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Of course its the movies but...
...in movies you see someone with half a tumbler full of neat "scotch" in a movie just neck it, and then pour another. This certainly is not representative of my drinking ability, it'd be burning my throat and searing my stomach lining, then shortly after slurring my words.
So, is this real, is the quality of my drinks cabinet under par on the smoothness scale or are they misrepresenting and... why do they do this?
It’s just tea in movies, but yes I can down whisky without a flinch, other spirits not so much (as I don’t really drink them).
Funnily I’ve been watching a few Nick Offerman Lagavulin YouTube vids today in which he swigs whisky
If american bourboun is like american beer in movies (i.e. Bud/Coors) then I believe the best option is to bypass the tastebuds as swiftly as possible. I appreciate real american beer these days is an arms race to the highest strength ales possible, I also tried a sour that was so sour it burned my tongue, stupid SF bar.
I was watching something earlier this week with a wake scene in, they had people handing neat (probably bourbon) drinks out, no ice, no water ... who does that?
The American male's supposed love of cheap and probably watered down whiskey in bars goes back to prohibition, yet somehow makes it the preferred drink of grizzled detectives well into the 90s.
I'd not want to neck a glass of proper thick peaty scottish single malt but some cheap stuff is probably best to bypass the tastebuds altogether.
It’s just tea in movies,
I'd pull a horrible sour face at having to drink cold tea, far more than whiskey. Of course, by take 6 I'd be missing my mouth if I was doing it for real.
I thought it was apple juice
Bourbon actually tastes of something. Scotch just tastes like burning. I got given a bottle for Xmas that had a blurb on the box about how it’s made and infused with flavour, still tastes like burning. I’ll stick with bourbon or rum. Never tried necking either though as that would just result in not tasting it.
Don’t movies use it as short hand for being stressed out?
Scotch just tastes like burning. I got given a bottle for Xmas that had a blurb on the box about how it’s made and infused with flavour, still tastes like burning. I’ll stick with bourbon or rum. Never tried necking either though as that would just result in not tasting it.
Are you actually a child? I've not felt that burning sensation since I was a teenager. I opened a bunahabain I was given for my birthday last night - it was delicious
Yup easily doable.
Are you actually a child? I’ve not felt that burning sensation since I was a teenager.
Not a burning sensation. Just tastes like something that has been burned. No flavour, no notes of oak, just borderline meths. What would age have to do with it any way? Was that an attempt at an insult? If so it passed me by I’m afraid.
I thought it was apple juice
I think it is now.
Not a burning sensation. Just tastes like something that has been burned. No flavour, no notes of oak, just borderline meths. What would age have to do with it any way? Was that an attempt at an insult? If so it passed me by I’m afraid.
Sorry, not meant to be an insult - a crap attempt at humour if anything.
Have you tried putting a couple of drops of water in your whisky? Peculiar how our tastebuds differ/function!
I’m a bit snappy today too so apology accepted and given in return. Never tried water, will give that a go tonight and report back.
Whisky guzzling doesn't bothers me. Not finishing beer is wrong though.
Many leaving bar scenes are ruined when a table of 1/3 full glasses are left.
We always used to swig/'shoot' whisky, because we couldn't bear the burning if we sipped it.
Then we learned to pre-empt with an ale or two 😎
Have you tried putting a couple of drops of water in your whisky? Peculiar how our tastebuds differ/function!
I've settled on more like 60/40 whisky to water. although that's often cask strength now. I don't see the point in 'a drop or two'. You water it till it stops burning! It's a beautiful drink, shouldn't be physically painful to drink 😁
What really gets on my nerves in tv and movies is characters coming in with a “coffee” and just chucking it around, or swigging straight away from what should be a scalding, full cup of very hot liquid.
I mean, some are worse than others but in some cases it’s quite obvious it’s an empty paper cup as otherwise the casual way the beverage was being handled would mean the handler would be covered from head to toe in boiling coffee.
Apparently it’s a continuity thing - it’s difficult to track the right amount of liquid between takes and it still seem consistent, so they don’t bother at all.
But I find it really irritating!
If I was famous and had to drink in a movie, I'd demand a double.
I’ve settled on more like 60/40 whisky to water. although that’s often cask strength now. I don’t see the point in ‘a drop or two’.
The point of adding a couple of drops of water is to release flavours, not to dilute it.
Ultimately though it's your drink, enjoy it however you enjoy it.
What really gets on my nerves in tv and movies is characters coming in with a “coffee” and just chucking it around, or swigging straight away from what should be a scalding, full cup of very hot liquid.
This bugs the crap out of me, not least because it's very rare that it doesn't happen.
Are these hard cases in the movies hard faced gunslinging mercenary cowboy NYPD detective gangster psychopaths or regional sales managers, for example?
When I was doing back-stage work, the drinks were mostly coloured with gravy browning to make it the right colour, and not be horrendous for the actors to drink. Except for the last night of course...
In future I wonder if we will see fewer movies with rampant drinking (James Bond...) like we did with cigarettes? Old films often jar with so much smoking, maybe it will be the same with drinking in future?
The thing that I find deeply irresponsible is the number of US films and programmes where characters have several drinks and then drive somewhere. This happens across all genres and not only legitimises the behaviour but makes it aspirational to some degree, in that if you want to be as cool as X then you too should engage in self destructive, wilfully dangerous behaviour.
...and yet almost no characters nip to the loo in a film, unless the plot requires it.
TV is the same. I reckon most measures a nearly a wine glass full!
If you read Dickens you’ll notice characters often drank spirits with hot water. It makes sense economically as well as from a flavour perspective. A more compact form of inebriation from a mass storage and transport perspective.
I had a girlfriend whose Granny drank an extraordinary amount of gin. With water. I thought she was nuts until I tried it and could actually taste all the ingredients that weren’t ethanol!
What really gets on my nerves in tv and movies is characters coming in with a “coffee” and just chucking it around, or swigging straight away from what should be a scalding, full cup of very hot liquid.
This!
I started a new job once with a group of blokes who thought it was funny to send the new starter to get coffee. It was a long trek. I got the four takeaway coffees, and then four empty paper cups. When I finally got back to the office I took great pleasure at throwing the empty cups into their individual offices. They all screamed 🤣
I did similar as a kid on April fools day, walked into Mum and Dad's room having made them a morning cuppa, 'stumbled' and threw hot tea over them both in their half awake state (except obvs cups were empty)
My Dad woke up very fast and gave me a good hiding before realising the date. No sense of humour.....