Help me find Sober People

petros

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Guinness.... brewed with the green isles best bog water. No they don't make seperate batches for export. That's just ridiculous.
 

Cliffy

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Hello,
I am looking for individuals living an alcohol and drug free lifestyle and am looking for ideas on where to find these people in Edmonton. Does anyone have any ideas on sober activities in and around the city?

Doesn't look like there are too many sober people on here for you to hang out with.
 

petros

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I am looking for individuals living an alcohol and drug free lifestyle and am looking for ideas on where to find these people in Edmonton.
That's a good question. There are kids in kindergarten that can roll better than I can and there is more drugs in jail than a Pharmasave.

Best bet is buy a comfy chair and get a library card. The only way to avoid people who use drugs or drink is to stay home.
 

SirJosephPorter

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SJP,

Analysis of the Guiness is bang-on... Anything that you get out of Ireland is merely a bastardized version of teh original.

If you enjoy scotch, give Highland Park 18 year a whirl.. It's a little pricey, but considering that a bottle will last you months, it is well worth the price.

I had a bottle of Highland Park, I finished it last month. I bought it duty free (we travel abroad fair bit, so I buy all my booze duty free). It sill set me back quite a bit though. I also have a bottle of Dewar Signature (a blend, but even pricier than Highland Park), I haven’t opened it yet.

Two years ago when we went on Alaska cruise I wanted to buy Blue Label, but they didn’t have any in their duty free shop. He suggested Dewar Signature as an alternative.
 

SirJosephPorter

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All hard liquors are like swallowing razor blades to me. A cap full of brandy in my coffee is about all I can handle.

As somebody said, alcohol is an acquired taste. And put brandy in coffee? What a waste of good brandy. I normally don’t put anything in tea of coffee, but if I had to, I would put cheap whiskey in it (or vodka, rum etc.). Tea or coffee drowns out the flavour of the alcohol anyway; all you get is a buzz. That can be had from expensive stuff as well as cheap stuff.

To me brandy or cognac is an after dinner drink, to be drunk (on its own) in a balloon glass, in a leisurely manner.
 

YukonJack

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There are some things that are crime against Nature:

1. Beer in plastic cups at sport events. I suffer but would not do it! For three hours I can take soft drinks in plastic cups.

2. Mixing a good Canadian Rye Whiskey with any contaminant, such as water, ginger ale or Coke, for example. Same thing with any "hard" booze. If you are not man enough to take it straight, you don't deserve it.

As for beer: Try "La Fin du Monde". A Quebec beer, arguably the best in Canada. A glorious 9% alcohol content and the best taste this side of Belgium.
 

JLM

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There are some things that are crime against Nature:

1. Beer in plastic cups at sport events. I suffer but would not do it! For three hours I can take soft drinks in plastic cups.

2. Mixing a good Canadian Rye Whiskey with any contaminant, such as water, ginger ale or Coke, for example. Same thing with any "hard" booze. If you are not man enough to take it straight, you don't deserve it.

As for beer: Try "La Fin du Monde". A Quebec beer, arguably the best in Canada. A glorious 9% alcohol content and the best taste this side of Belgium.

I've been led to believe there is no such thing as good Rye Whisky, Scotch, apparently is the drink of anybody who is anybody. :lol::lol:
 

Unforgiven

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I totally drink to get my manliness up. You got a problem with that? huh? huh?

You're just a girl.

I'm a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That's what kind of man I am. You're just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a third the size of us. It's science.

 

JLM

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I love a good single malt any day, but I also enjoy a good rye or bourbon.

They are different whiskies, each with its flavour. Only an uneducated snob would consider them 'downmarket'.

I know nothing about Bourbon, and I've never drank any rye that I can actually say I liked. As for being "down market", I've heard several others who I wouldn't consider uneducated snobs, view it similarly to S.J. Would an uneducated snob say he prefers Cadillacs to Chevrolets?