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Guinness and blackcurrant as mentioned in the OP is actually quite drinkable.
The weirdest I ever had was half a pint of Guinness topped up with a bottle of barley wine and a vodka in it. My cousin proposed the mix and we both had one.
I was about 19, it took an age to drink it (on top of what I'd drunk previously) and it made me very sleepy.
Wallop, you beat me to it with Unicum. Absolutely. Vile.
As youths, we used to drink “green nasties” in the Olde Vaults in Chester. Half lager, half bitter and some spirit or liqueur to make it green. A must do at last orders.
Mali-bru. Malibu and irn-bru. Not as bad as you’d think. But can’t even contemplate irn-bru anymore after a night mixing it with v cheap vodka.
And to finish a night, rampagne. Everyone’s favourite mix of red wine and champagne. You’ll probably be drunk before you get to the rampagne stage of the evening. Always a sign of a most convivial evening!
Some friends from Lanarkshire introduced me to Buckfast and Milk – definatey an acquired taste.
In Possil you get ‘hairspray and milk’ : spray a can of hairspray into a glass of milk - drink it - then run around the streets naked brandishing a samurai sword. You won’t remember any of that until you read all about it in The Digger
Two mentions of barley wine. What the hell is that stuff? remember buying a bottle when a teen and swigging that shit then going gak. ‘Gold Label’ it was. If memory serves then it’s like if someone served you beer but forgot to dilute it first. Like a beer equivalent of undiluted cordial? Tiny bottle, but still not mercifully so. Bleurghk.
Weirder than a full pint of coconut-flavoured piss* that I had to drink the morning after I’d filled a pint glass with wee because I couldn't drunkenly navigate stairs or climb over all the bodies to get to the bog and the bedroom window was painted shut. I ate a whole pack of Polo Mints on the bus home but coconutpisstaste was tenacious.
*All had eaten all day was a coconut, all had drank was beer and vodka.
Gin & tonic. Totally bizarre flavour to my palette. Amazed how popular it is.
Or just Gin or tonic water by themselves. One is basically distilled essence of Grandma and the other is water from a Sodastream. Can’t fathom how anyone would choose to drink them alone let alone combined.
I think the strangest thing I’ve drunk is my sons milk when he was a baby. Allergic to milk protein and had to have stuff on prescription. I can’t recall the name of the first stuff we were preach, but he wouldn’t drink it. I tried it and it tasted like raw potato, fish oil and sadness. Whoever came up with it clearly either detested babies or had no sense of taste.
kalimotxo
Red wine and coke. Party fuel of the Basque. Perfect for partying until dawn.
barley wine. What the hell is that stuff?
I think it is beer that’s the strength of wine. In the olden days it was served in pubs from the ironically named cold shelf. Very unpleasant.
I’ve seen it in a few craft breweries where it is served cold. Still my taste, but far less revolting than a warm Gold Label. I do chuckle to myself when folk start to wax lyrical about what I’ve always thought of as a drink for tramps. That said, I once enjoyed a few pints of imperial Pilsner. I didn’t realize what I was drinking until I tried to get up and leave the bar. It’s basically super strength lager from craft brewers.
I love the names Super Super and Bugger.
Red Bull.
Seriously. You're supposed to drink that shit? 😲
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!!
Guess it's a sad state of affairs that this just reminds me of a VHS video I rented in Blockbusters.
Lemon mead bought at a Spanish market. Quite honestly, I thought it was actually Fairy Liquid. Did not drink more than one glass.
Pints of something called the terminator in the Skiving Scholar in Plymouth, god knows what were in them, I vaguely remember a spicy aftertaste, followed by several blank hours, then waking up with a half eaten Jakes.
Desperados but was desperate for a drink
Smelt like weed & dog poo at same time
Never again
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
Yup. It smelt of meths. It's amazing that I can still see. Tea with yak butter floating on top is less than pleasant.
Bulletproof coffee is worth a mention. Started a thread on here about it, then tried it.
First sip, eugh! Decided I could probably get through it, took a 2nd. Stared at it for a while...nope! In the sink!
True SUPER MALT IS SUPERBLY RANK!
Tried it in rehab (contraband even supermalt) and it got binned briefly after two swiggs
Alcoholic strawberry milkshake - weird getting pissed on something that made me really want a burger
Other than that, a self devised (with mates) Black Hole - So dark, not even light can escape it. Double Jack Daniels, fill half of the remainder of the glass with coke, top with Buckfast. It actually wasn't half bad, but my mate had two and woke during the night and turned my freezer off with no recollection of what he did.
Not particularly weird but after dinner at my friend's dad's house he produced some of his home distilled spirits. Most of them were in bottles but one was in a stone jar on top of which he laid a teaspoon to drink it off. Felt properly illicit and turned out to be about 80% alcohol.
But from personal experience, mixing fresh orange with Baileys many years ago, tested ok iirc but looked very weird.
Mug of tea with a shot of HP sauce..............