first alcohol purchase

[Anonymous No.12896521]

bought this in secret. how badly did i screw up guys?

family and friends say drinking at home alone is really tacky and that im going to become a spiraling, unhinged alcoholic.

i feel like its cool & fun to have a shot once a month to celebrate something?? also it tastes good???

[Anonymous No.12896553]

>>12896521
>drinking alone is tacky
This is a boomer cope for wasting money on overpriced bar drinks. There are people who spend a quarter of their yearly income drinking at a bar in their hometown and think because they are surrounded by strangers it isn’t sad.

[Anonymous No.12896568]

>>12896521
>ow badly did i screw up guys?
It's literally the most intensely flavorful sherried scotch there is, and one of the best scotches under $100. You didn't screw up at all. You chose a fine scotch.
Drink no more than a shot at a time, and not from a shot glass. Drink it neat, at room temperature, take TINY sips, roll it around your tongue and savor that shit.

[Anonymous No.12896579]

>>12896521
I'd recommend a glencairn to get the most out of it.

[Anonymous No.12896582]

>>12896521
>drinking at home alone
Fucking based brother, no DUI risks, save the good booze for yourself, order a pizza or something and just chill. Don't listen to the insecure asshats who insist that you have to drink with other people, that's horseshit

[Anonymous No.12896591]

Sounds like you're insecure about your own thoughts, considering you're writing question marks after them.

Could have been wise to buy something cheap to compare it to, but perhaps you've already done that.

Don't worry so much about what others think, but do heed the general advice and consider that they may simply want the best for you.

[Anonymous No.12896596]

>>12896521
>>12896568
Also, it's cask strength. It's going to burn. That's unavoidable at that ABV. It may be a little too much for you to handle if you aren't used to drinking spirits neat.
If it's too much for you to handle, shelve it for a while. Keep it upright in a dark, cool place. It shouldn't change flavor if you keep it out of light and heat. Try some other scotches out and work your way up from 40% to 50% and so on until you can appreciate the A'bunadh.
Don't you fucking dare add water to the A'bunadh. I don't care what anyone else says on the internet. You'll be diluting it and ruining the intensity of the flavors. Don't be a bitch.

[Anonymous No.12896601]

>>12896521

>family and friends say drinking at home alone is really tacky and that im going to become a spiraling, unhinged alcoholic

A significant fraction of the population does this. Probably north of 40%.

[Anonymous No.12896606]

>>12896601
> become a spiraling, unhinged alcoholic
sounds bad desu

[Anonymous No.12896609]

i mean it's fine, but why did you buy this specifically for a first purchase? looks expensive.

do you even like it?

[Anonymous No.12896622]

>>12896609
i bought it bc the flavor profile is basically my ideal, oranges, dried fruit, wood & chocolate, really nice burn. i tried a shot of it before i bought the whole bottle and yeah it really is pretty great imo

[Anonymous No.12896630]

>>12896622
>i tried a shot of it
Please tell me you didn't shoot it.

[Anonymous No.12896636]

>>12896630
no actually i took it as a suppository

[Anonymous No.12896637]

>>12896622
Ok, well that's good that you like it then.

As far as drinking alone goes it's fine if you're not drinking for the purpose of getting drunk.

[Anonymous No.12896647]

>>12896553
this anon gets it
there is absolutely nothing wrong with drinking alone, it's even better if you have a dimly-lit "study" or personal library/home office where you can be alone and sip your scotch. i'm not talking about a "man cave". i'm just talking about space to be alone. could be your living room apartment. LEBENSRAUM

[Anonymous No.12896662]

this is now al/ck/ thread

[Anonymous No.12896666]

>>12896521
Always refer to George Thorogood when deciding to drink alone.

[Anonymous No.12896673]

>>12896521
You fucked up. It's good but you won't appreciate it. Start with something cheaper.

[Anonymous No.12896679]

>>12896666
Worthy quads

[Anonymous No.12896691]

>>12896521
If your looking to really get into whiskey The Whiskey Vault youtube channel is a great resource.

[Anonymous No.12896794]

>>12896521
Not bad. Drinking alone isn't a big deal. Honestly I find it way harder to overdrink while alone than it is with friends, I was a much bigger alcoholic back when I was social. Cost fucking way more too. Now I just have a home bar and enjoy a drink or two every couple of days and drink red wine or beer with dinner. Liquor should be treated as an indulgence as it has no nutritional value, red wine and to a lesser extent beer, in moderation, are healthy additions to a diet.

>>12896636
He means that whiskey is not a shot sort of drink unless you're doing kid stuff like fireball. Whiskey should be enjoyed either very slightly chilled or at room temperature in a highball glass, it's more of a sipping drink. I recommend Buffalo Trace for a good entry level bourbon, never been a scotch guy myself but BT is very smooth and easy for new drinkers and it's also great for mixing. Honestly all I drink is bourbon and Italian liqueurs anymore.

[Anonymous No.12897119]

its shit.

congrats on blowing a blue bill on 3 year old sugar water because you wanted to pretend to be a big boy

[Anonymous No.12897128]

>>12896521
Secret alcoholism is best alcoholism. It's like a fun game to see how long you can go before your family realizes you are completely broken.

[Anonymous No.12897208]

>>12896521
>shotting cask strength whisky
enjoy never being able to enjoy whisky again

[Anonymous No.12897213]

>>12896521
>drink alone
>get hospitalized for suicidal thoughts
>lose my guns

[Anonymous No.12897373]

>>12896521
>drinking alone is tacky

Personally I prefer it, I dont enjoy social situations even with booze; i just wanna have fun and play vidya with friends. That being said its easy to lose control especially when tolerance build sup if you're a heavy drinker (like me). If you enjoy what you bought and dont abuse it to your own detriment then fuck what others say and just enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.12897386]

>>12897373
The big thing is that you can be totally drunk off your ass and not even notice it until you try to stand up.

[Anonymous No.12897411]

>>12897386
I know. Its when you wake up and find grazes or wounds and not know how they got there that you start to realise its a problem.

[Anonymous No.12897416]

>>12897411
One time I saw that my bottle of bleach didn't have its cap on. Did I drink it? I'm still not sure. My throat didn't burn and I'm still alive, so I don't know why I took the cap off.

[Anonymous No.12897435]

omg this tastes very good, unfortunately i dont have any glassware so im unironically drinking it out of my s()ylent scoop like a numale dumbass

i wish there was something that tasted exactly like this except without the aspects of it making you drunk and of it being liquid carcinogenic poison

>>12897208
i sip the shot idiota

>>12897386
really scared of this happening, will probably only do it super infrequently

drinking sucks

[Anonymous No.12897438]

>>12897416
>its all fun and games until your dead

[Anonymous No.12897439]

omg this tastes very good, unfortunately i dont have any glassware so im unironically drinking it out of my s()ylent scoop like a numale dumbass

i wish there was something that tasted exactly like this except without the aspects of it making you drunk and of it being liquid carcinogenic poison

>>12897208
i sip the shot idiota

>>12897386
really scared of this happening, will probably only drink like one dram every 2 months so it never happens

drinking sucks

[Anonymous No.12897443]

>>12897416
One time I woke up to find I had taken all my potted plants out of the pots and washed their roots with soap in the kitchen sink.
Although I think there were also benzos involved that time.

[Anonymous No.12897449]

>>12896521
Damm, zoomers have it good. My first alcohol purchase was Johnny Walker black label and I thought I was being fancy as fuck.
>>12896553
This is my coworker, he makes over $100k a year and every pay period he's like "oh, we get paid today don't we!" thanks to his bar habits.

Imagine being an adult with a job and actually being conscious of what day of the week you get paid.

Bars are for retards.

[Anonymous No.12897453]

>>12897439
It has the correct serving size for whisky engraved on it though.

[Anonymous No.12897457]

>>12897449
I put most of my pay into a higher interest savings account and try to live off what I have left until my next payday. I am very conscious of when payday is coming, and am wealthier than many people who get paid more than me.

[Anonymous No.12897471]

>>12897457
It's good to have an emergency fund, but at some point when that's built out, you should find out if there's a tax sheltered savings plan at your workplace (assuming you live in libertarian burgerland and not a country with an actual social safety net system that does this kind of thing automatically). Otherwise you're paying taxes prematurely and not capitalizing on those gains

[Anonymous No.12897487]

>>12896596
>He doesn't add a single drop of distilled water to his fine cask strength spirits halfway through sipping
Fucking faggot, lol

[Anonymous No.12897598]

>>12896521
Help bros, I can only appreciate the A'bunadh if I dump 2-3 teaspoons on water into the dram, otherwise it just smells like a crossover of bourbon and Irish whiskey (batch 58). Am I doing it wrong?

[Anonymous No.12897657]

>>12896521
>They're sharing a drink they call loneliness
>but its better than drinking alone

[Anonymous No.12898262]

>>12897598
>>12897487
You should go to a doctor and have your testosterone levels checked out.