Sweet fancy Moses...thank you. (Yet another VSF spamathon)

[BabyHeads]

So, here I am with (FX)Circle K in Deer Park, Tex-arse. A sprawling landscape of big diesel trucks, refineries, kuntry folk, refineries, cowboy hats, refineries, chewin' tobacco, refineries, refineries, refineries.

We're staying @ a Comfort Suites and we have a fridge and a microwave in our rooms. I decide to roll out to the local liquor store to pick up some libations for the week.

While browsing the over priced vodka (30 bucks for Belvedere??? 45 buckd for Belvanie 12 year scotch???) I found my old, USMC friend. There they were. Looking oh so sexy on the shelf. My ghetto achilies heel. My old school party drink. There they were in neat little rows of 2. A hint of dust lay upon their rounded bottle shoulders. A cool chill ran down my spine as I knew, the rest of the trip was suddenly tolerable.

My queen of low class sweet tasting drinks.......


BRASS MONKEY! (that funky monkey)

They don't sell it anymore in SoCal. I bought two bottles (I should buy a case and bring it back with me). Circle had a glass of the first, I finished the rest of that sweet, ghetto nectar. Last night, while watching Iron Monkey projected to the wall of the hotel room, we finished the second.

Anyone else have fond memories of a low class drink?

[Iggy]

Worst drinking experience ever was a gallon of wine called "Wild Irish Rose". I swear it tried to burn a hole in my stomach, not that it was there long enough to finish the job. :sour:

[LilPuppy]

Became fond of some bootleg mezcal in Mexico that you bought by the plastic zip-lock bag , now that's class.. :beer:

[laters]

I once had two sips of Wild Turkey (a.k.a., "crazy chicken") on a cold winter night while I was on a geology field trip with my class, and the next morning they told me I went skinny dipping in the lake. I believe there's a picture of me floating around on the Internet that shows major shrinkage.

[SpongeBob]

Mickey's barrel bottles. Back when they had the peel back/slip top gizmo. Malt Liquor pwns joo!!!!!

[Chairman_Kaga]

Micky's

oooh that mighty mouse with the big mouth. Had to be the pull tab one though. ;)

http://www.portlandmercury.com/2003-08-07/feature-7.jpg



edit:
LMAO sponge, I was searching for the picture when you posted. Couldn't find the pull tab version though.

Loved those handgrenade sized bottles.

[SauerKraut]

Mad Dog 20/20. Seemed to be my college fraternity's 2nd favourite drink, next to Drummand Bros. beer. Many a night we forgot our names in the basement during "official" gatherings. Strawberry Kiwi pwned my senses.



Anyone else heard of Drummond Bros. beer? Nasty ash sh**. But if it's 1 degree colder than freezing, it's the best ever. Very strange.


In order to get a new member pushed along in the forums, I'll let HEINO talk all about it...come on Heino, come out from behind that couch.

[LionRampant]

Stroh, some Austrian paint stripper or something... OMFG. Within a minute I was regurgitating my lasagne. :puke:

The 80% one... http://www.alitrade.cz/images/stroh.jpg

Otto, if you can find it, I dare you to try it.

[SpongeBob]

Micky's

oooh that mighty mouse with the big mouth. Had to be the pull tab one though. ;)

http://www.portlandmercury.com/2003-08-07/feature-7.jpg



edit:
LMAO sponge, I was searching for the picture when you posted. Couldn't find the pull tab version though.

Loved those handgrenade sized bottles.
Yup, they had that little hornet or something on the top. Evil little buggers, so easy to chug.

[CMontyBurns]

Stroh, some Austrian paint stripper or something... OMFG. Within a minute I was regurgitating my lasagne. :puke:

The 80% one... http://www.alitrade.cz/images/stroh.jpg

Otto, if you can find it, I dare you to try it.
Otto DON'T
my parents are Austrian - i have seen the effects of Stroh... hell I may be the after effects of too much

[LionRampant]

Stroh, some Austrian paint stripper or something... OMFG. Within a minute I was regurgitating my lasagne. :puke:

The 80% one... http://www.alitrade.cz/images/stroh.jpg

Otto, if you can find it, I dare you to try it.
Otto DON'T
my parents are Austrian - i have seen the effects of Stroh... hell I may be the after effects of too much
:lol:

[Chalybos]

Nastiest cheap stuff I ever had was Stegmaier (http://www.oldbeerstuff.com/steg.html). It was something crazy like $4 a case at the local liquor store, so one of my cheap friends from high school bought like 15 cases. There's a reason that it was that cheap; it makes Bud taste like Guinness. Cheap stuff with pleasant memories for me would be Smirnoff, in the half-gallon plastic jugs. I don't want to say how much we drank back then, but that wasn't half of it. We used to hit the liquor store every night. How my liver still works is beyond me.

[Iggy]

Does anyone here actually enjoy drinking Jägermeister? That's one of those things I just don't get... :dead:

[Chalybos]

Does anyone here actually enjoy drinking Jägermeister? That's one of those things I just don't get... :dead:
Only thing that makes it palatable is watching the expression on the other drinkers faces.

[MASH]

http://www.nakamaru1.com/oe8.jpg

Oh, and Jager pwns joo!! I had some last night. :D

[MadSci]

Does anyone here actually enjoy drinking Jägermeister? That's one of those things I just don't get... :dead:

I still wonder why my friends order these shots when we go out :sour: :dead:

[SauerKraut]

Jäger rulez!


Tastes most excellent super cold. But then, I'm the kind of guy who likes black licorice ....... a LOT!

[Dawg]

I used to drink an awful lot of Milwaukee's Best (the Beast from Milwaukee...) but then I got a job.

BTW - "malt liquor" is nothing more than high alcohol beer. In the US, if a beer/ale has a certain alcohol content it cannot be labelled 'beer' and instead is labeled 'malt liquor'. However, you may notice that certain types of beer/ale escape the 'malt liquor' label by using their specific type name instead (e.g. doppelbock, barleywine, etc..). The specific wording of the rule escapes me though and I don't feel like surfing the ATF website looking for it.. :)

EDIT: I nevered cared for Jagermeister, but I do like Barenjager.

Dawg

[DrGreen]

Who hasn't had "The Monkey on they back"?
When I was playing fiddle,
the Mad Dog would chase the Monkey,
Wild Irish Rose was sniffed on the Night Train,
& special occasions celebrated with Manachevitz on Boone's Farm.
Right before or livers pulled the emergency release cord and we went blind we were able to compose what became my favorite of our songs,
"$3 Bottle of Wine".
They're evil.
EVIL!!![/color]

[Chalybos]

Jäger rulez!

Tastes most excellent super cold. But then, I'm the kind of guy who likes black licorice ....... a LOT!

Tastes pretty good warm too!

I enjoy sambuca as well.

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From my poor college days their was Schaeffer and Busch.

In 1982 Schaeffer was $7 a case and they didn't card you!
Mmmmmmmmm, 'Buca.

[RuperT]

Who hasn't had "The Monkey on they back"?
When I was playing fiddle,
the Mad Dog would chase the Monkey,
Wild Irish Rose was sniffed on the Night Train,
& special occasions celebrated with Manachevitz on Boone's Farm.
Right before or livers pulled the emergency release cord and we went blind we were able to compose what became my favorite of our songs,
"$3 Bottle of Wine".
They're evil.
EVIL!!![/color]
Many of my High School comrades like Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill, but I preferred Kountry Kwencher! A favorite trick was to pour the entire bottle into a cup and drink in one swig... weee, dizzy!
Pure Grain Alcohol was another favorite (as documented elsewhere on this site), but it only qualifies technically I think.

[BabyHeads]

Has anyone done corn whiskey????

[RobRoy]

Has anyone done corn whiskey???? :roll: :roll: :wink: :D

[SayDude]

Stroh, some Austrian paint stripper or something... OMFG. Within a minute I was regurgitating my lasagne. :puke:

The 80% one... http://www.alitrade.cz/images/stroh.jpg

Otto, if you can find it, I dare you to try it.
Otto DON'T
my parents are Austrian - i have seen the effects of Stroh... hell I may be the after effects of too much

HeH.. remember those little miller pony's...now that’s old school

SD

[Chairman_Kaga]

Has anyone done corn whiskey????
If you mean pure white lightnin', yup. My uncle in Rainseville Alabama used to make it. Burned a hole in my stomach in one shot. :(

[SauerKraut]

Has anyone done corn whiskey???? :roll: :roll: :wink: :D

I think corn whiskey tastes good. Is that wrong? Does it really taste bad to you people?

I prefer a bourbon made of corn than any other straight whiskey. For sure.

[SauerKraut]

Has anyone done corn whiskey????
If you mean pure white lightnin', yup. My uncle in Rainseville Alabama used to make it. Burned a hole in my stomach in one shot. :(

I had the "real thing" once. It was purportedly already about 20 years old,
aged in a glass gallon jug. Ugh.
I downed a single shot. It was uncut and perhaps 160+ proof.
It burned unlike Everclear with a bitter aftertaste.
I have no idea what it was made from but I suspected kerosene was involved somehow.
Perhaps if it had been cut down to 80-90 proof and aged in a decent container it might have been better.

Everclear. Perhaps my most embarrassing alchohol story ever! Of course there was the first time I drank Mezcal...... :roll:


I don't think grain alcohol ages in glass, call me crazy.

Anyway, pure grain alcohol makes me want to drink a gallon of Pepto Bismal for every 1oz. of Everclear.


Mezcal? How about some absinthe? Oh, wait...that's illegal in this country. :roll:

[Chairman_Kaga]

Has anyone done corn whiskey????
If you mean pure white lightnin', yup. My uncle in Rainseville Alabama used to make it. Burned a hole in my stomach in one shot. :(

I had the "real thing" once. It was purportedly already about 20 years old,
aged in a glass gallon jug. Ugh.
I downed a single shot. It was uncut and perhaps 160+ proof.
It burned unlike Everclear with a bitter aftertaste.
I have no idea what it was made from but I suspected kerosene was involved somehow.
Perhaps if it had been cut down to 80-90 proof and aged in a decent container it might have been better.

Everclear. Perhaps my most embarrassing alchohol story ever! Of course there was the first time I drank Mezcal...... :roll:
This was uncut and in a glass mason jar with the brass top. When I opened the top, you could see the vapors coming out. Burned my eyes just looking down into the jar. Tasted much worse than Everclear. Probably the same strength though.

And Sauer, I believe you are correct. Once oxygen is cut off (put in a sealed glass jar) it stops aging. Partially why they use cork in wine bottles. Allows a bit of "aging" to happen after it's bottled.