My alcoholic tastes vary with the seasons and the moment. Most of the time, I am a beer snob that will only drink local microbrewries with the occassional one-step-above-bottom-of-the-barrel wine. I never spend more than $20 on a bottle of wine, and do not know much about wine. With liquor, I only like to drink vodka tonics. Hard liquor just makes me feel terrible and I do not even enjoy sipping on a good bourbon or scotch. Just not my thing.
Then I go on these streaks for a month when all I want is 1.5L bottles of cheap wine and passable cheap lagers like Rolling Rock and Olympia while I lounge around the house for a day or so. Doing chores with a few beers in you makes it so much better.