Music Babble

I'm a very moderate drinker since my mid-20s - I started getting nasty hangovers/day-long headaches, and my tolerance in terms of getting drunk is much higher than my tolerance in terms of feeling like garbage the next day. So I usually have 2 drinks, had 3 last night and am lucky enough to just feel mildly headachey this morning.

With hard liquor I usually drink whiskey, if I'm ordering a basic drink it's most likely to be a bourbon & ginger beer/ale. But if I'm getting a fancy cocktail I'm pretty happy to try anything that sounds interesting, though an old fashioned is always nice. Don't drink much vodka, can't really deal with aquavit.

I have a bottle of Becherovka around, tried it on vacation in Czechia 10 years ago and really liked it. I tried the Slovak national spirit at some point and thought it was awful.

Similarly with beer I'll try anything that sounds interesting, happy to drink IPA/pale ale/pilsners/stout/sours/weird farmhouse stuff, though I don't care for super intense DIPAs or barleywine. I wish Olympia was still going, I kind of preferred it to Rainier when it comes to cheap beer.