Alcohol Slang/Types - Georgia, USA

[being_lola_star]

I'm looking for slang and brands of alcohol that would be common in the Southern US (is that the right term?) mainly Georgia. As a rural Canadian, I don't feel that my personal slang would be anywhere near close to what they characters would be using

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[desertcreature]

Wild Irish Rose, Night Train, Cisco are all crappy, cheap wines that you can find around here. Lots of women around here tend to drink white zinfandel and moscatos have gotten popular lately, but that might be a bit more upscale depending on your characters.

As for beer, you can still find folks drinking PBR, Budweiser, Coors, Old Milwaukee's Best. Mickey's Fine Malt Liquor (which my husband lovingly tells me is not at all fine), Mad Dog, Old English are some more malt liquor type drinks that you'd find in an alcoholic's fridge.

And you'd get your malt liquor in a 'forty' aka 'a Foty' depending on your proximity to the ATL.

Honestly, listen to some Georgia-based rap music or old country as well. It might give you some more ideas.

Cheers!

-Lane

[goose_entity]

PBR is more the preserve of hipsters these days. Redneck alcoholics would look down on any beer which is not Bud/Miller/Coors/malt liquor as "snob beer" or "a girl's drink".

(disclaimer - based on my experience in Alabama)

[being_lola_star]

Even as someone who almost completely doesn't drink, even I know not to touch PBR, haha! Glad that I can use most of my standbys. I was trying to think of beers and kept thinking about Molson, which really would have been off. I can always get a pack/case of "Bud" though and be good.

[goose_entity]

glad to help. And Molson would be rejected as "foreign", even though Molson owns Coors :)

[enveri]

Bartles and James would be a popular wine cooler. They likely also would drink Mike's hard lemonade.

For spirits, they'll drink Crown Royal or Jack Daniels.

Carlo Rossi is one of the inexpensive 'Wine in big honking jug', but whites are more popular than reds among the southern redneck crowd.

Men will most likely stick to beer and spirits, women will drink wine coolers and wine. The beerlist provided above (Bud, Miller, MGD, Coors) is pretty accurate. If they want to appear 'sophisticated', they may drink Fosters.

(I grew up in the south)

[mmegaera]

Although it is Bartles and Jaymes, not James. This is for the OP, if s/he wants to get the spelling right, is all.

And don't ask me why I knew that...

[being_lola_star]

And now I've got the strong urge to add that little tidbit into the story some how. Redneck spelling lessons anyone?

As for the rest, as long as I stick to the bigger more common stuff here I should probably be good. I never know what's exclusively Canadian and what we're borrowing from the US. Thanks!

[kisamehada]

Boones Farm is a popular wine down here...you can get it at grocery stores and it comes in a ton of flavors. Also for wine coolers the Jack Daniels ones are pretty popular. And as I think has already been said, Budweiser seems to be the beer of choice.

[being_lola_star]

Your icon is TERRIFYING! Weeping Angels give me nightmares *shivers*

I don't know if I could mention Boones Farm other than a joke. Makes me think too much of Looking For Alaska. Guess I should have just stuck with my gut and went with Jack and Bud.

[frenchroast]

I live in Georgia, and so far all the suggestions everyone's given are spot on. The only things I can think of that have been left out are Schmirnoff Ice for a wine cooler-type drink. Boone's farm is super cheap and popular, but more with college students/people drinking underage than adults. Box-wine (Franzia's the brand) is also a possibility if you want something more wine-like, since it is wine, and is super popular in more redneck circles

[being_lola_star]

Love the slang in this. That's exactly what I needed. I've been worried my small town Canada up bringing was going to start showing the moment I started talking about booze.

You guys actually have entire dry counties? I'm weirdly fascinated by this. We get the odd town or two but that's about it. Luckily I really don't need to know anything about buying the stuff. Post-Event apocalypse stories are so much fun for getting around legal loop holes.

I'm snickering a little at the gift wrapping. Sounds like something my own ex-uncle would think of.

PS. Logan icon makes me smile.

[frenchroast]

Oh yeah, a bunch of southern states have dry counties, though there are fewer and fewer totally dry counties. I'm lucky in that I've never lived in one, and most people seem to think they're stupid, seeing as you just have to cross county lines to go buy it. Pretty much every time it comes up to a vote whether to stay dry or not, counties vote to allow alcohol.

[goose_entity]

Alabama is an example. There's still a load of dry counties, but wet municipalities within dry counties, so the counties are "damp".