>enhances your reading experience

I don't eat or drink anything while reading. However, I have found that a glass of wine helps me to write, whether it's poetry or prose. Even non-alcoholic wine seems to do the trick, it's less the alcohol and more the texture and the mouthfeel of the spirit.

>>24460705
The texture and the WHAT, anon?

>>24460698 (OP)
A man who has taken aboard two or three cocktails is less competent than he was before to steer a battleship down the Ambrose Channel, or to cut off a leg, or to draw up a deed of trust, or to conduct Bach’s B minor mass, but he is immensely more competent to entertain a dinner party, to admire a pretty girl, or to *hear* Bach’s B minor mass.

— H. L. Mencken, ‘Portrait Of An Ideal World’

Literally is liking alcohol a genetic thing? I cannot for the life of me enjoy a alcoholic beverage because of its taste.
What's a drink where I don't taste any of that alcohol taste?

Need me my nic vape to be totally comfortable.

>>24460698 (OP)
It does. You're not supposed to get wasted, though. Sip.

>>24460940
some people simply haven't found the right alcohol and most just drink whatever everyone else does

>>24460698 (OP)
Thought that was a scoop of vanilla ice cream from the catalog thumbnail

>>24460705
>non-alcoholic wine
grape juice?

>>24460698 (OP)
Fucking real. At least for fiction. I haven't tried reading non-fiction sightly drunk. But non-fiction just feels so much smoother.
Maybe one reason is that alcohol makes you slightly more live in the "now". My mind mostly wanders because I got something to do in a few hours or something. Alcohol takes that stress and pressure away.

>>24460940
Nah I don't think its a genetic thing. Everybody I know heavily dislikes the taste of pure alc and I don't think anybody likes really likes it. I personally fuck with different kinds of wine in the last few weeks. Red wine and mead. I recommend you to try mead. It is most likely pretty sweet and you don' taste any alc. Maybe try some with different herbs in it, if you find it too sweet. But sadly I think that mead doesn't have that kind of "depth" other beverages have. Thats why I get more and more into red wine. Close to none alc taste but still that depth. Rum and whiskey burn to much and take away the pleasure for me.

>>24461326
Non-alcoholic wine is usually wine that's been produced through normal means and then de-alcoholised after the fact. It's closer to a very mild vinegar than it us to grape juice.

>>24461326
I've seen non-alcoholic gin anon
man-made horrors beyond comprehension
I bet zoomers are behind it

>>24460931
That's a good quote.
t. had a drink

>>24460705
>>24460712
He for real said that shit bruv..

>>24461467
Please delete your post thanks

>>24460698 (OP)
>ice
absolute pleb

>>24460698 (OP)
I would like to be that guy who can have a whisky on the rocks and read a book but I'm always too worried about the ice watering the whisky down and can't focus on my book; or I'm too focused on my book my whisky becomes warmed and watered. I try to read in a local pub which has a nice beer garden but after 2 pints of strong lager my reading comprehension becomes blasted.

>>24461632

>>24460940
No, you just have to acquire the taste. No one likes the taste of alcohol as children but as a teen you begin to like certain types and as an adult your pallet becomes more refined. I hated white wine as a teen with a passion; now I love a dry white. My first sip of beer at 12 felt like a punishment, as a teenager it was a necessity, now a beer for me is my favourite treat. It's comparable to certain kinds of cheese, I suppose. Some are more tolerably than others at first but you then either acquire the taste of more mature cheeses or simply you don't.

>>24461634
Are these actually decent? I stole one of those Jack Daniel's plastic ice cube covers from work and it did fuck all to the temp of the whisky. Also I'm a bit of a retard so I wouldn't want to chip my glass by mindlessly chucking a rock in it, especially if it's not going to do the job. Do they float out as you drink, as I can imagine that'd get tiresome, as well.

>>24461645
They don't float, those are actually rocks, and they won't break your glass unless you do something extremely retarded.
I got them as a gift years ago and they work great.

>>24461648
Might have to invest. Especially as I can only tolerate clean spirits atm due to a fucked stomach. Cheers.

>>24461668
Chin chin anon.

>>24461711
Based Withnail and I fan. Anon, I'm thinking we'd be good drinking buddies.

the patrician's choice

>>24460705
the what of the what

>>24461632
>>24461645
Boy you worry a lot

i drink lacroix

>>24461645
>>24461634
Whisky rocks are kind of shit, the main cooling effect from ice comes from the ice melting (I also know someone who chipped a tooth while using them)
If you truly don't want any dilution I'd say just put the bottle and your glasses in the freezer to chill them

>>24460940
When you grow up, you'll understand.

i cant drink because i dont want to end up as alcoholics like my parents and die when my future kids are ~20

>>24460940
I think it depends. I have some friends in their early thirties who still mix spirits with sugary drinks because they don't like beer or wine and still want to get a buzz at a party, but most people do end up acquiring a taste for it.

Personally, my dad let me sip his beer from the time I was maybe 5 or 6 years old. I probably just pretended to like it because I wanted to participate in an "adult" thing. Slowly, I started enjoying it for real. When I was a teenager and old enough to drink on my own, I started off only liking beer on a hot day, though still genuinely enjoying it I certainly didn't prefer it to a soda. I was mostly just drinking to get drunk. But soon, you develop a taste for it, and the moments you enjoy a beer in become more common.

The same thing happened with wine. At first I just had a glass if it was served at dinner. One day, though I didn't like wine at the time, I was having a pasta with a tomato sauce and I thought "I don't really like wine, but a glass of red would go nice with this" and slowly you start appreciating the taste until you enjoy it on it's own.

I had similar experiences with Whisky or Rum. You start mixing this drinks and slowly you don't appreciate the sweetness of a mixer and want to savour the flavour of the spirit. In a way, I wish I never developed a taste for harder liquor because it's expensive and probably a bit too strong to want to drink more than once a month.

>>24460712
(You) will immediately cease and not continue to access the site if you are under the age of 18.

>>24460940
try smoking while drinking liquor, then you will taste something more like what an experienced drinker does. it mutes the alcohol and brings out intended flavour and feel. (don't know if this is true of cigs though)

>>24462034
I have a nervous dispostion as of late, yeah.

>>24460698 (OP)
Caffeine for reading, alcohol for writing

>>24460968
>tripfag
>incredibly gay
checks out

>>24460705
Gotta love savouring the mouthfeel as you open a VN

>>24463585
Wish I could, but every sip of alcohol reminds me of alcoholism in my family. Won't be me.

>>24460698 (OP)
Drink af rn. Can't read

>>24463678
The trick is to only drink after 5pm.

>>24460698 (OP)
I don't drink alcohol.

>>24460940
Just avoid it and save yourself thousands of dollars over your lifetime.
T. Alchy

And yet endangers the pedestrians near my road. Curious.

>>24460698 (OP)
more like
>makes you want to read aloud and laugh at your own voice just to forget what you were reading in the first place

>>24463838
this is how poetry was meant to be read

What about tobacco?

>>24461361
Millennials marketing for gen x

>>24463866
Now we're talking...
Non-smokers will never know the feel of rolling and smoking your own tobacco in between chapters of a book as a way to take a break.

>>24460940
you’re just an actual bitch dude. like a child who takes a little nibble of his supper and then spits it out and makes a face. not everything is candy.

>>24460705
>no alcohol
>mouthfeel of the spirit
Nigga, WHAT?!?!

>>24460940
The only drink I don't immediately revel the taste of is wine and whisky, but after a few of both they begin to taste delicious, and the more I've consumed over the years the more I appreciate them. I'll still have the slight urge to pull a face when drinking a pungent red but that's about it.
As for beer, the taste of it is genuinely delicious now. I don't know what changed, I remember in my late teenage years that wasn't the case.

>>24461957
I know this is considered a poor beer and a good number of people dislike it, but I don't care, they're gay. Blue Moon is fucking delicious.

>>24465291
I had my first blue moon while high at a party back in college and that was the first time I genuinely thought beer is delicious. I was maybe overly enthusiastic about praising that beer at the party and people were amused if seeing me like that as I'm usually either anxious or stoic.

>>24460698 (OP)
>ice in whiskey
sign of a massive pleb
drink it neat if you actually like the taste

>>24460986
I can't be the only weirdo who drinks alcohol for its flavor.

>>24461711
Ore wa ochinchin ga daisuki nandayo!!

>>24463866
Better choice in terms of reading, along with coffee. Stimulants are clearly the superior choice to depressants.

>>24460698 (OP)
Coffee is better

>>24465909
this.
reading is already a hypnotic experience.
the booze just makes me sleepy and hinders cognitive participation.

>>24460940
Usually your problem there is an American thing

>>24465909
I wish I could smoke without thinking it tastes disgusting. The true kino reading aesthetic is beyond me.