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Question about Aguardiente

The other day in Bogota i was going around in a car with some Colombian friends, i was amazed by what they was doing, they were mixing aguardiente with beer and then drink it. They drinked amounts of beer mixed with aguardiente in 2 hours. Is this normal or tipical in Colombia ? also is this safe enough to do it ? I ask this becouse now that i'm back in Alaska i'm mixing Vodka with Beer.

By (Deleted user) on Feb 3, 2006, 11:24 in Friendly Talkzone.

expatriate says on Feb 3, 2006, 12:15:

Normal I've seen it on Avenida Sexta once in a while. That sounds pretty normal to me, though my Cali friends like beer, or aguardiente, instead of a mix of the two. Hopefully the driver wasn't indulging.

I guess if you drink beer and aguardiente in the same 2 hours, it all gets mixed up in the stomach anyway.

Please slow down with the vodka and beer there in Alaska. I want everyone to live a long life.

If you are young, skilled, and intelligent, you might want to seriously consider leaving the US now, while you still can.

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Tom says on Feb 3, 2006, 13:25:

mix up well many friends are telling me if you see someone who is mixing aguardiente, rum or wiskey with beer, then you are an alcohilic who wants to get drunk very fast......
I did it once and my wife kicked my ass and called me a fukn Alc.

ciao
Tom

hasta la vista

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MacGringo says on Feb 4, 2006, 03:39:

I drank like this when at someones home in Bogota. They gave me a pint glass of Club Colombia, then dropped a shot glass of Aguardiente in.......nice!

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atorres says on Feb 4, 2006, 15:46:

Common Mostly seen at colleges where kids want to get buzzed fast (or at least common 8 years ago, I don't know if they still do it today, in my time there was no legal age for drinking or smoking). If you have good tolerance for vodka I wouldn't worry about it. Just be careful when mixing up hard liquor with beer because it gets you drunker way faster. We girls stayed away from it after seeing how guys got drunk after 3 pints of that mixture.

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