I feel like all alcoholic beverages take like crap. I know most people do not drink alcohol for the taste but for the effect, such as beer and hard liquor. However, many people drink wine for the taste. I’ve tried many types of wine and I still think it tastes horrible, so how do people stand drinking wine for the taste?

My future in-laws have invited me on vacation with the family during the first week of December to Orlando, FL.

This will be my first trip to Florida and I’m anxious to go. However, I want to get my in-law something as a thank you gift for inviting me and for also paying for my flight AND letting me stay at their condo.

I’m not sure what I could get them as they are very wealthy people and whatever they want, they buy themselves. I’m very intimidated by them and want to make sure I leave a good impression.

I know I can’t buy wine or alcohol as they don’t drink, and I can’t buy flowers as they are allergic to a lot, too.

So does anyone have suggestions? Also should I give the thank-you gift before or after the trip?

This was at the reception to my sister’s wedding and I know I made a fool of myself last night. I have already apologized (as best I could without writing a book)

Anyways, I drank some wine and saw a girl I had known since high school who is the daughter of my mother’s friend and asked her to dance. We danced a bit, sat down, talked, some harmless intimate touching etc. and it was lots of fun. We had dated briefly in high school and I hadn’t seen her for 4 years. When it came time to close down the reception area, I suggested to her to go out to a karaoke bar with me. My parents made my brother drive us around and a cousin from out of town (who I hadn’t seen in 6 years) and one of my sister’s best friends (again, haven’t seen in 6 years) followed us in another car.

I started getting irritated when I noticed my brother taking the extremely long route to get to the bar. We live in a small city that takes a maximum of 15 minutes from one corner of the city to the next. When I looked at the clock, I realized we had been driving around for 30 minutes. I started getting mad at him and telling him I’ll never let him drive me around anywhere ever again even if I’ve had a few drinks. Finally, we get to the bar (45 minutes from the starting time) and we start walking up to the entrance when I realized that my wallet had gone missing. There’s no way to get into a bar without some ID, so this irritates me even more.

I suggested we all go back to my house to drink and be stupid because I had alcohol there, but they decided to drive us to another bar. My cousin tried to let me use his ID, but the person checking ID wouldn’t let me use it. By now I’m very mad and have had too much time to think about all the problems in my life, so I storm out of the entrance from the bar and head back towards the country club where my car is (about 6 miles away at this point).

Then the next 45 minutes involved them trying to get me into the car, but I kept telling them to leave me alone, I need time to think. They kept at it until my cousin said, "Come on, we can’t have fun without you, you’re not like this." For whatever reason, this finally set me off and I exploded yelling at him and my sister’s best friend about how I haven’t seen them in 6 years and what the f— do they know, we’re not THAT close, etc. Finally, they gave up and drove off.

When I say all the problems in my life, I mean this:

-I have a B.A. in Biology, but decided to go after the money in the oil business instead of pursuing a career
-I don’t have any passions at all. Used to play tennis, stay in shape, etc., but not anymore. Tennis is dull to me and I don’t care about fitness at all
-I got certified as a personal trainer, but couldn’t hold a job as one
-I got fired from my most recent job because I broke two of their equipments (reduced to mowing lawns instead of the legal work I used to do)
-The house I bought and live in right now used to cost me way below my means, but now I can hardly afford to pay the bills
-I have, at most, about 6 months worth of money left in savings and think about finances all the time
-Nothing looks or sounds humorous anymore
-I really don’t care about other people or myself at all, and haven’t since age 15 or so (I’m 24 years old now)
-I used to pray, but have recently come to the conclusion that God is a very sadistic god that will not hesitate to take other people’s lives if it means strengthening the faith of just one of His followers (read the book of Job and tell me how it can be justified to destroy a whole family all at once to prove to another spiritual being that one man has a strong faith)
-I tried to get into several post-grad schools including a local radiology / sonography school, but got denied by all 7
-My short term memory is almost all gone (no drugs) and I’ve found I have to write notes in order to remember anything anymore
-I drink alcohol maybe once every 2 months, mostly because I don’t have any friends and get too anxious/shy when at a bar by myself
-I know something must be wrong with me because I hear what other people and articles written by professionals proclaim to be what a "normal" person is supposed to be, but I am on the anti-social side and really don’t feel guilty except for saying nasty things to my cousin and sister’s best friend that didn’t deserve it at all
-I honestly don’t know what love is, nor caring about another person/animal/object ; my own parents could die tomorrow and I might be a little sad, but not devastated (they are honest, hard-working people who I have nothing bad to say about)
-I didn’t even care that my sister got married and I don’t really see the point in getting married myself, nor anything having to do with relationships.
-I don’t fear dying alone nor dying in general. If it were up to me, I would lay down my life if I found a cause I believed in, but suicide is out of the question. What little pride in myself I have left

I need a simple Sangria with basically red wine and club soda. I don’t mind having a variety of fruit, but I don’t want to go get a bunch of alcohol… the simpler the better. Thanks!

Is it just the atmosphere? Everytime I drink at a club I can usually hold WAY more than at home. Is anyone else the same, is it mind set or just my own weirdness? LOL just wondering.On my 5th glass of wine (12% acl) than I do at the club with 7 shots (liq cocaine a few kamikazies) and maybe 2-3 beers. I feel more tipsy than I do at the club, could the lights and atmosphere have something to do with this, maybe the amount I’ve had to eat (I’ve had an enchilada, cream of weat and some chips & salsa) Or is it just the atmosphere and the fact that I’m preparing myself to drink? I can usually hold hard liqueurs. Just wondering who else gets more tipsy at home as opposed to a bar!
I think you all may be on to something, I’m not a light weight but when I get a drink at the club it’s 1/3 parts alcohol to 2/3 part other drink, where as when I’m at home I make my drinks 2/3 alcohol to 1/3 coke or whatever else I add to it. it’s fun to ask stupid questions when tipsy LOL

I’m trying to select a wine for the first time and need some help. I’ve been doing a little bit of (mostly unsuccessful) research and I think I have an idea of what I *might* like and need some suggestions.

(1) Dry, Off-dry, Semi-sweet and sweet: I don’t want to feel overpowered by alcohol, it always seems to come out like Listerine to me. I also don’t want something too sweet, like I’m having kool-aid. I believe I may be looking for an off-dry or semi-sweet wine.

(2) Soft, Crisp, Tangy: Crisp or Tangy

(3) Raspberry! I love all things raspberry, and I want a strong raspberry flavor in my wine. I’ve also seen that some wines have a tea-like taste and if I could find a wine with the raspberry flavor and tea flavor it would be wonderful.

(4) Light, Medium or Full Bodied: As it was explained to me, a light wine would be like skim milk, a medium like 2% milk and Full like regular full fat milk. I’d really prefer a light wine, but would also try a medium body.

(5) I have no preference for color or food pairings

Thanks so much for your help!

My husband and I would like to start drinking a glass of red wine each day for the health benefits that red wine is supposed to provide. However, we haven’t like the taste of any of the red wines we have tried. We aren’t really alcohol drinkers, but can stand the taste of white wine. What would be a good red wine for us to drink that will taste good and still give us the health benefits?
Thanks. What are some examples of sweet red wine varieties?

Because of medicine I take (Dilantin), I have to be cautious when I drink. (Neurologist said I can have "a glass of wine or two" one occasion). Usually, when we go out with friends once every two months to the club, I drink two or three wine coolers and as long as I eat a meal beforehand, I barely get a buzz. I only drink the flavors where the alcohol taste is undetectable.

My question is this: Are there any other relatively "weak" drinks (like mixed drinks) that I could partake in that would not give me a major buzz? (I never drink to get drunk … in fact, I am the designated driver because my friends always get somewhat drunk.)

(Have tried jello shots … to me, just one of those is equivalent to drinking three wine coolers, and if I chose to do a jello shot, then it’s ginger ale or Pepsi for the rest of the night. Have tried pina coladas … I get a mild-to-moderate buzz (for about an hour) from drinking one, but no ill effects; however, the club that I frequent with my friends does not serve pina coladas. Have tried a margarita made at "half-strength" — never again. I was wanting to do unspeakable things to my husband on the table after drinking that one.)

My wife and I are taking the 4 day baja cruise and I want to know how much will I be spending on alcohol. Is it local bar prices, or Vegas club prices? Can I bring a bottle on board. Not really a wine drinker here. We are not lushes, but like to cut loose every now and then.

i was in bankok thai land and they served a club steak and some how they light it and made it burn yellow and i have tryed many times and can never figure it out what kind of wine or alcohol i dont no how they got it to burn yellow i can get it to burn blue but not yellow