The gin thread got me wondering...whats your drink of choice here? Whats your drink at home?

Here I like either (smuggled) gin and maracuja, or a plain old beer for the beach. At home it was gin and grapefruit in the summer or a Makers Mark (or whatever bourbon) on the rocks in winter.

I have heard about coconut water ice cubes, never done it.

fav drink: Jack Daniels or Crown Royal, ginger ale, orange wedge

beer: dark stout or red ale...I have neither up here but BH has quite a few places to get a good beer.
for wine I only like reds...usually cab

out at bars typical sh*t beer to drink and a cachaca to sip, usually vale verde, germana or a local mineiro brand

Glenlivet whiskey 12 or 21 year ( makes no difference ) straight with 2 cubes of ice ( I bring it in myself whenever I come from Europe as I wont the price here in Brazil)
Also throw in Southern Comfort for change of pace.

Wine Santa Helena Cab-sauv from Argentina ( best in my opinion for the money) Bodega Esmeralda.

Beer only drink it at the beach, but Brazilian beers taste like chilled horse piss, so I avoid them when I can.

Have some friends that work for an International airline so I sometimes score with some Palm beer from Belgium.

 

Edited by agri2001 - 12 April 2012 at 22:23

Anyone stupid enough to buy a bottle of champagne here yet? 

Isn't a bottle of Veuve Clicquot like R$200's??? or more in some sad cases. haha

Originally posted by Capybara The gin thread got me wondering...whats your drink of choice here? Whats your drink at home? Here I like either (smuggled) gin and maracuja, or a plain old beer for the beach.

Good gin can be expensive in Brasil, but decent vodka, for a mixed drink, is quite reasonable, and more versatile than gin.  Who doesn't love at the beach in summer uma cerveja estupidamente gelada?!?  Yet unless you're under 30yrs of age, those multiple beers can add some inches by the end of summer! 

I prefer a vodka w/tonic in the hotter months.  Yet when guests come to visit, they are instructed to swing by duty free before their flight departs, and bring at least one bottle of tequila, which is estupidamente caro in Brasil.

Summer heat + a shaken Margarita = Ahhhhh, que gostoso!

Come cooler weather (which we definitely have here in the south June-Aug), the focus shifts to red wine, preferably Chilean.



Edited by Gringo.Floripa - 13 April 2012 at 00:30