ILX DRINK Fight Nomination/ Question Thread

I feel cider and malt liquor are pretty much auto-includes

vodka + citrus works for me, although purists might bitch

there maybe should be a beer poll but it needs to be done ilx film/music poll style rather than being limited to 50 options.

beer poll done this way ^ would be A++++

I'm on this one. You take that one.

oof let me recover from the metal poll for a while and then we'll see how im feeling

I feel like a beer poll is gonna have results that would be most frustrating to people who cared the most

Hence, its necessity.

heh. ya - all my favourite beers a local microbrews for the most part. i'd probably wind up voting for Heinekin or something that would otherwise be 8 or so on my list.

beer popists will vote corona and bud to a surprisingly and infuriatingly high placement

or pbr

Yeah, I know. The Ramos Fizz is basically the Dhalsim of this poll.

I actually did drink a Budweiser this decade -- it didn't kill me.

i'll vote ramos fizz to the goddamn top

Dude, I'll drink the hell out of some Budweiser if its ice cold and there's nothing else to drink and I'm thirsty and can be assured a TALL drink of Gatorade prior to bed.

but ONLY under those circumstances.

am currently drinking a bud light out of the can, am also a disgusting savage

where did I place that sb oh here it is

Alright. I'm going to go have as many of these poll applicants as I can this evening.

yeah there should be a polite agreement that you don't get to vote against something unless you've actually had it.

okay so w/r/t that, it might be sorta a headache buttt

you could have 'don't know / haven't tried' as an option for each pair

otherwise people are forced to vote for something, and in this poll there's a pretty high chance that most of us haven't tried something or another. that's gonna require...24? choices instead of the regular 16, but I think it'd be worth it.

no one is "forced" to vote in these things tho!

it's not like we lose ilx points for not partaking in a poll.

forced in the sense that, if they have opinions on 3 of the matchups and haven't tried the other two, they either have to not vote or vote for something they're unfamiliar with

would look like:

Hard Cheeses, Berries, Eggs, Tacos
Hard Cheeses, Berries, Eggs, Chocolate
Hard Cheeses, Berries, Eggs, (Pass)
Hard Cheeses, Berries, Ice Cream, Tacos
Hard Cheeses, Berries, Ice Cream, Chocolate
Hard Cheeses, Berries, (Pass), Chocolate
Hard Cheeses, Soup, Eggs, Tacos
Hard Cheeses, Soup, Eggs, Chocolate
Hard Cheeses, Soup, (Pass), Chocolate

etc.

aaaahhh - i c whachew mean

too many cocktails in the list. i mean, sex on the beach, who drinks that?

also needs:

perry aka pear cider
wheat beer
port
alcopops

port lol u british

does alcopops include md2020?

Cider/Scrumpy/Perry is essential, it would be like leaving apples off the food poll.

More leftfield:

Fortified Wine (Buckie etc)
Amaretto
Pernod

Fortified Wine (Buckie etc)

make that "low end fortified wine" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-end_fortified_wine, that'll do for mad dog too. alcopops are much classier.

what are the top alcopops these days? *reminisces on news features abt 'hooch'*

breezers I guess. is smirnoff ice an alcopop?

the only one worth considering.

in the past month or so (that hadn't been listed)

san miguel
estrella damm
blue moon
sam smith's alpine lager (formerly ayingerbräu)
sam smith's wheat beer (formerly ayingerbräu Hefe Weiss)
asahi
budvar
budvar dark
st peter's organic ale
st peter's golden ale
sierra nevada porter

surely the final 64 needs to come from a league (poll) from each group?

Beers
Cocktails
Wine
Spirits

and the allocation of the 64 will be based on the coefficient for each group? (based on total votes in each category's poll)

that would be 16/16/16/16 right? I don't think there are enough 'types of beer'/'types of spirits' that would be universally familiar. might work with individual beers or spirits.

MEAD

oh and SOJU

Amaretto

HOLY SHIT THIS^^^^^^^^

So, I'll have this up this evening. I'm running a little behind today, due to a broken hot water heater. AWESOME!

Here's a list of 16 beer styles, along with potential representative brands:

IPA (Lagunitas IPA)
Pale ale (Sierra Nevada Pale Ale)
American lager (Budweiser)
German lager (Paulaner)
Stout (Guinness)
Porter (Fuller's London Porter)
Wheat (Hoegaarden)
Lambic (Lindemans Framboise)
Malt liquor (Olde English)
Brown ale (Newcastle)
Bitter (Fuller's ESB)
Pilsner (Pilsner Urquell)
Trappist (Chimay)
Red/amber ale (Smithwick's)
Blonde ale (Leffe Blonde)
Barleywine (Sierra Nevada Bigfoot)

(Feel free to quibble with this.)

would the "spirits" bracket include liqueurs?

or would you just break it down like for example:

rum
tequila
vodka
gin
scotch
brandy
bourbon
whiskey
congac
schnapps
jenever
mezcal
ouzo
armagnac
chiew
applejack

(pulled from here: http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/people/nieminen/spirits.html )

i think this is just too much. an all encompassing booze poll, i mean...

the food poll was a mishmash of ingredients, specific foods, and whole dish-styles. i guess that kind of works for booze too, in some ways, since, say 'drambuie' and 'chartreuse' are brands as well as the only thing of its kind.

but man, i dunno.

as someone who deals with categorizing information and someone who loves to drink this is really bugging me out

unicum vs malört would be kind of fantastic, particularly if you had to taste-test before voting