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I've just remembered that we have bottle of something called Sheridans in our cupboard, which gets brought out on very late nights when we arrive home from the pub and Mr Embra SIMPLY MUST HAVE MORE BOOZE BUT WAIT THERE'S NOTHING LEFT, OH HANG ON WHAT'S THIS IT LOOKS OK... It's a vile drink that consists of white liquid and black liquid that I assume you are meant to pour out so it looks like a baby Guinness. The next day, it is always sitting in whatever glasses it was poured into, untouched after the first sip.
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quote:Originally posted by Embra: I've just remembered that we have bottle of something called Sheridans in our cupboard, which gets brought out on very late nights when we arrive home from the pub and Mr Embra SIMPLY MUST HAVE MORE BOOZE BUT WAIT THERE'S NOTHING LEFT, OH HANG ON WHAT'S THIS IT LOOKS OK... It's a vile drink that consists of white liquid and black liquid that I assume you are meant to pour out so it looks like a baby Guinness. The next day, it is always sitting in whatever glasses it was poured into, untouched after the first sip.
I actually like Sheridan's but only the white liquid.
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Ah! I have another - the friendly Thai staff in our local usually bring us some some treat or another when they return from visits home, and their booze is absolutely disgusting!
Their whisky tastes likes one of those cocktails that's essentially a shot from every optic. Thai Brandy I won't touch (and i've drunk pastis and red wine!) and last time there was a sweet schnapps type thing, lychee flavoured - you'd think that would be kinda tasty right? You'd be wrong, tasted more like durian fruit schnapps, and i'm beginning to think it probably was
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Dandelion & Burdock is yummers. Root Beer is yummers. Ouzo is fine, ditto Ricard (French anise drink). Metaxa is okay - but I only drink the 5 star version.
Raki is a different story. It seems to be the Cretan version of Grappa. It's evil. it could strip paint. Just the fumes could strip paint. From a distance of 20 ft and with the wind blowing the fumes in the opposite direction. Even so, it is drinkable.
I am not overly fond of sweet liqueurs. The worst I ever had was a banana liqueur in Turkey - it was alcoholic syrup. I also bought some cheap ginger wine for making Whisky Mac and the ginger wine was disgustingly syrupy (needed more whisky than normal to make it palatable).
I don't much like Sweetgrass Russian Vodka. I've also tried mint beer, tea beer, pineapple beer and banana beer - all very odd and I'm not planning to repeat the experiences. I like proper fruit beers - Kriek, Framboise etc - and I did like a strawberry real ale brewed a few years back. I also like the sage-flvoured Boudicca Bitter.
Bacardi makes me have strange dreams and Tequila made me puke so I generally avoid those. Apart from that (as you may have guessed) I have a strong stomach and can drink anything. I hasten to add that I drink in moderation and only at weekends and when I'm not driving. I dislike feeling drunk.
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I agree that the vilest drink in the world is Grappa. It would make a maggot gag.
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quote:Originally posted by Llewtrah: ... Raki is a different story. It seems to be the Cretan version of Grappa. It's evil. it could strip paint. Just the fumes could strip paint. From a distance of 20 ft and with the wind blowing the fumes in the opposite direction. Even so, it is drinkable. ...
I was going to mention raki, but you beat me to it (I don't even like it and my grandparents are from Crete). (Confusingly, there is also a Turkish drink called raki, which is different but also vile.)
There is a similar Serbian drink called slivovitz.
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quote:Originally posted by Nick Theodorakis: There is a similar Serbian drink called slivovitz.
I've had slivovitz - isn't it made of plums? I thought it was OK, at least compared to some listed.
It's funny how many ways we can find to spell "liqueur" though... I was about to tell Llewtrah that she'd got it wrong, but then I looked it up and she's right - at least, the second time she used it. I was completely wrong in my post. In my defense, "liquor" and "liqueur" are different words, and I did know how to spell "liquor".
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quote:Originally posted by Mad Jay: One word:- Prune Juice
Oops, that's 2 words. See what that stuff does to you!
quote: "A warrior's drink!"
for two points.
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Reminds me of last week in the pub, one of the barmaids was mixing a drink containing several shots and fruit juices which came out a lurid green colour (and was supposed to taste of skittles - I don't know about that but it tasted OK) so when someone asked what it was I had to reply "it is... green".
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I didn't know it was Serbian, I assumed Polish or Czech. It is very popular it the Czech Republic, some hotels offer it for breakfast.
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quote:Originally posted by Llewtrah: mmm, how about fermented mare's milk. Sounds yummers (not)
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For me it was Spanish San Miguel. When I lived at home me and my dad would make home-brew lager. To bottle it after about two days we would syphon it and you always got a mouthful of half-brewed lager. That is exactly what the San Miguel tasted like.
Oh, and Dandelion and Burdock is fantastic, especially Barrs.
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I've had a lot of bad beer. I mean, gallons and caseloads and lakes of bad beer. I even have a Pabst Blue Ribbon tattoo. So when I tell you never, ever, ever to drink Charles Reibenbach lager, you can be sure I mean it.
You're thinking, "It's $5 for a 12 pack, it comes in a cool black box with metal-esque lettering, how bad can it honestly be?" So bad. Like rotten hard cider. I drank 1 and a half and gave the rest to a friend, who did the same. 4 normally hard drinking punks passed this crap from person to person, and the final three simply got dumped in the trash.
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When I was 10 I used to make a 1/2 pint glass of Schwepps Ginger Ale with a Soda Stream machine & then drop in a Skittle of each colour. It would fizz up so much I could hardly drink it, because of all the gingery fumes going up my nose.
At this time me & a friend used to mix various fizzy drinks (mainly Sainsbury's own brand) in the same glass. We called these Bog Burps, because they made you go to the loo & belch a lot.
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Any very cheap cider. White Lightning and Force Ten spring to mind - take ethanol, add concentrated apple-ish flavouring, dilute and carbonate.
Also double-strength lagers such as Tennants Super or Carlsberg Extra. I had a can of Tennants Super as a student thinking it would make for a cheaper night out. It actually made for bedspins at 8pm and no saliva for 24 hours.
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quote:Originally posted by put it in writing: I've had a lot of bad beer. I mean, gallons and caseloads and lakes of bad beer. I even have a Pabst Blue Ribbon tattoo. So when I tell you never, ever, ever to drink Charles Reibenbach lager, you can be sure I mean it.
The worst beer I've ever had (and I'll freely admit that I'm not a beer enthusiast by any stretch) is Utica Club. One of my fraternity brothers (who was from Liverpool) brought it to a party once. I never thought that I'd think "wow, I wish we had some Busch or Milwaukee's Best."
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I once tried some sort of fig or date liqueur when I was in Majorca that was bowfing. It was one of the foulest drinks I've ever had - it tasted like I imagine Swarfega would taste and was the same colour and consistency.
Someone gave me a bottle of olde-fashionede traditionale cider as a gift once which had about 5 inches of yeast or sediment at the bottom. The label said this was deliberate and prized by connoisseurs, but my unsophisticated palate found it repellent.
There was a pub in Arbroath that invented a small batch of 'Smokie Whisky' for a bit of a lark - they got one of the Islay malts and stuck some Arbroath Smokies (a sublimely delicious smoked haddock) in it to slowly dissolve. Apparently it was quite popular and sold quite well, but I remain unconvinced - fish flavoured whisky doesn't grab me.
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Two drinks which are fairly popular but which I despise: Henry Weinhard's beer Jagermeister
Even the smell of Jager is enough to make me a little ill.
I also really don't like Fernet. I've been forced to drink more than my fair share of Fernet and the stuff is poison. I think you have to be a barfly or bartender to genuinely like it.
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Only a "mildly" alcoholic drink, but has anyone tried kvass? It's a "fermented bread" drink that's served out of vending machines on Russian streets. Or, at least, it was when last I visited in 1990. The drink is disgusting on its own, but the really barf-inducing part is the communal cups. The machines just spit out the stuff and there are no disposable cups there, just one plastic cup that you put back in the machine (up-side-down so the dregs run out) for the next sucker to use after you.
edited because I couldn't remember what it was called and used kerfir first.
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I had real kwas when I was a little kid in Ukraine. I remember my grandmother buying a thermos full of it and letting us have a little, but not too much because it was cold and conventional wisdom was that cold foods and drinks would make you sick. I loved it back then but I haven't been able to find the real thing in the USA, only nonalcoholic stuff in 2-liter bottles that tastes a lot like coke.
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Someone in my office handed out bottles of this stuff last year. Various individuals received Turkey and Gravy, Broccoli Casserole, Corn on the Cob, and Salmon Pate (which actually has little things floating in it).
ETA: I think all the flavors were eventually tasted except for the Salmon Pate, and yes indeedy ,the drinks do actually taste like the foodstuff for which they are named. The Turkey and Gravy apparently had a greasy mouthfeel.
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quote:Originally posted by Elsie: Not alcoholic, but truly disgusting nonetheless... Jones Soda Co. Holiday Packs
I gave those to my brother last Christmas. The best part is that he tells me once he was really thirsty and forgot they were there, so he blindly grabbed and chugged an Herb Stuffing soda that made him gag. The only one I tried was the Brussel Sprouts, but it was realistic and awful (you can't even make them tolerable with mustard like the real thing).
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Several people on this thread OMANK. In particular, Stoneage Dinosaur for "it is...green"
I'd like to third the vote for Jagermeister. What's it supposed to taste of? Because it's like nothing on earth.
I would also like to nominate Goldschlager. Cinnamon schnapps with bits of real gold inside to cut your throat so the alcohol can get in easier. Mmm-mm, vom-alicious.
Oh, and coke float. It looks wrong, it feels wrong, and it tastes wrong. Yuck.
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quote:Originally posted by Megan's Mom: Only a "mildly" alcoholic drink, but has anyone tried kvass? It's a "fermented bread" drink that's served out of vending machines on Russian streets.
Along with vodka, it is pretty stereotypical Russian drink. In Lithuania, they had a similar drink called gira.
An interesting thing to note: At an art museum in Moscow, I saw a piece that was painted half black / half red. The black side listed all the things that were wrong with capitalist countries, and the red side listed all the corresponding good things about communism. At the bottom of the list, it compared Coca-cola to kvass.
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Thanks to Archie2K at the Snopes picnic in Regents Park, London, I discovered that I like Jagermeister. I'm having problems finding stores that sell it.
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Tuborg is some horrible stuff. I make it a point to try out the "National Beer" of every country I visit, but that stuff was really, really nasty.
Orbitz was also bad idea. It was a series of soft drinks with soft candy pieces floating in it. It was like drinking snot.
But honestly... I find just regular milk to be disgusting. I'm not lactose intolerant or anything, I just find the taste, aftertaste, and consistancy of milk to be horrible.
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I tried the tiniest sip of a Chill vodka brought back from the Ukraine, and ick.. I'm not a fan of chill anyway, but this stuff burnt my throat. I've never been brave enough to try Raki, but it's never appealed. I also hate the taste of Dr Pepper.
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