As for brandy, I always felt it was a drink for eighty year old men in three piece suits and thick, white moustaches and perhaps a monocle, who are withdrawing to the billiard room to enjoy cigars with similar old men.
I resemble that remark.
A snort of it after a big dinner on a cold night is pure heaven.

(My choice of drink DURING a meal is Dewar's... nothing like it with a good steak).