Embarrasing Libations

[guajolote]

My newest weird drink is a mixture of Corvoisier and Chrystal.  (Too bad I can never afford it.)

That's a champagne cocktail if you add sugar and bitters, and it is very good. I wouldn't use Cristal, though.

Edited February 27, 2003 by guajolote (log)

[rstarobi]

I really liked Crystal Pepsi while it was around.. that didn't last too long though.

[NeroW]

I have never used Red Bull as a mixer, and it amazes me that anyone would shame booze of any kind that way.

Aw come on! Red Bull and Stoli! Tastes like Children's Tylenol! They are thinking of outlawing Red Bull in the bar. Supposedly, it makes you feel "less drunk" than you really are. Red Bull is a great way to kick a hangover in the ass.

This one really gave me the cobbywoggles.. My vote for the most horrible drink yet mentioned.

Maybe I will name it. Maybe I will name it the "Cobbywoggles."

As many distinguished whisky/rum drinkers have already mentioned: Coke as a mixer. In anything.

I am starting to agree. Sometimes I lean toward the Jack and Coke, but I'm starting to, thankfully, learn.

[tommy]

i honestly can't understand why people drink anything other than wine, beer, margaritas, and sangria (in that order). and i spend a lot of time in bars and am not stranger to a good buzz.

yuck.

[jackal10]

lager (or american beer) with tomato juice in ths same glass. Nearest thing to vomit - just add some carrot cubes.

Guines and black current. Doesn't do anything for the Guiness, but tints the head nicely

[AdamLawrence]

I don't - couldn't - drink it, but if I go into my local for a quiet pint this evening, there will be loads of kids, and those who aren't drinking adult alcopops will be on snakebite and black. Snakebite, in case it hasn't crossed the pond, is a half lager, half cider concoction - disgusting enough in itself. Add a shot of blackcurrant.... ewwwwwwww...

What happened to the vomit smiley?

Adam

[Shermar]

I find beer of any kind disgusting. I just can't develop a taste for it.

For the ongoing history of ridiculously ghastly adolescent drinking that seems unimaginable to me now:

Mad Dog 20-20

Bali Hai

Brass Monkey

Cherry Kiafa(sp.?)

Thank heavens I met Jack Daniels when I was 18 and he was kind enough to escort me through the next 18 years.

[g.johnson]

What happened to the vomit smiley?

[klinger75]

VODKA and COKE= Nasty!

[NeroW]

Snakebite, in case it hasn't crossed the pond, is a half lager, half cider concoction

Hmm. Over here (at least, when I first encountered it in Montana, haven't had it since) Snakebite is whiskey and fresh lime juice. Meant to be shot. Or shooted.

Brass Monkey

[hjshorter]

Lager with a shot of Rose's lime in it.

[Elissa]

A guaranteed "gag" is the happy shake I try to drink a few days a week when I first awake:

Grind a heaping T of flax seeds in the (dedicated) coffee grinder, dump into clean yogurt container, add a scoop of green powder (I'm partial to ProGreens) and 1-2 cups aloe juice, which has no flavor: I have 4-gallon cases of George's sent directly to my apt in NY from Texas. Blend with wand and transfer to elegant glass. Sometimes I preceed this concoction with a shot of live algae from Klamath Falls to considerable effect. Chases the blues quicker than Etta James does.

Edited March 1, 2003 by lissome (log)

[bigbear]

In my youth, I consumed vast amounts of Mekhong and Coke with a lump of ice and some sawdust bits floating around. Nobody gagged. We were all drinking the same stuff and liking it.

[Suzanne F]

A guaranteed "gag" is the happy shake I try to drink a few days a week when I first awake:

Grind a heaping T of flax seeds in the (dedicated) coffee grinder, dump into clean yogurt container, add a scoop of green powder (I'm partical to ProGreens) and 1-2 cups aloe juice, which has no flavor: I have 4-gallon cases of George's sent directly to my apt from Texas. Blend with wand and transfer to elegant glass. Sometimes I preceed this concoction with a shot of  live algae from Klamath Falls to considerable effect. Chases the blues quicker that Etta James.

Ah, this explains some of your other posts!

[jeniac42]

I have, horrifyingly, been known to drink and enjoy rum and coke or Jack and Coke, or even Jack and ginger. Or a 7&7. Or things like Buttery Nipples and Irish Carbombs.

I have, to date, avoided drinking Jaegermeister.

I'll try pretty much anything once. One day I had small amounts of amaretto, Chambord, vanilla Stoli, and heavy cream in the house. To be fair, I'd been drinking before I decided that mixing them together would be a good idea. It actually wasn't as bad as it sounds, but I won't say it was good.

Pickle juice and vodka(?!)

And I've had gin and Dew. No good.

And thanks a lot for the gin and juice. Now it's stizzuck in my hizzead.

[Teague]

I think gin can take a lot of abuse, and was made for juice.

(grapefruit)

Also, strong red wine with lots of ice has a place next to my heart. I like it and am unashamed, though my friends and family all disapprove. I say if it was good enough for Caesar, it's good enough for me.

That said, "margarita mix" is a disgusting product that has ruined a lot of good tequila.

Jaegermeister is a sort of medicine, isnt it? When I was in college it was the drunk of choice. I did that once, but never again. Feh!

[Matt Zito]

I think the nastiest drink that I've ever had (and continue to drink) is actually a shot. It's called a cement mixer - you're served a shot of baileys and a half-shot of lime juice. First put the baileys in your mouth and hold it. Then, take the lime juice and put it in your mouth with the baileys and swish it around. The taste itself isn't displeasing to me - like a creamsicle, kind of, but the acid in the lime juice curdles the cream in the baileys and you're left with these chunks of clotted baileys in your mouth. Hence the name. Apparently its a joke shot - something mean to do to your friends, but when someone did it to me, I discovered I rather liked it.

Matt

[tighe]

I think the nastiest drink that I've ever had (and continue to drink) is actually a shot.  It's called  a cement mixer - you're served a shot of baileys and a half-shot of lime juice.  First put the baileys in your mouth and hold it.  Then, take the lime juice and put it in your mouth with the baileys and swish it around.  The taste itself isn't displeasing to me - like a creamsicle, kind of, but the acid in the lime juice curdles the cream in the baileys and you're left with these chunks of clotted baileys in your mouth.  Hence the name.  Apparently its a joke shot - something mean to do to your friends, but when someone did it to me, I discovered I rather liked it.

Matt

This reminds me of a shot a bartender in Montreal made for me once called a 'Bloody Brain'. Sorry if I'm vague on the specifics, but it was a long time ago and wasn't my first shot of the evening. My recollection is that it was some type of clear alcohol plus lemon juice with some Baileys added. As you say, the Baileys then curdles, in this case forming a brain-like mass in the middle of the shot-glass. The bartender then added a dribble of a red liquer (grenadine?) that coated the 'brain'. The taste wasn't bad, after the visual, the blob of Baileys rattling around in my mouth was a little weird.....

[NeroW]

Last night I was at the baaaah with my brother, and I wanted some whisky. Well. He wouldn't drink Crown Royal straight, so I asked the baaaahtender what could be . . . uh . . . mixed with whisky. The baaaahteder, who is really a marvelous man, mixed the Crown with Buttershots. BUTTERSHOTS. I drank that shite plain. I drink a lot of strange thing, but Crown Royal + Buttershots is NOT one of them.

P.S. Baaaahtender later got busted for giving me free drinks, camera was on.

P.S.S. They have a camera?

[jeniac42]

Well, my failure to consume Jaeger is no longer true. Last night (hey, it was a rough night on the floor, right?) I had a Jaegerbomb, which as I recall - and the details are fuzzy here, since I'd had, well, I probably shouldn't detail everything because it's kind of frightening - was some "beer", maybe Bud Light, and a shot of Jaeger. It kind of did taste like Dr. Pepper, but again, I wasn't in a state to judge, really.

And lemme tell ya - waiting tables hung over ain't no fun. Smilin' through the pain, that's what it's all about. Smilin' through the pain.

[Aurora]

Gin and Juice.

"Laid back. With my mind on my money and my money on my mind!"

Ginger Ale and Grapefruit juice. It's like homemade Fresca. My family hated Fresca. More for me!

[Jason Perlow]

Gin and Juice.

"Laid back. With my mind on my money and my money on my mind!"

Ginger Ale and Grapefruit juice. It's like homemade Fresca. My family hated Fresca. More for me!

I love Grapefruit flavored sodas as well. I wish Pellegrino made one like they do Limonata and Aranciata.

[stagis]

Vodka and Zarex syrup... :)

'Course, that was while trying to sneak a bota into a concert where bottles weren't allowed. We were triumphant!

[Randi]

My mom used to mix buttermilk and tomato juice together...

And she also to drain the juice from canned asparagus after heating it up, and drink it with her dinner!

I like sipping the brine from black olives. :)

re: The gin and juice thing - I love gin and grapefruit and one time someone mixed up my order and brought me gin and pineapple...and it was GOOD!

Randi

[NeroW]

I like sipping the brine from black olives. :)

I know an entire family that drinks the pickle juice from the jar.