Alcoholic Drinks from yesteryear

Itssoeasy

Aftershock in college. Jesus even typing the name makes me shiver. I’m sure there was logic behind drinking it but I couldn’t tell you what it was. Since college I’ve never drank any kind if shots or shorts because of it. I never tried it but apparently Sambuga was awful ****e altogether.

Adyx

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Yeah there was a rake of alco pops at one stage

Bacardi breezers were very popular
Then smaller brands like 2 dogs, hooch, red square, Metz, reef

All mad colours, full of sugar and sickly sweet

The first pub/club I worked in did a student night on Wednesdays and we sold bottles of Reef for £2 and vodka or peach schnapps for £1 so everyone used to get a double vodka in a pint glass with a bottle of Reef for £4 and got mangled. We also had the Irn Bru WKD.

Another pub I worked in we had Smirnoff Ice on draught. Think it was about €7 a pint.

Joe_ Public

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Guinness Extra Cold. Just regular Guinness served 2 degrees colder than regular Guinness. Another Guinness gimmick, I haven't seen it since the late 2000's

Never tried or wanted to try Guinness Ice but was in a pub bout 3 years ago where they served it in chilled pint glasses which seemed just as bad to me. At second round i had to ask the barman to please use a glass off the shelf as i saw him reach for one nestled among the ice in the fridge. Could hardly believe they'd even countenance such a thing.

mark_jmc

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

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.

Oh Jesus Christ,
That has brought back memories, this came out the year I turned 18- I remember my 18th birthday, there was a Hudson Blue promotion in the pub we went to(Molly’s in tuckey street in Cork). I had 5 pints, also won 5 free pints that I also drank, won a free jacket, lost said jacket, ended up sleeping in my friends house

Feisar

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Same here. And pushing on for half eleven it was calls for sambuca, tequila, aftershocks, goldschlagers, jagerbombs

Yer taking me back!

Zebra3

Wasn't Koppaberg mixed fruit about 8% when it first hit the market here?

Psychlops

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Satzenbrau

Can still be got in Dunnes.

Psychlops

Zebra3 wrote: »

Wasn't Koppaberg mixed fruit about 8% when it first hit the market here?

Thought it was more, explosive stuff!

Reputable Rog

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Guinness Extra Cold. Just regular Guinness served 2 degrees colder than normal. Another Guinness gimmick, I haven't seen it since the late 2000's

Just rebranded as Guinness.

Club Shandy 0.1% alcohol used to love it

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054935717

chosen1

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

What was Guinness ice?

I remember there was a promotion focusing on Guinness served at very low temps. Was that it?

Think I remember it being pushed so it would sell in busy bars and nightclubs.

Know myself that if I was drinking Guniness, I would switch to something else once I got into a busy spot where usually you'd have rubbish pints.

Suppose the extra coldness was to disguise any bad pint taste. Had it a few times and wasn't pleasant if I recall correctly

Nekarsulm

Started drinking after the Inter cert, about 1983.
Pints of Harp, jeez that stuff would run through you.
After I got a car, moved to Heineken.
And soon after to Smithwicks.
Had a mate who drank Malibu and Pineapple, which was so sickly sweet you could feel your teeth crumble.
A lot like sucking Lemons boiled sweets.
The local small pub had never had pineapple requested before, and had to buy a crate to keep him quiet.
It closed a year or so later, and still had some of it left...
Guinness with a dash of blackcurrant was in vogue then, for some reason, and went through a phase of rum & black ....
Lucky I'm as well as I am!

mikemac2

Smirnoff Ice by draught. There was a special glass even. Was in Ireland around 2003 and disappeared quite quickly. I dunno why as it seems to me to be a super seller.

Older than that was Stag cider. I liked this and I have no idea if it is sold anymore.

Pernod and black was popular in late 80s- you’d be well sick after a few of them

Aglomerado

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Club Shandy 0.1% alcohol used to love it

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054935717

I had one on my desk every day during my leaving cert exams .

Does anyone remember Guinness in a long neck bottle? Not extra stout, but some sort of 'draught' with a widget. It was advertised so you could 'dance with it', getting in on the trend at the time. There was promotion one night in Nancy Blake's,Limerick circa 1999/ 2000, but the place was jointed and I didn't get one. I never saw it after that! I might still have a promotional postcard of it in an old college book as a bookmark.

For Forks Sake

Aglomerado wrote: »

I had one on my desk every day during my leaving cert exams .

Does anyone remember Guinness in a long neck bottle? Not extra stout, but some sort of 'draught' with a widget. It was advertised so you could 'dance with it', getting in on the trend at the time. There was promotion one night in Nancy Blake's,Limerick circa 1999/ 2000, but the place was jointed and I didn't get one. I never saw it after that! I might still have a promotional postcard of it in an old college book as a bookmark.

These lads?

Beechwoodspark

mikemac2 wrote: »

Smirnoff Ice by draught. There was a special glass even. Was in Ireland around 2003 and disappeared quite quickly. I dunno why as it seems to me to be a super seller.

Older than that was Stag cider. I liked this and I have no idea if it is sold anymore.

Yeah i would’ve thought the same. Smirnoff ice was hugely popular for a good few years.

Back when I was working in bars around 2003-06 we sold some amount of it especially on wkends.

Dunno, maybe Smirnoff wanted to focus back on its core product or something!?

Aglomerado

For Forks Sake wrote: »

These lads?

That's the one!

afro man

Nobody mentioned the classic yellow pack beer sold by quinsworth many years ago

EmmetSpiceland

Aglomerado wrote: »

Does anyone remember Guinness in a long neck bottle? Not extra stout, but some sort of 'draught' with a widget. It was advertised so you could 'dance with it', getting in on the trend at the time. There was promotion one night in Nancy Blake's,Limerick circa 1999/ 2000, but the place was jointed and I didn't get one. I never saw it after that! I might still have a promotional postcard of it in an old college book as a bookmark.

That’s right, A. It was for dancing but most places had a bouncer on, or around, the dance floor who’d say ‘no glasses or bottles’ if you tried to step on with one.

To be fair, it wasn’t bad. But dancing and Guinness isn’t a good mix.

Heroditas

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Bavaria is still very much on the market. It’s in most O’Brien’s and other off licences. It’s not bad.

Do they really? I haven't seen it in years. I must have a look the next time I'm in my local O'Briens?
I remember the mid-90s and O'Briens were very limited in their bet selection and Bavaria was the go-to college night out beer. There were green, gold and black cans I think.

Another college favourite was Quinnsworth yellow pack. Usually 99p a can but sometimes reduced to 69p.
A tenner would get you 10 cans, 20 smokes and enough change for a couple of bags of Snax, Chickatees etc

Ah thems were the days

WesternZulu

Wasn't there an urban myth that aftershock made your liver bleed for a second after drinking it...it was so bad I'd almost believe it!

retalivity

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Started drinking after the Inter cert, about 1983.
Pints of Harp, jeez that stuff would run through you.
After I got a car, moved to Heineken.

Why, did it help you drive better??

Nekarsulm

retalivity wrote: »

Why, did it help you drive better??

Ah, great days...
You could drive into the local town, 3 miles away, have three pints and head on into the county town.
Limit yourself to two pints, dance yourself near sober, meaby a last "glass" of beer ( cause you were driving!) bit of a shift if you were lucky and drive home.
Nothing beat the feeling of driving home still lit, and ( as the song has it) "satisfaction oozing from your pores"!

Melanchthon

WesternZulu wrote: »

Wasn't there an urban myth that aftershock made your liver bleed for a second after drinking it...it was so bad I'd almost believe it!

From what I remember.

Aftershock crystallized in your blood so if you drank water the next day you got tipsy again.

Goldschlangers little flakes of gold cut your esophagus so the alcohol got absorbed faster

One thing that was true was that cheap knock of Blue WKD would turn your poo a weird colour.

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Ah an oul Pint of Double Diamond was a lovely drop

The J Stands for Jay

E mac wrote: »

Another one I remember 'Bavaria' lager. There was a big promotional push to establish it but vanished as quickly as it came replaced almost immediately by Tubourg.

I always remember seeing the weird ads for tuborg on TV: https://youtu.be/8Dg6TWgWLu8

Timmyr

onrail wrote: »

For reasons beyond my comprehension, it is widely available on draught in New Zealand

Yep I had a pint of it last night, delicious!

Polar101

McGaggs wrote: »

Goldschlager. A mint drink that was 50% alcohol.

Someone once brought a bottle of that to a party and passed it round. Everyone thought it tasted terrible. Later that evening he said the bottle needs to be finished, and passed it round again - no-one else took another sip, so the fellow ended up drinking most of it. He wasn't feeling great the next day.

whomitconcerns

McGaggs wrote: »

Big Beasties and Wee Beasties. Just two different sized bottles of the same alcopop in a yellow and red bottle with a cartoon spider in a web on it.

Goldschlager. A mint drink that was 50% alcohol.

Goldschlager is and was a cinnamon flavoured liquor