Beverage of choice as regards stress-relief drinking:

[dgswaim]

I was wondering which adult beverages all you applicants out there prefer as a personal prescription for stress management (for those of you who partake in the use of intoxicating beverages, that is).

 

I find that when I'm at a medium level of stress, I go for craft beers. When it gets to be really bad, I go straight for the overproofed bourbons. 

[SelfHatingPhilosopher]

Milk.

[Edit_Undo]

Absinthe!

[davidipse]

Spiced rum in tea or whiskey on ice. 

[Table]

I know you said adult beverages but I really like the Celestial Seasonings tension tamer tea. I'm not a herbal cure person but I find the smell and taste really soothing.

[Cottagecheeseman]

Good (not Jack or Jim) Bourbon, Spiced Rum, Gin, some craft beer.

[greencoloredpencil]

I was wondering which adult beverages all you applicants out there prefer as a personal prescription for stress management (for those of you who partake in the use of intoxicating beverages, that is).

 

I find that when I'm at a medium level of stress, I go for craft beers. When it gets to be really bad, I go straight for the overproofed bourbons. 

 

I'm just going to ignore the little part I made bold and say grape juice. I have quite a thing for grape juice. 

[frege-bombs]

Craft beer and scotch. 

Edited February 12, 2014 by frege-bombs

[DHumeDominates]

I fry bagels in vodka and top them off with hot sauce.

[bar_scene_gambler]

I fry bagels in vodka and top them off with hot sauce.

That sounds delightfully disgusting, if such a description could ever be appropriate.

As for me, I have a weakness for ouzo. Don't know why, but I can't drink enough of the stuff. That, whisky, or vodka. Oh! and Baijiu (Chinese rice liquor). Basically anything that'll knock me on my ass in three seconds flat.

[wildc4t]

PBR

[ianfaircloud]

I own a hand-crank coffee grinder that was purchased in Germany by one of the world's leading Kant scholars.  I use this grinder to make delicious (fair trade, of course) coffee.  And for me, nothing satisfies like coffee.  My life is probably five or ten percent better because of coffee.  Sometimes I worry about my future, and then I remind myself that coffee is a part of my future.  And then those worries fly away.  Like right now, for instance.  In this world of uncertainty, one thing is certain.  On April 16, I may have no good offers of admission. I may have wasted years of my life and tens of thousands of dollars on this quixotic pursuit of ideals in Massachusetts.  But this I will have: I will have my coffee.

[dgswaim]

I own a hand-crank coffee grinder that was purchased in Germany by one of the world's leading Kant scholars.  I use this grinder to make delicious (fair trade, of course) coffee.  And for me, nothing satisfies like coffee.  My life is probably five or ten percent better because of coffee.  Sometimes I worry about my future, and then I remind myself that coffee is a part of my future.  And then those worries fly away.  Like right now, for instance.  In this world of uncertainty, one thing is certain.  On April 16, I may have no good offers of admission. I may have wasted years of my life and tens of thousands of dollars on this quixotic pursuit of ideals in Massachusetts.  But this I will have: I will have my coffee.

Fair Trade... does the grinder, based on its origins, feel obliged to the categorical imperative? 

[ianfaircloud]

Fair Trade... does the grinder, based on its origins, feel obliged to the categorical imperative? 

 

Well I must admit that I often treat the grinder as merely a means.

[dgswaim]

Well I must admit that I often treat the grinder as merely a means.H

Ha!

[TheVineyard]

Easy. The tears of my enemies.

[dgswaim]

Easy. The tears of my enemies.

"Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the women."

[humean_skeptic]

"Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the women."

 

Saul Kripke? 

[shelbyelisha]

Red, red wine.

[gingin6789]

Just ... coffee.

 

It's a hug in a mug.

[zblaesi]

Good beer.

[Structural_Realist]

Coffee; it motivates me to do things.

[Kierkegaardashian]

Dirt-cheap coffee all day til about eight thirty, when I bust out the scotch or bourbon to "help me relax."

[stressedout]

Coffee; it motivates me to do things.

 

It motivates my bowels to do things.

[33andathirdRPM]

Water.