Here I sit with a glass of rye

[Rockydoc]

Gin and grapefruit juice is pretty tasty too.

Put salt on the rim of the glass and you have a Salty Dog.

 

[Ian]

Yup. Gin and Squirt is good, too.

 

[Brad]

Gin and grapefruit juice is pretty tasty too.

Two wrongs don’t make a right

 

[waco]

Two wrongs don’t make a right

Lol. Not a fan I take it? My wife loves grapefruit juice but cannot have it due to certain medications.

 

[462]

Long ago and far away and at a time when I was 20 or 21 years old, I mixed lemon-lime Kool-Aid, that came in one of my mother's CARE packages, with vodka. Nasty tasting is not descriptive enough.

 

[RicinYakima]

Gin and grapefruit juice is pretty tasty too.

Ah! If you put salt around the rim it is called a "Salty Dog" another fine hot humid day refreshment.

 

[RicinYakima]

Long ago and far away and at a time when I was 20 or 21 years old, I mixed lemon-lime Kool-Aid, that came in one of my mother's CARE packages, with vodka. Nasty tasting is not descriptive enough.

In RVN, we only got Kool-Aid to kill the taste of the iodine you put in the water. My Dad would send me 1/10 gallon bottle of 100 proof in my care packages. It was not quite as bad as Campbell's tomato soup and vodka but close.

 

[Ian]

Better than boat drinks any day. Like I mentioned earlier I prefer a "dirty dog" with a couple Calamata olives and a spoonfull of juice, but actually in lieu of the salted rim.

 

[Ian]

In RVN, we only got Kool-Aid to kill the taste of the iodine you put in the water. My Dad would send me 1/10 gallon bottle of 100 proof in my care packages. It was not quite as bad as Campbell's tomato soup and vodka but close.

Wow, that never would have occurred to me to even try. Too much corn syrup in CTS.

 

[RicinYakima]

Wow, that never would have occurred to me to even try. Too much corn syrup in CTS.

You have not been 20 years old in a jungle 10,000 miles from home and wanted a drink.

 

[Ian]

You have not been 20 years old in a jungle 10,000 miles from home and wanted a drink.

Thank the stars for that, and thank you for going where Uncle Sam sent you and gritting it out. I think straight vodka, even really bad vodka, and a carton of Lucky Strikes would do just fine if I found myself wanting and in the sort of situation where one doesn't buy green bananas.

 

[462]

Thank the stars for that, and thank you for going where Uncle Sam sent you and gritting it out. I think straight vodka, even really bad vodka, and a carton of Lucky Strikes would do just fine if I found myself wanting and in the sort of situation where one doesn't buy green bananas.

Camels, Ian, Camels.
$1.25 per carton at the Base Exchange, and the ration card allowed four cartons per month.

 

[Ian]

I smoked Camels for 18 years, still miss them. Good to know you boys at least could get decent smokes.

 

[JWFilips]

Can't do Grapefruit juice any more ( Meds) But Gin and tonic or strait up on the rocks! "Bombay Sapphire "

 

[waco]

We have some really tasty local Oregon gins. One distillery is only about three blocks from my house.

 

[RicinYakima]

Camels, Ian, Camels.
$1.25 per carton at the Base Exchange, and the ration card allowed four cartons per month.

In the field, they were the same price but you didn't need a ration card. I was a Philip Morris Commander man myself, but you got what the 1st Sgt send out. You could always tell the pot heads as they wanted Kools and Salems to go with their "green sh*t" dipped joints.

 

[RicinYakima]

We have some really tasty local Oregon gins. One distillery is only about three blocks from my house.

Yes you do! however you have to be careful as some do not make their cuts very well and you end up with fusel oils and light ends that give nasty hangovers. Some from Sisters, OR, is pretty good, not to much botanicals added.

 

[Ian]

Yes you do! however you have to be careful as some do not make their cuts very well and you end up with fusel oils and light ends that give nasty hangovers. Some from Sisters, OR, is pretty good, not to much botanicals added.

I think judging and making the cut is the single most important factor in producing a good drink. Most booze made here commercially is fabricated like the next pop Nashville star. Take bulk grain alcohol, add a little bit of this ester and that aromatic and Presto!.....Patron de Ron Bacardi. Yep, it sucks now and that is why.

 

[waco]

Yes you do! however you have to be careful as some do not make their cuts very well and you end up with fusel oils and light ends that give nasty hangovers. Some from Sisters, OR, is pretty good, not to much botanicals added.

Yep. Some of the Sisters stuff is very tasty.

 

[RicinYakima]

I would refer you to J. Abraham Bowman distillery, you can search for Bowman Brothers Bourbon. My cousins ran the place until about 5 years ago when bought out by a major money group from New Orleans. My family has made whiskey for 400 years.