What kind of alcohol gives you the best buzz?

Beer, wine, whiskey, gin, brandy, vodka... ? I need a warm fuzzy buzz tonight. No getting drunk, just something to take the edge off.

• I'm partial to peppermint schnapps myself, since it's 100-proof and gives me a milder hangover than other 100-proofs. In fact, I'm drinking a shooter of it right now.

• Wine, for me anyway.

• I can't stomach peppermint or anything too sticky sweet. I like creamy sweet though. What about Bailey's Irish Cream? Or Kaluah?

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• Port, Marsala wine, Madeira and Sherry.

• BUTTERSCOTCH SCHNAPPS, YOU GODDAMN IDIOT!! & GET OFF THE INTERNET!!!!

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• I STILL SAY PEPPERMINT!!! It has a cleaner flavor. And very easy to get rid of the aftertaste by eating something dry and salty.

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• Sometimes, when I'm feeling highbrow, I like gins and tonics, too. That's my classy, gentleman's drink!

  SickEvilFuck

• tequila

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• Peppermint schnapps is like drinking mouthwash. A shot of aged single malt whiskey or dark rum does the trick for me. Or a really good red Cabernet.

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• Oh please, R10, peppermint schapps is nothing like drinking mouthwash. It's delicious in hot chocolate or coffee.

• I don't know why but all alchohol taste vaguely like NyQuil to me.

• red wine for me

• Urgh! Peppermint anything is too toothpaste-ey for me! Butterscotch too sickly-sweet - unless after a day on the ski slopes and somehow it's absolutely the right choice :) At home of an evening - especially in summer! - a good quality G&T is just the thing - love it! And pretty fond of maragrita - or two - when guests come around and the mood is jolly. Been making a new twist on it that was in a recent issue of BON APPETITE - only needs tequila and no Cointreau/triple sec - and is pretty delish: quarter of a cup good quality tequilla (silver patton is great) 2 tablespoons of fresh lime juice 1 tablespoon good quality agave syrup Put em all into a cocktail shaker with ice - shake vigorously. Heaven! The agave syrup gives a sweet but slightly smoky and resinous flavor. The magazine recipe is two tablespoons of agave - but found that way too sweet - one is much better :) My only problem with it is I feel a little bit embarrased using the agave syrup in a cocktail as - being an eldergay - I can feel the ghostly mocking of Roz Russell as Auntie Mame when she mocks the awful Upsons for their 'honey daiquiris'... Lol!

• R11 = Kitty Dukakis

• tequila

• I always like a nice Irish Coffee buzz in the winter. (from the Bailey's website) Ingredients: 2 ounces Baileys® Original Irish Cream 6 oz. hot coffee 1 fl oz Bushmills® Irish Whiskey Directions: Add Baileys Original Irish Cream, coffee and Bushmills Irish Whiskey to a tall "Irish coffee" glass. Top with whipped cream if desired.

• Chardonnay for me.

• What about a cappacheenar? We drank those in Cubar when I was a lad.

• Uggh, you low-class plebes drink the most mundane things. I prefer a goblet of very specialized chianti, (the drinking of which is always delivered with a phony-sounding altruistic toast) made from organic, non-plant-cruelty grapes with bits of rare, exotic fruits and a few spices that no human being can pronounce. While I force my oh-so-precious kids to take fencing lessons with other overprivileged brats at their private academies.

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• Baileys Irish cream all the way. It's good straight or mixed.

  Anonymous

• [quote]a really good red Cabernet Are there white Cabernets?

• Reqweella! OK, cut me off.

• Dr. Tichenor's when you're trying to sneak.

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• Tequila, just remember to eat the worm too.

• Rum, as in rum and Coke. Nothing like a sugar rush to give the alcohol that extra little kick.

• Vodka

• I agree with the peppermint schnapps fan but I will do 4 or 5 shots in one evening then not do it again for about 6 months, because it is basically pure sugar alcohol and will give your body a pear shape. Beer is too many calories for the buzz, I prefer wine, but for your request, OP, I'd recommend your choice of whiskey or vodka. Brandy is pretty sugary too.

• Patsy and Eddie had it right: Stoli & Bolly.

• For me, wine hits almost immediately, as do some beers--particularly Blue Moon. I'm not much of a hard liquor drinker.

• = fizzy wine with a hint of camembert.

• 8 or 10 strong beers usually do the trick... finally a Bud beer worth buying, Bud Platinum, 6% alcohol.

• 137 calories in a Bud Platinum. Multiple that by 10 and you've consumed the same as 5 fast food cheeseburgers.

  http://www.beer100.com/beercalories.htm

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• I like Pinnacle Cotton Candy mixed with Wedding Cake and a splash of Red Bull but I am 16 years old

• R12, what is like being married to Mitt Romney?

• Gin & tonic - best reliable buzz

• R22, here ya go:

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  R10

• Prosecco.

• I can drink vodka till the cows come home, from morning to nightm and never ever get drunk. I'm not even Russian! But half a bottle of wine...and woozy.

• C2H5-OH. Other alcohols are far too toxic.

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• Absinthe

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• wine makes me sleepy. i love beer, but it takes too many of them to get me drunk. vodka is the best, quickest way to get buzzed.

• A little apricot brandy.

• Keep some brandy handy.

  VSOP

• flaming rum punch

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• R7 shows how lowbrow she is by considering gin & tonics highbrow.

• Aquavit (Akvavit if you're precise). Warming and leaves a happy, healthy glow inside. In prudent doses, it helps one see the world for its pleasant possibilities.

• Thanks, R37 -- I had no idea. But white cabernet does sound as if it's like white zinfandel -- in other words, not so much white as rosé (which I guess is called "blush" now).

  R22

• We just know some of our elderberry wine would fix you right up, OP! And we promise--no nasty hangover.

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• R22, I totally agree with you. (I didn't know a "white" cab existed until some friends brought a bottle over for dinner. They told me to pull the stick out of my ass about it. But it's comfortably lodged there, so....)

  R37

• Moscato, I prefer Moscato del poggio.

• Peppermint schnapps for fun and gin & tonic for high class affairs? I was going to say that SickEvilFuck has the drinking habits of a stereotypical bi guy but I think it's just that he has the drinking habits of the bi boyfriend I had when I was 22.

• Try this: Golden Cadillac 1 oz Galliano® liqueur 2 oz white creme de cacao 1 oz light cream Combine all ingredients with 1/2 cup crushed ice in an electric blender. Blend at low speed for ten seconds. Strain into a champagne flute and serve.

• Pernod. With blackcurrant and lots of ice. One glass will do.

• Try a Hurricane Sandy. It's basically a watered down Manhattan.

• I will be making mulled wine in a few minutes. And eating it with some pickled red peppers stuffed with feta cheese.

• You need one of those machines where you can inhale alcohol. It quickly gives you a nice buzz, skips your liver and I don't think the hangover is bad.

• W&W for R55!

• Stolen from another thread, alas, R58.

• Xanax

• I agree with R9 Weed.

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