# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/61 "2012-10-09T09:20:00Z")
My great uncle thought it would be funny to put whiskey in my chocolate milk. UGH. I once tried putting vodka in my soup. FAIL. I also can’t understand the great love for gin. Tastes like pine needles. I generally don’t see the point in directly mixing alcohols that aren’t part of a normal cocktail. Recipe for disaster. It’s better to drink one at a time with a palette cleanser in between. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/62 "2012-10-09T09:34:12Z")
I can’t believe this has gone this far with no mention of [Champale](https://www.google.com/search?q=champale&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=QO5zULyuKsK0yAHY44H4Dw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=736#hl=en&safe=off&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=champale+malt+liquor&oq=champale+malt+liquor&gs_l=img.3..0i24j0i5i24l4.1839.1839.3.2769.1.1.0.0.0.0.208.208.2-1.1.0...0.0...1c.1.5g1OmrWky6s&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=3bfbf2f4cb339373&biw=1600&bih=736). ---
**Author:** ![azraiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@azraiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/azraiel)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/63 "2012-10-09T10:04:14Z")
I’ll not ask if you were ever young, naive, and stupid. I’ll not ask if you’ve ever found yourself four months into a study abroad with the same damned song stuck in your head with almost no way to get the ear worm out (well before i-tunes or any other online music service). I’ll not ask if that song was “Johnny 99” by Bruce Springsteen. And I’ll not ask if you misinterpreted the line “came home too drunk from mixin’ Tanqueray and wine” as if the protagonist was literally mixing the two, instead of alternating. I’ll not ask if you spent an entire evening with a pint of Tanqueray and a bottle of cheap red wine, trying to make the combination work. I’ll not ask any of these things. I’ll just say: don’t. ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/64 "2012-10-09T12:25:43Z")
chartreuse. ---
**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 9, 2012, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/65 "2012-10-09T12:39:04Z")
Now add all the stuff thats been mentioned already and put it in a punch bowl. Thats the Grog at an Army Dining-In. Prost. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/66 "2012-10-09T13:06:28Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > 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. I love a bit of farmyard scrumpy myself, but admit that you have to like/tolerate the essence of cowsh\*t together with apples to truly enjoy. I don’t think this story has been linked to yet (apologies if so): [http://www.channel4.com/news/liquid-nitrogen-cocktail-process-under-investigation](http://www.channel4.com/news/liquid-nitrogen-cocktail-process-under-investigation) ‘Threadwinner’, I think. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/67 "2012-10-09T13:15:48Z")
Know the **George Thorogood** cover of \*\*John Lee Hooker’s \*\* song _One Boubon, One Scotch, One Beer_? On a few occasions I’ve been in bars and some version of the song is playing. I always ask the tender if (s)he has ever had anyone order the trio. Typically they tell me no, and we start to talk about it. I’ve done it for shits and giggles and it is awful. Try it. Line up a shot of bourbon, a shot of scotch, and a glass of beer. Cool song, but bleeeech. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/68 "2012-10-09T13:16:05Z")
Thirding the bacon vodka. Definitely not two great tastes that taste great together. Blurrrgh. ---
**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 9, 2012, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/69 "2012-10-09T13:19:21Z")
> [@Ephemera](#): > > I’m no alcoholic (though the friends who tried to stage an intervention for me a few months ago would disagree) and am not sure what a pisshead is, but I’m a drink adventurer. I just prefer beer to liquor, and specifically hate whiskys. What little I can taste other than the alcohol is smoky and muddy, and those aren’t flavors I generally enjoy. A piss head is basically an alco. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/70 "2012-10-09T13:26:40Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > A piss head is basically an alco. Now wait one minute. I may be an alco, but I’m not, nor have I ever been a piss head. :mad: I’m more than willing to accept your apology, providing you buy the next round. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/71 "2012-10-09T13:30:57Z")
Raki. Specifically, the treble shot of raki I knocked back thinking it was vodka. Yuck yuck yuck. Aniseed is just about the only supposedly edible flavour that I simply cannot understand the appeal of (barring a _very_ small amount as a spice in savoury foods). Anything like that - ouzo, sambuca, pastis etc - just tastes like distilled essence of illness to me. Other unpleasant drinks: [Unicum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicum). I quite liked this the first time I tried it, but I brought a bottle home and it did whatever the opposite of growing on you is. And a bottle of Spanish-made tequila a bar in Ibiza lured us in with (free when you buy four beers!). Just typing that sentence has made my mouth start to water in a sympathetic pre-retch manner. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/72 "2012-10-09T13:32:10Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Other unpleasant drinks: [Unicum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicum). I’m mildly disappointed that this is not milky white. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/73 "2012-10-09T13:34:38Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I’m mildly disappointed that this is not milky white. Oh no. Unicorn cum is jet black (and leaves a slightly greenish-brown, oily residue in the glass). Interesting fact: the name of the manufacturer, Zwack, is also the exact same noise you will likely make after first tasting it. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/74 "2012-10-09T13:39:53Z")
Oh, I just remembered another one. New Year’s Eve, a ski chalet in the French Alps. We had a balcony overlooking the village firework display. We had champagne. Life was good. Then someone decided it would be cool and festive to add [Goldschläger](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldschl%C3%A4ger) to the champagne. Result: lots of delicious bubbly turned into undrinkable syrupy cinnamon-flavoured pigswill, with flecks of gold in. ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/75 "2012-10-09T13:40:13Z")
There’s a liquor sold only in the Chicago area (I think) called [Malort.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal%C3%B6rt) From the label: > [@](#): > > "Most first-time drinkers of Jeppson Malort reject our liquor. Its strong, sharp taste is not for everyone. Our liquor is rugged and unrelenting (even brutal) to the palate. During almost 60 years of American distribution, we found only 1 out of 49 men will drink Jeppson Malort. During the lifetime of our founder, Carl Jeppson was apt to say, ‘My Malort is produced for that unique group of drinkers who disdain light flavor or neutral spirits.’ It’s not _that_ bad on the way down. The aftertaste is reminiscent of bug spray. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/76 "2012-10-09T15:43:26Z")
Is Malort really a Chicago thing? I guess it might be, considering this is the only place I’ve had it. In any case, it’s horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/77 "2012-10-09T15:53:19Z")
Cooking wine. Dunno what they put in it, but it was vile, and I couldn’t drink more than a sip. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/78 "2012-10-09T16:02:52Z")
I’ve been drunk enough that drinking cooking wine seemed like a good idea. And don’t you dare fucking judge me. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/79 "2012-10-09T16:07:40Z")
I once drank an entire bottle of aromatic bitters. I wasn’t even drunk. ---
**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 9, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054/80 "2012-10-09T16:54:46Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Other unpleasant drinks: [Unicum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicum). I quite liked this the first time I tried it, but I brought a bottle home and it did whatever the opposite of growing on you is. I love Unicum, and am sad that you can’t get it in the States (they sell a rebranded version of Unicum Next called “Zwack Liqueur”, a sweeter and more citrusy variation of Unicum.) That said, it really can be a shock if you’re not used to hardcore bitters. If you like the general idea of Jaegermeister, but find it not bitter enough and too sweet, Unicum might be the drink for you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-alcoholics-piss-heads-drink-adventurers-etc-whats-the-worst-drink-youve-ever-had/637054.md?page=5)