Are you?

I like the sparkly water, too. (unsweetened)

I'm thirsty, I guess. :~

[Phoebe]

No coffee, but I do like Chai Tea.

Diet Pop (for those Yankees) is my staple

I like beer, wine, and mixed drinks. My drink over the summer was Mike's Hard Lemonade. I don't drink often though.

[Vanquisher]

Heidi, you need to try Coke Zero. It tastes just like regular coke!!! Love that stuff. Apparently, this formula is based on the Coke Classic recipe, whereas Diet Coke is based on the "New Coke"(remember that stuff? I think it was about 20 years ago - nasty!)

I tried it. Sorry, I think it is just as nasty as regular diet coke, and I think it tastes nothing like regular coke. It definitely has the yucky aftertaste that I hate. I had high hopes for it though. Diet coke with splenda is tolerable, but even that isn't good.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[SueC]

I drink coffee. Occasionally tea, but never the flavored kind.

[Tenacious_D]

I drink tea only (my parents only drank tea when I was growing up). DH is an avid coffee drinker. If he doesn't have a cup o' joe in the morning he gets really bad headaches. If I drink coffee I get lightheaded and nauseous. Though the few times I drank coffee it totally suppressed my appetite...I guess that's one way to lose weight!

[Vishenka69]

Definitely a coffee drinker, the stronger the better. I usually go through at least 2 cups a day (usually before lunch). At home I use my one-cup French press and at work I splurge for Starbucks and Pret. I like strong black tea too when I'm not looking for a caffeine rush. And the only soda I'll drink is Diet Coke, all the other ones taste too sweet.

DH is a Coke and esspresso junkie.

And we LOVE alcohol. That probably didn't sound right. But we do have two wine racks and a wine fridge and they're all full. I was telling DH the other day that at least some of my habit is being subsidized by work (I work in the industry). I guess we have a European mentality that everything is good in moderation. In my defense, I haven't staggered home since college.

[Auspicious]

I have a strong aversion to coffee (even in ice cream or brownies or whatever) but I drink a lot of tea.

I also drink Crystal Lite lemonade diluted by at least half (I think of it more as water with a little lemon and sweetner than as lemonade with extra water, if you know what I mean).

And I strongly prefer diet soda to regular. I have to restrain myself from drinking too much diet soda.

Beer and wine . . . eh. Wine is one of the few things where my experience has actually been that the more expensive it is, the better it tastes, unfortunately, so we don't do too much of that.

My husband is very into the whole microbrew thing and we never seem to buy the same kind of beer twice, but pretty much the only beer I actually like (as opposed to tolerate) is Hoegaarden.

I think all things mix well with vodka , and my go-to beverage for those situations is a vodka club soda.

Julie, I have to water down my Wylers version of Crystal Lite, otherwise its way too strong. With kids, we are used to diluted drinks LOL.

[spotty_dog]

Mmm, my morning starts with two to three mugs of black Colombian coffee. I don't get withdrawal headaches or anything if I don't have it, but I do get fuzzy brained and a bit snappish.

Sometimes I drink tea. Black, green, or herbal. Well, not so much black, the caffeine in black tea really buzzes me quickly. But I do like Plantation Mint, the spearmint/black tea stuff. That was my all-nighter staple in college (didn't hurt my tummy or buzz me as badly as coffee).

Soft drinks occasionally -- has to be diet, usually Coke products. But not caffeinated after noon.

We're aspiring beer snobs. I like a really hoppy light beer (IPAs especially) or a really chocolatey dark beer (Mocha Porter or Chocolate Stout). Omigosh, at the end of this week we'll be in the land of Terminator Stout and Hammerhead! *whoo!* Jubelale and Mirror Pond! :ra:

We also do red wine, but we're too thrifty to learn to judge the good stuff, and we've been burned often enough by the cheap stuff that we stick with our tried-n-true, Yellow Tail Shiraz.

Alison, I don't drink beer often, but I really like Mirror Pond. This week I am going to make Chocolate Stout mini-bundts for the cookie exchange (unless I change my mind). We're making a Gingerbread-Espresso cake at work but the original recipe was Gingerbread-Stout. Yum.

During the winter, it's coffee for me. During the summer, chai tea. Since moving to the South, DH has become a sweet tea junkie. The only kind of black tea I'll drink are the fruit teas made by Republic of Tea...and only if they are sweetened.

JennP, here's a quote for you:

"It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. "

--Dave Barry

[Vishenka69]

"It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. "

--Dave Barry

LOL!!! I'll have to suggest it to Starbucks as their official logo. I also think those of us who need coffee to maintain our brain activity, should get a discount or at least ability to deduct coffee expenses from FSA.

Drink what?

I am a major tea snob, my current fav's being Margaret’s Hope Darjeeling and a really nice Green Dragon Oolong. I do the whole 9 yards, the exact water temperature, brewing time, implements. I think I like it because it's a meditative break from everything. and Ahhhh the fragrance....

That being snobbishly said, I loooooove my cup of coffee, expensive, strong, with everything. (Men, coffee, whatever.....) and if it's a good one I will reheat it all day. Someone put out a Pink Ribbon Blend that was outstanding for breast cancer month. Being from Seattle, gas station coffee is sacrilege and one cone-full for me is enough for 1/2 a pot for most people. (DH uses enough for a full pot plus some, I'm trying to break him of that since it gets really expensive)

This is going to sound bad, but I really like Champaign as a casual drink. Not the expensive stuff of course. There's a brand called Christalino, which is IMHO the best cheap Champaign out there. When we both had real jobs we loved doin' the fine wine thing, but now we are doin' the box o' wine thing. We do always keep a bottle of really good single malt scotch on hand with some good VSOP brandy, medicinally of course.

I am also a Sake' drinker in cold, hot or martini form (a couple of olives and a touch of lemon). (Really, it's good!)

The DH is a micro-brew man, although he likes red wine for the daily heart benefit. He also really likes martinis but he says they hit a little to fast for more than one.

Cheers!

[DCJenn]

Pam-

I'd really like to know more about the tea ritual! I had a fab great-uncle (and aren't they the ones who are always the first to go...) who was a proud Scot. He had this tea ritual down pat and it was great to watch, and no one's tea tasted as good.

I love, love, love the tea overseas. It just tastes better. I don't know if it's the water, the tea, the love of the tea or whatever. I'd love to learn the ins and outs though. Would you be willing to post what you do in the recipes/cooking section?

Jenn