B52's are pretty good.

"(Or Canadian, I guess. I've known some real Canadian whiskey enthusiasts, but I don't get it.)"

Really? Rye whisky is the only kind I can stand.

Sazerac would be my favorite cocktail.

I've got a little Oban left.

Sorry obi-dork. You're way too young to HONESTLY appreciate cognac.

You are, AS USUAL, posturing online.

Cocktails are for homos, btw. At least posture properly ffs.

My favorite cocktails are the mapleleaf (Canadian club, crown royal, with a dash of old person smell), the krellin (pure grain alcohol mixed with tears) and the Putin (russian vodka thrown into someone's face)

You forgot the Santa - Manishevitz mixed with bitters.

I honestly couldn't make a better obi drink than he made for himself "a manhattan with extra cherry flavor pleeease" I wish I could see him ordering that and the bartender's reaction.

Thanks, by the way, for turning a light hearted thread into another dump of personal insults.

They're all just bitter--or have had too much whiskey.

Besides, I couldn't give two fucks what some bartender (or any strange schmuck) thinks of me--

It's my cash, so I'll get whatever I want, lol...what reason is there to be self-conscious and care what others think about your choice of drink?

It's not like I'm dining at an upscale restaurant, or that some E.M. Forster or Edith Wharton characters are going to come in and whisper disgustedly behind my back about my choice of drink. ;)

Now the ever predictable dork retreats into it's usual "oooooo I can read! I can read!" shtick.

Sad really.

Get a girlfriend, obi- dork.

I was recently at a fancy cocktail bar on their experimental night. Were you can give the bartender a few flavours to play with, and away he'll go. I had an amazing cocktail with gin, elderflower liqueur, earl grey tea, ginger wine/puree (I'm not sure which) and lemon. It was light floral and extremely refreshing. Early in the night at the same bar I had a cocktail made from Tequilia, Hazelnut Liqueur, Blueberry Wheat ale, Blackberry (they let me finish the beer that didn't make it into the cocktail which was awesome), and another ingredient which I don't remember off the top of my head.

They were both exceptionally good drinks, which I suppose comes as no surprise as the fellow in charge of that bar recently won best bartender in Canada, at a competition in Toronto and is completing internationally in France later this year.

Expensive drinks (though the experimental one was half price) but it was a special occasion, and they were extremely good!

A simple bombay sapphire anf tonic does the trick for me.

Baileys and Kahlua

Though truth be told, a nice Laphroiag or Old Weller boubon neat is much better.

So Im a whiskey neat man -- depending on the season, its bourbon in the summer or a peaty scotch in the winter. I tend towards ardbeg or laphroig, but experiment. Bourbon is Blantons. If I want to get out of the two country rut, middletons is amazing.

For cocktails:
Summer: 2 shots bourbon, 1.5 shots triplesec, juice of 1/2 lemon and stir over ice -- tastes like lemonade and very refreshing.
Winter: old fashioned or irish chocolate. Old fashioned you can look up, but the key is good homemade simple syrup. Irish chocolate--1 mug hot chocolate, 1.5 shots baileys, .5 shots peppermint schnapps.

Try hot chocolate with Chambord... Yum!

How is that retreating into...oh, who cares, trolls will troll, and mapleleaf will mapleleaf.

Baileys and Kahlua sounds nice...then again, I just like Baileys/Irish Cream period.

"It's not like I'm dining at an upscale restaurant" -- if you were, it's still your cash and you can order what you want.

Well, yeah, but still, you don't go to a French bistro and order a hamburger.

...I've never been to a French bistro, but I have to assume they wouldn't take kindly to being asked for a quarter-pounder with cheese OR Royale with cheese (Pulp Fiction...anyone...? OH well.)

"I've never been to a French bistro" .... why not?