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The Swede · #16 10-21-2012, 05:43 PM

Bars? The places I used to get banned from all the time? lol

compress ignite · #17 10-21-2012, 07:27 PM

And needed a "Bar".

Bemelman's would be the ONLY place worthy of spending $12.00 USD (Plus >) for drinks.

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Air&Road · #18 10-22-2012, 08:29 AM

What do you mean by lately? If 25 years ago is lately, you can count me in. Hanging around a bar is more of a waste of time than almost anything I can think of. Right up there with watching sitcoms.

SwampYankee · #19 10-22-2012, 08:54 AM

Thankfully, I'm but a mere lowbrow beer drinker. Order by the bottle and there's no question as to what's in it and in whether it's watered down. At least any more than it was at the brewery. And < $5.

Jack and Coke is as fancy as I get.

strelnik · #20 10-22-2012, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by elchivito

These clowns think they're chefs or sommeliers.
Recently in one of Sedona's toniest restaurants, their resident "mixologist", who didn't have a single solitary bottle of rye on his bar, REFUSED to make me a rocks manhattan. The server came to our table and sheepishly said "our manhattans are served up, in martini glasses". I hate martini glasses and I like my manhattans in a rocks glass, with rocks and a twist.
A quick conversation with the FOH manager convinced him that if his "mixologist" didn't have the skill to make a simple, classic drink served on ice at a paying customer's request, perhaps he'd hired the wrong guy. I was tending bar before the little puke was born. I got my drink, for twelve dollars. No wonder the wife doesn't take me out much.....

Your "mixologist' should not be allowed to breed....

strelnik · #21 10-22-2012, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton

Depending on where you go, it's anywhere between $12 and $15.

We drink at home and make some exemplary drinks, devoid of excessive ice and water, that would be appreciated by almost anyone.

I pretty much quit drinking because I was always behind the wheel, or taking care of my son, so for twenty years, I rarely drank unless I was traveling alone overseas.
People gave me exceptional liquor as gifts over the years when I was in the military, or we bought stuff at the diplomatic store in Baden-Baden Germany or Paris.

I have maybe a dozen bottles of scotch whisky where each is over 125-150 years old.

154 proof Betaincourt rum from my travels to haiti in '72, old old cognac and armagnac from the 1960s, real Russian vodka from the 70s, eau-de-vie from Mozambique from the 80s.

And since I don't drink alone, it sits on the shelf.

After my son's 21st birthday, i'll set some ground rules and we will have a drink.

I'll drink a glass of smooth French red wine, like a Chevalier de Bayard-- not fancy-schmancy, but very tasty, never bitter, maybe 12 years old.

It will not go out to finance some drunken party, though.

Mike Murrell · #22 10-22-2012, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by elchivito

Recently in one of Sedona's toniest restaurants.

A drink in Sedona for $12.00. I'm impressed. Love all that red and green you see up there in that part of northern AZ.

elchivito · #23 10-22-2012, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike Murrell

A drink in Sedona for $12.00. I'm impressed. Love all that red and green you see up there in that part of northern AZ.

The green is mostly hapless tourist dollars floating on the breeze.

MTI · #24 10-22-2012, 04:23 PM

Sedona . . . toniest . . . L'Auberge?

oldsinner111 · #25 10-22-2012, 04:30 PM

I gave up drinking in 1985.But I do miss the nice bars I use to go too.I could find work,or sort out problems.I never got thoose two things in a Church.

t walgamuth · #26 10-22-2012, 05:16 PM

We went to a reasonably nice restaurant on a lake near here recently. We go there fairly often. I ordered some Jack D on the rocks. She brought it in an 8 oz glass I estimate, with lots of rocks and lots of jack.....I imagine at least three oz. I think it was $7....8 at the most. I grinned all through the meal and all the way home.

oldsinner111 · #27 10-23-2012, 05:42 AM

are beers still a dollar?

t walgamuth · #28 10-23-2012, 06:25 AM

I wish. I have never ordered beer there in recent years but estimate it would be four or five dollars for a good one.

MS Fowler · #29 10-23-2012, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by oldsinner111

are beers still a dollar?

Many Baltimore area bars will still have Natty Boh for $1. Maybe only on specific nights , but still a $1. Of course it is Natty Boh, but it is a Baltimore tradition, even if it is currently brewed outside the state of Maryland.
Last year they brought it out in kegs, perhaps exclusively for Baltimore. One review said it all," Its no worse on tap...."

SwampYankee · #30 10-23-2012, 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by MS Fowler

" Its no worse on tap...."