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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;
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(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..
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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
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
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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
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I used to love it when i was at school.
And this:
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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.
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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 !!!!
[url= http://www.bumwine.com/md2020.html ]MD 20/20 was my Bum Wine of choice[/url]
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:
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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.
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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.
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