What is the best, worst, and most exotic drinks you've had travelling, and tell a good drunk story while you're at it.
>>2730250>bestMaybe driving all over the Champagne region of France and hitting up like 10 wineries a day with my gf. Incredible wine at every spot and drunk driving through the French countryside is a special thing. Or some of the beer we had a monastery in Prague, fucking incredible and like $1 USD a pint.>worstVisiting the TX Hill Country with gf for my birthday. I stop into hick dive bar and after a few beers I mention it's my birthday and the bartender forces me to take some kind of fucked up suicide shot, rum, whiskey, tequila, wine, like 15 different things dumped into a glass and I chugged it like a champ but it hit me like a brick about 15 minutes later>drunk storyFriends mom gets married in Costa Rica, wedding party (+30 people) gets completely shitfaced night before the wedding, I decide to get naked and take midnight swim under the full moon. Entire party sees how much fun I'm having and they all strip down and join me. I wake up naked on beach the next morning with 2 stray dogs spooning me>2nd drunk storyVisiting USVI with gf, she goes to bed early, I decide to stay up and people watch on our balcony that overlooks the waterfront and main entertainment drag. I apparently ended up drinking an entire bottle of rum over the course of the night, and remember literally nothing. All the rest of the trip though, whenever I would hang out on the balcony, people would walk by and yell out "Ay yo, it's the rum man, ay wassup rum man, how you doin brah?", so god knows what kind of show I was putting on for the crowds
>>2730250Hell yeah
>>2730268>bonus sad drunk story>out of town for work for a month>find dive bar, there every night and become temporary regular while im in town>last night im there>bartenders little bro is in town for summer break, bartender asks me to hang out with him since he doesnt know anyone>he just turned 21, i decide to show him how to behave in a bar>all the different types of drinks, bar terms, etc.>we're getting toasty when a bunch of his old friends from HS show up>he hasnt seen them in years, introduces me to them all >im almost 40 but they all think im the cool wise old man and we all get along great>teach them all bar etiquette and all that shit, they keep buying me drinks so ill teach them my wisdom>he says he has one more friend on the way>she shows up>she literally takes my breath away when i see her>most beautiful person i have seen>he introduces us and neither of us can say anything and just stare into each others eyes for an eternity>we end up sitting at end of bar all night and ignore everyone else>shes so much younger than me and we have nothing in common but talking to her is so easy>never had this kind of connection with anyone before>she keeps buying us tequila shots>our chairs keep getting closer and closer>last call hits, everyone stumbles outside, I'm extremely fucked>she does the cute little slow turn and looks up at me>"soooo, anon, I think this is the part where you invite me back to your hotel room...?">have exactly 1 sober brain molecule left, remember I'm engaged and that I love my fiancee>"errrgggghhhhh I left my shigarettes inside, give me a shecond and lemme get them">go back inside bar, run out back door, drunkenly run 2 miles back to my room>wake up in the morning, few missed calls from the fiancee>she texted me "hi baby, i miss you so much and cant wait for you to come home today! I hope youre having fun and being safe whatever youre doing, I love you so much!">cant decide if I should feel guilty or not
I once had an Aperol Spritz sorbet in New Zealand. Not quite a drink, but it definitely had alcohol in it. It was interesting, but I would much prefer to just drink a normal Aperol Spritz.
>>2730250I usually just stick to easy drinks like local beer or gin and tonic when I travel.But I really enjoyed the cocktail bars in Singapore. There's a lot of them, they're surprisingly not pretentious (although some of their clientele sure is), the locations and views are often great, and the drinks are TOP fucking NOTCH.The rest of nightlife in Singapore was comparatively shit, to the point I think I may have missed something about the place. But the cocktail bars, I'd genuinely go back there just to stumble from bar to bar again.
>>2730340Did you have the original Singapore Sling at the Raffles Hotel?
>>2730340>But I really enjoyed the cocktail bars in Singapore. There's a lot of them, they're surprisingly not pretentious (although some of their clientele sure is), the locations and views are often great, and the drinks are TOP fucking NOTCH.same here in kuala lumpur. one of the best things about the city>>2730343>Did you have the original Singapore Sling at the Raffles Hotel?i have, mainly because someone else was paying. i was there with a work colleague from the uk and we had a meeting at the hotel with our local counterparts. we got there pretty early and downed an unfeasible amount of drinks before they showed up. they unknowingly agreed to pick up the bill. the head guy's face was quite a picture.
>>2730364I had to look up what a Raffles Singapore Sling costs because your reply threw me off a bit. $37 SGD. That better be quality ingredients pricing, not tourist trap pricing.
>>2730343Yeah. It's good and Raffles Hotel is definitely worth a stop. But the protip is to fly with Singapore Airlines and get their Singapore Slings: they serve them in the lounge and on board, the quality is really high, and of course you can get as many as you want. I don't think I ever get more drunk on a flight in my life.
>>2730374>That better be quality ingredients pricing, not tourist trap pricingalas no. the raffles hotel singapore sling is (or was) most definitely something that you do once so that you can say that you've done it, rather than something you do because of the quality. however, they served their purpose, which was to get me and my colleague completely shitfaced at someone else's expense. happy days
>>2730268the 2 stray dogs spooning you was pretty cute>>2730272I'd say you did a damn good job resisting your primal urges under that state.you must really love herYou shouldn't feel guilty for seeing someone attractive but be careful putting yourself in those situations multiple times. Temptation is a bitch that wears down on you and it just takes one slip to fuck everything up forever rum man
>>2730250Shots of mao tai from a bottle with a dead snake inside. Chinese used to love that shit but today I think they prefer fake first growth Bordeaux
Best beer was in Czech, specifically Prague. And it wasn't even close. I've heard people argue that Belgium is better, but who the fuck wants shit like coriander and honeysuckle in beer? F4gs, that's who.
>>2730250>BestI have never understood port, or enjoyed it much, but a lengthy and extremely informative tasting session at the Solar de Vinho do Porto in Lisbon gave me a new respect for the stuff. Also got me so drunk I had a hard time not falling down the hill from the Bairro Alto, but that’s my fault, not the tasting room’s. I also came to love vinho verde on that trip—young, low-alcohol, often slightly fizzy white wine that’s somehow not sweet.>Worst Drinking a bottle of MD20/20 (my first and last ever) at a basement death metal show in Madison, Wisconsin, after which I vomited all over myself. I don’t actually like sweet drinks and should have known better.>Most exotic I used to really enjoy local brandies (eaux de vie, slivovitza, singani, pisco, etc.), especially home-distilled versions. Anything I hadn’t seen before or which didn’t exist in the last country I visited, with flavor profiles featuring fruit aromas and the taste of nothing but fire.I’ve also had a few pseudomedicinal and tonic drinks with shit like scorpions and snakes in them, but these are all gimmicky nonsense and taste terrible.
>>2730721Oh, and some years after all of the above I finally came to terms with the fact that I am an alcoholic, and quit drinking.
probably the best was getting blitzed every mardi gras in college in new orleansbut green bay has great beer
>>2730250Damn my original shit didn't post Best:Depends on what were drinking honestly. For beer I love Chang, and this one lager from a catholic monastery I had. $12 for a pint but damn it was good. The Monasteries are hugely overlooked. Best wine is Rose, which I got from Costco and had a 3 day weekend at an Airbnb with a couple buddies. We drank about two bottles per day each, watched the lord of the rings, hung out in the hot tub, played board games, and did all around stupid shit. For cocktails, New Orleans has a bar names "Ghost Bar" which serves phenomenal drinks, all are great. Beyond that, I've had some great Mojitos in the DR.Worst:Hands down any fucking "hoppy exposed red brick wall bitter hecking awesome" IPA. I had a coffee IPA which was unfucking drinkable. I'm so glad that scene is slowly dying. Past that have a bud that buys $6 vodka in a half gallon container. Shit is hand sanitizer but according to him "gets you fucked up cheap".Most exotic:Was in Cozumel and this restaurant gave me a murky milky white shot of something that was "on the house". I hesitantly shot it back, tasted fine. Later on, hit me like three shots. Idk what was in it, or what it was to this day.Drunk Story:Was in Bangkok, and decided to go out my second night. I tried my first night, but I was fucking exhausted from two days of travel so passed out at a bar. Went out with a group, and spent until what I can only assume was 3-4 in the morning partying on the Khaosan Road. Was with a young British dude dancing on stage making out with this British girl, when it go so crowded on stage, I got nudged off and fell onto the DJ setup. Music stopped, hundreds of people started leaving to where there was more music. Thai fags yelling at me so my hostel bros and I ran as fast as we could to a different club. Don't remember the rest of the night, but woke up in so much pain I didn't leave the hostel for two days.
>>2730250>best drinks I ever had were at a cocktail bar in Japan. They have won several awards for cocktails and it’s not even a really popular place. Their old fashioned took me to heaven. >worstdrinks could be the beer in Vietnam. Tried tons of beers there and they all tasted like beer flavored water. >most exotic This is a tough one but I’ll say moonshine in the US. Coworker at the time got some from his source and we drank it at work. Was very good actually. Drunk story. Man too many good times had drinking. Friend and me found a good yakitori place and ended up drinking there all night. Came home to an angry girlfriend and according to her I was so drunk I tried to go swimming in the bathtub. Good times. I’m now a regular customer at the yakitori place and the owner and I have a good relationship.
>>2730268>drunk driving through the French countryside is a special thing.
>>2730268>with 2 stray dogs spooning meanon...
>>2730272the whore with daddy issues almost tricked you. satan in a womans body.hard to believe this story, its very well written.
>>2730250>be me, amerifag>Wife has been bitching to go on a vacation>tired of the usual beach and minorities>decide to see the ancestral homeland>pack your bags baby, we're going to SCOTLAND>Go through the highlands. It's great. Beautiful. Quiet.>Find a village by the western coast and get a bed and breakfast>Want some ass, wife says no. She's not on BC and she's too close to ovulation. Ask for some head. Wife is being a bitch and says no. >Jerk off in shower and then I'm bored. >walk down to some quiet looking pub>start talking to the locals. Mostly older men and guys in their 30s. >Have a great fucking time. A lot of them are also there because their wives don't want to fuck or stopped a long time ago. Get absolutely hammered.>stumble back at 2 AM. >wife still doesn't give me head, but now she's fat. If it wasn't for kids I'd probably leave. >Dream of going back to scotland all the time>Went to england too. They were prude faggots. Didn't care for them at all.
>>2731794That was best.>worstPretty sure I got roofied at a bar in Oklahoma City. I ended up falling down the stairs and then passing out in an alley. Luckily I was with my bros and they threw me in an uber. The bar is called "JJs alley" if anyone is local. I had like...3 cocktails and I was GONE. My normal is like 8. I'm luckily I didn't ass fucked and get AIDS. Another time a group of black guys in Tokyo of all places tried to extort me for money at a bar until we literally threatened to beat them to death. The Japanese and normal white tourists are usually pretty meek I guess and aren't used to black foolishness like we are in the states. >Most exotic drink - Some of my extended family are real redneck. They had a full moonshine still out in the sticks of Oklahoma. That shit smelled like jet fuel and burned like it too, but it knocked you out. Pic related what it felt like.
>>2731731>cocktail bar:|>cocktail bar, Japan:O
>>2731794 this is depressing me but I’m glad you got that memory to hold on to. The countries that have legalized sex have got it figured out. Wives either put out or they know you can pay for sex from some extremely hot women. Keeps the pressure on. This is another reason I would never marry an American woman way too entitled for me
>>2730250>bestDark cellar beer I had from a clay mug by a church in Germany. Will never forget how much I enjoyed it to this day. I've had it since, but it doesn't hit the same. I was 16 and it was all still fresh.>worstI bought 5 euro vodka in Spain during a summercamp organised by people from my UNI. Kept mixing it with the white monster energy + tabasco. Ended up drinking three quarters of the bottle and puking for three hours on the beach. That trip was weird as a whole though. Whole campsite nearly burned down when a fire started over the fence next to us. They had to bring in a helicopter. Also being woken up at 5 am by a neighbouring christian german summer camp blasting "guten morgen guten morgen guten morgen sonnenschein!".>drunk storyStealing every election poster in the small Dutch town I was in the night before the election and putting them up in my basement. >2nd drunk storyCycling home 15 kilometers from a panchiko concert blackout drunk with someone on the back of the bicycle. I have no idea how I never crashed, as I was literally swerving from one side of the path to the other.
After a long day of exploring Greece, I sat down in a small restaurant and had a Greek beer. But most importantly, it was the very first time I had Ouzo. It was a very comfy afternoon, one of my best trips ever. This was years ago...
