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Do you drink brandy?

SuperDuck

SuperDuck

Sep 26, 2000
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Wisconsin
#1
I've only lived in Wisconsin for a few years, but I just found out over the weekend that drinking brandy is a very "Wisconsin" thing to do. I had no idea, honestly.

We were having a party on Saturday night, and a friend of mine brought over a bottle of Korbel. It tasted pretty good and got the job done. It was my first experience with brandy and I could consider it a success. (I woke up the next morning feeling like a million bucks - also a good sign.)

I'm looking forward to going out somewhere and getting a Brandy Old Fashioned.

Do people drink brandy in your area? How about your age group? Is it an "old person's drink?"
 
#4
I'll drink it once in awhile

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this is a nice winter sipper. Warm slightly
 
#7
SuperDuck said:
Do people drink brandy in your area? How about your age group? Is it an "old person's drink?"
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Brandy = failed cognac. There are some brandy mixers I like, but for a sippin' spirit, make mine Courvoisier VSOP (I can get it for $36, something like 5 bux a handle more expensive than the VS, and still about $15-20 cheaper than the same grade of Hennessey). As far as its popularity, this is Texas; The masses mostly drink beer (Shiner :D), the girls drink vodka (Tito's :D), and real men drink whisky; bourbon or Scotch, doesn't really matter long as it's straight. You won't be laughed at for a vodka martini, margarita, Manhattan or Jack/Jim/Captain & Coke, but appletinis, granatinis, whisky mixers, or any other flavored "up" or frozen drink is generally seen as wussy. As far as brandies/cognacs, you generally get a little respect for drinking em straight just like Scotch, but it generally has one of two images, either in an after-dinner jacket with a cigar in hand, or riding around the 'hood in your friend's pimped-out ride suckin' it straight from the bottle. Either way, a white middle-class guy in a t-shirt at the local dive looks a little pretentious ordering a brandy.
 
#9
I had a really cheap brandy once (like $10 a fifth) and it wasn't half bad. Drank it with a few friends, all low 20s. Drank it straight, of course ;)
As for the question do people drink it here, the answer is no, people almost never drink it around here.
 
#13
being from WI i have been arould brandy all my life--I like it a lot! actually I have only been drinking brandy old fashions for the last month or so as far as alcohol goes :)

I like blackberry brandy too, but some people complain it's too much like cough syrup
 
#14
Liko said:
Brandy = failed cognac.
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No. As brandy can only be called cognac if it comes from the cognac region in France, so it has nothing to do with cognac being degraded or so. I enjoy a good brandy as much as I enjoy a good cognac.

The Asbach I posted above can't really be compared to the Hennessy VSOP I have but it's not bad at all, especially considering it's price.
 

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