Cruising speed

[Bourbon Guy]

So, how many does it take? I don't mean that buzz you get from the first drink. Nor do I mean whatever the guy over at Modern Drunkard is into (been there? here it is: http://www.drunkard.com/index.html).

No, you know what I mean. You have a couple, or a couple more, and at some point you break through the clouds into clear air, and you know you can cruise here for a LONG time without fortification. Cruising speed. It's well short of drunk. It's a little past high. It's Friday night on a long weekend. Everything's cool.

So, my question is: how many does it take you go get to that plateau?

 

[Mike in Seattle]

So, how many does it take? I don't mean that buzz you get from the first drink. Nor do I mean whatever the guy over at Modern Drunkard is into (been there? here it is: http://www.drunkard.com/index.html).

No, you know what I mean. You have a couple, or a couple more, and at some point you break through the clouds into clear air, and you know you can cruise here for a LONG time without fortification. Cruising speed. It's well short of drunk. It's a little past high. It's Friday night on a long weekend. Everything's cool.

So, my question is: how many does it take you go get to that plateau?

Sometimes, its two Martinis. At others, it's three. Last Sunday, it was six glasses of champagne at a cast party. It also depends on whether food consumption is happening before, after or with the imbibing, and quite frankly, how well hydrated with non-alcoholic beverages before hitting the hard stuff.

 

[scottyrocks]

For me, it was a couple of three-fingered vodka-n-crans. But alas, now that Im on cholesterol meds, them days is over.

 

[Tomasso]

Sometimes, its two Martinis. At others, it's three.

Martinis are like breasts, one isn't enough, and three is too many

 

[Absinthe_1900]

With absinthe, that can vary between two to three glasses or more, depending on whether it commercial, or non-commercial absinthe.

One tends to feel more clear headed drinking absinthe from past experience.

 

[Miss sofia]

Two gin and tonics and i'm cooking on gas!

 

[Yeps]

12:30 or three or four friends. I get going mostly by environment.

 

[Bourbon Guy]

12:30 or three or four friends. I get going mostly by environment.

Probably cheaper, but I bet they don't taste as good. How do you cook them?

 

[Yeps]

Probably cheaper, but I bet they don't taste as good. How do you cook them?

Pan fried in olive oil with some fresh basil.

 

[Bourbon Guy]

With absinthe, that can vary between two to three glasses or more, depending on whether it commercial, or non-commercial absinthe.

One tends to feel more clear headed drinking absinthe from past experience.

Not quite fair. It is my humble and inexperienced understanding that the absinthe crowd believes that it provides an entirely different form of intoxication from that derived from simple alcohol. Certainly our predecessors thought so, and they banned it as a result of that belief. My understanding is that current medical science supports our forebears' instincts in that, indeed, a powerful neurotoxin was at work, enlivening the evening, but ultimately tormenting the partaker with a slow descent into madness.

However, as my recent protestations against the ultimate wages deriving from partaking in tobacco have met with less than favorable responses, I will keep my counsel silent as to absinthe, and simply direct my compatriates to a less adulterated form of alcohol as my nom de internet might suggest.

 

[Tomasso]

Not quite fair. It is my humble and inexperienced understanding that.......

Oh no you didn't...:eusa_doh:

 

[Bourbon Guy]

Oh no you didn't...:eusa_doh:

Heh heh heh heh!
To Tomasso! Someone.... finally.... gets it.