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[nenjin]

Martinis, mixed drinks. Just experiment. You're bored because you only drink the same stuff. Try something you've heard of or seen in a movie, just for shits and giggles. Order a Mai Tai and then act flamboyantly gay, just to see with people

There are a couple reasons I wouldn't get hammered on red wine, but people questioning my sexuality ain't one of them. There is no more depraved drunk than a wino, it dehydrates the fuck out of you and will give you epic hang overs if you're capable of getting hung over.

[zombat]

Eym frum yerkSHIRE! Da real 'artland ov Ingleand.
Ahh but tis grim up north, specially after that twat Fatchur closed da pits

[thatkid]

I'm gonna have to jump on the pro-red wine wagon here. Since when is that girly? Red wine is the most intimidating alcoholic beverage.

People enter a room, and you slowly spin your chair to face them revealing your immaculately pressed suit and your crystal glass of red wine? That's vampire shit, right there. The ladies'll be swoonin' and the dudes will be too terrified to speak.

[Arni]

Go for Mead. What is manlier than the booze of barbarians? Taste depends on countless factors. Much variety there


Also to the Beer part. Try different brews. There are tremendous differences between them.

[Siquo]

It's an image thing.

Red wine being girly is not so much the issue. It's Tory, which can get you stabbed in certain English social circles.

Unless... you drink it from a mug/tankard. Instead of a glass. The dwarven way. Bring your own tankard, order 3 red wine, fill your own tankard with it, and growl a lot while drinking. Oh and look down on anyone drinking beer as if it's a girly drink.


And don't drink too fast

[Stargrasper]

Mead is made from honey.

Red wine is made from red wine grapes.

How is honey more manly than grapes?

Disclaimer: I've had plenty of red and white wine.  I've never had mead.  I know nothing of the taste and that would likely be the big factor here.

I still vote for the wine, though.

[GlyphGryph]

And beer is made from grass... No booze is made from something that can really be considered manly. It's all made from sugar.

Anyways, my only problem with mead is that it tastes absolutely miserable. That's enough for me to never recommend it to anyone, ever. Mind you, I also think honey tastes pretty bad too. Mead doesn't actually taste like honey, of course, it's terrible in all sorts of new ways.

[Bauglir]

Mead is made from honey.

Red wine is made from red wine grapes.

How is honey more manly than grapes?

Simple. Harvesting grapes requires hours of difficult labor under a hot sun, and huge time invested in growing your crop, requiring agriculture. This is pretty manly. Harvesting honey requires hours of difficult labor under a hot sun while being attacked by fucking bees. I'd say this is manlier still.

[Darvi]

But you have a suit that protects you from the bees. While that reduces the manliness notably, it increases the coolness factor.  Because, cool suit.

[Sergius]

Screwdriver (I think?): fill a tall glass with ice, add Vodka about 1/4th of glass, fill rest with orange juice (real squeezed one, not bottled Tampico crap). Stir a bit... delicious.

You can replace Vodka with wonderful authentic peruvian pisco (not the fake one that tastes like $#!t).

Brasilian caipirinha:
If I remember correctly, take a lime (the sour kind, not green lemons), cut it in slices,  put in glass, add some sugar, squeeze gently with a mortar (there's special wood ones for this, muddler?, alternatively just use any wooden thing, or a spoon or whatever.) Don't squeeze too hard or it will get bitter.
Add ice (somewhat crushed if you want) and Cachaça (if you can't get some, you can try Pisco or vodka, or even rum). optionally add a straw. bendy part optional.

As long as you don't add miniature umbrellas or something they can be manly. It depends on how much alcohol you add, too.

[Nadaka]

The manliest drinks come with a little pink paper umbrella.

[sgt0pimienta]

Well, here's a list of various alcohols I know of:


Cider
Gin
Scotch
Perry
Ale
Port
Vodka
Ethanol (Probably a bad idea)
Stout
Mead
Pisco
Brandy
Cognac
Lager

Ales and Laggers aren't heavier and lighter beers?




Any ideas out of them?

[Jay]

namely the high carb content (trying to cut down on the gut) and lady hormones

Hate to burst your bubble on this one, but carbohydrates are not usually the immediate problem surrounding a "larger than desired" gut.
Do you get enough exercise, eat balanced meals, etc?

Also worth noting is that it's the alcohol itself that causes your body to produce more estrogen, not that any particular form contains estrogen. And, indeed, the male body, does, in fact, produce it on its own, with or without your intervention. (bluh, comma overload).  While it is possible to skew the balance via alcohol, it generally shouldn't be an issue unless you're already in the 'red', so to speak.

Note that I'm no dietician nor doctor nor whatever, so take it for what it's worth.  A little googling + fact checking serves you well.

[zombat]

Heh, a bit of quick fact checking on your part would reveal that it is the hops in beer that causes it to have a very high oestrogen content, that and the carb content and something else causes your body to produce more belly fat. Belly fat cells incidently produce oestrogen themselves.

So you end up getting hit by a triple whammy of oestrogen from the hops, belly fat, and from the break down of alcohol.

As for the exercise I do try but I am chained a desk 8 hours a day, spend 2 hours a day travelling, AND its a stressful work environment. So no, not as much exercise as I need

[Montague]

Yep, its the phytoestrogens in hops that act as estrogen in the human body. One of the reasons why your typical middle age American male can fill out an A or B-cup. Soybeans, nuts, legumes, whole grains all have plenty of the stuff, so depending on your diet, beer might not make much of a difference.

Red wine and bourbon also have a lot of phytoestrogens, but white wine doesn't. White wine also tends to have less sulfates. A "Brutal Hammer" variant of white wine and vodka might be the healthiest choice.