No, Bud Light definitely tastes bad. Watered down bad. Like a mouthful-of-backwash-at-the-bottom-of-a-bottle-that-is-then-topped-off-with-water bad.
PBR is down right delicious comparatively for it’s price range especially. And way better than Bud light which is in a higher price bracket.
Since you mentioned that, my Mormon friends liked Fresca, which passed their own dietary laws.
Correction: Squirt, not Sprite, is grapefruit (although Stag Semen Stout could have also been called Squirt)
Fresca was a grapefruit soda - it was awesome!
Plus she probably saved on embalming costs…
Probably! I don’t recall if it was #4 or #17. Mineral water is one thing. I don’t think drinking water should be called “medicinal,” and I suspect my own definition of “medicinal” differs from theirs anyway.
Correct, and Squirt is far, far superior to Fresca.
I bought a bottle on our honeymoon. We just celebrated our 10th anniversary and it’s still 3/4 full.
Talk about setting a low bar.
Awww, when it’s available, Squirt and rum on ice is wonderful.
Malta Duchesa. I thought it was just some Mexican beer.
Back in my college days, my cohort and I would choose the cheapest and least reputable bum wines for our dorm room drinking. MD 20/20, Night Train and Thunderbird were usually on the menu. I remember Thunderbird being the harshest and least drinkable of the bunch. This being the early-mid 90s, the ladies were treated to a more respectable selection of wine coolers.
We used to do this for a laff when I was a student. I didn’t think it was too bad.
For myself…Turkey calling! I’ve mentioned this a couple of times before: Şalgam. When I found something on Turkish menus that was translated as “Turnip juice” I just had to try it. It’s worth doing once. I can’t improve on my original description
“The guy serving explained that you could have it cold or hot, and hot was more usual, so that’s what I opted for. Turns out his English was good but not great - he meant it came either hot (spicy) or mild. What I had tasted like (as closely as I can describe it) bitter tomato juice containing a ridiculous amount of Worcestershire sauce. Glad I did it? Yes. Ever again? No.”
The wiki, for anyone interested. From which:
şalgam is made with the sour and salty brine of purple carrot pickles, salted, spiced and flavoured with aromatic turnip (çelem) fermented in barrels with the addition of ground bulgur and rock salt.
Enjoy.
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If this thread isn’t proof that every known culture on earth finds something to ferment and use as an intoxicant, I don’t know what is. LOL
As far as I know, most North American Indians didn’t (they did in Mexico and the Southwest, but nowhere else, ASAIK.
I’ve always been surprised by this. Certainly fermentable fruits – including, notably, Labrusca grapes – grow in the Americas. And the Indians certainly had pottery containers. There’s no reason they couldn’t have produced various wines. Bu they don’t seem to have.
We are far classier in Canada. We splurged on Mateus. The bottle was better than the wine.
Find some Unicum if you can. That’ll be right up your alley. Although the one they sell in the US is usually Zwack Liqueur, which is a sweeter more citrusy version than the original Unicum.
You have that too in the US? Wow. I came here to write about Sauerkrautsaft, which is exactly that: the brine in which sauerkraut is fermented. They say it is mightily healthy. Going by the taste, it must be.
That is a good one! We used to drink it in our misspent youth with sparkling wine, hitting the glass hard against the counter to make if fizz and downing it in one go. If you got to three you were sure to vomit. Great times!
Nitpick: Underberg. We could have used that too back then, but our bar considered it too old fashioned, something for old people. Jägermeister would also qualify in a similar gross vein, though it made headlines in Germany a couple of years ago when word came out that the NY club scene had adopted it as a long drink. Made a lot of people laugh.
We’ve discussed sauerkraut juice here before, and looking back on old threads see that it’s an old home remedy for canker sores
For late night ultramarathon aid stations, Fireball whiskey is the go to alcoholic drink of choice. Also pickle juice is often used for electrolyte replacement. So, last year I brought some Wicked Pickle, spicy pickle flavored whiskey.
It didn’t go over well.
And one can assume that the empty Fireball Whiskey minibottles are tossed onto the nearby grass? They definitely are here, regardless of where or why they’re used.