I think... yes,
here it is. Apparently it was in 2020 (in the drunk thread) that I mentioned my "try a random bottom-shelf liquor and see what happens" experiment. My budget has gone up a bit since then, so every once in a while I try something a little more expensive, as long as it's (supposedly, based on online reviews) not too harsh.
Re: mixers (or not), I usually try a new liquor neat first, just to see what it's like. I've mostly discovered good drinks via the "in my bar" feature at
Webtender (though anyone can add whatever they want, so... there's that), and occasionally from having liquor [A], mixer [B], and an utter lack of fucks to give (or work the next day). [Arbitrary liquor] with [arbitrary dark soda] usually works well for me, and then I add whatever I have that might be good from there. (I actually learned that at a party a long time ago that featured an abundance of alcohol and about three mixers.)
Oh, and a splash of water. People who
really know what they're doing say so.
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Completely unrelated thing that seems good-ish for me but we'll see: A coworker in a different department tested positive for COVID, so everyone in my area at work had to go get tested this morning (and then keep working). We had to scan a QR code at the front door and fill out an online form before we could go in, which was... interesting for some coworkers. The results should be in tomorrow, but I'm impatient/mildly paranoid so I bought a rapid at-home test kit on my way home. It seems I've tested negative. I'm not sure about the relative accuracy of the tests, though. EDIT: Both tests were negative.