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It's been ages since I had a brandy and Babycham.
Hirondelle, Cherry B, ordinary and best bitter, Mackeson, Gold Label, cream soda
White lighting... your eyesight comes back quite quickly.
Barley Wine... did the job
Ace Lager ... it was never ace
A lemmy... which consisted of a can of special brew from which you took a good slurp and topped it back up with vodka... three of those and lights out.
Many mates Father's homebrew in the 1970s
Woodpecker cider drink of choice for a 15yr old me, I guess it was the sweetness which made it drinkable at the time!
Jack Daniel's threw up on that 30yrs ago still can't even smell it without heaving!
Worst was 50/50 Malibu and Fosters couldn't walk after that!
thinking about it... Stella
we are lucky now to always have a good choice of beer in bars (I appreciate I'm spoiled for choice in Manchester) and it doesn't seem to be half as popular as it used to be. I would probably only go for it as a least worst option nowadays
Five alive
Sunny d
Hooch
Malibu
K cider
Smirnoff ice
Redbull vodka
Can you age me from my drink progression 😂
Beer, god damn IBS. All other alcohol is lesser in my view.
Metz
Red Square
WKD
Vodka
Foster/Carlsberg/pish lager
Too numerous for a comprehensive list. However, I sacked Special Brew & Gold Label barley wine when the prices went up at the same time the ABV went down.
Heavy - 70/-, 80/-, Tartan Special etc
Beer in Scottish pubs used to be pretty terrible in the '90s.
V2 or Metz (Pint glass, bottle of V2, vodka and redbull, maybe topped up with a splash of Smirnoff ice)
Super Snakebite
Tenants 9% larger and 8% K cider and black currant or cassis if you were feeling a bit extra.
2 pints of that and you weren't remembering much of the night at all. You wouldn't want to drink much more of it! I had to stop drinking it after being told I'd done some things which were quite out of character and I had zero memory of. Dangerous stuff.
I love mental level alcohol...
I shouldn't but i do...
None of this creeping up on you alcohol..
Drink one drink and you get that instainious hit...
Southern Comfort 😖
Courage Best
Worthington E
Ushers Best
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.
Clearly not looking hard enough! Actually you don’t have to look that hard, Morrisons beer selection has a great range of perfectly drinkable beers that aren’t any of the above.
My regular drinking establishment has mostly Ramsbury Brewery beers, their Flint Knapper and Milk Stout are excellent.
https://ramsburyestates.co.uk/our-beers/
They also do their own gin, as well. ‘Paint stripper’ IPA’s have gone out of fashion, thankfully, and I don’t know of any overly sweet stouts. Five Points Station Porter is outstanding, and there’s a few others I’ve tried which have chocolatey hints, with a slight bitterness, like a good dark chocolate.
There’s over 1600 breweries in the U.K., each producing a range of beers to suit most people, I’m sure there must be something out there.
Oh, how about Purple Moose Brewery’s ’Dark Side Of The Moose’?, or Tiny Rebel’s ‘Cwtch’? Both are very, very tasty, in both cases rather encouraged me to keep going back for more…
Probably mentioned
Hofmeister
Skol
Watneys Red
Double Diamond
Tuborg
Creme De Menthe!
Also Krug Champagne, but only because I'm now the other side of the world from my Aunt who used to buy it.
Krug - could drink that 24/7.
Green Chartreuse - anyone?
Kia-ora
Um-bongo
Dr pepper after discovering Aldi's own alternative, its zero sugar but actually really nice.
I've been teetotal for well over a decade so I do miss southern comfort, bacardi, remy martin and I once had an interesting night on harvey wallbangers and pina coladas when a pub I'd never been in before was having some weird theme night.
Breaker
As a student the only mental arithmetic I ever had to do was to calculate relative merits of four packs of different can sizes and strengths against cost - an assessment we referred to as 'Miles per Gallon'
If there wasn't anything out of date or marked 'for duty free sale only' (and for some reason doused in perfume) in the local offy then Breaker usually could usually be relied upon to give the best fuel economy.
Lift Lemon Tea - for people who liked their tea in powder form. I wonder if you can still buy it. Never really drank any but my mum had a thing for it for a while.
Does anyone put lemon in tea anymore? I was watching an old movie recently where someone offered the option of lemon or milk in a tea they were making and I'd completely forgotten about that being a thing. Tempted to try in now.
Mad Dog 20/20
Clan Dew
Capri-Sun for the win
Has anybody tried Sunny D as an adult? If you thought it tasted bad as a kid...
- that's almost all alcoholic beverages, except maybe a glass of good wine once a month or so
- soda drinks
- instant coffee
pernod and black
Very bad experience in teenage years, never again.