Something else: if I’m feeling fancy and in a good mood, a bottle of sparkling wine - either french champagne, one of the nice California wines, a South African (Graham Beck makes nice wines at very reasonable prices) or an Italian (Brachettos are sweet and lovely for some occasions).
If I’m feeling fancy and not in a good mood, it’s bourbon - ideally something nice, like Eagle Rare or W.L. Weller. Or, sometimes, a highland malt Scotch.
Fancy pairs with food, too; if I’m feeling fancy and I’m going to have a nice dinner, an aperitif; Lillet is a good choice, or sometimes a cream sherry. After dinner fancy is tawny port.
So, that’s probably more than you wanted to know, but now you know what to get me for my birthday.
When I’m feeling fancy, everyone just laughs at me until the feeling passes.
Then I follow George Thorogood’s advice:
/youtube One Boubon One Scotch One Beer
A good quality loose tea made with one of several fancy tea pots or kettles I’ve received as gifts over the years. If therecare guests I might make a flowering tea. They aren’t as good as a real quality tea, but they impress the rubes.
Challenge accepted: A craft beer (probably a NEIPA based on current trends) brewed with coffee, aged on red wine grapes in bourbon barrels. (I don’t think this exists yet, but I can get really close.) Served as a Shandy? (gotta get the soda pop in there somehow) With a glass of water because hangovers suck.
@Unicorn_King A buddy invited me over for a glass of Yamazaki 18 the other day. In a Glencairn glass no less. What was even more pretentious is that we’d had a considerable amount of good wine before that, so by the time we were drinking the Yamazaki, it tasted, as I recall, “pretty good”…
@shahnm@Unicorn_King I’m super fond of Japanese whiskey, I just wish it was more affordable. All the character of a single malt scotch, all the smoothness of an Irish.
@Unicorn_King If you’re feeling extra pretentious you can ask for rocks and correct them when they pull out ice. Or just judge harshly on the clarity of the large cube!
@rockblossom@tnhillbillygal does your electric kettle reply, “Darling, we can’t afford a ceremony and our parents are against us. We’ll have to elope!”
@rtjhnstn@UncleVinny Take the juice from one bottle of Ol’ Janx Spirit.
Pour into it one measure of water from the seas of Santraginus V — Oh, that Santraginean seawater! Oh, those Santraginean fish!
Allow three cubes of Arcturan Mega-gin to melt into the mixture (it must be properly iced or the benzene is lost).
Allow four litres of Fallian marsh gas to bubble through it, in memory of all those happy hikers who have died of pleasure in the Marshes of Fallia.
Over the back of a silver spoon float a measure of Qualactin Hypermint extract, redolent of all the heady odours of the dark Qualactin Zones, subtle, sweet and mystic.
Drop in the tooth of an Algolian Suntiger. Watch it dissolve, spreading the fires of the Algolian Suns deep into the heart of the drink.
Sprinkle Zamphuor.
Add an olive.
Drink… but… very carefully…
Fun cocktail fact! The Manhattan is the most famous, but there are actually quite a few cocktails named for places in New York City.
A Bronx is gin, vermouth, and orange juice. A Brooklyn is rye, dry vermouth, maraschino, and (specifically) Amer Picon bitters. A Queens is gin, vermouth, and pineapple juice. A Staten Island Ferry is rum and pineapple juice. A Hell’s Kitchen is cooking sherry and Tabasco sauce. And an Alphabet City is fermented urine with a heroin chaser.
A good jasmine green tea in a mug. If I’m feeling extra fancy, I’ll have it in a frilly porcelain teacup with a cucumber sandwich (crusts trimmed away) and drink it daintily with my pinky finger extended.
This poll question would be better as a simple statement, and it needs to be just a bit less specific:
When I’m feeling ____ I drink.
FIFY.
@shahnm
When I’m feeling, I drink
FIFY
@cajun @shahnm Or just… I drink.
A bourbon slush.
It’s not the drink that matters. The fanciness comes from the tiny umbrella.
Speciality of the house or host.
Yoohoo. Or, if I want to emphasize my villainous side, Strawberry Yoohoo.
A shot of something with a proof higher than my age. Anyone know where I parked my Miata?
Something else: if I’m feeling fancy and in a good mood, a bottle of sparkling wine - either french champagne, one of the nice California wines, a South African (Graham Beck makes nice wines at very reasonable prices) or an Italian (Brachettos are sweet and lovely for some occasions).
If I’m feeling fancy and not in a good mood, it’s bourbon - ideally something nice, like Eagle Rare or W.L. Weller. Or, sometimes, a highland malt Scotch.
Fancy pairs with food, too; if I’m feeling fancy and I’m going to have a nice dinner, an aperitif; Lillet is a good choice, or sometimes a cream sherry. After dinner fancy is tawny port.
So, that’s probably more than you wanted to know, but now you know what to get me for my birthday.
When I’m feeling fancy, everyone just laughs at me until the feeling passes.
Then I follow George Thorogood’s advice:
/youtube One Boubon One Scotch One Beer
/youtube I Drink Alone
A good quality loose tea made with one of several fancy tea pots or kettles I’ve received as gifts over the years. If therecare guests I might make a flowering tea. They aren’t as good as a real quality tea, but they impress the rubes.
@moondrake - Some flowering teas have practically no flavor, but Teabloom is excellent. Nice blend of jasmine green and other subtle flavors.
I always thought the French drank wine, so feeling French means I drink wine.
What, it says Fancy? What’s the difference?
Challenge accepted: A craft beer (probably a NEIPA based on current trends) brewed with coffee, aged on red wine grapes in bourbon barrels. (I don’t think this exists yet, but I can get really close.) Served as a Shandy? (gotta get the soda pop in there somehow) With a glass of water because hangovers suck.
Did I miss anything?
@Oneroundrobb Taste.
J/K… I like pretending to be a beverage snoot.
@Oneroundrobb this is pretty close to that
caesar’s gimp
i’ve had it, pretty good!
A glass of scotch, that costs way more than I care to admit, in a fancy Glencairn glass that makes me look and feel disgustingly pretentious.
@Unicorn_King A buddy invited me over for a glass of Yamazaki 18 the other day. In a Glencairn glass no less. What was even more pretentious is that we’d had a considerable amount of good wine before that, so by the time we were drinking the Yamazaki, it tasted, as I recall, “pretty good”…
@shahnm Bahaha. Tragic.
@shahnm @Unicorn_King I’m super fond of Japanese whiskey, I just wish it was more affordable. All the character of a single malt scotch, all the smoothness of an Irish.
@Unicorn_King If you’re feeling extra pretentious you can ask for rocks and correct them when they pull out ice. Or just judge harshly on the clarity of the large cube!
@LordSalem I take my scotch on the rocks… pebbles dredged from the depths of the Potomac, if you have them…
@Unicorn_King Scotch was my answer also, mostly Macallan for the fancy/pricy side of things. Shocked I had to scroll so far to get here.
I’ll let you know the first time I feel fancy.
(I won’t actually let you know.)
Tea, Earl Grey…Hot
@tnhillbillygal Ordered with a proper British accent, I presume?
@rockblossom Of course, and when I turn on my electric kettle I always say “Engage.”
@rockblossom @tnhillbillygal does your electric kettle reply, “Darling, we can’t afford a ceremony and our parents are against us. We’ll have to elope!”
The most expensive whiskey in the bar with @seeds
A Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster
@rtjhnstn it’s just this drink, you know?
@UncleVinny Remind me of the ingredients, and I’ll let you know.
All I know is that I need AA after one.
@rtjhnstn @UncleVinny Take the juice from one bottle of Ol’ Janx Spirit.
Pour into it one measure of water from the seas of Santraginus V — Oh, that Santraginean seawater! Oh, those Santraginean fish!
Allow three cubes of Arcturan Mega-gin to melt into the mixture (it must be properly iced or the benzene is lost).
Allow four litres of Fallian marsh gas to bubble through it, in memory of all those happy hikers who have died of pleasure in the Marshes of Fallia.
Over the back of a silver spoon float a measure of Qualactin Hypermint extract, redolent of all the heady odours of the dark Qualactin Zones, subtle, sweet and mystic.
Drop in the tooth of an Algolian Suntiger. Watch it dissolve, spreading the fires of the Algolian Suns deep into the heart of the drink.
Sprinkle Zamphuor.
Add an olive.
Drink… but… very carefully…
Fun cocktail fact! The Manhattan is the most famous, but there are actually quite a few cocktails named for places in New York City.
A Bronx is gin, vermouth, and orange juice. A Brooklyn is rye, dry vermouth, maraschino, and (specifically) Amer Picon bitters. A Queens is gin, vermouth, and pineapple juice. A Staten Island Ferry is rum and pineapple juice. A Hell’s Kitchen is cooking sherry and Tabasco sauce. And an Alphabet City is fermented urine with a heroin chaser.
@dannybeans
My old neighborhood speciality!
TJ’s Five Buck Chuck!
And for those of us more into soda pop, TJ’s grape sparkler is nice for occasions - beats Welsh’s sparkling grape all hollow.
A good jasmine green tea in a mug. If I’m feeling extra fancy, I’ll have it in a frilly porcelain teacup with a cucumber sandwich (crusts trimmed away) and drink it daintily with my pinky finger extended.
The question implies that I’m only occasionally feeling fancy. I’m perpetually feeling fancy because I am, in fact, fancy. I’m a fancy nancy!
Yes. Whenever I have feelings, I fancy a drink.
…from a glass instead of the bottle.
I don’t think I’ve ever felt fancy.
@RiotDemon
/giphy fancypants
A good bourbon, or a good scotch. Neat.
A Sazerac. Or an Absinthe Frappé.