>reading The Booklover's Guide to Wine>guy loves literature from an early age>becomes obsessed with Proust>learns French and moves to France and learns all about wine and becomes a professional expert in wine just to live the authentic French literary lifestyle>later finds out that Proust disliked wine and preferred beerOh no no NO
>>25242502Who are some literary greats that avoided alcohol entirely? I'd like to relate my own teetotaler life with them.
>>25242614Muhammad?
« Garçon, un bock ! »
For me it's gin.
>>25243399Based 18th Century English prostitute
>>25242502I like whiskey when I read/write, but only with a mixer, as straight whiskey gets me too drunk too quickly to be of any good. I'd drink wine to follow Bukowski's advice, but I really can't stand the stuff
>>25242614Nietzsche for the majority of his life.
>>25242502Only wine can be appreciated as a tasty, enjoyable alcoholic beverage. The other forms of alcohol, like whiskey or rum or brandy have their quality as indicators of how bearable they are, how not stomach turning shit they can become with lots of aging and processes. Beer can sometimes be pleasant if you have a real strong taste for it, but you have to admit that in and of itself it's detestable.
>>25243735Beer has more taste diversity than any other form of alcohol. A west-coast IPA and a lager taste completely different.Wine has the next most diversity of taste, and hard liquor has the least because its alcohol content is so high. But in cocktails I can notice the difference between them more easily.
>>25243735Cider and perry are genuinely delicious. Wine is sour and disgusting.
>>25242502Rum.
Lots of children in this thread incapable of stomaching alcohol. Or maybe they're just non-whites. Thoughts on milk?
>>25244147Every non-white race is stereotyped as loving some kind of hard liquor. Spics with Rum and white rum (brazilian cachaça) and teuila, blacks with henny, japs love whiskey and produce quite quality ones. Stop being such an NPC programmed to constantly spout nigger everywhere.
>>25243747>and hard liquor has the least because its alcohol content is so highThis is a rather ridiculous thing to say. If you think a scotch and a gin taste more similar than two random types of beer you simply have the taste buds of a retarded child.
>>25242614Going off the OP image, I don't know Chaucer's personal opinion on acohol though in story, the characters of the Cook and the Miller are intended as negative portrayals of drunkards in that time. Their stories reflect their druken state by being pointless/ offensive for the sake of it. The Cook's tale goes nowhere and is about Perkin, a character meant to be drunk and stupid as the man telling it. The miler's tale is an offensive parody of the Knight's tale who came before it as well and the Miller is acting insulting towards the knight by telling it.
>>25242502Hawthorne got me on a brandy kick for a while
>>25244736The difference here would be between beer and hard cider
>>25244147non-whites cant stomach milk though?
>>25245493I think ghengis soread more genes allowing peoole to drink milk than anyone.Mongols used to drink horse milk and were not held back by longass baggage trains of food. Asians drinking horse milk may have changed the world.
>>25244736Lager and west coast IPA taste more dissimilar than any two strong spirits ever made in history
>>25245662They don't. I don't know why you'd think that unless you are just incapable of handling liquor.
>>25245813I can drink a lot of hard liquor and have gone through months of heavy drinking from morning until evening. "Being able to hold your liquor" doesn't make your taste better, since getting tipsy makes you less sensitive to taste distinction. I think the issue is just that you consider hard liquor more nuanced and refined because of the class ideology associated with it, especially in relation to beer. Otherwise you wouldn't feel such a personal stake to attack me personally and say things like I am retarded and can't hold my liquor (lol).
>>25245824The reason I say that is because I can't think of another reason that you would say something that absurd. There is indeed a substantial variety among different types of beer, but the same applies to spirits. You're telling me a peated scotch, a London dry gin, and a Jamaican rum all taste extremely similar and that you can mainly tell the difference in a cocktail. It's just silly.
>>25245837I can easily tell the difference between tequila and vodka but it isn't nearly as pronounced as that between a west coast IPA and a German lager. 2 parts water makes hard liquor difference in taste much more pronounced, so do many cocktails. I barely taste the difference between Bombay Sapphire and Seagram's, but if you make a gin and tonic with each, the difference is pronounced.
>>25245846Do you think the tequila tastes similar to the Bombay Sapphire? It's completely different.
>>25245879They're made out of different plants, mate. Of course they taste different. But the alcohol is 90% of the taste
>>25245885>But the alcohol is 90% of the tasteThis just seems to me like the sort of thing that someone unfamiliar with drinking would say, like the type of person that says that liquor just burns. I know you said you used to drink heavily, but I think there's a difference between just getting wasted and drinking spirits to appreciate them for the taste, and I guess the former doesn't necessarily give you a palate for the latter. Like you couldn't pay me to drink a "shot", I don't see the point at all.
>>25245919Alcohol has a very strong taste, extremely strong, and spirits are 40% alcohol. The alcohol is and must be the most powerful part of the taste. It is even in wine, generally about fifty percent of the taste. In beer, alcohol is about a third for the most alcoholic and gradually less based on lower alcohol content.If you add pure grain spirits to any non-alcoholic drink until it is 40% alcohol, that will be by far the most prominent taste. Can be any drink
>>25245938I know I have had higher ABV beer that basically tasted like a beer with vodka poured into it, and found it unpleasant. But I can't say I primarily taste ethanol in any decent spirit. I started drinking with 100 proof bourbon before getting into other things so perhaps I acclimated to the taste in a different way. Different spirits taste clearly like different flavors to me.
>>25245949that's like saying you don't primarily taste sugar in a soft drink that is 40% sugar
>>25245952Well I do taste that. People who drink higher proof spirits will often tell you that increased proof acts to enhance the flavors. I know in bourbon world, cask strength bottles are popular and people often drink 60%+ ABV whiskey straight. Not really my thing, though.
>>25242614you can’t write good and be totally sober. its just not possible.
