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After about five years of always ordering whiskey and coke when I go out and always drinking it at parties, it suddenly occurred to me: I can make it at home. It's not complicated! You just pour! It's exactly as easy as filling orange soda with vodka, which was my previous drinking-at-home choice of beverage. And I can use lovely fancy colas, made with cane sugar and extracts of substances I understand (well, mostly; I'm not completely clear on what "speedwell" is).

Plus I got to make a field trip to the giant liquor store--not the really, really giant liquor store, which is downtown, but a very large outpost. So that was good times. Did everyone else already know that whiskey and bourbon is insanely expensive? I mean, if you want the stuff that comes in glass bottles and doesn't make the cashier look at you like she knows full well you're not in college anymore and you should be ashamed. At least I never drink it straight, so I could immediately dismiss the really classy small-batch stuff. Mixing that with soda would be a waste of fifty dollars. (FIFTY DOLLARS. Daaaaang.)

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My husband, who has a liquor cabinet so extensive that it is LIKE going to a very large outpost, says you ought to be able to get some good bourbon for around $20. If you're not going for bourbon, yeah, whisky you actually want to put in your cola can be quite pricy.

Bourbons he recs in the sub-$20 range are Evan Williams and Four Roses. I've had Four Roses in mixed drinks and quite like it.

Oh, I mean, I got some perfectly fine stuff for under $20, considering I'm drinking it with 3-5 parts coke, but the high end was REALLY HIGH. I guess it was because I had this image of these new small-batch classy bourbons as somehow more...for people like me? Hipsters? Not something that old guys give to each other as business gifts? I forgot that hipsters mostly have shitloads of money now.

Speedwell is a genus of plants with small, pretty blue flowers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_%28plant%29

(It just sounds like slang for a drug.)