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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 Like the idea of it but can't get over the 'out of date tinned fruit' fizzy tang of it.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.
Used to enjoy a Guiness and Tia Maria on occasion.
My local sells a peach scrumpy which looks funky as and only two guys drink it. Degenerates.
Lovewookie just failed the Voight-Kampff test.
wouldn't be a surprise.
Pisco sours. Smell a bit like shampoo. Look a bit like shampoo but taste really good. Got a bottle of pisco and the recipe around here somewhere
As a teenager I once woke up in an MRI scanner after drinking Snake Bites made from Special Brew and Strongbow Super topped up with vodka and sherry. Not my proudest moment.
More recently I lost 6 hours of a night out in NYC after drinking a bacon martini which was so vile I still retch thinking about it. I expected a martini with a bit of crispy bacon in it, what I got was vodka and bacon grease.
Horses milk in Mongolia. Still warm from the horse.
It felt impolite to refuse
Krunk, just a couple of tins to see what all the fuss wa about.
Jeez , spannered in 15mins .and the hangover , my god.
1980s sixth form drink of choice was the Purple Nasty - a pint of snakebite plus Pernod and Black. If you were doing it properly (and could afford it) you added a scotch to the mixture.
The great thing was, when you woke up in the morning you would be just as piss ed ad the night before.
Ahh, to be 17 again.
Some friends from Lanarkshire introduced me to Buckfast and Milk - definatey an acquired taste.
Growing up in the 'shire, we used to mix Buckfast with lager and call it "Bugger".
There was also a super-cheap lager you could pick up in Gateway called Breaker, which we mixed with Buckfast to make *drumroll* "Breakfast".
Sadly I have drunk way to many of the drinks listed but the thing that most shops sell and I don't understand why anyone would choose to drink is Supermalt