Well, yes. You’ve got your classic Jack and coke / Jim and coke, but the alcohol seems to kill the fizz. Same with G&Ts.
The odd thing is though, you can taste the difference if the soda is flat. Why is that I wonder? It's not just the fizzinness but the taste seems different. That or alcohol doesn't completely kill the fizz and it does something to improve the taste. Weird phenomenon.
Found on the internet, in answer to my query just above: Source ... Followup question—can a flavor really be tangible?
Tang: Middle English (denoting a snake's tongue, formerly believed to be a stinging organ; also denoting the sting of an insect): from Old Norse tangi...
Tested the theory, and I can now say from direct observation that bourbon doesn't completely kill the fizz. It becomes very subtle, but still there, along with the flavor that's so delightfully tang-able. This is why I hate 2-liter bottles. You gotta finish it all in a session, or it goes flat and tastes like garbage juice. Cracking open a nice fizzy one now and the difference is insane! Cheers all! ... Of course, tomorrow for Christmas I'll have the 2nd half of it, flat as a run-over road-apple. Just have to grin and bear it.
I had a bit of Bailey's Irish Cream in my morning coffee. No fizz, no buzz, but a nice taste for the holiday season. I think the bottle has been in the refrigerator for about 3 years. Might need a new one next year.
Happily, there's still some fizz! I capped the bottle tightly when there was still 3/4 left and got it back in the fridge right away (Googled for how to preserve fizz).
Advertisements that interrupt the song? No. I lived the first fifty years of my life without YouTube, and I guess I can do the rest.
Thanks for that handy little tip, but I suspect you may have missed the point of this thread somewhat.
1.75 are abundant. Actually, that's the only format available for a lot of bourbons these days, at least on premise.
Is that a fifth bottle? Yeah, I think Naomasa was saying screw the soda, just drink the whiskey straight. Lol, I'm just not that much of a hardass I guess. I need a spoonful of the fizzy stuff to help the medicine go down.
I love the taste of whiskey but I hate feeling buzzed, and it doesn't take much alcohol to get me there. I have some tiny aperitif glasses that hold a teaspoon or two of liquid. I pour in a teaspoon of whiskey and take three-quarters of an hour to savor it while reading a good book. All the taste and none of the annoying disorientation. Yeah, I am the original cheap date.
No, a fifth refers to the regular 750ml. Technically 25.6 oz (fifth of a gallon) instead of 25.4, but close enough.
I just received an e-mail with an attachment that is the embodiment of one of my pet peeves: a word processing document created by someone who should not be allowed within a mile of a computer keyboard. In this case, it's from a high school classmate who has appointed himself the keeper of the class address book. He periodically sends it off to everyone with a request for updates. He maintains this list in Word, rather than using Excel or an address book program (or "app") or even (God forfend) an actual database. BUT ... he doesn't use a table, it's all in text. And he apparently doesn't know how to define tab stops, so the list is a [bleep]in' mess. Let's see if a screen shot will post: attachment deleted by moderator I have formatting code display turned on to show that he has left the tabs set at the default half-inch spacing, so he uses multiple tabs where a single tab could do the job if properly set -- and then occasionally uses a bucket load of spaces instead of tabs. And, for all that, he doesn't have a single page on which every entry is properly aligned. What's scary is that before retirement this guy was a senior manager in a state government agency. I often receive documents that are formatted equally badly -- or worse -- in my work. It drives me up ... the ... wall.
