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re: Bars throughout Texas have been busted selling well brands as top shelf alcohol.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:27 am to ProjectP2294
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:27 am to ProjectP2294
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Premium vodka is a myth anyway.
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Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:30 am to texag7
Yeah but these are the kind of bars where you are drinking plastic cup drinks, made from one liquor and one mixer, to get drunk, so does it really matter?
I drink real cocktails, at bars that are in nice restaurants, so I see them make my drink a lot of the time, and when I don't, it's because I'm sitting at a table in the kind of place where they're priding themselves in their craft cocktail and certainly not trying to cheap you out.
I make my own cocktails at home as sort of a hobby, so yeah I can taste the difference. But if you are drinking the kind of drink that's just one liquor and one mixer - that's a "getting drunk" drink anyway so I don't know why you'd pay for top shelf booze to go in it in the first place. If it goes in a plastic cup, it should come from a plastic bottle - that's my rule.
So far as guys at nice bars getting scotch or bourbon neat, you can certainly tell the difference and I doubt that type of establishment is cheating their customers anyway - what we're talking about here is an "in da club" type joint or a college bar. In either case you're wasting money to buy top shelf.
I drink real cocktails, at bars that are in nice restaurants, so I see them make my drink a lot of the time, and when I don't, it's because I'm sitting at a table in the kind of place where they're priding themselves in their craft cocktail and certainly not trying to cheap you out.
I make my own cocktails at home as sort of a hobby, so yeah I can taste the difference. But if you are drinking the kind of drink that's just one liquor and one mixer - that's a "getting drunk" drink anyway so I don't know why you'd pay for top shelf booze to go in it in the first place. If it goes in a plastic cup, it should come from a plastic bottle - that's my rule.
So far as guys at nice bars getting scotch or bourbon neat, you can certainly tell the difference and I doubt that type of establishment is cheating their customers anyway - what we're talking about here is an "in da club" type joint or a college bar. In either case you're wasting money to buy top shelf.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:34 am to Cooter Davenport
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I drink real cocktails, at bars that are in nice restaurants, so I see them make my drink a lot of the time, and when I don't, it's because I'm sitting at a table in the kind of place where they're priding themselves in their craft cocktail and certainly not trying to cheap you out.
I make my own cocktails at home as sort of a hobby, so yeah I can taste the difference.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you probably own a scarf.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:35 am to Topwater Trout
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Premium vodka is a myth anyway.
To an extent. Depends on what is meant by "premium".
The plastic bottle brands are discernibly worse. McCormick, Popov, etc.
HOWEVER, there's no difference between Tito's (which I don't consider a 'premium" brand or price-point) and anything more expensive than Tito's. You should pretty much stop at Tito's. Belvedere and Grey Goose are a ripoff.
This post was edited on 8/19/15 at 11:37 am
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:36 am to LucasP
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'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you probably own a scarf.
No scarf, no bicycle, no skinny jeans; I just like to drink and I'm just not poor.
This post was edited on 8/19/15 at 11:38 am
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:38 am to Cooter Davenport
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no bicycle, no skinny jeans
You said that, not me. I only mention the scarf because of your refined tastes and inflated ego. Those tend to be accompanied by scarves.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:38 am to Cooter Davenport
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Belvedere
1.75 liter bottle at aquistapace for 42.99 not bad.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:41 am to Sao
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You could put some McCormick through a Brita and never taste the difference between it and Belvedere. Truth.
don't give them any more ideas......
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:42 am to Chad504boy
Monopolowa 1.75L is usually around $26... and it's potato.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:43 am to Cooter Davenport
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So far as guys at nice bars getting scotch or bourbon neat, you can certainly tell the difference and I doubt that type of establishment is cheating their customers anyway - what we're talking about here is an "in da club" type joint or a college bar. In either case you're wasting money to buy top shelf.
Pretty much. The only place I'll get hard liquor is at Churchill's.
The rest of the time it's draft beer. Now I drink too shelf at home because I have a massive liquor collection and a fully stocked bar. So I know want different stuff tastes like. And I'm usually only mixing with club soda or tonic so the damn sugar doesn't completey overpower the flavor of the liquor.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:44 am to yurintroubl
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Monopolowa 1.75L is usually around $26... and it's potato.
Where could I find this?
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:51 am to fr33manator
Actually participated in a similar activity at Northriver Yacht Club in Tuscaloosa.
Wedding ran out of Dewar's and the bride's dad got pissed started raising a stink with the manager. So he took the empty Dewar's bottles and filled them up with Usher's. Everybody was so sloshed I am sure they had no idea.
Wedding ran out of Dewar's and the bride's dad got pissed started raising a stink with the manager. So he took the empty Dewar's bottles and filled them up with Usher's. Everybody was so sloshed I am sure they had no idea.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 11:58 am to TigerTreyjpg
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You know those can be made with your beloved Dobra as well right?
What kind of monster would pollute Dobra with vermouth? It would be like pissing on the Mona Lisa.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 12:05 pm to MillerMan
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Pretty sure Bogies does this
Every bar around LSU does this. shite. Most of the bars in BR do it.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 12:06 pm to Dan Bilzerian
I thought everyone just assumed this is a common occurance.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 12:12 pm to BrotherEsau
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No one ever could tell the difference between Taaka and Absolute
Posted on 8/19/15 at 12:16 pm to fr33manator
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Scotch? Definitely (but I only drink single malt)
Difference in both Singles and Blends.
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Bourbon? Sometimes I really doubt it, don't drink it neat enough to know.
Wow, wow, hold your horses there bub. When God ends his day after answering all the shitty scotch drinkers prayers, he sips a bourbon.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 12:27 pm to Dan Bilzerian
This tactic has been going on all over the world over the past 20 years, it is nothing new.
I imagine an audit is not very difficult, seems that they would just compare sales of premium liquor against wholesale purchases of the generic stuff....correlation = busted.
Sounds like the people that got busted were not very smart with how they were doing it.
I imagine an audit is not very difficult, seems that they would just compare sales of premium liquor against wholesale purchases of the generic stuff....correlation = busted.
Sounds like the people that got busted were not very smart with how they were doing it.
This post was edited on 8/19/15 at 12:30 pm
Posted on 8/19/15 at 12:31 pm to fr33manator
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Where could I find this?
Pretty much any liquor store. The liters and 750ml bottles are square... and usually $12-$15 tops.
The "w" is pronounced like a "v" FWIW.
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