The Resurrected Cheap Booze Revooze Thread

Cupcake is some of the nastiest shit in the wine aisle.

My dad picked up a bottle of Zodiac vodka yesterday for about $13. We had a bit on the rocks before dinner and I have to say - for a cheap vodka I'm quite impressed! It's apparently made in small batches from potatoes, in Idaho. It's quite viscous, but goes down really smoothly, and has a bit of a citrus hint to it. I liked it a lot.

Summer cocktail that tastes really expensive but isn't:

1 bottle Pimm's No. 1 ($15.99 or $16.99 most places for a 750 ml)
2 litres of whatever cheap ginger ale you have at hand (I use Seagram's, but seriously, whatever works)
One lemon, sliced
One lime, sliced
Shave fresh ginger over a cheese grater to taste (the more you use, the more "bite" the cocktail will have, but it can be overpowering to some people)
One rather large cucumber, sliced

(I also normally add in Barrow's Intense Ginger Liqueur, but that doesn't really fit the "cheap" ethos at $31.99 a bottle, so instead you can use some shitty gin and a bit extra ginger ale)

Throw it all together in a punch bowl over ice and stir. Garnish glasses (or, who are we kidding, red solo cups) with a cucumber slice held on with toothpicks (if you're being very fancy, you also use a piece of candied ginger, but we're not being fancy here).

If the resulting cocktail is too strong, add seltzer. If it's not strong enough, add gin. If it's too sweet, add lemon juice and seltzer. If it's not sweet enough, add ginger ale.

You're welcome.

Tullamore Dew is my go to Irish WhiskEy. It's always a couple bucks cheaper* than Jameson's and a bit smoother as well. Plus since it's not as well known as Jamesons or Bushmills, you'll get recognized as a serious alcoholic connoisseur by the clerk at the register.


* That said I've never seen it as cheap as $19.99 near me.

Has anyone tried one of these oak barrels?



www.amazon.com/dp/B00IHN28QQ/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=52PSEF8TU2N9&coliid=I2H6TGARDYCMRC

I usually keep my Jack in a glass decanter, but it is nothing special and it is getting old. I figure at the worst it will be a cool whiskey dispenser, at the best it might make my regular Jack taste a bit more like single barrel Jack. I might even play around with flavoring some other stuff.

I also found these things, but they seem a bit cheap and not as fun to have around:

www.amazon.com/Oak-Infusion-Spiral-Barrel-Bottle/dp/B00QSI6SIG/ref=pd_sim_79_6?ie=UTF8&dpID=41uYTCILf2L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=1QFG6T7SPNBW0BHJB60F

I feel like I should get one of those, age some bourbon, then use it for beer.

Boomsma Fine Old Genever $19.99 - This was quite pleasant, the Dutch ancestor of Gin. While I didn't like it as much as regular gin, it has it's charms with pleasant malty-ness to it reminiscent of some of the better white whiskies I've had. It's especially nice with a flavored seltzer.

Wasn't The Scarlet Path the Peruvian Marxist guerilla group from the 80's?

Ok not sure how cheap it would be or if it's on hand by us (will have to research at home already bring back two Glengoyne bottles so think I'd be pushing luggage space/plausible deniability with customs by getting a third bottle) but Springbank 10 yr (a Campbellton) is really outstanding.

Had a ton of other good ones here but I'm 99.9% certain they'd be in excess of what could be called cheap

Concha y Toro's Malbec is surprisingly drinkable at $8 for a 1.5L bottle.

I almost forgot. My mom gave me some "table red" and I wish I'd saved the label but it was horrible. So sweet and astringent. I dumped that mother out.

I had possibly the least essential alcohol product in existence. White Claw Hard Seltzer. It was an impulse buy a month ago at the supermarket. "Hey I like seltzer. I like booze. I like combining the two. I might like this. Maybe?". This stuff is not nearly as good as the seltzer and whiskies I just make on my own. It's weak sauce in fact, I barely tasted any alcohol, though it says it's 10 proof. It's lone value appears to be that there's no risk you might spill it carrying it out to the backyard.

I have 4-6 beers and I'm shithoused and gonna be a zombie the next day. Feed me whiskey all night and I'll be a little stumbly but I'll remember everything and be fine the next day. Go figure.