Alcoholic Drinks from yesteryear

whomitconcerns

LCL super strength pils
Hackler (Poitin made by Guinness)
Kaliber (Billy Connollys favourite!)
Madison (Apple and almond flavour soft drink)
Original Bacardi breezer (was 7.5% and came in a 33cl bottle)

whomitconcerns

Zebra3 wrote: »

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

Aye it was 8.5%, mixed with a vodka or two in a pint glass it made a real "session' drink!

Sgt Hartman

My local Dunnes does cans of MacArdles Ale for about €1.59 a can. I sometimes stack up on them for the weekend. It's superior to Smithwicks and easy to drink. I think it's being brewed by Diageo in Dublin now instead of being brewed in Dundalk.

lapua20grain

Steiger lager, tennents La, Clausthaler, madison there were a few alright

Sky King

Aftershock. Everyone who did the leaving circa 1999/2000 has a 'drinking aftershock and puking their ring up' story.

Mank

lapua20grain

Patrick2010 wrote: »

Yes, I remember it had the reputation but remember most draught beers had and still have an ABV of 4.2 or 4.3 so it was reckoned to have been much stronger. Quite liked it myself

Got a few bottles of it in the off licence a while ago a really nice beer

Ashbourne hoop

E mac wrote: »

Huzar vodka was sold in most pubs late 90s. Not that people wanted it out of choice but nightclubs especially stocked it. Cheaper I suppose. Absolute seems to be vodka of choice now in late pubs.

When I worked in a pub there was only Huzzar and Smirnoff. If a customer asked for just a vodka they got Huzzar, unless they specified Smirnoff. Huzzar was cheaper to buy in but cost the same as Smirnoff. There was also something called Smirnoff Blue, which was stronger and dearer, but only pure alscos asked for it.

Ashbourne hoop

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Says a lot when they can’t even give it away in Ireland !!!

Reminds me of Carlsberg unfiltered. My local was doing a promotion one night with free pints. Half empty glasses all over the pub. I couldn't finish it, and I'll drink anything. Horrible beer.

Feisar

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

It used to come in different kegs, or at least the tap protector on the keg used to have a different colour. Regular Guinness was red, Extra Cold, blue.

Does anyoner know was there a difference in the brewing process and how exactly was it kept colder?

harr

Did anyone ever drink Tia Maria and milk ? Dated a girl for a few years and that was her tipple , as a young lad I would have been embarrassed ordering it as the bar men always had a confused/ pissed off look , probably the fact they had or looking for a pint of milk ..
It didn’t taste that bad in fairness..

Feisar

harr wrote: »

Did anyone ever drink Tia Maria and milk ? Dated a girl for a few years and that was her tipple , as a young lad I would have been embarrassed ordering it as the bar men always had a confused/ pissed off look , probably the fact they had or looking for a pint of milk ..
It didn’t taste that bad in fairness..

A poor version of a White Russian, nothing wrong with it.

odyssey06

harr wrote: »

Did anyone ever drink Tia Maria and milk ? Dated a girl for a few years and that was her tipple , as a young lad I would have been embarrassed ordering it as the bar men always had a confused/ pissed off look , probably the fact they had or looking for a pint of milk ..
It didn’t taste that bad in fairness..

Yeah I wouldn't be ordering anything needing milk in a pub!

DvB

Feisar wrote: »

It used to come in different kegs, or at least the tap protector on the keg used to have a different colour. Regular Guinness was red, Extra Cold, blue.

Does anyoner know was there a difference in the brewing process and how exactly was it kept colder?

I know one of the process engineers in Diageo & apparently all the guinness on tap now is the 'extra cold' variety, they just dropped the title after a phasing in period. Reason for it was that it stays fresher for longer so they get less kegs returned for refund/credit. The old style guinness on tap is no longer brewed for draught & is just bottled.

Aglomerado

harr wrote: »

Did anyone ever drink Tia Maria and milk ? Dated a girl for a few years and that was her tipple , as a young lad I would have been embarrassed ordering it as the bar men always had a confused/ pissed off look , probably the fact they had or looking for a pint of milk ..
It didn’t taste that bad in fairness..

Once, when I had a bit of a dicky stomach while out and couldn't face a pint. It was OK but the look I got off the server wasn't worth it!

sully123

Heineken H41.
This is a quite recent one.
Might have even still been in a few pubs before lock down.

ohnonotgmail

harr wrote: »

Did anyone ever drink Tia Maria and milk ? Dated a girl for a few years and that was her tipple , as a young lad I would have been embarrassed ordering it as the bar men always had a confused/ pissed off look , probably the fact they had or looking for a pint of milk ..
It didn’t taste that bad in fairness..

when ordering something like that you have to say "Women, eh?" then loudly tut and shake your head.

Ashbourne hoop

harr wrote: »

Did anyone ever drink Tia Maria and milk ? Dated a girl for a few years and that was her tipple , as a young lad I would have been embarrassed ordering it as the bar men always had a confused/ pissed off look , probably the fact they had or looking for a pint of milk ..
It didn’t taste that bad in fairness..

Great hangover cure.

Gregor Samsa

harr wrote: »

Did anyone ever drink Tia Maria and milk ?

Myself and my mate tried to order White Russians at a wedding in a GAA club bar once. The barmaid didn't know what it was, so we (drunkenly) tried to tell her.

We ended up with a glass of vodka, Tia Maria and milk that congealed into something akin to the texture of cottage cheese, tasted like coffee made with white spirits, and cost us 12 quid each. We still drank them.

tallaghtfornia

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

My local Dunnes does cans of MacArdles Ale for about €1.59 a can. I sometimes stack up on them for the weekend. It's superior to Smithwicks and easy to drink. I think it's being brewed by Diageo in Dublin now instead of being brewed in Dundalk.

Yes all Diageo beers are brewed in James Gate - Brewed in James Gate and canned in Marshals Road Belfast

Munstergirl854

10/15 years ago, there would be tables filled with empty bottles of bacardi breezer/smirnoff ice if a gang of 18 year olds were on the tear now its pints for the women and coke lol.
Also before other spirits gained their popularity, vodka seemed to be the only spirit consumed on a night out, cant remember the last time I saw someone ordering a vodka & coke or vodka & blackcurrant.

Gin was also a rare enough choice years back and most pubs only had the one trusty bottle of Cork Dry Gin.

I know someone who worked as a barman when he was young and he said the one drink that he hated the smell of was gin.

bazz26

I remember the yellow pack beer from Quinsworth. The closest modern day equivalent is Dutch Gold or Tenants.

Both were the preferred drink of the typical wife beater type in a string vest:

Patrick2010

Assume the current tesco beer is the same as the old yellow pack version except in a blue coloured can?. Was the yellow tin actually dearer than the current version?

theteal

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Satzenbrau

Blast from the past. I remember serving many a bottle of that back when kids were allowed to have jobs.

mick121 wrote: »

Bottles of Carlsberg special brew 9% if I remember correctly

Most shops would still stock cans of that over here (UK). It tends to be a select group of park bench dwellers who buy it mostly though from what I've seen

blackwave wrote: »

Holstein Pils

T'isn't bad. I've had pints of that in the not too distant past in a tiny pub in Finchley where a few notable Irish performing artists were known to have a sing song. I can't say I've seen it in many/any other places though.

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've not been home for a while but one of the D12 local pubs had Bavaria on draught when I last ventured in. It was going cheap too.

The One Doctor

Bulmers Pear. The world dropped out of my bottom the first and only time I drank it.

The One Doctor

harr wrote: »

Did anyone ever drink Tia Maria and milk ? Dated a girl for a few years and that was her tipple , as a young lad I would have been embarrassed ordering it as the bar men always had a confused/ pissed off look , probably the fact they had or looking for a pint of milk ..
It didn’t taste that bad in fairness..

Yeah an ex did, Baileys Kahlua and milk. My god it was cringing to order it from a bar. I didn't drink at the time and that made it worse.

Thank god she's fecked off. My wife loves beer and wine, so no problem there.

EmmetSpiceland

The One Doctor wrote: »

Bulmers Pear. The world dropped out of my bottom the first and only time I drank it.

They used real pear juice in the first batch. People hitting the fourth pint learned all about it “the hard way”.

After an avalanche of “complaints” they removed the real juice and lumped in sugar. Not the laxative it once was. God but that was a funny couple of weeks.

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yovNUABeCrU

E mac

Peach schnapps and orange miwidi was a huge seller 20 odd years ago. Bar I worked in went through bottles of orange cordial on a Saturday night. Too much poured in every time.

I often wondered where the trend for putting lime into a larger came from but recently I saw an old harp add with the tag line something like “weekend time for a harp and lime” or similar- looked like an early to mid 70s add

odyssey06

Deleted User wrote: »

I often wondered where the trend for putting lime into a larger came from but recently I saw an old harp add with the tag line something like “weekend time for a harp and lime” or similar- looked like an early to mid 70s add

Good background here on lager and lime trend, seems like originally a UK thing...

Lager was pretty much unknown in pubs here until the early 70s. Men tended to drink Bitter, or Mild beer. When it arrived, it was advertised in such a way as the lager had a small shot of lime juice added to the pint. You'd hear it all the time. 'A pint of lager and lime please.' Then some brave souls decided to try it without lime juice, and in the main, adding lime stopped. Lager took over as the most popular beer, and now men drinking Bitter or Mild is quite unusual.

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