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(Inspired by the most recent revival of the best alcoholic drink? thread.)

For me it was a sweet sparkling red from Bulgaria or somewhere in Eastern Europe that I once bought for the heck of it on a Valentine's Day. What an insult to viniculture that was.

I like good red wine, but when red wine is bad it's horrid.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Captain and Coke.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Kirsten so not otm. Damn dude, that's like saying "Oxygen = dud".

Worst = 1 shot espresso, 1 shot pure grain. I actually drank this. Five of 'em.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

(no offense intended kristen, but I LOOOOOVE Captain & Coke together, that's all)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Worst = 1 shot espresso, 1 shot pure grain. I actually drank this. Five of 'em.

What's that called, the Manic-Depressive?

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The white wine you can get for 50p per litre in cartons in Italy, especially when, as was our wont, you drink one and a half of them before going out into the Bolognese nightlife...

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Captain and Coke is WAY too sweet for me.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

moonshine jello shots, lime flavored or
tequilla and apple juice

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i used to think it was campari - but i have persevered to the point that i will actually now drink it if i am already completely blootered.

― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

worst drink= when its your turn to pay for the rounds

― ryan t hoffman, Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Warm flat cheap beer.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Jaegermeister.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

ugh yes I hate sweet drinks. To reinforce j.lu's story, I got a bottle of Transylvanian merlot once for the kitchy label (black with red letters: Vampire Wine) and when I drank it years later when I couldn't find anything else in the house, I had to throw it out. I know it may not be the wine's fault, since it was so old and hadn't been put down properly, but ugh.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Also: Anything that is blue or has more than three ingredients. There are exceptions, but they are rare.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Peachy Knob. A cocktail consisting of sours, peach juice, and Jim Beam. Yes, it tastes how it sounds, kind of like a bacterial breakout in a Del Monte factory.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Aimee noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! Jaeger is so awesome no!

(And yes I remember the story.)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

jaegermeister is disgusting.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Disgustingly badical!!!!!

(Have you people been drinking it cold? Cold as the Abominable Snowman's nipples cold?)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

have you got one of those machines I saw advertised on the telly that holds two bottles and dispenses it cold to ugly morons in queues?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I know, Nick - I tried... I used to love it, but once you puke that stuff up, it's lost to you.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Any one that's being consumed by certain members of my family.

― . (Kim), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

It holds THREE bottles, richard! Get with the program!

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Why yes, Richard, I love it! I particularly find it helful while in queue...d'oh!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I misread the title as "want alcoholic drink?" ha ha

― SArah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

: )

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude I've let loose the jaegerspray and hath not forsaken it!

(x-posts aplenty)

Sarah wins!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess I just couldn't hang. Gone are the days I could drink triple shots... Alas. I mourn my misspent youth.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I used to mourn my misspent youth, until I killed all my memories of it dead with pint glass shotguns and jaeger shot bullets. Now I just live for the *hic* now!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Where my beer bong?

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Millar and Helltime to thread

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Reef. Or Smirnoff Ice.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude!

*cartoon light-bulb appears over Nick's head*

I'm gonna take a beer bong and make it into a bong bong! RAWK!

― nickalicious as possessed by Jack Black (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm coming over.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

jaeger is the sweet elixer of good times-i used to buy myself the gift pack at liquor barn, complete with a fifth, a few shot glasses, and a handy pint to carry along!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I got one the other day that came with a T-shirt. But WTF the T-shirt says "Herbs" on the back. Do they know their demographic that well?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Many were the names of the vilest & foulsomest "wines" once produced, bottled and drunken - by innumerably many, incl. yers truly in his student days - across the vastnesses of the late Soviet Russia.
(Memory boggles, soul shakes, heart trmblz. The virtual vomit also rises.)
As far as I can tell, the worstest of them all was the unutterably unwholesome liquid named 'Agdam'.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Southern Comfort is a thing that should not be.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

That reminds me of a Kentucky tradition = moonshine. *vomitaste appears in throat at the mere thought*

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Bad tequila is usually worse than other liquors of equal badness, and ruins the reputation of good tequila, so I'm gonna go with it. It's almost true for gin, but I think it's martinis that ruin gin's rep.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's the raggedy, violent, staggering drunk that ruins gin's rep.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Drunks ruin alcohol of all persuasions.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

(Drinking is wasted on drinkers, etc. etc.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I tried to make a cider armadillo oncet. It nearly killed me.

Sparkling red is really good but I just would not drink "Polish Pop," or Bulgarian in j lu's case.

― Benjamin (benjamin), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

$7 plus tip for 4 ice cubes and a milli of stoli

― kephm, Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Vodka + Soy Sauce: I believe this is called a "Kamikaze."

― Ryan McKay (Ryan McKay), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

All drinks should be either blue or green.

Vodka + + soy sauce sounds like it should be called "The Ipacec".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Ugh, I agree - Campari. I only had a few drops of this in a drink but it succeeded in making the entire thing taste like bile.

― Mandee, Tuesday, 26 August 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Plus Campari has crushed up cochineals (BEETLES) in it. But so does a lot of other stuff. But it just adds to the list of why it sucks.

― Mandee, Tuesday, 26 August 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, that factoid makes me like Campari more.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Campari is some sort of king grim drink. Not only is it disgusting, it's so odd tasting that I can't imagine how anyone invented it.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

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Arak is the distilled palm wine from Sri Lanka and isn't too bad (a bit like rum), but I have an arak from Jordan (that I bought because I wanted the drinks cooler that went with it at duty free - but it's more like raki and is made from wine, apparently) that I am scared to open because I supsect it'll be vile. I've tried double distilled wines before and they weren't nice, hence my reservations.

I was once given a bottle of some vile thing with dragons on it, which tasted of pencil shavings. Thankfully I managed to leave it at somebody's party.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

I think you can only really appreciate bitters (Campari, Fernet Branca etc) if you were born & raised in mainland Europe.

Like pastis, ouzo, raki etc they only ever taste like a good idea if consumed in blazing summer in their country of origin. They don't really work if you bring a bottle back from holiday & drink it on a wet February evening.

Fernet Branca is very good for relieving hangovers, mind.

― bham, Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:21 (twenty years ago)

I can drink Campari no trouble. Fernet seems another order of horror altogether, but I agree with your basic point.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Man, over the Xmas-New YEar's middle period I invented a zillion horrible drinks. The most popular was the Malibumpkin (or the Punkibu, drinker's choice) -- Malibu rum and pumpkin soda. HORRIBLE YET AWESOME

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:42 (twenty years ago)

I cannot believe this thread has not brought up the joys of Cyanar: The Artichoke Drink. Num num. I have had it in two diffeent places in North London and it is no longer funny.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm amazed in 170 answers only one person has mentioned Pernod! That's not a drink, it's an item of mediaeval torture.

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Any drink beginning "cyan-" should probably be avoided. I was with Pete at one of those "tastings" and I believe we both chased the artichoke liqueur, or nearly, with "Aquavit," which was actually quite delicious but probably lethal in larger-than-a-thumbnail quantities.

I had some aperatif in Bordeaux recently made from, get ready, tea and blue curacao, and it was fucking REVOLTING. not least because no one in France has ever heard of ice cubes, apparently.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Fernet is not something you guzzle. It will settle your stomach really well as it's a great digestive.

As someone with a bad stomach, I can tell you that a shot of that stuff is a godsend. Just a shot. I don't mix it with anything. It's like Swedish bitters -- more like an elixir than a drink.

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

or the Punkibu, drinker's choice

I am in favor of the Punkibu, if you want this to catch on.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

any Pimm's fans here? i'm not one.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 5 January 2006 18:06 (twenty years ago)

also, how does a grounded meat and rum smoothie sound?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 5 January 2006 18:08 (twenty years ago)

i used to find sake pretty disgusting. like a sweaty sock wrung into a vessel. but something clicked recently and now i can put that shit away. mmm.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 5 January 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Cyna-, Tracer.

Whatever that sangria was at Toby and Colette's, that was like copping off with a gorgeous if a little bit tarty bird and then discovering she's given you several different forms of VD the next morning. Worst. hangover. Ever.

Black Sheep ale is pretty close to being the foulest. Has no-one suggested snakebite yet?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 5 January 2006 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Among cosmopolitans there is near unanility that the worst alcoholic drink is kumiss, a Mongolian potation made of fermented mare's milk.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 5 January 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Drat! "unanimity"

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 5 January 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

i love snakebite!

pimm's is best as a mixer for whiskey. add in a little bit of ginger beer, and there you go.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 5 January 2006 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Sambuca = Grossness

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 5 January 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

"Aquavit" does not deserve mention on this thread. It is delicious, refreshing, sublime and oh-so-cold. Nearly a vodka but the best stuff is flavored with a hint of carroway seed... like a light, boozy rye slice. Let's have some now.

― andy ---, Thursday, 5 January 2006 19:43 (twenty years ago)

also, how does a grounded meat and rum smoothie sound?
reading this made me gag

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Based on what I've read above, I think Advocaat wins this thread.

― Jena (JenaP), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Franzia Box Blush and Buttermilk

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Pimms is lovely. How can that possibly be on this thread? The winner of this thread is, erm, some nasty Austrian stuff that my mother-in-law brought us back from holiday. Some spilled on the mantelpiece and stripped the varnish off it, Christ alone knows what it was doing to my insides. Needless to say, it tasted like paint-stripper as well.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

homemade muscadine and plum wines are pretty rank. being from mississippi i think i'm supposed to appreciate them.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:46 (twenty years ago)

and me bringing up pimm's was based on a single drink of it, straight, that i hated about 10 years ago. i should try it again sometime in the proper context before judging.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

I was once drunk enough to partake of a jug of cheeky vimto with friends. I was also drunk enough not to think it was horrible, but HOW COULD IT NOT BE?

(Pimms is brilliant, I nearly bought a bottle tonight for January-blues-cheering-up purposes. Try it properly, it's great)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Lakka is the yuckiest. I can't even sniff it.

We were talking at lunch here today about how there are poor people in our skiddy area that buy super cheap cans of tomato soup in bulk and then ferment it and drink it. Now that's foul. I'd sooner drink Lysol.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:52 (twenty years ago)

something bought after-hours at a Korean karaoke place. It was clear, tasted like rubbing alcohol and was served with small Dixie cups.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 5 January 2006 20:54 (twenty years ago)

What that rough 20/20 drink?

that. definitely that.

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:05 (twenty years ago)

20/20 is mad dog "wine." korean stuff was probably soju.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:07 (twenty years ago)

"fortified" wine. they've apparently changed the name from Mad Dog 20/20 to M.D. 20/20. an attempt to be a little classier i'm guessing.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Personally I'm a fan of salmari (and indeed of much of the thread's most-hated) but it's a contender nonetheless.

― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)

I don't know - I had some herbal tasting liquer mixed with Coke in Croatia recently and, while super vile tasting, it made for a real fun evening. And no hangover! But Pernod is vile.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 6 January 2006 06:10 (twenty years ago)

Maybe not the worst, but certainly the most unique and not exactly in a good way alcohol I have ever had..cheap maotai in China. The only alcohol that will fill an entire room with its scent just by opening the bottle. Weird spicy taste, but the overpowering smell really leaves an impression.

― Mingus Dew (Mingus Dew), Friday, 6 January 2006 06:59 (twenty years ago)

"fortified" wine. they've apparently changed the name from Mad Dog 20/20 to M.D. 20/20. an attempt to be a little classier i'm guessing.

You know it was never actually named "Mad Dog," right? It was made by Mogen David and I suppose was called Mogen David 20/20.

I had some rhubarb wine once that wasn't horrible, but I ended up dumping the last 1/2 of the bottle. I had been drinking half a glass now and then just to make sure I didn't like it.

And that Advocaat stuff just sounds like egg nog, which is OK in my book.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 6 January 2006 08:23 (twenty years ago)

Oh, Buckfast is no joy to drink either.

My aunt harped on and on and on at me to buy her a bottle so she could try it. No explaining what it was like on my part could persuade her of its foulness. She knew enough not to pop into a shop and buy it herself mind.

I eventually gave in, bought her a half bottle and watched her carefully decant it into a long stemmed crystal wine glass. One sup and she was retching. Experiment over.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 6 January 2006 08:45 (twenty years ago)

Pimms does not belong on this thread. Pimms Winter Cup, which I had the misfortune to drink on the ferry last moth, does.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 6 January 2006 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Christ, Buckie.

SANATOGEN TONIC WINE DEAR GOD

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 6 January 2006 09:50 (twenty years ago)

bambou, not sure of the spelling. brazillian drink, tastes like piss

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 6 January 2006 09:55 (twenty years ago)

Really bad tequila is more horrendous, in my experience, than really bad whisky, vodka etc

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 6 January 2006 11:14 (twenty years ago)

I like buckfast; 70% chance I'm a hipster tho

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 6 January 2006 11:24 (twenty years ago)

I'll have what Charlie Kennedy's drinking

― CLassic or Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 6 January 2006 11:28 (twenty years ago)

wtf IS that sanatogen stuff?? i've avoided it as it seems to be pretending to be two things at once. can one obtain buckfast in london? i am a bit fascinated.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 6 January 2006 11:37 (twenty years ago)

Ah Buckfast - the fightin' wine!

― CLassic or Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 6 January 2006 11:41 (twenty years ago)

SCOTSMAC

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 6 January 2006 12:34 (twenty years ago)

isn't sanatogen sort of buckfast under another name? they're both "tonic wines," and they'll both get you extremely drunk in the lunatic way that snakebite does (all the sugar, probably) and they're both really cheap.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 6 January 2006 17:12 (twenty years ago)

and what about cisco? has that been mentioned yet? another "fortified" sweet wine with a very high alcohol content sold very cheaply. like everclear, it's illegal in some places. oh god... everclear.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 6 January 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

lauren knows her bad hooch.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:09 (twenty years ago)

i'm slightly embarrassed by my apparently encyclopedic knowledge of the subject.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:12 (twenty years ago)

I think Lauren is correct.

I love how the Sanatogen wine is at pains on the label to point out that it has "no medicinal properties" Y-YET YOU CALL YOURSELF A TONIC. AND SANATOGEN MAKE VITAMINS, WTF IS UP WITH THAT?

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:12 (twenty years ago)

It's like Pfizer marketing an alcopop as a sideline. "Oh, it's called Cialis, but the effect is quite, quite different."

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:13 (twenty years ago)

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