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  • please_just_stop [comrade/them]
    hexagon
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    1 year ago

    The cheapest wine (not in a bag) is stuff called Bowler's Run. $3. Highly unrecommended. I'd prefer not to get drunk if I can only afford that

        • keepcarrot [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          I find that the tomato juice and tobasco sauce cover up the goon taste pretty well. Recent discovery (approx 1/2 goon 1/2 tomato juice, dash of tobasco, dash of lemon juice, crack of pepper and salted rim).

          • please_just_stop [comrade/them]
            hexagon
            ·
            1 year ago

            Oh I understand now. Hm... not that desperate. Wine hangovers are the worst. I'm a believer in methanol theory of hangovers, so makes sense that beer/wine ones are worse than vodka/gin. The cheapest thing would be to have an academic licence to buy ethanol

            • Quizzes [none/use name]
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              1 year ago

              Just drink two tall glasses of water before bed. Hangovers are mostly dehydration.

              Substitute two bottles of sugarfree Gatorade for electrolytes.

              • please_just_stop [comrade/them]
                hexagon
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                1 year ago

                I do that but there's more to it than dehydration. Sort of only matters if you're drinking 10 pints or something though which I tend to avoid nowadays. Methanol and congeners are part of it. Vodka, if 3x distilled, should just be ethanol and water

            • keepcarrot [she/her]
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              1 year ago

              You'll come crawling back. shakes fist

              Spirits are so expensive here :(

              • please_just_stop [comrade/them]
                hexagon
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                edit-2
                1 year ago

                I know it sucks. I hate Australia so much

                Read "Quadrant" if you ever forget how much Liberals suck. Can't say what should happen to the people who write that filth

                Not to be confused with the Quarterly Essay, which is fine usually

    • forcequit [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Passion pop used to be $3.50 :cowboy-cri:

      bottle of penfolds for <$20 is solid.

      Also, redistilling cheap shit can be fun if tiresome

      • daisy
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        1 year ago

        bottle of penfolds for <$20 is solid.

        So for about $100 I could get a penfolds five?

      • please_just_stop [comrade/them]
        hexagon
        ·
        1 year ago

        Yeah I don't think distilling is worth the time. Seen it done but I don't have the equipment. Big Clive on YouTube does it I think

        • forcequit [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          It's very diy friendly, but quickly becomes a numbers game/time sink to see appreciable/replicable/sustainable results.

          I do like Clive. Came for the teardowns, stated for the carbonation