Jeeze, its just cognac...

And that's the point. When you take shots, you are not taking them because of taste. You need a shot of alcohol, fast and taste is there to either mask the alcohol or make it easier to swallow. We taste less when it's chilled. Have you tried to bounce two fingers worth of any alcohol when it's luke warm? I do agree that it's a waste to use good whiskey like single malts (not all of them are good) but hey, if you can afford it, why not? No one should have to sink to bourbon, blended whiskeys are for that use (and are often smoother too, since they are blended)..

When it's time to enjoy the taste, then small sips and around that magical 15C (it gets warmer all the time) it's about aroma and how to maximize what is in the liquid. I would actually prefer the good stuff to be just under 40% alcohol, 35-38% would be better, brandy/cognac can be stronger than whiskey. Whiskey stones are quite neat, specially if the shot is brandy (which i like more and more each year, starting to pass whiskey, lets say brandy is often smoother without it bankrupting you)..

Saw head off chocky bunny and fill it with cognac, liqueur and melt the head back on

No saw head off Gary Busey, he's already filled with something special-

Sidecar
1 part brandy/cognac
1 part triple sec
juice of one lemon
sugared rim
rocks or martini glass

A drunk walks into an upscale pub and, after a while, leans up against the bar.
"A snifter of Louis XIII," he slurs and drops three $100 bills on the bar.
The bartender, taken aback for a moment, looks the disheveled man up and down.
"Big spender!" the bartender says, pouring his drink.
"Life is good," the drunk replies, and promptly tosses back the cognac.
The bartender takes a second look at the man; his hair is a mess and his suit hasn't seen a dry cleaner in a while, and he swears the man smells faintly of urine. Hardly someone who can afford such a fine cognac.
"Inheritance?" the bartender presses.
The man looks up.
"No, no...I bet people. And I always win," the drunk smirks.
"What do you mean always?" the bartender asks.
The drunk takes a moment and looks around the bar.
"Here. You see that glass over there?" He points to a an empty mug of beer at the end of the bar, 20 feet away. "I'll bet you $100 I can piss in it from here."
Impossible! the bartender thinks. "You're on," the bartender says, shaking the drunk's hand (and quickly wiping it off on his apron).
Unsteadily, the drunk climbs up on top of the bar, pulls his dick out and begins peeing everywhere. He stumbles and steps in his own piss, causing him to slip and he plummets off the bar. The bartender looks over the railing and sees the man lying flat on his back, hands flailing, as his piss arcs up into the air and hits him directly in the face. The bartender erupts with laughter at the comical sight, slapping his hand on the bar in triumph.
Suddenly, across the room, a man shouts in anger and rushes the bar. "Are you fucking kidding me?!" he screams.
Surprised, the bartender says "What?! What?"
The angry man points down at the drunk and yells, "He just bet me a thousand dollars that he could piss all over your bar and you'd laugh about it!"

>> ^Sagemind:

The US is being run by the True Dictatorship! They just keep everyone so confused, so uneducated and so broke that no one can band together and do anything about it.
Your leaders are laughing at you while they eat their caviar, drink cognac and champagne and smoke Gurkha cigars while you wonder where your next phone bill payment is going to come from...
Those that can pay the bills are so ridden in dept they fantasize they have money. Most North Americans sit back passively and never acknowledge that they would loose everything if they miss 2-3 paychecks (some less than that).
(and yes, i include much of Canada in this group as well.)
The point is, if you think our "leaders" are there to serve us - you're living the biggest fantasy of all!
Oh ya, and most of them are lawyers - screwing us over one law at a time!


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The US is being run by the True Dictatorship! They just keep everyone so confused, so uneducated and so broke that no one can band together and do anything about it.

Your leaders are laughing at you while they eat their caviar, drink cognac and champagne and smoke Gurkha cigars while you wonder where your next phone bill payment is going to come from...

Those that can pay the bills are so ridden in dept they fantasize they have money. Most North Americans sit back passively and never acknowledge that they would loose everything if they miss 2-3 paychecks (some less than that).
(and yes, i include much of Canada in this group as well.)

The point is, if you think our "leaders" are there to serve us - you're living the biggest fantasy of all!
Oh ya, and most of them are lawyers - screwing us over one law at a time!

Canadian Yak loves drinking cognac

He's on Drugs? Alcohol? Wine? Cocaine? Beer? Weed? xstacy? Taquila? Chocolate? Shrooms? DMT? Cognac? GHB? Caffeine? Goa? Techno? Nicotine? (NO ONE should be on Meth! Heroin! Pain pills! Sugar!)

@blankfist

How bout we take the other parts of my post that answered your question directly.

Specifically: There NEEDS to be a deterrent for something that's quite capable of being fatal

I'm not speaking of emotion, I'm talking about something that has proven time and again to be deadly. I don't need emotion, I have facts. In 2007 there were an estimated 15,000 deaths in the U.S. related to drunk driving alone. A specific quote from that link:

My friends and I were at a party. After having only 2 drinks each, we decided to go home. No one was designated to drive, and we got careless on the road. Alcohol debilitated my reaction time. I was driving. I hit another car coming directly at us after crossing over the center line. I killed two people that night – one of them a friend in my car… it is something I will never forget and it will always haunt me.

After two drinks. Now, for all we know, the two drinks could have been pitcher sized. It's also just as likely that they were, oh, say, an Amstel and a White Russian.

>> ^rasch187:
Vodka is nice, but boring...incredibly boring. If you want some flavour and enjoyment when it comes to liquor I would recommend cognac. Never been much of a whisk(e)y man myself, but it can be very nice from time to time.
No mentioning of wine? You call youself Italian?! Italy makes some incredible wine, my favourite being the nebiolo grape wines from the Piemonte district. The word 'barolo' makes me want to get a plane ticket right now...
Drinking is not a problem as long as it's about enjoyment, once it becomes part of your usual routine because you have to do it, it is a problem.


Yeah vodka is kinda what you make of it, unless you drink it pure because it's that good of a vodka. I'll definitely give cognac a try. I dont think I've consciencely drunken it. Oh well, I haven't mentioned wine because it was literally forced down my throat in my semi italian upbringing, which included very very great food, and lots of respect for women (which I guess is due to my italian father being raised by a single catholic mom).

Vodka is nice, but boring...incredibly boring. If you want some flavour and enjoyment when it comes to liquor I would recommend cognac. Never been much of a whisk(e)y man myself, but it can be very nice from time to time.

No mentioning of wine? You call yourself Italian?! Italy makes some incredible wine, my favourite being the nebiolo grape wines from the Piemonte district. The word 'barolo' makes me want to get a plane ticket right now...

Drinking is not a problem as long as it's about enjoyment, once it becomes part of your usual routine because you have to do it, it is a problem.

>> ^BicycleRepairMan:
http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utrolige-historier/artikkel.php?artid=588127

According to this article, the boxes contained vodka and cognac, and something like $180.000 worth of it was smashed in the accident. Noone was seriously injured , but one guy wounded his foot. Also, it did happen in Russia


AHAHAHA, sorry Russia.

http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utrolige-historier/artikkel.php?artid=588127

According to this article, the boxes contained vodka and cognac, and something like $180.000 worth of it was smashed in the accident. Noone was seriously injured , but one guy wounded his foot. Also, it did happen in Russia

ha ha ha that was nasty Cognac in the mashed potatoes,yuck