Alcoholic Drinks from yesteryear

Sgt Hartman

What alcoholic drinks can you remember from the past that you can't get anymore? I'll start the ball rolling with Hudson Blue Cider. I think it was made by Guinness. Anyway it wasn't very good as it was super harsh on the stomach.

MrMusician18

Id murder a breó.

Littlehorny

Remember Firstenberg coming out on tap all over the place and it was the strongest beer on tap you could get, 4 pints and you were on your ear

Fr Tod Umptious

Satzenbrau

EDit

Bomas 10/4
Used to drink it at college in early 90s... akin to necking flavoured turps

storker

I worked in a pub during the 80's so the ones that stick in my mind that you don't see any more are McArdles, Babycham and Snowball. That said, I'm very rarely in pubs so maybe they're still around, somewhere.

Dressed PIMMS or Dressed Orange were popular drinks back then too. PIMMS still exists and so does Club Orange, of course, but I'm not sure if people are still frosting glasses for them and adding cream and a straw-speared cherry.

SeaFields

Red Square. Rotten sh!te from my student days

Mrcaramelchoc

Snow balls. They had alcohol in them didn't they?

harr

storker wrote: »

I worked in a pub during the 80's so the ones that stick in my mind that you don't see any more are McArdles, Babycham and Snowball. That said, I'm very rarely in pubs so maybe they're still around, somewhere.

Dressed PIMMS or Dressed Orange were popular drinks back then too. PIMMS still exists and so does Club Orange, of course, but I'm not sure if people are still frosting glasses for them and adding cream and a straw-speared cherry.

McArdles still about , a country pub near to me still stock for the few regulars who drink it ( large bottle) it’s not bad

Thunderbird. That stuff was rocket fuel. It would perfectly fit into those towel roller things in the school bathroom. If there was a school disco that night, you’d bring your drink to school with you that day and when the last bell went, you’d hide it in the towel roller. Fast forward to that night and you’d prance into school all dressed up with no need for a bag.

The teachers never copped where we hid it but one night one of the girls got sick all over the headmistress and that was the end of the school discos.

Eggs For Dinner

Guinness Light. Anyone who was there knows...

Andrea B.

Bass, Stag and Phoenix.

We used always get flagons of 'Boss' cider from an off licence in Moore Street. May aswell drink vinegar.
Anyone remember that stuff?

Omackeral

Heroditas

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Satzenbrau

It's actually still available in cans! Had to Google it there because I hadn't seen it for years. I still remember the ad from the 80s. Wasn't it aimed at women?
"Lager with a difference... Satzenbrau"

Kimbot

Fat frogs and all those other alcho pops....

My mate used to drink pils if she was dieting cos the ad said “more of the sugar has been turned to alcohol”

Subacio

Woody's. Always a great way to finish off a night out. The lemon one that is.

rje66

Colt 45..... and of course Blue Nun , Black Tower etc

RebelButtMunch

Cans of LCL

mariaalice

Dubonnet and white lemonade were the high of sophistication when I was young.

mick121

Bottles of Carlsberg special brew 9% if I remember correctly

Rustyman101

Hoffmans lager, dont miss the hangovers

pm.

Pints of Harp, not sure if it's still available but it used to be everywhere

blackwave

Holstein Pils

Doctors room ghost

Bottles of smirnoff mule

I spent college drinking Ritz.

blackwave

blackwave wrote: »

Holstein Pils

That’s the one that had an ad saying more of the sugar had been turned to alcohol!

Fr Tod Umptious

pm. wrote: »

Pints of Harp, not sure if it's still available but it used to be everywhere

Yes, they are rare now.

keepwalking

Omackeral wrote: »

I loved Woody's, I used to mix an orange one and a lemon one together to make a boozy rock shandy! Bacardi Rigo was another alcopop I liked back in the day too.

Fr Tod Umptious

Rockshore*

*I'm writing this post on 31-Mar-2031 by the way.

silliussoddius

Hooch, Mugshot

harr

Omackeral wrote: »

I remember drinking a load of these at a party one night the only drink left and it was strawberry or raspberry anyway on the long walk home about 4 in the morning I started to vomit and all that came out was this red stuff and me in my drunken state was convinced it was blood and I was on my way out .. save to say I never drank it again..
Another drink I got a sickener from was aftershock

E mac

Sidekicks. Single shots in plastic sealed egg cup sized containers. Short lived.

Porklife

mariaalice wrote: »

Dubonnet and white lemonade were the high of sophistication when I was young.

Apparently gin and dubonnet is the Queens drink of choice. You can still get it in some off licences..not that you'd want to!

Sheridans cream. Not sure if it's still around but we used to drink it as kids not realizing there was alcohol in it cos it had the word cream on the bottle. The bottle was black and white and we called it the Michael Jackson.
Let's have some Michael Jackson we'd say!

HBC08

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I spent college drinking Ritz.

Just had a look there and its in Supervalue!
Will definitely pick up a few cans for the nostalgia.

ShyMets

pm. wrote: »

Pints of Harp, not sure if it's still available but it used to be everywhere

Pre-Covid you'd still find Harp on Tap in a few Dublin pubs. Not many mind you

ShyMets

Hudson Blue. Absolutely awful cider

Notmything

E mac wrote: »

Sidekicks. Single shots in plastic sealed egg cup sized containers. Short lived.

Was going to mention them myself.

Is aftershock still on the go? brightly coloured shots.

Back in the early 90's bottles of labbatts and fosters ice seemed to be popular in clubs.

Helium

In all my years as a barman back in the day Never remember selling a bottle, just gathered dust on shelf.

HBC08

Not sure if Goldschlager is around these days but we used to do shots of that at the end of the night in the 90s,also Pernod and black.

HBC08

Omackeral wrote: »

We once went on a school day out to see a performance of King lear.
I got a load of Woodies orange and emptied them into Fanta bottles (inexplicably glass fanta bottles,painstakingly forcing the caps back on,it took hours,i dont know why i didnt use plastic screwtop bottles!)
Anyway everyone got steamboats on the bus including a few innocent lads who had never drank before,fellas puking in the theatre etc
There was a big enquiry but nobody squealed

The Mulk

I used to drink cans of Coors (not Coors Light) about 20 years ago, it was in an amber can and 5%, they used to sell it in Dunnes.
There were pint bottles of cider that came out about the same time "Irish Knights" or "Knights Irish Cider"
And Hudson Blue cider from Guinness was in our local for a brief time.

cml387

Yellow pack lager from Crazy Prices. An prime example of why the eighties were bad.

mick121

Bottles of Becks in the late 80s/early 90s.I remember leaving Dublin early 90s and asking for a bottle of Becks in Clare and the bar ma asking looking very confused,he asked me how to spell it!!! needless to say he didn't have it

Large bottle small glass

storker wrote: »

I worked in a pub during the 80's so the ones that stick in my mind that you don't see any more are McArdles, Babycham and Snowball. That said, I'm very rarely in pubs so maybe they're still around, somewhere.

From the late 70's to early 90's my father worked in Bulmers.

Last Friday of every month near date drinks were sold of cheap to staff.

The snowball and babycham were bought (for visitors I guess) along with Stag and Hunter and stored in an old meal bin for horses!

Snowball was a regular stolen drink when I was very young.

I remember him getting old rum barrels which had a litre or so left in them. My father wasn't much of a drinker, that rum seemed to last forever.

Coopers cider was another Bulmers flop.

Ritz was another one

Give her Ritz to get her in Bits ring a bell

BonnieSituation

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Satzenbrau

It's still out there. Saw it in my local there last year during the first pub opening in June and had to get a bottle of it.

It's absolutely vile.

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The biggest disappearing act for me was Miller Genuine Draft. On tap everywhere during my formative drinking years (2001-2005) and almost overnight it was gone.

brilou23

Nobelaner. I use get 10 little bottles for around 4 euro.

sioda

Michelle sparkling cider from Quinnsworth height of sophistication as it had a plastic champagne cork top 🤣

EmmetSpiceland

Guinness North Star

BobMc

is Ritz still available ? had a few while underage back in late 80's, Woodys was ahead of the time now look at all the hard seltzers that are out nowadays,

Nobody drinks Pernod and black anymore either shame that was a colourful vomit