Anyway, I thought it might be good to say here what you drink, what you would like to drink, and what you don't drink.

I will start by saying that I do not drink coffee - not that I don't like it, but that my stomach does not. Sabrina (Ryder) sent me some blueberry juice in a swap, which I loved, and I have since found it at the Lebanese market. I drink mostly roasted green tea, one cup in the morning, and I sometimes have afternoon tea, which is usually Fancy Keemun that I have to buy at a local coffee supply shop. I don't drink cola and prefer fruit flavored sodas - and so I always have diet grapefruit soda or ginger ale on hand. I tend to avoid sugar in my drinks. Of course I don't drink milk either. If I have a dessert liqueur, it is usually Cointreau, Amaretto, or Frangelico. I also have sarsaparilla tea, which I drink on rare occasions.

Lars

As far as alcohol, I'm a margarita kinda girl :)

We are open to almost any type of alcohol beverage at least once! We do enjoy red wine and often buy Canadian.

janet

I like root beer also!

Lars

DH is more experimental than I am! He likes flavored teas and coffees. He tends to drink diet drinks (gag!). I tend to stick mainly to water, but I love a Coke (Co-cola, where I'm from) or a Vernors. I made homeade Ginger Ale with some of the ginger Gina sent me in the last swap...wow!!! Was that ever great!!

As for alcohol, I never have time! Oy! DH likes just about everything.

Grapefruit soda! Yummy! I like fruity sodas, too!

No coffee anymore, not much of a tea drinker and can't even stand the thought of drinking a glass of milk. Blech!

I drink LOTS of water. Don't care much for soda, but will have one on occasion. I just found a recipe for rhubarb iced tea I am going to try. I do drink iced tea in summer once in a while.

I love wine, mostly reds such as Shiraz, Pinot Noir, Cabs and Merlots. I do like a few whites, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio. As long as they are not sweet, I probably like them.
Cocktails are fun, too. Love to make up a batch of martinis or mojitos, I like gin & tonic, margaritas, and many others. I infuse my own vodkas (have a raspberry one brewing right now) and also my vanilla margarita tequila (need to make up a batch of that for the summer.)

Yikes, I sound like a candidate for rehab!
Linda

Like trying new juice and soda flavours. Like Kool-Aid - I have discovered it (especially the lemon flavour) adds a nice fruity zing to iced tea.

Not much of a wine drinker as it makes my GERD worse.

Have a VERY expensive taste in whiskey and cognac, but do not feel above drinking liqueurs if the occasion calls for it.

DH works for a liquor company, so there's very little that we don't already have in the way of booze. I used to be a single malt scotch girl, but I've recently developed a taste for Irish Whiskeys. I like Red Breast and Jamison. We have quite a bit on hand though, particularly since I'm not a big drinker.

AM

I love coffee but can't drink it everyday or I'll get a tummy ache. DH drinks instant at home. We went through years of all kinds of coffee makers, capuccino machines, etc. Got tired of the grinding, cleaning and breaking. Gave them all away. I'm sure they are making better machines now, but we're content with Taster's Choice, and instant doesn't seem to bother my stomach as much.

We have red wine with dinner every night. Dh doesn't like white - I do. But I also dislike Chardonnay. We drink cocktails too and like to come up with different combinations. Usually something fruity and refreshing and not too strong. We're lightweights!

I do drink lots of coffee-black, and then cocktails or wine in the evening. It's embarassing if I ever truthfully fill out a medical questionaire-- "Hmmmm, only caffeine and alcohol?"

;)

Dolores

We'll occasionally have iced tea, no sugar and definitely no lemon (gag...I love lemon but not in tea). We occasionally have Crystal Light lemonade, but not often. I might rarely have a cup of hot tea (black with cream and sugar). I drink a diet Coke (only coke) on a very rare occasion, not even one a month. DH never has hot tea or diet Coke. We'll occasionally have juice (orange or red grapefruit). I like cranberry juice, DH doesn't.

Alcohol... DH drinks beer and nothing but beer. I don't drink beer at all. Wines...I like non-sweet champagne and non-sweet red wines. I cook with white and red wines. I'll try most cocktails, but my favorites usually have vodka. I'm an Absolut girl. I like several liqueurs, but don't care for Bailey's. I bought some Hpnotiq and found it only OK. Glad I didn't buy the huge bottle. I want some of that pretty pink stuff that riverrat mentioned, but I haven't found it yet.

I think that covers it... :-)

Jayne

I like coffee in the morning, house blends and breakfast blends, I grind my own, leaded, please.

Sometimes I will fix a cup of tea in the morning, Earl Grey, Republic of Tea Ginger Peach decaf, English Breakfast, and English Afternoon blends. I like just about any tea from Republic of Tea, Stash (love the fruity herbals and lemon ginger), Celestial Seasonings, Whittard and Murchie's. I like just about all flavored tea and herb teas except anything with a licorice flavor.

I like beer better than mixed drinks, but prefer an Apricot Sour or Pina Colada if pressed.

Prefer red wine to white, Merlot, Chianti Classico, etc. Do not care for Chardonay at all, prefer Pinot Grigio and German white wines.

I've mostly given up all carbonated sodas, but that Grapefruit soda sounds good! Lemonade is my summer drink of choice, that and sangria!

Bottoms up!
Teresa

We don't drink alcohol, but I do bake and cook with it on occasion.
He does on occasion complain(only after a Sam Adams commercial comes on) cuz the only beer here is can's of some what cheap for beer muffins. LOL Although he'd probably sip about 3-4 sips and then the rest would go down the drain, so I don't buy "good stuff".

I drink enough Diet Coke to float a cruise ship. In the evening I switch to the no caffeine variety . And don't try to slip me a Pepsi. I like Root Beer, too.

My favorite wine is Riesling. I like Fuzzy Navels, I'm ashamed to admit, and most fruity drinks.

I occasionally drink tea. I am learning to use tea leaves in a ball. Good tea is good! If I'm using a tea bag, I like Earl gray or English Beakfast.

I like grapefruit juice better than oj.

That's pretty much it.

Nancy

We brew a large pot of black tea every morning and just sit and wake up with it. I like herbal teas too, but when I'm in the mood. I like coffee, but it doesn't like me... I'll have a latte when I'm out, but rarely make them at home anymore. Water with lemon or lime is a favourite. I don't like pop, but I do like San Pellegrino with lemon or lime. Club soda too.

Bedtime favourites are hot milk with a touch of vanilla, or peppermint tea.

I love red and white wine, dry. Shiraz tops my list these days. Beer is great on a hot summer day. But nothing announces summer like a gin and tonic on the deck!

Catherine

The rest of the day it's water. I do like wine. My favorite is pinot grigio but I have been trying other things including some reds.

Tracey

Alcohol is something I should avoid as I have alkies in the family. I do have something on a Friday night....perhaps a rum and coke or anything with a jigger of vodka. I Generally just look for something on sale being on a budget and all that.

Its mostly water with lemon during the day and every once in a while I'll have V8.

Cheers!
Susie

Brenda

I do drink
-a LOT of iced tea, but I don't like flavors except mint
-lemonade
-wine - red or white
-beer
-alcoholic drinks - my new fave is cosmopolitans. I like vodka, gin or rum but not scotch or bourbon. I drink frozen margaritas only when it's the drink du jour (meaning it's THE drink being served).

Iced tea, drink it all day, just plain Lipton, unsweetened with a good squeeze of lime or lemon, or water, with a good squeeze of lime or lemon, I prefer lime in both.

After five, bourbon with diet coke, margarita on the rocks, wine on occasion and love those after dinner shots that they serve on cruise ships. I have bought a lot of liquor intending to fix one of those after dinner shots and still haven't done it, one of these days,

No pop (soda - lol!Chances mom - saw that ! - I say pop, also!) - except if I have a hang over - then I really want a pepsi...

I don't like sweetened things.

Stacy

I like strong coffee, no flavors here. I grind my own beans.
Nancy, I am dying to here about the other vices: )

I like seltzer with a slice of lemon. I drink that and plain water all day long.I avoid soda pop like the plague!
I am SO up for trying new things!

Tikanas

I don't drink coffee, but I love the smell. My DH drinks it, and I inhale.

I like some sodas, but not grape, or orange (which I got sick on in combo with sloppy joes when I was a kid and to this day can not eat or drink either). I don't really drink much soda, but there are some things I like to have one with, so I tend to hoard one or two in the back of the fridge. I like cream soda and root beer a lot.

I drink green tea on occasion, but so rarely that I usually end up having to compost half of the pack. I don't do well with caffeine and save it's use for oncoming migraines, staying up late or when I have a test and am feeling brain-sluggish.

I drink some fruit juices on occasion. And I love lemonade.

I don't do any artifical sweeteners, and I have been getting really aggravated at how the sodas almost all have high fructose corn syrup in them.

I like amaretto, and some other things but I can't remember what they are. I would avoid mailing alcohol though, unless you are really familiar with all the rules. I know there are postal rules about it.

Susan

David

Mostly I drink tea, my favorite is Twining's Irish Breakfast but at work I drink Lipton or whatever is available. Readinglady sent me some Whittard's and it was pretty good, I'm always up for trying a new brand. I use loose at home, but will happily use whatever I can find, whether loose or bags. I like black tea, I don't care for green tea or flavored tea or herb tea except an occasional cup of mint. I drink it hot or iced, no sugar, no lemon, no milk. Just black tea, and make it strong.

I don't like wine or beer, and the last time I had a drink was at the Babes and Beefcake get together last year when Michael provided a ceremonial shot of Glenlivet. Too many years of owning a bar, I guess, and it kind of took the fun out of drinking. A million years ago in that other life I drank tall screwdrivers or fruit based drinks but I've always been a wuss and drank them weak, lots of juice and half a shot of booze. I've never found an alcohol I really liked a lot and I had access to a LOT of kinds but occasionally I'll try a new one.

I drink Diet Coke and only Coke, don't try to pass off a Pepsi. Here we call it "pop" too. I'd rather have a glass of water with a squeeze of lemon, though, and I like the fruit flavored "sparkling water".

I drink lots of milk, farm girl that I am. It's skim now, because of the fat content and my cholesterol. I also have been forbidden to drink grapefruit juice because of the cholesterol medication. I do press my own cider from my own apples and that's nice in the winter, warm and spiced.

Annie

Champagne or CA sparkling wine any time of day! Unoaked white wine, Sancerre is my favorite. Low tannin red wines, Zinfadel is current fav. Interesting beers, especially Belguim ones. Sierra Nevada for my domestic fav. Herby aperitifs that aren't TOO bitter, Lillet Blonde and Dubonnet. Whiskeys, Irish and aged bourbons, NOT scotch. Vodka only as a mixer. Tequilas, 100 percent agaves. No scotch, no frozen drinks and nothing very sweet unless it's a post dinner liqueur but I'd prefer a cognac. Love the new cocktail craze but not really sweet ones. Sidecars are a current love.

Other than alcohol I don't drink anything with calories. (Well once in a while I have fresh squeezed OJ especially blood orange juice.) Diet cola, root beers and I make my own lemon and limeades with Splenda. Love mineral waters with small bubbles, Apollinaris is my usual one. Yep, I'm picky.

Soft drink of choice is Diet Pepsi. Annie I feel the same way about diet Pepsi as you do Coke. Although I'll drink a diet coke if I don't have a choice. And other than decent wine, red and white I don't really drink any other liquors. Moe loves wine too but he also enjoys single malt scotch and very dry martinis. I have a recipe for Sangria that I really like and now that summer is here I probably make that more often.

Ann

I am addicted to Diet Dr. Pepper! Can't drink iced tea but hot tea is just fine. I am allergic to something in the fermenting process so 1 glass is about all the wine I can drink...drat! But I do cheat and have to have at least 1 beer at every ball game!

And I do like my vodka martini and Perfect Rob Roy both up with a twist and double blue cheese olive.

Coffee in this house is made by percolator ONLY!! That said, I have a feeling I'd like the French Press but have never gotten round to buying one to try it. I have graduated from Folger's to beans that I grind in a burr grinder. Mostly Starbucks French Roast lately, since I've had a backlog of gift cards since Christmas. I just bought some Ethiopia Sidamo, but have not tried it yet. I had some from a friend's sister's coffee roaster/shop in Northern Cal. It was quite good and I will send away to her for some more after I use up my gift cards.

I like tea, but often just plain forget about it since making coffee is so automatic for me. I also like iced tea, plain and sweetened with "the pink stuff." (LOL) I usually have Twinings English Breakfast to drink hot, and store brand decaf (Lipton I expect) for iced.

I usually have Diet Sprite and Caff. Free Diet Coke in the house, and drink water a fair bit (bottled Safeway, nothing fancy).

I also like fruit smoothies from the Vitamix, though they generally replace a meal when I've had a big lunch, for example, or perhaps on a smaller scale with breakfast.

I don't drink caffeine, and If I'm going to spend my beverage calories, I'll usually wait for alchohol LOL!, so most of the time I drink water, or diet caffeine-free soda - I love diet polar orange!! I've recently been turned on to Pomegranite juice, and use it with diet sprite, or with vodka (peach vodka, pom and cranberry, bit of triple sec... yum!!)

I do drink decaf coffee... and I have a grinder, and a french press, and an auto-drip, and a POD machine (a home cafe). I don't really like flavored coffees cause if I'm going to have amaretto coffee I'd rather have decaf with amaretto LOL!

I'm a wine drinker (gourmand, not gourmet!! I like most wine) DH prefers fetzer gerwurtztraminer... and we are always willing to try new mixers or things...

I like white wines and an occasional mixed drink...whiskey or rum, not vodka or gin unless it's mixed in something like a Long Island iced tea. And I try to drink enough water....no soda.

The rest is seasonal. In the winter we like Barn Burners (hot cider with a shot of rum or Capt. Morgan's), hot teas, hot toddies, etc. And I make an orange chocolate cream liqueur during the holidays...we go through a lot of that in our coffee.

Summer is for Margaritas and maybe a foo-foo tropical concoction once in awhile. Iced tea, plain. Beer only if it's really, really hot and the beer's really, really cold (same goes for Pepsi for that matter). I've been saving the Orange Blossom Pilsner that gardengrl sent me last swap for a hot day when I'm home and working outside...looks like it'll be this weekend, we're going to hit 90.

I had a cup of coffee once---May, 1976.

Two months ago I went cold turkey and stopped a four diet Pepsi a day habit. Now it's eight glasses of iced tea, usually flavored teas like raspberry, peach, and green tea.

I will order chick drinks when I have to but I'm not an informed drinker so I have to practice ordering before getting to the bar.

I stay away from red wines (give me migraines). Pinot Grigio is always good.

Just hanging out (my "chick drink") I'll probably grab a raspberry Twister. Love those things.

Not necessarily a summer drink, but I'll never pass up a Baileys, by far my favorite drink.

Hmm I guess if someone makes me something ..I will like it.. i.e Pisco sours(Our Chilean friends).. Margaritas..(a childhood friend..) etc..

But on a day to day..

Cafe au lait.. San Plellegrino..Diet Tonic..OJ..
Red wine.

I drink coffee, that we grind ourselves. Never flavored beans. We do like some tea as well but we get it sent from DH's dad in England. it takes us about 8 years to use what for them is a 1 month supply, LOL.

I don't like any dark sodas and I don't really love light ones either. I do drink some juice but rarely, i don't like wasting calories on drinks. I do really enjoy flavored seltzer, but not the ones that are sweetened.

I love hot chocolate, DH and i often have a mug in the evening. I am intrigued by the many cool flavors out there like chile hot cocoa etc. However I like the flavors to be real not artificial.

-Robin

DH loves most beer and I like some. I love Sea Dog's blueberry wheat ale, we bring it back form Maine whenever we can. We also like other alcohol, gin and tonic, dark and stormys, sangria. No hypnotic though, we tried it his summer and neither of us liked it.

-Robin

Oh, I forgot to mention on the other thread a fruit thing. I like all fruit but can't have anything grapefuit related (Lar's post reminded me). It counteracts with one of my medicines so I can't have any grapefruit.

DH has an occasional beer and enjoys a glass of red wine with dinner once in a while. He doesn't drink any other alcoholic drinks. I don't drink anything alcoholic...not even wine. I've never tasted beer. I've never had a mixed drink. I'm like Annie with the wine...I just don't like it although I use it in cooking...just don't want to drink a glass of the stuff.

I occassionally go on a water binge but normally I don't drink as much water as I should. I refuse to spend money on designer waters. There's nothing wrong with our tap water...I just prefer my Pepsi which I'm sipping on constantly. :(

We both drink some cranberry juice and I use some juice in cooking but mostly we eat the fruit and stay away from the juices. Neither of us drink anything like Crystal Light or other powdered drink mixes...can't say we don't like them...haven't ever tried any of them.

Haven't found a tea I like; black tea is too tannic, green tea tastes like nothing. I have a mint tea I like occasionally, and sometimes in the winter I fix warm milk with cardomom and clove and other spices. Chai is nice.

Not much of a wine drinker, but I'm far too fond of mild American beer. Love vodka, and have a few infused types in the freezer. I have a lot of fruit juice/concentrates in the fridge I mix with vodka or seltzer depending on my mood.

I have to start my day with coffee - just Folgers (I like their containers) made strong, with a small splash of milk.

At work, besides water, I'll drink hot tea in the winter. There's no coffee available there, but there is a microwave, so I keep tea bags there each winter. It's funny - when we exchange Christmas gifts at work, someone always gives me a box of flavored teas. I do like them, but I'm getting quite a collection since I don't seem to manage to use them up before the next Christmas. LOL I'm still trying to grasp the concept that green tea would be anything but diet. (from a previous post) It doesn't have many, if any calories, does it?

I do drink wine and an occasional beer, but am afraid of the calories in beer. I'm not well versed enough in wines to even know what I like, but I do know I like both red and white wines. I don't even know how to spell the name of the red wine we usually buy - Cabernet sauv....? Another red I've liked is Merlot. As for whites, I like Pino Grigio, I've tasted some Chardonney's that I like, and some I hated. I like sauv.... blanc. I need to try some more wines to find out if I like them or not. I don't know anything about mixed drinks, and I'm afraid to find out.

One of my silly pleasures is (blushing sheepishly) chocolate milk. Yes, I actually like to drink Nestles Quick. It's that chocoholic thing.

Sally

Pretty boring. No alcohol. YUK!

Now for the alcoholic beverages. I prefer red wine (for the health benefits, dontcha know), favorite is Merlot. Also like Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc. Zinfandel sometimes. I prefer sweeter whites, like Reisling and Pinot Grigio. Icewine, too. Not real fond of Chardonnay, but I WILL drink it! Gin and tonic is good, sour apple martinis are good, margaritas are good. This may disgust some of you, but I also like Pernod, Ouzo and Sambuco.

I drink dry white wine over reds. Though reds sneak their way in if they are not overly tannic. I have learned to appreciate spirits on their own vs in mixed drinks but those are infrequent indulgences. I lean toward non-sugary mixed drinks if I have any. I'm a lightweight.

Otherwise I drink water. I'm not a tea drinker (those tannins again). I do drink weak Genmai Cha sometimes.

I never drink sodas like Pepsi, Coke, or 7-Up. I like Orangina and similar drinks but rarely think to buy them.

Eileen

I only consume coffee if it's ice cream, Kahlua or some other dessert. I like tea, black, green, but not any spiced teas. Really dislike mint too.

Mostly I drink flavored unsweetened seltzer, iced tea or lemonade. Occasionally I'll have a fruit soda, but I find them too sweet these days so I mix them with my seltzer.

Alcohol? Not really. Don't like wine as a rule. I can deal with a little champagne or Asti. Will drink vodka, that Kahlua making it a Black Russian. Smiles. I can go several years or more without having any alcohol. Last year I turned my current [at the time] vodka into vanilla. This fall an old friend from high school came to visit and brought a bottle of vodka. I had 2 light Cape Cods and when he left I turned the Svedka into vanilla. LOL.

In winter in the evening we either have hot tea or hot cocoa often. I do love hot chocolate made with cocoa or even a nice chocolate bar.

Kevin is now drinking blonde roast coffee! Does anyone else drink that? I'm not sure how he found out about it, but it was probably a promo at the coffee shop where he buys his coffee beans. We have a mini-coffee machine that makes supposedly four cups of coffee, but that is the equivalent of two medium sized mugs. Last week-end Kevin wanted to go to Kohls to buy new coffee mugs because I had broken the handles on the two that were my favorites, but I made him go to a thrift store instead, and we found a much better selection. He found four matching ones that he liked, and I got a new mug plus a hand-blown glass tumbler (blue and clear).

Lars