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swjam

anyone can recommend sparkling sweet wine that is strong enough to knock me out? i find most of them are light alcohol-wise. I'm not really a wine connosseur (sorry for the spelling) and i don't like the bitter taste. from time to time when doing development early evenings my brain couldn't stop working and is still in sixth gear even when i alreadu want to sleep.

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martin_hughes

DenClancy wrote:

sparkling sweet wine that is strong enough to knock me out

Can't be done. Unless you fortify it yourself with vodka.

swjam

never like vodka much, leaves me with a bad headache the morning after... wine gives me a good night's sleep

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Chris Losinger

wine rarely breaks 15%. and i doubt it can even be called "wine" if it breaks 18 or 20%. if you want high alcohol, sweet, and bubbly, try a vodka, juice & soda. orange and cranberry juices work well here. or gin, juice & soda. or gin & tonic. or gin & vermouth (=martini).

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Sebastian Schneider

Well, try some "Alcopop" or whatever they are called now. Or schnapps, which shouldn't give you a headache. However, if you cannot calm down, even if you want to, and this is a regular thing with you, you will damage your health in the long run, because alcohol is toxic. You should try valerian essence or something similar first. If tend to get wound up sometimes, and if I don't get to vent myself, bad things may happen. I then usually sit in my car, drive into nowhere and insult a few trees. Or abuse my punching bag.

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Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

I believe a shot or two of everclear may induce alcohol posioning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everclear_(alcohol)[^]

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mincefish

Perhaps Port? That's stronger than wine (~20%), and it's pretty sweet. It's not sparkling, but I'm sure you could run it through a SodaStream :-D

Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

You might want to try a spritzer with a fortified wine instead of regular wine which from what I know, rarely goes over 15% Back in college, I used to down Vodka Currant & 7-Up like mad. Sweet like candy and smooth like silk once you get the portions right.

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Dalek Dave

A rich fruity full bodied red, chianti for example, a bottle and a half should send you to sleep nicely, but keep water by the bed for the morning! :-D

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Jim Crafton

Wouldn't one of the "drowsy" teas, like chamomile, work better? I'd personally be a bit nervous about relying on alcohol to help me fall asleep.

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Dirk Higbee

The closest you are going to get is Champagne. You'll sleep like a baby.

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MrPlankton

Vodka, 50%, Passion Fruit juice 50% at the end of the day before bed, then yelling and screaming kids and crashing servers are but a distant memory. Not wine, but effective.

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

In like perfume, out like sewage as the saying goes. I will always end up with a whopping titanic headache if I ever have more than 2 flutes.

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El Corazon

Dalek Dave wrote:

a bottle and a half should send you to sleep nicely, but keep water by the bed for the morning!

I started that way... the wine made me drousy, but eventually the tollerance was high enough that two bottles wouldn't cut it and I had to move on to stronger things. I settled on black label whiskey eventually... but when three pints of that isn't doing the trick, it's time to forget the alcohol. :-D

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

Chamomile makes you drowsy? really? I'm a big one for herbal teas, but never knew that chamomile can make you sleepy. But I'll tell you, when I used to drink alcohol more often, I used to be less tense. Much less. I'm not saying its a good habit, just remembering days when I was more mellow.

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El Corazon

Jim Crafton wrote:

Wouldn't one of the "drowsy" teas, like chamomile, work better?

Valerian Root tea[^] is better. chamomile never seemed to help me. Of course there is the slight problem that valerian root is a poison in high dosages... but then so is coke and we drink it, right? :laugh:

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El Corazon

Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

Chamomile makes you drowsy?

some people, it never did for me. but there are still other teas that do. If one doesn't work, you find one that does.

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

I was thinking that. Chamomile never really did it for me. My favs are Sage when I've got an upset stomach or acid and a mixed flower bud tea that's awesome for relaxation. There is also this plant named "Melissa[^]" that is a magic cure for headaches. I'll see if I can get Valerian root locally. What else do you enjoy of the herbal teas?

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PTJA

I think any wine can do that. The question is: how much you need :-)

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Robert Surtees

Mad Dog 20/20 or some Night Train mixed with a little club soda for the sparkle. Or go the pro route with a bottle of NyQuil to give you some of them NyQuil Blues...