New Year's Eve drinking thread

Submitted by michgoblue on
So, what's everybody drinking to send off this bitch of a year?

My wife and I are sharing a bottle of Red Diamond Cabernet for a quiet evening at home (hard to go out for NEw years eve when you have two little kids asleep by 8:30). Will sadly be asleep before the ball drops.

Go blue and and happy new year.

Spock

December 31st, 2013 at 8:51 PM ^

I normally hate these drinking threads, but since it is NYE, I will partake. I am currently sipping wine, but waiting for my Sam Adams to get cold.

Yeah yeah yeah, down vote me all you want. I really don't give a shit.

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Yorzinlax

December 31st, 2013 at 9:07 PM ^

like these threads. Sometimes someone is drinking something I've seen but not tried. With that in mind, outside Madison its a scotch ale from a brewery called Lake Louie, capped with my last couple of Anchor Christmas ale. Grab those if there's any left. Go Blue to all. Here's to a better 2014 for us all. Cheers.

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elhead

December 31st, 2013 at 9:08 PM ^

Highly recommended. Drowning my sorrows following one of the most depressing football seasons in memory. I went to my first Michigan game at Michigan Stadium in 1967 and I suppose that my memory bank kicked in when Bo took over in 1969. The only other season I can recall that truly made me feel bad was 1984 when we got beat in whatever bowl game it was by BYU. I weathered the RichRod years, that was different.

May 2014 shine upon us. Like the fat guy on Stargazer, I "keep looking up!"

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Commie_High96

December 31st, 2013 at 9:23 PM ^

I gave my kids a shot of Children's Benadryl each and they passed out. Wife drinking Irish Creme, and I'm having the Drinking Man's Scotch and soda. happy New Year Mgoblog.

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robmorren2

December 31st, 2013 at 9:25 PM ^

Tried Scotch for the first time after seeing all the scotch posts in the past. Bought a bottle of Glenlivet 18yr ... didn't really care for it. I'm 29, so I tried to be a little more classy for the last holiday season of my 20's, but I think my generation is more suited for the Rum & Coke, Bud light, Jager bomb type stuff. Well drinks, beer pong, binge drinking, and endless rounds of shots will always be my style. Sipping on a glass of Scotch just didn't hit home for me.

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Bryan

December 31st, 2013 at 11:12 PM ^

But I have an Oban 14 that I like right now. I would avoid that if I were you. It's very peat forward.

Go with a Macallan 12 to start off with. I'm not a fan of the 15, but the 18 is also quite good.

I would suggest breaking yourself in with a bourbon/ rye before you move to scotch, just for the cost factor alone. Bulleit makes a good bourbon and rye in my opinion.

These things take time to appreciate. Do t feel you need to buy a $80 bottle. If this is something you want to get into then look for a tasting and you can learn what flakes you enjoy and what you want to avoid.

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Commie_High96

January 1st, 2014 at 9:38 AM ^

Are you giving me advice about Scotch and coming at me with some weakass commercial spry side bull shit? The reason I am drinking dewars tonight is that I killed both my usual good scotch (laphroaig 18) and my go to cheep stuff (Black Bottle, an Islay heavy blend), and had to settle for what I could get at Busche's in Dexter. Dewars has more Islay in it than any other popular blend. Oban is damn children's scotch. Pony up for a Lagavoulan 16 or an Arbeg 18 and then we can talk about "peat forward"

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htownwolverine

December 31st, 2013 at 9:39 PM ^

I am drinking everything tonight. I got up this morning and some dick had smashed into my car and cratered my driver side door and broke off my mirror. I parked my car in the street with the family in town. Fuck 2013.

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