"Most appropriate alcohol/drinks for each period" Topic

Do people feel certain drinks are most appropriate, and do they follow this practice, for each period?

For example, wine and port for Napoleonics. Whiskey and Gin for the Old West. Cigarettes if gaming WW2.

Iced tea for the Cold War?

Hmm

Mead for medieval and dark age
Napoleon brandy or pussers rum for Napoleonic
Rum also for WWI
Wine for Romans
Beer pretyy much anytime, iirc from Ancient Egypt
Vodka whenever Russia is involved

Basically, whoever brings a Russian army to the table should have a bottle of vodka in their army case? Sounds about right.

Am T-Total so its diluted orange juice when I'm painting and plain water when the guys are around.

Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster when doing Sci-Fi perhaps but only if you have your towel with you.

Whisky for the Jacobites in 1715, 1745 and for Scots troops everywhere, whiskey for the fighting Irish (perpetually and internationally, as well as internally), and sour American imitations until ye first encounter the real Uisge Beatha.

Anyone wanna fight about it? Eh? Who you lookin' at?

Vodka martini, shaken not stirred, for Pulp gaming and "spy vs spy vs spy"

Jim

How could y'all miss 'moonshine' for CSA in the ACW !?!?

And 'homebrew' for Yankees from New England,
'stumphole' for the Midwesterners (same as 'moonshine,'
but a bit rougher in the production process) and 'forty-
rod' for Westerners. This latter was a concoction of
various items, including coal oil, wood alcohol,
red pepper, snake heads and similar things, so-called
because it could kill at a distance of 40-rods.

Pennsylvania, NJ and Maryland troops contented
themselves with either apple cider (processed to
increase the alcohol content) or a more potent 'home
brew'.

Brandy for War of the Spanish Succession.

Watered down wine and vinegar for Roman in Ancient

Ale for medieval games and mead for Dark Ages

Wine for Renaisance games

Claret in elegant glasses for SYW (except for the Scots – whisky and for the Russians – vodka, regardless of period)

Vin ordinaire and beer for the Napoleonic Wars

As noted, moonshine for the Rebs and homebrew for the Yankees

Gin for RN wardrooms for Colonial to Modern.

Rum strictly for Ratings, replaced by Beer during a Labour austerity government. Wilson I think and subject of a very amusing Giles cartoon.

We do occasionally have special drinks & food for some unique games. Generally though we drink craft beer, wine, rye or rum as the spirits move us without respect to the game being played.

Sudan – water

Same for the FFL in the North African desert.

Jim

We generally T-total whilst playing, except for special occasions, like my gangsters raid the still game when real NC shine was served. Very potent. After the game, good beer flows freely!

Hmm, since we are playing as Commanders in Chief, I think anything goes!

Russian troops in old time would havecmore chance of Kvas. But don't think your guys would get wnashed by it.

Ffl : Kronenbourg beer.

There's a naughty doggerel for WWII naval in the Mediterranean.

The French, they like their wine.
The British, they drink rum.
The Americans are partial to whiskey,
The Italians mostly stick to port.

Cognac and vin rouge for Napoleonics and later
Pastis or Ricard for FPW onward
Ba Muoi Ba for Vietnam either French or American wars
ARRACK for Algeria and Middle East

Gin for British forever( apologies to the Scots and Irish)

From moonshine, refined jet fuel and hot beer, whatever you could find for the US.

And jcfrog..Kronenbourg beer is the best beer I have ever had!

Sorry this isn't inclusive and not PC.

Are we talking for the soldiers or the officers?

Nyet, comrade.

Vodka for the Soviets/Russians.

Rum for any period of British Royal Naval gaming, through the Cold War. Tea, for the Ultra-Modern period, since I hear the rum rations have been dropped after the Cold War's end.

Whiskey for 'Mericans.

Bier (beer) or wine for the Medieval period, depending upon sides.

Wine for the Romans, I suspect.

Grain vodka for Russians
Potato vodka for Poles
Barley vodka for Finns
Stoli for broke college students

I hand out those little Bacardi Rum bottles at all my Spanish – American War games at Cons ! Will be handing out Cognac for my FFL game but no Goats Milk !

Red Bull for Viking berserkers

@Kropotkin303
Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster when doing Sci-Fi perhaps but only if you have your towel with you.

Gotta second this one, we need a good long post discussing the alleged sanity or Douglas Adams and some of his more pithy quotes re….
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as bad move."
and…a fav of mine
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

That last one kinda smacks of the ole Dunning Kruger Effect dontcha think?

For our big Camerone 150th Anniversary game back on April 30th 2013, we all shared French Bordeaux and Mexican Tequila.

Sorry, I forgot kao liang for anyone playing with
Chinese troops…makes a good lighter fluid, too.

beer for every period.

Remember, no matter how bad things get…

there's always beer..

Russians didn't always drink vodka.
Now in the early days, they had, or made, KVASS!
(quick-brewed toasted bread and sugar and lemon beer-like beverage. Actually not too bad!)

"Kvass; black, thick, and it makes you drunk" – Russia
"Never Whisky without water; and never water without Whisky" – Scotland
("The Wine, the Wine, the lov'ly lov'ly Wine,
Costs ye hauf the money, gets ye drunk in hauf the time" -Glasgow)

New Holland Dragon's Milk (American Imperial Style Stout, 11% ABV) for all theaters of war unless yer not into beer then it must be Makers Mark bourbon… unless yer a Yank in Canada then it should be Alberta Rye Dark Batch… oh and in Norway, then it has to be Aquaveit… but if you really think Europe is the center of the universe then your bier must be Paulaner Salvator Doppel Bock! Man, am I thirsty.

You've done a lot of research….

[_]D

My games are set in the past but I drink in the present: Spaten Premium Lager is the house beer but occasionally a craft IPA such as a Stone, Deschutes or Harpoon when I can find it. There is also a nice local IPA from Karbach named Hopadillo.