Ow my liver

Soda water with vodka and a homeopathic amount of fruity flavoring

I keep seeing people make fun of it online but that sounds like something I’d enjoy. My drink of choice for a few years now has been the depressing combination of whatever carbonated water is available with whatever better-than-rotgut-but-only-just vodka is available.
Rotgut-tier is also fine in a pinch. But the bad stuff here will make you blind.
(I’m also a fan of “give me your sweetest, fruitiest, girliest drink”, which was great fun back in uni when all the dudes around me were ordering bitter beverages they clearly didn’t enjoy. By trying to project masculinity to the girls around us, they were actually betraying an underlying insecurity about it - and by ordering my girly drink I was gently lampshading that idea. Fun times.)
- They're delightful. I personally prefer whiskey and when I want carbonated alcohol I tend towards a beer or a bourbon spritzer (or it's wine sibling), but they're easy and refreshing.
  And yeah, as a chick who likes neat bourbon, it's amusing seeing men who are clearly uncomfortable with the fact that they don't like stuff like it. Like dude, just order what you like
- If you’re drinking for a buzz, then that’s the best way. All the calories you’re getting are only from alcohol. If you drink other cocktails or beer/wine, you’re drinking a lot of sugar, which adds up over time.
  Source: my beer gut because I love the taste of craft beer
- I really enjoy a white claw or the various similar brands. I don't know what it is but if I drink a lot of those I have a "lighter" feeling of drunk. It feels nice, and I never get hungover from these drinks. I'm sure it's possible of course
- But those sweet drinks caused more hangovers I feel
Bet he was full of pep when he got to work.
Sounds good -- my go-to drink at my local is a vodka and soda with a lime wedge. (Occasionally will get a vodka and tonic with a twist if I'm feeling daring.)
- No hate, its just a drink for me. Other people enjoying it doesnt hurt me
Vodka seltzer

A can of carbonated water with a shot of vodka in it.

Just as much flavour as a typical flavoured carbonated water too

Just to clarify at least original White Claw gets its alcohol from fermented sugar. It’s basically a gluten free clear beer with no hops and fruit flavor added.
High Noon and anything labeled Vodka soda use actual distilled spirit. Those are more expensive and taste better, especially after a few.
- It actually says "beer" in small print on the can since it is according to the legal/regulatory definition.
- Depends on the state, no? Many states will tax distilled spirits higher than just fermented beverages, even if the end product is essentially just a 5% 12oz can.
  We need these laws to change, imo.
  
  it does not depend on the state, white claw does not have vodka in it. high noon does.
  
  I mean the price difference, because tax. The product will be the same but could be different prices depending on state liquor laws.
It's honestly really refreshing during summer to drink vodka + carbonated water. If it's really hot (or I'm super full of food) I don't want much taste and carbonated water does a good job of hiding away the vodka taste.
It's a common drink in Finland, Koskenkorva vodka and vichy (water)
- Summer drink is a Gin and Tonic.
  Nothing is better after mowing the lawn than a shot of Pin-Sol with lime.
  
  GT is great
- Sounds like the water provides the freshness and the alcohol is around only to get you drunk. Just order carbonated water.
  Why order vodka if you don't like the taste? If the goal is get drunk, just choose a drink that you find pleasant.
  
  The alcohol is there to relax me.
  Why order vodka if you don't like the taste
  It's cheap and does the trick. And it can be pleasant, ice cold or in say carbonated water/vichy. Maybe it's a cultural difference but just seems amusing to explain this.
  
  idk where the other guy is from but your take is the norm here in america, also sitting here mildly perplexed at this requiring explanation… maybe OP isn’t a drinker?
  
  a drink that you find pleasant
  404 tasty alcohol not found
  
  It's a matter of taste but out of hard liquor not flavored after I think brandy can be genuinely tasty. Ice cold good vodka can be refreshing. Sauna and ice cold vodka is worth trying out
- Vodka sodas aren't a global thing?
  
  I would think they are but they're not familiar to everyone (actually just had to explain the drink in another reply hah)

An energy drink

Found the husband!

Basically flavoured water with alcohol.

And bubbles

White claw is a drink that comes in vaguely energy-drink looking cans, tastes bad (if it has any flavor at all), and has a slight alcohol content.

In fairness, my opinion of flavor should be taken with a grain of salt (lol) because I really dislike the taste of alcohol and am honestly surprised anyone could drink even a low percentage without recognizing ethanol’s horrible flavor.

Huh, you may be surprised to hear, but I actually LIKE the taste of ethanol in many drinks.
- Ethanol is also grest for extracting flavours from various fruits and herbs.
- Another thing that is relevant to my opinions on this topic: I don’t get drunk.
  My watch confirms that my heart rate and breathing are affected, but apart from the burn going down (and a headache if I drink more than a few shots), I feel no other effects. So unlike most people I don’t have the same source of positive associations with the taste.
  That being said, from a strictly flavor perspective, Jin isn’t horrible. Juniper is one of the few flavors that doesn’t clash with ethanol as much as others. Grapefruit also fits with the taste of alcohol pretty well, but apart from those… I think I’d rather a capri sun than a cocktail lol
  
  I wonder if you and I are similar. I wouldn't say I don't get drunk; if I drink enough I get all of the non-fun things like being unsteady on my feet, and I wouldn't be safe to drive. On the other hand, I don't get any of the fun things people talk about like being more relaxed, getting uninhibited, whatever a "buzz" is, etc.
  
  If I drink a lot I’ll also get slightly dizzy and like feel like my vision is slightly delayed, but I’m still able to keep my balance and focus. I’ll also sometimes get sick to my stomach, but food helps with that.
  But yeah I don’t get any positive effects either. No buzz, no happiness, no reduced inhibitions.
  Also turns out you and I aren’t the only people like this. Everytime I bring it up on lemmy some other person seems to comment that they feel the same.
  Do other drugs like weed or stimulants not work too? and are you ADHD?
  
  I never really did much in the way of drugs. When I was a kid I was given morphine in the hospital, and that made me hallucinate like crazy. When dentists used to use Novocaine, they always had to give me twice as much as they normally would. I only tried pot once, (well, twice, a day or two apart) about a dozen years ago, and I didn't notice any effect.
  To my knowledge I'm not ADHD, though I'm not sure how I'd know if I was.
  How about you?
  
  Ditto to the dentists and the weed. And I’ve not done any opiates that I can remember but my cousin, who is similar to me, said morphine did nothing for his broken leg but make him feel sick to his stomach so he just wouldn’t take it.
  I am ADHD. Methylphenidate (Ritalin) helped my focus but made me like physically anxious and sick to my stomach, amphetamine (adderall) typically feels like nothing though it helps with executive dysfunction and sometimes I feel cold or sleepy.
  The reason I asked is because some of the others who shared my sentiment about alcohol mentioned the same thing about weed and painkillers and had ADHD. Some of them also mentioned having red hair, but I don’t really fit that category.
  Not feeling the “high” of drugs does sound like it would be related to adhd since it would imply abnormalities in reward pathways in the brain, and from what I can tell, the weed and painkiller issues seem more like dysfunctional opioid receptors. Then again I’m not a doctor lol
  
  That's all pretty interesting. I seem to have very little in the way of susceptibility to addiction, though sugar in general (and chocolate specifically) would be a big exception.
  I'm not super knowledgeable about ADHD, and because one thing I do know is that it happens on a spectrum, I suppose it's possible.
  Not redheaded.
  
  Ha chocolate is the only thing I’d say I’m addicted to too lol. I have to force myself to take a supposedly addictive drug every morning, but the only thing I’d rather not go a day without is chocolate lol
  And yeah it’s a pretty broad spectrum. I’m a super quiet, reserved person in public, not really the type of person most think of when someone says ADHD.
  I didn’t get diagnosed until a year or two ago when I noticed that after drinking an energy drink I got all the tasks done I’d been putting off for months and was able to take a nap during the day lol
  
  I was eating truly obscene amounts of chocolate for a while there. I still eat more than most people, but not so extreme.
  When you got diagnosed, was it an "ah hah" moment?
5% ABV, might be slight in Poland
- Some people I know call anything 5% or below “removed beers” because it’s a slight amount of alcohol.
I think part of that might be genetic, similar to how cilantro tastes like soap to some people.

"Hard seltzer." fruit scented fizz water with a little booze in it, marketed mainly to women.

with a little booze in it
I've never heard of this drink before, but I've looked it up and it's 5% ABV. That's not "a little" booze; that's the same as a premium beer.
- I find it interesting to hear 5% ABV beer being described as "premium". Here (Canada) it's basically the standard for every macrobrew lager, or around 4% for their light varieties. More high-end, craft beers will vary between 3% and 10% depending on the type of beer.
  
  It's just old fashioned terminology. 4% was the strength of a standard bitter or lager, round about 5% a premium bitter or lager.
  The UK doesn't use the term "light beer", so you can probably just think of it as being the equivalent to that distinction.
  Obviously there are some wildly strong craft beers out there these days, but the lingo still is what it is.
  
  And confusingly in Australia 'Light' beer is low alcohol (~3.5%) and in the USA 'Light' is low-flavour. I think many australians have been caught off gaurd by going to the US and drinking bud light thinking 'these soda-water beers really go to your head'
  
  Maybe Europe? US mostly you have domestic big box shit that is 5 and 4.2% for light, then like an insane amount of IPAs that are 6-7.5% range.
- But... That IS a little booze.
  A lot of booze would be like 10% or more for a canned beverage because that would be unexpected.