, when it rose to above 20% among those aged over 90," though Ingraham explains why this finding likely doesn't hold outside of the United Kingdom:

Given that the authors analyzed studies from the U.K., these findings don't generalize perfectly to an American drinking context. For starters we know that there are a lot more non-drinkers here — up to 30 percent of the population, by some estimates. And Americans drink less than our British counterparts overall, according to the World Health Organization.​

Ingraham has additional context over at WaPo.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/s12916-015-0273-z.pdf

Interesting, I know in my career as an alcoholic I drank a lot from a young age and it was for quite some time. I got sober last year and haven't had a drop since then but h=this is a very cool thing to see how normal people drink over time although it does seem kind of foreign for me and the people I used to hang out with

 

[JaD]

Had some hard liquor last week for the first time in several months. I had been pretty busy at work the last couple months and had to cancel plans with my friends a couple times so it was cool to let loose.

Went to a couple bars and had some margarita I can't remember the name of my friends said we should all order, 3 vodka tonics (my main drink when I go out obviously), tall glass of Blue Moon, and an Adios MF.

Needless to say I was stumbling on my way back home. I forgot mixing beer and hard liquor is not a good idea too and I was close to vomiting when I crashed in bed but crawled out and just laid on the floor next to my garbage can ha. Fell for asleep for a couple hours on the floor Thankfully no vomiting happened but I was pretty hung over and still close to throwing up the next morning.

Oh good times, not really.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

so, there has been some discussion in the marijuana thread for turning the legalization thread into a thread for legalization of all drugs (again, that sounds completely crazy to me) and have all things marijuana in the marijuana thread. I was in compliance to that idea on a few conditions -

- however, another idea I threw out in light of those ideas was to merge the marijuana thread with this thread so that we can have a turnt megathread.

how that?

 

[JaD]

I don't know if you're entitled to use that avatar XB

I think jag when he was still here had a trademark on that one ha

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

I don't know if you're entitled to use that avatar XB

I think jag when he was still here had a trademark on that one ha

ugh. so I can actually find myself in trouble if I don't change it?

 

[JaD]

Ha no, just expect some people pointing it out

I'm sure folks will say "I thought jag returned for a second"

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

Ha no, just expect some people pointing it out

I'm sure folks will say "I thought jag returned for a second"

well hey, maybe it'll get people to get him to come back. so i'll have done y'all a favor

EDIT: there, I changed it.

 

[Warhammer]

Anyone in here have alcohol flush reaction or "Asian glow"?

 

[JaD]

well hey, maybe it'll get people to get him to come back. so i'll have done y'all a favor

EDIT: there, I changed it.

Aww, I was hoping to hear about how many users pointed out the avvy

Anyone in here have alcohol flush reaction or "Asian glow"?

Never even heard of that. I was gonna say I didn't know if I'd qualify since I'm not Asian but I looked it up

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

Aww, I was hoping to hear about how many users pointed out the avvy

OK, maybe I'll change it back tomorrow.

I just don't want to earn a bad rep for doing it, you know.

Anyone in here have alcohol flush reaction or "Asian glow"?

I've seen it on my asian buddies allllllll the time.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Undercover Sting Busts Minnesota Bar for Selling Rare Wisconsin Beer

New Glarus Brewing’s Spotted Cow beer is a Wisconsin institution, an easy-drinking cream ale that several reviewers say would be their regular summer beer ... if they could get it outside the state. The brewer is only licensed to distribute its limited supply of beer within Wisconsin, and the beer cops in neighboring Minnesota take that rule very seriously.

State alcohol enforcers ran a sting operation on the Maple Tavern in Maple Grove, Minn. last week after an anonymous rat informed them the bar had Spotted Cow on tap and had been boasting about it on Facebook.

According to court documents, two undercover officers rolled into the bar on April 13 and successfully ordered a glass of Spotted Cow.

They’ll be the last customers to enjoy it. Minnesota’s Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement Division confiscated all six kegs the bar’s manager had purchased from a Wisconsin liquor store. The Maple Tavern’s owner could face charges of felony resale, according to Fox Twin Cities.

Minnesota residents will have to go back to the old-fashioned way of getting Spotted Cow: driving over the border and paying 9 bucks a six-pack.

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/stor...eer-sold-illegally-at-bar-in-maple-grove-minn

Must be some damn good beer

 

[regwec]

What stupid bureaucracy.