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What medicine do you use to cope, prolong, or revel in the holidays?


In a stunning turn of events, moving the West Coast, this year's winner at our place are:

1) the Mimosa (a girly drink -- champagne and OJ)

2) the Nagasaki (courtesy of The Office -- sake and eggnog).


I know.  I'd be more surprised if they didn't confuse me as much. 

Mostly, alot of red wine or bourbon.  I can't stomach eggnog. 

At all.

Water!  I don't drink alcohol.  Everyone else around me seems to just love to drink wine and beer.

Did the Mimosa thing this morning with the family. Mimosas and eggs bennie equals yum, girly or not.

Beer for the day.

Red wine with the turkey before I fall asleep at the table

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The same as I like the rest of the year: a full red wine when I can get it, which is rare - the few family members who drink wine are women who drink white zin shit.  If not that, Scotch at my in-laws.  They're fine people, but they have a huge deck they like to socialize on, even when it's 40 degrees outside. 

On egg nog; I love it, but only the non-alcoholic stuff so I'm not sure it counts.

I've been getting wasted on black and tans for the past month.

Not sure if that's what you're asking though? Holiday drinks? Egg nog and pepp schnapps? Uh, yeah no thx.

'nog and rum.

Eggnog tears my stomach apart from the inside. That's all I know. Even if there was a good buzz involved, it wouldn't pleasant anyhow.

Beer! If I'm with family, I find a way to get some Macallan 18 scotch. 'Cus it's mm-mmn good!

Eggnog.  Specifically the Borden's that comes in a can. The local dairy 'nog just can't match it.

Other than that it's beer.  Sam Adam's Cherry Wheat or their Holiday brew.   Since I'm the only family member that drinks liquor, that's all that's around unless I'm buying it for myself, and I just can't finish a bottle off fast enough to justify buying it.

I don't drink eggnog because I can't tolerate that much milk, otherwise I like the taste. Is that why other people here don't drink it?  Or is there something else.  Me... I drink water mostly on Xmas.  If I'm feeling particularly festive, I'll drink Figi Fiji water or Perrier.

Edit:  Geez.

I can drink as much eggnog as you put in front of me. That shit is like milk directly from god's teet. It's way too goddamn good.

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Went easy on the Dubbel because it's 8.5% alcohol.

I only drink rainwater.

I loves me some eggnog (especially the boozy kind), but it treats my GI tract like the Sioux treated Custer and his boys. Thus far I have gotten by with Pacifico and a heaping glass of Bookers on the rocks. Not sure what the drink of choice will be fore New Year's Eve.

It's hard to pin down a single favorite.  The traditional beginning of Christmas Eve in my family is ice-cracking for a round of Old-Fashioneds, so that's the drink I always tend to think of when I think Christmas.  The rest of the cast tends to vary from year to year, but this year some of the highlights were Muscat dessert wine on Christmas Eve (MMMM GOOD) and Cosmopolitans on Christmas Day.

I made a batch of lemon chuhai (short for shochu highball) for myself and the mom in law the other night, and that was great. Shochu (or Korean soju), fresh-squeezed lemon juice, simple syrup and club soda for a bit of sparkle. Yum.

Other than that, been drinking about a half case of bubbly every night.

This year is ending with:

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for the hard stuff, and:

http://www.regattagingerbeer.com/

for the soft stuff. For the in-betweenies:

http://www.victorybeer.com/old_horizontal.html

My step-mom made an awesome mix of brandy and french vanilla ice cream.  Otherwise, I'm not picky.

Or, as it's more accurately called - Buck's Fizz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck%27s_Fizz_%28cocktail%29). A glass of Buck's Fizz is mandatory for first thing Xmas morning.

Oh, and as for the original question - mulled wine. Or mulled cider. Either's good.

I'm drinking an 18 year old single barrel Kentucky Bourbon from Elijah Craig.

I also like red wine.

My family has a number of holiday drinks. The holidays start with vanilla Hagen-Daaz blended with egg nog and spiced rum. Then we have the martinis. There's the mistletoe martini which has apple brandy, sweet and sour, cranberry juice, and dried cranberries. Then there is the grinch martini which is midori and citrus vodka. Then there is the spiced cranberry infused vodka my mom makes. Then there is a lot of passing out.

Light eggnogg mixed with vodka and warmed, with a spinkle of cinnamon and nutmeg on top.

Faggot.

Ok, that really was probably the single gayest sentence I've ever written but what can I say, cinammon and nutmeg are great with warm eggnogg.

Simond said Mimosa - pick on him!  :grin:

It's called Buck's Fizz!  :angryfist:

Faggot.

Buck's Jizz?

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What a shitty joke that was, Sky.

I'm tired.

Eggnog (Lactaid eggnog ftw!) and Godiva White Chocolate Liqueur.  I get three months of seasonal bliss out of this combo.

Someone showed up with homemade Irish Cream and Limoncello at the party last night.  Happened to be while I was bartending, so I got plenty of it!

Didn't someone around here in some thread or other say how they hate bartenders?  You should track them down and give a good what for!

I'm the guy who was dumb enough to shell out money for a bartending course a few years back, and I almost never do anything with it.  I only ended up behind the bar because I wanted to do a shot right after midnight and no one was back there, so while I was making my own drinks other people started coming up and asking for stuff.  Voila, I was stuck behind the bar for about an hour.

Mojo:
6 oz. Gin
6 oz. Rum
6 oz. Vodka
4 oz. Whiskey
16 oz. Cherry Liqueur
2 bottle San Miguel Beer
16 oz. Pineapple Juice
16 oz. Orange Juice
12 oz. 7-Up

Serve Chilled

That would be the subic bay side version, the one I'm used to we drank up in Clark Air Base,

Double MOJO

1 Pint Rhum
1 Pint Cherry Brandy
1 Beer (San Miguel Of Course)
1 Coke
1 Orange
1 7-Up
1 Big Glass Pineapple Juice

You could sit and drink it all night, but when you stand up you would fall over.  We had lots of rum last night!

Made this for the in-laws this Christmas while visiting. Was a huge hit.

1. Start with a 5th of Bacardi Dark.
2. Pour Bacardi into air tight container.
3. Add three cored and diced red apples. Three cinnamon sticks. 10 cloves.
4. Let sit in a cool dark place (closet) for at least 5 days.
5. Strain apples, cinnamon and cloves from the rum.
6. Heat organic natural Apple Cider on stove.
7. In a tall glass add 3-4 ounces of rum (to taste, shouldnt be to heavy) and add apple cider leaving 1 inch from rim of glass.
8. Top drink with whipped cream and serve while still hot.

You cant even taste the rum. They were a huge hit with her family.

You had me at "pour Bacardi, add apples and spices, let sit".  That sounds awesome.

Winter Pimm's, served with hot apple juice, I prefer it to Mulled wine which tends to be a bit spice heavy for me. Also ending Christmas dinner with Port and plenty of it.

I like Pimms.  I've never had the Winter Cup, though. Of course, the only time I ever drink it is at Goodwood Festival.  Sitting in my little enclosure, drinking a Pimms, makes me feel posh.  One or two would last me all day, though.  I drink so rarely that I'm not very good at it.  Nothing worse than stumbling in front of a vintage race car and being laughed at by famous old has been race car drivers! 

No... that's only ALMOST happened!

White Russians

Beer

Rum and Eggnog

I'd just like to make a correction here that your "heaping" glass of Bookers was 5 sips and making someone else drink the rest when  you left.

I used to bartend for awhile and drink alot, but that all ended when I woke up one night in front of a Denny's and don't know how the hell I got there.

but here are a couple of drinks that I used to drink. 
Well besides vodka and tequila. 

Grape Crush
1/3 oz vodka
1/3 oz Chambord® raspberry liqueur
1/3 oz sweet and sour mix
Splash of 7-up or Sprite.

Grateful Dead
1 part tequila
1 part vodka
1 part light rum
1 part gin
1 part Chambord® raspberry liqueur

Have you tried the Lactaid eggnog?  Friendlier on the tummy and I actually like the taste more than most regular brands.

I am going to have to check that out. I don't have much trouble from other dairy products, but eggnog just kicks my ass.