What's the craziest drink you've had?

Xavi6

Inspired by this article about hangovers while on holidays -

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23355572-5011960,00.html

Horror holiday hangovers

HOW did you get the hangover from hell on your overseas holiday when you only had a few drinks?

"Every culture has its own potent brew," says Dr Tony Gherardin, National Medical Adviser to The Travel Doctor group. "In Bali it might be arrack, which is akin to straight vodka. In China, it's a Mai Thai which smells like kerosene.

"But because your body isn't used to it, it's going to affect you differently. And where the locals would have maybe a small shot, after a meal, we go there and drink in much larger quantities."

One such cultural brew involving a preserved seahorse was the undoing of Mark, 35, while holidaying in Hanoi, Vietnam.

"There were vendors at little tables on the streets with jars of liquids with things submerged in them – apparently that was the national liquor.

"We sat at one of the stools and drank shots out of one promising looking jar, which had preserved seahorses floating in it. The guys serving us told us it was made from quality rice from a local village.

"It was pretty raw – but after a few shots my throat was anaesthetised enough for it to go down without too much trouble.

"After a few hours I made it back to my hotel, not feeling too tipsy at all. But the next morning was another story altogether. Head spinning and pounding, stomach churning, I had to travel 500km south to Vinh, squashed into a four wheel drive with half a dozen others.

"I found out later that the stuff I'd drunk was made from cassava not rice, and with all sorts of additives, seahorses the most benign. I made it through the day, dry retching in the car. I was sick the next day too. Being offered cold steamed sheep's tripe for breakfast didn't really help."

"Cultural brews" are pop luck

So what is it that you are drinking?

Arrack, Mai Thai and Jungle Juice are just some of the generic names given to the mysterious potent cultural brew whose ingredients change depending on the vendor, their budget, locale and maker. The truth is, you don't really know what's in them.

Dr Gherardin says this is the most likely cause of those hellish holiday hangovers – not knowing what is in your drink.

As Mark discovered in Vietnam, you may be getting cassava and a dead seahorse when you think you're getting rice.

Be careful, and as Dr Gherardin warns, "be particularly wary of home-distilled spirits from friendly hosts. These can contain methanol instead of ethanol, which can make you go blind."

Hangover cures

And how do you deal with that hangover from hell?

Drink lots of water, says Dr Gherardin, and replenish your glucose levels by drinking cordial or juice.

Make sure you travel with electrolyte sachets on hand to mix with water, according to Louisa Comito, a naturopath based in Melbourne. She also says black coffee can take away the pounding head, if you can stomach it.

"Hangovers are the result of your body being poisoned, so you need to flush out the toxins. Lots and lots of water," Comito says.

Anyone had this mad seahorse brew while in Vietnam? Or anything else completely off the wall for that matter?



(I await Ruu's choice of TK Lemonade )

weeder

turpentine, was drunk and twas in a vodka bottle

Pighead

Can a drink be crazy? Surely thats like asking "Whats the angriest food you've had?" or " Whats the most sympathethic car you've drove?"

Anyway, if there were a proper answer to this question it would be this.
http://crazycola.com/crazycola.jpg

Xavi6

Pighead wrote: »

Can a drink be crazy? Surely thats like asking "Whats the angriest food you've had?" or " Whats the most sympathethic car you've drove?"

Anyway, if there were a proper answer to this question it would be this.
http://crazycola.com/crazycola.jpg

Ever the pedant Pighead. While I appreciate your liking for words to be used in the dictionary sense, I know full well that you understood the context that the word 'crazy' was being used in. Cheers for taking the time to point out the discrepency though.

And please, feel free to give me a suitable alternative and I'll get the thread title edited just for you.

tallus

Had a couple of Irish Carbombs a few years back in Boston. Was well locked.

Pighead

Xavi6 wrote: »

And please, feel free to give me a suitable alternative and I'll get the thread title edited just for you.

Pigheads torn between "Wackiest" and "Daftest". Probably edging slightly more towards "Daftest" due to the alliteration potential. Cheers Xavi. Appreciate your flexibility on this issue.

Xavi6

Pighead wrote: »

Pigheads torn between "Wackiest" and "Daftest". Probably edging slightly more towards "Daftest" due to the alliteration potential. Cheers Xavi. Appreciate your flexibility on this issue.

Consider it PM'd to our esteemed overlords.

boneless

An infused hot drink made from the nut of a central American plant... 'twas whacky in the extreme but hey, there was fcek all else to do in Nicaragua at the time...

Saint_Mel

Had a work night out at Leopardstown Races a few years ago and we were drinking what the barman called "Shítface"

Basicially he got a pint glass, ice, then put a shot of pretty much everything that was on an optic, and then filled the rest up with coke.

Work were paying for it but we paid for it later with the hangover!!!

Other than that I got fairly plastered drinking Cava in Fiji.

GuanYin

Irish Whisky.

I'm never sure why I agree to it, I had some tonight and I feel ill now.

godtabh

Brevinin (or how ever you spell it) from Iceland.

I was destroyed after it

Unpossible

Chinese rice wine*. We used regular shot glasses instead of the little thimble ones. We also went to a pub and drank beer and tequila in the same night so the results were not plesant. Now if I ever have more than one shot of rice wine I spend the next day like that mark lad. vomitting and dry retching for several hours.

*Its somewhere between 40-60 % I can't remember how much the one we had was.

briantwin

Peyote tea....... Psycholicious!!

PeadarofAodh

Stumbled back to a friend's house after a night out and had 3 shots of chilli pepper spirits. Have absolutely no idea where it came from or what it was made of but it was clear with a chilli pepper floating in it and tasted like tobasco sauce mixed with vodka.

Worst hangover I've ever, ever had...:(

eldeabroad

Moreso in the Basque Country, but popular in spain in general and some european countries, "Kalimotxo" a 50/50 mix of red wine and coke. The wine has to be bad..... ah feck it read the wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calimocho

´tis great schtuff, though the hangover can be dire, especially during the hot summer. Diarrhorrea is a well known side effect too for the un-initiated.

The story goes that it was invented where I live, so ´tis very popular around here.

That is all.:D

s_carnage

Double red aftershock in a pint glass with a smifnoff ice.

I call it absolute carnage. Its a lot nicer that it sounds, believe me!!!!

zuutroy

Tequila Stuntman...when downing the shot is the easy part, something's wrong....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tequila_stuntman

Xavi6

My worst one was a Suicide Tequila

Basically you sniff the salt, down the shot, then squeeze the lemon in your eye. I'm not sure which part is the worst.

EDIT: I see the poster before me has it covered, just a different name. Mad shit altogether!

TerrorFirmer

A few nights ago me and my girlfriend resigned ourselves to having one drink each. that one drink was 4 shots of vodka, diluted with other spirits, alcopops and ribena....in a large vase filled to the top.

First time I've been drunk after 'one' drink.

zuutroy

Xavi6 wrote: »

My worst one was a Suicide Tequila

Basically you sniff the salt, down the shot, then squeeze the lemon in your eye. I'm not sure which part is the worst.

doesn't read his own thread...nice :pac:

Wiki claims it was invented by steve-o which is total crap as I was drinking em in '97 long before he was on our screens.

Xavi6

zuutroy wrote: »

doesn't read his own thread...nice :pac:

Wiki claims it was invented by steve-o which is total crap as I was drinking em in '97 long before he was on our screens.

Ah now. My reply was only 3 mins after your original post. Not like I left it hours. Plus it was edited straight away to give you your credit.

dodgyme

I drank dirty black chain saw oil that my old man had left in a mineral bottle. Really hot day and and I downed it quickly as the bottle was full. Horrible taste off it. My mother stuck me under a tap for 10 mins washing my mouth out, then off outside again to cause more havoc.

zuutroy

Xavi6 wrote: »

Ah now. My reply was only 3 mins after your original post. Not like I left it hours. Plus it was edited straight away to give you your credit.

Indeed, but this is boards, where even the most miniscule transgression is ridiculed. :pac::pac:

The ol' pacs are great aren't they :pac::pac::pac:

smashey

Vietnamese snake wine with the dead cobra in the bottle. I drank it in straight from the bottle and threw the snake at the lads.

marco_polo

Blue aftershock and OJ, also known as the poor mans fat frog. It turns the same colour but is way cheaper. Gratuitous pacman :pac:

Zzippy

Absinthe. Never again. Ever. Ever.

kev_s88

pints of TVR......tequila, vodka and red bull all in equal measures

worst.hangover.ever

RonMexico

I've a bottle of 68% Absinthe here its lethal stuff. I've never had anything that has ****ed me up so badly as that stuff.I have the spoon for balancing the sugar cubes over the glass and all. First had it in the states, picked up a bottle in Heathrow and when I got to Denver I ordered the spoon to my student mailbox. When the lads saw it in my dorm room they thought it was for smoking crack. I also ended up drinking Mescal with a Colorado State Trooper one night and it had a maggot in the bottle. I was well bolloxed after it. He had taken it off some Mexican lads that he had pulled over earlier. Sucks for them haha.

Zzippy

Zzippy wrote: »

Absinthe. Never again. Ever. Ever.

+1

THe black 80% one is the worst.... had that in Spain. I drank a tumbler of it after a night out and was ****ing out of it. Sick as a dog the next day. DONT TOUCH IT. The 60%(60-70% ? ) green one isn't as bad but still very very crazy(yes Pighead CRAZY ) . I drank half a pint of the green one a few years back and was off my head, didn't black out but I was **** faced!

jazoo

the killer sniffer
sambucca and any liqueur strongest you can get.Put a measure of each in glass and flame,put your hand over the glass to trap the fumes make a gap between your thumb and fore finger to get your nose in to sniff the fumes, when the fumes are gone just lash back the drink happy days. We where on a lads holiday bout 15 years ago in the ponsa and found this wee bar that served the killler sniffer...................

jazoo

jazoo wrote: »

the killer sniffer
sambucca and any liqueur strongest you can get.Put a measure of each in glass and flame,put your hand over the glass to trap the fumes make a gap between your thumb and fore finger to get your nose in to sniff the fumes, when the fumes are gone just lash back the drink happy days. We where on a lads holiday bout 15 years ago in the ponsa and found this wee bar that served the killler sniffer...................

Done this sir, does not compare to black absinte. NOT AT ALL

Rb

KaG1888 wrote: »

The 60%(60-70% ? ) green one isn't as bad but still very very crazy(yes Pighead CRAZY ) . I drank half a pint of the green one a few years back and was off my head, didn't black out but I was **** faced!

I drank close to a litre of this in Crete (a girl had a few shots of it, hence I didn't get through the whole litre). What an experience. Think I was quite lucky to not get alcohol poisoning from it.

jazoo

KaG1888 wrote: »

Done this sir, does not compare to black absinte. NOT AT ALL

dont drink anymore so dont know what black absinthe is bud

Wossack

college lads gave me a drink with a lump of, what looked like cheese in it, for my birthday. They called it a cement mixer... it was well nasty

dunno what was in it mind

ro1798

corfu 1999 i had a shot of "ralph lauren's polo sport" worst night ever, ended up in the pool and had to be dragged out....:o

Good times

HashSlinging

Drank something in Thailand, it was a hallucinogenic from a root which was fermenting in whiskey. back in the day.

jazoo

jazoo wrote: »

dont drink anymore so dont know what black absinthe is bud

Your fortunate then mate because the stuff is pure sick! Its like a shot of tar or something. Even thinking of it, YUKE :eek:

Worst beer experience has to be a warm can of Bavaria. O the horror

Ross_Mahon

I have black absinthe at home, its 85%. But your not suppose to drink it straight, you have to prepare it with sugar and ice cold water, its actually really nice then.

Jigsaw

Dandelion schnapps in a little village just outside Munich.

Fu*king grotesque. There is no way any human could possibly enjoy the taste of it. It was inexplicably foul and I have no idea why it's made.

They're very good at beer round there though.

biko

Milk and vodka

Been meaning to try "White Christmas" - Tipp-Ex and vodka.

humberklog

Absynthe(with the sugar melted on a spoon laced with Ketamin). I wandered the streets of brighton for 2weeks like the bastard son of amy winehouse and pete doherty.

xzanti

One I concocted myself from one of those nets with little miniature bottles of different liqueurs that someone brought me back from the Canaries, that was an interesting night...

Oh and pucheen (sp) horrible stuff..

Ross_Mahon

Ross_Mahon wrote: »

I have black absinthe at home, its 85%. But your not suppose to drink it straight, you have to prepare it with sugar and ice cold water, its actually really nice then.

Ah 85 % ^ , yes im a silly boy though Ross. A very very silly boy.

RedXIV

Green Mist. shot of whiskey, shot of vodka, shot of mickey finns or green aftershock. had one after two pints and managed to miss the fact the club i was in had a band on the central stage??? great night though

Quality

TBH, Goldschlager is like rohipnol to me, I just cant drink it at all... Go flipping bonkers..

This stuff also--- see picture


A friend of mine brought it back from the lebanon for me, KSARAK


Pure Arak produced from selected grapes Triple distilled with finest aniseeds and matured for 2 years in clay jars..53%


Its LETHAL!


We play jenga with it and if you lose you have to drink it... :eek:

giddyup

The one's you make yourself are always the best:

1997 - Lads holiday in Playa Del Ingles (classy)

Equipment: (all available in your average self catering hovel)
Random pot
Soup ladel
Egg cups

Ingredients:
Malibu
Vodka
Tequila
Orange Juice
A couple of dashes of Issey Miyake (why not)
Theramed (get the breath freshening in while you drink)

Objective:
1 eggcup per minute. Who can last the longest.

Outcome:
I think we lasted about 26 eggcups/minutes.
It was a great night, I'll never remember it.
It was a vicious hangover, I'll never forget it.
Went karting the next day - I didn't last a lap and my mate was having vision problems and just repeatedley crashed.

Hellm0

Try drinking a warm can of cheap larger with a few cigarette butt's in it, that's about the "wackiest" drink I've ever imbibed. I still have nightmares.

311

Bottle of southern comfort in about twenty minutes

Blackout and doctor bashing that night :eek:

ninty9er

Vodbulleineken;

can you guess that it's

Vodka, Red Bull mixed with half a pint of Heineken, not as unpalatable as it sounds.

The latest "new" drink I've had is Vodka Wkd and West Coast Cooler....tastes like blue Mr. Freeze:D:D:D

Also a shot of blue Aftershock in a hi-ball add vodka and mix by pouring red-bull in....nice and I can't take them....forget whole nights.

alie

Benidictine. I thought i was going to die. Never again.

TerrorFirmer

Ross_Mahon wrote: »

I have black absinthe at home, its 85%. But your not suppose to drink it straight, you have to prepare it with sugar and ice cold water, its actually really nice then.

After I drank that, what was left was a bottle of 65% - and in my drunken stupor I resigned myself to shouting 'Ah sure that's only weak stuff!" Very potent stuff though....mixed it in shot glasses with red bull.