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Inspired by "Meals you no longer eat." I'm currently sat drinking a thoroughly mediocre beer and it occurred to me I've not even seen Tetley cask since I left uni.
So, my starter for ten is cranberry Bacardi breezer. It was my go to in clubs and bars at uni when invariably the only beer they had was Crap Lager (TM) and spirits were either dusty bottles of premium(ish) with a two figure tag a measure or really only drinkable with mixers.
Budweiser. Why the hell did I drink that it’s awful.
Tomato juice.
Used to be addicted as a kid. Not on my radar now.
Quatro
Mad Dog 20/20
Cider that came in 2L bottles for some incredibly cheap price
Tenents lager.
WKD
Two Dogs
Top Deck
Panda Shandy (with Badger beer)
Quatro
Tab clear
Ward’s Best Bitter
This could go forever
Newcastle Brown. I used to drink it all the time when it was 50p a bottle at the university bar. Not touched it for 35 years probably.
Without wishing to sound like Alan Partridge, a decent pint of Best Bitter. The choice now seems to be sweet golden ales, paint stripper IPAs or stouts that taste like a Gummi bear has shagged one of the Lindt Easter bunnies.
snakebite
Snakebite and black... though that was the alcopop of the 80s. Don't think I've had one of them since I turned 18.
Thunderbird fortified wine. Drank a bit too much in the park at 12 years old (🙄). Ended up in hospital, after having my stomach pumped. Tried a small glass many years later, and my body hastily rejected it.
Also, snakebite. Not hospitalised by it, but very few memories of most of the nights out drinking it.
I drink much, much less nowadays!
Panda Shandy
Someone mentioned Safeway bon the supermarket thread, my over riding memory of Safeway is them refusing to sell my mother the Panda Shandy I'd added to the trolley 😂
Yeah snakebite and black was 1.30 a pint in the student's Union despite the lager or cider both being more expensive.
Without wishing to sound like Alan Partridge, a decent pint of Best Bitter
I'm a stout and porter drinker through and though but I do like a good pint of best, fortunately my village pub sells Tim Taylor's boltmaker which isn't half bad and my local ish brewery does a very drinkable best
Alcoholic ones.
Used to drink a fair bit of lilt too, not so much these days.
Tizer
Used to drink a fair bit of lilt too, not so much these days.
Lilt and lambs navy, I wonder if that's as drinkable as I remember?
Beer
Wine
Whiskey
🙁
Southern Comfort.
Apple juice after a teenage misadventure with an older woman and 6 litres of strongbow. That was over 25 years ago, still can't stomach the smell.
Stones bitter
That was over 25 years ago, still can’t stomach the smell.
Hadn't she washed?
^^ I shouldn't laugh but I did
It's Tennents
@dyna-ti you trumpet. Theres nothing wrong with a pint of this, only a matter of time before the middle class melts start waxing lyrical about it and leaving the the hippy IPA behind.
Meths...it's been at least two weeks now...
Many things.
Stuff I used to drink a lot in the past but haven't had for many years (for a variety of reasons)...
Vodka.
Rum.
Stout.
Tea.
(caffeinated) Coffee.
Cola.
Most lagers.
Cider.
These days I mostly stick to...
Water.
Lemonade.
Tonic water.
IPA style beers.
Wheat beer.
The occasional whisky.
Decaff coffee.
Honey and lemon.
Anything BrewDog. Used to treat myself to a locker full in the motorhome when travelling, now realised that I was taken in with the hype. Now discovered beers in tins (weight considerations) from Aldi and Lidl, brewed in Scotland and brilliant!
Tenents lager.
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It’s Tennents
@dyna-ti you trumpet. Theres nothing wrong with a pint of this,
I blame my really old keyboard. 🙂 and as to being nothing wrong with a pint of it, id agree. 6 pints when you're 15, i'd disagree 😆
Guinness - used to be one of my default drinks for years. Can't remember the last time I had a pint of the black stuff.
Mild - used to drink loads of Mild when I lived up North, sometimes as Mixed (half bitter half mild), but it must be over 30 years since I've had a sip of it. Does it still exist?
alcohol since 2004
Caffreys. As sold in mud-90s underage pub of choice, The Criterion in Bournemouth.
Cremola foam.
My gran used to give it to us a treat late 80s early 90s. Got a reproduction tin a couple of years ago, holy sweet mother of god it was rank. Also never thought at the time but because it used bicarb to get the fizz it's actually has a fair bit of sodium in it. So like treating your kid to an ultra sweet, salty, beta carotine laced sludge.
Lowenbrau on draught. Used to be everywhere Dandelion and burdock.
Corona soft drinks delivered to the house once a week.
Carling Premier.
Instant coffee
Horlicks (seem to have grown a distaste for malt)
Real Ales (see above)
A bitter shandy: 50% bitter, 50% ginger beer. This sounds weird but is a very refreshing drink!
Banks Mild Ale, 98p a pint in The Swan
Corona soft drinks delivered to the house once a week.
You must be posh, we used to have Council Pop
Smirnoff ice
Hooch
Vodka red bull,(used to be ten shots of vodka and two cans of red bull in a jug for a tenner in our local)
Carling
Southern comfort
Iron bru
Tizer
Red stripe
Mild and vimto.
Black & Tans (a working mans cocktail: 1/2 pint heavy and a bottle of stout)
X0 shillings (X is 7 or 8 iirc). And Mcewens in general.
Tequila (you think I’m a dick now? You should see me after some tequila 😳).
Instant coffee.
Pepsi anything. Not that I drink much of any kind of cola.
Ah Cremola foam. Like birds angels delight, a taste of the 70’s.
Leffe
Nothing wrong with it but there are so many nicer beers out there and so little time
Hofmeister. 12 cans for a fiver at University. My younger self prized quantity over quality.
Newcastle Brown Ale swore I would never drink another bottle after closing the Brewery in the toon.
Agreed Budweiser is rank my go to bottle in my twenties (god only knows why)
Pernod, god how I cannot stand the stuff after getting drunk some 30 years ago on it.
Skol Super when I was a student. Why?!? WHY!??!!?!
"Just one more...." stopped that when kids came along, sticking to my limits definitely a wise choice
Forgot to add, MrsMC once slept through a Shamen set at Glastonbury on the front row. She also starts heaving at the smell of Southern Comfort. The two may be related....
Kool-Aid: pure chemically goodness
V8 Juice: so, so good!
Guinness: I just can’t get interested in stouts anymore