Ah Absinth. That brings back a memory or rather not. I was on tour at the time and went down with a severe virus/flu type symptoms. I was shivering and feeling generally near death before the show. One of the band decided that the only thing for me was to drink half a bottle of the stuff. Apparently I was flying on stage (I have absolutely no recognition of the evening) but when I woke up the next day I felt bright as a button. I'm pretty sure that stuff nuked all the germs in my body!
I can't even look at Cinzano without wanting to retch. It was the first drink I was so drunk and puked on as a teenager. 😡
Student Promo nights used to kill me, there's a few things I can't stand even now.
Huddersfield Poly Union, the old building in the middle of site, used to do some cracking specials about 88/89.
50p a double for Southern Comfort - can't drink it nearly 30 years later, Tuborg Gold made my hurl after a can and half - like Special Brew but worse. Dodgiest one was some cheap barrels of Belhaven Bitter they got, tasted foul going down and coming back.
Have fond memories of skipping an afternoon of lectures to spend hardly anything on a two day hangover.
Turbo diesels. Pint glass with a bottle of K and a bottle of Becks. Occasionally with black.
It was actually quite nice, if what little memory I have of it serves.
Edit:
Then we started mixing...
Turbo diesel - cider, lager, black current, double vodka. Filth.
Turbo spritzer - white wine, Smirnoff ice, shot of Malibu. Rank.
Seems we missed out on the vodka.
Hmmm Litre bottle of Blue Smirnoff and Irn Bru wasn't going to end well.
Cue a late night Edinburgh Glasgow train being redecorated with scotch broth and emergency stop handles being pulled.
How we weren't carted off by the BTP I'll never know.
The night on Orkney Skullsplitter (8.5%) didn't end well for me either...
Nothing too silly now, although I had several cans of Sixpoint Resin (9.1%) a couple of weeks ago to round off an evening in spoons, kinda buggered up most of the next day, much to my OH's annoyance.
Gone are the days of a bit of a hangover until mid morning, nowadays its a day and a half.
