Looking to cut back on the calories in your cocktail by mixing, say, diet soda and rum? Well, get ready for the buzz.
According to the results of a new study, this combination will leave you drunker than if you’d mixed the liquor with a sugary, caloric mixer.
That’s assuming you’re some candy-ass lightweight that needs a mixer to begin with. I take my bourbon neat.
Not me….I like mine supercharged with “the zero”…it’s like PED’s for professional drinkers!!!
Sometimes I drink bourbon neat, but usually I make Manhattans or Old Fashioneds. Occasionally a Whiskey Sour (fresh-squeezed lemon juice, of course). These days instead of a straight Whiskey Sour we have a version that my wife invented then we later found was already a drink called the Bourbon Renewal:
2 oz. bourbon
1 oz. lemon juice
1/2 oz. creme de cassis
1/2 oz. simple syrup
1 dash Angostura bitters
They’re awesome.
I know this from experience. But I cut out diet soda a long time ago so now I mix with water. Just to take the edge off.
Diet soda does a lot of odd things to one’s metabolism.