Do you prefer scotch or brandy with your stogie?

smbrink
smbrink Posts: 406 ✭
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Ive heard differing opinions.Ive yet to try either. Just wondering what yall prefer.

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  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Neither! A good, sometimes expensive, sour mash bourbon is best, IMHO.

    Marty
  • Krieg
    Krieg Posts: 5,208 ✭✭✭
    nothing like a nice glass of Gentleman Jack and a good smoke!

    "Long ashes my friends."

  • dutyje
    dutyje Posts: 2,263 ✭
    Neither, usually. I hate brandy, but will, on very rare occassions, have a Scotch. Usually, it's beer, or diet coke, or rum, or tequila, or a tom collins, or a mai tai, or a gin & tonic, or a drink of equal parts vodka, tirple sec, and lime juice, or whiskey & 7-up.... or some other mixed drink.
  • gmill880
    gmill880 Posts: 5,936 ✭✭

    Krieg:
    nothing like a nice glass of Gentleman Jack and a good smoke!

    I agree with Gentleman Jack and also enjoy Buffalo Trace, Wild Turkey  Rare Breed Barrell Proof, Tortuga rum, 10 Cane rum,

  • cheyman
    cheyman Posts: 157
    dutyje:
    Neither, usually. I hate brandy, but will, on very rare occassions, have a Scotch. Usually, it's beer, or diet coke, or rum, or tequila, or a tom collins, or a mai tai, or a gin & tonic, or a drink of equal parts vodka, tirple sec, and lime juice, or whiskey & 7-up.... or some other mixed drink.
    mmmmm...Tom Collins *Screams at Snow*

    I like Irish Whiskey...Jameson 12 year
  • madurofan
    madurofan Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭
    I'm a bourbon kinda guy. Just a couple of rocks in it please. I like EW Single Barrel if you were planning on having me over for a drink.
  • urbino
    urbino Posts: 4,517 ✭
    cheyman:
    I like Irish Whiskey...Jameson 12 year
    I had some Jameson just last night with my Sol Cubano Sumatra.

    Generally, I don't drink anything with my stogies. Maybe water. Every now and then I'll have some good bourbon with one, and I enjoy hell out of coffee with a Perdomo ESV.
  • duboseiii
    duboseiii Posts: 4
    Gran Marnier . . . straight, no ice. Mmmmm.
  • rwheelwright
    rwheelwright Posts: 3,294 ✭✭
    If I am out and have something to drink it is usually water or Schneider Weisse Original.
  • dutyje
    dutyje Posts: 2,263 ✭
    welcome aboard, dub3... I like Grand Marnier neat as well. Most people find it way to sweet and fruity. I think it's a tasty after-dinner dessert sipper.
  • dutyje
    dutyje Posts: 2,263 ✭
    rwheelwright:
    If I am out and have something to drink it is usually water or Schneider Weisse Original.
    you find most places have that on hand? Or do you normally only go out to one or two places?
  • Jdorais
    Jdorais Posts: 652 ✭
    I've never been a fan of Scotch or Brandy. Although I will admit that I haven't had much exposure to them. However I love a good Vodka or some Guatalmalan Rum.
  • cheyman
    cheyman Posts: 157
    Gin and Juice...

    and when I say Gin, I mean clear alcohol in a plastic jug and when I say juice I mean Kool-Aid or purple drink!
  • urbino
    urbino Posts: 4,517 ✭
    Now you're talkin'!
  • kaspera79
    kaspera79 Posts: 7,250 ✭✭✭
    urbino:
    Now you're talkin'!
    .. PURPLE !! That's urbis favorite childhood drink.
  • Vince_O
    Vince_O Posts: 281 ✭✭
    Single malt scotch, right now I am working on a Laphroaig Qtr. cask, in the wings is a Laugavulin 16 YO ,, after it gets warm out I move from the Islays scotches to the highlands , in the heat of summer I move to a lowlands scotch, or Irish whisky, & back to the Islays in the fall, got to keep warm hahaha Enjoy, Vince
  • zoom6zoom
    zoom6zoom Posts: 1,211 ✭✭
    I love a good one, but for some reason I don't really care for them when I'm smoking. I like just some water or sometimes a fruit juice... I had a Nestor Maduro with a side of pear juice the other night, that was an amazing combo!
  • urbino
    urbino Posts: 4,517 ✭
    Hey, Vince. Nice to see you venturing out. Looks like you favor the peaty ones. They're a bit much for me. Balvenie or Macallan are more my speed. I want to try Highland Park, though.
    kaspera79:
    urbino:
    Now you're talkin'!
    .. PURPLE !! That's urbis favorite childhood drink.
    Sugar. Water. Purple. What else does a growing boy need?
  • duboseiii
    duboseiii Posts: 4
    Thanks! Great to be here! The Granma is rather sweet but I do enjoy sipping with a good cigar . . . . otherwise, you can't go wrong with Wild Turkey rare breed/splash of ginger.
  • PuroFreak
    PuroFreak Posts: 4,124 ✭✭
    I prefer a good bourbon over Scotch or Brandy. Some Maker's Mark or Buffalo Trace are my favorites. I can also have some Crown Royal with a good smoke.
  • mmaggi
    mmaggi Posts: 9
    It really depends on what you're smoking and when you're smoking it but the simple answer is cognac (brandy) since I normally smoke after dinner.  But if it were before dinner I can't imagine drinking a cognac.  But if that's what floats your boat, knock yourself out.
  • Fourtotheflush
    Fourtotheflush Posts: 2,552 ✭✭
    I prefer a scotch if I am drinking alchohol. I would love to drink with every stick, but generally it works out to be a soda, coffee or water with my sticks. I think the coffee ususally compliments what I smoke the best!
  • rwheelwright
    rwheelwright Posts: 3,294 ✭✭
    dutyje:
    rwheelwright:
    If I am out and have something to drink it is usually water or Schneider Weisse Original.
    you find most places have that on hand? Or do you normally only go out to one or two places?
    I normally only go to one place. Haven't seen it at any of the bars that I gig at.
  • rwheelwright
    rwheelwright Posts: 3,294 ✭✭
    cheyman:
    Gin and Juice...

    and when I say Gin, I mean clear alcohol in a plastic jug and when I say juice I mean Kool-Aid or purple drink!
    Laid Back! With my mind of my money and my money on my mind!
  • rwheelwright
    rwheelwright Posts: 3,294 ✭✭
    dutyje:
    rwheelwright:
    If I am out and have something to drink it is usually water or Schneider Weisse Original.
    you find most places have that on hand? Or do you normally only go out to one or two places?
    I found it today in my local Shoprite.
  • gmill880
    gmill880 Posts: 5,936 ✭✭

    PuroFreak:
    I prefer a good bourbon over Scotch or Brandy. Some Maker's Mark or Buffalo Trace are my favorites. I can also have some Crown Royal with a good smoke.

    same comment, same choices ......brother is that you?

  • Tokinstogie
    Tokinstogie Posts: 46 ✭✭
    In the morning, Grand Manier and coffee with a CAO maduro, after dinner, Belvenie (sp)double wood and a Greycliff expresso.
    I was going to say, maybe it's time I quit drinking and smoking, tear down all the Vargas girl posters and straighten out my life. But I won't.....

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