Screamapillar said:
No one likes the taste of alcohol. They like the flavors and additives put in alcohol. Pure alcohol is just a clear bottle that will burn your esophagus and make you spit it back up.
So this is sort of an argument of semantics, more than anything else. No one is going to say "Oh my God, I LOVE that bottle of Everclear. It tastes delicious." But, someone could easily say, "Man, I LOVE that mixed drink with coconut and pineapple juice mixed with Barcadi 151."
It's all about how the beverage is prepared. The same applies to beer. There is no such thing as "pure alcohol" that you can buy, unless your buying a bottle of denatured Ethyl or something, like in the picture of the OP.
In certain states, Michigan for example, it's illegal to sell any alcohol above 151 proof. Anything over that is strictly banned.
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Kind of. I just don't see why people think it's acceptable to make such a phenomenalsweeping generalisation and generally I find they only do so when they have very little experience with alcoholic drinks.
For someone to say "I tend to not like alcohol, but I really like "X" cocktail" makes much more sense than white-washing the likes of whiskey and wine together. To mix all booze under one umbrella makes as much sense as saying "I don't like anything with salt in it".
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Everything I've stated is true. I'm not generalizing, I'm just telling you that it's all about how the beverage is prepared for consumption. Doesn't matter whether it's a cocktail, wine, or beer, what I've said applies to all of that. Those kinds of alcohol are all different, but they all share the same underlying principle in that how well it tastes, etc all depends on how it is prepared for consumption.
