# Hey alcoholics/piss heads/drink adventurers etc. what's the worst drink you've ever had? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054 "2012-10-08T03:38:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/1 "2012-10-08T03:38:11Z")
I can say mine was in my teenage days when I had no money so I begged beverages off my equally bereft peers. I made a rocket-fuel mix of beer, wine, vodka, schnapps mix that worked ok until I added Baileys, since the concoction congealed with that ingredient. I still drank it. So what’s the worst alcoholic beverage you’ve ever imbibed? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/2 "2012-10-08T03:42:34Z")
A strawberry wheat ale I brewed when I first started homebrewing; the first one to get fermented in a plastic bucket rather than a carboy. It tasted like… a plastic bucket. ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/3 "2012-10-08T04:05:42Z")
Bong water. Wait, you did say alcoholic? OK then, once I was preparing for a camping trip…had two partial bottles, one of everclear and one of Canadian Mist. For convenience, I just dumped them both into a large unbreakable plastic jug and took it along for a campfire tipple. It did,in fact prove to be good for starting campfires. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/4 "2012-10-08T04:43:19Z")
On my first (and only) trip to England, I wanted to sample the regional drinks and foods. Cornish pasties were shite btw. But Somerset promised great things with cider. We called into a farmhouse that advertised itself as having the best in the district, bought a couple of bottles, then retreated to our modest B & B for the evening. That cider was…well…undrinkable, and I would say it’s the worst liquid I’ve every voluntarily swallowed. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/5 "2012-10-08T04:49:49Z")
Gin and kirsch mixed with orange Kool-Aid. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/6 "2012-10-08T04:50:54Z")
I had some buddies that worked the floor in a small Mexican restaurant. They would combine all the unfinished drinks into quart mason jars. Or: Apple juice, sugar, and baking yeast, in a 2 gallon plastic apple juice container. Put a balloon on the top of the container and vent it every day. Two weeks later, get drunk, a headache, and diarrhea. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/7 "2012-10-08T05:26:10Z")
My favourite largish microbrewery (Granville Island Brewery in Vancouver, BC) puts out a “Winter Ale” every year. The first time I tried it, I expected a festbock, which it isn’t. I don’t think my expectations had much to do with my perception, though - because even after going back to it knowing that it wasn’t a festbock, it tasted exactly the same: Like a bucket of water which had dirty socks steeping in it, which somebody had tried to freshen up by adding artificial vanilla extract. Blech. I sometimes end up with this in “sampler” cases, and it’s the only beer that consistently ends up going down the sink. I am not a fussy beer drinker but it is _vile_. However, if we aren’t limiting ourselves to commercially available products, back in the 1980s: I tasted a home-made liqueur which my father had made - alleged to be a Drambuie analogue. Sometimes when I first wake up in the morning after being ill for a week or so, I think I can _still_ taste it. You could approximate it by sweetening kerosene with honey and then giving a tramp an enema with it. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/8 "2012-10-08T05:36:59Z")
Some grappa. I’ve heard that it all isn’t as bad as the stuff I tried, which was fairly expensive. Worst thing I have ever tasted. Worse than the weird scallop sushi thing, worse than the sea urchin. Other grappa may be better but I will never find out. ---
**Author:** ![destineal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@destineal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/destineal)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/9 "2012-10-08T05:53:15Z")
When I was about 14 I shoplifted a pint of MD20/20. It tastes of sweet and rot. 30 years later I’ve never tasted anything that comes close to that vileness. ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/10 "2012-10-08T07:00:11Z")
Cave Creek Chili Beer. Against my better judgement I bought a single bottle. It smelled like a pretty boring American lager. I took a medium sized swig and coughed it up through my nose and then projectile vomited. It had been an idyllic romantic weekend in wine country until that moment. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/11 "2012-10-08T07:03:05Z")
I’ve brought this up here before, but freshman year college, new student week: gin and cream soda. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/12 "2012-10-08T07:23:47Z")
> [@sitchensis](#): > > Apple juice, sugar, and baking yeast, in a 2 gallon plastic apple juice container. Put a balloon on the top of the container and vent it every day. Two weeks later, get drunk, a headache, and diarrhea. Should’ve used rapid-rise yeast, like I did–mine turned out okay. A bit cloudy, and for a time I thought I should have used a weather balloon for the lock, but not bad. As for the worst drink I’ve had…Green Mamba. I see that there’s something available by that name now–a mix of cider, lager, and fruit juice, which sounds vile enough–but not the stuff I encountered. It was a beer imported from some location in Africa, Hell, or both. Now, I’m not a fan of beer in the first place. I’ve been heard to call it rotten barley, among less kind things. This stuff actually _tasted_ like rotten barley, though…or rather, like the taste I imagine might be derived from rotten, moldy barley that someone scavenged off a barn floor after chasing the cattle out. It wasn’t just me, either; the dedicated beer drinkers who had talked me into trying a bunch of different beers with them gagged and spat and refused to take another sip. We decided that the stuff was named after a highly venomous critter for a reason. ---
**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/13 "2012-10-08T07:31:38Z")
The Nachos Margarita. Just… don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/14 "2012-10-08T09:09:24Z")
Gasoline. Trust me on this, never even taste it. Just don’t. In terms of alcoholic drinks, it would be the moonshine that a friend’s uncle distilled. It was so strong that it tasted of alcohol, and nothing but. I might as well have been drinking a bottle of rubbing alcohol that was purchased from the drugstore. I wanted to cut it with some Coke or maybe orange juice, but I was told not to, as that would insult Uncle. So, on the next round, I just had a bottle of beer. On the plus side, I can still see! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/15 "2012-10-08T09:39:52Z")
Recently, a friend of mine tried to make an alcoholic bubble tea with I think yoghurt, vodka, and I believe blue curacao thickened with alginate for the bubbles. Now I never drank any regular bubble tea, so I’m not sure the consistency is supposed to be this (hmm, I’m not sure there’s a word for this; kind of what you’d be left with if you subtracted the solid part from mushrooms)…eldritch-amorphously blobbish?, but I’m certain this particular dairy-cum-alcohol taste was never meant to be experienced by human tongues… ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/16 "2012-10-08T09:48:26Z")
Southern Comfort. A friend of mine calls this stuff “good whiskey.” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/17 "2012-10-08T09:54:13Z")
Drinking from the Grog. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/18 "2012-10-08T10:33:52Z")
I didn’t drink it myself, but one time we were out celebrating a friend’s birthday. The bartender (who knew us) recommended we order him a “Jersey Turnpike” shot, so we did. He then poured the contents of the little tray where he mixes the drink into a shot glass. ---
**Author:** ![Neverender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/848f3c/32.png) [@Neverender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neverender)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/19 "2012-10-08T10:44:42Z")
Not me personally, but a friend at university tried to ‘make’ jagermeister by mixing cough syrup and vodka. The resulting faces were priceless but he finished the pint! ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/20 "2012-10-08T10:52:15Z")
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