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[Carlos del Vaca]

One of the very most college-drinkest drinks I know of is gin mixed with Mountain Dew.  It almost kind of works. 

The official non-beer drink at our fraternity house was the "hobag," which was gin and lemonade.  Usually Country Time instant-powdered stuff, with actual lemon wedges dumped in for CLASS.

It tasked like furniture polish.

[littlefallsmets]

Cheap vodka and Hawaiian Punch is basically my memory of college.

Mr. Boston's Vodka in a plastic jug and Hawaiian Punch from the one time the vending machine just kept taking the same quarter over and over and our floor empted the thing out and stocked up.

[melack]

My freshman year in college was basically just shots of cheap vodka (Monarch, usually) with something from the vending machine to chase it. Powerade, most of the time.

Oh, college...

[theinevitable]

here we normally go for the classic Vodka and Cranberry Juice. With too much vodka, of course.

also: I enjoyed visiting my girlfriend's dad's house. it is in an area of St Louis which is apparently predominantly Irish (or at least, historically so) and it was the day after St Patrick's day.
THE STREET SMELLED LIKE BEER. the windows of the car were open, and the smell of beer was quite strong. as we drove by. not particularly slowly.

[littlefallsmets]

Perhaps it is because I grew up in a small town that basically WAS Circumstances but... you've never smelled a street that smelled of beer before? During the summer, Main Street pretty much always reeked of beer. It was as inescapable as the rural poverty toward which it was clearly associated.

[theinevitable]

no. I have not smelled that.

probably streets in Charlotte have smelled like that, but... until I could drive (ie, less than 2 years ago) I never really left the little area of suburb where my house is.
also, part of why it was so surprising is that when we drove down it, we didn't see a single person. It was an empty beer-smelling street.

[littlefallsmets]

If an empty street smells of beer for one or two days, that is the smell of Revelry.

If an empty street smells of beer for weeks, that is the smell of Despair.

We have now established the difference between revelry and despair.

[theinevitable]

yeah. Charlotte is a lot of things, but it is not a town where there is much Despair.

PS the guys on my floor made green beer. And... put in too much dye. And kept adding more beer to try to dilute it, but it did not dilute. It stayed SO GREEN.
at least, that is what I have heard. I was not back in St Louis yet when this happened.

[Nabubrush]

here we normally go for the classic Vodka and Cranberry Juice. With too much vodka, of course.

also: I enjoyed visiting my girlfriend's dad's house. it is in an area of St Louis which is apparently predominantly Irish (or at least, historically so) and it was the day after St Patrick's day.
THE STREET SMELLED LIKE BEER. the windows of the car were open, and the smell of beer was quite strong. as we drove by. not particularly slowly.

Wow! Yeah, that's never happened to me. Of course, I gre up in AK, so everyone drank stuff with a little more gusto. Or maybe they just didn't spill.

[Turbo Ninja]

One of the very most college-drinkest drinks I know of is gin mixed with Mountain Dew.  It almost kind of works. 

It DEFINITELY works if you use Code Red Mountain Dew and call it a "Fast Gin Fizz."

[Nabubrush]

It DEFINITELY works if you use Code Red Mountain Dew and call it a "Fast Gin Fizz."

Very nice - worth a can - I will never drink that swill.

[Bimmicus]

Why is it that beer is the most delicious thing on earth until it spills, which transforms it instantly into the most rank, piss-vile liquid? That's always been a mystery to me.

[linnea]

Why is it that beer is the most delicious thing on earth until it spills, which transforms it instantly into the most rank, piss-vile liquid? That's always been a mystery to me.

My uncle and aunt lived in New Orleans briefly during the mid 1990s. She hated it, my uncle didn't mind it so much. She said that the city permanently stank of beer and puke. I've never been there, myself.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Why is it that beer is the most delicious thing on earth until it spills, which transforms it instantly into the most rank, piss-vile liquid? That's always been a mystery to me.

As a guy who works for a brewer, I can tell you that skunking is the result of oxygen and light interacting with the hops in the beer. There are alpha acids in the hops that give beer its hoppy/bitter taste. When the alpha acids are exposed to light and air, they become other compounds (some of these compounds contain sulfur) that do not smell or taste good at all.
Modern brewers sometimes use fake hops to prevent this. SABMiller is known for this because where they brew, they are not actually required to include real hops.

[theinevitable]

my friend Kate LB is from New Orleans. She is wonderful, and has made me want to go visit there.