Drinks You've Vowed To Never Drink Again

[Edin_Clouds]

Bràulio, Italian amaro. Some amaro are good, but not Bràulio.

[HurstGrangeClaret]

Licor43. Landlord of The Stork brought it back from Spain back in the 80’s. Fed it to us on a “lock in”.

Never felt so rough and even the smell of it now makes me want to throw up……….

My second entry on this thread- not sure what that says about my alcohol intake!
I go to Spain maybe a couple of times a year, and really enjoy a”cuarente y tres”.
One night in the bar in the hotel I was staying in with my mates on a walking holiday we were on, I got served the biggest 43 I’ve ever seen, over ice. It slipped down very well, so foolishly had another. It took me about half an hour to eventually find my bedroom, I managed to miss my bed during the night after going for a p1ss and vaguely remember jarring my back. The next morning at breakfast, I was sat there with a throbbing head when my mate asked me where I’d got my black eye. I must have cracked it on the side of the bed.
What a bloody mess I was. Not sure how I managed to complete a difficult 10 mile walk that day with a bad head and back but I did.
And I do still enjoy a 43. We never learn sometimes.

[Tribesmen]

Whisky ....... can't even recall what brand about 50 years ago never touched a drop since . I worked in bars for years and every time someone else ordered one of used to blink once or twice .

[lakedistrictclaret]

Carlsberg Special. I had a night on it at University over fifty years ago and haven’t touched it since.
I haven’t had a drop of whisky for over fifty years either. I haven’t had a bad experience on it but I just can’t stand the smell or the taste.

[AfloatinClaret]

Which Round Table were you in? Presume it wasn't Arthur's

Chesterfield 33 it was many years ago

[Loyalclaret]

Absinthe
15 year old and my then girlfriend returned from Prague with a small bottle of absinthe, maybe 500ml and very high strength. We were going to a 16th birthday party in the social club of a local church. Sensibly I had a potato pot meal before to line my stomach, not sensibly I drank a shot of absinthe with every piece of potato. I finished the bottle.

I was very drunk and haven't touched it since. Tequila doesnt agree with me either but I occasionally drift back to it!

[EarbyClaret]

Another vote for Unicum

Aviation fuel strength with a cough medicine taste

The locals told us gullible Brits it was a sure fire hangover cure which was obviously code for you never sober up

Several hours spent with head hanging over a Budapest toilet bowl

[TsarBomba]

Another vote for Absinthe.

Had a Stroh 80 once before. Never again. I think I went blind for a few hours.

[nonayclaret]

Anything offered by a urologist.

[NottsClaret]

Not touched a drop of cider since I was 17. Can’t even drink apple juice.

[ClaretinJapan]

Chartreuse. Vile.

[Tackler49]

When i was on my stag my “friends “knew i liked Pernod so when we went to a night club after a pub crawl they said i had to have a drink with each one of them(10) so i thought we were all on double Pernods but it was only me on the doubles they had glasses with water in it took me 3 days to get over it i didn’t know you could be so ill and Not Die and now over 50 years later if i see a bottle of it the memories of that night come flooding back

[THEWELLERNUT70]

Think we've been in there. Do you go down some steps into the cellar to get to the bar?

Yes mate

[Herts Clarets]

Vodka. When I was 18 the last working day before Christmas was basically turn up in the morning, bring a couple of drinks along and as soon as the pubs were open off you go. So I take in a half bottle of vodka and a litre of coke. Most of that was consumed along with some evil home brewed wine that one of the old boys, Tom, had made. 11am arrives and it is off to the pub literally next door to work and onto pints. Stayed in there for a few then made our way to the Prairie and then onto Duke Bar. I have vague memories of exiting the Duke of York and crossing Colne Rd at the pedestrian crossing, only to fall over in the road. I was so hammered I struggled to get back up and ended up crawling across the road and pulling myself up on the railings. Then staggering into I think the Victoria and ordering another beer in there. And it was then that my excesses decided they would like to revisit me and I threw my guts up in the toilets. By the time i had finsihed my companions thought I had gone so moved on to the next pub. Wisely I realised I had enough and fell through the door of a taxi office to get a cab home. I was fortunate that the guy in the office recognised me as my brother played football for his team as I couldn't tell him where i lived. Got home and went to bed and was woken when a mate called askign if I was going out that evening. I barely lifted my head off the pillow, realised I had puked again when i was asleep and that was that until the following morning.

So vodka, never again after that episode, which is approaching 40 years ago.

[Clovius Boofus]

Yes mate

I thought so. I remember the owner giving us a couple of free drinks after we got talking to him about alternative music genres.

[magyver1]

Brandy for me
50 years ago I drank a half jack of the stuff in one go.
Girl friend dumped me at a party on Christmas eve
It was either throw the bottle against the garage door
And go home or drink it.
Well I drank it went back to the party and next thing I remember it was 2 days after Christmas and I was in the
S××t for ages.
Anyway it taught me a lesson and I have never had brandy again

[sjb]

Reading this thread makes me very glad I'm teetotal!

[Dressinggown]

A so called friend brought me back a couple of bottles of this stuff after returning from a trip to Jamaica.



I'm not one to pass up a gift so I took them on a trip to watch my local Lancashire League Cricket team at Walsden.

The first gulp was torture. The stuff burned the crap out of my innards and left me bent double, gasping for air.

A second slug was far more palatable and after a bit I started to warm to this unusual brew.

By the end of the first innings I had finished both bottles.

Then things got rather sketchy.

All I can recall is that I got on and off some trains and then miraculously ended back at Burnley Manchester Road station. I staggered off the train and tried to focus my eyes. Unfortunately, I was not at Burnley Manchester Road but Barrow in Furness.

[IanMcL]

Used to drink Pernod as a young man, for a short. Had Raki and Ouzo. All good. Had an equivalent called Chinchon in Spain. Very rough.

I was rougher!

Never puked so much. Hrad gone for a day plus afterwards. No food. Can't take the aniseed smell even now!

[Colburn_Claret]

Another vote for Chartreuse, really foul. I don't know how they sell it, never mind drink it.

[Tackler49]

What a brilliant thread had a good laugh at most of them, when you have experienced lost days or being so ill that dying seemed like it would be a mercy do you fully understand the replies in this thread

[mybloodisclaret]

Common themes here for me.

Tequila - once had far too many and now just the smell makes me quite unwell.

Absinthe - lost at cards on a lads holiday back around 1999. Every hand you lost was a double Absinthe
Lost 2 days of the holiday.

Sambuca - also evil.

Glad I've grown up a bit since those days, so is my liver.

[Eyres_11]

Absinthe
15 year old and my then girlfriend returned from Prague with a small bottle of absinthe, maybe 500ml and very high strength. We were going to a 16th birthday party in the social club of a local church. Sensibly I had a potato pot meal before to line my stomach, not sensibly I drank a shot of absinthe with every piece of potato. I finished the bottle.

I was very drunk and haven't touched it since. Tequila doesnt agree with me either but I occasionally drift back to it!

Bizarrely, I have a vivid memory of you doing this? Was it at end of street the do? I always link this drink to you

[SouthLondonexile]

Slivovitz bonkers rough plum brandy from the old Yugoslavia.
It erased the memory of 2 days of my life.

[Middle-agedClaret]

Boring but true answer - any alcohol.

[tarkys_ears]

Water

[Nonayforever]

Once went to the Bay Horse in Roughlee about 45 years ago and with it being posh back then, 3 of us had a meal with white wine instead of our normal Worthingtons or Bass.
We drank the wine as you would drink beer.
That night the room was spinning and spinning, my mum woke me up in the morning & asked why I didn't go to the bathroom to be sick and I explained that I couldn't move.
I didn't drink white wine for quite a while ( years ) but absolutely love it now.

[Loyalclaret]

Bizarrely, I have a vivid memory of you doing this? Was it at end of street the do? I always link this drink to you

Yes mate, same party

[ALHAMBRA 1925]

Sidari, Corfu early eighties.
All I can remember was the wife and I went into a bar full of locals and I was drinking the very moreish OUZO with
gusto.
I can just about remember dancing in the middle of a circle of clapping and chanting people, I had a bald headed portly man on my shoulders.
The next day I was woke up by the wife ( I was bollock naked ) she told me I was in big trouble.
Apparently I launched my portly shoulder passenger the full length of the bar and he broke his arm.
I did the right thing and went straight to the bar and found out where " Georgie" lived and went down to his house and shook his good hand and said me sorries.
So I've sacked OUZO for good.