pre-mixed booze

i'm getting well into it lately. tonight i have got 8 cans of Greenall's Gin & Tonic. got myself a bag of ice, some fresh limes and i'm sorted. night on the Gin.

are pre-mix drinks in cans teh ghey?

yes

yes

its the difference between making a hamburger from all the finest ingredients you can find

and buying mcdonalds

is it cheaper than buying a half bottle of gin and a bottle of tonic?

er, dunno...probably about the same - £5 for 4 cans...i just like the fact that it's in cans. hey i'm drinking G & T from a can!

I've had some gin&tonic off a can, it was horrible. I hope you're drinking a better brand. I love good gin.

they are totally waste if you intend to drink them seriously, but handy if you want to drink on the tube and not attract the attention/fines that swigging from 3 litres of white lighting would get.

i find the greenall's cans to be mixed really nicely - taste good to me and i'm quite a gin connoisseur (well, i think i am).

i dunno, maybe i've turned into a bum bandit.

That would be illegal in america. Premixed drinks here can only be made from wine or beer.

So Smirnoff here is made from malt liquour instead of vodka.

but smirnoff is vodka

  On 10/17/2009 at 9:52 PM, BCM said:

taste good to me and i'm quite a gin connoisseur (well, i think i am).

well obviously this is not true. these cans either contain no fresh lemon, or (god forbid,) lemonade.

  On 10/17/2009 at 9:57 PM, Great Maker ShaiHulud said:

That would be illegal in america. Premixed drinks here can only be made from wine or beer.

 

So Smirnoff here is made from malt liquour instead of vodka.

premixed drinks from wine ? Is it in the same vein than drinking wine on rocks ?

  On 10/17/2009 at 10:44 PM, idrn said:

  On 10/17/2009 at 9:52 PM, BCM said:

taste good to me and i'm quite a gin connoisseur (well, i think i am).

 

well obviously this is not true. these cans either contain no fresh lemon, or (god forbid,) lemonade.

it's just gin and tonic in a can - i put my own lime in. i should have got lemons i suppose, but i had some limes at home anyway, so just used them.

  On 10/17/2009 at 10:20 PM, BCM said:

but smirnoff is vodka

you know I think he meant SMIRNOFF ICE - the 12oz bottled shit for the ladies

you generally cannot get premixed drinks like that at a beer distributor in the US, but only at a liquor store (and then that varies from state to state.) at the distributor its wine coolers, malt beverages, some cider, etc. at the liquor store you have premade long island iced tea, cosmos, white russians etc.

i find with premixed drinks the alcohol has had too much time to sit with the mix and it doesn't taste as good. better imo when the drink is freshly mixed.

  On 10/17/2009 at 11:10 PM, sneaksta303 said:

  On 10/17/2009 at 10:20 PM, BCM said:

but smirnoff is vodka

 

you know I think he meant SMIRNOFF ICE - the 12oz bottled shit for the ladies

ah yes, good old smirnoff ice. i used to like smirnoff moscow mules but they don't sell it any more. not that i've seen anyway.

  On 10/17/2009 at 11:19 PM, xxx said:

Bourbon is my savior, I shall not want.

OK Jack Torrence

so in america only 'liquor' stores can sell anything that isn't beer? is this the same sort of thing why you have 'bars' and not pubs?

Wouldn't you pay less if you simply had gin and tonic and mix them by yourself?

I don't see the reason to buy it premix if it's more expensive, it's not like it's a hard recipe!

  On 10/18/2009 at 12:24 AM, idrn said:

so in america only 'liquor' stores can sell anything that isn't beer?

maybe it varies from state to state, but that doesn't seem to be the case where I am atm.

  On 10/17/2009 at 10:21 PM, xxx said:

  On 10/17/2009 at 9:57 PM, Great Maker ShaiHulud said:

That would be illegal in america. Premixed drinks here can only be made from wine or beer.

 

So Smirnoff here is made from malt liquour instead of vodka.

 

Well, now what about these fine products like this?:

I've bought them loads of times. It's mixed with Cuervo Gold. You don't buy them because it makes for a good mixed drink, you buy them to pour over ice and get fucked fast. This particular sauce probably should be illegal because I once quaffed the entire 1.75 L and not only did I puke a half-digested chicken sandwich on my lower level neighbor's patio, it led to one of the most terrifying and painful hangovers I've ever weathered.

OH HELL FUCK NO XXX.

This stuff can ruin people, RUIN PEOPLE.

It was a hot, sunny day in late May/Early June and I had the house to myself for a week or so. One sunday I hosted a BBQ with some friends of mine. Started drinking beers, some of the lads decided to go into town to get more booze, and came home with some bottles of that stuff. What proceeded was an afternoon of mixing everything and then enjoying that sweet bottled margarita.

Later that day we all walked up to our local pub, where we carried on drinking all night, before heading back to mine again.

The two lads who had drank the most of that margarita stuff were fucking ruined. We get back to mine, we're then doing shots of horrible cheap gin, big shots. Many shots.

Couple hours later i'm walking through my kitchen and my friend has his jeans/boxers around his ankles with his ass out, taking a piss out of my back patio doors, but still standing inside, so just pissing on the step. I go mental at him, tell him to fuck off etc.

He then loses it, throwing punches at people, then starts crying, walks into a room where we're sat and starts crying, says "fuckin.. fuckin hate you, fuckin cunt ricky (another mate)... justin timberlake" then crys some more...

why he said justin timberlake we do not know, funny as fuck though.

Bad stuff that. BAD.

  On 10/18/2009 at 12:24 AM, idrn said:

so in america only 'liquor' stores can sell anything that isn't beer? is this the same sort of thing why you have 'bars' and not pubs?

This is the case in Norway. And to top that, it's expensive as FUCK.

Like around 53.45$/35.95€/32.68£ for a good bottle of vodka.

£32 for a bottle of voddy?? you can get it for like £6 here if you don't mind the quality...for a decent bottle it's about £10 - £15

well it's scandinavia - most of the price is tax that goes toward construction and counseling after all the raping and pillaging they do whilst drunk.

(and joke aside, there's a point to what i said)