drinks of your youth

Hoffmeister
Young’s tartan bitter
Breaker
Jam jar surprise, before going to school discos I’d take a jam jar and fill it with a hideous concoction of anything from the folks drinks cabinet

Snakebite and black aka diesel aka nasty.

Red Stripe.

Castlemaine XXXX.

Rum and black.

Two Dogs.

Kiwi fruit 20/20.

Tetley, Stones, Timothy Taylor, Theakstons – you are you drink & I’m a bitter man.

Of course, we’re not a nation of alcoholics..

Thunderbird and Mad Dog 20/20 were staples, but for some reason, me and my mate decided to buy a bottle of sherry (I don’t recall the brand) one night and drink it by the river before going to the local alehouse, where we could get served underage. The 1/2L of sherry each certainly got us light on our feet, however our stomachs did not react so well to the traditional ‘neck a half a pint of the local red ale’ on arrival. We both barely made it into the only cubicle….

20/20 to begin with, then graduated through cider and blastaways. Also a fair bit of snakebite and black.

Then I discovered gin and it all got better

I remember this being popular

I was never really fussy though tbh!

Just been reminded of the ‘Towers’ drinking game..

Send one bloke to the bar with x amount of money and orders to buy as many vile concoctions as possible.
The last one is a pint with nasties hidden in it.

stack them up with beer mats, throw dice for the win. Throw a double and get a drink.. I don’t know what was worse, the suprise glass of water or the Malibu and tomato juice! If you got the pint you had to down it in one..

Buckfast, monks my ar**

Carlsberg Special brew, the original wife beater!

Anyone remember EKU28?

Whatever happened to

I used to love it when i was at school.

And this:

Because i thought it was actually alchoholic 😆 😳

Colt 45

1664

Cresta pop

Blastaway on saddler gate in derby on a Thursday night. Bottle of castaway for 90p then half a strong cider for 45p, 6 pints to oblivion as a 19 yr old for £8.10! Thems were the days…

Colt 45…..local Spar sold it when I was a lad….not nice warm….

Kronenberg 1664

Grolsh in the big flip top bottles

Breaker

20/20

green nasty – cider/lager/blue curaco

TNT OR DYNAMITE something like that, the bottle was in the shape of a stick dynamite

Sherry. Whole bottle at a school disco. Later followed by a puking incident in a sleeping bag. Luckily it wasn’t mine. And I slept right through it.

Also, home brew by the crate load. Quite why my mum let me brew my own beer is anyone’s guess.

the dog is not the same now they brew it in Tadcaster 🙁

having said that, they’ve introduced an IPA type drink which is reasonably palatable

Bavaria 8.6
White lightening
Lazer cider (affectionately known as “lazer treatment”)
Buckfast..

=Very mis-spent youth 🙂

Oh just remembered, went through a short phase of me and my mate drinking bitter & pernod. No idea why and soon saw there error of my ways.

Funny, i hardley drink now.

Reef

hooch is back on sale at morrisons – havent seen it for 20 years !!!!

MD 20/20 was my Bum Wine of choice

A group of us used to run an impromptu club night at college to raise funds for the course (art courses end with an exhibition which was your career spring board so you needed to raise money to promote and advertise it)

We found a dodgy off-license that would sell us the wee bottles of MD20/20 for 50p each if we bought them in bulk – we’d sell tickets for the night for a quid and sell the drink for £1.50. A social event lubricated only with sugary antifreeze was, err, an interesting dynamic.

On one occasion we set out by bus to get a stock of 200 bottles and staggered home with them in rucksacks. Got home, switched the telly on and as we switched on the first Gulf War kicked off live on TV. We ended up sat up all night watching the news (back when rolling news coverage was novel), cracked open a few bottles and convinced ourselves that there was no way you could start a war with an Arab nation and expect it to be over in a few days (the US gov on the day were predicting it would be over in 4 days), that it would be a decades long bloodbath and that as young men we’d all get conscripted and die in a desert. – then we drank the rest of the bottles. That went well.

Colt 45
Newkie brown
20/20 – pink grapefruit flavour!
Thunderbird
1/4 bottle of vodka & can of coke (grrrr!)

My fave:
Red Rock Cider

Newquay Steam Beer. Used to work in a hotal bar in the late ’80s that sold it, used to take a few bottles home after a shift to neck at home before bed.

Oh and I ”created’ the southern comfort, archers, vodka & taboo cocktail – aka Scav Turbo…. Mmmmmmm tasty! 😕

Oh just remembered, went through a short phase of me and my mate drinking bitter & pernod. No idea why and soon saw there error of my ways.

A friend, Scott, used to drink Mickey Mouses (Bitter and Mild) one night the Bitter was off so he had to research alternatives – the Scotty – Mild and Cinzano was born, as was the knack of throwing up without interrupting the flow of conversation.

Hoffmeister and red witch in my early teens. tennents super ice in my late teens (i would probably still drink tennents super ice if it was available)

Guinness.

I still drink it occasionally now.

CLAN DEW-A bottle of this at the age of 14 means that when people discuss the beauty and subtlety of whisky I immediately think wtf are they talking about.

Proper Blastaways contained a shot of vodka as well. They tasted like sick. Which saved time.

Christ, Clan Drew!

A bottle of that enabled me to attempt to walk across a boating lake one night at my aunties party (she was a biker chick & the party was full of patch bikers) apparently they cheered me on til it was realised i was still walking whilst the only things above the surface was the bottle in one hand and the glass in the other!

Don’t remember being dragged out but i do recall coming round on the shore pissed wet through and alone in the dark..

Used to get my £10 Friday night and Saturday pocket money.
£0.99 for a 1 litre bottle of Pulse White cider
£2.50 for 4 fosters
£1.50 for chips and gravy after our night on the park getting pissed, playing footy and finger thrashing some girls. Not classy, but we all now have good jobs and families, unlike the lazy gobshite youth of today.

Got slaughtered on this many a Saturday in the mid 80s!!!!