Just shows how out of touch you are with today's drinking scene. (Not
that that's bad).
The most popular drink in the bar where I work is called a Cherry Bomb.
Made from Cherry Dr. Mc Gillicuddys (spelling?) mixed with Red Bull
energy drink. Very sweet. The bar goes thru at least 2 cases of that
Cherry stuff every week, and lots of Red Bull and/or Monster drink.
The most popular shot is Rum Chata (expensive stuff). Then there's
Southern Comfort shots or mixed with soda. Malibu (sweet coconut
stuff), either in shots or mixed with soda or energy drink. Others are
UV Vodka, the blue raspberry being the favorite, (often mixed with
lemonade) and all flavors of Schnapps, and Fireball, which tastes like
red-hots candy, and those Pucker drinks like Apple Pucker. Blackberry
Brandy is also popular.
The bar has a mixed age crowd, but more younger than older. The younger
ones drink all that sweet stuff,
The older guys drink more of the traditional drinks like screwdrivers,
bloody marys and whiskey shots or blends, or shots of Tequila or Rum.
Nobody seems to drink a Martini or any of those drinks anymore.
I dont drink much hard liquor, just stick with beer mostly, but that
Cherry Dr Mc.... is very good, but I'd rather mix it with Coca Cola,
rather than that Red Bull, and that way I can make a very weak drink and
it's not noticable in brown soda. And that Rum Chata is quite tasty
too.
The good thing about all of this, is that most of these sweet liquors
are all fairly low in alcohol content. Rum Chata is 15% alc. Costs $4
per shot ($25 per fifth in the store). But there's a bad side to this
too, the stuff tastes like candy, so it's so easy to drink too much.
Not to mention expensive, because it takes many more drinks to get the
same amount of alcohol.
Drink choices have really changed in recent years, most beer sold is
lite beer now, and those who drink the regular beers are mostly older.
NA beer is occasionally sold, but not real popular. I drink more of
that when I'm working than anything else other than just soda. In fact
the bar owners said they are now ordering more NA since I work there.
But they're not complaining at all, because the reason I got that job is
because a former bartender got so drunk while bartending that he just
left people serve themselves and told them to toss their money on the
bar. The bar lost around $300 that night. He was fired the next day.
Recently I tried less than a half shot of straight Gray Goose Vodka,
which is an expensive vodka, and that alcohol taste really turned me
off. I dont like that taste anymore, nor do I like any whiskey.
I'm glad we have a bartenders guide, because there are some weird drinks
that people want, and I have to look them up. One was Apple Pucker and
Royal Crown, and I cant remember the name of it now. (It didn't sound
good to me). And one called a Slippery Nipple, which is Butterscotch
Schnapps and Bailey's Irish Cream poured over ice, and is supposed to
have whipping cream on top, but the bar doesn't have any. That is a
good drink. And there's a variation of that with Kaluia added.
So, I suppose the discussion will now be if the *REAL* Alcoholics drink
the sweet stuff or the stuff that tastes like alcohol, and between
regular and lite beer. Not to mention between mixed drinks and shots! :)