Absolut Disco Bottle

BaZmO*

What a great piece of marketing from Absolut.

Saw a bottle in Dunnes the other night and it looks the business. I'd say they'll sell a lot over the next month or two.

rubadub

Yes, looks class, everybody in tescos was picking them up. The vodka market is massive and smirnoff red have a bizarre hold on it, similar to budweiser having a large hold on the beer market, yet other beers do compete, but smirmoff red must outsell others hugely- and its muck!

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There was a time when Smirnoff and Huzzar were the only Vodkas available in pubs.

Smirnoff was seen as the more "exclusive" of the two.

My mother and sister are rabid Smirnoff drinkers, apparently the bubbles move differently in a Vodka and 7Up depending on the vodka used.

BaZmO*

DesF wrote: »

There was a time when Smirnoff and Huzzar were the only Vodkas available in pubs.

Smirnoff was seen as the more "exclusive" of the two.

Haha, I remember that. Back in the day when I used to work as a lounge-boy in the local you'd always hear the aul biddies say to ya after ordering a Vodka and coke, "Make sure it's Smirnoff and not that Huzzar sh1te!!"

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I also used to be a lounge boy, and the pub I worked in used to pour Huzzar into empty Smirnoff bottles.

True story.

BaZmO*

DesF wrote: »

I also used to be a lounge boy, and the pub I worked in used to pour Huzzar into empty Smirnoff bottles.

True story.

No need for the clarification, I believe ya!

Thomas_S_Hunterson

DesF wrote: »

I also used to be a lounge boy, and the pub I worked in used to pour Huzzar into empty Smirnoff bottles.

True story.

As long as ye weren't watering them down...

JIZZLORD

i picked up one of thm disco bottles for a christmas present (if i bought them zubrowka i'd get a blank look, and be thought of as a cheepscate for buying polish stuff), absolut is good stuff, better than smifnoff any day.

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Zubrowka is the ONLY vodka I drink.

Educate the fools.

JIZZLORD

last time i showed up at a house party with tyskie i got lots of slagging for bringing "cheap polish piss". most people would assume polish anything to be crap.
it's all in the mind. grey goose was only created as french stuff has a certain air of class to it

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JIZZLORD wrote: »

last time i showed up at a house party with tyskie i got lots of slagging for bringing "cheap polish piss". most people would assume polish anything to be crap.

Well, it IS cheap and Polish

JIZZLORD wrote: »

it's all in the mind. grey goose was only created as french stuff has a certain air of class to it

I hate this snobbish attitude when it comes to alcohol tbh. Each to their own.

Apart from Bud. Bud is truly vile.

Mr Magnolia

DesF wrote: »

Zubrowka is the ONLY vodka I drink.
Educate the fools.

How would you recommend it? Would you drink it neat?

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I have done.

But, it goes particularly well with chilled apple juice. The clear apple jiuce, not the cloudy one.

If you can chill a glass in the freezer and have the juice chilled too, then that's perfect.


OR, get that Polish Apple/Cherry juice.

Mr Magnolia

Cheers Des. I'll have to give it a try.

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It's such a smooth vodka.

Tabnabs

If you ever find yourself within nabbing distance, nicest vodka I have ever had was Viking Fjord. Yum, yum!

JIZZLORD

Zubrowka and apple juice = good
zubrowka and red bull = horrible.

DesF wrote: »

Well, it IS cheap and Polish

but tyskie is good, and that's all that matters, the other lads were drinking bud and miller. if i showed up with leffe the same would probably have happened

BeerNut

DesF wrote: »

But, it goes particularly well with chilled apple juice. The clear apple jiuce, not the cloudy one.

Having been told again and again to bung some apple juice into my Zubrowka, I finally tried it the other day. It's really hard to get the balance right: too much apple juice and it's too sickly sweet; too much vodka and it's too bitter and grassy. I think on balance I'll stick to drinking Zubrowka chilled and neat.

I think the Poles are just into really sweet drinks, hence the whole beer-and-syrup atrocity.

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JIZZLORD wrote: »

but tyskie is good, and that's all that matters, the other lads were drinking bud and miller. if i showed up with leffe the same would probably have happened

Yeah, Tyske is great.

I bought a leffe in The Porterhouse before, along with the glass and all the lads who were drinking bottles of poxy miller were looking at em in shock, for drinking out of a girly glass.

Imbeciles.

Theta

Thats class is it the same price as regular Absolut??

BaZmO*

Dunno, but it's priced at €23.99 in Dunnes

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Picked up a bottle there today, it was €23.99 in Tesco, Bloomfields.

They had the regular bottles (without the disco shell) on special at €20.99. Tis a fine addition to any liqour cabinet

gustavo

Is that the vodka with the reed in it? Myself and my Polish housemate polished (Lolz) off a bottle of it the other night

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Zubrowka is yeah.

And it's Bison Grass, not a reed

gustavo

DesF wrote: »

Zubrowka is yeah.

And it's Bison Grass, not a reed

Thanks!

cson

DesF wrote: »

Apart from Bud. Bud is truly vile.

Easy to see why the yanks have the age at 21