(Discounting schoolyard dares)
Someone considerably older than yow/me just walked into our local with self-diagnosed ‘man-flu’ and ordered ‘port and brandy’
Sounds loony-tunes to me. As does Guinness and black(currant). wtaf? Is this an Olde English thing? I type this through teary eyes, wiping snot from the screen whilst eating Real Jalepeno Pepper flavour crisps because I’m thoroughly modern with a Golden Ale 😏
Mauby, gah.
Port and brandy makes an excellent hip flask filling on cold days.
Baileys and Cointreau.
The first sip is heavenly.
Every subsequent sip is so sickly you wanna puke.
What the heck is ‘Mauby’? It sounds punitive, provincial and possibly fungal.
Dr. Pepper.
Our drink of choice for a night out used to be Pernod - Red Bull. Everyone was drinking vodka - red bull back then. Pernod gave it a bit more flavour.
When our local pub in Brum ran out of bitter our friend Scott was unable to order his usual Mickey Mouse. So we tried to synthesis it with the booze that was available - a 'Scotty' was Lager, Mild and Cinzano. It seemed like a perfectly good work-around for the rest of the evening.
I once tried to approximate a brandy alexander (having never drunk one) using Cognac, Milk and Nutella. It was lumpy.
I'd been given some pretty expensive cognac and didn't like it and the Nutella was a first attempt at making it palatable. After someone left some white lightening at my house after a party (which I also don't like) if found that mixing the two together resulted in something I was happy to drink.
And this doesn't count really but my college housemate used to be sent bottles of weird local spirits by his mum from her world travels. One small, ornate and extremely pungent bottle turned up in the post one Friday and even diluted with coke lots it was pretty shocking to drink and we felt like dogs the next day. A while later a post card turned up with 'Did that aftershave I sent you arrive ok?"
I used to go out with a nurse who drank Benylin and gin.
She'd switch to Labiton and Gin if she fancied something a bit 'speedier'. 🙂
Of course, I tried both.
They minged.
Gin & tonic. Totally bizarre flavour to my palette. Amazed how popular it is.
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Sam Smiths.
Oh and proper moonshine which was both vial and volatile.
I like a Baileys milkshake when it’s hot. Pint glass full of ice. Good few glugs of Baileys, top up with milk. 😀
Oh and proper moonshine which was both vial and volatile.
Same with proper illegally distilled poitín. Absolutely 😝
Monkey Brain cocktails. Vodka, lemon juice, baileys and grenadine, the baileys curdles and turns into the manky brain-looking thing that gives it the name.
I'm discounting the Carling Chicken Bone Lava Lamp, that shouldn't have ever been drunk.
Weird - not sure if this counts as weird but there was a whisky that did the rounds called Loch Dhu, from memory it might have been single distillery Mannochmore or Glenlossie, but had been aged in *very* charred casks, was a pungent dark colour and was vile. I normally will drink most whiskies but this was of the scale horrible.
Used to drink cider and blackcurrant (think it was cider) in younger days. Very sophisticated. How I survived getting served that in Glasgow I don't know.
Usual snakebite was lager & cider, from memory we'd up the game in Aberdeen by substituting Special Bew for the lager, that was an Atom Bomb (I think).
Nepalese Salt Tea. It's made in like a dolly tub plunger like thing to smooth out all the lumps in the Rancid Yak's butter which makes up the bulk of the liquid.
I got quite a taste for it actually.
Oh aye, on the same trip, I went well overboard on the local rice wine 🤮 Not much of a taste for that afterwards!
in non alcoholic terms.... at the end of an evening someone kindly offered to make tea for everyone - took the orders in terms of milks and sugars to be told 'we're out of sugar'. She then came out of the kitchen and distributed the drinks handing me a 'tea, milk one two sugars' ... 'oh, I thought we were out off sugar'. Took a sip.. no sugar as I expected. Got about halfway down the drink and strangely ran out of liquid but the cup felt half full.
Tea, milk and two spoons of couscous.
Romulan Ale in Vegas and some weird blue cocktail at the Yellow Submarine bar in Vegas, not sure which, but one of them had so much dye in it my poo turned bright blue for two days!
Gold Label barley wine and advocaat. Not at all nice.
I've had some weird, but very nice cocktails. One catapulted coco up your nose - yes part of the tast was a flinger that shot coco powder up your nose (at least I thought it was coco powder lol).
Bud Light mixed with lime, and Clamato juice. For the uninitiated, this is spiced tomato juice with added clam flavouring. I took two sips, the second to verify that the first was truly awful and I wasn’t mistaken.
Super Super.
Strongbow Super and Tenants Super, drunk directly from the freezer.
Best known cure to man flu*
* May not shorten the duration but you’re assured not to remember being ill. Also believed to allow the watching of Jeremy Kyle while I’ll to be forgotten
Malort, popular in Chicago for unknown reasons!
Bailey’s and creme de menthe - tastes like mint choc chip ice cream, but has a really pungent aftertaste*
* actually this only happens when you vomit it back into the glass - if you don’t do that, it’s palatable
Ah yes Jepsens Malort, my friends wife is from there, so I have a bottle, in revenge for giving them Korean Soju.
The Soju was nastier, malort is just bitter, and mixes ok with red bull it turns out.
Fernet Stock is the nastiest bitters I've tried, but the ultimate vile drink (imho) is...
..Korean Ginseng "Wine". I say wine as it's 40%abv, and if anyone has ever played football or rugby on a really muddy pitch, you know the taste when you hit the floor and get a mouthful of watery muddy turf, yeah it tastes just like that, only massively alocoholic to boot.
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I've never really drunk shorts but I did have a short spell of drinking Pisang Ambon which is a violent green coloured banana liqueur which certainly used to get the job done .
just googled it and it seems like it's still about . https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=pisang+ambon&adgrpid=53451788095&gclid=CjwKCAjw1_PqBRBIEiwA71rmtZq0xIudOkqY8qtQpsP
I used to like a pint of mixed, do they still do that in the west midlands?
Usual snakebite was lager & cider, from memory we’d up the game in Aberdeen by substituting Special Bew for the lager, that was an Atom Bomb (I think).
Used to have snake bite and black made with special brew, K Cider or some such with a double vodka "depth charge" in a shot glass dropped in the bottom.
Ah, also Becharovka, however you spell it. Basically a Slovakian Jaagermeister. It’s rank, unless you chill it within and inch of freezing.
I once made the mistake of drinking a lavender beer. I kept on thinking it might get better as I got used to it. No.
I have drunk Guinness and black, Cointreau and Irn Bru, Snakebites of various forms and an ex used to drink cider and Babycham. Pisco sours ( chilean tequila type stuff) and quite a few vile local spirits in various places
Fernet Branca is one of the few I can't drink. I shared a house with an Irish guy who had some poitin and it was good , properly strong but smooth and not nasty. Anything with Bailey's in can FRO as well
Fermented horse milk. Home-brewed, slightly alcoholic, fizzy milk popular with nomadic folks in Kyrgyzstan. It's as grim as it sounds.
Forgot the "mini guinness" Black sambuca with a bailies float in a shot glass. Actually rather nice. a now dead friend of mines party drink. At her wake we did 6 bottles of black Sambuca
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Fermented horse milk. Home-brewed, slightly alcoholic, fizzy milk popular with nomadic folks in Kyrgyzstan. It’s as grim as it sounds.
Ditto, but in Mongolia the distilled stuff takes all the "flavour" and concentrated it.
We drank all the milks when we were there - cow, yak, sheep, goat, horse, reindeer - all fresh and warm, didn't have a solid bowel movement until I got home!!
Absynth.
Couple of those on top of a pretty messed up session certainly made time stand still.
Local moonshine in Darbello’s restaurant in Courchevel. Served from a bottle containing either a dead frog or viper. If you time it right (or wrong depending on your view) you get the contents of the frog coming out it’s mouth.
Lao Lao
When youre out in the sticks in Laos, they offer you this rice whisky. It tastes like hiroshima in a glass,you feel this heat radiating through your body instantly
Also you might feel that the other people drinking out of the same glass before had some issues, and have to run to the bog for a couple of days or weeks until you can get some antibiotics
Stick to BeerLao, its wonderful
Vietnamese whisky at 9am in a hill town in the middle of fing nowhere after an all night train ride in 3rd class.
I think it’d be a better chain cleaner than a drink....🤪
We used to drink a mix of a white Russian and some sort of cherry cocktail, which resulted in what could only be described as pink cottage cheese. You didn't drink many, but it was the only memorable mix we tried that actually got ordered more than once.
I had a hop brewed cider in canada recently. Not unpleasant, but kinc of the flavours of a light ale and cider appley at the same time. Most odd.
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Purple Aftershock: red and blue Aftershock mixed together.
Also had Moonshine in Laos. It was cheaper than water so we bought that, obvs.
Once watched amtch at netherdale while drinking ouzo in polystyrene cups.
We had to drink it quick as it kept eating through the cups. Given that the pair of us were organic chemists I have no idea why we didn't think it was a bad idea
Piss
Round a friends house (who I've kindly forgiven and am going biking with tomo) there was a can of Dr Pepper on the window sill, I grabbed it took a swig. Spat it out as it tasted weird, he's now gasping for breath laughing saying he pissed in it last night as he didn't want to go to the toilet all of 5m away.
Proper drinks probably cashew nut juice or some strange brands of Guaraná flavoured soft drink.
Poiteen that had run through old rubber tubing during distillation. The great taste of cheap bike tyres in every sip.
Having run a couple of bars ,the nights where you drink the strange stuff behind the bar no one drinks spring to mind
Galliano, frangelico, advocaat etc. Some really bad tasting stuff which seemed to be in every bar you ever went to. Aperol Spritz was by far the worst though. bolk!
Has to be the Ester Rantzen. I’d wanted to try one ever since Richie and Eddie released the recipe on Bottom. Pernod, Ouzo, Marmalade & Salt. A round of these precipitated one of the weirdest nights ever, kicking off a long lock-in at Keith Floyd’s old pub in Devon. Try one and you’ll find out why it is so named.
In The Gambia they have a non-alcoholic drink called Malta. Comes in s bottle, like a craft beer.
Quite dark with a very malty taste.
Most tourists who try it hate it but I couldn’t get enough of it. 🙂
Remembered another - the green algae. Take a blue lagoon and add fresh orange juice for a murky green liquid.
My mates granddads home made strawberry vodka.
Before we started drining that I was busy reminding people I'd never spewed due to alcohol. I managed straight projectile into a bin on the dance floor after that 🙁
Mauby:
and has been known to cause an initial laxative reaction unexpected to many first-time drinkers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauby
In the early drinking days when money was a bit tight..
Raki + Newcastle Brown
In The Gambia they have a non-alcoholic drink called Malta. Comes in s bottle, like a craft beer.
Quite dark with a very malty taste.
Most tourists who try it hate it but I couldn’t get enough of it.
Guinness make this in Nigeria. It's sold as a health drink. It's okay if you can't get any of the excellent Nigerian beers to drink, for example up in one of the Sharia states.
Coke and britvic orange used to raise some eyebrows when I ordered it and even more so when it arrived because it's basically a muddy brown colour. My attention seeking early teen years...
Shampoo.
Of 'normal' drinks, it's probably kombucha. Like the idea of it but can't get over the 'out of date tinned fruit' fizzy tang of it.
Irn Bru, rank.
Ayahuasca in Colombia 2001, tripped my balls off.
Mushroom tea , Bristol 1998-2001 tripped my balls off
Pickelbacks in NY circa 2012. Shot of whiskey chased with pickle brine. Actually quite nice to not trip my balls off
Bailey's, after shock and pernod. I literally rank it ran to the toilet and projectile vomited!
Sang thip in Thailand. The proper stuff back.in the 90's. I went to the toilet and my girlfriend* found me a couple of hours later wandering around the huts we were staying naked. No idea what I'd been up too!!
*bless her she's now my wife!!
Avocado juice in Sri Lanka was advertised in every cafe but never seemed to be in season. The wood apple juice was good though. In Vietnam I enjoyed the coffee with an egg in.
But the grimmest thing I've heard of was a mate, late night drinking with a friend and they decided to make a hot toddy with the last of the whisky. Hot water, whisky and sugar. Unfortunately, they mistook a bag of salt for the sugar...
Blended frog smoothie in Peru. They make it all in front of you including adding the whole frog.
Wasn’t as bad as you think but I wouldn’t rush to get another.
Irn Bru,
Ah...the exotic taste of the East.
Unicum*
No, not that...it's a Hungarian alcoholic drink and it truly weird, horrible and unlike anything else.
Don't drink it!
Ayahuasca, also in Peru but it wasn't served in a bar 😉 it tasted a bit rank to say the least.
the weirdest drink I've been served in a bar was a pint of this
^^^Strangely enough I was about to post berliner weisse and schuss which looks a lot like that.
Very odd.
Ah…the exotic taste of the East.
Exactly, better wi Auchinlecks finest, Curries rid kola. Moray cup is the fitlikers equivalent, a complete mystery how they get so much sugar into one glass cheque. 😉
I only found out after the event: brandy with a turtle's egg in it (in El Salvador)
British Columbia.
Lager and Clamato. Had a weird name, but I cannot remember.
Clamato = tomato juice with clams.
Properly rank.
I was in a shared workshop facility once and during a tea break a guy was was complaining the someone was using resin outside of dedicated resin booth that was fitted with extraction. Whoever it was was creating resin fumes that were a hazard to all the rest of us.
We were vaguely aware of there being a resin aroma but nothing to get animated about but he was convinced the place stank of it.
He then took a few more gulps of tea before discovering a couple of inches of uncatalysed polyester in the bottom of his mug.
my non alcoholic mythical drink that no one seems to remember at all was chocolate pop/fizzy juice. bought form Woolworths sometime in the 80's.
The texture of coke, the taste of chocolate milk.
Lovewookie just failed the Voight-Kampff test.
I actually quite enjoyed the kumiz / fermented horse milk stuff in Kyrgzstan! tasted a bit like a bizarre mix of scrumpy and milk. No bowel issues either. Laolao on the other hand..... vile napalm all to often with weird ass mushrooms or bugs floating in it!
Power shandy (half and half Stella and Smirnoff Ice) is a rough, but almost normal tasting drink with an amazing power to kill braincells, but the weirdest stuff I have drunk has to be the white rum that my mother brought back from Grenada.
Brewed and distilled on the beach and bottled in whatever glass they could find and sterilise, it had a very odd, fruity, yet chemical taste that, for some reason, could never be masked no matter what mixer you used. No blindness that I remember, but terrible hangovers.
Measure for measure, it was worse than the random Hungarian shots that I was given in Balaton in June. They were really bad.
Cheese wine.
Tried it at a food festival once, and haven't seen or heard of it anywhere since. If I remember rightly, it's made by fermenting whey. It was served chilled and looked and tasted a bit like white wine, albeit with a distinctly cheesy edge. Drunk on its own it was odd at best. However, if you had it with a nice bit of cheese (which they were handing out at the stall) it was actually pretty damn good.
In another instance, I was heading back to a mate's flat with pals at 5 am on New Year's Day, having just left the Optimo Hogmany party. We concocted an ambitious plan to make Irish coffee when we got in. Upon arrival, it transpired that she had neither coffee nor whisky. However, she did have teabags and a bottle of Jack Daniels, and so Tennesse Tea was born.
It was every bit as good as it sounds.
weird ass mushrooms
*giggles*
Oh yes, Zwack Unicum from Hungary - weird!
The Nigerians have a drink called a Chapman, which is Fanta with bitters and is actually not bad especially if loaded up with bits of fruit. But now the breweries have jumped in with manufactured versions like Orijin, which is a 6% alcohol fruit cocktail with bitters that tastes like medicine. Ugh.
Wit blitz with a mampani worm in it
Just waiting for Old Gregg to post ...
I've seen a chap projectile vomit at a party when trying to consume a pint of cider and milk.
When delivering the Manchester Evening News to a working mens club in the late 80s, I walked up to the bar to hand the paper over and there was an old gentleman putting a raw egg into a pint of mild.....
in the virtual world there's Pißwasser on Grand Theft Auto.
I've drunk some of the Delboy drinks on Only Fools and Horses, Malibu and Cherryade, Tia Maria and Lucozade.
Kvass- a traditional fermented Slavic beverage commonly made from rye bread, which is known in many Central and Eastern European and Asian countries as "black bread". It really is like drinking fizzy bread.
Unicum. Unbelievably rank.
Tatratea - Slovak herbal spirits.
Oooft.
