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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Capt. Pork on February 09, 2004, 12:03:41 AM
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I just took a warm shot of Sambuca(not my first), and am convinced that it's the nastiest crap out there.
I drank Absinthe in Beijing last year, crappy Vodka in Moscow this year and the worst homemade tequila in TJ just a few months ago. Nothing makes me want to yak as much as the black licorice.
I'm open to nominations.
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Gin, but it all gets the job done.
And Sambuca is good.
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I'm gonna take another shot just to make sure you're mistaken Creamo... Be back in a min.
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I still think it's gross.
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While Sambuca is nasty, it falls shy of the worst. Try shots of Akvavit or Grappa. Boy howdy!
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Isn't grappa the stuff made from Grape-skins?
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Jose Cuervo is not your friend. :)
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Wild Turkey, blah.
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Originally posted by Capt. Pork
I'm gonna take another shot just to make sure you're mistaken Creamo... Be back in a min.
lol, try it 3 times more and report back in.
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Southern Comfort...blech....also anything with worms in it.
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Sambuca isn't bad. Just don't ever get drunk off of it... or you'll have a hangover that you won't soon forget. It's a liquor tho... so some people (little girls mostly) might not be able to handle it.
Grappa is made from the waste from the grapes they make wine out of.
MiniD
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Grappa is traditionally made from the lees of wine. That's usually the stuff in the bottom of the barrel that's a little too gamey for the wine. But the distillation process makes the end result practically indistinguishable from grappa made from wine itself. Also in the Grappa group is the french Marc.
Cheap liquor is by definition bad.
Sambuca belongs to the anisette class.
Also in this group are pastis (southern french) and ouzo. Like everything else, cheap anisette is foul stuff indeed.
The best way to get to know anisette is wait for a bloody hot day, then get yourself a tall glass. Fill it with ice, and pour in a healthy amount of anisette at the bottom. Then add mineral water.
Whatever you do, do not drink something called a "Bazooka" (Baileys and Sambuca). Come to think of it, anything with Baileys in it is a girl drink.
Lady Di's chauffeur was a pastis drinker.
Aquavit is based on the caraway seed, and is best consumed cold. Makes a pretty good martini.
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grappa and aquavit are the worst, but there is alot more crap out there.
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Cheap liquor is by definition bad.
I almost challenge you to get hungover from Gordons Vodka, plastic bottle and all. You can do it, but you would have a 1.75 liter change bottle for your efforts. Not to mention a taste test with Cranberry mixer. I use Safeway Supermarket Diet Orange pop as a mixer, but still. Stoli aint going to make it better tasting or save less a headache, just money.
Vodka gimlets? Ya, Stoli please.
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Originally posted by Capt. Pork
I drank Absinthe in Beijing last year, crappy Vodka in Moscow this year and the worst homemade tequila in TJ just a few months ago.
Grouping Absinth as a liqour is just wrong ... it's so much more ....
judgeing by the E on the 'absinthe'... it looks like a wanna-be label that likely was NOT real absinth... the real stuff has wormwood ... and it's production is outlawed in France ... who spell it 'absinthe' rather than absinth.. so maybe one of tho's fake labels?
real absinth has wormwood, a pyshcoactive ingrediant... hardly just 'liquor'
and it tastes good if you drink it right.... straight it's just a bit on the bitter side.....
but don't group absinth with liquor's :D
(http://www.artquotes.net/masters/picasso/picasso_absinth1901.jpg)
http://www.seborabsinth.com
here's a real absinth company ..... maybe you had the real stuff .. but there are a good deal of 'fake' absinths out there that just have the taste and liqour.
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well said manedew
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Gin
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Originally posted by Manedew
Grouping Absinth as a liqour is just wrong ... it's so much more ....
I don't recall the spelling. It was served to me in a bar in Beijing by a bartender from London who'd brought several bottles with him. He was one of those semi-famous 'flair' bartenders who toured different countries and flung bottles around as part of his repertiore. He specialized in concocting drinks containing Absinth(or absinthe) even though apparently it was illegal in China as well. Anway, he mixed the stuff with burning sugar and dripped the resulting caramel into the shot before serving it, and the stuff was green. I'm not sure why I put the 'E' on the end of it, but it may have had something to do with the way Lost Generation writers used to spell it.
Thanks for the note though. I wasn't aware of the differences.
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mmm....Ouzo....
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Goldschlager is the worst liquid ever put into a bottle bar none.
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Forgot about Triple Sik....I mean,Tripe Sec
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Slo Gin. Worst evar!
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Southern Comfort.
Cheap drink isn't always bad. That's just snobbery. I've had lots of cheap rum while in the Carribean and it was all good.
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mmm....Goldschlager
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Soju from the snake jar. Though without the snake it's not bad. ;)
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tequila = teh 5uxx0r
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
tequila = teh 5uxx0r
Try the good stuff and stay away from any mixto. 100% Agave distilled and bottled in Mexico. If blanco or reposado is too harsh, try an anejo.
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Speaking of cheap liquor, here's a neat little trick to make REALLY cheap vodka somewhat decent. Take a PuR water pitcher and dump the vodka in, then pour the vodka thru the filter. It removes a lot of the conjengers (sp?) and impurities that are the main cause of hangovers. It actually works.
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BTW,Gold flakes in cinnamon schnapps is yummy!
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COMPARI...does that even have alchol in it..nasty sheite..
yes blck licorice is disgusting also..
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Cheap, room temperature pálinka, made with essence... OMG!
The real Pálinka is made from real fruits and the home made one... hmmmm :D Kérem meged, köszönöm!
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Originally posted by Capt. Pork
I don't recall the spelling. It was served to me in a bar in Beijing by a bartender from London who'd brought several bottles with him. He was one of those semi-famous 'flair' bartenders who toured different countries and flung bottles around as part of his repertiore. He specialized in concocting drinks containing Absinth(or absinthe) even though apparently it was illegal in China as well. Anway, he mixed the stuff with burning sugar and dripped the resulting caramel into the shot before serving it, and the stuff was green. I'm not sure why I put the 'E' on the end of it, but it may have had something to do with the way Lost Generation writers used to spell it.
Thanks for the note though. I wasn't aware of the differences.
The brit's like Absinth.... and he prepared it corretly ....classicly anyway ... so it proably was real .. just wanted to give you a heads up ...I've run into a few people who pay'd too much for fake absinth :)
the two best ways to drink absinth IMHO is... with the sugar ritual... or red bull, absinth, and vodka :D
Maybe it's me, but I like the taste once it's been 'watered' down :D
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I dunno what the brand was, but the vodka they were using at the free happy hour at the Mini-con kinda reminded me of Absolute. And I'm sure that was the cheapest stuff they could get their hands on. I felt fine the next day, except for the sore butt. Mini-d and Pongo said it must've fallen off the couch during the night. I was too drunk to remember. :(
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Originally posted by rpm371
Speaking of cheap liquor, here's a neat little trick to make REALLY cheap vodka somewhat decent. Take a PuR water pitcher and dump the vodka in, then pour the vodka thru the filter. It removes a lot of the conjengers (sp?) and impurities that are the main cause of hangovers. It actually works.
Interesting. Will definitely try it next time I come across a bottle of Popov or something else bottled in up State NY.
My personal favorite is and always will be stoli, though.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Slo Gin. Worst evar!
Hehehe...nasty stuff indeed :)
First time I ever got drunk was on an Explorer Scout camping trip, we'd smuggled along a case of Schlitz beer and a quart of sloe gin. It made for an interesting high. (Chug the bottle, chase with beer!)
This was many years ago, when portable radios were still a novel enough item we called 'em "transistor radios" and "made in japan" was a joke. Some ******* wouldn't change his transistor radio from the country station to rock and roll, so in my drunken rage I took it from his dumb bellybutton and threw it in the camp fire, LOL!
At least I was smart enough to position my sleeping bag so that I was facing downhill ;)
culero (~rettttttccccccccchhhh~)
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Wormwood also causes neat things like renal failure. Buy Everclear, skip the wormwood placebo effect, and have a nice drunk. :)
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Hey Hank, "why do you drink?", "TO GET DRUNK!" :aok
Thorns
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Mescal...or how ever ya spell that rot gut CRAP !!!!:eek:
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Originally posted by VFJACKAL
Mescal...or how ever ya spell that rot gut CRAP !!!!:eek:
I concur, Mescal is pretty gnarly. There was one drink I remember drinking in Lhasa (Capitol of Tibet) that came out of a plastic bottle very closely resembling the same sort of canister you that Hydrogen Peroxide comes on, only white and with a red cap. The stuff had originated in Mongolia and tasted like total prettythang. Still, for some reason, I just can't get over the black licorice. Even expensive Sambuca makes me want to vomit.
Also, Thorns, did you know that Havre De Grace almost became our nation's capitol way back in the day? Amazing.
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If you are drinking vodka in Moscow - never buy Stoly. You can get a bottle of fake poison. Just try almost anything that is over 80-100 rubles ($3-4) per halflitre, and enjoy.
Worst drink ever - cheap fake porto, like "three axes" ("777") or "Kavkaz". Now they make it from hydratated spirit, tap water and candies. If you want some decent strong wine - get Crimean staff from Ukraine.
Oh, forgot about fake brandies. They used to make them from hydratated spirit, tap water, boiled onions for colour and vanillin for "flavour".
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Originally posted by Capt. Pork
The stuff had originated in Mongolia and tasted like total prettythang.
Wow! You must have been really thirsty to try Mongolian stuff!
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Originally posted by Boroda
Wow! You must have been really thirsty to try Mongolian stuff!
Thirsty wasn't the word I'd choose. Sober was more like it.
Preevyet, Boroda, ya tozhe ees Rossiye, radeelisa V Moskve. Ya ooyehal gogda mne bhilo cheteerye goda nhu poka mih tom zhilye, my zhilye no sokole ee na Bashihlovke. Kak tam dyela?
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Yaegermeister.
Nim
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Hehe, GIN. Makes me sick.
Did you ever try "Fernet Branca"? That's even worse, but good for your stomach.
And in the Aquavit department try Icelandic "Brennivin", gawk...
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Gin
is unredeemably nasty.
Campari is nasty, tastes like italian cologne, but it goes down in the end.
Some cheap bellybutton wal-mart generic rum I got here a couple months ago- again it went down in the end, and stayed down, thats what counts.
Black Velvet Scotch.
Walgreens Tamoshanter or Tartan or whatnot Scotch in the 1,5l jug
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Unicum (some kind of Hungarian liquor.)
Oh, and French beer too ;)
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Yaegermeister. nuff said :eek:
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Got ya'll beat...in the Quebec winter festival, they drink a mix of heavy red wine and Alcool......Ralppphhhh.
And any damn Uzo, Sambucca crap.
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Did you ever try "Fernet Branca"?
Sure, useful to unblock washbowls
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I'm giving Sambuca another shot. Warm nastiness on a warm sunny day. Every time I taste it, for some reason, it makes me want to puke just a little less than the time before. Not sure it it's me getting accustomed to the taste, or alcoholism getting accustomed to me.