Getting Drunk

katiemac · Jul 2, 2009

DeadlyAccurate said:
A simple, cheap drunk is Hawaiian Punch and Everclear. It's true that sugar masks the taste of alcohol, and you can get very, very (dangerously) drunk if you don't realize how much alcohol you're actually drinking.

I'm about to sound like an alcoholic in this thread, but no, just a once-was college student. When we threw parties, we'd make up jungle juice with a special strawberry-tangerine powder mix, Everclear, and Sprite. The Sprite is the secret ingredient. The whole mixture tastes like candy.

It was REALLY dangerous, one because it's delicious, but also because most party hosts would mix up a vodka-based jungle juice. People didn't realize they were drinking Everclear, so we had to put a big warning label on the container.

benbradley · Jul 2, 2009

Everclear is 190 proof, 95 percent alcohol, and the other 5 percent is, I presume, mostly water. The reason it's not higher in alcohol is because it's becomes harder (as in costs more money) to make purer alcohol, and it won't last long at that purity as it apparently absorbs water from out of the air. Maybe you can get purer alcohol at a chemical supply, but that would be complete overkill.

I never drank Everclear by name, but I did once drink Golden Grain, a different brand name for essentially the same stuff. I mixed a couple drinks for myself while already having had a few of something else, and and that was a night I don't much remember, but I did get sick the next day.

There's "higher-proof" other stuff such as Bacardi 151, but that still has some taste of something or other, and not quite as bad (read: dangerous) as Everclear or Golden Grain.

JulieHowe · Jul 2, 2009

MumblingSage said:
...as written by someone fortunate enough not to have had that experiance, yet.

If somebody wanted to get drunk in a short amount of time at a bar, what kind of drinks might she order? Are there any drinks that, just reading about them being ordered, a reader will think she's drinking to get drunk? Or should I just find something with a high alcohol content on wikipedia and call it a day?

Blue Hawaiians, Long Island Iced Tea, and Lynchburg Lemonade are sweet drinks, and it's very easy to get completely smashed because the sweet flavor masks the alcohol.

C.bronco · Jul 2, 2009

Jaegermeister. But, I must say, it will nix a migraine in an instant. I no longer drink hard liquor, and haven't for years. If I had another whopper of a headache, however, I might reconsider.
Further, if you are coming down with something, two beers might put you in an awful state. In such a case, it is better to just stay home.

Red-Green · Jul 2, 2009

In college, our secret was Everclear and Gatorade. Don't know why, but it always seemed to hit pretty quick and didn't require much to get really hammered.

Team 2012 · Jul 2, 2009

Long Island Iced Tea. No competition.

Everclear.

Sterno

blacbird · Jul 2, 2009

I'll weigh in and vote for tequila shots. I hate tequila, and have never drunk shots, but I've had the unpleasant experience of watching a friend get into a contest with some other people, and wind up hospitalized for alcohol poisoning.

Another, less well-known option, is the Irish Car Bomb, a big glass of Guiness in which you immerse a shot glass of Irish whiskey mixed with Bailey's Irish Cream, and chug it in a single gulp. It has to be chugged, otherwise it quickly curdles and becomes undrinkable. I'm told it tastes just like chocolate. Which makes me wonder: "WTF don't you just drink some chocolate?" I haven't done one of these, either, but I've seen people get pretty roached over right quicklike doing two or three of 'em.

caw

dgiharris · Jul 3, 2009

yeah, nobody drinks like us writers

its been mentioned several times. The absolute best way to get sloshed is a perfectly made Long Island Ice Tea.

You can't taste the alcohol, drinking one is equivalent to 4-5 shots. You can suck down three withouth feeling anything and then all of a sudden BOOM!

Mel...

Kurtz · Jul 3, 2009

blacbird said:
I'll weigh in and vote for tequila shots. I hate tequila, and have never drunk shots, but I've had the unpleasant experience of watching a friend get into a contest with some other people, and wind up hospitalized for alcohol poisoning.

Another, less well-known option, is the Irish Car Bomb, a big glass of Guiness in which you immerse a shot glass of Irish whiskey mixed with Bailey's Irish Cream, and chug it in a single gulp. It has to be chugged, otherwise it quickly curdles and becomes undrinkable. I'm told it tastes just like chocolate. Which makes me wonder: "WTF don't you just drink some chocolate?" I haven't done one of these, either, but I've seen people get pretty roached over right quicklike doing two or three of 'em.

caw

One better:

Flaming Irish Car bomb. Same as yours but with a shot of Sambuca in it and on fire. My friend drank one once not realising it was on fire lol she almost died.

pmadams · Jul 3, 2009

Rowan said:
Long Island Iced tea... or Absinthe!

I have to agree with that one! I got so drunk and sick off of these that my husband had to carry me off of the bathroom floor!

Shadow_Ferret · Jul 3, 2009

dgiharris said:
yeah, nobody drinks like us writers

its been mentioned several times. The absolute best way to get sloshed is a perfectly made Long Island Ice Tea.

To be honest, I've never had any of these candyass sweetened drinks.

Give me a snifter of cognac or bourbon and I'm happy.

Nakhlasmoke · Jul 3, 2009

I had something called a downward spiral once or twice.

It was an interesting birthday....

katiemac · Jul 3, 2009

blacbird said:
Another, less well-known option, is the Irish Car Bomb, a big glass of Guiness in which you immerse a shot glass of Irish whiskey mixed with Bailey's Irish Cream, and chug it in a single gulp. It has to be chugged, otherwise it quickly curdles and becomes undrinkable. I'm told it tastes just like chocolate. Which makes me wonder: "WTF don't you just drink some chocolate?" I haven't done one of these, either, but I've seen people get pretty roached over right quicklike doing two or three of 'em.

Car bombs'll do it to you, but I know very few people (girls) who can do more than one back-to-back because they're so heavy. It's not the best option if you plan on drinking into the night.

Jagerbombs are a lighter option. Drop a shot of jagermeister into a pint glass of Red Bull.

Some bars won't serve car bombs or jagerbombs unless they have plastic cups and plastic shot glasses -- dropping a glass shot into another glass can be dangerous. Still, both of these options are usually for the partygoer and done in groups (hence jager trains) instead of singles looking to get hammered.

A car bomb would probably be more realistic in this case since jagerbombs are supposed to mask some of the alochol effects because of the Red Bull.

But ordering a car bomb sure sounds intense, so whatever works.

Kurtz · Jul 3, 2009

katiemac said:
Some bars won't serve car bombs or jagerbombs unless they have plastic cups and plastic shot glasses -- dropping a glass shot into another glass can be dangerous. Still, both of these options are usually for the partygoer and done in groups (hence jager trains) instead of singles looking to get hammered.

Pussies.

Real bingedrinkers have drinks with razor sharp glass in them, they cut up your gums and the alcohol gets in your bloodstream faster. You end up looking like the Joker though.

Rabe · Jul 3, 2009

MumblingSage said:
If somebody wanted to get drunk in a short amount of time at a bar, what kind of drinks might she order? Are there any drinks that, just reading about them being ordered, a reader will think she's drinking to get drunk?

Warp core breach.

Gets me every time. Or a Borg Sphere.

((to a lesser extent a Blackhole))

But, I'm going to imagine that would be in a very specialized bar!

But yeah...I go and order a warp core breach, I know I'll be making some very bad 'drunk video posts' later that night. If I manage to stay upright long enough, that is!

((and curiously, even as "breached" as I was after that last one, I still resisted the 'charms' of the 'massuesses' named 'angel' and 'diamond' who got offended when I pointed out those were prostitute names))

Rabe...

katiemac · Jul 3, 2009

Kurtz said:
Real bingedrinkers have drinks with razor sharp glass in them, they cut up your gums and the alcohol gets in your bloodstream faster. You end up looking like the Joker though.

I thought that's what Goldschlager is for?

Actually, now that I think about it, a couple shots of Goldschlager would be a REALLY good if you want to get smashed fast. But that's an unlikely order at a bar - better at a party or if she had it lying around her apartment.

JulieHowe · Jul 3, 2009

I almost forgot about schnapps. Peach schnapps is the best for getting blitzed-out drunk in the shortest possible amount of time. Ah, those were the days.

Writer2011 · Jul 3, 2009

A few shots of 151 Rum!!!

Nakhlasmoke · Jul 3, 2009

Stroh rum shots with a beer chaser?

omg those were the days...

benbradley · Jul 3, 2009

dgiharris said:
yeah, nobody drinks like us writers

its been mentioned several times. The absolute best way to get sloshed is a perfectly made Long Island Ice Tea.

You can't taste the alcohol, drinking one is equivalent to 4-5 shots. You can suck down three withouth feeling anything and then all of a sudden BOOM!

Mel...

The sound you just heard was Mel's head hitting the floor...

StephanieFox · Jul 3, 2009

A lot of folks here are listing drinks that can make you drunk, but you asked for drinks that will get a reader to assume the reason for drinking is to specifically get drunk. That's a different question. Here are some answers:

1) MD (Mogan David) 20/20. This is a fortified wine, popular with teens and serious poor alcoholics. No regular grown up would ever drink this.

2) Jell-O shots. Extra sweet, nasty, high alcohol, this is popular with 20-somes and others fairly new to drinking. You would drink a lot and get drunk.

3) "Straight scotch and keep em' coming." or "I want a scotch, leave the bottle." Whiskey, tequila or burbourn can substitute for scotch.

4) Shots of anything hard.

Drinks like the Long Island Iced Tea can make you drunk, but if you nurse yours (and I have done this) they won't.

Basically, you want this character to make it clear that her or she wants to down a lot of drinks in a short time. Avoid wine or beer and high-quality 'sipping' scotch, tequila or other drinks.

4) Shots

Admiral Snuggles · Jul 3, 2009

In the midwest, manly men drink whiskey. Woman do vodka or tequila.

Lady Cat · Jul 8, 2009

Newfie Screech - it may not cure what ails you, but you won't be in any shape to care.

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