drinks of your youth

What horrible rubbish did you drink as a kid?

I remember buying the last three bottles of Night Train in Rochdale, vile stuff made famous by the Guns & Roses song but it did the job.

Also some truly horrible Bulgarian red wine so vile it had to be sold in a cardboard coffin and called Vampire Wine 😳

The obligatory mad dog 20/20 as well…. retch..

Thunderbird

Thunderbird either red or blue label versions

lager and black before my tender young taste buds had got accustomed to the taste of real beer 😀

yuk!!!

oh, and snakebite.

Soft;

Hard

(Was at school in Wadworth country)

Thunderbird here too – both red and blue 🙁

“purple nasty” or sometimes simply a “nasty”

(Snakebite & blackcurrant for those not at Bradford Uni in the mid-late 80s)

hmm…

nah.

Blastaways

Pint glass, bottle of Diamond White, bottle of Castaway. Tasted like fizzy Um Bongo, made yer legs go funny.

The Blue Bastard.

1/2 pint kronenberg topped up with diamond white, a shot of vodka, a shot of blue bols and another shot of blue bols dropped in a shot glass depth charge style.

Super cestral when underage, drunk on 3 cans of the stuff. Blastaway- the marrage of castaway and white lighting.
Worst has to be fosters though.

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Watneys Party 7

Snakebite made from Special Brew & White Lightning. Yep, we was well classy back in the day..

castaway
20/20
2 dogs
Hooch
pro plus drink and lager
red stripe
special brew
bacardi breezer
neat bacardi when cash ran dry
Moscow mule

Another that springs (painfully) back to memory. A phase of drinking Guinness. With a shot of JD in the glass first.

*Wreeeeettttch*

Night Train was actually a black label Thunderbird wine, something to do with sales laws in the US i believe. Ace stuff at the time, Christ knows what i would think of it now.

Old English cider. It didn’t half burn on the way up!

abbot eddies abbot ale topped up with small bottle of st Edmund light ale very nice and very strong so you got pi**ed really quick which was kinda the point when your an apprentice on lowish wage 😀 😉

Ooh, just remembered. Poor mans black velvet – half guiness half dry cider because it was a greenhall witley pub and everything else was vile.

Guiness and cider, sweet as hell!

Party fuel was a 3L bottle of Dry Blackthorn with a flask of Pernod dropped in it, add in a few hallucinogenic compounds and you were flying

I was drinking Hooch last Saturday in a less than salubrious establishment in Cardiff after the rugby, something’s are best left to memory….

Brother and I used to distil our own whisky.

Family tradition, grand-uncle was jailed for this. Sadly he refused to give us his secret – his stuff was lovely.

Our concoction was shite, burned all the way down, but mixed with loads of sweet cordial was very popular at parties.

Colt 45.
Hoffmeister.

I remember beer being 60p a pint.

Colt 45, makes Carlsberg seem stylish!

Bezique

Merrydown Cider (Sweet Gold cap and Dry Silver cap)
Gin
and yes anotehr for Thunderbird….blue, red…….

worthingtons E
brew ten
brew eleven
tartan bitter
chinzano
dark mild
okells ales (isle of man)
barley wine
party sevens
guinness in bottles
alpine lager (sam smiths)
breaker
now feelin sick!!

This thread’s given me a weird flashback. Started drinking when we were 16, every Saturday we’d meet in the only pub that would serve us and drink Hartleys bitter (when it was good) sat in the corner watching Dallas on the telly like little old men. Totally forgot about that.

Mrscarlos says Babycham and Cherry B.

Mad Dog 20/20

Big bottle of the strawberry, little bottle of kiwi.

Bad bad times!

Holsten Pils
Pernod & Black
Grolsch
Castlemain xxxx
Blue bols

Asbach Uralt, there’s an unopened bottle on the shelf behind me. BFG squaddies ordered a pint of Asbach and coke, I’ve forgotten how many measures it took to fill half the glass. This of course was banned but if I refused they ordered a half of coke in a pint glass and an Asbach for everybody in the bar which just left me cleaning lots of glasses. I tried one myself one evening (just a double in half pint glass mind) and was hoooked for the rest of the Summer.

A favourite was Holsten Pils Satzenbrau, but the most memorable was Greeny Meanies, a snakebite in a pint glass witha shot of green bols and a Cointreau. bring back the eighties 😀 Edit, and being an ex BFG squaddie, Grolsch, in flip top bottles at 30 pfennigs a go!

Red or Blue Thunderbird, Mad Dog 20/20, Gold Label(barley wine) and my particular favourite was Strongbow Super.

Snakebite here…. purple nastys for special occasions (Snakebite from Scrumpy & Special Brew with a Pernod & Black lobbed in)

20/20
Martini cos my parents had GALLONS of the stuff

Piper Best Scotch (bass brewed)
McEwans Best Scotch… now being rediscovered with avengance now that I’m back in the NE!

Gold Label

Ohhh the oblivion… never realised I had drank that till you reminded me…. wonder what made me forget

Crucial Brew